New books in the buzz

Since people are shuffling shoulder to shoulder through the packed aisles of Book Expo America, trying to get through more than 2,000 exhibitors in three days, it’s not hard to find out what names are on people’s lips. According tho the Book Standard these are the books everyone is buzzing about:

Fiction:
Wickett’s Remedy, by Myla Goldberg (Doubleday)
Christ the Lord, by Anne Rice (Knopf)
Lunar Park, by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf)
In Perfect Light, by Benjamin Alire Salenz (HarperCollins)
Everyone Worth Knowing, by Lauren Weisberger (Simon and Schuster)
Third Girl from the Left, by Martha Southgate (Houghton Mifflin)
Ordinary Heroes, by Scott Turow (FSG)
Faulkner Box set (Knopf)
Consent to Kill, by Vince Flynn (Atria Books)
Lipstick Jungle, by Candace Bushnell (Hyperion)
The Diviners, by Rick Moody (Little, Brown)
700 Sundays, by Billy Crystal (Warner Books)
The Zahir, by Paulo Coelho (HarperCollins)
A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies, by Ellen Cooney (Pantheon)
The Last Days of Dogtown, by Anita Diamant (Scribner)
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Knopf)
The Washington Story, by Adam Langer (Riverhead)
Shalimar the Clown, by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Son of a Witch, by Gregory Maguire (ReganBooks)
On Beauty, by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
The Painted Drum, by Louise Erdrich (HarperCollins)
A Wedding in December, by Anita Shreve (Little, Brown)

Debut Fiction:
The Dream Life of Sukhanov, by Olga Grushin (Putnam)
Waterloo, by Karen Olsson (FSG)
Rust and Bone, by Craig Davidson (W.W. Norton)
The Widow of the South, by Robert Hicks (Time Warner Book Group)
The Town that Forgot How to Breathe, by Kenneth J. Harvey (St. Martin's)

General nonfiction:
Spook, by Mary Roach (W.W. Norton)
Bait and Switch, by Barbara Ehrenreich (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Mark Twain: A Life, by Ron Powers (Free Press)
It’s Called a Breakup because it’s Broken: The Smart Girl’s Breakup Buddy, by Greg Behrendt and Amira Ruotola-Behrendt (Random House/Broadway Books)
Are Men Necessary?, by Maureen Dowd (Penguin)
Incendiary, by Chris Cleave (Knopf)
Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion (Knopf)
A Time to Run, by Barbara Boxer (Chronicle)
The Heart of the Home (tentative title), by Robin McGraw, Dr. Phil’s wife (Thomas Nelson)
Al Franken’s new book (as yet untitled) (Penguin)
Rereading, by Anne Fadiman (FSG)
The Assassin’s Gate, by George Packer (FSG)
Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues (University of Minnesota Press)
The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham, by Billy Graham (Zondervan)
Teacher Man, by Frank McCourt (Scribner)
The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer (Hyperion)
Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell (Little, Brown)
Our Endangered Values, by Jimmy Carter (Simon & Schuster)
The Smart Money, by Anonymous (so far) (Simon & Schuster)
The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966 (Simon & Schuster)
Generation Rx, by Greg Crister (Houghton Mifflin)
The Osama Bin Laden I Know, by Peter Bergen (Free Press)