Amazon's First Reads for April 2025

Amazon has released the choices for April 2025'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 this month for $1.99 (or for free if you're a Prime member), plus a bonus short read for $1.99 (again, free for Prime members).

• The One That Got Away by Mike Gayle (bonus short read)

• The Undoing of Alejandro Velasco by Diego Boneta (thriller)

• When Stars Align by Melissa de la Cruz (coming of age)

• The Boomerang by Robert Bailey (thriller)

• The Best We Could Hope For by Nicola Kraus (historical fiction)

• Betting on Good by Wendy Francis (women's fiction)

• Three Mothers by Hannah Beckerman (psychological) 

• Life Derailed by Beth Merlin and Danielle Modafferi (romance)

• The Artist of Blackberry Grange by Paulette Kennedy (gothic fiction)