I always look forward to new Buzz Books. It's an immediate download for me. Another great selection of upcoming releases, a few of which I'm especially looking forward to!

I love these collections because they always make me aware of titles that weren't previously on my radar, as well as reminding of titles that I already knew about that had forgotten were coming out this year. Such a great reminder that 2020 is going to be an amazing, and groundbreaking, read year!

Thank you Netgalley for giving me this preview of books for the spring/summer.

This is always a great opportunity for readers. Looking forward to all the great books!

I love these excerpts! Always great to see what's new and coming up. Thank you for sharing these with us.

terrific-always look forward to this as it's a very useful way to find new books. Also appreciate the links to make requests. thanks !

This is a great preview of so many books! It's like a box of chocolate, you never know what you get :)

I love the privilege of to reading excerpts from new books! I am always on the lookout for a good read and appreciate the opportunity to preview new authors or catch up with my favorites.

I never would have imagined that another book could make me close my unputdownable read. Yet, once again, the new edition of Buzz Books is here, and with barely a glance at my current read, I put it aside and started reading all the lovely excerpts. Forgive me current read, you know nothing else would come between us, and after all, I will be back soon!
For anyone not familiar with Buzz Books, each edition contains several book excerpts that have been given high praise or 'buzz'. This edition has forty-four excerpts, as well as many, many other books that are being published in the Spring/Summer of 2020. I've had readers tell me that they don't enjoy excerpts, which is of course fine. Think of this then as a huge potential TBR list, letting you know what is going to be published and when, and skip the excerpts!
I've read some of these already, thanks to ARCs, but my list continues to grow every time I finish an edition. Under Fiction, you will find notables, highly anticipated, emerging voices, debut, and commercial books. Nonfiction has politics & current events, social issues, science & technology, history and crime, essays, criticism, & more, and biography & memoir. Something for every reader and as always, I hope Publishers Lunch never stops publishing Buzz Books!

Another great bunch of books coming up. I love to get ideas from Publishers Lunch.

Thanks to publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book. While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

Thank you Buzz Books for the spring summer 2020 edition! I always enjoy reading excerpts of upcoming releases to help me decide on both the future new releases that I’d like to read as well as discover those I don’t know about yet. Always a great tool to use!

Wow! There are so many good books coming out! I'm really not ready! I love these Buzz Books......they give you a little taste of the book and allow you to see if you are interested in reading them. I requested quite a few and can't wait to get on with my reading year now! Many of the books are Penguin Books and they don't really approve me, but I tried for a few anyway!😁

Always enjoy reading Buzz Books and always find a lot of books to add to my ever growing to my to be read list. I find a lot of new authors and some I've read before which always is great.

Thank you to all who compile these lists for every Season. I look forward to seeing what's coming out.

I look forward to every single Buzz Books to check out upcoming titles and get a full overview of new or new to me authors as well as old favorites. This first edition of 2020 is packed with promising reads. It has familiar names such as Brit Bennett, Sue Monk Kidd, and Veronica Roth, Debut authors, Nonfiction and YA. There is truly something (and plenty) for everyone to enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a copy in exchange for an honest review.

I get so excited every time I see a new issue of Buzz Books! I download and read immediately - putting in requests and adding to my tbr. I love that it helps me find new reads I’m excited about, even outside my typical genres. Can’t wait for the next one!

There are quite a few good samples in this one. Lots I am excited about. I am now very excited for the Spring and Summer books that will be out.

I enjoyed getting a sneak peek of books to come. I would love to see this same thing done for YA/Middle-Level books.

If your TBR lists are looking thin here are some great titles coming out Spring/Summer 2020. You're welcome!

The Last Flight by Julie Clark
(Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark; Release date: June 2, 2020)

The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
(Publisher: Viking Books; Release date: April 21, 2020)

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth
(Publisher: John Joseph Adams Books; Release date: April 7, 2020)

The Party Upstairs by Lee Conell
(Publisher: Penguin Press; Release date: July 7, 2020)

The Boys' Club by Erica Katz
(Publisher: Harper; Release date: August 4, 2020)

True Story by Kate Reed Petty
(Publisher: Viking Books; Release date: August 4, 2020)

The Burning by Laura Bates
(Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire; Release date: April 7, 2020)

I read this ARC for an honest review
All thoughts and opinions are mine

Oh I LOVE buzz books and devoured this in 1 sitting
Love to be able to see what up and coming and these have become a bit of a must read for me

Brilliant read and so helpful for us booksellers! We have to order well in advance and sometimes without any info and this helps me decide of it's a book that will work in my market and it also gives me some info I can use to handsell the title.

What is better than scrolling through all the wonderful possibilities of books on Netgalley? Not much. Trolling that same resource at only the click of the next page button? Yeah, that'll do it.
This is such a great resource to excite anyone's TBR pile. In a hot minute it has brought so many new titles, as well as authors, to my attention. I really love the large cover image and the included excerpt aspect as you get to see how the narrative voice suits you - see if it grabs you out of the feast of riches available here.

I love looking through the Buzz books and what a wonderful selection for the spring/summer. So many that i am hoping to read.

Thanks so much. An excellent summary of some exciting new publications. I love the fact that there is an excerpt from each book, it really helps.

Thank you for this preview! It’s great to be able to read samples, so excited to read many of these books.

I always love looking through these catalogs and seeing what else coming for the new season. there are a lot of books that I am very excited about and I cannot wait for their release!

Some great books for Spring/Summer 2020! I'm especially looking forward to Julie Clark's "That Last Flight" and Rosayra Pablo Cruz & Julie Schwietert Collazo's "The Book of Rosy." But so many more will be on my TBR.

great preview of upcoming books. I always love using these samples to create lists of books I want to request and review for the upcoming season.

Great collection of various authors and a range of great reading material!!

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for a fair review.

Buzz Books how I love you. As soon as I see these available in netgalley I do a little happy dance. I love the excerpts and the contact information. Super helpful resource for a book blogger and reviewer. So well put together. I look forward to reading many of these spring and summer releases.

I have never requested a BUZZ BOOKS before. This was very helpful for me to know what is coming out and to read about books with authors that I am not familiar with. There are some good books coming out this spring!

Buzz Books is so dangerous. It's a gateway drug for me. It gives great insight into the up and coming books and authors. And my NetGaley requests are through the roof now.

Brilliant as ever. Crammed full of brilliant books, decent length extracts and a good mix of genres. Would love a children's version and access to back issues!

This Is A Good One

I've been downloading these preview collections for quite a few years now, and the quality, breadth, and appeal of the samples have varied considerably from edition to edition. I almost didn't bother this time around, but I'm glad I relented. This set of samples really is quite exciting and varied.

The book opens with a very thorough and well curated list of notable and anticipated books that will come up on offer all year. Just for the purpose of alerting oneself to what's on the horizon this book is worth looking at.

But the heart of the project is the forty-four extended excerpts; each comes with an introduction, some blurbs, marketing plans, and publication notes. Most, if not all, of the featured books are available for download, or at least request, on NetGalley. That aside, at a minimum the excerpts are usually longer than the samples you can download from Amazon, and for lots of the books the Amazon sample downloads aren't yet available and won't be available until we get closer to publication dates. As a consequence, this ends up being an excellent sneak preview resource.

I won't go through the books I was intrigued by, since everyone's tastes in that regard will differ. It is worth noting, though, that there were several books I highlighted to request or otherwise secure that I probably would have ignored but for having an excerpt sitting right in front of me inviting me to read on. I usually just gloss over "Women's Fiction", which is sad and unfair when you think about it, given that "Women's Fiction" isn't even an identifiable genre and certainly doesn't deserve any negative connotation. But there it is, and darned if I didn't get into several of those books based on these samples.

So, this is a wide ranging collection with excellent samples, and an easy way to explore outside your usual comfort zone. A nice find this year.

A lot of interesting titles! I am very excited for some of these books to be released. There were also some books I had mixed interest in until I read bits of the excerpts; I’ve now added a few of these titles to my TBR list! (And, of course, there were some I had little-to-no interest in and still do, but that’s okay.)

Thank you for this preview, Netgalley!

Buzz Books is such a treat to readers from Netgalley. I hurried back to request The Love Story of Missy Carmichael and The Vacation by T.M. Logan. I'm grateful to have these new books and many more on my radar.

These are great teasers/guides for the upcoming season's new releases; I always find 1 (or 12) books that I have to add to my TBR and highly recommend downloading for the list of books and then going through the various excerpts.

This is a great tool for book bloggers/reviewers like myself. It's easy to get overwhelmed by the number of titles on NetGalley and sometimes it's hard to choose what to request, knowing some of those will be denied. By reading through this summary of spring/summer releases, I'm able to take notes on titles I'm interested in. I requested a couple now, and have a few more I'll probably request later!

This book breaks down releases into genres, then gives a cover, synopsis and excerpt for each book along with author info, publication details AND a link to request to a galley.

I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled for more of these in the future and recommend them to my other reader/reviewer friends.

This is so helpful! I love the breakdown between buzzy books, debut authors, non fiction, etc. It makes creating my "to read" spreadsheet so much easier. I also enjoy the excerpts, though that do make me itch to read the full copy !:)

Wonderful look at some upcoming books - enough previews to whet my appetite for a number of books! The notes at the end off each preview are not as useful to me these days, not being a member of the bookselling business, but that's also pretty interesting to read, to see how much of a push each publisher is giving their book(s).

What a unique way to choose a book from Net Galley! Thank you for the opportunity to sample the plot and writing style of authors with whom I am not familiar. I have read the plot summaries of fiction, debut and non-fiction choices and the samples of those that intrigued me. I have already made my requests through Net Galley. I very much enjoyed the inside edge into the publishing business.

I absolutely love getting a sneak peak at some of the soon to be released books!

Thank you Netgalley and Buzz Books for allowing me to add to my ever growing "TBR".

What a fun way to fill your TBR pile with up-and-coming 2020 releases. This book has me absolutely itching to get my hands on some of these new releases while other are clearly just not for me.

If you’re one of those people who wanders the bookstore for hours and just can’t choose which books to take home with you as books 2020: spring/summer is the perfect pre read to help narrow your search.

I always enjoy previewing books through Buzz Books! It’s a good way to get hyped up about upcoming releases and trying out if new authors will work for you. I’m especially excited to try Veronica Roth’s new adult book after this preview.

An extremely helpful look at the upcoming books launching in 2020. The Spring/Summer review of new books is a great way to find out what books you want to read in the next few months. It highlights a variety of genres and authors so there's something for everyone.

Thank you for Buzz Books! I love reading about all of the upcoming titles and picking a few for my "must read" list. Infinitely helpful and treasured.

Thank you #BuzzBooks for once again impressing with a tremendous collection of excerpts of upcoming titles. There were so many that are exciting to look forward to in here that I can’t even list them all. This maybe the best collection, or representation for upcoming books, yet.
Unfortunately, if I even get approval for a fraction of those that I’ve now requested (against my better judgment), I will still have messed up my TBR for awhile. I will be back to digging out from my stack!
So, thanks for all of the wonderful titles! I can’t wait for the new releases to come.
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This Publisher’s Lunch buzz edition is a book lover’s delight. As though there isn’t enough to read there are dozens more to look forward to. Not just ‘old’ favourites: Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Tyler but tonnes of new debut writers in particular which piqued my interest: The Party Upstairs by Lee Cornell; Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy and Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore. In non-fiction there is: Book of Rosy by Rosayra Pablo Cruz; Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett; and Here we are by Benjamin Taylor.

Also I am really looking forward to The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi as I really enjoyed her debut novel Freshwater which I found thanks to Netgalley

This is a great asset for those of us who love to talk books and share books. Please keep doing this!

It is always a joy to see a new BUZZ Book appear on NetGalleyl

It is a gift and a blessing from an organization that helps writers, librarians, reviewers and book bloggers alike.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

As always, a great way to be ahead of the curve and know what books are coming out soon! Lots of categories and options to preview. Thanks, Net Galley and Buzz Books!

Extremely well-formatted in giving readers everything they are curious about in future reads:

+ the cover
+ the summary
+ a sample read of the first couple of pages
+ the genre
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As a preview and guide for anyone looking to stay in-tune with current reads, this is a very good resource and one that I look forward to leafing through many a time this year to see what upcoming publications catch my eye. So convenient to have them all in one place!