To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults, separated into four key categories.
You’ll be able to sample many of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Fall/Winter; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.
FICTION
Zoe Aarsen, Cold as Marble (Simon Pulse, 10/8)
Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Henry Holt BYR, 12/3)
Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful (Putnam BYR, 10/8)
Nandini Bajpai, A Match Made in Mehendi (Little, Brown BYR, 9/10)
Patrick Bard, Point of View (Delacorte, 12/10)
Rena Barron, Kingdom of Souls (HarperTeen, 9/3)
Katya de Becerra, Oasis (Imprint, 10/15)
Jenn Bennett, The Lady Rogue (Simon Pulse, 9/10)
Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing (Little, Brown BYR, 1/7)
Kendare Blake, Five Dark Fates (HarperTeen, 9/3)
Jillian Boehme, Stormrise (Tor Teen, 9/10)
Libba Bray, The King of Crows (Little, Brown BYR, 2/4)
*Kobe Bryant and Annie Matthew, Legacy and the Queen (Granity, 9/3)
Gloria Chao, Our Wayward Fate (Simon Pulse, 10/15)
Joelle Charbonneau, Verify (HarperTeen, 9/24)
Mary H. K. Choi, Permanent Record (Simon & Schuster BYR, 9/3)
Alexandra Christo, Into the Crooked Place (Feiwel & Friends, 10/8)
Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 11/19)
Dave Connis, Suggested Reading (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/17)
Nadine Jolie Courtney, All-American Muslim Girl (FSG BYR, 11/12)
Julie C. Dao, Song of the Crimson Flower (Philomel, 11/5)
Charlotte Nicole Davis, The Good Luck Girls (Tor Teen, 10/1)
Ronni Davis, When the Stars Lead to You (Little, Brown BYR, 11/12)
Kelly deVos, Day Zero (Inkyard Press, 11/12)
Sarah Deming, Gravity (Make Me a World, 11/12)
Jennifer Donaldson, I Know You Remember (Razorbill, 10/8)
Alexa Donne, The Stars We Steal (HMH BYR, 2/4)
*Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea (Disney-Hyperion, 10/1)
*Sara Ella, Coral (Thomas Nelson, 11/12)
Ashley Elston, 10 Blind Dates (Disney-Hyperion, 10/1)
Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Make Me a World, 9/10) –The first YA book by the acclaimed author of Freshwater.
Shea Ernshaw, Winterwood (Simon Pulse, 11/5)
Sara Faring, The Tenth Girl (Imprint, 9/24)
Jacqueline Firkins, Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things (HMH BYR, 12/17)
Nancy Richardson Fischer, The Speed of Falling Objects (Inkyard Press, 10/1)
Moïra Fowley-Doyle, All the Bad Apples (Kathy Dawson Books, 8/27)
Candace Ganger, Six Goodbyes We Never Said (Wednesday Books, 9/24)
Camryn Garrett, Full Disclosure (Knopf BYR, 10/29)
Michael Grant, Hero (Katherine Tegen Books, 11/5)
Cynthia Hand, The How & the Why (HarperTeen, 11/5)
Sarah Harian, Eight Will Fall (Henry Hold BYR, 11/26)
Sonia Hartl, Have a Little Faith in Me (Page Street Kids, 9/3)
Heidi Heilig, A Kingdom for a Stage (Greenwillow Books, 10/8)
Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan, Unpregnant (HarperTeen, 9/10)
Sarah Henning, Throw Like a Girl (Poppy, 1/7) 9780316529501
April Henry, Run, Hide, Fight Back (Henry Holt BYR, 8/27)
Geoff Herbach, Cracking the Bell (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/10)
Mila Gray, Watch Over Me (Simon Pulse, 12/3)
*Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal, I’m Not Dying With You Tonight (Sourcebooks Fire, 10/1)
Amanda Joy, A River of Royal Blood (Putnam BYR, 10/29)
Catherine Linka, What I Want You to See (Freeform, 2/4)
Jasmin Kaur, When You Ask Me Where I’m Going (HarperCollins, 10/1)
Elizabeth Keenan, Rebel Girls (Inkyard Press, 9/10)
Thanhha Lai, Butterfly Yellow (HarperCollins, 9/3)
David Levithan, 19 Love Songs (Knopf BYR, 12/17)
Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses (Little, Brown BYR, 9/24)
Kim Liggett, The Grace Year (Wednesday Books, 9/17)
Natalie Lund, We Speak in Storms (Putnam BYR, 9/3)
Kekla Magoon, Light It Up (Henry Holt BYR, 10/22)
Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove (HarperTeen, 9/3)
Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil (Jimmy Patterson, 9/10)
Katharine McGee, American Royals (Random House BYR, 9/3)
Kate Alice Marshall, Rules for Vanishing (Viking BYR, 9/24)
Jennifer Mathieu, The Liars of Mariposa Island (Roaring Brook Press, 9/17)
Geraldine McCaughrean, Where the World Ends (Flatiron Books, 12/3)
L.L. McKinney, A Dream So Dark (Imprint, 9/24)
Jodi Meadows, When She Reigns (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/10)
Marissa Meyer, Supernova (Feiwel & Friends, 11/5)
Candice Montgomery, By Any Means Necessary (Page Street Kids, 10/8)
Kass Morgan, Supernova (Little, Brown BYR, 10/1)
Brittney Morris, Slay (Simon Pulse, 9/24)
Bethany Morrow, Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance (Arthur A. Levine, 10/1)
Hannah Moskowitz, Sick Kids In Love (Entangled: Teen, 11/5)
*Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, Dear Haiti, Love Alaine (Inkyard Press, 9/3)
Rosaria Munda, Fireborne (Putnam BYR, 10/15)
Amber Lynn Natusch, Don’t Say a Word (Tor Teen, 9/3)
Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow (Jimmy Patterson, 11/5)
Tochi Onyebuchi, War Girls (Razorbill, 10/15)
Morgan Parker, Who Put This Song On? (Delacorte, 9/24) – From the author of Magical Negro and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce.
Natalie C. Parker, Steel Tide (Razorbill, 9/17)
Megan Cooley Peterson, The Liar’s Daughter (Holiday House, 9/10)
Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (Dutton BYR, 9/17)
Randi Pink, Girls Like Us (Feiwel & Friends, 10/29)
Katy Rose Pool, There Will Come a Darkness (Henry Holt BYR, 9/3)
Kelly Powell, Songs from the Deep (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 11/5)
G. S. Prendergast, Cold Falling White (Simon & Schuster BYR, 11/19)
Philip Pullman, The Book of Dust (Knopf BYR, 10/3) – The second installment in Pullman’s latest series.
Beth Revis, Bid My Soul Farewell (Razorbill, 9/24)
Emily Roberson, Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters (FSG BYR, 10/22)
Veronica Roth, The End and Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future (Katherine Tegen Books, 10/1) – Six new short stories from the author of the Divergent series.
Rainbow Rowell, Wayward Son (Wednesday, 9/24)
Lance Rubin, Crying Laughing (Knopf BYR, 11/19)
Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (Balzer + Bray, 10/1)
Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist (Tor, 10/22)
Brandon Sanderson, Starsight (Delacorte, 12/3)
Caitlin Sangster, Dead Moon Rising (Simon Pulse, 11/12)
Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain (HMH BYR, 9/3)
Virginia Frances Schwartz, Among the Fallen (Holiday House, 10/8)
Neal Shusterman, The Toll (Simon & Schuster BYR, 11/5)
Lyra Selene, Diamond & Dawn (Amber & Dusk, Book Two) (Scholastic Press, 12/3)
Marcus Sedgwick, Snowflake, AZ (Norton, 9/17)
Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones, I’m Not Dying with You Tonight (Sourcebooks, 10/1)
Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, OtherLife (Delacorte, 11/12)
Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence (Philomel, 10/22)
London Shah, The Light at the Bottom of the World (Disney-Hyperion, 10/29)
Courtney Sheinmel, The Survival List (Katherine Tegen Books, 9/17)
Lauren Shippen, The Infinite Noise: A Bright Sessions Novel (Tor Teen, 9/24)
Tara Sim, Scavenge the Stars (Disney-Hyperion, 1/7)
Kim Smejkal, Ink in the Blood (HMH BYR, 2/11)
Lauren Spieller, She’s the Worst (Simon & Schuster BYR, 9/3)
Maggie Stiefvater, Call Down the Hawk (The Dreamer Trilogy, Book 1) (Scholastic Press, 11/5)
*Erin Stewart, Scars Like Wings (Delacorte, 10/1)
Nic Stone, Jackpot (Crown BYR, 10/15)
A.M. Strickland, Beyond the Black Door (Imprint, 10/29) Rosiee Thor, Tarnished are the Stars (Scholastic, 10/15)
Nina Varela, Crier’s War (HarperTeen, 10/1)
David Yoon, Frankly in Love (Putnam BYR, 9/10)
Adrienne Young, The Girl the Sea Gave Back (Wednesday Books, 9/3)
Corrie Wang, City of Beasts (Freeform, 9/17)
Mary Watson, The Wickerlight (Bloomsbury YA, 11/26)
*Alex Wheatle, Home Girl (Black Sheep, 9/3)
Kate M. Williams, The Babysitters Coven (Delacorte, 9/17)
Scott Westerfeld, Shatter City (Impostors, Book 2) (Scholastic Press, 9/17)
Laura E. Weymouth, A Treason of Thorns (HarperTeen, 9/10)
A.K. Wilder, Crown of Bones (Entangled: Teen, 3/3)
Shana Youngdahl, As Many Nows as I Can Get (Dial, 8/20)
Francesca Zappia, Now Entering Addamsville (Greenwillow Books, 10/1)
NONFICTION
Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden, One Person, No Vote (YA edition): How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally (Bloomsbury YA, 9/17)
Marc Favreau, Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia (Little, Brown BYR, 10/1)
Diana Kapp, Bijou Karman (Illustrated by), Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business (Delacorte, 10/15)
Albert Marrin, A Light in the Darkness: Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust (Knopf, 9/10)
Andrew Maraniss, Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany (Philomel, 11/5)
Michelle Roehm McCann, Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety (Simon Pulse/Beyond Words, 10/8)
Juan Pablo Villalobos, The Other Side: Stories of Central American Teen Refugees Who Dream of Crossing the Border (FSG BYR, 9/10)