BEA BUZZ BOOKS

BUZZ BOOKS 2012: EXCLUSIVE PRE-PUBLICATION EXCERPTS FROM OVER 30 NEW BOOKS

BEA is all about discovering the fall season's big books, from new voices to breakout authors, hot nonfiction and beloved bestsellers. We have packed a convention's worth of exciting reading into a single volume, with substantial pre-publication excerpts from over 30 books featured at the convention.

You'll find works from some of the big speakers--a new story by Junot Díaz, a long sample of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior, bestselling memoirist J.R. Moehringer's first novel Sutton, and the only advance taste of Neil Young's memoir Waging Heavy Peace--along with buzzworthy previews of debut fiction, including Buzz Panel selection Shani Boianjiu, plus Peter Heller, M.L. Stedman, Amanda Coplin, Kevin Powers, Scott Hutchins, John Kenney and more.

Representing one of the hottest sectors in publishers, there's a selection of major young adult authors, including Jessica Khoury, Libba Bray, Jasper Fforde, David Levithan, Ned Vizzini and a collaboration between Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian.

Sample new works from Mennonite In A Little Black Dress author Rhoda Janzen and favorite novelists including Mark Helprin, Dennis Lehane and Lawrence Norfolk, and check out potential breakouts from Matthew Dicks, James Meek and Bill Roorbach. In addition to the excerpts, there's even a round-up from Publishers Lunch of over 100 fall books of note of all kinds to have on your radar.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction
The Big Fall Books Preview
The Excerpts:
Peter Heller, THE DOG STARS (Knopf)
Matthew Dicks, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND (St. Martin's Press)
Hanna Pylvainen, WE SINNERS (Macmillan)
M.L. Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS (Scribner)
Sarah Maas, THRONE OF GLASS (Bloomsbury Children's)
David Levithan, EVERY DAY (Knopf Children's)
Junot Díaz, THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER (Riverhead)
Shani Boianjiu, THE PEOPLE OF FOREVER ARE NOT AFRAID (Hogarth)
Amanda Coplin, THE ORCHARDIST (HarperCollins)
Jasper Fforde, THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's)
Jessica Khoury, ORIGIN (Penguin Kids)
Kevin Powers, THE YELLOW BIRDS (Little, Brown)
Lawrence Norfolk, JOHN SATURNALL'S FEAST (Grove)
Lance Weller, WILDERNESS (Bloomsbury)
J.R. Moehringer, SUTTON (Hyperion)
Dennis Lehane, LIVE BY NIGHT (William Morrow)
Eric Devine, TAP OUT (Running Press Teen)
Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian, BURN FOR BURN (Simon & Schuster Children)
Libba Bray, THE DIVINERS (Little Brown Young Readers)
Ned Vizzini, THE OTHER NORMALS (HarperTeen)
James Meek, THE HEART BROKE IN (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Mark Helprin, IN SUNLIGHT AND IN SHADOW (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Scott Hutchins, A WORKING THEORY OF LOVE (Penguin)
Rhoda Janzen, DOES THIS CHURCH MAKE ME LOOK FAT? (Grand Central)
Teresa Rhyne, THE DOG LIVED (Sourcebooks)
Bee Wilson, CONSIDER THE FORK (Basic Books)
Neil Young, WAGING HEAVY PEACE (Blue Rider)
Iris Anthony, RUINS OF LACE (Sourcebooks)
Diana Athill, MAKE BELIEVE (Granta Books)
Janet Gurtler, WHO I KISSED (Sourcebooks Fire)
Barbara Kingsolver, FLIGHT BEHAVIOR (HarperCollins)
Bill Roorbach, LIFE AMONG GIANTS (Algonquin)
John Kenney, TRUTH IN ADVERTISING (Touchstone)