# New Releases and More for May 5, 2026

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Podcast: [All the Books!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/all-the-books-392820)
Published: 2026-05-05T10:15:00+00:00
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## Resource

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Moonlight Murder, Platform Decay, Verity Guild, and more great books! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission Books Discussed On the Show: Birth Vibes by Jen Hamilton Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray Moonlight Murder by Uzma Jalaluddin The Fallen: The Lost Girls of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence by Louise Brangan The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley by Lindz McLeod Verity Guild by Mai Corland Honey by Imani Thompson Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries Book 8) by Martha Wells Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu True Crime: A Memoir by Patricia Cornwell One Leg on Earth by 'Pemi Aguda Mother Tongue: A Memoir by Sara Nović What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind by Simon Rogers Earthly Playing Field by Radhika Singh What We're Reading: Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America by Bridget Read Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan Brume, Volume 2: The Forest of Lost Souls by Jérôme Pélissier, Carine Hinder A Real Animal by Emeline Atwood Taipei Story by R. F. Kuang The Repairer of Reputations by Ed Park, Robert W. Chambers Paperbacks: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance by Riley Black The Director by Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Be…

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