Our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler excerpts an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction from 
authors including and more. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions 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 Book Expo, be on the lookout for Buzz Books authors Megan Angelo, Nefertiti Austin, Susannah Cahalan, Clay McLeod Chapman, Stephen Chbosky, Eoin Colfer, Susan Isaacs, Steven James, Ben Lerner, E.R. Ramzipoor, Kiley Reid, Aarti Namdev Shahani, and others, who will be in attendance.
Here is our complete list, alphabetically by author, of literary and debuts titles being released in fall and winter. 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
André Aciman, Find Me (FSG, 10/29)
Jami Attenberg, All This Could Be Yours (HMH, 10/22)
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments (Nan A. Talese, 9/10) – The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.
Elizabeth Berg, The Confession Club (Random House, 11/19)
*Stephen Chbosky, Imaginary Friend (Grand Central, 10/1)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer (One World, 9/24)
Emma Donoghue, Akin (Little, Brown, 9/10)
Alice Hoffman, The World That We Knew (Simon & Schuster, 9/24)
Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin (FSG, 9/24)
Howard Jacobson, Live a Little (Hogarth, 9/10)
Etgar Keret, Fly Already (Riverhead, 9/3
*Ben Lerner, The Topeka School (FSG, 10/1)
Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything (Bloomsbury, 10/1)
*Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars (Pamela Dorman, 10/8)
Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea (Doubleday, 11/5)
Téa Obreht, Inland (Random House, 8/13) – Her first book since The Tiger’s Wife.
Salman Rushdie, Quichotte (Random House, 9/3)
Richard Russo, Chances Are . . . (Knopf, 7/30) – Russo’s first standalone novel in a decade.
Zadie Smith, Grand Union: Stories (Penguin Press, 10/8)
Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Random House, 10/15) – The sequel to Pulitzer-winning Olive Kitteridge.
Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts (MCD, 12/3)
*Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here (Ecco, 11/5)
*Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein (Grove, 10/8)
Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone (Riverhead, 9/17)
Highly Anticipated
*Jesse Ball, The Divers’ Game (Ecco, 9/10)
Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier (Doubleday, 9/17)
*Tracy Chevalier, A Single Thread (Viking, 9/17)
Jonathan Coe, Middle England (Knopf, 8/20)
Michael Crummey, The Innocents (Doubleday, 11/12)
*Jeanine Cummins, American Dirt (Flatiron, January)
Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island (FSG, 9/10)
Robert Harris, The Second Sleep (Knopf, 11/19)
Liska Jacobs, The Worst Kind of Want (MCD, 11/5)
Thomas Keneally, The Book of Science and Antiquities (Atria, 12/10)
Marie NDiaye, The Cheffe: A Cook’s Novel (Knopf, 10/29)
Edna O’Brien, Girl (FSG, 9/10)
Carolina De Robertis, Cantoras (Knopf, 9/3)
Cathleen Schine, The Grammarians (Sarah Crichton, 9/3)
Kate Walbert, She Was Like That: New and Selected Stories (Scribner, 10/1)
Stephen Wright, Processed Cheese (Little, Brown, 1/21)
Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown (Pantheon, 1/28)
Emerging Voices
Carol Anshaw, Right after the Weather (Atria, 10/1)
Tash Aw, We, the Survivors (FSG, 9/3)
Jon Clinch, Marley (Atria, 10/8)
Caleb Crain, Overthrow (Viking, 8/27)
Angie Cruz, Dominicana (Flatiron, 9/3)
Michael Frank, What Is Missing (FSG, 10/8)
Petina Gappah, Out of Darkness, Shining Light (Scribner, 9/10)
Iona Grey, The Glittering Hour (Thomas Dunne, 12/10)
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, The Liar (Little, Brown, 9/24)
Sarah Hall, Sudden Traveler (Custom House, 10/8)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies (Little, Brown, 2/11)
Joanna Kavenna, Zed (Doubleday, 1/14)
*Andrew Krivak, The Bear (Bellevue Literary Press, February)
Julie Mayhew, Impossible Causes (Bloomsbury, 11/19)
Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King (Norton, 9/24)
*Liz Moore, Long Bright River (Riverhead, 1/7)
Ann Napolitano, Dear Edward (Dial, 1/14)
Alix Nathan, The Warlow Experiment (Doubleday, 8/20)
Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (Pantheon, 1/21)
Steven Price, Lampedusa (FSG, 9/17)
Kate Racculia, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (HHM, 10/8)
*Monique Truong, The Sweetest Fruits (Viking, 9/3)
Caroline Zancan, We Wish You Luck (Riverhead, 1/14)
Debuts
*Elizabeth Ames, The Other’s Gold (Viking, 8/27)
*Megan Angelo, Followers (Graydon House, 1/14)
Eleanor Anstruther, A Perfect Explanation (HMH, 2/4)
Julia Armfield, Salt Slow (Flatiron, 10/8)
Amy Bonnafons, The Regrets (Little, Brown, 2/4)
*Clay McLeod Chapman, The Remaking (Quirk, 10/8)
Jeffrey Colvin, Africaville (Amistad, 12/10)
Jorge Comensal, The Mutations (FSG, 11/12)
Rye Curtis, Kingdomtide (Little, Brown, 1/14)
Sarah Davis-Goff, Last Ones Left Alive (Flatiron, 8/27)
*April Davila, 142 Ostriches (Kensington, 2/25)
Nico Giacobone, The Crossed-Out Notebook (Scribner, 9/24)
*Raymond Fleischmann, How Quickly She Disappears (Berkley, 1/7)
Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters (Pantheon, 9/17)
Tanen Jones, The Better Liar (Ballantine, 1/14)
Marc-Uwe Kling, Qualityland (Grand Central, 1/7)
Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Ballantine, 8/27)
Katie Lowe, The Furies (St. Martin’s, 10/8)
*David Koepp, Cold Storage (Ecco, 9/3)
*Mathea Morais, There You Are (Amberjack, 10/8)
* Eliza Nellums All That’s Bright And Gone (Crooked Lane, 12/10)
Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept (Knopf, 9/17)
Rosie Price, What Red Was (Hogarth, 8/27)
*Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses (Riverhead, 11/5)
*E.R. Ramzipoor, The Ventriloquists (Park Row, 8/27)
*Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age (Putnam, 1/7)
*Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X (Celadon, 2/4)
*Soren Sveistrup, The Chestnut Man (Harper, 9/3)
Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (Little, Brown, 1/28)
Pete Townshend, The Age of Anxiety (Hachette, 11/5)
Holly Watt, To The Lions (Dutton, 9/10)
Kate Weinberg, The Truants (Putnam, 1/28)