Fredrik Backman’s new novel Britt-Marie Was Here is the No. 1 pick for the May Library Reads list. You can start reading excerpts of two of the novels on the list, The Fireman by Joe Hill and Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Spring Summer. The rest of the list features: Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter (Knopf) Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go (Berkley) Dan Vyleta, Smoke (Doubleday) John Hart, Redemption Road (Thomas Dunne Books) Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost (Minotaur) Laura Lippman, Wilde Lake (William Morrow) Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (Norton)