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10 Books to look forward to in 2011
Having to pick only 10 books that I’m looking forward to in 2011 was pretty hard to do. It’s always difficult when you have to limit yourself and even worse, sticking to those 10 you’ve picked. 2011 looks to be another year that’s going to be filled with some amazing titles and if you ask me, these are only a few that are going to be must reads for next year.
So, since this was a hard choice narrowing it down to only 10, I wrote a bunch of titles down on paper, put them in a hat and picked. So, here are a few that are high on my wish lists. Please keep in mind they are in totally random order as well. I hope you enjoy!
Shift (Shade, #2) by Jeri Smith-Ready
May 3rd, 2011 by Simon Pulse (Sequel to Shade)
No Summary or cover yet, but I loved Shade, so it’s a must read for 2011.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | The Book Depository
Where to find Jeri Smith-Ready online
Website | Twitter
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
January 11th, 2011 – Razorbill
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone—one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship—tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Beth Revis online
Website | Twitter | Book Website
Betrayal (Haunting Emma, #2) by Lee Nichols
March 1st, 2011 by Bloomsbury (Sequel to Deception)
No summary or cover yet, but I loved Deception, so this is another must read for 2011.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Lee Nichols online
website | twitter
Recovery Road by Blake Nelson
March 1st, 2011 by Scholastic Press
Two bad-ass teenagers fall in love in rehab. You will laugh. You will cry.
Madeline is sent away to Spring Meadows to help with a drinking and rage problem she has. It's a pretty intense place, but there is the weekly movie night in town--where Madeline meets Stewart, who's at another rehab place nearby. They fall for each other during a really crazy time in their lives. Madeline gets out and tries to get back on her feet, waiting for Stewart to join her. When he does, though, it's not the ideal recovery world Madeline dreamed of. Both of them still have serious problems. And Stewart's are only getting worse....
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Blake Nelson online
website
Wither (Chemical Garden, #1) by Lauren DeStefano
March 22nd, 2011 by Simon & Schuster
At age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years to live. Thanks to a botched effort to create a perfect race, all females live to be twenty, and males live to age twenty-five. While geneticists seek a miracle antidote, orphans roam the streets and polygamy abounds. After Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she is desperate to escape from her husband’s strange world, which includes a sinister father-in-law in search of the antidote and a slew of sister wives who are not to be trusted. On the cusp of her seventeenth birthday, Rhine attempts to flee—but what she finds is a society spiraling into anarchy.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Lauren DeStefano online
website | twitter
Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach
March 31st, 2011 by Speak
A haunted castle, a handsome young man dead for four hundred years, one heck of a scary portrait of a witch, and a treasure hunt -- not to mention a princess for a roommate! -- all await 15 year old American girl Caitlyn Monahan when she earns a scholarship to a French boarding school.
There are secrets behind the stone walls of Chateau de la Fortune, buried for centuries along with the mystery of who killed Raphael, the charming ghost who visits Caitlyn at night. But as Caitlyn unearths the history of the castle, nothing scares her as badly as the secret she learns about herself, and the reason she was chosen to come to the Fortune School.
And nothing breaks her heart as badly as falling in love with a dead guy.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | The Book Depository
Where to find Lisa Cach online
website | twitter
Through Her Eyes by Jennifer Archer
April 1st by HarperTeen
Sixteen-year-old Tansy Piper moves with her grandfather and her mother, a horror writer, to the setting of her mother's next book--a secluded house outside of a tiny, desolate West Texas town. Lonely and upset over the move, Tansy escapes into her photography and the dark, seductive poems she finds hidden in the cellar, both of which lure her into the mind and world of a mysterious, troubled young man who died sixty years earlier.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Jennifer Archer online
website | twitter
Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic
2011 by Houghton Miffin Harcourt
Seventeen-year-old Austin Parker is dying. Facing his own death, he sees more clearly the lives being lived around him. Or not lived. So many of his friends and family, touched by abuse, addiction, or loss, dwell in the past, hide from the truth, stand still. What if he can make a difference in their lives before his time is up?
Convinced he can, Austin makes a bucket list of all the people whose lives need fixing. With the help of his best friend and secret crush Kaylee, together they embark on a journey to mend the fences that have broken. The question is, will Austin be strong enough to also mend his own?
No cover and no Preorder links for this title yet.
Where to find Megan Bostic online
website | twitter
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
January 4th, 2011 by HarperTeen
Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what it is, though, isn't easy.
Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place--and out of place, at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.
As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make--between honesty and deciet, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Cynthia Hand online
website twitter
Angelfire (Angelfire #1) by Courtney Allison Moulton
February 15th, 2011 by HarperCollins
This debut, the first novel in a trilogy, is achingly romantic, terrifying, and filled with blistering action.
When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers - monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell - she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.
A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her - an assassin who has already killed her once.
While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie's soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian's most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives - including truths that may be too frightening to remember.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Courtney Allison Moulton online
website | twitter
BONUS: 2 Adult Titles I can’t wait for in 2011
Lover Unleashed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9) By: J.R. Ward
March, 29th, 2011 – NAL Hardcover
No Cover or Summary yet, but I mean its The Black Dagger Brotherhood and all, so it’s a must buy and read.
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | The Book Depository
Where to find J.R. Ward online
website
This Side of the Grave (Night Huntress, #5) By: Jeaniene Frost
February 22nd, 2011 – Avon
No summary, at least that I’ve found, for this one yet either, but for all Cat & Bones lovers out there, it’s another must read for 2011
Preorder Links
Amazon | Borders | Barnes and Noble | The Book Depository
Where to find Jeaniene Frost online
website | twitter
12 great titles, right? I can’t wait for each one of these, and then some, for 2011. Are any of these books on your must list for next year?
Thanks so much for having me TBV! Making this list for you has been fun, thanks so much for having me!
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