We may be focused on the fall season (as our Buzz eBook sampler can attest) but the largest news outlets have all unveiled their summer reading roundups in time for Memorial Day Weekend. Janet Maslin returns in the NYT with her annual survey, gently chiding the selections, including new novels by Hilary Mantel, Gillian Flynn, Colin Cotterill, Karen Thompson Walker, and G. Willow Wilson, for not being as easily categorized as they once were. The WSJ makes more of the “genre-bending” nature of this summer’s selections, highlighting Walker’s “big debut” as well as upcoming books by Megan Abbott, Tana French, […]
