Might is lastly right here, bringing us some much-needed solar, financial institution holidays, and a contemporary number of must-read new books competing for a spot in our tote luggage.
Certainly, my desk has been piled excessive with books overestimated by fellow GLAMOUR editors, and I’ve had the deliciously arduous job of selecting essentially the most book-club worthy picks.
Whether or not you are within the temper for searing literary fiction, genre-bending thrillers, or thought-provoking non-fiction, this month’s new releases provide one thing for everybody.
It is set to be a very sturdy month for feminist writers – we like to see it – with Laura Bates releasing her ninth guide, The New Age of Sexism; image-based abuse campaigner Jess Davies publishing her debut, the brilliantly titled No One Needs to See Your D*ck; and girls’s rights activist Dr Charlotte Proudman’s He Mentioned, She Mentioned, a treatise on the myriad methods the authorized system works in opposition to girls and kids.
The stand-out guide of Might 2025 must be Woman on Woman: How Pop Tradition Turned a Era of Girls In opposition to Themselves by Sophie Gilbert.
GLAMOUR’s high choose of Might 2025…
In Woman on Woman, Sophie Gilbert examines the profound affect that the previous few a long time of standard tradition have left on girls and ladies, from the mean-spirited media frenzies round susceptible feminine celebrities (see the paparazzi hounding Britney Spears as she shaved her head in 2007) to the misogyny baked into cult classics like American Pie.
“I used to be pondering so much about girls and energy for the ultimate chapter of the guide,” mentioned Gilbert in her GLAMOUR interview, “And it struck me that one type of energy that girls have wielded actually adeptly over the past decade is affect.
“Some girls have change into so good at influencing others to do issues, however most of the time, that affect includes promoting merchandise that supposedly make different girls look sexier, or youthful.”
For individuals who favor a fiction debut to get their tooth into, I’ve obtained you lined. It is arduous to imagine that The place You Go, I Will Go is Christina Fonthes’ first guide. Though on condition that she based Rewrite, an organisation that empowers Black girls and girls of color to attain their inventive writing targets, and received the 2021 Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award, maybe I should not be stunned. Her pacy debut follows the lives of two British-Congolese girls, Mira and Bijoux, throughout a number of continents, generations, and lovers.
I am additionally predicting instantaneous bestseller standing for Mo Ogrodnik’s Gulf, Lolā Ākínmādē’s Bitter Honey, and Checking Out by Meryem El Mehdati.
So, whether or not you’re on the lookout for one thing enjoyable and lighthearted to learn earlier than mattress, or a pacy thriller that is assured to have you ever awake and alert by the point your prepare pulls into the station every morning, I do know there is a newly launched guide on this edit that is excellent for you.