Honey by Imani Thompson (Random House, May 5)
Honey is about a PhD student who develops a thirst for murder. Yrsa is a graduate student researching Afropessimism. The research is going well, but Yrsa feels extremely disillusioned by the graduate school experience and even more disillusioned with men. Those feelings only escalate when she discovers her best friend, Nina, has been having an affair with a college professor who ends up stealing her research. Yrsa is furious, so when she encounters the professor slowly dying from a bee sting, she just lets it happen. Yrsa never could have imagined how good it would feel watching an evil man die. Now she’s desperate to recreate that high, and not a single sexist, misbehaving man on campus is safe.