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May 01, 2020

Amazon editors pick best books to read in May

Selections include a 'Hunger Games' prequel from Suzanne Collins

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Amazon's Best Books of the Month list is picked by the company's book editors. New titles to read this May include a 'Hunger Games' prequel by Suzanne Collins and journalist Bill Buford's latest memoir about his years in France.

Looking for some new content to cure your boredom while staying in? A new month brings a new set of books to read.

Titles out this May include a "Hunger Games" prequel by Suzanne Collins and journalist Bill Buford's latest memoir about his years in France.


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Both are on Amazon's Best Books of the Month list, picked by the company's book editors.

Other selections include a book about two of America's most powerful men, J.P. Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt, and a memoir from the frontman of the rock band Airborne Toxic Event about being born into a cult and escaping.

Check out the 10 titles below and get excited for some new reading material.

Best Books of the Month May 2020

• "Hollywood Park" by Mikel Jollett
• "The Jane Austen Society" by Natalie Jenner
• "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" by Suzanne Collins
• "Almond" by 
Won-pyung Sohn
• "All Adults Here" by Emma Straub
• "Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking" by Bill Buford
• "Boys of Alabama" by Genevieve Hudson
• "The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism" by Susan Berfield
• "Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy" by Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano
• "Take Me Apart" by Sara Sligar

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