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This Thursday at 7pm we’ll host our very first all-nonfiction Buzz Books panel, hosted by PM’s own Mary Ann Naples. Register here to hear from our four featured authors in live conversation with their editors.

We’re thrilled to host the first nonfiction Buzz Books panel ever on June 5 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern, featuring: Char Adams, author of BLACK-OWNED: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF THE BLACK BOOKSTORE, with her editor Emi Ikkanda Christine Kuehn, author of FAMILY OF SPIES: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF NAZI ESPIONAGE, BETRAYAL, AND THE SECRET HISTORY BEHIND PEARL HARBOR, with her editor Ryan Doherty Rabbi Angela Buchdal, author of HEART OF A STRANGER: AN UNLIKELY RABBI’S STORY OF FAITH, LOVE, AND BELONGING, with her editor Pamela Dorman Dr. Gerta Keller, author of THE LAST EXTINCTION: THE REAL […]

Our season previews continue with the second half of Nonfiction. Several new titles take a historical and current look at our democracy, including Ibram X. Kendi’s Chain of Ideas and Jill Lepore’s We the People. Plus, NBC News reporter Char Adams discusses the political importance of Black-owned bookstores, economist Dr. Corinne Low unpacks the constraints in women’s lives (and how to fix them), and Gerta Keller tells the story of her shocking discovery of the real reason the dinosaurs went extinct. Titles with an asterisk are excerpted in our free ebook collection, Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter. Plus, bolded authors will […]

Our season previews continue with Part 1 of Nonfiction. As always, excerpts of asterisked titles are available to read right now in our free ebook collection, Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter. Plus, we are excited for our first-ever Nonfiction Editors & Authors Panel on June 5 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern. Register now to hear from Char Adams, Christine Kuehn, Angela Buchdahl, and Dr. Gerta Keller and their editors. This season’s books cover current events, cultural criticism, and creative lives, while collected works across genres feature new and well-loved pieces from celebrated writers. In new collections of essays, Zadie Smith studies art of […]

It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter 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. Today we’re featuring our fiction list. You can start sampling the asterisked titles right now in our just-released free ebook, Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter. And you can watch terrific conversations between the five bold-faced authors and their editors in videos from our recent Buzz Books Authors and Editors Panel. (The magnetic Clay Cane’s […]