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New Releases and More for May 5, 2026

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Moonlight Murder, Platform Decay, Verity Guild, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission Books Discussed On the Show: Birth Vibes by Jen Hamilton Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray Moonlight Murder by Uzma Jalaluddin The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence by Louise Brangan The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod Verity Guild by Mai Corland Honey by Imani Thompson Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries Book 8) by Martha Wells Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell One Leg on Earth by 'Pemi Aguda Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Nović What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind by Simon Rogers Earthly Playing Field by Radhika Singh What We're Reading: Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan Brume, Volume 2: The Forest of Lost Souls by Jérôme Pélissier, Carine Hinder A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood  Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang The Repairer of Reputations by Ed Park, Robert W. Chambers Paperbacks: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance by Riley Black The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin (translator) The Lilac People by Milo Todd The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast Gliff by Ali Smith Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein You Belong Here by Megan Miranda My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle (translator) Flashlight by Susan Choi The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling August Lane by Regina Black As I Dream of You by Jennifer Lee, LeUyen Pham The Book of Lost Hours by Hayley Gelfuso Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson Links: A new book from Chad Harbach The NYT Best Books of the Year (So Far) Bestsellers: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir  Theo of Golden by Allen Levi Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham   Hope Rises by David Baldacci   London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe  Poisoned Ivies: The Inside Account of the Academic and Moral Rot at America’s Elite Universities by Elise Stefanik  Kin by Tayari Jones The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Working Title, producers of Bridget Jones and Love Actually.

0:03.5

I'm looking for this girl called Emily.

0:05.3

I'll help you find her.

0:06.5

Comes the truly feel-good British rom-com that's being called a five-star instant classic.

0:12.7

Tell me, you didn't hack the school email.

0:14.6

What message every Emily?

0:16.3

Hailed as hilarious and original.

0:18.8

Hey, Emily's.

0:20.4

It's Notting Hill for a new generation.

0:23.0

I don't think I was wrong numbered.

0:24.2

She didn't write number you, did she?

0:26.0

Finding Emily.

0:27.2

Only in Cinema's May 22nd.

0:29.0

Book tickets now. You're listening to All the Books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases and more.

0:47.3

Today is May 5, 26. I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Vanessa Diaz, and we're coming to you from bookriot.com. Vanessa, hello. I was going to say happy Cinco de Mayo just to be contrarian, but I can't. Hello, you're resident Mexican here to tell you that most of us do not care about Cinco de Mayo. I just had to. I was like, I don't understand. I just like literally looked down at the agenda. I was like, oh, it's like it wasn't like a joke I had planned. I was just looking at the calendar going, oh yeah, it's that day. Yeah, I say this as somebody who also attended something this weekend that was like vaguely Zinglomio themed. It's fine. We're here to talk about books. There's just my random insertion.

1:34.0

How are you? It's a really good Liz Faire song. It is. Yeah. That's all I got. I'm excited because by the time we finish recording this, we'll have found out this year's Pulitzer Prize winners. Yeah.

1:40.6

So that's exciting. Although also it just feels like they happen all the time, but they don't.

1:45.5

I know. I'm just like, what? Yeah, somebody who is vaguely touches book award news all the time because of all the content. I either, you know, edit, touch, read, et cetera. I am constantly in a loop of like, is it that time again? I'm like, oh, no, we just did the other ones. But it's Aprilil no it's may like it yeah i'm forever i don't

2:01.6

ever have the timelines on that straight but you know it's fine yeah yeah my husband and his

2:07.5

band did the music for an npr podcast one time that ended up winning a politzer and i was sitting here

2:12.5

i didn't it was the first year that they had the award and i didn't even know like it was a thing

2:17.0

that they were going to have this category how cool and And they like to laugh all the time because when I heard it, I couldn't believe it. And I went running out of the house to his studio and like fell down like three times like trying to come in. And they'll be like, let's start laughing now. And they'll be like, remember, I'm like, yes, when I fell down, because I was trying to tell you about the Pulitzer Prize, yes, okay. I know what you're going to say. I feel that there are probably a few

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