Amazon's First Reads for May 2025

Amazon has released the choices for May 2025's First Reads.

First Reads, which is free to join, provides early access to editors' picks from Amazon Publishing.

It enables you to choose one Kindle book this month for $1.99 (or for free if you're a Prime member), plus a bonus short read for $1.99 (again, free for Prime members).

• Death Row by Freida McFadden (bonus short read) 

• A Sky Full of Love by Lorna Lewis (women's fiction) 

• No Lie Lasts Forever by Mark Stevens (serial killer) 

• The Palace at the End of the Sea by Simon Tolkien (historical fiction) 

• Family & Other Calamities by Leslie Gray Streeter (book club fiction) 

• The Baker of Lost Memories by Shirley Russak Wachtel (historical fiction) 

• Bald-Faced Liar by Victoria Helen Stone (psychological thriller) 

• Homemaker by Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare (amateur sleuth) 

• Goats Afloat by Lezlie Evans and Julia Patton (children's picture book)