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Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter is the 23rd volume in our popular sampler series. This Buzz Books presents passionate readers with an insider’s look more than sixty of the buzziest books due out this season—our largest collection to date. Such major bestselling authors as Naomi Alderman, Yangsze Choo, Kiley Reid, and Tia Williams are featured, along with literary greats Lauren Groff, Sigrid Nunez, Etaf Rum, C Pam Zhang, and more.
Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting and diverse debut authors, and this edition is no exception. Comedian and TV star Cedric the Entertainer’s novel is about close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. Jazmina Barrera, a Mexican nonfiction author, offers her first novel. Two YA authors, Ashley Elston and Emma Noyes, debut their first adult books. Among the others are Isa Arsén, Inci Atrek, Anna Bliss, Kim Coleman Foote , Madeleine Gray, Molly McGhee, Nishita Parekh, and Anise Vance.
Our robust nonfiction section covers such important subjects as addiction, forgiveness, lying, and grief; several memoirs about harrowing childhoods; and a definitive biography of John Lewis.
Finally, we present early looks at new work from young adult authors, including the New York Times bestselling Roshani Chokshi, Jason June and Melinda Salisbury, along with a YA debut by Court Stevens, who is a bookseller at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
Be sure to look out for Buzz Books 2023:Romance, coming in late May.
Buzz Books has had a particularly stellar track record with highlighting the most talented, exciting and diverse debut authors, and this edition is no exception. Comedian and TV star Cedric the Entertainer’s novel is about close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. Jazmina Barrera, a Mexican nonfiction author, offers her first novel. Two YA authors, Ashley Elston and Emma Noyes, debut their first adult books. Among the others are Isa Arsén, Inci Atrek, Anna Bliss, Kim Coleman Foote , Madeleine Gray, Molly McGhee, Nishita Parekh, and Anise Vance.
Our robust nonfiction section covers such important subjects as addiction, forgiveness, lying, and grief; several memoirs about harrowing childhoods; and a definitive biography of John Lewis.
Finally, we present early looks at new work from young adult authors, including the New York Times bestselling Roshani Chokshi, Jason June and Melinda Salisbury, along with a YA debut by Court Stevens, who is a bookseller at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
Be sure to look out for Buzz Books 2023:Romance, coming in late May.
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May 19, 2023
I find these Buzz Books very useful for finding out about upcoming books, and for weeding out some books that I thought sounded interesting - until I read a sample. This time, most of the books that interested me did not have samples, which was disappointing. On the positive side, there were a few books that didn’t sound too promising from the description, but the writing was so fresh that I was forced to add them to my list. I keep the following record of what caught my attention, so I can refer to it later.
Books with excerpts:
Elizabeth Crook. The Madstone
Naoise Dolan. The Happy Couple
Cedric the Entertainer. Flipping Boxcars
Books without excerpts:
Kate Atkinson. Normal Rules Don’t Apply
Paul Auster. Baumgartner
Edward Carey. Edith Holler
Sadie Smith. The Fraud
Jesmyn Ward. Let Us Descend
Teju Cole. Tremor
Jhumpa Lahiri. Roman Stories
Lawrence Wright. Mr. Texas
Paulette Jiles. Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
Tim Johnston. Distant Sons
Daniel Mason. North Woods
Ed Park. Same Bed Different Dreams
Angie Kim. Happiness Falls
Thrity Umrigar. The Museum of Failures
Lee Child, Andrew Child. The Secret
John Connolly. The Land of Lost Things
Stephen King. Holly
Walter Mosley. Touched
H. W. Brands. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
Michael Harriot. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
Books with excerpts:
Elizabeth Crook. The Madstone
Naoise Dolan. The Happy Couple
Cedric the Entertainer. Flipping Boxcars
Books without excerpts:
Kate Atkinson. Normal Rules Don’t Apply
Paul Auster. Baumgartner
Edward Carey. Edith Holler
Sadie Smith. The Fraud
Jesmyn Ward. Let Us Descend
Teju Cole. Tremor
Jhumpa Lahiri. Roman Stories
Lawrence Wright. Mr. Texas
Paulette Jiles. Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
Tim Johnston. Distant Sons
Daniel Mason. North Woods
Ed Park. Same Bed Different Dreams
Angie Kim. Happiness Falls
Thrity Umrigar. The Museum of Failures
Lee Child, Andrew Child. The Secret
John Connolly. The Land of Lost Things
Stephen King. Holly
Walter Mosley. Touched
H. W. Brands. Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
Michael Harriot. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher.
May 31, 2023
5★
“2014
No one in Durban remembers a Christmas as hot as this.
The heat is a living-breathing thing that climbs through windows and creeps into kitchens. It follows people to work and at queues in the bank and on trains home. It crouches in bedrooms growing restless until at night in fury it throttles those sleeping leaving them gasping for breath. It sweeps through the streets and bursts open pipes, smashes open green guavas and splits apart driveways. It burns off fingerprints and scorches hair and makes people forget what they are doing and where they are going so that they wander around beating their heads.”
Whew! I’m reading this on a chilly autumn day and I feel hot! (I live in the same hemisphere as Durban, where Christmas is mid-summer). This is the beginning of one of the books that interest me in the latest Buzz Books selection, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel by Shubnum Khan. Ruined mansion by the sea, a djinn, and what seems to be an interesting girl.
“Her quietness unnerves people; they speak more when they are around her to make up for her silence, eventually avoid her altogether, making circles around her at family functions, pretending that she does not exist. Eventually she begins to disappear into furniture, against walls; her bare ends blending into things like the end of a brush stroke.
. . .
She holds a particular roughness; a looseness to her gait and clumsiness to her manners that comes from being an unmothered daughter.”
Each excerpt is several pages long, so you get a good sense of what the story will sound like and how some of the characters will seem. Sometimes a page or two is enough that I know it’s not for me, but sometimes I find myself racing through and startled (and disappointed!) when I get to the notice:
“You’ve just read an excerpt from THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS.
If I’ve counted correctly, there are 32 samples in Part One: Fiction; 12 in Part Two: Debut; 8 in Part Three: Nonfiction; 9 in Part Four: Young Adult. That’s a lot of reading if you read it all, plus there are several lists in the front of the book with many more upcoming books. Read the publisher’s blurb for this Buzz Book which mentions many of the authors. I’ll mention a few samples here that I liked.
Brooklyn Crime Novel
“Chapter 2
Nobody Knows
(forever)
This is a story about what nobody knows.
It’s set in a place nobody doesn’t think they know. Yet nobody knows anything about this place, and they never did.
Maybe I exaggerate.
Still, not many can be bothered to know. Not, for instance that Malcolm X’s family was hidden, in the hours and days immediately following his assassination, in a safe house on the corner of Dean and Nevins streets. Nobody knows this. Or they forgot.
Equally, they forgot that Willie Sutton was apprehended on the corner of Pacific and Third. He’s the one who when asked ‘Why do you rob banks?’ replied ‘Because that’s where the money is.’
Nobody knows this anymore if they ever did.
Nobody knows that Isaac Asimov lived in 213 Dean Street for a year in the 1940’s. To care, you’d have to be a nerd. Even then, how would you find this out? Guy wrote four hundred books; you read fifty of them. You’d walk right past.”
My next choice is from well-known author, Sigrid Nunez. The Buzz Books intro says:
“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables: A Novel offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.”
Excerpts from The Vulnerables: A Novel:
“Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described.
. . .
I like the novelist who confessed that the only thing to have stayed with him after reading Anna Karenina was the detail of a picnic basket holding a jar of honey.
. . .
I like this true story, about a writer who wanted to base a fictional character on someone he knew. He disguised her, for example giving his character close-cropped hair instead of the pageboy the real-life model had worn since high school, and a pair of eyeglasses with striking cat-eye tortoiseshell frames. Though in real life the woman was childless, in the book she has a twenty-something-year-old son.
Some weeks before the book came out, the woman developed a bad case of dry eye and could no longer tolerate wearing her contact lenses. For her new glasses, needless to say, she chose cat-eye tortoiseshell frames. Now that she was no longer young and her hair was thinning and fading, at her stylist’s suggestion she got a pixie cut. Neither the writer nor anyone else in the woman’s life at the time knew that, as a teenager, she’d had a baby that she’d given up for adoption. It was just now, having reached his twenties, that her son chose to seek out his birth mother.”
Another that appeals is Flipping Boxcars: A Novel, a debut by Cedric the Entertainer. Buzz Books says:
“Comedian and TV star Cedric the Entertainer’s novel is about close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II.”
July 1948, a midnight meet to negotiate the sale of a boxcar full of thirty pallets of whiskey – 3000 cases. Karter is driving Babe’s 1948 Studebaker Commander. At the meet, Babe gets out to discuss the matter with Tommy Wojak.
“Babe tilted his head and took a long look at this guy, this Tommy Wojak, this up and comer, assessing him. Babe knew how to read cards, dice, and especially people. Babe saw gravity in Wojak. Presence. Something about Tommy Wojak’s posture in the moonlight told Babe that Tommy was a person to take seriously.
. . .
‘Let’s cut the bullsh*t. You want this shipment or not?’
Babe paused, for effect, pretending to consider the proposition.
‘I’ll have to consult with my business manager. He’s in the car.’
The Commander’s swung open. Karter unfolded himself from behind the steering wheel, and with surprising speed and athleticism, stepped out of the car. At his first step, the entire road seemed to tremor and sag. Karter kept his guns hidden as he walked toward the three men. Karter stopped suddenly, standing military straight, announcing himself without a word, all six feet ten inches and three hundred fifty pounds of him.
Wojak and his two bodyguards froze at the sight of him.
‘This is your business manager? ’ Wojak said.
‘You heard of J.P. Morgan? ’
‘Yeah. ’
‘This is F.U. Morgan. ’”
I would love to read Patty Lin’s nonfiction book End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood. She’s a comedy script writer who’s worked with the best (of whom I’m sure she is one). Check the GR blurb.
Another debut I think looks good is First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston.
My last couple of choices are Young Adult novels.
I really like the tone and style of My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Hoang. The GR blurb will give you a good idea about it.
Last Girl Breathing, by Court Stevens is a thriller that I want to find the rest of so I can see what happens! Again, check the publisher’s blurb on the book’s GR page
These Buzz Books Samplers are the right price – free! – and good value to spend some time with. It’s easy to skip around, since the Table of Contents links to each story.
NetGalley always has them (thanks for my copy), or you can download them from the Publishers Lunch website.
https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/
Happy browsing and adding to your library!
“2014
No one in Durban remembers a Christmas as hot as this.
The heat is a living-breathing thing that climbs through windows and creeps into kitchens. It follows people to work and at queues in the bank and on trains home. It crouches in bedrooms growing restless until at night in fury it throttles those sleeping leaving them gasping for breath. It sweeps through the streets and bursts open pipes, smashes open green guavas and splits apart driveways. It burns off fingerprints and scorches hair and makes people forget what they are doing and where they are going so that they wander around beating their heads.”
Whew! I’m reading this on a chilly autumn day and I feel hot! (I live in the same hemisphere as Durban, where Christmas is mid-summer). This is the beginning of one of the books that interest me in the latest Buzz Books selection, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel by Shubnum Khan. Ruined mansion by the sea, a djinn, and what seems to be an interesting girl.
“Her quietness unnerves people; they speak more when they are around her to make up for her silence, eventually avoid her altogether, making circles around her at family functions, pretending that she does not exist. Eventually she begins to disappear into furniture, against walls; her bare ends blending into things like the end of a brush stroke.
. . .
She holds a particular roughness; a looseness to her gait and clumsiness to her manners that comes from being an unmothered daughter.”
Each excerpt is several pages long, so you get a good sense of what the story will sound like and how some of the characters will seem. Sometimes a page or two is enough that I know it’s not for me, but sometimes I find myself racing through and startled (and disappointed!) when I get to the notice:
“You’ve just read an excerpt from THE DJINN WAITS A HUNDRED YEARS.
If I’ve counted correctly, there are 32 samples in Part One: Fiction; 12 in Part Two: Debut; 8 in Part Three: Nonfiction; 9 in Part Four: Young Adult. That’s a lot of reading if you read it all, plus there are several lists in the front of the book with many more upcoming books. Read the publisher’s blurb for this Buzz Book which mentions many of the authors. I’ll mention a few samples here that I liked.
Brooklyn Crime Novel
“Chapter 2
Nobody Knows
(forever)
This is a story about what nobody knows.
It’s set in a place nobody doesn’t think they know. Yet nobody knows anything about this place, and they never did.
Maybe I exaggerate.
Still, not many can be bothered to know. Not, for instance that Malcolm X’s family was hidden, in the hours and days immediately following his assassination, in a safe house on the corner of Dean and Nevins streets. Nobody knows this. Or they forgot.
Equally, they forgot that Willie Sutton was apprehended on the corner of Pacific and Third. He’s the one who when asked ‘Why do you rob banks?’ replied ‘Because that’s where the money is.’
Nobody knows this anymore if they ever did.
Nobody knows that Isaac Asimov lived in 213 Dean Street for a year in the 1940’s. To care, you’d have to be a nerd. Even then, how would you find this out? Guy wrote four hundred books; you read fifty of them. You’d walk right past.”
My next choice is from well-known author, Sigrid Nunez. The Buzz Books intro says:
“Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables: A Novel offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history and considers how our present reality affects the way a person looks back on her past.”
Excerpts from The Vulnerables: A Novel:
“Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeling that the story evokes, the questions that rise to your mind, rather than the fictional events described.
. . .
I like the novelist who confessed that the only thing to have stayed with him after reading Anna Karenina was the detail of a picnic basket holding a jar of honey.
. . .
I like this true story, about a writer who wanted to base a fictional character on someone he knew. He disguised her, for example giving his character close-cropped hair instead of the pageboy the real-life model had worn since high school, and a pair of eyeglasses with striking cat-eye tortoiseshell frames. Though in real life the woman was childless, in the book she has a twenty-something-year-old son.
Some weeks before the book came out, the woman developed a bad case of dry eye and could no longer tolerate wearing her contact lenses. For her new glasses, needless to say, she chose cat-eye tortoiseshell frames. Now that she was no longer young and her hair was thinning and fading, at her stylist’s suggestion she got a pixie cut. Neither the writer nor anyone else in the woman’s life at the time knew that, as a teenager, she’d had a baby that she’d given up for adoption. It was just now, having reached his twenties, that her son chose to seek out his birth mother.”
Another that appeals is Flipping Boxcars: A Novel, a debut by Cedric the Entertainer. Buzz Books says:
“Comedian and TV star Cedric the Entertainer’s novel is about close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II.”
July 1948, a midnight meet to negotiate the sale of a boxcar full of thirty pallets of whiskey – 3000 cases. Karter is driving Babe’s 1948 Studebaker Commander. At the meet, Babe gets out to discuss the matter with Tommy Wojak.
“Babe tilted his head and took a long look at this guy, this Tommy Wojak, this up and comer, assessing him. Babe knew how to read cards, dice, and especially people. Babe saw gravity in Wojak. Presence. Something about Tommy Wojak’s posture in the moonlight told Babe that Tommy was a person to take seriously.
. . .
‘Let’s cut the bullsh*t. You want this shipment or not?’
Babe paused, for effect, pretending to consider the proposition.
‘I’ll have to consult with my business manager. He’s in the car.’
The Commander’s swung open. Karter unfolded himself from behind the steering wheel, and with surprising speed and athleticism, stepped out of the car. At his first step, the entire road seemed to tremor and sag. Karter kept his guns hidden as he walked toward the three men. Karter stopped suddenly, standing military straight, announcing himself without a word, all six feet ten inches and three hundred fifty pounds of him.
Wojak and his two bodyguards froze at the sight of him.
‘This is your business manager? ’ Wojak said.
‘You heard of J.P. Morgan? ’
‘Yeah. ’
‘This is F.U. Morgan. ’”
I would love to read Patty Lin’s nonfiction book End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood. She’s a comedy script writer who’s worked with the best (of whom I’m sure she is one). Check the GR blurb.
Another debut I think looks good is First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston.
My last couple of choices are Young Adult novels.
I really like the tone and style of My Father, The Panda Killer by Jamie Hoang. The GR blurb will give you a good idea about it.
Last Girl Breathing, by Court Stevens is a thriller that I want to find the rest of so I can see what happens! Again, check the publisher’s blurb on the book’s GR page
These Buzz Books Samplers are the right price – free! – and good value to spend some time with. It’s easy to skip around, since the Table of Contents links to each story.
NetGalley always has them (thanks for my copy), or you can download them from the Publishers Lunch website.
https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/
Happy browsing and adding to your library!
June 10, 2023
I love getting a peek at the upcoming Fall "buzz books". Many bestselling authors will have new titles coming out. There is also a nice sampling of some debut novels. I made a list of a few that sparked my interest.
Thanks to NG for the ebook.
Thanks to NG for the ebook.
September 17, 2023
I really enjoy these previews of upcoming book releases even though I already have way too many books on my shelves. Oddly, and probably a good thing in my case, there aren't too many in the 2023 Fall/ Winter edition by authors I recognized but I did shelve a few by authors new to me and a couple of debuts as well. I read some excerpts and that helped me decide whether or not to add them. I can't believe the 2024 Spring/Summer version will probably be available before we know it! Thanks to Publishers Lunch and Netgalley for continuing to produce this helpful publication.
May 17, 2023
Oh, be still my racing heart! I love it when the new Buzz Books comes out. It's like Christmas for book lovers no matter what month it is. The Fall/Winter edition has 1250 (!) pages and is available through NetGalley or Amazon for free.
There is exciting new fiction from Kate Atkinson, Mona Awad, Paul Auster, Teju Cole, Michael Cunningham, Lauren Groff, Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy, Stephen King, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice McDermott, Sigrid Nunez, Tim O'Brien, Zadie Smith, and Jesmyn Ward to name a few. Lots of mystery/thrillers, nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi and YA from authors you know and love, plus more than three dozen debut selections. My favorite part is getting to read so many extended excerpts which keeps me from buying books I won't enjoy or missing out on ones I would have skipped over.
I was going to list some of my favorites but there are more than twenty so just get it and decide for yourself. Happy reading!
There is exciting new fiction from Kate Atkinson, Mona Awad, Paul Auster, Teju Cole, Michael Cunningham, Lauren Groff, Claire Keegan, Louise Kennedy, Stephen King, Jhumpa Lahiri, Alice McDermott, Sigrid Nunez, Tim O'Brien, Zadie Smith, and Jesmyn Ward to name a few. Lots of mystery/thrillers, nonfiction, fantasy, sci-fi and YA from authors you know and love, plus more than three dozen debut selections. My favorite part is getting to read so many extended excerpts which keeps me from buying books I won't enjoy or missing out on ones I would have skipped over.
I was going to list some of my favorites but there are more than twenty so just get it and decide for yourself. Happy reading!
July 21, 2023
I read both the Buzz Books, Romance version and Great Reads version, and both were useful and entertaining.
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READ MY FULL REVIEW ON MY BLOG:
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July 1, 2023
I adore Buzz Books. The Fall/Winter 2023 is no exception. My To Be Read List always grows much bigger when I am reading this guide. I love that there are sample reading and at the end you can directly link to NetGallery. I think I selected 5 books to put in for. I will go back and put in for more I am certain. My favorite section is debut authors as I love to find new books I have not heard of or read the writing style before. Excellent! Definitely, get this for yourself. You need more books to read, right? 💗💗💗
May 7, 2023
Here's a preview of the best new books for the 2023 Fall/Winter season and it's FREE!
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter, the 23nd volume in the popular sampler series, presents readers with an insider’s look at more than sixty books due out this season—the largest collection to date. At the end of most excerpts, you will find a link to the full galley on NetGalley!
Such major bestselling authors as Kate Atkinson, Chuck Palahniuk, Zadie Smith, and Mona Awad are featured, along with Stephen King, Mitch Albom, Nelson DeMille, and Janet Evanovich.
Fiction is broken down into categories such as Notables; Debut authors; and Commercial Fiction. A whole range of non-fiction categories are included as well as several Young Adult titles.
First introduced for the 2012 Book Expo America, the FREE digital Publishers Lunch Buzz Books have become the place for both industry professionals and book lovers in general to discover and read about the books expected to spark high demand BEFORE they are published! After many selections, you have the option to follow a link and request the complete galley copy from Net Galley if you qualify as a 'professional' reader.
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter is available NOW on Amazon! Did I mention it's FREE!
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter, the 23nd volume in the popular sampler series, presents readers with an insider’s look at more than sixty books due out this season—the largest collection to date. At the end of most excerpts, you will find a link to the full galley on NetGalley!
Such major bestselling authors as Kate Atkinson, Chuck Palahniuk, Zadie Smith, and Mona Awad are featured, along with Stephen King, Mitch Albom, Nelson DeMille, and Janet Evanovich.
Fiction is broken down into categories such as Notables; Debut authors; and Commercial Fiction. A whole range of non-fiction categories are included as well as several Young Adult titles.
First introduced for the 2012 Book Expo America, the FREE digital Publishers Lunch Buzz Books have become the place for both industry professionals and book lovers in general to discover and read about the books expected to spark high demand BEFORE they are published! After many selections, you have the option to follow a link and request the complete galley copy from Net Galley if you qualify as a 'professional' reader.
Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter is available NOW on Amazon! Did I mention it's FREE!
December 28, 2023
Buzz Books by Publishers Lunch is always a terrific source for finding fab new books. This sampler features more than 60 books published in Fall/Winter 2023. Highly recommended for readers who want to know the best books to add to their burgeoning TBRs each season.
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Opinions are mine.
Thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the ARC.
Opinions are mine.
May 11, 2023
A comprehensive guide that includes upcoming books for Fall/Winter 2023. A great preview for those of us who review on Netgalley! I loved how this guide included summaries and excerpts for select books, including debut authors!
June 3, 2023
I really enjoyed reading previews of exciting upcoming books! Some that sparked my interest are:
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
Ana Turns by Lisa Gornick
The Light on Halsey Street by Vanessa Miller
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
I’m looking forward to checking out those books and more when they come out!
My ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan
Ana Turns by Lisa Gornick
The Light on Halsey Street by Vanessa Miller
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
I’m looking forward to checking out those books and more when they come out!
My ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
June 2, 2023
Not long after entering the first chapters a feeling of discomfort takes over the mind and the body. Certain sounds add to those uneasy emotions.At Penryth Hall there are bells. It's interesting the sounds of bells can cause pleasant or unpleasant thoughts to enter the mind. The real me feels a bit tipped off because so many references lead back to Edgar Allen Poe. I did not know what to think about his spirit gliding through the pages. So close I could sniff him.
In other words, I did not feel Jess Armstrong's presence. It's like Edgar Allen Poe had taken over her body. I am interested in learning did she feel like a ghostwriter? Was she fighting the bells and ravens hoping they would go away? Whoever is writing or not writing, Mr. Poe or Jess Armstrong, the book is great. All five senses spin freely and beg for company while the stories are told. Maybe we are in a dream. My one hope is that I don't see a ghost in my sleep tonight. Here is a shivering 'good night' and a Thank you to st. Martin's Pub. for this complimentary copy.
September 16, 2023
Even though I have hundreds of books on my Goodreads 'want to read' shelf as well as on my physical shelves at home, I'm always on the lookout for a new title and BuzzBooks never disappoints!
As always, the titles included in this volume (Fall/Winter 2023) were all good but a few stood out for me and I will be adding them to my TBR shelf.
Hold my Girl by Charlene Carr (publication date: 10/10/23; publisher: Sourcebooks)
The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan (publication date: 1/23/24; publisher: Kensington Books)
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey (piblication date: 11/7/23; publisher: Zibby Books)
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubrum Khan (publication date: 1/9/24; publisher: Penguin Random House)
Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead (publication date: 10/3/23; publisher: Sourcebooks)
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston 9publication date: 1/9/24; publisher: Penguin Random House)
The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh 9publication date: 1/16/24; Penguin Random House)
Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens (publication date: 11/7/23; publisher: Harper Collins)
As always, the titles included in this volume (Fall/Winter 2023) were all good but a few stood out for me and I will be adding them to my TBR shelf.
Hold my Girl by Charlene Carr (publication date: 10/10/23; publisher: Sourcebooks)
The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan (publication date: 1/23/24; publisher: Kensington Books)
The Last Love Note by Emma Grey (piblication date: 11/7/23; publisher: Zibby Books)
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years by Shubrum Khan (publication date: 1/9/24; publisher: Penguin Random House)
Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead (publication date: 10/3/23; publisher: Sourcebooks)
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston 9publication date: 1/9/24; publisher: Penguin Random House)
The Night of the Storm by Nishita Parekh 9publication date: 1/16/24; Penguin Random House)
Last Girl Breathing by Court Stevens (publication date: 11/7/23; publisher: Harper Collins)
March 10, 2024
I am always trying to decide if I should read Buzz books. Why? Because I end up with a longer list of books to be read. I decided to take the plunge and now my list is longer! In this terrific volume, there is fiction and literary fiction. Debuts — first fiction is always amazing. They also have commercial fiction meaning the biggest well known authors such as James Patterson and Lee Child. In the nonfiction titles includ biographies and memoirs as usual. Social issues, politics, essays, criticism and more, current events, crime, history, business, science and technology are also included in the nonfiction section. Thanks to this edition, I will be adding some books in those nonfiction areas that I don’t read without a recommendation or something to look at. It helps me be aware of titles that I might not ever realize existed. You can’t help but find something to read!
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
Disclaimer: I received an arc of this book from the author/publisher from Netgalley. I wasn’t obligated to write a favorable review. The opinions expressed are strictly my own.
July 16, 2023
Thanks to NetGalley & Publishers Lunch BUZZ BOOKS for the Copy of Fall/Winter 2023. I love the Buzz Books for excerpts and glimpses into what’s coming up next. Some fantastic finds for the Fall. A few of the stand outs for me below of authors I haven’t read yet and some debut authors too! Excited to dive into their full versions:
•Charlene Carr: Hold My Girl
•Elizabeth Crook: The Madstone (1868 Texas, historical fiction Mystery, Action, possibly romance??❣️)
•Donna Hemans: The House of Plain Truth
•Emma Grey: The Last Love Note
•Ashley Winstead: Midnight is the Darkest Hour
•Cedric the Entertainer: Flipping Boxcars
•Ashley Elston: First Lie Wins
•Nishita Parekh: The Night of the Storm
•Anise Vance: Hush Habor
•Myisha Cherry: Failures of Forgiveness
•Charlene Carr: Hold My Girl
•Elizabeth Crook: The Madstone (1868 Texas, historical fiction Mystery, Action, possibly romance??❣️)
•Donna Hemans: The House of Plain Truth
•Emma Grey: The Last Love Note
•Ashley Winstead: Midnight is the Darkest Hour
•Cedric the Entertainer: Flipping Boxcars
•Ashley Elston: First Lie Wins
•Nishita Parekh: The Night of the Storm
•Anise Vance: Hush Habor
•Myisha Cherry: Failures of Forgiveness
August 7, 2023
I love reading the excerpts from the different authors that are featured in Buzz Books 2023: Fall/Winter to get a fresh look at books to be released.
One thing I try to do is open up and explore genres that are not always my first picks to broaden my view and range of reading. This is a fun way to do this, AND I wind up adding many books to be To Be Read list!!! Authors known and yet unknown are able to show off their new releases in a way that is noncommittal, so I am able to choose what I am most interested in!
Happy reading! I hope you enjoy Buzz Books 2023 as much as I did! I feel I am exposed to authors I would not normally be aware of, and this is the biggest reason why Buzz Books draws me in!
One thing I try to do is open up and explore genres that are not always my first picks to broaden my view and range of reading. This is a fun way to do this, AND I wind up adding many books to be To Be Read list!!! Authors known and yet unknown are able to show off their new releases in a way that is noncommittal, so I am able to choose what I am most interested in!
Happy reading! I hope you enjoy Buzz Books 2023 as much as I did! I feel I am exposed to authors I would not normally be aware of, and this is the biggest reason why Buzz Books draws me in!
June 4, 2023
This book contains a pretty extensive list of upcoming new releases and then first chapters of quite a few books by recognizable authors.
As a book list lover, I enjoyed perusing the fiction and nonfiction lists, and I even enjoyed the brief summaries. However, this is not the kind of book I would ever read in full. If I read the first chapter, then I'm immediately, if intrigued, going to want to keep reading. I thought the whole book would be lists with short summaries, but it is much more. I know there are many people who enjoy reading only the first chapters to see if they want to continue on, but I am not one of those people.
As a book list lover, I enjoyed perusing the fiction and nonfiction lists, and I even enjoyed the brief summaries. However, this is not the kind of book I would ever read in full. If I read the first chapter, then I'm immediately, if intrigued, going to want to keep reading. I thought the whole book would be lists with short summaries, but it is much more. I know there are many people who enjoy reading only the first chapters to see if they want to continue on, but I am not one of those people.
July 12, 2023
As with any collection or anthology of literary works, some appeal to any given reader more than others do. Of the 60+ books sampled here, I read quite a few that I look forward to reading in entirety when they become available. Most of those are mystery- and romance- related novels, which are my preferred genres. I took extensive notes of those so that I don't lose track of the good reads as they are released. Several of those are written by authors that were new to me. Of course, a few literary genres included here are ones I do not enjoy and do not intend to read.
May 10, 2023
I had such a fun experience reading these FREE excerpts compiled into one. Not only did I find new faves, but I also read from new authors and now have tons of novels that'll be added to my tbr! Although, one aspect that really bothered me was the images behind text messages. But other than that it's great.
Thank you to the author and the publisher for this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you to the author and the publisher for this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
May 13, 2023
Another great volume from Buzz Books! My TBR list just grows and grows each time a new volume of Buzz Books comes out. I am especially looking forward to The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook, The Busy Body by Kemper Donovan, The Last Love Note by Emma Grey, Midnight is the Darkest Hour by Ashley Winstead, and First Lie Wins by Ashley Easton. Thanks to the publisher to to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC.
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June 6, 2023The star rating feels a bit unnecessary here because this is just a catalog, so don't focus too much on it. I am glad to have this catalog as it was very well put together and as a reviewer it is a very useful tool for preparing to request arcs and create reviews for the rest of the year.
Thank you to Publisher's lunch for making this available to me via net galley
Thank you to Publisher's lunch for making this available to me via net galley
June 19, 2023
I read these guides every season because there is always some book I haven't heard of being released and it allows you to read the excerpt. Unfortunately, it must be slim pickings in the publishing industry for this upcoming fall/winter season. Nothing in particular stood out. Here's hoping this nearly thousand-page guide are intentionally keeping a few secrets from us readers.
August 24, 2023
The Buzz Books volumes are essential resources for serious readers. The 2023 Fall/Winter volume is no exception. With the summaries and excerpts, it’s easy to find the perfect book. And with the range of authors, including debuts, writing fiction, nonfiction, and YA, there is something for everyone!
January 14, 2024
So annoyed at myself that I forgot about looking for this book. 2023 spring/summer was my first one of these.
Just a fabulous idea as you can get an idea of what is coming and books to look out for. unfortunately because I came to the game so late with this one it wasn’t great. That was my fault, the concept is brilliant and I will do better next time.
Just a fabulous idea as you can get an idea of what is coming and books to look out for. unfortunately because I came to the game so late with this one it wasn’t great. That was my fault, the concept is brilliant and I will do better next time.
July 5, 2023
Sadly, this was another lackluster sampler for me. I couldn’t get past page 1 of any of the books! I wish the publishers would focus on books that uplift or escape life, rather than continue to publish such depressing books!
September 17, 2023
always enjoy when the new Buzz Books comes out to see what books are coming soon! So many great titles are coming this fall and I can't wait to read many of them. Thanks NetGalley for the opportunity to get a little sneak peak.
October 30, 2023
This book is a huge collection of new releases to sample before requesting them on Net Galley. I like that this sampler includes many titles from authors unknown to me. Thank you, Publishers Lunch and Net Galley for helping me find books for my fall and winter TBR list.
May 19, 2023
I really enjoyed this Buzz Book. I love getting the inside scoop on upcoming books and the summaries were awesome. Picked out my next reads ! Thanks #netgalley for providing this copy to me !
May 23, 2023
Eight of the excerpts were books I look forward to reading next fall and winter. There were 4 other books listed by authors I follow that will also be on my TBR list.
June 4, 2023
I received a copy of this book from NetGalley.
This is a great way to preview upcoming books, including those from a variety of genres. I now have a list of novels I'm eager to read!
This is a great way to preview upcoming books, including those from a variety of genres. I now have a list of novels I'm eager to read!
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