Here are the top twenty titles public library patrons looked for in May 2021.
Summer is coming, and so are the books of summer! May saw popular new books
from Laura Dave, Andy Weir, James Patterson, Jennifer Weiner and Maggie
Shipstead. Georgia politician and voting-rights advocate Stacey Abrams, who had
previously written under the pen name Selena Montgomery, released the legal
thriller While Justice Sleeps. And Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball
and The Big Short, released the only non-fiction book on top-20: The
Premonition, a narrative a “nonfiction thriller” on the early days of the
Covid-19 pandemic.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Sooley: A Novel by John Grisham
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
21st Birthday by James Patterson
A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
That Summer: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Ocean Prey by John Sandford
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Finding Ashley: A Novel by Danielle Steel
The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
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