And then there were several that I decided that weren’t for me after the Goodreads research, like Jane Smiley’s forthcoming novel “Perestroika in Paris.” However, the best discovery that I made during my research was that many of the books that I was interested in were also available on NetGalley. Not to mention the fascinating nonfiction books I found, which spanned from a medical history book of the period between Homer and Hippocrates to a sociology focused on the importance of women’s voices. Five of my favorite fiction authors - Charles Baxter, Paulo Coehlo, Jasper Fforde, Mary Gordon, Chuck Palahniuk - were publishing new books in this timeframe. In the end, I found over a dozen on the list to look up in Goodreads for further details. I wasted a good evening sorting through and researching titles from the list of books. There were only three excerpts in the nonfiction section, which I found disappointing because, in the lists, I had found at least three nonfiction books to share with my father and another two just for me. The book excerpts were divided into four categories - fiction, debut, nonfiction, young adult - with the vast majority of the excerpts being in the fiction category. The Fall/Winter 2020 edition was over 450 hundred pages long: approximately twenty pages listing the notable books to be published in the timeframe over 400 pages of book excerpts and related material. Usually two chapters totaling a dozen or so pages are included in the excerpt from each book. Basically, the edition is a list of books to be published in the time period covered by the book, and a few hundred pages of excerpts from select books on the list. Since this is the fourth Buzz Books edition that I’ve read in the past twelve months, I knew what to expect from it.

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