What Will You Read for May 2025?

By Maureen Meekins | February 24 2025 | NewsStaff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite May titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the May list ends on 4/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse an extended collection here.

A Novel
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 Novel

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.


A Novel
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK“Precise, layered and moving, The Original Daughter is a book not to miss.” –NYTBRIn this dazzling debut, Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

A Novel
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “Dazzling…The Names is startlingly joyful and paced like a thriller…Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight.”—The Washington Post “Elegant…this is a wholly original work.”—People Magazine "Book of the Week" “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 extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

A Novel
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.

A Novel
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.

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