Reader's Corner: My Most Anticipated May New Releases
Upcoming Books for your TBR
Hello, Protagonists! In this post, you’ll find:
📚 My Most Anticipated May New Releases
🤑 a Barnes & Noble 25% off Book Sale coupon code - so you can add to your TBR!
🥰 Share your Book Recs
📚 My Most Anticipated May New Releases
It’s the end of the month, which means today is your short preview of some of the new books coming out soon that I’m looking forward to and that you might want to add to your TBR!
(note: I don’t receive affiliate commissions or any payment from publishers. I haven’t read these books yet but am genuinely interested in them and think you might be, too.)
My Friends by Fredrik Backman (May 6, general fiction):
One summer, a trio of teenagers creates a world-famous painting. Years later, an aspiring artist, Louisa, becomes its caretaker and sets out to find out their story, and she becomes proof that happy endings don’t always take the form we expect in this testament to the transformative, timeless power of friendship and art.
I Will Blossom Anyway by Disha Bose (May 6, general fiction):
The third of four children born to a middle-class Calcutta family, quiet Durga is surprisingly the first to leave the nest of her loving, overbearing family. When she arrives in Ireland to work at a tech company, she finds that for the first time ever she is free—to have fun, to stay out, to sample everything that life has to offer. Suddenly, Durga can be whoever she wants to be. And she wants it all.
I Will Blossom Anyway is a story about what it means to be caught between opposing worlds and the pressures and freedoms of millennial life, and what it really means to be a modern woman today—anywhere.
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl series) by Matt Dinniman- (May 13, LitRPG): This one’s for my husband, Tom, and readers who are fans of this wildly popular Literary Role Playing Game series—Book 6 is out soon!
» If you don’t know what LitRPG is and you’re curious, check out my podcast episode with author and publisher Taran Matharu, where we talk at length about this niche genre that has exploded into mainstream interest.
The Last Ferry Out by Andrea Bartz (May 20, thriller):
On a trip to the tropical paradise where her fiancée died, a young woman begins to suspect the death was no accident—and the killer’s still on the island.
The island is nothing like Abby expected: Though it was once a bustling tourist hub, a hurricane has left it a shell of its former self. Abby befriends an alluring group of expats, but one of them says he knows the truth about her fiancée’s final days. Before he can tell her more, though, he vanishes. Can Abby discover who the killer is before she becomes the island’s next victim?
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will be interviewed on our podcast in May!)
The Love Haters by Katherine Center (May 20, general fiction/rom-com):
Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past—now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker’s request, take a career-making gig profiling Tom “Hutch” Hutcheson, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer in Key West.
The catch? Katie’s not exactly qualified… She can’t swim.
(Katherine Center will be interviewed on our podcast in May!)
Mansion Beach by Meg Mitchell Moore (May 27, general fiction) - A modern retelling of The Great Gatsby, this novel follows three women spending a summer on Block Island, entangled in a web of ambition, extravagant parties, and a mysterious death. This sounds like a good one for the beach bag!
🤑 Barnes & Noble 25% off Book Sale coupon code
I wanted to share the coupon code for Barnes & Noble, which gives you 25% off any upcoming books that you preorder. (Perfect for adding these May New Releases to your TBR!)
And if you’ve been following along with my Author Diaries and are interested in pre-ordering my next book (out on August 12!), you can do that, too—it would make me so so happy! 💛
Preorder any books with 25% off, including The Incredible Kindness of Paper here.
Coupon Code: PREORDER25
Sale ends tonight, Friday, April 25th - Go forth, my fellow book nerds!
EDIT: I just found out that Independent Bookstore Day is tomorrow, Saturday, April 26th.
I believe that everyone should buy books in whatever way makes the most sense for them—maybe it’s at BN because they’re running a sale or maybe it’s full price at your local indie bookstore because you want to support small businesses. Maybe it’s a blend of both, to split between wallet and heart. Or maybe you borrow/put books on hold at libraries—that’s great, too, because libraries pay authors! (The only bad way of getting books is pirating.)
So be YOU, read lots, and thank you for supporting writers!
I’m so excited to share more blurbs for my book!
Praise for The Incredible Kindness of Paper:
“Even the greatest skeptics of happily ever after stories will fall hard for The Incredible Kindness of Paper. Beautifully written, cleverly crafted, creatively detailed. Even on an overcast day, this story will leave you feeling as if the sunshine decided to make an appearance and stay for the long haul.”
—Alka Joshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Henna Artist and Six Days in Bombay
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“The Incredible Kindness of Paper is full of joy, whimsy, and just the right dash of magic. This sweet tale is more than a great comfort read—it also serves as a powerful reminder that small acts of generosity can have a lasting impact.”
—Margarita Montimore, USA Today bestselling author of Oona Out of Order
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“I don't think I've ever read a book quite like The Incredible Kindness of Paper. It gripped me from the very beginning with its beautiful prose and heartfelt characters. It's touching and whimsical, and it's exactly what the world needs right now.
—Ethan Joella, author of A Little Hope and The Same Bright Stars
🥰 Share Your Book Recommendations!
What books have you loved recently?
What books are you looking forward to in May?
Leave a book rec (or anticipated book) in the Comments so we can all add them to our TBRs!
i keep a list in my hobonichi planner of pre*orders.... so for MAY, here's what's coming to my house (er, TBR holder unit) next month... teehee!! ;D
may 6: grace lin's THE GATE, THE GIRL, AND THE DRAGON (beautiful middle grade!!)
may 6: vera bee's RETURN TO SENDER (illustrated middle grade; i LOVE her graphic novel "be prepared")
may 13: susan lee's THE ROMANCE RIVALRY (my signed indie bookstore pre*order of my BirThdAY month! coming personalized from meet cute bookstore in la mesa, ca!)
may 27: jo schulte's THE WHISPERWOOD LEGACY (a YA mystery/thriller that looks scary, sounds amazing, and i'm friends with jo/met her on a writing retreat, so gonna be brave and read it by daylight with the lights on!!)
and yes, my book-buying has been OUT OF ConTROl for years now, but also hoping to snag a copy someday of erin entrada kelly's AT LAST SHE STOOD (her middle grade nonfiction debut!) that also comes out may 6! WheW!!
Can’t go wrong with Backman! I’m not so patiently waiting for July for These Summer Storms by Sarah McLean. I love a messy family dynamic.