May 2024 Book Releases 📚
A list of all the May releases I'm excited to read & their respective blurbs.
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Perfume & Pain - A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.
Shanghailanders - A dazzling debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time—beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past—exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.
In Tongues - A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery.
The Mother of All Things - An electrifying page-turner about how female rage, grief, and creativity collide when a woman reconnects with her essential self during a family summer journey.
Exhibit - An exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her desires and her life. Vital, bold, powerful, and deeply moving, Exhibit asks: how brightly can you burn before you light your life on fire?
Kittentits - A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searching for friendship and ghosts.
Historical fiction
Butcher - An extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the 19th century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
Cinema Love - A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them.
The Safekeep - An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
Romance
Savor It - Filled with spicy summer fun, small-town charm, and Big Feelings, this highly anticipated romcom is Tarah DeWitt’s best yet.
This Summer Will Be Different - Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn’t know he’s her best friend’s younger brother. Lucy and Felix’s chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again.
It’s easier said than done.
Attached at the Hip - Survivor meets The Bachelor in Attached at the Hip, an irresistible, romantic adventure by bestselling author Christine Riccio.
Thriller & Mystery
You May Now Kill the Bride - The bride-to-be drops dead at her bachelorette weekend, with all of her bridesmaids as suspects for her murder, in this wry thriller full of deadly twists and characters you'll love to hate.
The Switch - Two couples. One twisted game of love and obsession. A dark domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister…
The Hunter's Daughter - A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer.
Fantasy
A Crane Among Wolves - To save her sister, a teen girl becomes entangled in a political conspiracy with an enigmatic prince in this pulse-pounding tale based on a true story from Korean history.
The Honey Witch - The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
Evocation - As a teen, David Aristarkhov was a psychic prodigy, operating under the shadow of his oppressive occultist father. Now, years after his father’s death and rapidly approaching his thirtieth birthday, he is content with the high-powered life he’s curated as a Boston attorney, moonlighting as a powerful medium for his secret society. But with power comes a price, and the Devil has come to collect on an ancestral deal. David’s days are numbered, and death looms at his door.
Horror
Lost in the Garden - "Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one questioned or even thought about too hard. Like folklore. It was just something everyone knew, a rule to be followed: Don’t go to Almanby."
Heather, Rachel and Antonia are going to Almanby.
The Z Word - Packed with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the queer Zombieland you didn’t know you needed.
Sci-fi
The Ministry of Time - A time travel romance, a speculative spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingeniously constructed exploration of the nature of truth and power and the potential for love to change it.
Loneliness & Company - A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who finds herself tangled in a secret government project combating loneliness.
Non-Fiction
It's Not Hysteria - An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing―from leading expert Dr. Karen Tang.
First Love: Essays on Friendship - A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly are.