The Buzziest Books of May | 2020

28 May 2020

The Buzziest Books of May | 2020

The month of May was a great time for readers with a host of exciting releases from bestselling authors. There were so many page-turning novels that captivated us from cover to cover this month. If you want to catch up on the books everyone was talking about, here are our choices for the buzziest books of May. Happy reading!

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Big Summer

by Jennifer Weiner

Release Date: May 5, 2020

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Literary Hub, PopSugar, LibraryReads, Booklist, and Library Journal… It has been six years since the fight that ended their friendship, so Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life. She hasn’t spoken a word to her in all this time, so she is speechless when she asks her to be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer.

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Camino Winds

by John Grisham

Release Date: April 28, 2020

Bruce Cable’s Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann. But then hurricane Leo veers from it’s predicted course and heads straight for the island. After a mandatory evacuation is issued, most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland… But Bruce decides to stay and ride out the storm. The hurricane was devastating. One of the victims was Nelson Kerr, a friend of Bruce’s and a thriller author… But the nature of his injuries suggests the storm wasn’t the cause of his death.

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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

by Suzanne Collins

Release Date: May 19, 2020

The brand new prequel in the New York Times Bestselling Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins… It is the morning of the reaping for the tenth annual Hunger Games. Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The house of Snow has fallen on hard times and its fate is hanging on the small change that Coriolanus can outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.

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Her Seafaring Scoundrel

by Sophie Barnes

Release Date: April 28, 2020

The third book in The Crawfords Series by bestselling author Sophie Barnes… Lady Cassandra doesn’t want to get married. But when Captain Devlin brings scandal to her doorstep and offers salvation, she can’t say no. With her daughter’s future at stake, he accepts Devlin’s offer. As long as he agrees to never be intimate with her…

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False Reality

by Cat Gilbert

Release Date: May 18, 2020

Molly McMurray is finally on the path to the career she’s always dreamed of. Or, rather, she was, until HE showed up and ruined everything. She is starting to see and hear things no one else does, and her future as a cop is in jeopardy. She also picked up a stalker long the way. But that’s not the worst part… her first, and possibly last case has a striking similarity to what is happening to her now.

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The Eclipsed

by Dara Kent

Release Date: May 12, 2020

Eighty-nine is just a number. A nameless immortal tasked with ensuring fixed points in time. She has always done her job without fail. But her world is flipped upside down when a jarring discovery, followed by a loss, makes her question everything. Helped by an unlikely ally, Eighty-nine will embark on a journey that will end in a choice… to save reality or let it be ripped apart forever.

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The Rocky Orchard

by Barbara Monier

Release Date: May 12, 2020

Mazie has returned to her old farm-her family’s summer home and a pivotal refuge throughout her life. As she gazes towards the rocky orchard above the house, movement in the far distance captures her attention. An elderly woman names Lula emerges from the morning fog and a gentle, cautiously loving relationship between youth and age begins.

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Flight of the 500

by C. D. Tavenor

Release Date: May 25, 2020

Raith is a synthetic intelligence down on his luck. He loves to race, so when given a chance to participate in a hyper-experimental faster-than-light space race, he jumps at the opportunity. But he may have got more than he bargained for, as corporations and shadowy collectives fight over the technology that makes the race possible.

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