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May Bookseller Picks

May 1, 2019
By Erin Somers

Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for May is Furious Hours by Casey Cep, and its Featured Debut is Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman. Also on the list is Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book, which is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks:

Bitcoin Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich
Correspondents, by Tim Murphy
A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do, by Pete Fromm
The Apology, by Eve Ensler
The Deer Camp, by Dean Kuipers
Cari Mora, by Thomas Harris
Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene

Barnes & Noble also chose the Harris as one of their May picks, as well as Liv Constantine’s The Last Time I Saw You, which you can sample now in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer. The rest of the new releases on the list:

Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate
Sunset Beach, by Mary Kay Andrews
Blessing in Disguise, by Danielle Steel
The Night Window, by Dean Koontz
Queen Bee, by Dorthea Benton Frank
Ask Again, Yes, by Mary Beth Keane
The Big Kahuna, by Janet Evanovich
Storm Cursed, by Patricia Biggs
When Live Give You Lululemons, by Lauren Weisberger
The Clockmaker’s Daughter, by Kate Morton

Barnes & Noble also announced a monthly YA Book Club, beginning with three picks for summer: Again, but Better, by Christine Riccio (June); We Hunt the Flame, by Hafsah Faizal (July); and Wilder Girls, by Rory Power (August).

The May pick for the New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club is Daniel Mendelsohn’s memoir An Odyssey.

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