Five new books have been selected by SIBA booksellers for April's Read This Next! List!

Read This Next! highlights new books that are receiving exceptional, and exceptionally enthusiastic, buzz from Southern indie booksellers. SIBA always makes a point of putting the store excitement and buzz around these books in front of their publishers, raising store visibility with the industry.

Read This Next Bookseller Resources:
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What SIBA Booksellers have to say:

Above Ground by Clint Smith
Above Ground is a poetry collection that is a heartfelt ode to fatherhood. These poems are imbued with the love, joy, wonder, and uncertainties that accompany being a parent.
– Damita Nocton from The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, NC

Once There Was by Kiyash Monsef
A story that will appeal to both middle-grade and young adult readers who love myths, about discovering the missing parts of yourself -- whether you know they're missing or not, and whether or not you want them.
–Melissa Oates from Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
Is there such a thing as a meet-ugly? Out of an utterly disastrous first "meeting" (they didn't actually even meet, just started jumping to wrong conclusions) grew a ten-tissue romance for the ages.
–Lisa Yee Swope from Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, NC

You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith has the ability to take the human feelings and emotions we all have, but sometimes lack the words to describe, and present them through a beautiful metaphor that can make you feel seen and understood.
–Abby from The Snail on the Wall in Huntsville, AL

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
This novel holds all the beautiful, tender sentimentality, found family dynamics, loving humor, and self-discovery that I've come to expect from TJ Klune.
–Elizabeth DeWandeler from A Novel Escape in Franklin, NC

Current Read This Next! books and what SIBA booksellers have to say about them can always be found at The Southern Bookseller Review