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From fiction to non-fiction; returning giants to writers on the rise; the recent Pulitzer-winner to the boys of summer, here’s what the National Post’s Books Editor recommends picking up for the month of May. You should probably read as many of these as you can.

Zero K | A Novel | Don DeLillo | Simon & Schuster | 288pp; $36 | May 10

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Despite the outlandish claims made in just about every book’s jacket copy, “greatest living novelist” is still one that publishers use with some degree of hesitancy. But as our world becomes more and more like the one DeLillo envisioned – and continues to – each new novel from the White Noise author is cause for close attention.

Worldly Goods | Stories | Alice Petersen | Biblioasis |176pp; $18.95 | May 10

Marie Kondo’s bestselling treatise on clutter, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, suggests that if it doesn’t “spark joy,” it has to go – but to follow this too closely might be to throw out the very stuff that makes us who we are. Each story in Alice Petersen’s second collection, Worldly Goods, springs forth from an item and explores how our identities are attached to the things we hold onto.