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Welcome to a new year filled with new books. Just think of it, a whole new year filled with new releases and literary gems you haven't found yet.
I start off every year with a list of books that are musts on my To Be Read List. Here's a look at it. I'm cheating slightly with this one but I'm really looking forward to Laurie Perry's Home Is Where the Wine Is. You might know Laurie better as Crazy Aunt Purl. While the "official" release date for her book is January 4 her publisher put it up on their website early and you could order it before Christmas.
I can look forward to buying another installment in Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation series this month when The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is released. And to keep us company between this release and the next in the Pink Carnation series, according to her blog she's set to release a book called The Mischief of the Mistletoe. It will feature Jane Austen but perhaps more exciting for Pink Carnation fans - Turnip! Turnip gets a book!
In March Sarah Addison Allen will be releasing her third book, The Girl Who Chased the Moon. In the past she's featured magical apple trees and book, this time it's wallpaper and cakes. And yes, it realize that sounds kind of nuts but the magic in her books is really quite charming.
In June the fourth book in Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series will be released. Yay girl spies!
September is looking to be a very good month. In September the second book in Diana Peterfreund's "killer unicorn" series will be released. In Ascendant Astrid if fully trained to kick unicorn butt, but starts to question if she should. Also in September, the yet to be named third book in Suzanne Collins Hunger Games series. And if I can believe Amazon (and I really, really hope I can) I should be reading Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure. Yay!
I asked my fellow Contributing Editors what they were looking forward to this year and this is what they told me:
Mir Kamin is looking forward her friend Joshilyn Jackson's latest book Backseat Saints. Mir wrote about Jackson's Between, Georgie years ago and set me on the path of reading her books, something for which I thank her mightily. You can also read Jackson's blog, Faster Than Kudzu.
Suzanne Reisman is looking forward to Jackson Taylor's The Blue Orchard. She not only was lucky enough to take a couple of writing courses from Jackson, but she also got to take a peek at a galley of the novel and says the writing is incredible.
Honeybeast has her eyes on sequels. In addition to the Hunger Games sequel, there's also The Girl with the Hornet's Nest the third book in Steig Larson's series, and The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag is the follow up to this year's The Sweetness At The Bottom Of the Pie. There's also a new series coming out from Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey, which I've heard you might be able to find on shelves now even though it's official release date isn't until January 10.
avflox really wants to know what the world's libertine Catherine Millet has to be Jealous about.
And Britt Bravo is looking forward to Tranquilista: Mastering the Art of Enlightened Work and Mindful Play by Kimberly Wilson and Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It by Anna Lappe and Bill McKibben.
What new book releases are you looking forward to in 2010? I'd love to know.
Contributing Editor Sassymonkey also blogs at Sassymonkey and Sassymonkey Reads.
