Bookworms: Do you remember what it was like reading late at night when you knew you should be asleep? Did you relish reading time in school and wished you could have gotten one more chapter in before lessons started? Did you always have a book on you no matter where you were going?

Now you can celebrate that mindset all month long! May is Get Caught Reading Month and it’s all about indulging in literature wherever you are.

And with audiobooks, it’s never been easier to carry a book with you and be in the spirit of getting caught reading. Just download and go. Or relax somewhere comfortable, it’s up to you.

So what will you get caught listening to this month? If you’re having trouble deciding what to start next, then check out our most anticipated audiobooks of May 2024.  

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I Curse You With Joy

Written and narrated by Tiffany Haddish
Releases May 7!

The wig is off. I’m not wearing any makeup.

Comedian, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, where she gets real about the highs and lows of life and celebrates all the lessons she’s learned along the way.

It’s been a minute since readers last sat down with Tiffany Haddish. Since her first book, The Last Black Unicorn, Haddish has catapulted to A-List fame as the breakout star of Girls Trip. She’s walked the Oscars red carpet, released a hit stand-up special with Netflix, and made history as the first black female comedian to host Saturday Night Live and Shark Week.

But it hasn’t been all VIP parties and free diving with apex predators. Believe it or not, there was a time when Tiffany didn’t totally know who Tiffany was. Before she found her groove, she was on stage dressed like her snobby airline coworkers telling halfhearted dick jokes. She tanked.

It took a fake penis, some help from friends, and a little encouragement from Bob Saget, but eventually Tiffany figured out Tiffany. Tiffany reckons with the legacy of her childhood trauma, the challenges of being a black woman in the entertainment industry, and her bittersweet reunion with her estranged father after nearly twenty years apart. And don’t worry, she’s got plenty of advice to share, too.

These essays lay it all bare, bringing listeners into Tiffany’s inner circle where joy, honesty, humor, and heart are the order of the day.

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Me vs. Brain

Written and narrated by Hayley Morris

Releases May 14!

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Known for her TikTok skits with a feminist twist, Hayley wants to normalize the awkward thoughts we all experience. 

In her warm and witty debut about living with intrusive thoughts and anxiety, bestselling author Hayley Morris shows—with her signature sparkling humor and unflinching honesty—that being an overthinker is both a blessing and a curse. She confronts the funny (if painful) moments that arise when your brain and body refuse to cooperate and your inner voice won’t shut up. No subject is too taboo for Hayley, whether that’s forgetting how to walk when people are watching or the frustrations of dating. Me vs. Brain is for any reader hoping to befriend their brain, even when it’s “scatty, annoying, and wrong about basically everything.”

Interested in other content made by Hayley? Check out her Instagram and Youtube.

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Liar’s Point

Written by Laura Griffin, narrated by Teri Clark Linden
Releases May 21!

Two-time RITA Award winner Laura Griffin brings you the fifth book in the Texas Murder Files series, a romantic thriller where two homicide detectives must separate the truth from a web of puzzling lies while investigating a murder victim’s friends and lovers in Lost Beach, Texas. 

Detective Nicole Lawson is fed up with her job and nonexistent love life. Her first date in months gets cut short by an urgent call from the chief of police. A body has been discovered at Lighthouse Point. The cause of death: homicide.

Leading the Lost Beach police investigation is Emmet Davis, a veteran detective who is Nicole’s fiercest rival at work and also the man she has secretly harbored feelings toward for years. With Emmet calling the shots, Nicole sets out to search for leads, certain the yoga instructor who first discovered the body knows more than she’s revealing.

When another person turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Nicole sees a bizarre pattern, but no one believes her theory. Nicole must put aside her tumultuous feelings and work closely with Emmet to figure out who is targeting her beloved hometown… before she becomes a target herself.

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The Hollow

Written by Kiersten Modglin, narrated by Diana Bustelo

Releases May 28!

The “Queen of Twists” returns with a sun-soaked, nostalgic, and completely twisted romantic thriller.

It was the perfect place to grow up… and the perfect place to die.

After experiencing a personal tragedy, Carmen McKenna finds Hunter’s Hollow—a bustling campground in rural North Carolina—to be her new home and worst nightmare.

Living next door to the Hunters’ two sons comes with its own set of challenges: young love, heartbreak, and sinister secrets.

When a body is found at Hunter’s Hollow, residents are forced to accept a killer is among them.  

Carmen leaves the campground to heal her broken heart, but eleven years later, with the case still unsolved, she returns to face the past and discovers the truth about that terrible night. Before she can, a guest is reported missing from the campground and the circumstances are all too similar to the horror Carmen once faced.

When buried secrets call to her from Hunter’s Hollow, she is determined to learn the truth if it’s the last thing she does.

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Are you a chronic mood reader? We get it; sometimes you’re looking for something specific to scratch that literary itch.

Like a potluck with friends, we’ve brought you a little bit of everything so you find your next favorite read.

Settle in with a cozy cooking fantasy, dystopian sci-fi, an epic fantasy inspired by a fairytale, or comedic litrpg, all releasing in May 2024.

 

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Chaotic Apéritifs

Written by Tao Wong, narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
Releases May 1!

Book two in the Hidden Dishes series brings you even more magically mouthwatering fare.

The Only Constant with Magic is Change. Mo Meng is reminded of that fact once again as the Nameless Restaurant faces a new challenge. Magic and its old wielders are returning to the world. For the restaurant, wards of anonymity and camouflage are fading, leading to the arrival of new customers and old friends. 

What started as a way to pass the decades and feed a few customers has become actual work.

The world is changing, and to face it, the Nameless Restaurant, along with its proprietor and patrons, will need to embrace the change with a good meal and new friends.

 This cozy cooking fantasy is perfect for fans of Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes and Junpei Inuzuka’s Restaurant to Another World.

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Lift

Written by Ray Anderson, narrated by Cindy Kay
Releases May 7!

Can a new universal language unite the world enough to save it?

It’s 2489, and the World Council of Mathematicians (WCM) are determined to create a new world language based on mathematics, linguistics, and music to save humanity from extinction caused by rampant war and homicide. With only fifteen months left before total annihilation, the WCM and Charles De Costa, a brilliant mathematics student, must rely on LIFT, a scientific breakthrough that allows them to enlist the aid of the greatest minds in history.

The question remains whether the great minds of the past can lead humanity to a better future or if society’s continued evil and miscommunication will lead to an inevitable end.

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Tinderbox

Written by W.A. Simpson, narrated by Ruthie Bowles
Releases May 28!

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s story The Tinderbox, this debut novel kicks off the Riven Isles series, an epic fantasy set in an underground kingdom of old magic. 

Isbet returns home to find the witch who raised her murdered and her prized possession, the Tinderbox, stolen. She discovers a common man has used it to seize the throne – the same man who conquered Prince Bram’s kingdom.

Isbet seeks vengeance and to reclaim the Box. Bram wants to free his homeland. When they are summoned to an underground kingdom, they must set aside their personal desires as they learn dark fey are bringing an ancient source of magic back to life. If they cannot halt the rise of the old magic, it will tear the Riven Isles apart.

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Tropical Hazard

Written by Dustin Tigner, narrated by Qarie Marshal
Releases May 28!

In the third installment of Arachnomancer, the King of Knock looms over a village of Cobalins, and Dhane enacts a last-minute plan to avoid war with the Army of Light.

In a village of Cobalins, the powerful King of Knock stands above them all.

The Army of Light knows the secret location of Dedu Tedu Novus, and war is unavoidable. Or is it?

 Dhane employs a dangerous and crazy impromptu plan to stop them and save his village.

Can he convince Challenger Sarah to help? Or is he only putting off the inevitable, the point where the Changed Reditai turn all those of Shadow into stone for their mysterious plans?

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