63 new books coming out May 6 – 12, 2025

By Kobo • May 06, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

The new books we're most excited about this week

✍Poetry

Poetry Is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons by Anonymous

🧰 Help and How-to

We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life's 20 Questions by Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle

Who Deserves Your Love: How to Create Boundaries to Start, Strengthen, or End Any Relationship by KC Davis, LPC

Bad Friend: Why Friendship Breakups Hurt and How to Heal by Michelle Elman

Trust Your Mind: Embracing Nuance in a World of Self-Silencing by Jenara Nerenberg – A guide from the founder of The Neurodiversity Project to avoid self-silencing and succumbing to groupthink so you can understand what you really think and feel, not what others expect you to.

Becoming You: The Proven Method for Crafting Your Authentic Life and Career by Suzy Welch

The #1 Dad Book: Be the Best Dad You Can Be in 1 Hour by James Patterson

The Blue Book: A Must-See, Can't-Miss, Won't-Forget Guide to Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

You Have the Magic: Harness the Power of Your Mind to Transform Your Reality by Haley Hoffman Smith

Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevity by Eric Topol

Joy Prescriptions: How I Learned to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Connection by Tiffany Moon, MD

💡 Big Ideas

The Crisis of Canadian Democracy by Andrew Coyne

Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference by Rutger Bregman

Corporate Control: Canada in Decline Book Two by Nora Loreto

Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski

How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing by Tim Minshall – An awe-inspiring look at how so many humdrum household items come into existence through surprising and astonishingly complex sequences of events that span the globe.

Suddenly Something Clicked: The Languages of Film Editing and Sound Design by Walter Murch

Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness by Sir David Attenborough and Colin Butfield

What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate, ed.

🗣 True Stories

Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World by Niall Harbison

A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting by Casey Johnston

Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind by Nate Bargatze – “Everyman” comedian Nate Bargatze shares personal stories, points of view, and weird obsessions in his first and probably, if we’re taking him at his word, only book.

I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir by Keith McNally

The Snag by Tessa McWatt

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh

I'm Highly Percent Sure by Caroline A. Wanga

💘 Romance

One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune

Thunder Game by Christine Feehan

Archangel's Ascension by Nalini Singh

Protecting Addison by Susan Stoker

The Survivor Wants to Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Only Because It's You by Rebecca Fisseha

Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez – A late-blooming librarian uses her sudden social media fame to run a scavenger hunt that will determine who’ll kiss her for the first time.

Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice by Cynthia Timoti

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

South of Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver

Dying to Read by Lynn Cahoon

Kings of Stone and Ice by S.J.A. Turney

Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin

The Children of Eve by John Connolly

A Thousand Natural Shocks by Omar Hussain – A reporter trying to distance himself from his past while investigating a serial killer gets ensnared in a cult that promises to free him from trauma with a memory-wiping pill.

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick by Florence Knapp

My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien – From the Giller Prize-winning author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing this is the story of Lina, a girl who grows up in a mysterious middle-place called “the sea” where migrants come and go and past and future collide.

The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei

The Directorby Daniel Kehlmann

The Lowlife by Alexander Baron

All the Mothers by Domenica Ruta

🩸 Horror

Overgrowth by Mira Grant

The Butcher's Daughter: The Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark – The story of bloodthirsty barber Sweeney Todd’s partner in crime.

Below the Grand Hotel by Cat Scully

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction

A Letter from the Lonesome Shore by Sylvie Cathrall

Onyx Storm (1 of 2): Dramatized Adaptation by Rebecca Yarros

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang

Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker by Justina Ireland

Snowglobe 2 by Soyoung Park – The conclusion to the international bestselling YA dystopia about the last warm spot on Earth and those who toil out in the frozen wastes to keep those under the dome comfortable.

Legends Of The Wolf: The Omnibus by Chris Wraight