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May 24
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Learning how to feel joy while healing from loss, Feyi Adekola starts dating the perfect guy, but discovers she has feelings for someone else who is off limits and must decide just how far she is willing to go for a second chance at love.
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Kayleigh, a content moderator for a social media platform, spends her days reviewing offensive and violent posts, but when her colleagues begin breaking down, she wonders if the job may be too much for them as she convinces herself she’s in control and totally fine.
Either / Or by Elif Batuman
During her sophomore year at Harvard, Selin’s quest for self-knowledge leads to certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol, and sex and is determined to participate no matter the cost, in the follow-up to The Idiot.
May 17
You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead
In her hypnotic first collection of short stories, Shipstead mines the complexities of love, sex, and life in ways that are both harsh and hilarious, perceptive and compassionate.
Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach
Opening in the early nineties and charting almost two decades of shared history and missed connections, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance is both a breathtaking love story about two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other and a wryly astute coming-of-age tale brimming with unexpected moments of joy.
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
When Alice wakes up on her 40th birthday somehow back in 1996 as her 16-year-old self, she finds the biggest surprise is the 49-year-old version of her father with whom she is reunited, and, armed with a new perspective on life, wonders what she would change given the chance.
May 10
Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
A young Omani woman attempting to assimilate in Britain reflects on the relationships that have been central to her life, in the new novel from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Celestial Bodies.
There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World by Carlo Rovelli
One of the world’s most prominent physicists takes us on an accessible and enlightening journey through science, literature, philosophy and politics across time and space, in this intellectual portal to the universe.
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, Chinese American actress Luli Wei, desperate to become a star, bargains with blood and ancient magic to realize her dreams, but the steep price for success may turn her into something she despises.
May 3
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Told from the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction, this unrivaled novel about money, power, intimacy and perception centers on the mystery of how the Rask family acquired their immense fortune in 1920s-1930’s New York City.
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
After her husband dies, widow Tova Sullivan starts working at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she forms a special bond with a giant Pacific octopus who holds the key solving the mysterious disappearance of her 18-year-old son, Erik, over thirty years ago on the Puget Sound.
We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
Long after the end of an affair with an older, married woman, Mallory retreats into herself and must decide whether to stay safely in isolation or step fully into the world to confront how much the woman altered her life, for better or worse.
