Refinery29's Picks For The Best New Books Of May 2019

Top 10 Refinery29's Picks For The Best New Books Of May 2019 : The Flight Portfolio, Orange World and Other Stories, Ask Again, Yes, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, Light from Other Stars, Birthday, Disappearing Earth, The Guest Book, Necessary People

The Flight Portfolio

Author	Julie Orringer
ISBN	0307959406

The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.

In 1940,...

Orange World and Other Stories

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	1984892215

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...

Ask Again, Yes

Author	Mary Beth Keane
ISBN	1982106980

How much can a family forgive?

A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.

Francis Gleeson and Brian...

Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Author	Lara Prior-Palmer
ISBN	1948226197

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woman who traveled to Mongolia to compete in the world’s longest, toughest horse race, and emerged as its youngest and first-ever female winner.

At the age of nineteen, Lara Prior-Palmer discovered...

Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

Author	Jessica Pan
ISBN	0857526154

What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.

When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...

Light from Other Stars

Author	Erika Swyler
ISBN	1635573165

From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about the electric combination of ambition & wonder that keeps us reaching toward the heavens.

Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small...

Birthday

Author	Meredith Russo
ISBN	1250129834

Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by award-winning author Meredith Russo!

Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures...

Disappearing Earth

Author

Julia Phillips

For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.

One August afternoon, on the...

The Guest Book

Author

Sarah Blake

An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout generations, The Guest Book examines not just a privileged American family, but a privileged America. It is a literary triumph.

The Guest Book follows three generations of a powerful American...

Necessary People

Author	Anna Pitoniak
ISBN	0316451703

One of them has it all. One of them wants it all. But they can't both win.

Stella and Violet are best friends, and from the moment they met in college, they knew their roles. Beautiful, privileged, and reckless Stella lives in the spotlight. Hardworking, laser-focused Violet stays behind the...

Home Remedies

Author	Xuan Juliana Wang
ISBN	1984822748

In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.

From...