What Will You Read This May 2026?

By Rachel Tran | February 24 2026 | Staff 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 extended collections in fiction here and nonfiction here.

Browse a Spanish language collection of May titles here.

A Perfect Hand
A Perfect Hand
A Novel
Ayelet Waldman
A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady’s maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England.
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A Fortune of Sand
A Fortune of Sand
A Novel
Ruta Sepetys
The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets—and more intrigue—than she could have ever imagined, in this Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea.
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Five
Five
A Novel
Ilona Bannister
Five lives. Five stories. Five minutes until the London-bound train pulls into the station—and one of them dies. Who would you choose? Welcome to Five.
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Canon
Canon
A Novel
Paige Lewis
“A scorchingly brilliant, wildly funny, and deeply moving epic.” —John Green, #1 globally bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win God’s favor in this outrageously entertaining, profoundly heartfelt novel that announces an ingenious new voice in the tradition of Chain-Gang All-Stars, No One Is Talking About This, and Martyr!
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A Zoom with a View
A Zoom with a View
A Mystery
Jess Cannon
A multigenerational fiction debut filled with heart and humor, A Zoom with a View will make you want to move to Blue Oak—if only the annual Fourth of July festivities didn't end with a dead body.
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The Arcane Arts
The Arcane Arts
A Novel
S. D. Coverly
In this thrilling and sensuous dark academia fantasy, an ambitious graduate student and her advisor dive into studying a taboo branch of magic, igniting a dangerous passion between them.“Dark academia, romance, and fantasy join forces in a gripping new book.”—People
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