Best Books of the Month: May 2012See this month's editors' picks and other featured new releases in our Best Books of the Month store, or browse this month's editors' picks in Kindle Books.
May must've bribed someone. This month's top picks include a fantastic debut novel from Ben Fountain, the story of a conflicted group of Iraq War soldiers and reluctant heroes during one day of their bizarre Victory Tour, new novels from two masters, John Irving and Toni Morrison, a touching coming-of-age tale from poet Elizabeth Percer, and the fourth installment in Robert Caro’s epic biography of Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel
by Ben Fountain
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 (311 customer reviews)
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Ecco
May 1, 2012
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: Billy Lynn and his Bravo squad mates have become heroes thanks to an embedded Fox News crew’s footage of their firefight against Iraqi insurgents. During one day of their bizarre Victory Tour, set mostly at a Thanksgiving Day football game at ...
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In One Person: A Novel
by John Irving
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 (276 customer reviews)
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Simon & Schuster
May 8, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: Very few authors can create and sustain a cast of unique and unforgettable characters like John Irving. In One Person is a masterfully told story of identity, relationships, and the struggle that comes with living a life outside of the ...
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Home
by Toni Morrison
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(172 customer reviews)
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Knopf
May 8, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: It takes only a page or two of Home, Toni Morrison’s finely wrought 10th novel, before you find yourself relaxing into the hands of a master. Nobody owns a sentence like Ms. Morrison. Completely at ease in her craft, she spins ...
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The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
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 (377 customer reviews)
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Knopf
May 1, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: In the fourth volume of Caro’s ambitious, decades-long biographic exploration, Lyndon Johnson finally reaches the White House. At 600-plus pages, it’s a brick of a book, but it reads at times like a novel, and a thriller, and a Greek ...
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An Uncommon Education: A Novel
by Elizabeth Percer
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(61 customer reviews)
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Harper
May 1, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her stories, Elizabeth Percer brings the clarity and sophistication of the short form into her affecting debut novel about a young woman with lessons to learn. When we meet Naomi Feinstein in childhood, she has ...
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To the Last Breath: A Memoir of Going to Extremes
by Francis Slakey
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(34 customer reviews)
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Simon & Schuster
May 8, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: When Francis Slakey committed himself to climbing the highest peak on every continent and surfing every ocean, his aspirations were purely selfish: he was after both glory (nobody had done both before) and a worthy excuse to maintain the isolation ...
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This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
by Augusten Burroughs
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(171 customer reviews)
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St. Martin's Press
May 8, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: In writing and in life, Augusten Burroughs has repeatedly summoned the courage to grab the wolves of his past by their foaming muzzles and peer into their wild eyes until he owns them--and because of this, he's survived nearly every horrific ...
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Trapeze
by Simon Mawer
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(76 customer reviews)
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Other Press
May 1, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: When Marian Sutro is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to become a British spy in Nazi-occupied France, she views it as an adventure—a reason to return to her beloved Paris. It quickly becomes apparent that this won’t be a vacation, ...
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll
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(81 customer reviews)
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The Penguin Press
May 1, 2012
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From Bookforum
Coll employs language that’s plain, clear, and free of accusation. Though some of the details recounted across the sprawling narrative of Private Empire are outrageous, the reporting is deep and fair. — Coral Davenport...
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I Suck at Girls
by Justin Halpern
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(481 customer reviews)
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It Books
May 15, 2012
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2012: Sh*t My Dad Says was a runaway bestseller and in his sophomore effort, I Suck at Girls, Justin Halpern proves he’s not just a one hit wonder. Halpern’s sarcastic, utterly lovable dad once again shares his pearls of wisdom--including the ...
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