We continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. 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.
And don’t forget to register for our much anticipated virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening next Wednesday, May 19 at 7 PM Eastern, co-presented by the American Booksellers Association.
Buzz Books Fall/Winter includes work from Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, and Kimberly McCreight. The upcoming season will see some of the biggest names in fiction publish new books, including Liane Moriarty, Ken Follett, Nicholas Sparks, a collaboration between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny, and many others. Here is our full list of commercial fiction titles for the fall and winter season, alphabetically by author. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted with an asterisk. (Please remember: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.)
Mitch Albom, The Stranger in the Lifeboat (Harper, 11/2)*
Tove Alsterdal, We Know You Remember (Harper, 9/28)
V.C. Andrews, Out of the Rain (Gallery, 10/5)
Jeffrey Archer, Over My Dead Body (Harper, 11/2)
Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker’s Bye Bye Baby (Putnam, 11/23)
David Baldacci, Untitled (Grand Central, 11/16)
Patti Callahan, Once Upon a Wardrobe (Harper Muse, 10/19)*
Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy Chain of Command (Putnam, 11/9)
Wiley Cash, When Ghosts Come Home (William Morrow, 9/21
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny, State of Terror (Simon & Schuster, 10/12)
Michael Connelly, The Dark Hours (Little, Brown, 11/9)
John Connolly, The Nameless Ones (Atria/Emily Bestler, 10/12)
Tea Cooper, The Cartographer’s Secret (Harper Muse, 11/30)*
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe’s Assassin (Harper, 11/23)
Patricia Cornwell, Autopsy (William Morrow, 11/30)
Fiona Davis, The Magnolia Palace (Dutton, 1/25)
Jeffery Deaver, The Midnight Lock (Putnam, 11/30)
Nelson DeMille, The Maze (Simon & Schuster, 12/7)
Janet Evanovich, Untitled (Atria, 11/2)
Donna Everhart, The Saints of Swallow Hill (Kensington, 1/25)*
Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills, Enemy at the Gates (Atria/Emily Bestler, 9/14)
Ken Follett, Never (Viking, 11/9)
Elizabeth George, Something to Hide: A Lynley Novel (Viking, 1/11)
Tamron Hall, As the Wicked Watch: The First Jordan Manning Novel (William Morrow, 10/26)
Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders (Mulholland, 10/12)
Romy Hausmann, Sleepless (Flatiron, 10/5)
Paula Hawkins, A Slow Fire Burning (Riverhead, 8/31) – A new novel from the author of The Girl on the Train.
Noah Hawley, Anthem (Grand Central 1/21)*
Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill (Harper, 10/19)
Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter (Kensington, 12/28)*
Gerald Jay, The Hanged Man’s Tale (Nan A. Talese, 12/7)
Lisa Jewell, The Night She Disappeared (Atria, 9/7)
Iris Johansen, High Stakes (Grand Central, 9/7)
Craig Johnson, Daughter of the Morning Star (Viking, 9/21)
Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming (Park Row, 9/7)*
Natasha Lester, The Riviera House (Forever, 8/31)*
Mike Lupica, Robert B Parker’s Stone’s Throw (Putnam, 9/7)
Gregory Maguire, The Brides of Maracoor (William Morrow, 10/12)
Kimberly McCreight, Friends Like These (Harper, 9/7)*
Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Good Son (Mira, 1/11)
Johanna Mo, The Night Singer (Penguin Books, 8/31)*
Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall (Holt, 9/14) – The author of Big Little Lies returns with a novel about sibling rivalry and marriage.
Jo Nesbo, The Jealousy Man and Other Stories (Knopf, 10/26)
Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery (Pamela Dorman, 9/28)*
James Patterson, Fear No Evil (Little, Brown, 11/22)
James Patterson, Nancy Allen, Jailhouse Lawyer (Little, Brown, 9/20)
Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Minotaur, 8/24)
J. D. Robb, Forgotten in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (St. Martin’s, 9/7)
Nora Roberts, The Becoming: The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 2 (St. Martin’s, 11/23)
Tom Rosenstiel, The Days to Come (Ecco, 12/7)
Craig Russell, Hyde (Doubleday, 9/28)
Alex Schulman, The Survivors (Doubleday, 10/5)
Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (22) (Pantheon, 10/26)
Nicholas Sparks, Untitled (Grand Central, 9/28)
Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock (William Morrow, 11/16)
Lisa Unger, Last Girl Ghosted (Park Row, 10/5)
