One of the posts I love seeing the most has to be the 2019 releases we are looking forward to. My list below is nowhere near everything but these are the ones that have been catching my attention. I would like to point out that I wrote this in November to give myself a break in January/February so there might have been some new information/covers for some of these.
Standalones
January / A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Bridget Kemmerer / Beauty and the Beast Retelling
February / Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury / Anastasica Retelling
February / Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte / Fantasy +
February / The Test by Sylvain Neuvel / Sci-Fi
March / Sherwood by Meagan Spooner / Robin Hood Retelling
April / The Boy Who Steals Houses by C.G. Drews / Contemporary
May / The Wise and the Wickedby Rebecca Podos / Premonitions / Magical Realism +
May / We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal / Own Voices Fantasy
Unknown / Reverie by Ryan La Sala / Drag Queen Sorceress
Unknown / Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw / Resurrection
Unknown / Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortiga / Middle Grade Fantasy
Unknown / The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall / Pirate Fantasy +
+ Unsure/Unknown if this is truly a standalone
Starts to New Worlds
January / Slayer (Slayer 1) by Kiersten White / set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
January / Circle of Shadows by Evelyn Sky
January / Ship of Smoke and Steel (The Wells of Sorcery 1) by Django Wexler / Fantasy
February/ Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto / Fantasy
April / The Tiger at Midnight (The Tiger at Midnight 1) by Swati Teerdhala / Hindu Mythology
April / Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy 1) by Emily A. Duncan / Fantasy
May / Dark Shores (Dark Shores 1) by Danielle L. Jewnsen / Fantasy / Pirates
Unknown / These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling / Modern Day Salem Fantasy
Sequels and Conclusions
January / Kings of Scars (Nikolai Duology 1) by Leigh Bardugo / Fantasy / Part of The Grisha world
January / Firestarter (Timekeeper 3) by Tara Sim / Time Control
January / Song of the Dead (Reign of the Fallen 2) by Sara Glenn Marsh / Necromancy
January / In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children 4) by Seanan McGuire / Portal Fantasy
January / The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air 2) by Holly Black / Fae
February / Courting Darkness (His Fair Assasin 1) by Robin LaFevers / Historical Fantasy ++
February / Binti: The Complete trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor / Sci-Fi/Fantasy
March / Wild Country (The Others 7) by Anne Biship / Contemporary Fantasy
March / Defy the Fates (Constellation 3) by Claudia Gray / Sci-Fi
March / Wicked Tasty (Spellwork Sydicate 3) by Lola Dodge / Contemporary Fantasy / Baking
June / The Final Days of Magic (Witches of New Orleans 3) by J.D. Horn
Unknown / Not Your Backup (Sidekick Squad 3) by C.B. Lee / Superheroes
++ Continues after another trilogy set in the same world with similiar characters.
THE BOY WHO STEALS HOUSES now that is a unique title. One good thing about doing this activity, now I am really excited about a few upcoming books. Since I usually don’t pay attention to releases this is a new position for me. Hope you get to read a few of your anticipated books. My Anticipated Releases
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It is. I can’t wait!
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So excited for Sherwood and King of Scars ❤️❤️
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Yes!
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The posts in which people talk about their most anticipated reads are always my favourites too. 🙂 You mention so many books that also made my list. I’m so excited about Sherwood>/i> since Hunted was so good.
Happy readings!
Tânia @MyLovelySecret
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It is so great to see what others are anticipating.
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Great list! King of Scars and Courting Darkness made my list this week, too, and I’m really looking forward to These Witches Don’t Burn. 🙂 Thanks for bringing Sherwood to my attention, it sounds so good!
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You are welcome 🙂
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“The Boy Who Steals Houses” is something I want to read, too. It sounds so good.
This is my Top Ten Tuesday post.
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It does!
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I’m really excited to read Courting Darkness and King of Scars too! Please remind me to read Lake Silence, because I can’t believe I’m behind on The Others and not prepared for the release of Wild Country…
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I shall poke you every week since today? 😉 On the one hand I am so curious for Courting Darkness. But also I haven’t read the original trilogy :O
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Yes!! I think it might be best to read the original first, because I think Courting Darkness follows the same character as one of the original books? Not entirely sure though!
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The Boy Who Steals Houses is SO GOOD!
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I can’t wait! 😀
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I appreciate that you separated your categories by stand alone or series. I tend not to start a series until all of the books are out. I hate waiting! haha
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This I completely understand haha. I need to do that more often.
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Nice list! I really want to read The Boy Who Steals Houses too. And I need to read the second book by Tara Lim since the third is coming out!
-Lauren
http://www.shootingstarsmag.net
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Yes the third one came out today!
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King of Scars was on my list this week too! And I hope you enjoy Firestarter 🙂
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/top-ten-tuesday-193/
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My pre order has not shipped yet. I is sad. ._.
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Hope it comes soon!
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It looks like you have a big reading winter coming up! Nice list!
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Fingers crossed I can get to some of these haha.
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I’m so curious about Ship of Smoke and Steel, I hope it’s good! I need to catch up on Anne Bishop, I never read Lake Silence last year, I love the world of The Others. I hadn’t been too interested in Slayer, but I’ve been seeing more and more good reviews, so maybe I need to jump on that train!
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Right? It just looks so good.
And Lake Silence was really good. Different but still good.
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Hello The Test — what are you and why am I so thankful of discovering you now. MAN, I just love a BLACK MIRROR COMPARISON WTFFFFFFF NEED IT NOWWWWW.
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
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Haha I hope it will be up your alley. 😉
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These covers are so beautiful, I want to cry. I am so excited for We Hunt the Flame in particular. Everything I’ve heard about it makes me more and more excited. Happy reading!
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Yes We Hunt the Flame sounds amazing!
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I’m interested in Four Dead Queens and Sherwood. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
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I’d be here all day if I mentioned how many of these are on my list too LOL We Hunt the Flame, Song of the Dead, Wicked King! Also, I’ve read Slayer and Curse So Dark and really enjoyed both. Hope you do as well!
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Haha I read A Curse too and enjoyed it as well. Now hoping I do with the rest as well. 😀
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I hope you like them all! I’m really bad at keeping up with new releases, so I haven’t seen of most of these before.
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I mean, I end up not even reading 50% of new releases with these posts most of the time haha. So I kind of do too.
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This is the first I’ve heard of The Wise and the Wicked – just from what I see here, it sounds like something I would like.
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It sounds really good!
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I totally forgot to put The Boy Who Steals Houses on my list! But you have some others that I hadn’t seen yet as well… I’ll have to check them out. I think my TBR has doubled with this prompt… and it was already huge!
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Haha right? Bad prompt. 😀
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Great lists! So many of these are on my wishlists!!!
a curse so dark and lonely isn’t technically a stand alone though. There’s a sequel coming our way – Brigid announced it’s title yesterday ❤ It'll be focused a bit more on the Grey character but the main characters of book 1 are also a lot present as well to my understanding – they promote it as a sequel 🙂
I'm really excited about Sherwood, Ship of Smoke and Steel, Defy the Fates, Courting Darkness and Crown of Feathers!
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I know. When I wrote this post (november) this wasn’t known yet though and I haven’t had the time since to go through everything again. I had done that 5 times by december haha.
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I got to read The Wicked King on Tuesday. Great book! The Last of Her Name looks good, and I’ve pre-ordered Four Dead Queens. It’s going to be a great reading year!
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Great to hear!
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I want to read ALL the same standalones as you basically! I love seeing Cait’s book on people’s lists of course, and FINALLY someone else who is excited about The Test, yayyy! I cannot believe I forgot Defy the Fates, ughhh what is wrong with meeee? Very excited for that one too! (Also I am ridiculously impressed that you wrote this in NOVEMBER, how even!?!)
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I’m slightly less excited for The Test since the third Themis Files book kind of fell meh for me but I’m still really curious to see how he will write that book.
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I went to look at The Wise and the Wicked summary on Goodreads, and then I went to see if it was on Netgalley or Edelweiss, and I forgot to come back! 😱 It’s cover is lovely! 😍 Thanks for the heads up! 👍✨✨
King of Scars! I have to get Ruin and Rising read, and the Six of Crows books. I have the ebook of the first of the duology. 📚
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Right? It sounds great too!
I really hope you will like Six of Crows. 😀
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NIKOLAI! Ahem… 🙂
Super excited for We Hunt The Flame, Slayer and The Wicked King too!
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Of Course. 😀 😉
And yes!
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2019 is going to be such a great year for books, I’m looking forward to so many of these! First up, King of Scars. Most anticipated, probably Aurora Rising. I also can’t wait to pick up Cait’s next book. ❤
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