Release Week: 5 May 2026

Release Week: 5 May 2026

Posted on 2026-05-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

* The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean, read by Natalie Naudus -- "A stunning Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive."

* The Republic of Memory: A Novel by Mahmud El Sayed, read by Lara Sawalha and George Greenland -- "A Memory Called Empire meets Children of Time in this Arabfuturist debut set on a generation ship on the brink of revolution as its crew begin to ask why they should toil for a people, and an empire, none of them remember."

* Homebound: A Novel by Portia Elan, read by Lisa Flanagan, Helen Laser, Yu-Li Alice Shen, and Nancy Wu -- "In this novel of friendship and hard-won hope, four lives are entangled across time by one story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries."

* Immersions: A Novel by Kyle McCarthy, read by Phoebe Strole -- "Black Swan meets Bluebeard in this novel of sisterly rivalry and obsessive love set in the New York City dance scene."

* Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson, read by Dan John Miller -- "In this moving, richly detailed speculative crime debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman who claims to have returned from Absence, offering answers to everything."

* The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee, read by Mary Robinette Kowal and Dillon Sickels -- "A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic."

SERIES PICKS:

* Platform Decay: Murderbot Diaries, Book 8 by Martha Wells, read by Kevin R. Free

* A Long and Speaking Silence: The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 7 by Nghi Vo, read by Cindy Kay

* Out Law: A Dresden Files Novella by Jim Butcher, read by James Marsters

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