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The Complete Spring/Summer Adult Buzz Books

February 11, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

Winter Institute comes to a close Wednesday and those 500 booksellers will head home with lots of galleys, while we are supplying thousands of people — both trade professionals but also readers all over — with pre-publication excerpts from 40 top new titles in our recently published free ebook Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer.

You can get an EPUB of the trade edition directly from our site, or if you prefer, it’s “read now” download at NetGalley (where it already has 75 five- and four-star reviews) and on Edelweiss. The consumer edition is available on Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play.

Here is the entire roster:

Part One: Fiction
The Water Knife, Paolo Baciagalupi (Knopf)
The Fifth Gospel, Ian Caldwell (S&S)
The Dog Master, W. Bruce Cameron (Forge)
Eight Hundred Grapes, Laura Dave (S&S)
The Loved Ones, Mary-Beth Hughes (Atlantic Monthly)
A Desperate Fortune, Susanna Kearsley (Sourcebooks)
World Gone By, Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
How To Start A Fire, Lisa Lutz (HMH)
Palace of Treason, Jason Matthews (Scribner)
The Rocks, Peter Nichols (Riverhead)
The Children’s Crusade, Ann Packer (Scribner)
The Last Bookaneer, Matthew Pearl (Penguin Press)
Gonzo Girl, Cheryl Della Pietra (Touchstone)
The Hand That Feeds You, A.J. Rich (Scribner)
Let Me Die in His Footsteps, Lori Roy (Dutton)
Seveneves, Neal Stephenson (William Morrow)
Second Life, S.J. Watson (Harper)

Part Two: Debut Fiction
Normal, Graeme Cameron (MIRA)
Muse, Jonathan Galassi (Knopf)
Benefit of the Doubt, Neal Griffin (Forge)
Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll (S&S)
The Unfortunates, Sophie McManus (FSG)
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove)
Church of Marvels, Leslie Parry (Ecco)
War of the Encyclopaedists, Christopher Robin & Gavin Kowitt (Scribner)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest, J. Ryan Stradal (Viking)
The Book of Speculation, Erika Swyler (St. Martin’s)
Dietland, Sarai Walker (HMH)

Part Three: Nonfiction
Love Is Love, Maria Bello (Dey Street Books)
Grow Your Value, Mika Brzezinski (Weinstein Books)
Pieces of My Mother, Melissa Cistaro (Sourcebooks)
Move Your Bus, Ron Clark (Touchstone)
Audrey & Bill, Edward Z. Epstein (Running Press)
The Battle of Versailles, Robin Givhan (Flatiron Books)
Bettyville, George Hodgman (Viking)
The Wild Oats Project, Robin Rinaldi (Sarah Crichton Books)
Unforgettable, Scott Simon (Flatiron Books)
Creatures of a Day, Irvin D. Yalom (Basic Books)

 

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