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My last bookish rounds post was June 25th. Which means this is ridiculously long and has some information you might think is outdated, but I have been really behind and wanted to find out various things for myself.
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- The Wonderling - Mira Bartok (MG fantasy; film rights were already sold in a preempt. In the story, a shy, one-eared fox-like foundling escapes from the Orphanage for Wayward and Misbegotten Creatures and searches for his destiny. Candlewick; Publication is slated for fall 2017).
- A new middle-grade narrative nonfiction series called Science Comics, including Coral Reefs - Maris Wicks; Dinosaurs - M.K. Reed and Joe Flood; Volcanos - Jon Chad; Flying Machines - Alison Wilgus and Molly Brooks; and Bats - Falynn Koch. The first two books, Coral Reefs and Dinosaurs, are scheduled for publication in spring 2016; First Second.
- The Secret Keepers - Trenton Lee Stewart (MG; the author's first novel since the Mysterious Benedict Society series. In the story, a boy discovers a peculiar, magical watch, propelling him on an adventure to protect his city and the ones he loves from a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to get the watch back. It's set for publication in fall 2016; Little, Brown).
- Definitions of Indefinable Things - Whitney Taylor (YA debut; The novel follows three teens in a small town whose lives intersect in ways they never expected, teaching them that there are no one-size-fits-all definitions of depression, friendship, and love. Publication is planned for spring 2017; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
- Gnomeageddon - K.A. Holt (MG about a boy who discovers that his favorite book series is not nearly as fictional as he'd imagined – and the heroes and villains don't entirely follow the script, either. Publication is set for fall 2017; S&S's McElderry Books).
- House - Megan Atwood (YA debut; the tale of five teenagers, each with a dark secret, who become trapped in Boulder House, a local attraction that's home to a malevolent entity set upon their destruction. Publication is slated for summer 2017; SoHo Press).
- The Girl from Beyond - Andrew DeYoung (YA debut; The novel tells the story of Matthew, a teen sent in search of a replacement for Earth to the planet Gle'ah, where he falls in love with the leader of a primitive tribe there. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016; with the second book in 2017. Boyds Mills Press).
- The Well - Jake Wyatt, illustrated by F. Choo (YA fantasy graphic novel; The book follows Lizzy, a girl who steals coins from the town wishing well and is then forced to grant the wishes attached to them. Publication is set for 2018; First Second).
- The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang (a graphic novel that tells the story of a cross-dressing teen prince, the seamstress who creates his clothes, and their struggle with their feelings for each other and the prevailing societal norms. Publication is planned for 2017; First Second).
- Shakshuka series - Galia Oz (bestselling in Israel. [The three books] will be published as one middle-grade volume titled Dog Trouble & Other Julie Stories featuring Julie's candid narration of the ups and downs of school and family life. Publication is scheduled for 2017; Crown).
- Struttin' with Some Barbecue - Patricia Hruby Powell (a middle-grade book in verse about jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Lil Hardin Armstrong... Ahead of her time and in a man's world, Lil Hardin Armstrong – Louis Armstrong's second wife – made a career in the early days of jazz. Publication is slated for fall 2017; Charlesbridge).
- Lucy and the Rocket Dog - Will Buckingham (a middle-grade story told from the alternating perspectives of Lucy, an aspiring astrophysicist who has built a rocket ship in her backyard, and Laika, Lucy's beloved dog who wanders into the rocket ship and is subsequently shot into space. Publication is set for summer 2017; Knopf).
- Nutcracked - Susan Adrian (about a girl cast as the lead in the Nutcracker ballet, who is transported to a magical world every time she dances with an antique Nutcracker. Publication is set for fall 2017; Random House).
- The Judas Society - Matthew Landis (YA debut in which a teen attending his no-good father's funeral discovers that he is the last descendant of America's most notorious traitor, and gets drawn into a feud between the heroes and villains of the Revolutionary War that stretches back centuries. Publication is tentatively scheduled for spring 2017; Sky Pony).
- Falling Girls and Missing Boys - Corey Ann Haydu (a contemporary YA tinged with what might be magic. It follows a group of friends who have grown up in the shadow of tragedy in a strange Brooklyn neighborhood, where residents live in fear of young women falling in love. Publication is slated for 2017; Dutton).
- Seven Days of You - Cecilia Vinesse (debut in which 17-year-old expat Sophia’s last days in Tokyo overlap with Jamie’s first days back, and what Sophia thought would be a week of saying good-bye to friends turns into a week of falling in love. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016; Little, Brown).
- Bidder's Choice - Kat Helgeson (The story follows two teens entangled in a cutthroat school tradition: a prom date auction. Publication is set for summer 2017; Simon & Schuster).
- Escape from Aleppo - N.H. Senzai (in which 13-year-old Nadia and her family flee Aleppo, Syria, for Turkey in the wake of the Arab Spring. Publication is planned for fall 2017; S&S's Paula Wiseman Books).
- Three Pennies - Melanie Crowder (MG which weaves together a spirited foster child, the harried social worker who takes her case, an avian Confucius scholar, and a dash of magic – all set atop the uneasy tectonic plates of the San Andreas Fault. Publication is scheduled for fall 2017; S&S/Atheneum).
- My Life as an Ice-Cream Sandwich - Ibi Zoboi (MG debut; the story of Ebony Grace, her sci-fi-fueled imagination, and her search for a place she can be herself, set against the backdrop of the hip-hop explosion in 1980s Harlem. Publication for the first book is tentatively slated for fall 2017. Dutton).
- Monsterville: A Lissa Black Production - Sarah Schauerte Reida (MG debut in which 12-year-old film-obsessed Lissa discovers a shape-shifting monster in her woods and decides to film the greatest horror movie of all time. Then her little sister is taken to the monster homeland of Down Below and she needs the monster's help to get her back. Publication is tentatively set for fall 2016; Sky Pony Press).
- Blues Bones - Rick Starkey (MG debut in which a 13-year-old boy uses voodoo to overcome stage fright and has to suffer the consequences of dabbling in dark magic. Publication is planned for spring 2016; Leap Books Seek)
- The Haunted Stepsister - Medeia Sharif (MG horror in which two stepsisters are plagued by a demon after using a haunted bathroom at school and are now having their darkest secrets revealed. Publication is set for spring 2016; Leap Books Seek).
- Good Rosie - a collaboration between Kate DiCamillo and Harry Bliss (about what it means to be both a dog and a friend. The format and pub date will be revealed by the publisher at a later date. Candlewick).
- The Haters - Jesse Andrews (due out in April 2016, is a road-trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every expectation, become a band. Abrams).
- Drawing Fire - Cherie Priest (The book, scheduled for fall 2017, follows a girl who discovers a valuable, ancient comic book in the supposedly haunted house her mother is fixing up. Panels from the comic book will be featured within the book. Scholastic's Arthur A. Levine Books).
- Howard Wallace, P.I. - Casey Lyall (debut; a lonely middle-school gumshoe reluctantly takes on the new girl in town as his assistant as they hunt down the stolen student council treasury and foil a would-be blackmailer. Publication of the first book is slated for fall 2016; Sterling).
- The Evaporation of Sofi Snow - Mary Weber (In the futuristic SF duology, Native American Sofi Snow's mission to rescue her brother from the ice planet now orbiting Earth turns into a deadly game of hunter and prey. Publication is set for 2017; HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson).
- Destined for Mars - Katie Slivensky (debut about a 13-year-old robotics whiz who is thrilled to be chosen for an exclusive Mars training mission, only to find herself embroiled in a situation far more dire and deadly than she could have imagined. The first title will publish in summer 2017; Harpercollins).
- The Infinity Year of Avalon James - Dana Middleton (debut about Avalon and her best friend, in the year they turn 10 and search for the particular magic that a 10th year brings, while juggling spelling bees, secrets, and more. Publication is planned for fall 2016, Feiwel and Friends).
- Wandmaker - Ed Masessa (a middle-grade novel based on the 2006 crafting title The Wandmaker's Guidebook, as well as a sequel, in which a boy must balance the demands of his magical education with the responsibilities of big brotherhood, undertaking a quest to correct his mistake when a spell goes wrong. It's scheduled for summer 2016; Scholastic Press).
- PhilanthroParties: A Party Planning Guide for the Social Activist - Lulu Cerone and Lucy Keating (The book will serve as a DIY guide for teens to partying with a purpose and incorporating philanthropy into their social lives. Publication is slated for fall 2017; Beyond Words and Simon Pulse).
- Higher, Steeper, Faster: The Daredevils Who Conquered the Skies - Lawrence Goldstone (MG narrative nonfiction debut about the men and women who pioneered modern aviation and popularized flying through their aerial feats in the first decade of powered flight. Publication is set for spring 2017; Little, Brown).
- Family Poems/Poemas familiares - Franscisco X. Alarcón, to be illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzalez (The bilingual collection of original poems, the sixth collaboration of the author and illustrator, celebrates the days of the week along with familiar family life experiences of Latino children in the U.S. Publication is set for fall 2016; Lee & Low Books).
- The Year I Learned Everything - Roxane Gay (YA debut; The novel tells the story of Serena, a 17-year-old haunted by a secret and dogged by a bad reputation who, over the course of four seasons, learns about courage, redemption, and true love. Publication is scheduled for spring 2017; Balzer + Bray).
- Miss Daisy's Job - Kristin O'Donnell Tubb (Pitched as The One and Only Ivan meets Racing in the Rain, this middle-grade novel is told from the point of view of a rescued pit-bull mix training to be a service dog for an injured veteran. Publication is planned for summer 2017; Katherine Tegen imprint).
- The Haunted House Project - Tricia Clasen (MG debut about a girl who pretends to be her mother's ghost – spraying perfume, changing TV channels, and moving pictures – in order to bring her crumbling family back to reality. Publication is set for fall 2016; Sky Pony).
- Hold My Hand - Michael Barakiva (a standalone companion to One Man Guy, about two teenage boys who have the perfect romantic relationship – until one cheats on the other. Publication is slated for spring 2017; Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
- Naughty Claudine - Patrick Jennings (about a girl who does not doubt the existence of Santa, but is not comfortable with his spying and judging and breaking and entering, so she decides to act naughty to stop him from coming down the chimney. Suzanne Kaufman is slated to illustrate. Publication is scheduled for fall 2017; Random House).
- How to Survive Extinction - Paul Acampora (a middle-grade novel about 13-year-old Leo, his cousin, his sometimes forgetful grandmother, and a dog named Kermit, who hit the road together in search of dinosaurs. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016; Scholastic).
- Just Fly Away - Andrew McCarthy (YA debut; In the story, 15-year-old Lucy discovers that her father has a son from an affair, an eight-year-old named Thomas who lives in the same suburban New Jersey town, causing Lucy to question everything she thinks she knows about her family and her own life. Publication is scheduled for spring 2017; Algonquin Young Readers).
- The Sweetest Sound - Sherri Winston (about a shy but talented 10-year-old girl who needs to build up the courage to enter her church's singing competition – while grappling with the fact that music was one of the few things she and her estranged mother had in common – only to have the stakes raised when her anonymous recording leaks. Publication is slated for fall 2016; Little, Brown).
- Garbage Island - Fred Koehler (MG debut; In this animal fantasy, young inventor Archibald Shrew lives on a massive garbage patch adrift at sea, but dreams of leaving the island to discover things, especially news of his long-lost family. Publication of the first book is planned for fall 2017, Boyds Mills).
- Will Nolan Eats Bugs - Rebecca Petruck (in which a class clown tries not to worry about how his parents fight all the time by being funnier than ever. But a “hilarious” presentation with insects as snacks leads to heckles, retaliation, and possible expulsion. Publication is set for fall 2016; Abrams/Amulet).
- Confessions from the Principal's Kid - Robin Mellom (a middle-grade novel about a girl whose insider status at school leaves her an outsider among her classmates. Publication is scheduled for spring 2017; Hmh)
- There Will Be Blood: The HelloFlo Guide to Puberty - Naama Bloom and Glynnis MacNicol (With the support of a panel of experts, the book will incorporate real-life stories along with facts and illustrations. Publication is scheduled for 2017; Dutton).
- Anchor & Sophia trilogy - Tommy Wallach (The series follows two brothers on opposite sides of a holy war in a society that has eschewed all technology. Publication for the first book is set for spring 2017; Simon & Schuster).
- Hearts Made of Black - Stephanie Garber (YA debut; The first in a YA fantasy series follows two sisters bound by love and a father they fear, who escape their tiny, secluded island for the performance of Caraval, where the audience plays along in a deadly game of determining what's real and what's fantasy. Publication is slated for fall 2016; Flatiron Books).
- The Art of Starving - Sam Miller (it's a novel about a gay, bullied, small-town boy with an eating disorder who believes that starving himself awakens a latent ability to read minds, predict behavior, and control the fabric of time and space. Publication is planned for spring 2017; HarperCollins).
- The Secret Lives of Rockstars - Suzanne Lazear (The books follow 18-year-old Bitsy who, with the help of the members of her cirque noir punk band, must find a way to stop a war between the Fae and the Witches, putting innocent lives in danger. The first volume is slated to publish in summer 2016; Leap Books' Shine imprint).
- It's a Mystery, Pig Face! - Wendy McLeod MacKnight (debut; a middle-grade novel in which an 11-year-old girl finds a bag of money in a baseball dugout and enlists the help of her best friend and annoying little brother to discover who lost – or maybe, stole – it, in a town brimming with suspects. Publication is planned for fall 2016; Sky Pony Press).
- How to Save an Elephant - Linda Oatman High (MG; In it, 12-year old Lily Pruitt and a circus elephant are drawn together by the shared loss of the same man – grandfather, best friend and keeper – and journey through a series of life changes to save not only themselves but each other. Publication is scheduled for winter 2017; HarperCollins).
- First YA fantasy series - Cora Carmack (featuring a world shaped by violent, magical storms and ruled by those who can control them. The first volume, Roar, follows a teenage girl who is the sole heir to her family's kingdom, but has yet to show any trace of storm magic; she dons a disguise and runs away with a group of storm chasers to face a tempest, steal a piece of its soul, and return home with enough magic to control her own future. The first book is planned for winter 2017; Tor).
- Lost Stars - Lisa Selin Davis (Based on the author's Modern Love column in the New York Times, the story centers on a teenage girl grappling with her sister's death and her own place in the universe over the course of a fateful summer. Publication is set for fall 2016; HMH).
- I See London, I See France - Sarah Mlynowski (in which 19-year-old Sydney decides at the last minute to have the summer she's longed for: traveling through Europe with her best friend. But while they dodge (and chase) boys, drama, and their own personal demons, Sydney falls head over heels for a guy she can't have. The first book is scheduled for publication in summer 2017; HarperTeen).
- Wing Jones - Katherine Webber (in which the title character is a biracial teen growing up in 1990s Atlanta, and is reeling from her older brother's drunk-driving accident. When she discovers running, her speed might contain the answers she and her family need. Delacorte, with simultaneous U.S. and U.K. publication set for winter 2017.)
- By Your Side - Kasie West (about a girl who is accidentally locked in a library with the boy nobody knows but everyone talks about, and must find a way to escape. Publication is slated for winter 2017; HarperTeen).
- Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust - Planaria Price and Helen West (nonfiction YA memoir; This eyewitness account tells the story of Barbara Reichman, West's mother, who took on a different identity and hid in plain sight to make it through the war. The book is planned for winter 2017; Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
- What a Beautiful Morning - Arthur A. Levine, to be illustrated by Katie Kath (in which Grandma's support helps a boy accept his grandfather's gradual memory loss, and to enjoy the moments they still have together. Publication is slated for fall 2016; Running Press Kids).
- Maud and Grandmaud - Sara O'Leary, to be illustrated by Kenard Pak (In the book, a girl visits her grandmother's house for a sleepover; they have breakfast for dinner, watch old films, and enjoy other simple pleasures made sweeter for doing them together. The book will be co-published with Tara Walker at Penguin Random House Canada/Tundra Books in summer 2018. Penguin Random House).
- Wolf in the Snow - Matthew Cordell (in which a girl, caught in a fierce blizzard, stumbles upon a lost wolf pup and must choose to find her own way home or return the pup to its pack. Publication is planned for fall 2016; Feiwel and Friends).
- Riverkeep - Martin Stewart (YA debut; The novel follows Wulliam, a boy who must care for his father after he is possessed by a dark spirit. When Wulliam hears that a cure for his father's illness lurks in the belly of a great sea-dwelling beast, he embarks on an epic journey down the river that his family has so long protected but never explored. Publication is scheduled for spring 2016; Viking).
- The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt (is a contemporary romance story between a boy fleeing gang violence in El Salvador and a girl coming to grips with a harrowing assault, revealing the power of love to transcend. Publication for Radius is slated for fall 2017; St. Martin's Griffin).
- A Song to Take the World Apart - Zan Romanoff (a contemporary YA novel with notes of magical realism. 16-year-old Lorelei has a voice that can change hearts and minds – sometimes unintentionally – and she must learn to gain control of her power before it devastates the people she loves. Publication is set for fall 2016; Knopf).
- I Am Calliope June - Elliah Terry (MG verse novel. It tells of a girl struggling to keep her Tourette's a secret as she starts a new school, and trying to persuade her mother not to move them yet again – especially when she becomes friends with the boy next door. Publication is scheduled for 2017; Feiwel and Friends).
- A Few Red Drops - Claire Hartfield (YA nonfiction; The book tells the story of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919 and how the building tensions and conflicting interests exploded in bloodshed that sent shock waves across the nation. It's slated for 2017 publication; Clarion).
- Q & Ray: The Case of the Mola Lisa - Trisha Speed Shaskan and Stephen Shaskan (Graphic novel series; In the book, two animal sleuths set out to solve cases using wits, disguises, and teamwork. Publication is planned for fall 2017… Lerner/Graphic Universe).
- Threadworlds - Bryan Konietzko (a graphic novel series from Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator... Threadworlds, a science fiction epic focusing on the themes of girls and science, has its first volume scheduled for 2017. First Second).
- Geniuses - Michael DiMartino (Set in a Renaissance-like fantasy world,Geniuses explores the concept of "art as magic," where an artist's creative genius is actually a living creature, a real-life muse that inspires and protects him or her. The first book, The Creature and the Creator, will be published in fall 2016. Roaring Brook).
- Debut - Marzia Bisognin (YT sensation Bisognin has more than 5.4 million subscribers on her channel, CutiePieMarzia, and millions more on social media. Her paranormal YA novel, Dream House, follows a young houseguest who experiences the sinister and surreal after her hosts disappear. Atria; the book will be published by Keywords Press in 2016.)
- A Kingdom of Horses - Zillah Bethell (debut set in a world where horses are thought to be extinct. The story follows a girl who finds a map that hints there is life outside of her repressive city; she escapes the city walls to find the horses she's always dreamed of. Publication is planned for winter 2017; Feiwel and Friends).
- Four Weeks, Five People - Jennifer Yu (debut about five psychologically troubled teenagers and the four weeks they spend at a wilderness therapy program, where they confront and transform each other. Publication is slated for spring 2017; Harlequin Teen).
- 4 Wizards - Noelle Stevenson and Todd Casey, illustrated by Stevenson (The series follows four oddball wizards who discover that the only place they truly fit in is with each other, and together they must stop a sinister force from invading their world. Publication is set for 2017; HarperCollins).
- Transference - Bethany Wiggins (a fantasy YA trilogy about the transformation of a sheltered princess who chooses death by dragon instead of a forced marriage to a rival horse lord, and ends up vanquishing the fire-breather, absorbing his power and incurring the wrath of his fellow dragons. Publication is slated for fall 2016; Crown).
- Rising Three - Jennifer Rush (a contemporary fantasy series about a teenage witch searching for her kidnapped best friend in a dark, dangerous world of black magic, warring families, and deadly motorcycle gangs. Publication is scheduled for fall 2016; Little, Brown).
- Debut illustrated middle-grade series Marty Pants - Mark Parisi (Parisi is the creator of the long-running Off the Mark comic. The first book is slated for winter 2017; HarperCollins).
- Prince in Disguise - Stephanie Kate Strohm (a romantic comedy in which a Mississippi teen finds herself in front of the cameras as her beauty-queen big sister prepares for a reality-TV wedding to a Scottish aristocrat. Publication is set for fall 2017; Disney-Hyperion).
- Time Traveling with a Hamster - Ross Welford (debut; a middle-grade novel about a 12-year-old boy who travels back to 1984 to prevent a go-kart accident and save his father's life, all without losing his pet hamster. Publication is planned for fall 2016; Random House/Schwartz & Wade),
- One Hundred Spaghetti Strings - Jen Nails (In the middle-grade novel, Steffy's mother has a severe brain trauma, and isn't able to care for Steffy and her moody older sister. When their long estranged father returns to live with them, Steffy hopes that the special recipes she loves to cook will bring her fractured family back together again. Publications is scheduled for winter 2017; HarperCollins).
- Avalanche - Denise Jaden (When Ellis and Dylan's resort world and all of their hopes crash around them, they must depend on each other to survive. Publication is slated for spring 2016; Leap Books).
- I Love My Hair - Andrea Pippins (a coloring book for young adults and new adults, which features delicate pen-and-ink illustrations, mesmerizing patterns, and intricate details, and celebrates strong, confident women with a passion for style, design, and fashion. Publication is planned for November 2015. Random House/Schwartz & Wade).
- Mirror in the Sky - Aditi Khorana (YA debut Mirror follows 16-year-old Tara Krishnan in the wake of a discovery of an alternate earth that transforms her life, particularly her junior year at her Greenwich, Conn., private school. Publication for the first book is set for summer 2016; Razorbill).
- Darkness of Stars trilogy - Andrew Lane (a reimagining of the characters from the originalRobinson Crusoe as they are thrust into a world of espionage, intrigue, and peril at the dawn of the spy age. The first book in the series,Crusoe, is slated for spring 2016 publication. Adaptive Books).
- City of Secret Rivers - Jacob Sager Weinstein (MG debut about an American girl transplanted to London who discovers a dark secret lurking beneath its streets, with terrifying repercussions. The book sold at auction in a three-book deal; the first volume will publish in summer 2017. Random House).
- Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein - Jennifer Roy (MG based on Ali Fadhil's real-life story. Set in the spice-filled markets and curtain-drawn homes of 1991 Iraq and told through the eyes of 12-year-old Ali, a boy preoccupied by real-life dictators and video game villains, this book offers a glimpse into the everyday realities of growing up under the shadow of Saddam Hussein's regime. It's scheduled for spring 2017; HMH).
- The World's Greatest Adventure Machine - Frank L. Cole (featuring four kids with unique abilities who are called upon to test the world's biggest and best roller coaster ride, only to find out that their mission is not what they thought it was. Publication is planned for spring 2017; Delacorte).
- A Friend Like You - Beth Ain (a middle-grade verse novel about a fourth grader and the small moments in her year that add up to big surprises. Publication is slated for 2017; Random House)
- Brave New Girl - Rachel Vincent (about a 16-year-old girl who secretly longs to be an individual in a world where standing out from the crowd could result in disaster. Publication is scheduled for 2017; Delacorte).
- Devil and the Bluebird - Jennifer Mason-Black (debut in which a teenage girl meets a devil at her town crossroads and exchanges her voice for a pair of magical boots and six months to save her runaway sister's soul. Publication is slated for spring 2016; Abrams/Amulet).
Publisher's Lunch:
- Ursula Vernon's ILLUMINATIONS, in which a young artist trying to improve the fortunes of her family inadvertently releases a creature that uses magic to bring drawings to life, with disastrous consequences, to Kate Harrison at Dial, for publication in Fall 2017, by Helen Breitwieser at Cornerstone Literary (World).
- Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller, the first in a high seas adventure pubbed by Feiwel and Friends (read more about the deal HERE; add the book on Goodreads here).
Authors:
Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray,
The Boy Most Likely To - Huntley Fitzpatrick,
The Boy in the Black Suit - Jason Reynolds,
Assassin’s Heart - Sarah Ahiers,
The Night We Said Yes - Lauren Gibaldi,
Mothman’s Curse - Christine Hayes,
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly - Stephanie Oakes,
Future Shock - Elizabeth Briggs,
Valiant - Sarah McGuire,
Last Year’s Mistake - Gina Ciocca,
Half a War - Joe Abercrombie,
The Fixer - Jennifer Lynn Barnes,Everything, Everything - Nicola Yoon (and
another and
another),
Serpentine - Cindy Pon,
A History of Glitter and Blood - Hannah Moskowitz,
The Accident Season - Moira Fowley-Doyle,
Sophomores and Other Oxymorons - David Lubar,
Never Always Sometimes - Adi Alsaid,
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys - April Genevieve Tucholke,
Legacy of Kings - Eleanor Herman,
Damage Done - Amanda Panitch (and
another),
Not After Everything - Michelle Levy,
Firsts - Laurie Flynn,
Rebel of the Sands - Alwyn Hamilton,
You and Me and Him - Kris Dinnison,
Assassin’s Heart - Sarah Ahiers,
The Night We Said Yes - Lauren Gibaldi,
Mothman’s Curse - Christine Hayes,
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly - Stephanie Oakes,
The Dead Horse - Dawn Kurtagich,
Dig Too Deep - Amy Allgeyer,
The Next Together - Lauren James,
THe Last Great Adventure of the PB&J Society - Janet Johnson,
Where Futures End - Parker Peevyhouse,
The Love THat Split the World - Emily Henry,
Truest - Jackie Lea Sommers,
THe Distance from A to Z - Natalie Blitt,
Waiting for Callback - Perdita and Honor Cargill,
The Creeping - Alexandra Sirowy,
The Year We Fell Apart - Emily Martin,
This Is Where It Ends - Marieke Nijkamp,
From Where I Watch You - Shannon Grogan (and
another),
The Mystery of Hollow Places - Rebecca Podos,
Summer of Supernovas - Darcy Woods,
Lock & Mori - Heather Petty,
The Crown’s Game - Evelyn Skye,
Burn Girl - Mandy Mikulencak,
Dreamology - Lucy Keating,
Last in a Long Line of Rebels - Lisa Tyre,
Don’t Get Caught - Kurt Dinan,
True Letters from a Fictional Life - Kenneth Logan,
Voyage to Magical North - Claire Fayers,
The Eye of Midnight - Andrew Brumbach,
The One THing - Marci Curtis,
The Art of Not Breathing - Sarah Alexander,
The Fix - Natasha Sinel,
This Monstrous Thing - Mackenzi Lee (and
another),
The Weight of Feathers - Anna-Marie McLemore,
What We Saw - Aaron Hartzler,
The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness,
Infinite In-Between - Carolyn Mackler,
George - Alex Gino (and
another),
The Wild Ones - C. Alexander London,
The Scorpion Rules - Erin Bow,
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys - April Genevieve Tucholke,
Hilo - Jude Winick,
Vengeance Road - Erin Bowman,
Harriet the Invincible - Ursula Vernon,
Firefly Hollow - Alison McGhee,
Bug in a Vacuum - Melanie Watt,
A School of Brides - Patrice Kindl,
Symphony for the City of the Dead - M.T. Anderson,
Dory and the Real True Friend - Abby HanlonExcerpts:
The Rose Society - Marie Lu,
Blood and Salt - Kim Liggett,
Bleeding Earth - Kaitlin Ward,
Tell Me Three Things - Julie Buxbaum,
Torn - Avery Hastings,
A Thousand Nights - E.K. Johnston,
Confessions of a Queen B - Crista McHugh,
Perdita - Faith Gardner,
Earth Flight - Janet Edwards,
Dreamers Often Lie - Jacqueline West,
Queen of Shadows - Sarah J. Maas,
Serpentine - Cindy Pon (another one aka
chpt 1 and
chpt 2),
Smoked - Mari Mancusi,
A Week of Mondays - Jessica Brody,
A Whole New World - Liz Braswell,
The Sleeper and the Spindle - Neil Gaiman,
Trail of the Dead - Joseph Bruhac,
Another Day - David Levithan,
Sweet Temptation - Wendy Higgins,
Traveler - Arwen Elys,
Walk on Earth a Stranger - Rae Carson,
Circle of Jinn - Lori Goldstein,
The Dark Days Club - Alison Goodman,
The Heartless City - Andrea Berthot,
Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo,
Walk the Edge - Katie McGarry,
Wink Poppy Midnight - April Genevieve Tucholke,
Winter - Marissa Meyer,
Dark Tide - Jennifer Donnelly,
Never Always Sometimes - Adi Alsaid,
Court of Fives - Kate Elliott,
The Dead House - Dawn Kurtagich,
Every Last Breath - Jennifer Armentrout,
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between - Jennifer Smith,
I Am Malala - Malala Yousafzai,
Ice Like Fire - Sara Raasch,
Not After Everything - Michelle Levy, Sampler of a
bunch of different books (e.g. Carry On - Rainbow Rowell, The Streets Are Ours Tonight - Leila Sales, etc.),
Hollywood Witch Hunter - Valerie Tejeda,
The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness,
Tell the Wind and Fire - Sarah Rees Brennan,
The Girl and the Machine - Beth Revis,
Dumplin’ - Julie Murphy,
About a Girl - Sarah McCarry,
the Appearance of Annie van Sinderen - Katherine Howe,
The Art of Not Breathing - Sarah Alexander,
Banished - Kimberly Little,
Bookishly Ever After - Isabel Bandeira,
Calamity - Brandon Sanderson,
Hunter - Mercedes Lackey,
The Nightmare Charade - Mindee Arnett,
Song of Summer - Laura Lee Anderson,
Zeroes - Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti,
Pretending to Be Erica - Michelle Painchaud,
The Shadow Queen - C.J. RedwineAwards/Lists: The I
ndie’s Next Autumn list was announced. So was
New York Times’ Editors Choice. WNDB announced the winner for its
short story collection. Booklist announced its
top 10 LGBTQ for youth. iBooks
25 Best books of September. The View recommended
Libba Bray’s Lair of Dreams. A.S. King won the
Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. PopCrush announced its
Best YA Books of 2015 So Far. Bustle said these 25 YA books were the
best in September. The
Rosie Rowell award winner was announced. So were the
PW flying starts:
Adam Silvera,
Becky Albertalli,
David Arnold, and
I.W. Gregorio.
You can vote now for YALSA’s top
ten teen books of 2015.
Book Trailers:
Blood and Salt - Kim Liggett,
Survive the Night - Danielle Vega,
Magnus Chase & the Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan…
The Keeper - David Baldacci,
Hotel Ruby - Suzanne Young,
Storm of Lightning - Michael Vey,
Hollywood Witch Hunter - Valerie Tejeda,
This Monstrous Thing - Mackenzi Lee,
Legacy of Kings - Eleanor Herman,
The Dead House - Dawn KurtagichNothing f
rom last post.
Kelly Jensen has sold an
anthology of feminist themes essays to Algonquin, written by several YA authors (see the full list of c
ontributors here).
David Levithan has
four more books on the way -- a sequel to Every Day, two more books coauthored with Rachel Cohn, and one being kept a secret.
Harper Lee’s book sold more than 746k copies in its
first week (and lol the lawyer suggests that HL might have written
“a third book”). Print unit sales for the Percy Jackson books are
over 22 million. Wonder has sold over 1.2 million copies, and the Day the Crayons Came Home, a picture book, has sold over 827k copies since its release. Both Paper Towns and the Descendants
continue to sell well, long after the movie and book release. The first two books in the School for Good and Evil have sold
over 216k copies. For kidlit, Paper Towns and Unbroken are among the
bestselling books of 2015 so far. And here are some
sales predictions and interviews with booksellers.
Robyn Schneider is doing well, she theorizes, in part because she’s capitalized on her
youtube fanbase.
Yay,
another controversial thing said by Jonathan Franzen. I’m also even less tempted to read Purity because of this: “I’m not a sexist. I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior, or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women’s work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It’s like there’s no way to make myself not male….. Speaking about a character in
his forthcoming novel, Purity– a fanatical feminist who, among other things, forces her husband to urinate sitting down on the toilet to atone for his maleness – Franzen predicted that she would enrage his critics; in fact, she already has.” Boohoo to you and your male privilege (there’s no way to make myself not male). I’d heard good things about his novels, but this is ridiculous.
An author queried under a male name. Here are
the results. (See Franzen? “None of that is ever enough.” Well, looking at those kind of results, you would know why…)
Rose Lerner wrote
a letter to the RWA protesting the nomination of For Such a Time, a Book of Esther retelling inspired romance about a Nazi and a Jewish woman, for an award. Several authors wrote excellent follow-ups to this, as shown in
this one. RWA
responded. Salon covered
the issue as well (their subtitle is particularly astute: That a Christian publisher thought this novel was a good idea tells you quite a bit about Christian publishing… though of course there is much more to the issue than that).
Holly Black will be writing a
new YA trilogy. With Little Brown -- “The first book in The Folk of Air Trilogy, The Cruel Prince, will be published in the winter of 2018, with two still-untitled books to follow... “This series will delve deeper into the strange, glittering, malicious courts of Faerie than I’ve gone before… While The Darkest Part of the Forest introduced readers to the faerie world, The Folk of Air Trilogy will bring that world a step closer...This new series...focuses on “a young human girl who witnesses her parents’ deaths and is forcibly taken to Faerieland with her two sisters—one faery, one human—where she will grow up and one day fight to gain power.”
Great news for kidlit!
The New York Times bestseller list has been altered to separate out MG & YA hardcovers (aka debut authors, series starters, etc.) from MG & YA paperbacks (aka the books and authors who have been on the list for a very long time). Here’s to hoping that in the future, they will also separate MG & YA into separate series lists!
This book can apparently help your child
fall asleep.
Sam Heughan from Outlander will reading The Fiery Trial (Shadowhunter books). o.O
A brief weekly summary of industry and author events:
August 27th,
August 20th,
July 23rd,
July 16th,
July 9th,
July 2nd,
June 25thALA was a while ago, but you can still
see photos.
We Need Diverse Books is changing its
organizational structure.
Macmillan is using the release of Katherine Appelgate’s Crenshaw to get bookstores to host food drives (
National Crenshaw Food Drive).
Likewise, Harlequin Teen has been getting creative for the social media campaign for
Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman.
A lot of social media campaigns, like the one used for Daughter of Smoke and Bone, involve
unlocking extra content.
Huh, I didn’t know much about
Violent Ends - that it’s a novel with different perspectives/voices written by various authors and edited by Shaun Hutchinson about a school shooting.
Random House has queued its
First in Line program (similar to Penguin’s First to Read).
How do you engage
lifelong readers?
Not only has Side Effects May Vary hit the NYT list, but Julie Murphy’s
Dumplin’ is striking a chord with readers.
The hybrid of pictures and prose in The Marvels seems to be
working out well.
The same goes for
The School of Good and Evil, which is reaching its end with the publication of book 3.
Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds wrote a YA novel to
confront race issues (I know I’m really looking forward to All American Boys -- and I loved getting to read about how their collaboration first started).
Ransom Riggs is going an usual tour for
Library of Souls - and on that tour, he’ll be offering sneak peeks at the film adaptation.
A Wonder app that sends you daily inspiration?
Yes please.
There are a lot of anticipated fall titles, but here’s what PW
chose to highlight for kidlit.
Sigh. A parent complained about Courtney Summers’s book and then proceeded to make sure that
no one could read it.
The boy who had nothing but “junk mail” to read, according to his mailman,
sure got a surprise.
Free book vending machines? Why can’t other airlines be as awesome as JetBlue?
A
back to school guide and advice from teachers and librarians.
Did you see the new
Fierce Reads site?
James Patterson gave money to
a bunch of libraries.
Indie bookstores are using trust to
increase sales.
Ecampus.com has secured an
agreement with UW-Milwaukee, similar to what Amazon has with other colleges for textbooks.
How a picture book became
an overnight sensation.
Patrick Ness started out a
fundraiser for Syrian refugees that, with the help of mostly other YA authors, has raised over £200k. (JK
over £500k)
Authors and booksellers are trying to get the US Dept of Justice to look into Amazon for
antitrust violations. Meanwhile Apple’s appeal was denied in the
ebook antitrust case.
Having Amazon around for 20 years has changed a lot
about the publishing industry.
Looooooook, a new look at the
illustrated HP books.
Guess how much it would’ve cost you to go to
Hogwarts.
Scribd has gotten rid of some romance titles because….
people read them too much.
Story boards that address
social justice.
Ahhh! So many GREAT WNDB links since I last posted for bookish rounds. Undoubtedly I have missed some things, but I hope that I’ve gotten some things that you will read with me -- first the
WNDB summer list (or
the holidays, now that summer is almost over) & an NBC
Asian American Summer Book List& a diverse book list for
kids under 5…
If you’re EVER looking for resources: Teen Librarian’s
Toolbox, a database of
Korean American authors, where to
find diverse books, building a diverse, anti-bias
library for young people, diversity resources from
SCWBI, this
entire tumblr for writers and
Dahlia Adler’s resource page.
If you’re a blogger, you too can
do better;
we need diverse blogs.
Books by South Asian women often have similar covers for some awful reasons -- “To our surprise, we often noticed book covers being “recycled”—sometimes identical covers, or segments of one cover, would be used on another book altogether. Almost as if to suggest these very books are interchangeable, or of a series/type (which they usually are not.)”. With this experience in publishing, multicultural authors might
consider self-publishing, “an empowering tool that allows writers to connect with audiences without being forced to "prove" why their experiences or their stories are valid.”
A call for
diversity in comics, to end
unpaid internships in publishing and build diversity. We need diverse books: we need to
combat racism through literature, YA fiction needs to
embrace disability, we need diverse audiobooks - to
hear diversity, we need
queer escapist lit, we need
diverse events, we need
diverse libraries too. You can
put LGBTQ books in kids hands. A
sian pride in kid lit.
8 things a black kid learned growing up reading about white kids← I read Huck Finn for school. “Classics” make me so skeptical, and if you’re a teacher creating your reading list, please take heed. Similarly -- read old classics and you realize just
how racist they can be. And here’s a l
ibrarian’s reflections on Loudness in the Library, a program getting kids to weigh in on racism and sexism.
Books help kids understand the fight for
racial equality. After all, “
how is a young person supposed to aspire to do well in life when they can't even be the hero of the stories that they read?". It’s
hard to be what you can’t see.
There is no such thing as a
race neutral character. More
here.
Super cool - WNDB is launching a mentorship program!
More details here.
Cover Reveals:You can see the majority of cover reveals from these past two months in
this other post.
*the cover reveal may have happened earlier
*released this August, so again I missed these because of the wait
Discussion/Other Blogger Posts:If you read or watched Paper Towns, did you learn t
hese life lessons?
How do you choose the
right book to read?
Do you think that the Miss Peregrine’s adaptation will
change the game for the YA film franchise?
It’s time for some epic quotes:
Why We Need Diverse Books,
Quotes to Get You over a Breakup,
Quotes to Give You That Summer Feeling,
Quotes That Will Make You Weak in the Knees,
Classic YA Quotes,
Quotes about NYC,
Quotes from Retellings of Cinderella,
Quotes about the Beach,
Quotes about Retellings of Red Riding Hood,
Quotes That Will Make You CryHow about them #booknerdproblems:
Needing Book Reading Arms,
Being Overprotective of a Signed Book,
Wishing You Worked at a Bookstore,
Trying to Live in a Bookstore,
Rearranging the Bookstore,
Sharing a Book Boyfriend,
When Books Come in Box Sets, R
esisting a Book Sale,
Book Shopping with a Non-Book ShopperImagining the Harry Potter characters as black is
revolutionary.
Book recommendations based off…
your astrological sign.
NPR posted its list of
100 swoon worthy romances, with 5 YA titles if you’re curious.
9 Books to Add to the Modern Brown Girl LIterary Canon - so great to see Jacqueline Woodson & Sara Farizan’s work featured!
Have you read these
popular August books? Or these
July releasing books? These were the most anticipated
August YA books and
these September YA.
And here are
11 YA novels that are not just for kids.
Yay (not).
Another article bashing young adult, confusing threesomes and love triangles.
Authors discuss their
favorite book boyfriends. I do believe that there are some good love triangles. Do you agree with that and
these eleven LTs as being the best, according to some YA authors?
Good reads gone bad - Kathleen Hale doesn’t seem to like Goodreads much, but for me the interesting parts of the article have to do with the sexist undertones in publishing (and reviewing) as well as the face of reviewing and how that has changed.
The 14 Stages of reading Harry Potter for the first time. Also, we’ve been saying a character’s name
wrong for years.
Baby names based off your
favorite children’s classics! (maybe one of the ways to get
your kids to read…? but here are some
innovative ways to teach children to read)
Captain Underpants “outs”
a character as being gay, with little fanfare. And there’s no bombshell reaction like with Dumbledore.
4 children’s classics that are just magic. I actually haven’t read any of those...
What would you recommend reading after
Alice in Wonderland?
Check out the infographic on
summer reading by Goodreads.
And an infographic on the historical inspiration for
Game of Thrones.
Paint your rooms to the color schemes inspired by
YA book covers!
And is the usual when I haven’t made bookish rounds posts in a while... loads of recommendations & lists! →
5 Awesome YA Breakup Books,
8 Twisted Updates on Fairy-Tale Worlds,
5 YA Debuts to Take to the Beach,
6 Steamy Summer Romances, Ranked,
6 Retellings to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Alice in Wonderland,
5 YA Heroes Who Really Weren’t Cut Out for the Job,
5 YAs Featuring Student-Teacher Relationships,
9 YAs to Read Based on Your Favorite Cult Classic TV,
7 Funny YA Books on Dark Topics,
Compelling YA Examinations of Faith,
9 of the Best YAs about Real Girls,
9 Must-Read YAs about Teens Finding Their Paths (Not Their Partner),
5 YA Novels That Channel the Breakfast Club,
20 of Our Most Anticipated September YA,
6 Books about Not Going Back to School (Yet),
6 YA Novels Paired with Their Perfect Album,
Our Favorite YA Sociopaths,
7 of the Season’s Most Exciting New Fantasy Novels,
5 Pitch-Dark YAs,
YAs about Family Curses, Y
As about Haunted Houses,
Five YAs to Help You Celebrate Vintage Vinyl Record Day, Y
As to Keep You out of the Woods,
5 YAs in Which Poetry Is a Part of the Plot,
5 African Myth–Inspired Teen Books to Read Right Now,
11 YA Books That Demand to Be Binge-Read,
YA Books about High School Outsiders,
7 Book Recommendations Based off Your Favorite Harry Potter Novel (THIS ARTICLE WAS MADE FOR ME),
A Guide to Surviving High School in 10 YA Novels, 1
5 YA Books Everyone Should Read Before College,
7 Times YA Books Came to the Rescue in Pop Culture,
5 YA Aviatrix Novels, 1
2 YA Books That Belong Together, 1
6 YA Gateway Reads,
7 YAs Where Friendship Trumps Romance, 7
YA Book Tours We’d Love to See,5 YAs for the Internet Famous,
9 of the Year’s Best Graphic Novels for YA Fans,
9 YAs to Read Based off Your Favorite Classic Movies,
6 Comic-Inspired YAs,
11 Can’t-Miss YAs from the First Half of 2015,
8 YA Fantasies with Eastern Flair,
Five YAs for Fans of Political Intrigue,
Witchin’ ReadsThose! are all from B&N Teen blog, which IS AWESOME at pointing out titles that you may not have heard about. The occasional article just reaffirms books that are getting a lot of pub already but most have lesser well known books among the others.
Books that are guaranteed to make you LOL - adult and YA mixed in, but yeah ME & EARL made me laugh at times.
20 Fall books worthy of your savings - they are Epic Reads recommended.
If you’re a book nerd, there’s a good chance you experienced this growing up.
And if you live in NYC or wish that you did, here are
seven books to read. Plus a
book nerd’s guide to NYC.
5 Cross-Book YA Pairings We’re Shipping: Katniss and Rachelle? What a BRILLIANT PAIRING.
8 YA Authors Talk about the Time They Sent a Fan Letter - I love this. I love hearing about the gushy emails/letters authors send their colleagues.
6 Awesome Cross-Cultural Friendships in YA.
how to spot the book nerd at the party→ these days, it’s also the phone. If I’m pressing in an almost regular fashion on my phone, I might be reading a book.
Which books did
these 15 authors recently buy?
Unlikeable Male Characters, Race in Hollywood, and Not Fading to Black - a conversation with Becky Albertalli and Dahlia Adler.
Was this what you were like while
reading An Ember in the Ashes?
The YA Lover’s Guide to Dating Dealbreakers - haha tumblr and the book nerd quotes. So true, but also Pinterest for that.
Being a Feminist in the Kids’ Section - “I’m not talking about the bookstore I used to work at, where a manager once suggested we shelve all the children’s books into a “Girls’ Books” section or a “Boys’ Books” section. Instead, it’s this seemingly harmless question: “What do you suggest for a [AGE] [boy OR girl]?””
Skokie Library Tackles Race - “Libraries must shift our conversation from increasing diversity to talking about racial equity and adopting an antiracist framework. It is up to us to go further, even if it makes us uncomfortable, and to do more for and in our communities.”
In the months between bookish rounds posts, I was on IT for discussion posts. I discussed
translated and foreign editions of YA, my sadly decreasing
motivation for reading and blogging (alas that is no longer an issue! YAY),
why audiobooksync is awesome,
recommending series that you haven’t finished,
finding quiet books, and
reading books that teach you something new. I also did the
Cinderella book tag. See below for what books I’ve read and what’s on my TBR!
As for book blogger discussion posts, I’m sorry - next week. This post is absurdly long as is, and I’m tired.
Movies/TV adaptations:Colin Farrell has joined the Fantastic Beasts adaptation cast. So have
Ezra Miller and Jenn Murray. (And
Alison Sudol will play Queenie).
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a play (not a prequel!), will be coming next year.
Check out the new posters for Disney’s
Through the Looking Glass.
They’ve started filming for
The School of Good and Evil.
Game of Thrones will be ending after a
season 8.
Catherine Hardwick will be directing the
adaptation of Stargirl.
Check out Netflix poster of
A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Whaat, the guy who plays Howard on the Big Bang Theory
optioned The Legacy of Kings for tv.
Stephanie Bennett,
Paulino Nunes, and Jack Fulton are now among the
Shadowhunters cast. In fact, here’s your first look at some pictures from the ABC
Shadowhunters show.
Carter Blanchard will be adapting
Brandon Sanderson’s Steelheart.
Way Down Dark was optioned by
Studio 8.
You can find out more information about the Twilight Stories: New Voices of the Twilight Saga clips
here.
John Green signed a deal with Fox 2000 to ensure they get a first look at whatever he writes.
Many clips for The Scorch Trials! Here was the
first trailer and
the second, and even
one and
two tv spots.
Snow has fallen. Watch
the trailer and look at
this and t
his cool poster.
Stand with District 13.
MGM has optioned the rights to
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.
The first t
easer trailer for Miss Peregrine’s was released.
We also saw the first sneak peak of
the 5th Wave movie.
Kenneth Branagh is developing
Artemis Fowl for adaptation.
Jennifer Niven will be writing the screenplay for
All the Bright Places.
Giveaways:I’ll be hosting a giveaway soon. Keep your eyes out for that!
Adventures in Children's Publishing giveaways:
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YABC's giveaways for the month.
Sci-fi and Fantasy Friday {SF/F Reviews and Giveaways}.
If you have a giveaway, you should let me know.
Other:New Releases: There will be a lot here because I haven’t done a post in a long time...
June 28 - July 4:
Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older,
Under the Lights by Dahlia Adler,
Between Us and the Moon by Rebecca Maizel,
Storm (Paper Gods #3) by Amanda Sun,
Faking Perfect by Rebecca Phillips,
Three More Words by Ashley Rhodes-Carter,
So Shall I Reap by Kathy-Lynn Cross.
July 5 - July 11:
Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten,
The Heart of Betrayal (Remnant Chronicles #2) by Mary Pearson,
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes,
Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George,
Jesse's Girl by Miranda Kenneally,
Hallowed (Blessed #3) by Tonya Hurley,
Survive the Night by Danielle Vega,
Mania by J. R. Johannson,
Forever for a Year by B. T Gottfred,
Naked by Stacey Trembly,
You & Me & Him by Kris Dinnison,
Don't Ever Change by M. Beth Bloom,
The Six by Mark Alpert,
Renegade (Silver Blackthorn #2) by Kerry Wilkinson,
Paperweight by Meg Haston,
The Escape by Hannah Jayne,
A Million Miles Away by Lara AveryJuly 12 - July 18: Deceptive (Illusive #2) by Emily Lloyd-Jones,
Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swenson,
Ruthless by Carolyn Lee Adams,
Descent (Son of a Mermaid #1) by Katie O'Sullivan,
About a Girl (Metamorphoses #3) by Sarah McCarry,
From this Moment (Moment of Truth #3) by Lauren Barnholdt,
Show and Prove by Sofia Quintero,
No Such Person by Caroline B. Cooney,
The Road to You (Wildflower #2) by Alecia Whitaker,
Outrage (Singular Menace #2) by John Sandford and Michele Cook,
What We Knew by Barbara Stewart,
Stone Rider by David HofmeyrJuly 19 - July 25: The New Order (Young World #2) by Chris Weitz,
Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud,
Return to the Dark House (Dark House #2) by Laurie Faria Stolarz,
Resonance (Dissonance #2) by Erica O'Rourke,
Torn (Feud #2) by Avery Hastings,
Damage Done by Amanda Panitch,
Noble Warrior by Alan Lawrence Sitomer.
July 26 - August 1: The Blind Wish (Jinni Wars #2) by Amber Lough,
I Knew You Were Trouble (Jessie Jefferson #2) by Paige Toon,
Every Last Breath (Dark Elements #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout,
Her Cold Revenge by Erin Johnson,
What You Left Behind by Jessica Verdi,
All We Have is Now by Lisa Schoeder,
Oblivion (Nevermore #3) by Kelly Creagh,
Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton,
Adrift by Paul GriffinAugust 2 - August 8: Public Enemies (Immortal Game #2) by Ann Aguirre,
Daughter of Dusk (Midnight Thief #2) by Livia Blackburn,
Of Dreams and Rust by Sarah Fine,
The Girl at the Center of the World by Austin Aslan,
Never Always Sometimes by Adi Alsaid,
Most Likely to Succeed (Superlatives #3) by Jennifer Echols,
Lifeless by Adrianne Strickland,
Crystal Kingdom (Kanin Chronicles #3) by Amanda Hocking,
After the Red Rain by Barry Lyga, Peter Facinelli, Robert DiFranco,
Nightmare Academy (Arkwell Academy #3) by Mindee Arnett,
Trouble is a Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly,
While You Were Gone (Duplexity #2) by Amy K Nichols,
Heartbreakers by Ali Novak,
Awake by Natasha Preston,
This Broken Wondrous World by Jon Skovron,
Prisoners of Breendonk by James M. Deem,
Stick by Michael Harmon,
From Where I Watch You by Shannon Grogan,
Not After Everything by Michelle Levy,
Con Academy by Joe Schreiber,
How To Say I Love You Out Loud by Karole CozzoAugust 9 - August 15: Reawakened by Colleeen Hock,
Bright Lights, Dark Nights by Stephen Emon,
Jubilee Manor (Landry Park #2) by Bethany Hagen,
Six Impossible Things by Fiona WoodAugust 16 - August 22:
The Boy Most Likely To (My Life Next Door #2) by Huntley Fitzpatrick,
Court of Fives by Kate Elliott,
Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman,
The Creeping by Alexandra Sirowy,
A History of Glitter and Blood by Hannah Moskowitz,
Into the Dangerous World by Julie Chibbaro,
Shackled by Tom Leveen,
Beyond Clueless by Linas Alsenas,
Deadly Sweet Lies by Erica CameronAugust 23 - August 29:
Lair of Dreams (Diviners #2) by Libba Bray,
Until Friday Night by Abbi Glines,
Thirteen Days of Midnight by Leo Hunt,
Maid of Wonder (Maids of Honor #3) by Jennifer McGowan,
The Veil (Fianna Trilogy #3) by Megan Chance,
Another Day by David Levithan,
Mechanical by Betsy Cornwell,
The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender,
Stranded by Melinda Braun,
Keepers of the Labyrinth by Erin E. Moulton,
Game On (Coleman High #3) by Calvin Slater,
Diary of a Haunting by M. Verano,
Hide and Seek by Jane Casey,
Dead Upon a Time by Elizabeth Paulson,
Insidious (Twixt #3) by Dawn MetcalfAugust 30 - September 5:
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon,
Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) by Sarah J. Maas,
Firewalker (Worldwalker #2) by Josephine Angelini,
Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman,
Catacomb (Asylum #3) by Madeleine Roux,
Hunter by Mercedes Lackey,
Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between by Jennifer E. Smith,
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell,
Your Voice is All I Hear by Leah Scheier,
Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius,
Infinite in Between by Carolyn Mackler,
Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle by Katie Coyle,
Burn Girl by Mandy Mikulencak,
Don't Fail me Now by Una LaMarche,
Cut Both Ways by Carrie Mesrobian,
The Shadow Behind the Stars by Rebecca Hahn,
The Body Institute by Carol Riggs,
Violent Ends edited by Shaun Hutchinson,
Truest by Jackie Lea Sommers,
Whippoorwill by Joseph Monninger,
Smoked (Scorched #3) by Mari Mancusi,
Has to be Love by Jolene Perry,
The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly,
The Trouble in Me by Jack GantosSeptember 6 - September 12:
Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa,
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz,
Edgewater by Courtney Sheinmel,
Drowning is Inevitable by Shalanda Stanley,
Evolution (Extraction #3) by Stephanie Diaz,
Dark Shimmer by Donna Jo Napoli,
Stand Off (Winger #2) by Andrew Smith,
Every Word (Every #2) by Ellie Marney,
Drift and Dagger by Kendall Kulper,
Earth Flight (Earth Girl #3) by Janet Edwards,
The Firebug of Balrog County by David Oppegaard,
Full Cicada Moon by Marilyn Hinton,
Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz,
Mary Unleashed (Bloody Mary #2) by Hillary Monahan,
The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis,
True Dark (True Fire #2) by Gary Meehan,
The Suffering (Girl From the Well #2) by Rin Chupeco,
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak,
Rogue (The Paladin Prophecy #3) by Mark Frost,
The Boy Meets Girl Massacre by Ainslie Hogarth.
Recent Recommended Reads: You can read my
review of Serpentine by Cindy Pon (aka buy the book!),
the Boy Most Likely to by Huntley Fitzpatrick, and
Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix. And well, my
movie review of Paper Towns. You can see what
books I planned to read for booktubeathon and
which ones I managed to read. You can also see
which books I’ve read in August and which I plan to read in September.
Which articles did you like best? Did I miss any news? Did you host a cover reveal or discussion that I should have posted about? A giveaway? Leave the links, and I'll either edit this post or post about 'em next week.
