Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Book 2023: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley and 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, beginning here with our full list of literary fiction for the fall/winter season, alphabetically by author. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted in boldface and with an asterisk. (Please remember: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.)
Fall promises new titles from some of the most exciting voices in literature. Kate Atkinson, Teju Cole, Michael Cunningham, and Jhumpa Lahiri all have new books coming out. Plus, Zadie Smith publishes her first novel since 2016. In our sampler, you’ll find work by Lauren Groff, Sigrid Nunez, Justin Torres, Brian Washington, and many more.
The Notables
Naomi Alderman, The Future (Simon & Schuster, 11/7)*
Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories (Doubleday, 9/12)
Paul Auster, Baumgartner (Grove, 11/7)
Edward Carey, Edith Holler (Riverhead, 10/31)
Teju Cole, Tremor (Random House, 10/17)
Michael Cunningham, Day (Random House, 1/30)
Ben Fountain, Devil Makes Three (Flatiron Books, 9/26)
Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds (Riverhead, 9/12)*
Benjamin Labatut, The Maniac (Penguin Press, 10/3)
Jhumpa Lahiri, Todd Portnowitz (Translated by), Roman Stories (Knopf, 10/10)
Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Crime Novel (Ecco, 10/17)*
Yiyun Li, Wednesday’s Child: Stories (FSG, 9/5)
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The Wolves of Eternity (Penguin Press, 9/19)
Karl Marlantes, Cold Victory (Grove, 1/9)
Hisham Matar, My Friends (Random, 1/9)
Alice McDermott, Absolution (FSG, 11/7)
Emma Noyes, Guy’s Girl (Berkley, 10/24)*
Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables (Riverhead, 11/7)
Tim O’Brien, America Fantastica (Mariner, 10/24)
Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now (S&S, 9/5)
Kiley Reid, Come and Get It (Putnam, 1/8)*
Zadie Smith, The Fraud (Penguin Press, 9/5)
Justin Torres, Blackouts (FSG, 10/10)*
Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend (Scribner, 10/3)
Bryan Washington, Family Meal (Riverhead, 10/10)*
Lawrence Wright, Mr. Texas (Knopf, 10/10)
C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead, 9/26)*
Highly Anticipated
Mona Awad, Rouge (S&S/Marysue Rucci, 9/12)
Linnea Axelsson, Saskia Vogel (Translated by), Aednan (Knopf, 1/9)
Melissa Broder, Death Valley (Scribner, 10/24)
Gabriel Bump, The New Naturals (Algonquin, 11/14)
Kacen Callender, Stars in Your Eyes (Forever, 11/10)
Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer (Park Row Books, 11/28)
Charlene Carr, Hold My Girl (Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/10)*
Alba de Céspedes, translated by Jill Foulston, Her Side of the Story (Astra House, 10/10)
Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife (Holt, 2/13)*
Kate Christensen, Welcome Home, Stranger (Harper, 12/5)
Kemper Donovan, The Busybody (Kensington, 1/30)*
Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins (Pamela Dorman Books, 1/9)*
Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors (Bloomsbury, 10/17)
Alvaro Enrigue, (Translated by Natasha Wimmer), You Dreamed of Empires (Riverhead, 1/9)
Jonathan Evison, Again and Again (Dutton, 11/7)
Tarryn Fisher, Disorder (Graydon House, 2/6)
Helen Garner, The Children’s Bach (Pantheon, 10/10)
Emma Grey, Last Love Note (Zibby Books, 11/7)*
Nicola Griffith, Menewood (MCD, 10/3)
Donna Hemans, The House of Plain Truth (Zibby Books, 1/30)*
Nathan Hill, Wellness (Knopf, 9/26)
Lindsay Hunter, Hot Springs Drive (Roxane Gay Books, 11/7)
Kotaro Isaka, Mantis (The Overlook Press, 11/7)
Paulette Jiles, Chenneville (William Morrow, 9/5)
Tim Johnston, Distant Sons (Algonquin, 10/17)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before Saying Goodbye (Hanover Square Press, 11/14)
Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day (Grove, 11/14)
Jean Kwok, The Leftover Woman (William Morrow, 10/10)
Vanessa Lillie, Blood Sisters (Berkley, 9/12)*
Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen (Little, Brown, 10/3)
Daniel Mason, North Woods (Random House, 9/19)
Ayana Mathis, The Unsettled (Knopf, 10/24)
Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born? (Astra, 9/5)
Sandra Newman, Julia (Mariner, 10/24)
Ed Park, Same Bed Different Dreams (Random House, 11/7)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch (Knopf, 9/19)
Anna Pitoniak, The Helsinki Affair (S&S, 11/14)
Lauren E. Rico, Familia (Kensington, 12/26)*
Etaf Rum, Evil Eye (Harper, 9/5)*
Noelle Salazar, The Roaring Days of Zora Lily (MIRA, 10/3)
Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens (Atria, 9/5)
Viola Shipman, The Wishing Bridge (Graydon House, 11/7)
Natasha Solomons, Fair Rosaline (Sourcebooks Landmark, 9/12)*
Ashley Winstead, Midnight is the Darkest Hour (Sourcebooks Landmark, 10/3)*
Noa Yedlin, Stockholm (HarperVia, 10/10)
Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey: Stories (S&S/Marysue Rucci, 10/10)
Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition (Counterpoint, 10/23)
Emerging Voices
Salar Abdoh, A Nearby Country Called Love (Viking, 11/7)*
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom, Everything Is Not Enough (William Morrow, 8/24)
Colin Barrett, Wild Houses (Grove, 3/19)
Venita Blackburn, Dead in Long Beach, California (MCD, 1/23)*
A.K. Blakemore, The Glutton (Scribner, 10/31)
Ye Chun, Straw Dogs of the Universe (Catapult, 10/17)
Eliza Clark, Penance (Harper, 9/26)
Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone (Little, Brown, 11/7)*
Christine Coulson, One Woman Show (Avid Reader, 10/17)
Claudia Dey, Daughter (FSG, 9/12)
Sarah Davis-Goff, Silent City (Flatiron, 10/17)
Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors (William Morrow, 10/31)
Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple (Ecco, 11/23)*
Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell (Dutton, 9/26)
Allison Epstein, Let the Dead Bury the Dead (Doubleday, 10/17)
Diana Evans, A House for Alice (Pantheon, 9/12)
Lexi Freiman, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 11/14)
Rosemary Hennigan, The Favorites (Graydon House, 11/14)*
Lisa Gornick, Ana Turns (Turner, 11/7)*
Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves (Algonquin, 11/28)
Guy Gunaratne, Mister, Mister (Pantheon, 10/3)
Greg Jackson, The Dimensions of a Cave (FSG, 10/24)
Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower (S&S, 1/9)*
Louise Kennedy, The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories (Riverhead, 12/5)
Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years (Viking, 1/9)*
Angie Kim, Happiness Falls (Hogarth, 9/5)
Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Candelaria (Astra House, 9/19)
Isle McElroy, People Collide (HarperVia, 9/26)
Marie NDiaye, Vengeance Is Mine (Knopf, 10/17)
Lauren Nossett, The Professor (Flatiron, 11/14)
Claire Oshetsky, Poor Deer (Ecco, 1/24)*
Nnedi Okorafor, The Shadow Speaker (DAWS, 9/26)*
Melissa Rivero, Flores and Miss Paula (Ecco, 12/5)*
Madeline Kay Sneed, Today Tonight Forever (Graydon House, 11/7)
Adam Thirlwell, The Future Future (FSG, 10/17)
Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures (Algonquin, 9/26)
Katherine Vaz, Above the Salt (Flatiron, 11/7)
Ally Wilkes, Where the Dead Wait (Atria/Emily Bestler, 12/5)
Debut Fiction
The coming season is packed with debuts, including first novels from Vinson Cunningham and Millie Bobby Brown. Our sampler highlights work from Inci Atrek, Anna Bliss, Madeleine Gray and Molly McGhee, among others.
Yomi Adegoke, The List (William Morrow, 10/3)
Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking For Is In The Library (Hanover Square Press, 9/5)
Isa Arsén, Shoot the Moon (Putnam, 10/10)*
John Manuel Arias, Where There Was Fire (Flatiron, 9/19)
Inci Atrek, Holiday Country (Flatiron, 1/9)*
Jazmina Barrera, Cross Stitch (Two Lines Press, 11/7)*
Anna Biller, Bluebeard’s Castle (Verso, 10/10)
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Alice Sadie Celine (S&S, 11/28)
Anna Bliss, Bonfire Night (Kensington, 12/26)*
Millie Bobby Brown, Nineteen Steps (William Morrow, 9/12)
Cedric The Entertainer, Flipping Boxcars (Amistad, 9/23)*
Vinson Cunningham, Consider the Years (Hogarth, 1/23)
Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins (Pamela Dorman, 1/8)*
Kim Coleman Foote, Coleman Hill: A Biomythography (Zando/SJP Lit, 9/5)*
Madeleine Gray, Green Dot (Holt, 2/27)*
Rosemary Hennigan, The Favorites (Graydon House, 11/14)*
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare (Bloomsbury, 8/29)
Justin C. Key, The World Wasn’t Ready for You (Harper, 9/19)
Gabrielle Korn, Yours for the Taking (St. Martin’s, 12/5)
Daniel Lefferts, Ways and Means (The Overlook Press, 2/6)
Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams (Holt, 9/23)
Sarah Marsh, The Lip Reader (Park Row Books, 2/6)
Lisa M. Matlin, The Stranger Upstairs (Bantam, 9/26)
Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill (Knopf, 10/24)
Molly McGhee, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind (Astra, 10/17)*
Margaret Meyer, The Witching Tide (Scribner, 9/5)
Raul Palma, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 10/3)
Nishita Parekh, The Night of the Storm (Dutton, 1/16)*
Sheena Patel, I’m a Fan (Graywolf, 9/5)
Amanda Peters, The Berry Pickers (Catapult, 10/31)
Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc (Hanover Square Press, 9/5)
Shannon Sanders, Company (Graywolf; 10/3/23)
Julius Taranto, How I Won a Nobel Prize (Little, Brown, 9/12)
Amy Taylor, Search History (The Dial Press, 11/7)
“James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild (The Overlook Press, 9/12)
Anise Vance, Hush Harbor (Hanover Square Press, 9/5)*
Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy (Park Row Books, 9/5)