As we previewed Thursday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2020: Spring/Summer arrives this week packed with 44 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for Winter Institute and the spring publishing season (capturing the best part of the event even if you don’t attend — reading some of the hottest new books ahead of everyone else). For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through NetGalley.
The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). Our samplers are highly anticipated by our network of passionate readers who use them to fill their pre-orders and TBR lists (and we amplify that with targeted digital marketing to keep building that roster for everyone’s benefit). So join us on social media and share the excitement of the upcoming season using #BuzzBooks2020. Here are all of the forthcoming books previewed in the new Buzz Books (Winter Institute authors are noted with an asterisk):
Fiction
*Jessica Anthony, ENTER THE AARDVARK (Little, Brown)
Brit Bennett, THE VANISHING HALF (Riverhead)
J’nell Ciesielski, THE SOCIALITE (Thomas Nelson)
*Julie Clark,THE LAST FLIGHT (Sourcebooks Landmark)
Akwaeke Emezi, THE DEATH OF VIVEK OJI (Riverhead)
Amy Engel, THE FAMILIAR DARK (Dutton)
Susan Forest, FLIGHTS OF MARIGOLD (Laksa Media)
Debra Jo Immergut, YOU AGAIN (Ecco)
Elizabeth Kay, SEVEN LIES (Pamela Dorman Books)
Sue Monk Kidd, THE BOOK OF LONGINGS (Viking)
*Sam Lansky, BROKEN PEOPLE (Hanover Square Press)
*Amy Meyerson, THE IMPERFECTS (Park Row)
*David Nicholls, SWEET SORROW (Mariner/HMH)
David Rawlings, WHERE THE ROAD BENDS (Thomas Nelson)
Katherine Reay, OF LITERATURE AND LATTES (Thomas Nelson)
Veronica Roth, CHOSEN ONES (John Joseph Adams/HMH)
Anbara Salam, BELLADONNA (Berkley)
*Anna Solomon, THE BOOK OF V (Henry Holt)
Ellen Marie Wiseman, THE ORPHAN COLLECTOR (Kensington)
Tom Young, SILVER WINGS, IRON CROSS (Kensington)
Debut
Lee Conell, THE PARTY UPSTAIRS (Penguin Press)
Naoise Dolan, EXCITING TIMES (Ecco)
Erica Katz, THE BOYS’ CLUB (Harper)
Raven Leilani, LUSTER (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
Ilana Masad, ALL MY MOTHER’S LOVERS (Dutton)
Jenny McCartney, THE GHOST FACTORY (Fourth Estate)
*Charlotte McConaghy, MIGRATIONS (Flatiron)
Benjamin Nugent, FRATERNITY (Farrar Straus and Giroux)
Kate Reed Petty, TRUE STORY (Viking)
Katherine St. John, THE LION’S DEN (Grand Central)
Lysley Tenorio, THE SON OF GOOD FORTUNE (Ecco)
*Kawai Strong Washburn, SHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS (MCD/FSG)
*Elizabeth Wetmore, VALENTINE (Harper)
Nonfiction
Mike Birbiglia, THE NEW ONE (Grand Central)
*Jennifer Finney Boylan, GOOD BOY: MY LIFE IN SEVEN DOGS (Celadon)
Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo, THE BOOK OF ROSY (HarperOne)
Mikel Jollett, HOLLYWOOD PARK: A MEMOIR (Celadon)
Patrik Svensson, THE BOOK OF EELS (Ecco)
Benjamin Taylor, HERE WE ARE (Penguin Books)
Tyson Yunkaporta, SAND TALK (HarperOne)
Young Adult
Laura Bates, THE BURNING (Sourcebooks Fire)
*Brandy Colbert, THE VOTING BOOTH (Hyperion)
Kim Johnson, THIS IS MY AMERICA (Random House BFYR)
Court Stevens, THE JUNE BOYS (Thomas Nelson)