Amazon's First Reads for April 2026

Amazon has released the choices for April 2026's First Reads.

First Reads, which is free to join, provides early access to editors' picks from Amazon Publishing.

It enables you to choose one Kindle book plus the bonus short read this month for $1.99 each (or for free if you're a Prime member).

• Lift Me Up by Milly Johnson (book club fiction)

• When The Storm Passes, written by Manel Loureiro and translated by Thomas Bunstead (suspense)

• Where the Sea Lavender Grows by Kitty Johnson (historical fiction)

• The Dead Room by Catriona McPherson (psychological thriller)

• Wake-Up Calls by Mariah Stewart (women's fiction)

• The Roaring Ridleys by K.M. Colley (historical mastery)

• The Last Sunday in May by Kate Clark Stone (women's fiction)

• The Final System by Anthony Tardiff (science fiction)

• Ways to Find Yourself by Angela Brown (book club fiction)

• Kimi the BALLerina, written by Korey Watari and illustrated by Mike Wu (children's picture book)