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May Book Picks

May 1, 2018
By Erin Somers

The May Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Leopard at the Door, by Jennifer McVeigh.

Educated by Tara Westover is the May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club.

Amazon’s spotlight pick for May is Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight, and their featured debut is The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer collection). Also on their top 10 for the month are:

Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain
The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson
A Shout in the Ruins, by Kevin Powers
How to Change Your Mind, by Michael Pollan
Miss Subways, by David Duchovny
Come West and See, by Maxim Loskutoff
Bad Blood, by John Carreyrou
Robin, by David Itzkoff

The iBooks favorites for May also tout the Fontaine, the Pollan, and the Itzkoff as well as Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer titles Motherhood by Sheila Heti and Tin Man by Sarah Winman. The rest of their list:

84K, by Claire North
Do This For Me, by Eliza Kennedy
The High Season, by Judy Blundell
Human Errors, by Nathan H. Lents
The Last Cowboys, by John Branch
A Lucky Man, by James Brinkley
The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
The Outsider, by Stephen King
Puddin’, by Julie Murphy
Star of the North, by D.B. John
Well That Escalated Quickly, by Franchesca Ramsey

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