The Most Anticipated Books of May

From Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2018 and our  2018 Preview E-Book

May 1

The Mars Room

by Rachel Kushner

“Kushner has twice been nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction (The Flame Throwers, Telex from Cuba) — an impressive feat considering she has only published two novels to date. Her new book paints a probing portrait of contemporary America in its women’s correctional facility setting.”—Entertainment Weekly

The Seasons of My Mother

by Marcia Kay Harden

“Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden makes a literary statement with this moving story of her relationship with her mother, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.”—Entertainment Weekly

 

 

 

 

That Kind of Mother

by Ruman Alam

“Coming off his celebrated debut Rich and Pretty, Rumaan Alam’s sophomore novel returns to themes of family and culture in a powerful tale of a white mother raising a black son.”—Entertainment Weekly

May 8

Barracoon

by Zora Neale Hurston

“Zora Neale Hurston, the legendary African-American writer best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, compiled and wrote a study of the last known survivor of the U.S. slave trade before her death. More than a half-century later, we’ll finally get a chance to read it.”—Entertainment Weekly

Warlight

by Michael Ondaatje

“The author of The English Patient transports readers to post-WWII for a decade-spanning exploration of memory.”—Entertainment Weekly

May 22

The High Season

by Judy Blundell

“Judy Blundell’s delectable summer read is eliciting comparisons to Meg Wolitzer and Curtis Sittenfeld. It focuses on the extreme lengths one woman goes to after her perfect life is thrown for a loop.”—Entertainment Weekly

The Outsider

by Stephen King

“King’s new novel begins with the discovery of an 11-year-old boy’s corpse, and from there chronicles a disturbing, macabre investigation.” —Entertainment Weekly

 

May 29

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

by Ruth Ware

“Ruth Ware’s latest page-turner (The Lying Game, The Woman in Cabin 10) begins with a woman receiving a letter bequeathing her a large inheritance, and gradually unpeels the dangerous, mysterious circumstances around how it came into her hands.”—Entertainment Weekly