Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 19
1958 Birthday Party by Harold Pinter | UK | 127 | 2015 Seveneves by Neal Stephenson | US | 880 | 🏆🏆 2020 The Certainties by by Aislinn Hunter | CAN | 248 | 🏆 2020 Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity by Porochista Khakpour | US-Iran | 240 | 2020 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins | US | 517 | 2020 F*ckface: And Other Stories by Leah Hampton | US | 208 | 2020 Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner | US | 368 | 2026 Soon by You by Dahlia Adler | US | 336 | 2026 Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One by Violet Allen | US | 336 | 2026 The Arcane Arts by S. D. Coverly | US | 400 | 2026 Canon by Paige Lewis | US | 475 | 2026 Safari Murder Party by Rachel Moore | US | 346 | 2026 Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler | CAN | 384 | 2026 Murder at the Hotel Orient by Alessandra Ranelli | US | 416 | 2026 Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis | US | 432 | 2026 My Brother Oliver by R.L. Toalson | US | 464 | 2026 Turn Back Time by Eleanor Tucker | UK | 324 | 2026 Attention-See...