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First Tuesday of May Megalist!

Happy Tuesday, readers! It’s another amazing day in Bookland. There are approximately a zillion new releases out today, give or take a few. And I am so excited for you to read so many of them. Damn it feels good to be a reader! Me, I’m an eeeeeeeeeeeee reader. (Sorry, not sorry.) Why do I make you a megalist each month? Because books are not just my job, they’re my life. They’ve gotten me through many hard times and brought me so much joy, so I like to give you as many options as I can to help you find the books that do that for you, too. (Also, check out this amazing “Books Saved My Life” shirt from Uncle Bobbie’s.)

I did get a chance to read several of today’s books, but there are still soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to get, like On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed, The Secret Talker by Geling Yan, and Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. And as with each first Tuesday megalist, I am putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. You can also hear about several new releases on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Danika and I discussed Great Circle, Luck of the Titanic, Sorrowland, and more. Okay—everyone buckled in? Get ready to click your little hearts out, because here come the books! – XO, Liberty

P.S. If you’re not busy tonight, come hear me interview Aidan Truhen about his new book!

Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard ❤️

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead ❤️

Last Gate of the Emperor by Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen and Kwame Mbalia

Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards) by Lilly Dancyger

The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti

An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional by Rainesford Stauffer

On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed 

Sacrifice: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth by Michelle Black 

Billionaires by Darryl Cunningham

cover of seven demons by aidan truhen

Seven Demons by Aidan Truhen ❤️

Living in Data: A Citizen’s Guide to a Better Information Future by Jer Thorp 

Nothing Personal: An Essay by James Baldwin

The Girl Who Died by Ragnar Jonasson

The Hummingbirds’ Gift : Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings by Sy Montgomery

The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon ❤️

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

The Secret Talker by Geling Yan

Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World by Philip Hoare

Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee ❤️

Films of Endearment: A Mother, a Son and the 80s Films That Defined Us by Michael Koresky

Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours by Sarah Sentilles

Find You First by Linwood Barclay ❤️

Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman 

Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions by Astra Taylor

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis 

Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry by The Library of Congress, Joy Harjo 

My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption by Ian Manuel

Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie’s Kitchen Mystery #1) by Mia P. Manansala

Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood Part of: American Music by Kristin Hersh ❤️

Mergers and Acquisitions Or, Everything I Know About Love I Learned on the Wedding Pages by Cate Doty

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

The Dead Husband by Carter Wilson 

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by Joya Goffney

African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele

The Mysteries by Marisa Silver

The Siren by Katherine St. John

Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace ❤️

Bad Lawyer: A Memoir of Law and Disorder by Anna Dorn

Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected Life by Julianna Margulies  

The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He ❤️

Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber 

The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

Leda and the Swan by Anna Caritj

Second Place by Rachel Cusk ❤️

A Lonely Man by Chris Power

The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews ❤️

Take Me Home Tonight by Morgan Matson

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Summer on the Bluffs: A Novel (Oak Bluffs) by Sunny Hostin

When You Get the Chance by Tom Ryan and Robin Stevenson

The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel ❤️

Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh

The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba by Chanel Cleeton 

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy by Larissa Pham

Family Law by Gin Phillips

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser

Hurricane Summer by Asha Bromfield 

Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly 

Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian ❤️

Prom House by Chelsea Mueller 

The Black Ghost by Monica Gallagher, Alex Segura, Marco Finnegan

The Woman with the Blue Star by Pam Jenoff

Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen 

The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

It Had to Be You by Georgia Clark

Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing

Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black and White by Kitt Shapiro with Patricia Levy


Thank you, as always, for joining me each week as I rave about books! I am wishing the best for all of you in whatever situation you find yourself in now. – XO, Liberty