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Our HITS (High Interest Title Selections) list for May includes forthcoming titles that we recommend for library collections. These are a few titles of particular interest that we have selected.
Fiction
This month we’ll see new novels by Dan Brown and Khaled Hosseini that will be well-received by their many fans. Additionally, all good things must come to an end, as Charlaine Harris delivers the final Sookie Stackhouse novel.
Thriller readers will be looking for a new novel by Stephen Coonts featuring Jake Grafton and Tommy Carmellini. Clive Cussler presents a NUMA Files novel, John Le Carré offers a spy thriller as only he can do, and John Lescroart catches us up on the adventures of Dismas Hardy.
Top mysteries this month include a Lucas Davenport novel by John Sandford, an Easy Rawlins mystery by Walter Mosley, and a Harry Hole novel by Jo Nesbø. In addition, Ace Atkins continues Robert B. Parker’s legacy with a new Spenser novel, and the Scotland Yard Murder Squad is on the case in the new mystery by Alex Grecian.
Speculative fiction readers will be happy to see a new Odd novel by Dean Koontz and an Arthurian adventure by J.R.R. Tolkien that is finally being published. Readers of Star Wars and Star Trek novels will be interested to see popular and acclaimed writers weighing in on these series: Tim Lebbon and Alan Dean Foster, respectively.
Dysfunctional families make interesting reading in a Southern novel by Beth Hoffman and the latest chronicle of the adventures of Reverend Curtis Black by Kimberla Lawson Roby. Karen Joy Fowler tells the story of a young woman whose sister was a chimpanzee, and Philipp Meyer offers the saga of a Texas family.
In other fiction news, readers looking to be inspired should check out the latest by Richard Paul Evans, and fans of Civil War history will enjoy the new novel by Jeff Shaara.
Notable debuts this month include a spy thriller by a former CIA agent and a literary novel about a doctor in wartime Chechnya.
Nonfiction
Bill O’Reilly urges readers to Keep It Pithy, and his controversial colleague Glenn Beck takes Control and uses only 176 pages to answer gun-control arguments. Speaking of guns (and lots of people apparently are), The Guns at Last Light concludes Atkinson’s acclaimed WWII trilogy, American Gun marks the return of the author of bestselling American Sniper, and She Left Me the Gun tells the gripping story of a woman’s trauma and abuse in South Africa. Battles take a front seat in Civil War in 50 Objects, in an account of The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis, and Through the Perilous Fight.
In political battles, Americans try to stop Unwinding by Fighting for Common Ground, while Jonathan Alter argues that The Center Holds. Speaking of high stakes, six college frat boys who built a multi-billion-dollar online poker empire battle the law in Straight Flush.
The health battles continue as the Engine 2 founder airs his Beef with Meat, the bestselling Hungry Girl returns, Mika Brzezinski talks about being Obsessed with food, and the China Diet inventor discusses Whole foods. On the other side, Guy Fieri throws caution to the wind and visits Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, and a hair metal star dishes on Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll.
On a lighter note, comic creator of “The Oatmeal” shares My Dog: The Paradox, comedian Gaffigan explains why Dad is Fat, Harry Benson photographs The Beatles, NBA coach Phil Jackson writes about his Eleven Rings, and George Lopez claims, “I’m Not Gonna Lie” about aging. Any questions? Ask Wendy.
Closer to home, Jimmy Connors reflects on being an Outsider, a former Victoria’s Secret model claims, “I’m No Angel,” Deepak Chopra talks about Brotherhood, a blogger shares Confessions of a Sociopath, and a mother overcomes unimaginable tragedy in I’ll See You Again. And finally, Paul Theroux wanders far from home when he boards the Last Train to Zona Verde.
See our May HITS lists on ipage® for these and other top forthcoming titles, split into Fiction and Nonfiction
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