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.

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 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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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 !

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!

Some interesting books coming out soon. Not sure any of these will land on my actual reading list but this offers a great sneak peek for bloggers.

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.

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

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.

I love Buzz Books as they include excerpts of many books (Fiction, Debut Fiction and Non-Fiction) due to be published in the upcoming months. Spring 2017 promises to be a season with a lot of excellent books. I've already added quite a few of them to my to-be-read list!

Thanks to NetGalley and Publishers Lunch for allowing me to read an e-copy of this book!

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.

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!

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.