May 2021 Top Titles at Public Libraries

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.

1. 1. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
   2. Sooley: A Novel by John Grisham
   3. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
   4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
   5. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
   6. 21st Birthday by James Patterson
   7. A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
   8. That Summer: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
   9. Ocean Prey by John Sandford
   10. While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
   11. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
   12. Finding Ashley: A Novel by Danielle Steel
   13. The Newcomer by Mary Kay Andrews
   14. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
   15. The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
   16. Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
   17. The Premonition by Michael Lewis
   18. People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
   19. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
   20. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

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