Books in April 2009
| Date | Reviewer | Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April | Phil Smith | The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross | 4th Estate |
| 2 April | Carole Beu | Dead People’s Music | Sarah Laing | Vintage |
| 3 April | Louise O’Brien | The Winter Vault | Anne Michaels | Bloomsbury |
| 6 April | Laura Kroetsch | The Flying Troutmans | Miriam Toews | Faber & Faber |
| 7 April | Crystal Beavis | Women’s Murder Club: 8th Confession | James Patterson | Century |
| 8 April | Gail Pittaway | Gone Tomorrow | Lee Child | Bantam Press |
| 9 April | John McIntyre | Children’s Book Review | ||
| 10 April | Good Friday | |||
| 13 April | Easter Monday | |||
| 14 April | Harry Broad | Beneath the Maori Moon: Maori Rugby an Illustrated History | Malcolm Mulholland | Huia Publishers |
| 15 April | Anne Buchanan | The Lost Life | Steven Carroll | HarperCollins |
| 16 April | Graham Beattie | The Italian Wedding | Nicky Pellegrino | Orion |
| 17 April | Don Rood | Grey Ghosts | Deborah Challinor | HarperCollins |
| 20 April | Rae McGregor | Ransom | David Malouf | Random House Vintage |
| 21 April | Quentin Johnson | The Last American Man | Elizabeth Gilbert | Bloomsbury |
| 22 April | Emma Hart | A Reliable Wife | Robert Goolrick | Hachette |
| 23 April | David Hill | Our Own Kind: 100 NZ Poems About Animals | Siobhan Harvey | Godwit |
| 24 April | Sonja de Freiz | Walking in Light | Kelvin Cruickshank | Penguin |
| 27 April | Catriona Ferguson | The Truth About Melody Brown | Lisa Jewell | Century |
| 28 April | Jane Westaway | The Kit Cat Club: Friends who Imagined a Nation | Ophelia Field | 4th Estate |
| 29 April | Kate Blackhurst | Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh | John Murray |
| 30 April | Dan Slevin | A Brief History of the Future | Jacques Attali | Allen & Unwin |