Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A wide-ranging bounty of selections awaits me for May. Have you read any of them? What are your reading plans?

Booktubers and Events Mentioned:
Reading the Globe
Ros@scallydandlingaboutthebooks
Katja @PageTurnersWithKatja

Books and Bocadillos
Mariaandrea@books_and_bocadillos

Mental Health May
Marilyn @MarilynMayaMendoza
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

Melinda @awebofstories
Ben @benreadsgood

Books Mentioned:

Dear Dickhead by Virgina Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne
Mercy Watson series, books 1-3, by Kate DiCamillo
Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica L. Lee
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Three Days in June by Anne Tyler
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Murder at Gull's Nest by Jess Kidd
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
Toward Eternity by Anton Hur
Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder