Buzz25

You are invited to nominate your buzziest titles for inclusion in the 27th edition of Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter, book publishing’s longest-running, most successful sampler. Nominations are due February 27. Send a list of your nominated titles publishing between September 2025 and February 2026, including imprint, pub date, genre (fiction, debut, nonfiction), ISBN, and any compelling information about the title, to project directors Julie Trelstad and Ali Battey at buzzbooks@publishersmarketplace.com as soon as possible but no later than February 27. If you are nominating more than one title, please let us know if there is a maximum number of acceptances […]

On February 19 at 7 PM Eastern, we’ll host our second Buzz Books panel of the season: Horror’s New Horizons. Join ​Ivy Pochoda, Markus Redmond, Hester Steel, and Daphne Fama and their editors as they discuss their dark new novels. You can register here and find excerpts of their books in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer collection here.

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 […]