What Will You Read for May 2025?

Two women haunted by their sisters' unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.

A breathtaking, joy-filled novel about the people we love, the secrets we keep, and the enduring power of family, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James.

Fun fact: Audiobook will be read by Lauren Graham.

In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

“A magnificent novel, thrumming with life in all its pain and precariousness, yet suffused with the glorious possibilities of love and redemption.” —Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Horse“The Names is a truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel. I couldn’t put it down, and I’m grateful to have Cora and her children living inside my heart now. What a wonderful book!” —Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful“Magnificent. A stunning, hopeful, bitterly beautiful novel....Read it. It’s very special.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the DarkThe extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

To become the first queen in centuries, a powerfully blessed blacksmith must use her wits and fire magic to overthrow the corrupt powers ruling her kingdom—while also fighting her growing desire for one of her dragon-riding adversaries—in the first book of a sizzling Celtic-inspired fantasy romance duology.

From beloved author Hannah Orenstein, this is “The Parent Trap for adults” – the story of two half-sisters who have never met but find themselves forced together after their father suddenly dies, leaving them to deal with the family cabin in Maine that holds a lifetime of summer memories for them both.