BOOK HAUL / May 2020
Books I added to my bookshelf this month
Thanks to the generosity from publishers and book tours I received some fantastic book mail this month. I’m excited to read them all. And I love that it’s a wonderful mix of different genres. Have you read any of these yet? What was the last book mail you received?
Contemporary Fiction
New York Times-bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the American South in this latest novel about friendship and love that is full of heart, humor, and rich description.
A woman wounded by her past comes to Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina to find new meaning in life and to find herself. As she takes up a new hobby of beekeeping, she begins to come into her own and rebuild her life. When a new friend comes in and she finally allows for something more than just “friendship”, everyone will realize that life could use a little taste of sweetness. more
Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask. Daphne hasn’t spoken one word to Drue in all this time—she doesn’t even hate-follow her ex-best friend on social media—so when Drue asks if she will be her maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer, Daphne is rightfully speechless. more
Historial Fiction
The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau to investigate the Governor and his wife for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees five years earlier. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? more
Young Adult
Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for. more
Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon’s Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength—as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down.
A girl walks home from school. She’s tall for her age. She’s wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She’s hurrying.
She never makes it home. more
The youngest doctor in America, an Indian-American teen makes her rounds―and falls head over heels―in the contemporary romantic comedy Symptoms of a Heartbreak.
Fresh from med school, sixteen-year-old medical prodigy Saira arrives for her first day at her new job: treating children with cancer. She’s always had to balance family and friendships with her celebrity as the Girl Genius―but she’s never had to prove herself to skeptical adult co-workers while adjusting to real life-and-death stakes. And working in the same hospital as her mother certainly isn’t making things any easier. more
Thriller
Big Little Lies meets Presumed Innocent in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia, in which a woman’s brutal murder reveals the perilous compromises some couples make—and the secrets they keep—in order to stay together.
Lizzie Kitsakis is working late when she gets the call. Grueling hours are standard at elite law firms like Young & Crane, but they’d be easier to swallow if Lizzie was there voluntarily. Until recently, she’d been a happily underpaid federal prosecutor. That job and her brilliant, devoted husband Sam—she had everything she’d ever wanted. And then, suddenly, it all fell apart. more
What books did you add to your bookshelf this month?
BOOK HAUL / May 2020
This post is so aesthetically pleasing 😍😍😍. I’ve adding A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to my collection this month and I am so eager to get to it! 😊
Thank you ☺️
I’m interested to see what people have to see about the prequel. I’m not sure if I’ll read it myself, since the series never had me in its grip, but I’m looking forward to the reviews. 😀
Nice haul! I haven’t read any of these yet. I look forward to hearing what you think of them!
Your page is so beautiful!! <3 A lot of these books look sooo good!!
Thank you so much ☺️
You’re welcome!
Great Haul 🙂
Thank you 😊
I just love the look of all of these …..I have heard great things about all of these. I mostly just read digital now but I have added some great books in. Hope you have a great haul in June!
Thank you 😊 I still think there is nothing better than book mail.
Looks like you stocked up on some great reads!
I feel the same, I already have some of them on the very top of my tbr 😀
These all look great! I’m currently reading Mrs Everything by Jennifer Weiner and really enjoying it so I’m thinking of reading Big Summer soon after it. Happy reading!
Thank you, and I’m almost done with Big Summer. It was my first book by her and I’m hooked!