The buzz books are great. This lists in the front are amazing. Helps me plan my TBR list. The blurbs are very helpful. Even if I don't read them all. They aren't all my cup of tea.

Super helpful to find gifts for teens and YA's. The excerpts are especially helpful in screening content.

I'm a reviewer that focuses on YA lit, so these Buzz Books are super helpful for me to keep on top of what's on the way! Especially right now as I'm writing a list of anticipated releases in the second half of the year and consider what might make an appearance at BookExpo and BookCon!

BUZZ BOOKS YA – this publication is out and available with titles for Fall and Winter 2019. It's actually very exciting to anticipate new reads from authors like Kekla Magoon, Rainbow Rowell, Libba Bray, and Tomi Adeyemi, to name just a few. There are excerpts from seven new titles and I am looking forward to finishing those, especially THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA by Julia Drake and I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones. Plus, the blurbs in BUZZ BOOKS YA, a Publishers Lunch publication, caused me to investigate Bookateria, a great web site which I will be sharing with my librarian colleagues: http://bookateria.publishersmarketplace.com/category/#buzz-books-2019-ya-fall-winter

This year is the eleventh Young Adult Buzz Book. I don't usually read teen books but decided to venture into this popular genre.

The Book Expo's Young Adult Buzz Editor's Panel picks several titles to recommend and the first two were also the ones I chose after reading synopsis and part of a chapter.

Julia Drake's The Last True Poets of the Sea (Hyperion, October 1, 2019) is the story of "a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life." I love that it's set in Maine.

My second choice is Scars Like Wings (Delacorte, October 1, 2019) by Erin Stewart. It's been a year since the fire in which Ava Lee "lost everything. Her parents. Her best friend. Her home. Even her face."

These all seem amazing; thank you for the excerpts! I definitely plan to request a few and hope to read more.

It was a good look into what's coming. I mostly focus on fantasy in my reviews so Sara Ella caught my eye.

Love Buzz Books for giving a quick overview of upcoming books - and including excerpts for many of them! This edition includes samples from two of BookExpo’s Young Adult Buzz Editor’s Panel picks: Julia Drake’s The Last True Poets Of The Sea and Erin Stewart’s Scars Like Wings. And both their first sentences totally draw you in! These two are officially on my radar now.

Also notable is Home Girl by Alex Wheatle, about a teenage girl in the foster care system. I read a lot, but I don't think I've ever read something like that - high time this very real situation for so many is portrayed in a YA book.

And Harvey Comes Home by Colleen Nelson - let's be real, I'll read anything with a dog on the cover. But this one sounds like a really cute, heartwarming story.

This was really helpful. I like reading excerpts. There were a lot of great books .I added few books to my tbr list too.

This was pretty cool I can't believe how many books are coming out and we got a few samplers to read along with it. I am so interested in reading 2 of them for sure Coral was great and I am sad I have to wait to read it but I added it and The Last True Poets of the Sea to my Calendar and will be purchasing them both on their release dates!!
Thanks again for the sampler

These used to be so good. They let you sample some of your most anticipated reads of the year but it seems like the choices get worse with each edition. I wasn't personally interested in a single one of the excerpts. I hope others like them. They just weren't for me. I do thank Netgalley and the publishers for still offering the bind up. 📚💕

This was another great Buzz Book! I love the way that these books are organized and I have found them very useful when planning out my reading schedule and blog coverage. I will definitely be taking a closer look at several of the books featured in this collection.

Once again some great new titles and authors and am loving the excerpts, a wonderful introduction to some of the books on offer.

Thanks NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this title.

I use these Buzz Books from Publisher's Lunch to build my TBR list. Some of my TBR list books from the 2018 Fall Winter are actually being talked about now, especially The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi.



This time the excerpts seemed rather sparse, but here is what seems to have potential:





You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a seventeen-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything?

Actually, a lot.

Thanks to “the incident” (don’t ask), I’m spending the next two months doing what my school is calling a “spring volunteer immersion project.” It’s definitely no vacation. I’m toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle at her new nonprofit. And my lean-in queen of a mother is even here to make sure I do things right. Or she might just be lying low to dodge the media sharks after a much more public incident of her own…and to hide a rather devastating secret.

All things considered, there are some pretty nice perks…like flirting with Tati’s distractingly cute intern, getting actual face time with my mom and experiencing Haiti for the first time. I’m even exploring my family’s history—which happens to be loaded with betrayals, superstitions and possibly even a family curse.

You know, typical drama. But it’s nothing I can’t handle.







Lena and Campbell aren't friends.

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together.

They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames, and they only have each other to rely on if they're going to survive the night.




The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.

But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life.

Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century.

She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival.

Although I have not received an answer from these requests, I will keep an eye out for them.

Happy reading!

Very informative and a good way to get the buzz out on upcoming releases with the sample readings. It'll be a great tool to get more people to add these new titles to their tbr's.

It looks like an outstanding group of Young Adult books are on the horizon for Fall/Winter 2019. As always, the Buzz Books listing provides a helpful resource in the upcoming releases. Several of these look unique and timely for today's society.

I look forward to this release twice a year with the season's upcoming books and their descriptions. It helps to form a game plan for reviewing purposes.

Thank you again for making this publication available - it is quite useful!

Picking Out My Fall/Winter Reads!

Great summary of the Young Adult genre books to be released this Fall/Winter. I'm eager to read 'I'm Not Dying With You Tonight' about two teenage girls, one black and one, trying to survive one chaotic night. I think it will be one of THE books of the season.

I am grateful to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this compilation in exchange for an honest review.

I always anticipate the release of Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult because inside there are great book recommendations and all the upcoming releases. Every time I read it my tbr gets even bigger.

I didn't care much for this Buzz Book, none of the stories in there were my cup of tea. I was even hoping to find something new to read outside of my favorite genres and nothing pulled me in. I still plan on checking out future Buzz Books, just this one fell flat.

As usual these Buzz books are so helpful to those of us who love to read or just understand more about current literature. It helps to discover what to look out for without committing to reading or buying the full books. I find it especially helpful when recommending reading to the teens I work with. Thanks.