We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending May 29, 2016–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.
(Debuted at #4 in Children’s Fiction Series) The Last Star (The 5th Wave series) by Rick Yancey: “The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us.” (May 2016)
(Debuted at #5 in Hardcover Fiction) The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin: “Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy—humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him.” (May 2016)
((Debuted at #13 in Hardcover Fiction) Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler: “Shot from a mundane, provincial past, Tess comes to New York in the stifling summer of 2006. Alone, knowing no one, living in a rented room in Williamsburg, she manages to land a job as a ‘backwaiter’ at a celebrated downtown Manhattan restaurant. This begins the year we spend with Tess as she starts to navigate the chaotic, enchanting, punishing, and privileged life she has chosen, as well as the remorseless and luminous city around her.” (May 2016)