By Damla
We slowly (veeery slowly) ease into the summer months as May draws to a close, which means that it is once again time to take a look at some of the best selling titles we have had this past month. And if you are looking for some new titles to add to your summer reading list, you can always find inspiration here among the books that have piqued the interests of our customers across all the ABC stores in May.
Our bestsellers this month include some long-time ABC favorites such as Atomic Habits and Dead Poets Society, and a few titles maintaining their popularity from April, as well as some notable newcomers: Ocean Vuong’s latest anticipated title The Emperor of Gladness, Joe Abercrombie’s chillingly dark The Devils, and Ali Hazelwood’s entertaining Problematic Summer Romance.
Enjoy!
King of Envy by Ana Huang
He had everything he could’ve wanted… except her.
Fifth book in Huang’s Kings of Sin series, King of Envy is the story of a forbidden romance between a supermodel and her fake fiancé’s best friend.
What Happens in Amsterdam by local author Rachel Lynn Solomon
When an office romance ends poorly and gets her fired, Dani Dorfman applies for a job in Amsterdam. By the end of her first week, she’s never felt more adrift or alone. Then she crashes her bike into her high school ex-boyfriend and suddenly life is blooming with new opportunities.
Wouter needs to be married to inherit a gorgeous family home on a canal and when Dani’s job falls apart, she needs a visa.
As the marriage of convenience pushes them together in unexpected ways, Dani must decide whether her new life is yet another mistake or if it’s worth taking a risk on a second chance.
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman
Internationally bestselling Dutch author Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition – the will to make the world a wildly better place – we can be both idealistic and successful, and change the world along the way. Uncovering the qualities that made the great change-makers of history so effective, he shows how we too can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.
The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Sacred City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters, and the mission he is tasked with will require bloody measures from them all in order to achieve its righteous ends.
Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
In this once-in-a-generation intervention, Klein and Thompson unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
Releasing 10 by Chloe Walsh
Releasing 10 is an epic and unforgettable love story in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.
Paladin’s Grace by T. Kingfisher
Perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes, Paladin’s Grace is a darkly whimsical fantasy featuring sock-knitting paladins, badass perfumers, courtroom hijinks and heart-racing romance, from Nebula and two-time Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher.
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him.
What is wrong meets what feels right in this romance set in Italy by the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Deep End.
Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum
From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. Now in paperback edition.
Wings of Starlight by Allison Saft
It’s been centuries since a warm-season fairy in Pixie Hollow has crossed into the Winter Woods, and while most fear the legends of monsters lurking in the frozen lands, Clarion can’t help being intrigued by Winter’s stoic beauty. But there is a reason a warm-season fairy and a winter fairy must not be together. And the cost could be just as deadly as the monsters that prowl the Winter Woods.
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.
