Friday, January 9, 2015

Reading Wish List: January 2015

 January 6

Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson
Firefight (Reckoners, #2)

Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
What It's About: The second installment in Sanderson's series featuring ordinary teens battling pouwerful supervillains.

Ensnared (Splintered #3) by A.G. Howard
Ensnared (Splintered, #3)

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
What It's About: The third and final book in this series that puts a new twist on Alice in Wonderland.

Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy #2) by Pierce Brown
Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy, #2)

Genre: Science Fiction-Dystopian
What It's About: The sequel to Red Rising, one of the most critically-acclaimed Sci-Fi books of 2014.

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
All the Bright Places

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
What It's About: A girl falls in love with a boy who is fascinated by death and has suicidal tendencies.

Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant #5) by Ben Aaronovitch
Foxglove Summer (Peter Grant, #5)

Genre: Urban Fantasy
What It's About: I have raved about the Peter Grant series on this blog before and, finally, the fifth book is coming out this month! I cannot wait to read this book. 

As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7) by Alan Bradley
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce, #7)

Genre: Mystery
What It's About: The seventh book in the popular cozy-mystery series starring eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce.

Descent by Tim Johnston
Descent

Genre: Thriller
What It's About: A teenage girl goes missing in the Rocky Mountains during a family camping trip.

Never Never (Never Never #1) by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
Never Never (Never Never, #1)

Genre: New Adult
What It's About: The Goodreads description is a little vague so all I can really gather is that it's about two best friends who fall in love and then something bad happens between them. Right now, you can only get an ebook version but I assume a physical copy will be published in a few months.

January 13

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
The Darkest Part of the Forest

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
What It's About: Humans and fae live peacefully side by side in the town of Fairfold. However, one girl knows that fairies are more dangerous than they appear.

The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne #2) by Brian Staveley
The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #2)

Genre: Fantasy
What It's About: The sequel to The Emperor's Blades. The first book was on quite a few Best of Fantasy 2014 lists. I can't wait to dive into this epic fantasy series.

The Just City (Thessaly #1) by Jo Walton
The Just City

Genre: Fantasy
What It's About: A time-traveling goddess creates a perfect city where people from all different eras can come and learn from the greatest minds in all of human history - with some help from a few robots from the far future.

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train

Genre: Mystery
What It's About: A woman witnesses a shocking incident from the window of her commuter train.

Near Enemy (Spademan #2) by Adam Sternbergh
Near Enemy (Spademan, #2)

Genre: Science Fiction
What It's About: The former garbage man turned hitman Spademan returns in this sequel to last year's Shovel Ready.

Held Against You by Season Vining
Held Against You

Genre: New Adult Romance
What It's About: A bounty hunter falls for the woman he has been hired to capture.

January 20

Polaris (Avalon #2) by Mindee Arnett
Polaris (Avalon, #2)

Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
What It's About: The follow-up to one of the most acclaimed YA sci-fi novels of 2014.

Frog by Mo Yan
Frog

Genre: Literary Fiction
What It's About: China's most revered and controversial novelist chronicles the making of modern China through the lens of the country's one-child policy.

Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault, illustrated by Camille Rose Garcia

Genre: Fairy Tale
What It's About: Camille Rose Garcia has illustrated beautiful editions of Snow White and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I can't wait to see her creepy drawings for Cinderella.

Mort(e) by Robert Repino
Mort(e)

Genre: Science Fiction
What It's About: A cat named Mort works as an assassin for a race of super-intelligent ants that are bent on destroying the human race. Needless to say, this book is pretty high up on my TBR list.

January 27

Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles #3.5) by Marissa Meyer 
Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)

Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
What It's About: Serving as a bridge book between Cress and the upcoming final installment, Winter, this short novel tells the story of Queen Levana, the main villain in the Lunar Chronicles.

I Was Here by Gayle Forman
I Was Here

Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
What It's About: Cody and Meg are two best friends, practically inseperable - until Meg's tragic death leaves Cody reeling with a desperate sense of loss and confusion.

A Cold Legacy (The Madman's Daughter #3) by Megan Shepherd
A Cold Legacy (The Madman's Daughter, #3)

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
What It's About: The final installment in this YA retelling of H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau.

Beautiful Redemption (The Maddox Brothers #2) by Jamie McGuire
Beautiful Redemption (The Maddox Brothers, #2)

Genre: New Adult Romance
What It's About: The second book in Jamie McGuire's Maddox Brothers series. I just love these covers!

The Mime Order (The Bone Season #2) by Samantha Shannon
The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)

Genre: Fantasy
What It's About: The anticipated follow-up to The Bone Season.

The Great Zoo of China by Matthew Reilly
The Great Zoo of China

Genre: Thriller
What It's About: The Chinese government discovers a species of animals that no one believed existed.

Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
Ghettoside: A Story of Murder in America

Genre: Non Fiction- True Crime
What It's About: Ever since I finished listening to the Serial podcast, I have become obsessed with reading True Crime books. This story, about the murder of a young black man in Los Angeles, should keep me occupied until season two.

Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross
Tear You Apart

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
What It's About: A dark retelling of Snow White.

*Release dates and cover art are subject to change.