A great collection of excerpts from upcoming 2017 Spring/Summer releases.

It's divided into three categories: Fiction, Debut Fiction, and Nonfiction. Each book section includes a cover or author photo, a book summary, a lengthy excerpt, a short author bio, important publication details, as well as links to the book on Netgalley when available. Buzz Books made it so easy to figure out what books to add to my list. The excerpts are long enough to give a good sense of writing style. There are many books I'm not adding to my list, but it's nice to be aware of them so I can recommend them to people who'd be interested.

The main reason I wanted to read this collection is because of the excerpt from American War by Omar Al Akkad. I was already looking forward to this book’s release and now I’m even more anxious to read it. I love how the author seamlessly slipped into the minds of different characters!

I’m also excited about many of the non-fiction releases:
Memory’s Last Breath: Field Notes on my Dementia by Gerda Saunders (At the top of my must-read list now!)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

I recommend Buzz Books for anyone who wants to stay up-to-date on upcoming releases.

I can't wait to read the full books for these titles. A wonderful buzz books edition!

Oh my gosh! So many awesome books coming out! Thanks to Buzz Books I requested way too many. The ones I didn't or couldn't request I wrote down to look for later. I look being exposed to books I wouldn't normally check out. It's so cool that you can read a portion of the book to see how you are going to like the writing before you request it.

I cannot wait to start requesting!! Some with interesting new work; new authors of interest!

So many fantastic selections!! I am excited to dive into the full length books!!

OMG what great books included in this sampler. I requested a few and I can not wait to read them!

Can't wait to read a lot of these books! Sound awesome

Another really interesting catalog of upcoming books. Really helps with picking what to read for the upcoming months!

Lots of great books to look forward to this spring/summer. Thanks Buzz Books for the heads up, excerpts, and NetGalley links.

Excellent selections. I LOVE these excerpts from Buzz Books although my TBR definitely doesn't. Wonderful way to get a look at what's releasing this year!
Most looking forward to reading Mr. Rochester, The Women in the Castle, See What I have Done and The Marsh King's Daughter.

I look forward to each and every one of these - always a go-to way of getting an inside look at hot, upcoming releases

This Buzz Book is filled to the brim with excerpts that I am really excited to read. I am adding several of the titles featured to my TBR and plan to feature others on my blog.

I've said it before and I will say it again I love buzz books and always read it as soon as it is available . I find books that I have overlooked requesting every time . The excerpts give a taste of the author's writing style. I suggest everyone read these because you may miss out on your next favorite book

Excellent preview of forthcoming book releases. I welcome the opportunity to read a preview to inform future choices.

Spring and Summer 2017 is going to be an amazing season of books that will be coming out. I can't wait to pick up a majority of these titles to read either by the pool or on vacation. So many great titles that I didn't know about and a few hidden gems. I love being able to get a sneak peek at the upcoming titles and there was many I didn't know about as well and many I was shocked that I actually end up liking. This is the perfect sampler to read because as a reader/blogger I need to know what is new and exciting and all these titles are just that.

I cannot wait to read some of these books! So many that I hope to buy, especially Memory's Last Breath (Gerda Saunders). My late mother had dementia (Alzheimer's) and can relate already to this book. Shoplifting for starters was a huge problem, especially around sweets!

The Buzz Books samplers simplify my life as a book blogger: I get a chance to sample lots of appealing new titles before I decide which books to request. Thanks for making this available.

Thanks to Publishers Lunch and Netgalley for an eARC of this book.
This book with excerpts, rather than just a brief summary, from books to be released this spring/summer is a wonder! It so helps in deciding which books to pursue and purchase for my store. Thank you. There are some really interesting books.

Another winner I love these, great for exposing me to reads I wouldnt have known.

I always look forward to Buzz Books and this edition is no exception. There are so many great books coming out that my pen ran out while writing them all down! I'd love for some links to work for Australians too one day.

I look forward to the release of these books so I can read the excerpts for many of the books that are going to be released. This one is by far my favorite! I have a very long list of books that I want to read now thanks to this wonderful book of samples! I highly recommend this book!

I can't say enough good things about these opportunities to see what's new and have the chance to request immediately. I look at NetGally daily but this gives me a chance to find some that I may have missed !

Very informative. I love having the descriptions for all the newest books in one place

Really awesome compilation of the new books coming out. Great summaries and a lovely way to work out which book to get next!

I really liked the selections in the Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer. There are a lot of interesting reads, organized by Fiction, Debut Fiction, and Nonfiction, that I can't wait to add to my ever-growing to-read list. I also really like the inclusion of excerpts so the reader is able to get a taste of what is to come!

This is SUCH a helpful tool for librarians! Especially helpful since Midwinter is coming up - let's me know what to keep an eye out for.

A great look at future books, I found one or two I might request.

Fantastic mixture of different genres and authors and writing styles!
Great lengths of samples to get a feel for the story without there being too much or too little of it to really see if it is something worth picking up. Just enough to get excited about without being too much to get crazy waiting for it!

As always very nicely done!

Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer is yet another gift for those of us who read and write about it. The book is an incredible resource and I thank all those who worked to produce such a great edition.

Always exciting to see what's coming out and to add to that TBR list - there's usually something unexpected where the blurb doesn't call to me but the writing style grabs immediately so fabulous to get decent extracts as tasters.

Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer: Exclusive Excerpts from 40 Top New Titles, By Publishers Lunch

Buzz Books 2017 is an amazing menu of the new books that will be released this spring and summer. Take a look yourself: Publishers Lunch has made this gorgeous list available for free at any major ebookstore or at buzz.publishersmarketplace.com.

It would take weeks for me to synopsize the hundreds of great books listed and excerpted in this Buzz Books for Spring/Summer, so I will focus on a few of the forthcoming books that I am anxious to read and review.

The Marsh King’s Daughter, by Karen Dionne (G.P. Putnam’s Sons). The protagonist, Helena Pelletier, has a great family and a successful business, but all of that is at risk when she learns that her father has escaped from prison. This father abducted and raped her mother when she was a teenager, then kept both mother and child prisoner for many years. With echoes of the Jaycee Dugan story, this novel appears to have much to say.

Soleri, by Michael Johnston (Tor). Michael Johnston promises an elaborate, vast story that is based both on ancient Egyptian history and King Lear, and that involves "a world of ancient and elaborate rites, of unseen power and kingdoms ravaged by war, where victory comes with a price, and every truth conceals a deeper secret."

The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel,
by Ben Avery (Adapter), George R. R. Martin (Author), (Bantam). Billed as prequel to The Game of Thrones, this book is sure to be a bestseller.

Come Sundown, by Nora Roberts( St. Martin’s Press). Nora Roberts has written another blockbuster of a stand alone novel. An aunt, long considered dead, suddenly appears at her family's ranch in Montana. Her appearance resurrects old mysteries, and her dark past seems to be the reason murders are being committed.

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, by Jeff Guinn, (Simon & Schuster). The same author who wrote about Charles Manson now takes on Jim Jones, the man responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, which is still considered the largest murder-suicide in American history. I think this is a book that will challenge what we know about Jim Jones and cults in general.

The Velveteen Daughter: A Novel
by Laurel Davis Huber (She Writes Press). This novel is about Margery Williams Bianco, the author of The Velveteen Rabbit, and her daughter Pamela. Although fictionalized, it is based on a true story.

The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice, by Kate Moore (Sourcebooks). Although they were assured that radium was safe, many women who thought they were helping America in the WWI effort, lost their health and their lives. This is a story that is long overdue.

I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author), Anne Margaret Daniel (Editor) (Scribner). Apparently, F. Scott Fitzgerald was not finished with society, and these new stories echoing his take on his wife and the social mores of the 1920s and 1930s, just might have a greater impact today than if they were published 80 years ago.

Dragon Teeth: A Novel , by Michael Crichton (Harper). Yes, you read that correctly. A new Michael Crichton novel has been recently discovered and it is being published posthumously. And it is about the Old West in 1876, and "two monomaniacal paleontologists [who] pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils, while surveilling, deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars." This novel is sure to spark the interest of the millions of viewers who loved HBO's remake of Crichton's "Westworld."

Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel (V.I. Warshawski Novels), by Sara Paretsky (William Morrow). V.I. Warshawski is back with a new case that will lead her and her dog "from her native Chicago... and into Kansas, on the trail of a vanished film student and a faded Hollywood star."

The Painted Queen: A Novel,
by Elizabeth Peters (Author), Joan Hess (Author) (William Morrow)
This is the final book in the wonderful mystery series involving Amelia Peabody and her archeologist husband, Radcliffe Emerson. In this installment, we travel back to Egypt in 1912, to search for a stolen bust of Queen Nefertiti.

I have been reading the Buzz Book collection for several years and encourage any readers new to Net Galley to look at them since they provide a very helpful overview of upcoming new books. In addition to lengthy lists of authors and titles organized by publisher at the beginning, this collection features 40 excerpts arranged by genre: fiction (Anthony Horowitz, Nora Roberts, Graeme Simsion and many more on my to-read list); debut fiction (can't wait to meet some soon-to-be favorite authors!) and Nonfiction (including Roxane Gay, Richard Ford, Kate Moore and others).

What a great way to peek into a great variety of upcoming releases. I so appreciate the Summary, Excerpt, and About the Author notes. Also am finding it easier to read in the e-kindle version than in the bulky, dictionary weight paperback edition.

There are some hidden gems here. I have already downloaded a few.

A lot of good samples from upcoming novels that make one curious. Or sort out what you don't like from the beginning :-)

Great book, can't wait to read some of these books!

An amazing collections that gives summaries and excerpts about each book! Definitely going to be pre-ordering a bunch of these.

This is perfect for the reader who has more on their to be read pile than they should. Just enough to give you a taste of the book which you can then ask for more or let it go to another reader. The only problem is that you will want them all.

Always excited to read these excerpts! I've found some really good books and hope to find more !

I really like these books that let you know what is coming out within the next 3-6 months or so. I do admit that I haven't read every single selection in its entirety. I do like that they also give a short summary of the book before the excerpt. So you can decide if you might be interested. I tried to read at least part of the excerpt, although there were a few I totally skipped due to the summary. I have added several books to my books that I want to look into reading when they come out. A couple I already requested on NetGalley, but know I may not get approved for. The one I most wanted The Marsh King's Daughter, I was already turned down for, but when it comes out in July or August, I'll start checking the local library and Overdrive. Even if you don't request ARCs through NetGalley or similar services, Edelweiss maybe, it is great to know what is coming and what they are thinking might be the next big, popular reads.

This is the first Buzz book I've read. It's made me more excited about some books I'd already heard about and wanted to read and opened my eyes to a few more that would never have been on my radar.

I had never heard of or had read any of the Buzz Books before but was intrigued by the link on the main page of NetGalley and so took a look. I read the young adult one and proceeded to get this one too. I continued to enjoy the formatting and the books on display. One of the best things about being a blogger and a reader are all of the recommendations I receive from sources like NetGalley and Buzz Books. I loved that this installment has offerings of established authors, debut authors, and non-fiction writers. Will continue to read Buzz Books titles in the future.

I cherish the Buzz Books, whether by season, and now monthly! They always provide an enormous amount of information about upcoming books, including authors we know and love, plus fabulous debut authors to discover. The excerpts provided are a perfect appetizer to whet our palates for the upcoming feast. Makes my mouth water just thinking about all that's on the menu!

I'm new to these but i must say I've come across some titles i never would have chosen before!

Buzz Books are perfect for sampling a chapter or two from a variety of authors' books so you can decide whether to earmark them for future reading. My literary picks:

Fiction: The Marsh King's Daughter (a true crime vibe), Soleri (fantasy), The Women in the Castle (WWII), Ten Dead Comedians (Agatha Christie remake; this was promising, with some hilarious lines)

Debut Fiction: The Half-Drowned King (Norse fantasy); Final Girls (crime fiction); If the Creek Don't Rise (Appalachian life). I almost didn't include the last because it was so depressing, but it was really powerful and I can't stop thinking about it.

Nonfiction: In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire (self-explanatory); Radium Girls (WWI factory expose)

Blurbs can make a book sound great - or not to your taste at all. It's the first chapters that give you a true sense of whether you're going to love a book. Which is the beauty of Buzz Books. Nora Roberts not your style (mine either)? Skip her and move on to the next author. Quite a few offerings in this edition weren't to my taste, but I still found plenty, some completely unexpected, and it didn't cost me a penny. Can't complain about that.

This is an extremely useful list. I'm not usually a reader of non-fiction because I never know what to read but the extensive list of non-fiction titles on this list looks really interesting. I can't wait to get reading!

It's always a delight to poke around in a new Buzz Books sampler.

As if the excerpts themselves aren't reason enough to read these samplers, the full lists of forthcoming titles in the front are terrific. It's brilliant to be able to view the promising bounty of the literary season in a single list like this. Many of the listed items are things that were already on my radar screen, but there are always a few surprises that I didn't know were coming: a posthumous F. Scott Fitzgerald collection; new fiction from Maile Meloy!

Among the excerpts, I'm always most interested to read the debut fiction. Lots of intriguing excerpts, but the ones that I most enjoyed were Alexandra Fuller's QUIET UNTIL THE THAW and Omar El Akaad's AMERICAN WAR.

Among the other pieces, I was glad to find Richard Ford's memoir, BETWEEN THEM. He's one of my favorite fiction writers, and it was a treat to read this very personal story of his parents. I look forward to reading the full book very much.

Don Winslow's THE FORCE and Roxane Gay's HUNGER also caught my eye.

I could go on and on, but I'll call it quits there. So much good stuff.

This is an incredible guide to find new titles that you will love! I loved it and I'm going to want them all! LOL . Highly recommended :)

Buzz Books is always a great way to preview books are that soon to hit the shelves and make a list of your possible "must-reads." I've got my list ready and will be watching for at least a dozen of titles set to be released this spring and summer.

I can't stress the importance that this publication has on my blog. It is an invaluable resource as I plan future reviews and posts. Count this as another solid addition to the BuzzBooks collection!