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January 20, 2021By Erin Somers

The Complete Buzz Books Spring/Summer Titles

January 20, 2021By Erin Somers

As we previewed Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer arrives this week packed with 46 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for the upcoming publishing season. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through NetGalley or Edelweiss.

The consumers editions of are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo and the universe of etailers served by Ingram. So join us on social media and share the excitement of the upcoming season using #BuzzBooks2021. Authors to be featured on our upcoming Buzz Books Editors Panel on Wednesday, January 27 are noted with an asterisk (Register for the panel now). Here are all of the forthcoming books excerpted in the new Buzz Books:

Fiction

  

Kristen Arnett, WITH TEETH (Riverhead)
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN (Berkley)
Flynn Berry, NORTHERN SPY (Viking)*
Kaitlyn Greenidge, LIBERTIE (Algonquin)*
Joshua Henkin, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS (Pantheon)
Angela Jackson-Brown, WHEN STARS RAIN DOWN (Thomas Nelson)
Jean Hanff Korelitz, THE PLOT (Celadon)
Brian Malloy, AFTER FRANCESCO (Kensington)
Charles Martin, THE LETTER KEEPER (Thomas Nelson)
Julie Murphy, IF THE SHOE FITS (Hyperion)
Viet Thanh Nguyen, THE COMMITTED (Grove Press)
Lisa Scottoline, ETERNAL (G. P. Putnam’s Sons)
Leila Slimani, IN THE COUNTRY OF OTHERS (Penguin Books)
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, GOOD COMPANY (Ecco)
Willy Vlautin, THE NIGHT ALWAYS COMES (Harper)
Shanora Williams, THE PERFECT RUIN (Dafina)
Tia Williams, SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE (Grand Central)
Gareth Worthington, A TIME FOR MONSTERS (Vesuvian Books)

Debut

Gregory Brown, THE LOWERING DAYS (Harper)
Marianne Cronin, THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT (Harper)
Amanda Dennis, HER HERE (Bellevue Literary Press)
Carolyn Ferrell, DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN (Holt)*
Gabriela Garcia, OF WOMEN AND SALT (Flatiron Books)*
Eileen Garvin, THE MUSIC OF BEES (Dutton)
Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett, THE VERY NICE BOX (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A. J. Gnuse, GIRL IN THE WALLS (Ecco)
Miranda Cowley Heller, THE PAPER PALACE (Riverhead)*
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS (Harper)*
Sarah Penner, THE LOST APOTHECARY (Park Row)
Sanjena Sathian, GOLD DIGGERS (Penguin Press)
Rebecca Starford, AN UNLIKELY SPY (Ecco)
Emma Stonex, THE LAMPLIGHTERS (Viking)
Nancy Tucker, THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING (Riverhead)

Nonfiction

Daniel James Brown, FACING THE MOUNTAIN (Viking)
Kat Chow, SEEING GHOSTS (Grand Central)
Mari K. Eder, THE GIRLS WHO STEPPED OUT OF LINE (Sourcebooks)
Erin French, FINDING FREEDOM (Celadon)*
Caseen Gaines, FOOTNOTES: THE BLACK ARTISTS WHO REWROTE THE RULES OF THE GREAT WHITE WAY (Sourcebooks)
Elon Green, LAST CALL (Celadon)
Jennifer Gunter, M.D., THE MENOPAUSE MANIFESTO: Own Your Health Through Facts and Feminism (Citadel)
Danielle Henderson, THE UGLY CRY (Viking)
Theodore R. Johnson, WHEN THE STARS BEGIN TO FALL: OVERCOMING RACISM AND RENEWING THE PROMISE OF AMERICA (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Young Adult

Safia Elhillo, HOME IS NOT A COUNTRY (Make Me A World)
Graci Kim, THE LAST FALLEN STAR (Disney)
Alexandrea Weis, HAVE YOU SEEN ME? (Vesuvian Books)

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