The Buzziest Books of May | 2022

05 May 2022

The Buzziest Books of May | 2022

The month of May is a great time for readers with a host of exciting new releases from bestselling authors. There are so many page-turning novels that will captivate you from cover to cover this month. If you want to know what new books everyone will be talking about, here are our choices for the most anticipated books of May. Happy reading!

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Book Lovers

by Emily Henry

Release Date: May 3, 2022

An insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…

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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

Release Date: May 24, 2022

A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.

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Adult Assembly Required

by Abbi Waxman

Release Date: May 17, 2022

A young woman arrives in Los Angeles determined to start over and discovers she doesn’t need to leave everything behind after all, from Abbi Waxman, USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

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City of Orange

by David Yoon

Release Date: May 24, 2022

A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? Harrowing and haunting but also humorous in the face of the unfathomable, David Yoon’s City of Orange is a novel about reassembling the things that make us who we are, and finding the way home again.

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Hollow Fires

by Samira Ahmed

Release Date: May 10, 2022

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthing hidden truths, and the undeniable power of hope, by New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed. Perfect for fans of Sadie and Dear Martin.

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Hide

by Kiersten White

Release Date: May 24, 2022

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.

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