Notable New Releases: May 2015
This month, Kate Atkinson returns with A God in Ruins, a companion novel to her acclaimed Life After Life. There are also historical novels from Erika Robuck, C.C. Humphreys, and Deeanne Gist. In preparation for summertime beach reading, Mary Kay Andrews, Nancy THayer, and Mary Alice Monroe all have seaside stories out this month as well. In mystery, Catie Disabato’s The Ghost Network and Heidi Pitlor’s The Daylight Marriage are available, among others, and in science-fiction/fantasy Joanne M. Harris takes her first stab at the adult sci-fi genre with The Gospel of Loki while Melissa F. Olson debuts her Boundary Magic series. In young adult, Sarah J. Maas launches her Court of Thorns and Roses series, and there’s also new work from Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. In romance, Linda Lael Miller continues her Brides of Bliss County series, Elizabeth Hoyt offers another Maiden Lane story, and Lauren Dane returns with Back to You. In new adult, there’s new work from Jamie McGuire, Jennifer Probst, and Fisher Amelie, among others. While in nonfiction, topics range from art to history to internet geekery with Grayson Perry’s Playing to the Gallery, Oliver Hilmes’s biography of Alma Mahler (Malevolent Muse), and Sam Maggs’s The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy. Whatever you read this month, enjoy!
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown and Company, 5/5)
The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters #1) by Lucinda Riley (Atria Books, 5/5)
The Mapmaker’s Children by Sarah McCoy (Crown, 5/5)
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck (NAL, 5/5)
Re Jane by Patricia Park (Pamela Dorman Books, 5/5)
Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry (Ecco, 5/5)
The Curse of Anne Boleyn (French Executioner #2) by C.C. Humphreys (Sourcebooks Landmark, 5/5)
Tiffany Girl by Deeanne Gist (Howard Books, 5/5)
The Green Road by Anne Enright (W.W. Norton & Company, 5/11)
The Guest Cottage by Nancy Thayer (Ballantine Books, 5/12)
How to Start a Fire by Lisa Lutz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5/12)
The Sound of Glass by Karen White (NAL, 5/12)Girl at War by Sara Novic (Random House, 5/12)
The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard (Knopf, 5/12)
Beach Town by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s Press, 5/19)
Mislaid by Nell Zink (Ecco Press, 5/19)
The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North (Blue Rider Press, 5/19)
The Canterbury Sisters by Kim Wright (Gallery Books, 5/19)
The Summer’s End (Lowcountry Summer #3) by Mary Alice Monroe (Gallery Books, 5/19)
Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey (Thomas Dunne Books, 5/26)
The Shore by Sara Taylor (Hogarth, 5/26)
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf (Knopf, 5/26)
14th Deadly Sin (Women’s Murder Club #14) by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown and Company, 5/4)
The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato (Melville House, 5/5)
Day Shift (Midnight, Texas #2) by Charlaine Harris (Ace, 5/5)
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious Press, 5/5)
The Daylight Marriage by Heidi Pitlor (Algonquin Books, 5/5)
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue (Gaslight Mystery #17) by Victoria Thompson (Berkley, 5/5)
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster, 5/12)
Dry Bones (Walt Longmire #11) by Craig Johnson (Viking, 5/12)
The Book of Stone by Jonathan Papernick (Fig Tree Books, 5/12)
The Enemy Inside (Paul Madriani #13) by Steve Martini (William Morrow, 5/12)Solitude Creek (Kathryn Dance #4) by Jeffery Deaver (Grand Central Publishing, 5/12)
The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne (Grand Central Publishing, 5/19)
The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway #7) by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 5/19)
Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton (Minotaur Books, 5/19)
I, Ripper by Stephen Hunter (Simon & Schuster, 5/19)
The Well by Catherine Chanter (Atria Books, 5/19)
Radiant Angel (John Corey #7) by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing, 5/26)
Piranha (The Oregon Files #10) by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/26)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury Children’s, 5/5)
The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West (HarperTeen, 5/5)
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen (Viking Juvenile, 5/5)
Seriously Wicked by Tina Connolly (Tor Teen, 5/5)
Ice Kissed (Kanin Chronicles #2) by Amanda Hocking (St. Martin’s Press, 5/5)
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge (Balzer Bray, 5/5)
5 to 1 by Holly Bodger (Knopf BYR, 5/12)
Love, Fortunes and Other Disasters by Kimberly Karalius (Swoon Reads, 5/12)
Making Pretty by Corey Ann Haydu (Katherine Tegen Books, 5/12)
Made You Up by Francesca Zappia (Greenwillow Books, 5/19)
A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith (Katherine Tegen Books, 5/19)
Off the Page (Between the Lines #2) by Jodi Picoly and Samantha van Leer (Delacorte BYR, 5/19)
Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert (Disney-Hyperion, 5/19)Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt (Bloomsbury, 5/19)
P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #2) by Jenny Han (Simon & Schuster BYR, 5/25)
Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road #1) by Katie McGarry (Harlequin Teen, 5/26)
Anything Could Happen by Will Walton (Push, 5/26)
21 Stolen Kisses by Lauren Blakely (Bloomsbury Spark, 5/26)
Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider (Katherine Tegen Books, 5/26)
Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton (HarperTeen, 5/26)
Kissing in America by Margo Rabb (Harper 5/26)
The Cage (The Cage #1) by Megan Shepherd (Balzer Bray, 5/26)
Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan (Dutton BYR, 5/26)
Boundary Crossed (Boundary Magic #1) by Melissa F. Olson (47North, 5/1)
Compendium by Alia Luria (Willowslip Press, 5/5)
Straits of Hell (Destroyermen #10) by Taylor Anderson (Roc, 5/5)
Leviathan (The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #5) by Jack Campbell (Ace, 5/5)
The Gospel of Loki by Joanne M. Harris (Saga Press, 5/5)
Sword of the North (Grim Company #2) by Luke Scull (Roc, 5/5)
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow, 5/19)The Gracekeepers by Kristy Logan (Crown, 5/19)
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (St. Martin’s Press, 5/19)
Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson #8) by Darynda Jones (St. Martin’s Press, 5/19)
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf, 5/26)
Long Black Curl (Tufa #3) by Alex Bledsoe (Tor Books, 5/26)
Pucked by Helena Hunting (Helena Hunting, 5/3)
Two of Hearts by Christina Lee (NAL, 5/5)
Cat’s Lair (Leopard People #7) by Christine Feehan (Jove, 5/5)
The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest (Medieval Fairy Tale Romance #1) by Melanie Dickerson (Thomas Nelson, 5/12)
Brendon (Alluring Indulgence #8) by Nicole Edwards (Pocket Star, 5/11)
Born of Defiance (The League #8) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (St. Martin’s Press, 5/12)
Echo (Black Lotus #2) by E.K. Blair (E.K. Blair, 5/12)
The Sweetheart Deal by Polly Dugan (Little, Brown and Company, 5/19)The Perfect Letter by Chris Harrison (Dey Street Books, 5/19)
Back to You (The Hurley Boys #3) by Lauren Dane (HQN, 5/26)
Rules of the Game (Stardust, Texas #2) by Lori Wilde (Avon, 5/26)
The Marriage Season (The Brides of Bliss County #3) by Linda Lael Miller (HQN, 5/26)
Mended (Lucian & Lia #3) by Sydney Landon (Sydney Landon, 5/28)
Dearest Rogue (Maiden Lane #8) by Elizabeth Hoyt (Grand Central Publishing, 5/26)
Fury (The Seven Deadly #3) by Fisher Amelie (Fisher Amelie, 5/4)
Kane (Slater Brothers #3) by L.A. Casey (L.A. Casey, 5/5)
The Friend Zone (Game On #2) by Kristen Callihan (Kristen Callihan, 5/5)
Under the Influence by L.B. Simmons (L.B. Simmons, 5/11)
All Played Out (Rusk University #3) by Cora Carmack (William Morrow, 5/12)
Black Rainbow by J.J. McAvoy (NYLA, 5/15)
Revelry (Taint #1) by Carmen Jenner (Carmen Jenner, 5/25)Searching for Beautiful (Searching For #3) by Jennifer Probst (Gallery Books, 5/26)
Conviction (The Consolation Duet #2) by Corinne Michaels (BAAE Publishing, 5/27)
Bound by Hatred (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles #3) by Cora Reilly (Cora Reilly, 4/28)
Beautiful Sacrifice (The Maddox Brothers #3) by Jamie McGuire (Jamie McGuire, 5/31)
Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir by Melissa Cistaro (Sourcebooks, 5/1)
Playing to the Gallery… by Grayson Perry (Penguin Books, 5/5)
I Regret Nothing: A Memoir by Jen Lancaster (NAL, 5/5)
Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler by Oliver Hilmes (Northeastern University Press, 5/5)
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster, 5/5)
The Book of Joan… by Melissa Rivers (Crown Archetype, 5/5)
Waterloo… by Bernard Cornwell (Harper, 5/5)
The Life of Saul Bellow… by Zachary Leader (Jonathan Cape, 5/7)The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy… by Sam Maggs (Quirk Books, 5/12)
City by City: Dispatches From the American Metropolis edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb (N 1, 5/12)
A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope by Tom Brokaw (Random House, 5/12)
All I Know Now… by Carrie Hope Fletcher (Sphere, 5/14)
Elena Vanishing by Elena and Clara B. Dunkle (Chronicle Books, 5/19)
Notable New Releases is a monthly series highlighting a hand-picked selection of new books in American publishing. My goal is to provide a place for readers to get a glimpse at some of the new titles available, to keep up with their most anticipated books of the year and hopefully find a new read (or two or three) along the way. Notable New Releases is a one-woman show and publication dates are always subject to change. If there’s a book coming out in future months that you’d like to see included in the series, recommendations are always welcome!
