Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 6



2014 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | US | 544 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆

2014 Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 336 |

2025 My Friends by Fredrik Backman | Sweden | 448 | 🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review

2025 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune | CAN | 400 |

2025 Confidential by Mikolaj Grynberg | Poland | 160 |

2025 The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories by Karen Bender | US | 304 |

2025 Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos | South Africa | 144 |

2025 My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende | Chile | 301 |

2025 Dear Virginia, Wait for Me by Marcia Butler | US | 251 |

2025 A Woman in the Wild: A Novel (The Orpheus Trilogy) by Tad Crawford | US | 336 |

2025 A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run (Timeless Pastures Mystery) by Gwen Florio | US | 253 |

2025 The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers | US | 273 |

2025 Intersections by Karen F. Uhlmann | US | 288 |

2025 Romantic Friction by Lori Gold | US | 304 |

2025 The Rest of Our Lives by Judy Goldman | US |

2025 William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World by Philip Hoare | UK | 464 |

2025 Old School Indian by Aaron John Curtis | US | 338 | 🏆

2025 The Rabbi's Suitcase by Robert Kehlmann | US | 374 | 🏆

2025 The Names by Florence Knapp | UK | 336 | 🏆

2025 The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb | US | 480 |

2025 Sometimes the Girl by Jennifer Mason-Black | US | 304 | 🏆

2025 The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy | US | 320 |

2025 The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei | Singapore | 350 | 🏆


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