Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book. I enjoyed reading the summaries of all the books that will be coming out later this year from both new and existing authors that I like.

I love reviewing these Buzz Book guides.
While alot of these were already on my radar, I like being able to see if any other upcoming releases peak my interest

As a NetGalley addict, I have this unrelenting temptation to keep requesting books to a point of overwhelming odds against ever reading them. The problem is that after requesting one, you will invariably find another that sounds even better or from an author that you just can’t pass on. So this compendium offers an overview of publications coming over the next 6 months and I can pretend to be in control of my unforgiving and monumental TBR list.

Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer includes a comprehensive list of coming releases, that are divided into:
Fiction – The Notables, Highly Anticipated, and Emerging Voices
Debut
Commercial Fiction
Nonfiction – Biography & Memoir, Business, Politics and Current Events, Essays, Criticism and More, History & Crime, Science & Technology, and Social Issues
with each entry giving Title, Author, Publisher and Release Date.

The bulk of the book includes excerpts from selected books including authors such as Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Committed), Kaitlyn Greenbridge (Libertie) and Tia Williams (Seven days in June). I’ll give a special shout out for Flynn Berry’s novel Northern Spy based in Northern Ireland. In total, 17 samples are included for Fiction, 15 for Debut, 9 for Nonfiction and 3 for Young Adult. NetGalley is in an excellent position to assess and promote books to be published with leading publishers and this is a very interesting resource to review for planning your ARCs. Think of it as stopping in a book shop and doing a bit of taster reading, the only drawback being, you can’t smell the books.

This is a useful reference and worth getting your hands on. Some gems to look forward to and some exciting possibilities. Many thanks to Publishers Lunch and NetGalley for providing me with a copy in return for an honest review.

What a fantastic resource to tap into. I have already requested some full copies through Netgalley as I was hooked by the samples. Will definitely keep some of these on my radar this year. Thank you for allowing me access to Buzz Books netgalley.

The first among this collection of books to be released in the Spring and Summer of 2021 that caught my eye was the only one I noticed was Highly Anticipated in the category of Fiction: John Edgar Wideman’s You Made Me Love you to be released 4/6/2021, I don’t think I noticed that additional note on any of the others, despite some well known authors. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts (5/14), Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (3/2), Rachel Cusk’s Second Place (5/4), Haruki Murakami’s First Person Singular (4/6), Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed (3/2), Helen Oyeyemi’s Peaces (4/6), Lionel Shriver’s Should We Stay or Should We Go (6/8), Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie (3/30), Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were. (3/9)

In the category of Emerging Voices is Charles Martin’s The Letter Keeper (6/1), Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves - one which I am highly anticipating (8/3), Steven Rowley’s The Guncle which I am looking forward to reading, (5/25), Willy Vlautin’s The Night Always Comes. (4/6)

In Debut books, which is “packed” with “promising new voices,” among those is Gabriele Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (4/6), Marianne Cronin’s The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot (6/1), Amanda Dennis’ Her Here (3/9), Eileen Garvin’s The Music of Bees (4/27), Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (7/27), A.J. Gnuse’s Girl in the Walls (5/11) and many, many more.

Commercial Fiction has many new books, one of the first ones listed was Stacy Abrams’ While Justice Sleeps - a “thriller set within the Supreme Court” (5/11), Chris Bohjalian’s Hour of the Witch (4/20), Alafair Burke’s Find Me (8/3)Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot (5/11) Lisa Scottoline’s Eternal (3/23) and Gareth Worthington’s A Time for Monsters (5/18)

Nonfiction books include numerous political and celebrity memoirs along with others.


Buzz Books are available for free on Amazon for Kindle, and Barnes & Noble for Nook.



Published: 19 January 2021

Many thanks for the ARC provided by Publisher’s Lunch

Buzz Books is my absolute favorite resource for planning my TBR. Exploding my TBR is more like it. I was nice to see a few already on my radar but I addd about a dozen more.

This is a comprehensive listing of books being published spring/summer 2021, with excerpts from some of them. It provides a great opportunity to construct a “to read” list for the coming months.

Love getting this each season to preview books coming! It’s super helpful in making decisions about books I’m not sure about.

As always Buzz Books is a pleasure to read and make my TBR list for the upcoming book season. Lots of variety in genres and selections. I found a lot of new to me authors to add to my wishlist.

I am sorry to say I found this sampler far too political for my liking. Most of the books are very serious. There is a sample of a book I absolutely loved and already read, The Lost Apothecary, which is worth checking out.

I love looking the what's coming in publishing. Thank you. I know this is supposed to be 100 characters long, but I don't know anything else to say.

A useful guide for upcoming releases for the Spring/Summer 2021 period.
In this book you have the opportunity to read a few chapters of some books and I find it very useful.
Thank you NetGalley!

The Buzz Books are a huge highlight of my year - the sample chapters are intriguing, and the opportunity to find some of the big works of the year before their release is always exciting. It also gives one of the best overall "temperatures" of the industry, being impressively able to pick out and offer some of the best upcoming books the year has to offer.

This gives readers a great look into upcoming titles for Spring/Summer 2021. I'm looking forward to a lot of these so it was nice to read snippets from some of them

I love these previews- I'm always looking forward to the new issue. They help me get a jump on the ordering for my library, and to get my patrons excited about upcoming titles. Keep them coming!

Thank you so much for this incredible resource. I eagerly await each edition, excited to explore the new season of publications. Buzz Books is a gift!

Thanks again for putting this collection together for readers. I always enjoy looking at the titles to see what will be coming out over the next few months and reading the excerpts. I've added many to my personal TBR pile and will be arranging access to others for different reviewers.

I always look forward to Buzz Books! It's a great way to sample upcoming releases and I appreciate the links to read or request the galleys.

Buzz Books are always a nice compilation of exciting upcoming books. It's an easy way for me to find books that I might be interested in picking up.

There are some great books coming out this year, and I'm super excited for them all.
I'm particularly looking forward to The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim, The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray, and The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.