Biography & Memoir4 May 2027 · US
308 Hours
Higginbotham’s engineering background and unexpected path to NASA give her spaceflight memoir a perspective rooted in the practical work behind a shuttle mission.
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May 2027 book releases
May pairs the conclusion of Lauren Palphreyman's Wolf King trilogy with Megan Lally's gothic death festival and Abby Dewsnup's sacrificial road trip. The latter two are for young-adult readers; The Wolf Queen is adult fantasy. Contemporary fiction, summer romance and histories of corn, lobster and wartime codebreaking offer other directions, with dates and formats attached to exact editions.
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Romance4 May 2027 · US
Annabelle Marks Has No Regrets
A list of uncharacteristically bold choices turns an expected move into a middle-grade story of friendship, a first crush, and changing self-confidence.
Fantasy4 May 2027 · US
Curse the Left Hand
The second Burning Empire novel expands the world of Seek the Traitor’s Son into space. Its series position keeps the continuation clear for returning readers.
Thriller4 May 2027 · US
Freeze Frame
Colter Shaw returns in the series adapted as Tracker. The approaching storm supplies a clear deadline, while Deaver complicates the search with the question of whether the missing officer wants to be found.
Fantasy4 May 2027 · US
Good Things Are Coming Your Way
Anders combines a time-travel premise with a relationship between two very different guardians of the past.
History4 May 2027 · US
Lobster
Readers of Cod and Salt can follow Kurlansky’s single-subject approach into the biology, working lives, and changing tastes of a coastal economy.
Romance4 May 2027 · US
Soulmates
Adams moves into a standalone shaped by family friction and serendipity. Readers drawn to the warmth of her Rome, Kentucky romances can follow a new relationship whose chances depend on more than a fortunate first meeting.
Literary Fiction4 May 2027 · US
The Fire
Hannah’s contemporary American setting offers a different context for readers familiar with her historical novels.
Historical Fiction4 May 2027 · US
The Lost Elixir
Penner returns to The Lost Apothecary through an adult Eliza and a second investigation across two periods. The link to the earlier novel is explicit, while the elixir creates a new conflict over memory, motherhood and control.
Horror4 May 2027 · US
To Death, We Dance
Lally moves into gothic YA horror through an isolated estate, a ritual anniversary and a romance caught inside the mystery.
Crime10 May 2027 · US
The Seventh Family
A mob boss and his police-lieutenant godson embody the novel’s central pressure: family loyalty and law-enforcement duty cannot easily be kept apart.
History11 May 2027 · US
Code Name Purple
Greenfield pairs the problem of a machine cipher with the human labor required to break it. The American team broadens the familiar wartime codebreaking narrative.
Thriller11 May 2027 · US
Dying to Be Us
McManus moves from young-adult suspense into an adult crime story built around friendship, media history and the consequences of a shared secret.
History11 May 2027 · US
Fields of Invention
A single crop becomes a lens on economic history, connecting Indigenous cultivation with the industrial uses of corn in food, energy, and manufacturing.
Science & Technology11 May 2027 · US
How to Save Science
For readers interested in science policy as infrastructure rather than slogans, Lauer offers a view from inside the machinery that decides which biomedical research receives public funding.
Young Adult11 May 2027 · US
It's Always Pride Here
A first New York City Pride parade provides the setting for a group of teenagers discovering community and romance.
Mystery11 May 2027 · US
Not Dead Yet
A retired assassin’s bookshop refuge is threatened by an ultimatum, bringing an older heroine and an unexpectedly capable colleague into a political murder plot.
Horror11 May 2027 · US
Rabbit Heart
Dewsnup's YA horror places an unfolding romance on a journey toward a planned sacrifice, giving the road-trip structure an unsettling destination.
History11 May 2027 · US
The Modern Arab World
Its value is the scale and vantage point: a regional history built around how people within the Arab world navigated state-building, ideology, conflict and everyday change.
Romance11 May 2027 · US
Vital Signs
Scientific ambition and grief complicate a second chance at love, with a competitive summer program and medical school marking two stages of the relationship.
Literary Fiction11 May 2027 · US
Women and Children
Fishman explores youth, desire and agency through the contrast between a formative experience and its interpretations over time.
Science Fiction18 May 2027 · US
Burning Water
Card and Johnston open Extinct with humanity’s return to a ruined Earth, where survival depends on understanding why someone has brought them back.
History18 May 2027 · US
Nubia
Wilkinson shifts the center of ancient northeastern African history south of Egypt, giving readers a detailed account of a civilization too often treated only in relation to its northern neighbor.
Fantasy18 May 2027 · US
Oh Fortuna
Cornell uses mythological adventure for a comic encounter between rigorous thinking and unruly divine power. The mathematician’s perspective gives the journey its organizing friction.
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Romance18 May 2027 · US
Only in Summer
Fortune returns to Barry’s Bay, connecting this romance to a setting familiar to her readers. The lake community and neighboring cottages make it a natural choice for readers planning a summer romance list.
Literary Fiction18 May 2027 · US
People, Please
A Jersey Shore setting and a late reckoning with people-pleasing give this adult debut a focused relationship premise, with an element of magic.
Thriller18 May 2027 · US
The Memory Catcher
Nicieza’s speculative device turns private recollection into public danger. Readers who know his crime novels or comics have a new crossover between psychological suspense, memory technology and the consequences of unwanted exposure.
Fantasy18 May 2027 · UK
The Wolf Queen
A useful date for readers following The Wolf King trilogy: Aurora's struggle for control reaches its final volume.
Thriller18 May 2027 · US
Tom Clancy Zero Point
Jack Ryan Jr.’s investigation connects a Silicon Valley attack with political upheaval in Argentina, carrying the threat across very different centers of power.
Literary Fiction20 May 2027 · UK
Material
The fallout from an exposé places seven artists at the center of questions about complicity, corroboration, and who bears the cost of artistic power.
Mystery25 May 2027 · US
A Soft White Damn
The twenty-third Longmire mystery returns readers to the Wyoming sheriff after the events of The Brothers McKay.
Ideas & Culture25 May 2027 · US
Between Books
McEwan’s essays offer a route from his childhood and early writing into the scientific, political, and cultural questions that occupy his fiction.
Thriller25 May 2027 · US
Daybreak
Stilwell’s return to Catalina Island begins with a rescue that becomes a murder case, placing his first day back under immediate strain.
Romance25 May 2027 · US
It’s (Not) the End of the World
The false apocalypse is more than a hook: the interesting part is what happens after impulsive honesty goes public and two teenagers have to discover whether a dramatic last-day kiss can survive ordinary life.
Horror25 May 2027 · US
Mortal Passions
Curran makes the language of institutional extraction literal. This campus vampire novel connects romantic temptation with the material pressures facing students and universities.
Literary Fiction25 May 2027 · US
Sanctuary
The island setup concentrates questions of influence, marriage and self-deception into a small social world where convenience makes it easier to ignore obvious warning signs.
Mystery25 May 2027 · US
The Missing
Roberts combines a private investigator's work with a homecoming and a developing relationship in a new standalone novel.
Literary Fiction25 May 2027 · US
The Parties
Kornberg combines a party novel with surveillance, counter-intelligence and revolutionary politics, making the book legible as both literary fiction and a political thriller.
Thriller25 May 2027 · US
The Top Job
Kashino follows Best Offer Wins with another competitive environment under pressure. The magazine setting joins a closed-circle mystery to a satire of professional ambition.
Literary Fiction25 May 2027 · US
Top Note Heart Note Base Note
Sethi brings the pressures of performance, public speech and marriage into the same story. Karachi’s television and social worlds give this novel a specific setting.
Mystery27 May 2027 · UK
A Devil of a Crime
A retired devil and angel make an unlikely detective partnership, bringing supernatural complications to a small-town murder mystery.
Fantasy27 May 2027 · UK
A Sorcerer's Tail
A disgraced sorcerer’s feline body and an unlikely paladin companion turn a dangerous fantasy journey into a comic problem of survival.