With indoor weather looming for the holiday weekend, our free BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Fall/Winter ebook presents of world of great new possibilities and helps you prepare for BEA at the same time. Below is the complete list of books excerpted — and you can download either our trade edition or use the easy links to get the consumer edition from any major ebookstore:
Part One: Fiction
Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens (Random House)
Peter Gethers, Ask Bob (Henry Holt)
Bob Shacochis, The Woman Who Lost Her Soul (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Diane Chamberlain, Necessary Lies (St. Martin’s Press)
Carla Norton, Edge Of Normal (Minotaur Books)
Pierre Lemaitre, Alex (MacLehose Press)
Dianne Dixon, Book of Someday (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead)
Kim Stanley Robinson, Shaman (Orbit)
Wally Lamb, We Are Water (HarperCollins)
Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement (Ecco)
James Franco, Actors Anonymous (New Harvest)
Adam Langer, The Salinger Contract (Open Road Media)
Sue Grafton, W is for Wasted (Putnam)
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things (Viking)
Ronald Frame, Havisham (Picador)
Nicola Griffith, Hild (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Joshilyn Jackson, Someone Else’s Love Story (William Morrow)
Deborah McKinlay, That Part Was True (Grand Central Publishing)
Part Two: Debut Fiction
Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees (Doubleday)
Paula Daly, Just What Kind of Mother Are You? (Grove Press)
Hannah Kent, Burial Rites (Little, Brown)
Valerie Plame and Sarah Lovett, Blowback (Blue Rider Press)
Graeme Simsion, The Rosie Project (Simon & Schuster)
Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
James Thomson, Lies You Wanted to Hear (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Part Three: Nonfiction
Larry Kane, When They Were Boys: The True Story of The Beatles’ Rise to The Top (Running Press)
Alan Weisman, Countdown (Little, Brown)
Rob Sheffield, Turn Around Bright Eyes (It Books)
Joanne Lipman and Melanie Kupchynsky, Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations (Hyperion)
Rebecca Musser, The Witness Wore Red (Grand Central Publishing)
Henry Bushkin, Johnny Carson (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Dana Goodyear, Anything That Moves (Riverhead)
Luke Barr, Provence, 1970 (Crown)
Part Four: Young Adult
Cynthia Voigt, Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart (Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers)
Amy Rose Capetta, Entangled (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
Walter Dean Myers, Invasion (Scholastic)
James Swanson, The President Has Been Shot! (Scholastic)
Tamora Pierce, Battle Magic (Scholastic)