Get ready for summer reading with May new releases! It's a (perhaps surprisingly) good month for new horror releases, as well as new titles from literary favorites, some great romance, and much more.
5/3: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Cutthroat literary agent Nora takes a girls trip to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina but continually finds herself thrown together with Charlie, a brooding editor that she knows from home. Will they write their own love story? (romance) A Peak Pick!
5/3: Book of Night by Holly Black
Thief Charlie Hall is trying to get out of the business, but she works for some dangerous people: gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to eavesdrop and sometimes kill. With a desperate sister and a boyfriend hiding secrets, Charlie enters the hunt for a book that could unleash a terrifying power. (fantasy)
5/3: Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Pandemics, isolation, companionship, medieval clocks, poetry, and wordplay are rich ground for the author of the Seasonal Quartet. (general fiction)
5/3: The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
In 1820s Mexico, Beatriz accepts a marriage proposal and finds herself at a haunted estate, where she'll rely on the help of a local priest to save herself and the others who live at the hacienda. (horror)
5/3: The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
17-year-old Athena recounts the story of her father, King Rao, who overcame being born into the lowest caste in India to become a tech billionaire. Thanks to one of King Rao's inventions, The Harmonica, Athena has access to all his memories and must use them to absolve herself of his mysterious death. (general fiction)
5/3: Love Marriage by Monica Ali
Doctor-in-training Yasmin Ghorami is engaged to upper-class Joe Sangster, but in the lead up to the wedding day she grapples with misunderstandings, infidelities, and the discover of long-held secrets about her parent's marriage. (general fiction)
5/3: The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
In this mystery featuring Jane Austen characters, Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a summer house party crashed by and unwelcome Mr. Wickham. When he turns up dead, all the guests are suspects. (mystery/historical fiction)
5/3: Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond
In 2013 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Amy Fariner has a successful career as a for-hire bridesmaid, work that contrasts with her own legal inability, as a lesbian, to get married. Can Amy find her own happily ever after with girlfriend Charley? (romance)
5/3: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Tova Sullivan, still reeling from the disappearance of her 18-year-old son 30 years ago, cleans the aquarium at night, where she forms a remarkable friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. As Tova prepares to move away, Marcellus dedicates himself to finding out what happened to her son. (general fiction) A Peak Pick!
5/3: Trust by Hernan Diaz
Told in four parts, including a novel-with-a-novel, Trust tells the story of fictional financial baron Andrew Bevel. The distinct perspectives present shifting but ever-complex views of Bevel, the world he lives in, and the consequences of his actions. (general fiction)
5/3: Valleyesque by Fernando Flores
Psychedelic stories set on the Texas-Mexico border. (short stories)
5/3: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
In the Mass Dragoning of 1955 thousands of women transformed into dragons and took to the skies. Alex Green grows up in a tightly limited society where it's taboo to discuss the dragons, wondering if her contained rage will cause her to sprout wings. (science fiction)
5/10: Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Mallory loves being a nanny for five-year-old Teddy, until his drawings turn sinister. Is he the conduit for a supernatural force? Knowing no one will believe her, Mallory sets out to find the truth, and save Teddy. (horror)
5/10: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
In a fantastical Hollywood where monsters and magic are real, Chinese American Luli Wei is determined to be a star. (fantasy/historical fiction)
5/10: The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner
A wedding on Cape Cod brings together far-flung members of an extended family, even as old secrets threaten to ruin everything. (general fiction)
5/17: The Cherry Robbers by Sarai Walker
The heiress to a firearms fortune flees her family, hoping to avoid the curse to which her sisters succumbed. Sixty years later, living under an assumed name, a journalist shows up at her doorstep. (gothic fiction)
5/17: The Island by Adrian McKinty
A family takes a trip to Australia, but while pursuing adventure on a remote, private island, a shocking accident leaves them running for their lives. (thriller) A Peak Pick!
5/17: This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Turning 40, Alice is relatively content with her life, but when she wakes up the next morning back in 1996 and reliving her 16th birthday, she's most shocked by the vibrant 40-something version of her father. With a new perspective on life, what would she change? (general fiction) A Peak Pick!
5/17: We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
The compelling story of a Tibetan family's journey of exile and connection beginning in the 1960s and told over 50 years. (general fiction)
5/17: You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead
A collection of short stories about the complexities of love, sex, and life from Booker Prize nominee Shipstead. (general fiction)
5/24: Hide by Kiersten White
Currently homeless, Mack enters a contest to win a life-changing amount of money; all she has to do is win a weeklong game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park. When contestants start to go missing, Mack realizes there's something sinister hunting them. (horror)
5/24: Sleepwalk by Dan Chaon
On the road as a mercenary for a shadowy corporation, Will Bear's life is upended when he is tracked down by a long-lost daughter. (dystopian/science fiction)
5/24: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Widowed writer Feyi decides to jump back into the dating scene, and finds handsome Nasir, who is attentive and supportive of her art. When she travels home with Nasir, only to feel an instantaneous attraction to someone off limits. (romance) A Peak Pick!
~ posted by Andrea G.
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