Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

Any book first published in 2019 will work for this prompt, whether it’s a long anticipated new release by your favourite author or a book you stumble across on your library’s new books shelf.

Suggestions:
Goodreads: Can’t Wait Books of 2019
Goodreads: 2019 Most Anticipated Books
Goodreads: Historical Fiction 2019 releases
Goodreads: Can’t Wait Sci-Fi/Fantasy of 2019
Goodreads: YA Novels of 2019
Goodreads: 2019 Anticipated Literary Fiction

Optional Questions:
- What are you reading this week?
- Do you often read newly published books?
- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)

I've already got a list of 2019 books I'm looking forward to, and The Millions list hasn't even come out yet. I'm MOST excited about The True Queen, a continuation of Cho's fantastic Victorian fantasy series begun with Sorcerer to the Crown. I've been eagerly awaiting this book for (feels like) forever!!

So, the first book I see is Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle 3. I don't quite believe it, but can anyone confirm (or the opposite)? I haven't actually read them, since my son read the first two and we had a look at the release dates and thought to ourselves it might take a while for the third to come out, and I decided to wait. That was a while ago.

The 4 books I'm interested in are Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, American Pop, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, and Talent (also works for campus setting).

I'm hoping to read Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid for this, but it comes out in March and I don't think I can wait until the end of the challenge to read it! I'll probably end up using a Book of the Month club book for this pick -- that's where I get most of my new releases from anyway.

I have a few options but the one I'm planning on using for this is The Butterfly Museum - it's the sequel to The Child Finder that I read this year and was one of my favourite books this year.

Of course, I'm always hoping I'll be able to use Doors of Stone, The Thorn of Emberlain, or The Winds of Winter, but at this point I'm not holding my breath for any of those.

Johanne wrote: "So, the first book I see is Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle 3. I don't quite believe it, but can anyone confirm (or the opposite)? I haven't actually read them, since my son read the first two and w..."

I can confirm the Kingkiller Chronicle is incredible. I loved both The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear as well as the novella The Slow Regard of Silent Things. But seriously...don't expect book 3 anytime soon. It'll be 8 years come March 2019 since book two was published. Rothfuss has stated that if he had actual news of a release date for book 3 he would announce it and share it with people and that hasn't happened yet.

At this point, I'm not touching Rothfuss or Martin until they finish their damned series. Because I'm starting to think that neither one ever will.

The books that I'm looking forward to reading that are coming out in 2019 are Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide and Heroine but I feel like I may already read those two before week 51.

Thanks, Peter, that´s what I thought. And Nadine I feel exactly like you, but at the same time I want to read the Rothfuss books... My son (he´s 15) also thinks they´re amazing.

Nadine wrote: "At this point, I'm not touching Rothfuss or Martin until they finish their damned series. Because I'm starting to think that neither one ever will."

Nadine, I love the Game of Thrones series, but I won't go near the books. I don't want to fall in love even more and then be among the people patiently getting stood up by an author.

Exactly!! I'm sure they are great but I do not want to be burned by an unfinished series!!

With regards to Rothfuss I’ll believe it when I see it. He has said relatively recently that he’s sort of finished it but it’s currently a 3 1/2 Star read and he’s rewriting and playing with it and not handing it over until it’s a 5 Star read. Who can blame him after the first two.

I have the Name of the Wind and The Wise Mans Fear and the smaller one (whatever that is and I know it was mentioned above lol) and am waiting for number 3 before I start reading them.

I am waiting for Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence next year. I’ve read Red Sister (amazing) and have Grey Sister here ready to go. Actually won a signed hardcover edition in a competition that he was running in a Fantasy bookclub he started on here.

Also there’s probably a new Stephen King due out sometime next year.....

Jacqueline - is the Red Sister series as good as his Broken Empire series? my sister raves about those, and I plan to read them soon.

I’m only just reading the Broken Empire series now Johanne so I can’t say. I only started reading again about 13 months ago and even though I’ve read 78 books so far this year I can’t keep up with all of the must reads but there are some I better read (and fast). I’m just a little way into Prince of Thorns. Which I do really like btw but I’ve become distracted by The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (didn’t have PoT with me the other day and started reading it and now I have the two sitting there on the go) and yesterday I read Stephen Kings newie Elevation while sitting in a Chinese restaurant having lunch. Again I didn’t have what I was reading with me and started one I’d just bought lol Just as well it’s only short.

People are saying the Book of the Ancestor series (Red, Grey, and Holy Sister) are just as good or better than Broken Empire. I really loved Red Sister and gave it all of the Stars. And Grey Sister is supposed to be better again. Lots of well written strong girls kicking butt.

I'm probably doing Naturally Tan , which is Tan France's (from the new queer eye!) memoir. Though this is definitely subject to change, I have no clue what all's coming out next year lol

I am super excited about The Book of Flora by Meg Elison, the third book in the Road to Nowhere series, which is supposed to be published in April.

The main book I am excited about is The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden. That entire series is just amazing and the books would work for multiple categories.

If I use that for something else, I might do Riley Sager's new book or Daisy Jones and The Six.

Jacqueline wrote: "I’m only just reading the Broken Empire series now Johanne so I can’t say. I only started reading again about 13 months ago and even though I’ve read 78 books so far this year I can’t keep up with ..."

Thanks :)

This book has grabbed my attention so far:
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield.

I have a few options for this:
On the Come Up even though I haven't gotten around to THUG yet, I am sure I will love it as much as everyone else and want to read her follow up
Daisy Jones and The Six because I loved Evelyn Hugo and I need to read more Taylor Jenkins Reid
and
Two Can Keep a Secret because I just had the best 2 nights reading One of Us Is Lying

Tracy wrote: "I have a few options for this:
On the Come Up even though I haven't gotten around to THUG yet, I am sure I will love it as much as everyone else and want to read her follow up
[book..."


Oh very exciting!!!! I did not know that Angie Thomas had a new book coming in 2019!!

It’s pretty rare that I read new releases- I can count on one hand how many books I’ve read this year that were actually published in 2018. I like to wait until I can hear what other people think of books, unless it’s an author I trust. So this ones going to be TBD for a while for me.

Um, guys?

Erin Morgenstern (author of The Night Circus) is
publishing a new book in 2019!!! The Starless Sea

dalex wrote: "Um, guys?

Erin Morgenstern (author of The Night Circus) is
publishing a new book in 2019!!! The Starless Sea"

Added! And it's about books and libraries and other amazing things. I need to see a cover!!

Also posted this in the Far East thread but I'll put it here too, for fans of Lisa See new release anticipated in March : The Island of Sea Women.

I'm really excited to read Golden Child by Claire Adam. It's due for release in January and I already have a hold placed at my library. Its the second book released by Hogarth under the Sarah Jessica Parker imprint. The first (A Place for Us) is probably my top read of this year. So I have high hopes. And it's set in Trinidad so fits my goal of reading 10 books set in countries I've never read about before.

At first, I was like "eh, I'll just pick up something randomly for this prompt..."

And now I'm like "HOW WILL I CHOOSE BETWEEN ALL THE GOODIES!?!?!?"

Looking at:

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
The Starless Sea by Erin Morganstern
Opposite of Always by Justin Reynolds
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte

Cross your fingers Emily and hope that those you can't fit in this year will fit with a 2020 prompt.

Preach! I'm sure at least one or two of those will be nominated for the GR Choice Awards in 2019, so hopefully that prompt comes back around for the 2020 list.

I now officially know what I'll be reading for this category - The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. So excited I can't stand it!

I'll definitely read it but worry it won't actually be released in my part of the world in time. So I'll stick with an earlier in 2019 release and look forward to this as a bonus.

Patrick Rothfuss and George R. R. Martin are both releasing new books in 2019? Well, I'll probably read one of those then, if they show up

I have 9 books that I want to read in 2019 so far. I'm going with

Forget you know me by jessica strawser

What are you reading this week?Say You're Sorry 1/11/19
- Do you often read newly published books? some times
- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc) Netgalley had it as an ARC since it comes out in February 2019

- What are you reading this week?
Murder Al Dente: The 9th Nikki Hunter mystery by Nancy Skopin

- Do you often read newly published books?
I think I do, especially in series that I am reading

- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)
It is part of a series that I am reading

The newest Chronicles Of St Mary's book by Jodi Taylor comes out in April Hope for the Best, that one is on pre-order, The next book in the trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan says September for release The Tyrant's Tomb. I can't say I really pay that much attention to release dates until authors I like send out emails with the words new release in the subject line

- What are you reading this week? The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
- Do you often read newly published books? I probably only read about half a dozen of them a year.
- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc) I forget but I think I saw it somewhere besides Goodreads. I think I saw it on a Facebook article about new releases.

There are so many great-looking Sci-fi & Fantasy books coming out this year! Some I'm excited about from debut authors are:

Here and Now and Then (time travel)
The Perfect Assassin (desert cities on pillars)
Titanshade (pulpy noir with magic)
Hollow Kingdom (sentient crow?)
The Library Of The Unwritten (librarians from hell)
The Luminous Dead (caving thriller on another planet)
The Outside (lovecraftian monsters with autistic mc)
Shadowblade (sword-swinging ladies)
The Ruin of Kings (epic fantasy with dragons, "the next big thing")
Gideon the Ninth (necromancers in space)
The Resurrectionist of Caligo (good old fashioned body-snatching for science)

Some domestic thrillery books that look interesting are:
The Au Pair
The Night Olivia Fell
The Lost Night
The Winter Sister
Her Daughter's Mother
After the Eclipse

All add more as I think of them

- What are you reading this week?
Just yesterday finished reading - for #51 - INHERITANCE: A MEMOIR OF GENEALOGY, PATERNITY, & LOVE by Dani Shapiro. Today started on a book for #46 (A book with a [mostly] black cover) - I mention it in my review of INHERITANCE here on GR.

- Do you often read newly published books?
Often enough. I browse all kind of places re books- stores, Amazon, etc. Also get recommendations via friends & Bookmarks magazine. And there are always unexpected places too!

- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)?
Lots of places, but the interview with author in Bookmarks greatly influenced my decision to read it sooner than later, plus another factor, noted in my review on GR.

- What are you reading this week?
Already read - That Ain’t Witchcraft by Seanan McGuire, the latest novel in the fantastic Incryptid series.

- Do you often read newly published books?
For authors/series that I'm already reading, I'll snag and read the new titles while they're still cooling from the book oven. :-) McGuire is one of them.

- How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)
I've been a huge fan of this series since book one, have read all the shorts & novellas, and follow the author on various platforms. Pre-ordered this the instant she posted it was available. Cheese! and cake!!! HAIL! :-)

I did Diary of a Minecraft Zombie: The Mouldy Mega Book which isn't showing up yet since it was just published and because it is for tweens not many on here would want to read it.

I just finished The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson. I had really enjoyed her two previous books as well as the only one of her comic books that I've read, and so got this as soon as it came out. Recommended!

What are you reading this week?
One False Move, by Robert Goddard


Do you often read newly published books?
I don’t go out of my way to look for them, so no.

How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)
I love Robert Goddard’s books and eagerly await each one. He is a master of the plot twist.

What are you reading this week?
I read In a Badger Way

Do you often read newly published books?
I read a couple a year depending on the series that I am reading.

How did you find out about this book (eg Goodreads, award winner, author’s website, friend’s recommendation etc)
I have been waiting for it ever since I finished Hot and Badgered last year!

I read Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country for this topic. I always enjoy reading Pam Houston's work, and this was as unputdownable as her other publications.

The Light Over London by Julia Kelly
I try to read a few newly published books a year.
I probably found out about this one on Goodreads.

- What are you reading this week? Queenie
- Do you often read newly published books? I do- I read the NY Times book review and some magazines and if something sounds good, I add it to my library hold list. I also follow a blog that does a regular "what are you reading" column that is always full of recommendations.
- How did you find out about this book No idea!

Currently reading Daisy Jones & The Six for this prompt. So far, so good.

I just finished Storm Cursed for this prompt. I read new releases of my favorite authors. This book was a new release from a series I had read previously.

I read Wild Country for this prompt. I don't usually read newly published books because I try to take a FIFO approach to my TBR list. I learned about this book through a friend who also follows Anne Bishop.

I read Valencia and Valentine for this prompt. I've been trying to fill the challenge with only owned TBR books, which obviously doesn't work great with this prompt, so I used a book I got for free through Kindle First Reads. I may actually end up using a different First Reads prompt for this one though, and switching this over to dual timeline, unless I happen across something else on my shelf that works there.

I don't really care about reading new books, except on some occasions where I make the mistake of starting an unfinished series. I do occasionally browse the new books section of the library though, so a few of the books I end up reading are new releases.