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Every month, I make pretty accurate (80-100%) predictions about which books will be featured by Book of the Month (BOTM). I take a lot of time to research upcoming releases, analyze past selections, and choose books that are solid bets.
I think that May books will most likely drop on Tuesday, July 28th or Wednesday, July 29th.
Literary Fiction
I wavered whether to include a few books but ultimately ruled them out (including Etna by Paul Yoon, The Book of Chuck by Latoya Watkins, Hello Baby by Kim Eui-Kyung, The Obsessed by Lizzie Buehler, Mia by Leslie Bazzett, Under the Falls by Richard Russo, and Dèy by Edwidge Danticat).

Kitten
Stacey Yu
Synopsis: An enchanting debut novel about a young woman whose growing obsession with her boyfriend’s cat opens new possibilities for her life—but not without threatening to unravel it.
Debut

Hello, Limerence
Momo Yamaguchi
Synopsis: For fans of Asako Yuzuki and Fleabag, an audacious, unhinged debut following the major humiliations and minor triumphs of an overworked, undersexed young woman in Tokyo who must save herself from the hazards of her own lust, obsession, and delusion.
Debut

When Lemons Give You Life
Anna Johnston
Synopsis: From the author of the beloved international bestseller The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife comes a heart-stirring novel about family, second chances, and the lengths we go for those we love, following a woman fighting to hold onto life and her older brother who’s rediscovering reasons to embrace it.

You’ll Love It Here
Natalie Sue
Synopsis: From the bestselling author of I Hope This Finds You Well comes a sharply funny, surprisingly tender novel about a woman stuck in place, her nosy neighbors, and the journey to find where she belongs—with all the heart of a grown-up The Breakfast Club.

Meet Me in the Garden
Nina LaCour
Synopsis: From bestselling, award-winning author Nina LaCour comes a gorgeous family story about self-discovery and love in all forms, inspired by the author’s Creole roots. Profound and expansive, a story of love and longing, art and motherhood, friendship and desire.
Repeat Author

The Seekers of Deer Creek
Thao Thai
Synopsis: From the national bestselling author of Banyan Moon, a captivating, evocative story of two estranged sisters on a quest to find a painting by a forgotten Vietnamese artist that holds the truth of their family’s fractured past.
Repeat Author

Take What You Can
Naima Coster
Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of What’s Mine and Yours, a rich, panoramic exploration of friendship, class, new motherhood, and independence.
Repeat Author
Historical Fiction
I also considered Jacaranda by Gaël Faye.

Sunlight Finds You
Laura Moriarty
Synopsis: A forbidden love blows open the world of a teenage girl, altering the trajectory of her life–from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Chaperone.

A Tender Age
Chang-rae Lee
Synopsis: A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants. A story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence from the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Chang-rae Lee.

Hocus Pocus
Brinda Charry
Synopsis: A young magician travels across the world seeking fame and fortune all the while hiding a secret, in a novel based on the renowned, real-life Indian stage magicians performing in the United States in the 1800s.
Romance
I considered but then ruled out The Iron Hex by Victoria Walsh and See You at Sunset by Susan Lee.

Counting the Days
Laura Chinn
Synopsis: What begins as a near-midlife crisis transforms into a journey of love and self-acceptance in this sharp, beautifully layered, and funny debut romance from screenwriter and director Laura Chinn.
Debut

These Vile Hearts
Melody Robinette
Synopsis: A delightfully wicked, fizzy debut romantasy–an enemies to lovers tale about a desperate mortal woman and a cursed fae prince.
Debut

The Poison Daughter
Sheila Masterson
Synopsis: The must-have, true enemies-to-lovers standalone romantasy about a woman whose lips are deadly poison . . . until she meets the one man who can survive her kiss.

How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle
Alissa Derogatis
Synopsis: a fresh, charming romcom about the chaos of dating in your twenties, the ache of a brutal breakup, and the hilarious lengths one romance writer will go to get her spark back—including staging her own meet-cutes. Perfect for fans of Katherine Center and Emily Henry’s Beach Read.

The One Where They Fall in Love
Cristina Wolf
Synopsis: Oliver Cole likes schedules, routines and order. So when his move back to New York is disrupted with the unwelcome addition of Thor, he’s less than enthused. Even less enthused is his neighbor Elle. What starts as a reluctant dog-sitting arrangement soon turns into late-night chats, sizzling chemistry, and two lonely hearts daring to let each other in.
Thrillers, Mysteries, & Crime Fiction
I also waffled about a number of books, including The Engima Challenge by S.C. Godfrey, The Secret Dinner by Raphael Montes, and My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon.

Better than Revenge
Bea Fitzgerald
Synopsis: Beneath the harsh glare of Hollywood, a legendary feud ties two A-list actresses together. But with a body bag between them, they must decide just how far their feud will go. Thelma and Louise meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this salacious slow-burn suspense.
Debut

Saint Delilah
Isabelle Spotts
Synopsis: Delilah is dead. But her story is far from over. In this feminist supernatural suspense novel, she will find her peace—and give hell to the man who killed her.
Debut

Time to Burn
Ellery Lloyd
Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Club comes a gripping mystery about time travel tourism and the dangerous consequences which ensue when the privileged make the past their playground.
Repeat Author

They Say a Girl Died Here
Sarah Pinborough
Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about two murdered girls in a small Nebraska town, a town with dark secrets, and a race to break a deadly cycle.
Repeat Author

Heart of Glass
Jennifer Hillier
Synopsis: Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered. When the killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore the secrets that two friends have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface.
Repeat Author
Horror & Gothic Fiction

Dreamland
Olivie Blake
Synopsis: From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach.

The Hill in the Dark Grove
Liam Higginson
Synopsis: In this gripping debut, steeped in Welsh folklore, a husband and wife living in the beautiful but isolated mountains of Snowdonia stumble upon a buried Neolithic ruin—awakening a mysterious, ancient presence with its own dark designs.
Debut

Fruit Fly
Josh Silver
Synopsis: From New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake comes a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach.
Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
I wavered whether to include Demons and Diplomacy by Megan Frampton, The Shadows of Tomorrow by Noëlle Michel, and Reliquary by Hannah Whitten, but I do not think they will be picks.

The Wild Beneath
Kelly Anderson
Synopsis: For readers of Wild Dark Shore and The Time Traveler’s Wife, a fierce, haunting story of one woman caught between her first love and a mysterious stranger who upends everything—and the two worlds that won’t let her go.
Debut

Portrait of a Witch Undone
K.S. Shay
Synopsis: An atmospheric, eerie debut for readers of Starling House and A Discovery of Witches, Isabella Stewart Gardner art heist aficionados, witchy girls, burnt-out former gifted kids, New England history buffs, the coven curious, ride-or-die friends, folklore fanatics, and anyone who’s ever wanted to wander through the looking glass.
Debut

Time Travel for Beginners
Jaclyn Moriarty
Synopsis: In her dazzling new novel, award-winning author Jaclyn Moriarty asks the question, if you could revisit one moment in your life, what would it be?

The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
Elizabeth DeLozier
Synopsis: Set in Victorian London during Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror, this gripping, original novel is perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab, Dana Schwartz, and Sarah Penner.

Eyes of Kings
Chloe Gong
Synopsis: The action-packed finale to Chloe Gong’s New York Times bestselling Flesh & False Gods trilogy—inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra—brings readers the ultimate showdown for power among gods and men.
Repeat Author
Nonfiction

Great and Unfortunate Things
Jason Arday
Synopsis: With the power of Educated and the emotional sweep of When Breath Becomes Air, this inspiring underdog story follows a nonverbal autistic boy—whom society had all but given up on—as he finds his voice, literally and figuratively, becomes one of the youngest professors in the University of Cambridge’s history, and ultimately puts himself in a position to give back.
Debut
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