Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. Each week you compile a list of ten books which coincide with that week’s theme. You can find everything you need to know about joining in here!
This week’s theme is ‘Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2019’!
Back in January I talked about the books I was looking forward to between January and June, so today I’m looking at ten twelve books being released from July-December that I’m looking forward to getting my hands on.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo: My relationship with Bardugo so far has been that I adored the Six of Crows duology but thought her Grisha trilogy was fairly ‘meh’, so I think I’m going to love her adult debut. I haven’t read any campus novels, but this one might inspire me to try books like If We Were Villains and The Secret History.
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: This sounds bonkers, but I saw the words “swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers” and knew I had to add this book to my TBR. Funnily enough it’s the first in The Ninth House series, so there’s clearly a theme this autumn.
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Moreno-Garcia’s latest novel is a historical fantasy set in 1920s Mexico and featuring Mayan gods. I am so here for it.
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black: I think everyone who’s a fan of this series was thrilled to hear that the pub date for this book had been brought forward from January 2020 to November this year. I really enjoyed The Cruel Prince and The Wicked King, so I’m looking forward to seeing how this trilogy wraps up!
Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell: Earlier this month I finally read Carry On and, of course, I ended up really enjoying it and I read it at just the right time with the sequel due out this autumn! I love the idea of exploring what happens to the ‘chosen one’ after they’ve done what they were supposed to do.
Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan: So I still haven’t actually read Girls of Paper and Fire (boo!), but I’m hoping to love it enough to want to pick up the sequel when it’s released in November. I want to read more Asian-inspired fantasy and I’ve been loving the f/f books I’ve read so far this year, so I’m never going to say no to more!
The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh: I feel like vampires are slowly but surely making a comeback, and while they’re not my favourite supernatural creature I’m drawn to this novel because it’s historical fantasy set in New Orleans and New Orleans is a place I’d love to visit. I really hate the cover, though.
Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin: I follow Shelby on Twitter and her book, a fantasy novel featuring witches vs. the church, sounds like candy to me. You all know how much I love my witches.
Dragon Unleashed by Grace Draven: I’m planning to read Phoenix Unbound, the first book in this series, over the summer (it has a very summery vibe to me) but I’m so excited for this book because it includes my favourite fantasy trope: banned magic. This book also focuses on different characters to the first book, and I’m all for reading more series like this.
Crossfire by Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses is the very first book that ever made me bawl my eyes out, and it continues to be a favourite even though I haven’t read it in the longest time because it makes my heart hurt. I’m intrigued by this latest addition to Blackman’s dystopian world!
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers: This new novella from Becky Chambers isn’t set in her Wayfarers universe, but I adore Chambers’ sci-fi and I’ll read pretty much anything she writes.
The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett: The 1999 version of The Mummy is one of my favourite films of all time, so I have always been and will always be weak for historical fiction books about women fighting to be involved in treasure-hunting, archaeology and scholarship. This book sounds right up my street.
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Ooh, great picks! I’m so excited for pretty much all of these too. Especially The Queen of Nothing, Ninth House and Wayward Son!
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Pretty much all of these are on my tbr! 🙂
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gideon the ninth and ninth house are SO HIGH UP MY PRIORITY LIST, i am flying high on expectations and praying to the literature gods and godesses that those are just as good as I have a feeling they’ll be!! ❤ also serpent & dove sounds like a dream synopsis come true to me and i am hype hype hyping it up in my mind and soul already!
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So many great books I’m also looking forward to! And I also planned to read Girls of Paper and Fire just in time for the sequel to come out 🙂
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I just learned about Gideon the Ninth, Girls of Storm and Shadow, and The Beautiful so they didn’t make my list but I’m eager to read them! Great list. 🙂
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The Queen of Nothing By Holly Black sounds awesome!
I hope vampires are making a comeback 🙂
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ahhh we basically share the same list lmao. gideon the ninth sounds like everything I love in a book and it’s gotten such rave reviews!! i’m also so excited to see how jude and cardan’s story ends in the queen of nothing. also, of course, i am anticipating Ninth House because it’s by Leigh Bardugo (!!), but besides that, dark academia and secret societies are calling to me so much.
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This is such a great list. I’m excited for several of these, especially Ninth House.
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So many on here that I’m dying for. I think Gideon is on most lists this week – it looks so freaking cool!
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Great list! I forgot to add The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh to mine! I really can’t wait for that one.
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I’m so excited for Queen of Nothing, Wayward Son, and Girls!
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate- can’t WAIT for that one! 🙂
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These books look SO good! 🙂
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I’m really looking forward to Gods of Jade and Shadow, Ninth House and The Beautiful! 🙂
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I don’t have Gideon on my list this week, but I am really intrigued by it. It sounds stellar. Great list and I hope you enjoy all these!
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“Serpent & Dove” is getting SO much hype. I think the recent hype is from BEA where they handed out ARCs. Don’t really know much about this one, but did recently read a bit about Jenn Bennett’s upcoming novel. SO different from her usual books. Could be fun!
Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland, Jess.
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We’re looking forward to several of the same books. 😀 I can’t believe I forgot to mention Gideon the Ninth though, that one looks so good.
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Oooh I hadnt heard of the beautiful. It sounds really interesting!
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Noughts and Crosses was chosen (by random number generator) for my summer TBR, so hopefully I’ll want to read Cross Fire at some point too!
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What a wonderful list !!! I’m excited for Gideon the Ninth, Girls of storm and Shadow, Lady Rogue and Beautiful 😍😍😍
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The Lady Rogue sounds like such fun! And I like your cover of Wayward Son — different than mine. 🙂
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate does sound like a good read to me!
My TTT.
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I don’t even know where to start with this post. Big YES to every single one!
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Ninth House was on my list this week too! I slipped Crossfire onto my first half of the year release post rather than this one, I can’t wait for it to come out, Noughts and Crosses was my first YA series!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/18/top-ten-tuesday-216/
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I hope you like The Queen of Nothing.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I’m so curious about the Chambers novella. I needs it now. I keep getting more and more excited for Gideon the Ninth. And got so lucky to have an e arch of gods of jade and shadow so hopefully I can read that later this week 😀
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Gideon the Ninth and Gods of Jade and Shadow are on my list this week too! 😊
My TTT this week.
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