Our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler excerpts an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction from authors including T.C. Boyle, Mona Awad, Nell Zink, Karl Marlantes, Sarah Blake and more. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions from Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple’s iBooks, Google Play, and Kobo, among other online retailers. (Also all linked at our main Buzz Books website.)
As usual, we begin our free ebook with a broad overview of the upcoming publishing season, featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. We’ll be presenting extracts from that season preview in the coming days. And if you’re attending Winter Institute 14 this week in Albuquerque, be on the lookout for Buzz Books authors Sarah Blake, Lori Gottlieb, Karl Marlantes, Meredith May, Kim Michele Richardson, Dominic Smith, Ocean Vuong, Annie Ward, Kosoko Jackson, and Crystal Smith, who will be in attendance. PL reporter Erin Somers will also be on hand covering the event — and promoting her own debut novel, Stay Up With Hugo Best, forthcoming from Scribner on April 2 — so say hello.
Here is our complete list, alphabetically by author, of literary and debuts titles being released in spring and summer. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted with an asterisk. (Please note: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.)
The Notables
T.C. Boyle, Outside Looking In (Ecco, 4/9)*
Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside: Stories (Knopf, 8/27)
James Ellroy, This Storm (Knopf, 6/4)
Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls (Riverhead, 6/4) – A novel from the author of Eat, Pray, Love.
Myla Goldberg, Feast Your Eyes (Scribner, 4/16)
Mark Haddon, The Porpoise (Doubleday, 6/18)
Daniel Handler, Bottle Grove (Bloomsbury, 8/27)
Amy Hempel, Sing to It (Scribner, 3/26) – Her first collection in more than a decade.
Chuck Klosterman, Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction (Penguin Press, 7/16)
Javier Marias, Berta Isla (Knopf, 8/6)
Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me (Nan A. Talese, 4/23)
Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat (Ecco, 6/4)
Sally Rooney, Normal People (Hogarth, 4/16)
Karen Russell, Orange World and Other Stories (Knopf, 6/18)
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Riverhead, 8/13) – The next book from the Man Booker International-winning author of Flights.
Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday, 7/16) – Whitehead’s follow-up to his Pulitzer and National Book Award winning Underground Railroad.
Nell Zink, Doxology (Ecco, 8/27)*
Highly Anticipated
Kathleen Alcott, America Was Hard to Find (Ecco, 5/14)
Jen Beagin, Vacuum in the Dark (Scribner, 2/26) – The sophomore novel from the Whiting Award-winning author of Pretend I’m Dead.
Margaret Busby, New Daughters of Africa (Amistad, 5/7)
Philip Caputo, Hunter’s Moon (Henry Holt, 8/6)
Catherine Chung, The Tenth Muse (Ecco, 6/18)
Clare Clark, In the Full Light of the Sun (HMH, 7/9)
Nicole Dennis-Benn, Patsy (Liveright, 6/4)
Marcy Dermansky, Very Nice (Knopf, 7/2)
Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (Simon & Schuster, 3/19)
Sadie Jones, The Snakes (Harper, 6/25)*
Karl Marlantes, Deep River (Atlantic Monthly, 7/2)*
Courtney Maum, Costalegre (Tin House, 7/2) – From the author of Touch and I’m Having So Much Fun Here Without You.
Mary Miller, Biloxi (Liveright, 5/21)
Howard Norman, The Ghost Clause (HMH, 7/2)
Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (Pantheon, 8/13)
Alix Ohlin, Dual Citizens (Knopf 6/4)
Peter Orner, Maggie Brown & Others: Stories (Little, Brown, 7/2)
Michael Parker, Prairie Fever (Algonquin, 5/21)
Helen Phillips, The Need (Simon & Schuster, 7/9)
Roxana Robinson, Dawson’s Fall (Sarah Crichton, 5/7)
John Burnham Schwartz, The Red Daughter (Random House, 4/30)
Dominic Smith, The Electric Hotel (Sarah Crichton, 6/4)*
David Szalay, Turbulence (Scribner, 7/16)
Ludmila Ulitskaya, Jacob’s Ladder (FSG, 7/9)
Emerging Voices
Edoardo Albinati, The Catholic School (FSG, 8/6)
Mona Awad, Bunny (Viking 6/11)*
Chanelle Benz, The Gone Dead (Ecco, 7/25) – The first novel from the author of short story collection The Man Who Shot My Eye Out Is Dead.
Nickolas Butler, Little Faith (Ecco, 3/5)
Oscar Cásares, Where We Come From (Knopf, 5/21)
Jennifer duBois, The Spectators (Random House, 4/2)
Madeline ffitch, Stay and Fight (FSG, 7/9)*
Adam Foulds, Dream Sequence (FSG, 5/14)
Grant Ginder, Honestly, We Meant Well (Flatiron, 6/11)
Helon Habila, Travelers (Norton, 6/18)
Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart (Viking, 8/6)
Tupelo Hassman, Gods with a little g (FSG, 8/13)
CJ Hauser, Family of Origin (Doubleday, 7/16)
Lisa Howorth, Summerlings (Doubleday, 8/6)
Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting (Viking, 5/14)
Mary Beth Keane, Ask Again, Yes (Scribner, 6/4)
Lauren Mechling, How Could She (Viking, 6/25)
Robert Menasse, The Capital (Liveright, 6/18)
Mohammed Hanif, Red Birds (Black Cat, 5/14)*
Graham Norton, A Keeper Atria (8/13)
Adam O’Fallon Price, The Hotel Neversink (Tin House, 8/6)
Anna Pitoniak, Necessary People (Little, Brown, 5/21)
Jordi Punti, This Is Not America (Atria, 8/20)
Virginia Reeves, The Behavior of Love (Scribner, 5/14)
Matteo Righetto, Soul of the Border (Atria, 6/11)
Adam Ehrlich Sachs, The Organs of Sense (FSG, 5/21)
Michelle Sacks, Moon Daddy (Little, Brown, 6/11)
Sara Stridsberg, Valerie (FSG, 8/6)
Sloane Tanen, There’s a Word for That (Little, Brown, 4/2)
Amy Waldman, A Door in the Earth (Little, Brown, 5/14)
Alexi Zentner, Copperhead (Viking, 8/20)
Charles Wheelan, The Rationing (Norton, 5/21)
Susan Rebecca White, We Are All Good People Here (Atria, 6/4)
Debuts
W.M. Akers, Westside (Harper Voyager, 5/7)
Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 6/4)
Rachel Barenbaum, A Bend in the Stars (Grand Central, 5/14)
Damian Barr, You Will Be Safe Here (Bloomsbury, 5/14)
Sarah Blake, Naamah (Riverhead, 4/9)*
Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories (Knopf, 6/11)
Olivier Bourdeaut, Waiting for Bojangles (Simon & Schuster, 3/19)
Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Grand Central, 8/27)*
Melanie Cantor, Death and Other Happy Endings (Pamela Dorman, 7/9)
Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie (Gallery/Scout Press, 3/19)
Ryan Chapman, Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 5/21)
Mamta Chaudhry, Haunting Paris (Doubleday, 6/18)
Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Harper, 5/21)*
Kate Davies, In at the Deep End (HMH, 6/4)*
Kate Hope Day, If, Then (Random House, 3/12)
Molly Dektar, The Ash Family (Simon & Schuster, 4/9)
Selahattin Demirtas, Dawn (SJP for Hogarth, 4/23)
Heidi Diehl, Lifelines (HMH, 6/18)
Samantha Downing, My Lovely Wife (Berkley, 3/26)
Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party (Henry Holt, 7/9)*
Kimi Eisele, The Lightest Object in the Universe (Algonquin, 7/9)
Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories (One World, 4/2)
Susan Forest, Burst of Fire (Laksa, 8/6)*
Megan Goldin, The Escape Room (St. Martin’s, 8/6)
Melanie Golding, Little Darlings (Crooked Lane, 4/30)*
Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 5/7)*– From the associate publisher at Soho Press.
Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains (Amberjack, 3/5)*
James Gregor, Going Dutch (Simon & Schuster, 8/20)
Isabella Hammad, The Parisian (Grove, 4/9)
Elizabeth Hardinger, All the Forgivenesses (Kensington, 8/27)*
Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home (Kensington, 6/25)*
Caitlin Horrocks, The Vexations (Little, Brown, 6/11)
Rachel Howard, The Risk of Us (HMH, 4/9)
Evan James, Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe (Atria, 3/26)
Amanda Lee Koe, Delayed Rays of a Star (Nan A. Talese, 7/9)
Julie Langsdorf, White Elephant (Ecco, 3/6)
Jing-Jing Lee, How We Disappeared (Hanover Square, 5/7)
Roselle Lim, Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune (Berkley, 6/11)
Chia-Chia Lin, The Unpassing (FSG, 5/7)
Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had (Lombardo, 6/15)
Maria Kuznetsova, Oksana, Behave! (Spiegel & Grau, 3/19)
Geovani Martins, The Sun on My Head: Stories (FSG, 6/11)
Diane McPhail, The Abolitionist’s Daughter (Kensington, 4/30)*
Simeon Mills, The Obsoletes (Atria, 5/14)
Niklas Natt och Dag, The Wolf And The Watchman (Atria, 3/5)
Alex North, The Whisper Man (Celadon, 8/20)*
Beth O’Leary, The Flatshare (Flatiron, 5/28)
Hazel Prior, Ellie and the Harpmaker (Berkley, 8/6)*
Joanne Ramos, The Farm (Random House, 5/7)
Melissa Rivero, The Affairs of the Falcóns (Ecco, 4/2)
Maura Roosevelt, Baby of the Family (Dutton, 3/5)*
Richard Roper, How Not to Die Alone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 5/28)*
Lila Savage, Say Say Say (Knopf, 7/9)
Kathryn Scanlan, Aug 9 – Fog (MCD, 6/4)
Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift (Hogarth, 3/26)
Carolina Setterwall, Let’s Hope for the Best (Little, Brown, 6/9)
Mandeliene Smith, Rutting Season: Stories (Scribner, 2/12)
Sarah Elaine Smith, Marilou is Everywhere (Riverhead, 7/30)*
Erin Somers, Stay Up With Hugo Best (Scribner, 4/2)
Madeline Stevens, Devotion (Ecco, 8/13)
Alexander Tilney, The Expectations (Little, Brown, 7/16)
Ruchika Tomar, A Prayer for Travelers (Riverhead, 7/9)
Jonathan Vatner, Carnegie Hill (Thomas Dunne, 8/27)
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press, 6/4)* – The first novel from the author of poetry collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Annie Ward, Beautiful Bad (Park Row, 3/5)*
Jake Wolff, The History Of Living Forever (FSG, 6/11)
Jessica Yellin, Savage News (Mira, 4/9)