Our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler excerpts an array of great forthcoming commercial titles from authors including Araminta Hall, Kristan Higgins, Ann Mah, Beatriz Williams, and more. As usual, we begin our free ebook with an exhaustive overview of the upcoming publishing season featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way.
Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions from Kindle, Nook, iBooks (where they are being promoted on a number of high-profile pages), and Kobo, among other online retailers.
With Winter Institute 13 set for next week in Memphis, we’ll be presenting extracts from that seasonal preview over the coming days. (Please note: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.)
Keep an eye out in particular for new titles by Elizabeth George, Anthony Horowitz, Ruth Ware, Lisa Jewell, and much more. Here is our complete list, alphabetically by author. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted with an asterisk:
Cristina Alger, The Banker’s Wife (Putnam, 7/3)
VC Andrews, Echoes in the Walls (Gallery, 8/28)
Dathan Auerbach, Bad Man (Doubleday, 8/7)
Fredrik Backman, Us Against You (Atria, 6/5)
Linwood Barclay, A Noise Downstairs (William Morrow, 7/24)
J. D. Barker, The Fifth to Die (HMH, 7/3)
Chris Bohjalian, The Flight Attendant (Doubleday, 3/13)
Michele Campbell, She Was the Quiet One (St. Martin’s, 7/31)
Gail Carriger, Competence (Orbit, 7/17)
Mary Higgins Clark, I’ve Got My Eyes on You (Simon & Schuster, 4/13)
Bill Clinton and James Patterson, The President Is Missing (Little, Brown and Knopf, 6/4)
Daniel Cole, Hangman (Ecco, 7/24)
Jenny Colgan, The Endless Beach (William Morrow, 5/22)
John Connolly, The Woman in the Woods (Atria, 6/12)
Clive Cussler and Graham Brown, The Rising Sea (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 3/13)
JP Delaney, Believe Me (Ballantine, 8/14)
Judith Flanders, A Howl of Wolves (Minotaur, 5/15)
Jamie Ford, Love and Other Consolation Prizes (Ballantine, 6/19)
Alison Gaylin, If I Die Tonight (William Morrow, 3/6)
Elizabeth George, The Punishment She Deserves: A Lynley Novel (Viking, 3/20)
Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted (Ballantine, 6/26)
Lauren Graham, In Conclusion, Don’t Worry About It (Ballantine, 4/3)
Elly Griffiths, The Dark Angel (HMH, 5/15)
Araminta Hall, Our Kind of Cruelty (MCD/FSG, 5/1)*
Julia Haeberlin, Paper Ghosts (Ballantine, 5/15)
Kristan Higgins, Good Luck With That (Berkley, 8/2)*
Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple (Little, Brown, 6/19)
Jennifer Hillier, Jar of Hearts (Minotaur, 6/12)
Linnea Hartsuyker, The Sea Queen (Harper, 8/14)
Anthony Horowitz, The Word Is Murder (Harper, 6/5)
Steve Israel, Big Guns (Simon & Schuster, 4/17)
Caroline Kepnes, Providence (Lenny, 6/19)
Alice LaPlante, Half Moon Bay (Scribner, 7/10)
Harriet Alida Lye, The Honey Farm (Liveright, 5/29)
Arnaldur Indridason, Dark Deeds (Minotaur, 5/29)
J.A. Jance, Duel to the Death (Touchstone, 3/20)
Lisa Jewell, Then She Was Gone (Atria, 4/24)
Ragnar Jonasson, Blackout (Minotaur, 7/24)
Alma Katsu, The Hunger (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 3/6)
Stephen King, The Outsider (Scribner, 5/5)
Michael Koryta, How It Happened (Little, Brown, 5/15)
Joe R. Lansdale, Jackrabbit Smile (Mulholland, 3/27)
Owen Laukkanen, Gale Force (Putnam, 5/8)
Malcolm Mackay, For Those Who Know the Ending (Mulholland, 5/8)
Clare Mackintosh, Let Me Lie (Berkley, 3/13)
Ann Mah, The Lost Vintage (William Morrow, 6/19)*
Aaron Mahnke, The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals (Del Rey, 5/29)
Frances Mayes, Women in Sunlight (Crown, 4/3)
Paula McLain, Love and Ruin (Ballantine, 5/1)
Derek B. Miller, American by Day (HMH, 4/3)
Christopher Moore, Noir (William Morrow, 4/17)
Jason Mott, The Crossing (Park Row, 5/15)
Fredrik Olsson, Acts of Vanishing (Little, Brown, 4/24)
Carla Neggers, Impostor’s Lure (Mira, 8/21)
Jo Nesbo, Macbeth (Hogarth, 4/10)
B. A. Paris, Bring Me Back (St. Martin’s 6/6)
James Patterson, Texas Ranger (Little, Brown, 8/13)
Allison Pearson, How Hard Can It Be? (St. Martin’s, 6/5)*
Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy (Putnam, 6/19)
Lori Rader-Day, Under a Dark Sky (William Morrow, 8/7)
Bryan Reardon, The Real Michael Swann (Dutton, 6/12)
Suzanne Rindell, Eagle & Crane (Putnam, 7/3)
Nora Roberts, Shelter in Place (St Martin’s, 5/29)
Sebastian Rotella, Rip Crew (Mulholland, 3/13)
Michelle Sacks, You Were Made for This (Little, Brown, 6/19)
Riley Sager, The Last Time I Lied (Dutton, 7/10)
Marisa de los Santos, I’ll Be Your Blue Sky (William Morrow, 3/6)
Lisa Scottoline, Feared (St. Martin’s, 8/14)
William Shaw, Salt Lane (Mulholland, 6/26)
Sara Shepard, The Elizas (Atria, 4/17)
Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, Two Steps Forward (William Morrow, 5/1)
Karin Slaughter, Pieces of Her (William Morrow, 7/31)
Sarah Sparrow, A Guide for Murdered Children (Blue Rider, 3/20)
Danielle Steel, The Cast (Delacorte, 5/15)
Wallace Stroby, Some Die Nameless (Mullholland, 7/10)
Carsten Stroud, The Shimmer (Mira, 6/5)
Jake Tapper, The Hellfire Club (Little, Brown, 5/1)
Paul Tremblay, The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow, 6/26)
Ruth Ware, Untitled Book 4 (Gallery/Scout Press, 5/29)
Lauren Weisberger, When Life Gives You Lululemons (Simon & Schuster, 6/5)
Kim Wilkins, Daughters of the Storm (Del Rey, 3/6)
Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives (William Morrow, 7/10)*