New Curiosities – weeks of September 17th and September 24th
New Curiosities features new books being published in the current week or month, and that I am curious to investigate. While it isn’t a complete list of the week’s new books, I do hope you’ll make some interesting discoveries with me! Click on the titles to learn more about each book by visiting Goodreads!
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September is ending, and I almost missed the opportunity to post this second part of September’s curiosities. And it’s a big one; lots of possible greatness is hitting the shelves, and I can’t wait to discover what’s in store for us readers!
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New books coming out for the weeks of September 17th and September 24th
Something for Grown Ups
- Blacberry Winter by Sarah Jio
- The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- Love Anthony by Lisa Genova
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Something Steampunk
- Incarnation by Emma Cornwall
- The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
- Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff
Steampunk is really “in” this year in the YA world, and the end of September is also offering us intriguing titles in the genre! Incarnation offers us an original take of Bram Stoker’s famous story, Dracula. For fans of vampires and steampunk, this sounds like a must read! The Dark Unwinding, taking place in London, has romance and spies, oh my! Sounds like an exciting story – I can never say no to London! As for Stormdancer, it has received a lot of buzz; mixing steampunk with Japanese culture and mythology, it seems to offer something very different too.
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Something fantastically YA!
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- Adaptation by Malinda Lo
- What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang
- Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
Where to start? These all sound exciting. I have loved Maggie Stiefvater Wolves of Mercy Fall series and I am looking forward to discovering something different written by her. There’s a bit of supernatural or paranormal at work here, with a touch of romance of course! Adaptation has one of the most intriguing premise I have read this fall (go read it!), as does What’s Left of Me, where two souls are sharing one unique body.
As for Alice in Zombieland, do I need to say more than the title? It’s Alice, and Zombies! Zombies! I like zombies (if you couldn’t tell!) Libba Bray return to us with a new novel of historical fiction, paranormal and mystery in The Diviners. I might not have loved Beauty Queens, I can still recognize a great writer when I see one. I am looking forward to this one very much!
A lot of goodness is now waiting for us in the bookstores! Which book are you the most looking forward to reading?
I’m probably looking forward to Love Anthony the most!
Such good stuff!
Confession: I’m not sure about CV.
I’m about 100 pages into The Casual Vacancy now and am enjoying it, though it has absolutely nothing in common with HP — aside from, you know, they’re both set in England. In fact, if I didn’t know for certain it was written by Rowling, I don’t think I would ever guess such a thing. Still, it’s an interesting work in its own right — and I’m curious to see where it’s headed!