Vacations and down time during the summer season provide the perfect opportunity to make a dent in your to-be-read pile, or to add to it! Whether you’re taking a book to the beach or chilling in your room with the AC way up, here are 8 summer reads to look forward to in May!

It’s only half about liars and even less about magic, and wholly about two estranged sisters, Ivy and Tabitha Gamble. The equally pressing questions of whodunnit and will-they-or-won’t-they-be-sisters-again will keep you turning the pages of Sarah Gailey’s debut novel, Magic for Liars!

It’s convenient when our machines know us deeply enough to ensure life is always set to our preferences. But that means that the people behind our machines know about us deeply too. And The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity by Amy Webb has some pretty dire things to say about that.

The true horror of Vox and the society it suggests isn’t the outrage when you think of the way things used to be, or the hopelessness of being unable to speak up and change anything. It’s the concept of a future generation who will experience neither hopelessness nor outrage because they’ve accepted voicelessness, inequality, and oppression as normal.

What are the chances you’ll meet The One while he’s dropping off a breakup box at the post office? This fateful afternoon between two distant souls placed deliberately into each other’s orbits sets the stage for Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera’s new collaboration – and poses the question – What If It’s Us?

Best devoured, digested, and savored again, Circe is a story about magic, power, and womanhood – and all the ways they are one and the same.

Shut your eyes and picture a ship with a crew consisting entirely of girls. I don’t mean a ship captained by a girl, or a ship whose officers are girls. I’m talking an entire crew, from the captain to the officers, the engineers and the sharpshooters, down to the cook and the person who drains the waste from the ship, consisting entirely of girls. Seafire is the story of a woman’s world, not of women excelling in a man’s world.

The Hate U Give covers a lot of ground: the grim necessity of the Black Lives Matter movement, what it’s like growing up in a predominantly black neighborhood plagued by gang wars, struggling to reconcile that with life as a black kid in an affluent private school, dealing with unintentional and intentional racism from peers, and making interracial relationships work.

To get the most out of MIBF, you’ll need to pay attention to how you’re developing as a reader, and be more deliberate in using MIBF to grow in that direction. If you’re new to the MIBF scene, or if you’re looking for tips to make your MIBF trips more high-yield and efficient, here are ten humble bits of wisdom that I dare to impart.