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100 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out May 9 – 22, 2023

By Kobo • May 09, 2023New eBooks and Audiobooks

The Spring 2023 publishing season is in full swing!

Tom Hanks writes fiction about his day job, a brand-new Bridgerton story, R F Kuang's satire, the end of Inspector Banks, and big ideas about bad news.


🧰 Help and How-to

HealthyGirl Kitchen: 100+ Plant-Based Recipes to Live Your Healthiest Life by Author Danielle Brown

Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder: A 4-Step Plan for You and Your Loved Ones to Manage the Illness and Create Lasting Stability by Julie A. Fast

You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone by Amy Key

10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Study Like a Champ: The Psychology Based Guide to “Grade A” Study Habits by Regan A.R. Gurung, PhD and John Dunlosky, PhD

Of Bears and Weight Loss: How to Manage Triggers, Lose Weight, and Enjoy Getting Fit by Dr. Brian King

The Queer Parent: Everything You Need to Know From Gay to Ze by Lotte Jeffs

The Family-First Entrepreneur: How to Achieve Financial Freedom Without Sacrificing What Matters Most by Steve Chou

Extra Easy Keto: 7 Days to Ketogenic Weight Loss on a Low-Carb Diet by Stephanie Laska

This Book Will Make You Feel Something: Masturbation meditations to use on your own or with a partner by Florence Bark


💡 Big Ideas

The World: A Family History of Humanity by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

The New Masculinity: A Roadmap for a 21st-Century Definition of Manhood by Alex Manley

The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss

The Trauma Beat: A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News by Tamara Cherry

Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan

These Vital Signs: A Doctor's Notes on Life and Loss in Tweets by Sayed Tabatabai

Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil

A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle

Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar


🗣 True Stories

Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much by Natalie MacLean

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots

Wildflower: A Memoir by Aurora James

The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up by Andy Cohen

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses by Katie Spalding

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

An Unspeakable Hope: Brutality, Forgiveness, and Building a Better Future for My Son by Leon Ford

Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music by Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen


💘 Romance

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker

The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

The Problem with Second Chances by Piper Rayne

HOT Limit by Lynn Raye Harris

Doggone Mess by R.J. Blain

Aliens on Earth: a Limited Edition Science Fiction Romance Collection by Rhetoric Askew, LLC

Unexpected Bliss by Lexi Blake

Man Cave by Vanessa Vale

Needing a Hero by Maryann Jordan

Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes

Harbored in Silence by Carrie Ann Ryan

The Comeback by Lily Chu

The Rachel Experiment by Lisa Lin

Unladylike Lessons in Love by Amita Murray

Take a Hike by Mimi Grace


🗡️ Action, Crime, and Mystery

Uzi in the Urn by Dale Mayer

Standing in the Shadows by Peter Robinson

The Girls in the Glen by Lynne McEwan

Only the Dead by Jack Carr

The Lie Maker by Linwood Barclay

Girl, Lured (An Ella Dark FBI Suspense Thriller—Book 12) by Blake Pierce

The White Knight (Ben Hope, Book 27) by Scott Mariani

Her Dark Grave by Carolyn Arnold

Tessa's Trust by Rebecca Zanetti

The Hexed Hunt by Cate Lawley

Playing It Safe by Ashley Weaver

Seaside Bookclub by Meredith Summers

Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith


🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Yellowface by R. F Kuang

The House on Prytania by Karen White

The Forgotten Children by Ann Bennett

The Postcard by Anne Berest

Golden Dreams by Anna Jacobs

The Garnett Girls by Georgina Moore

In Feast or Famine by Mesu Andrews

Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman

The Guest by Emma Cline

Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

The Three of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams

A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter

The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks


✨ Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

Season of Skulls by Charles Stross

The Book That Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell

Fallen Kingdom by E.V. Everest

The Whistling by Rebecca Netley

Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman

An Embittered Witch by E M Graham

The Iron Vow by Julie Kagawa

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Dionysus by Eva Pohler

Decree by W.J. May

Zombie Fallout 20: Shores of Despair by Mark Tufo

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic by g. haron davis

Dual Memory by Sue Burke

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood


🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

Skip and Loafer Vol. 7 by Misaki Takamatsu

The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World Vol. 5 by Kyouka Izumi

My Happy Marriage 03 by Akumi Agitogi

Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 17 by Kenjiro Hata

Megumi & Tsugumi, Vol. 2 by Mitsuru Si

Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk Vol. 4 by Toru

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man Vol. 7 by Ryusen Hirotsugu

2.5 Dimensional Seduction Vol. 6 by Yu Hashimoto

The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses 03 by Koume Fujichika

Choujin X, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida

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