The ABA named Philipp Meyer’s THE SON their No. 1 pick for June. That’s three No. 1s in a row for the Spring/Summer edition of our Buzz Books 2013 sampler (following Anthony Marra and Kate Atkinson). There are 4 other Indie Next June picks that you can preview right now in Buzz Books (Bulawayo, Miller, Disclafani, and Wascom). In all, nearly half of the 28 books we first featured and previewed in February have made “best of the month” lists from major booksellers over the past three months. Download it while you still can to read excerpts of these titles and still more big May, June and July releases.
Meyer makes Barnes & Noble’s books of the month list, too. Benjamin Percy’s RED MOON is a consensus pick, selected by Indie Next, BN and Amazon, as is Khaled Hosseini’s AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED (which is Amazon’s “spotlight” title). And BN and Amazon both tout Suzanne Rindell’s THE OTHER TYPIST. At Costco, the new Pennie’s Pick is David Gillham’s CITY OF WOMEN.
June Indie Next
The Son, Philipp Meyer
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo
The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls
TransAtlantic, Colum McCann
Norwegian by Night, Derek Miller
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
On Sal Mal Lane, Ru Freeman
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, Anton Disclafani
Time Flies, Claire Cook
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, Elizabeth Kelly
Looking for Me, by Beth Hoffman
If You Were Here, Alafair Burke
Bootstrapper, Mardi Jo Link
A Place at the Table, Susan Rebecca White
Taipei, Tao Lin
Red Sparrow, Jason Matthews
Good Kings Bad Kings, Susan Nussbaum
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
Flat Water Tuesday, Ron Irwin
The Blood of Heaven, Kent Wascom
Amazon Best of May
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
Southern Cross the Dog, Bill Cheng
The Woman Upstairs, Claire Messud
Who Owns the Future?, Jaron Lanier
Red Moon, Benjamin Percy
Smoke and Pickles, Edward Lee
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
A Curious Man, Neal Thompson
The Whispering Muse, Sjón, Victoria Cribb
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, Annalee Newitz
The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
Barnes & Noble Best of May
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
The Bookman’s Tale, Charlie Lovett
Steal the Menu, Raymond Sokolov
The Other Typist, Suzanne Rindell
The Guns at Last Light, Rick Atkinson
The Son, Philipp Meyer
The Last Train to Zona Verde, Paul Theroux
Red Moon, Benjamin Percy
She Left Me the Gun, Emma Brockes
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, Daniel C. Dennett
Wild Ones, Jon Mooallem
The Cooked Seed, Anchee Min