Buzz25

Last week we hosted another great Buzz Books panel, featuring authors Katie Yee, Nanda Reddy, Jefferson Fisher, Dennard Dale, and Louis Sachar along with their editors. You can watch each conversation here. And if you haven’t yet, be sure to check out these books and more in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer collection.

Tonight at 7 PM Eastern, hear the editors and authors of the season’s most anticipated books discuss their work. Sign up to hear: Katie Yee, debut author of Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, with editor Judy Clain Nanda Reddy, debut author of A Girl Within A Girl Within A Girl, with editor Cory Hunter Jefferson Fisher, author of The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More, with editor Jacob Surpin Dennard Dayle, author of How to Dodge a Cannonball, with editor Retha Powers Louis Sachar, author of adult debut The Magician of Tiger Castle, with editor Anne Sowards These and dozens of […]

Our Spring/Summer 2025 Season Preview concludes with notable upcoming books in Politics and Current Events; Social Issues; History and Crime; and Business, Science, and Technology. Titles marked with an * are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer collection, available to download now. The post-election discourse includes books by political figures and those examining our democracy by Chuck Schumer, Mallory McMorrow, Michael Lewis, Lisa Murkowski, Gavin Newsom, and Jeffrey Toobin. In addition, and James Renner delves into the dark side of the Boy Scouts of America, Jefferson Fisher aims to improve how we communicate, and Sophie Elmhirst tells the survival […]

This season’s nonfiction brings new, and newly translated, work from some of literature’s greatest thinkers and writers, including W.G. Sebald, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Yiyun Li, Maggie Smith, and J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos. The season also brings several examinations of and stories from the media trenches, with Steve Oney’s book on NPR, Michael Grynbaum’s on Condé Nast, Christine Wenc’s on The Onion, and memoirs from Graydon Carter and Barry Diller. Memoirs continue to hold a strong place on publisher lists, with upcoming titles from Melissa Febos, Amanda Knox, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Lidia Yuknavitch, and […]

It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults in fiction and nonfiction, separated into key categories. You can sample some of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change. The coming publishing season is packed with big names and […]

Today you can download and read our newest free ebook sampler, Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer, which is packed with excerpts of the season’s most anticipated books. Trade editions, with promotional and publisher information, are available at Netgalley and Edelweiss, and consumer editions can be downloaded at your e-tailer of choice: Amazon, B&N, Apple, Kobo. This collection highlights both established voices and new talents. Below is a list of all of the included authors and titles. Authors marked with * will appear on our Buzz Books Editors and Authors panel on January 22. Enroll now to save your place! (Also shh: Authors with […]