My first Top Ten Tuesday ever!!!! I'm so excited!!! You can probably tell from the number of exclamation points I'm using!!! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over on The Broke and the Bookish
Anyway the topic for today is Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015. Prior to this, I really was not anticipating any debut novels for this year. My comfort zone for reading can be boiled down to these SIX points:
- re-reading books
- reading classics
- reading books by author I've read before
- when a book is being raved about
- a book is mentioned on a TV show/movie/song
So yeah, I don't really make an effort to look for new authors. However, I'm thinking of changing my habit because I was doing research (aka google) on debut novels to compile this list and it was so hard to choose just ten novels to be excited about!
I tried to make this list a mix of YA and adult fiction. I also strayed away from dystopian novels because I can't start a new series, I have so many old ones to finish.
one
title: Made You Up
author: Francesca Zappia
date of publication: 19 May 2015
The main character, Alex, is schizophrenic. I don't really know much about schizophrenia and what I do know is based off stereotypes rather than actual facts.
Anyway, Alex starts living a 'normal' teenage life and is "making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal" (from goodreads)
two
title: None of the above
author: I. W. Gregorio
date of publication: 7 April 2015
This time the main character, Kristin, is intersex but she doesn't know it yet. She finds out in the most horrible (for a teenager) situation, when something goes wrong during her first time having sex.
Somehow this information is leaked to the whole school and Kristin starts questioning her identity.
I study Biology and I learned quite a lot about the scientific aspects of being intersex (which is a very broad term) and it'll be nice to get a more human aspect to what I've studied.
three
title: The Way We Bared Our Souls
author: Willa Strayhorn
date of publication: 22 January 2015
From what I've gathered from goodreads, this book is a little bit like Freaky Friday. So, five teenagers with burdens of their own sit around a campfire. Then, mysteriously the next morning they wake up with the burdens of another person.
Doesn't that sound freaking interesting? I mean people constantly enjoy making their burdens into a my-burden-is-worse-than-yours-no-my-burden-is-worse-than-yours competition. I'm really interested in what direction the author takes this book!
four
title: The Last Leaves Falling
author: Sarah Benwell
date of publication: 29 January 2015
Reasons why I'm excited for this book:
- an Asian main character. You guys don't know how scarce Asian characters are in books. So I always try my best to support Asian authors and books that have an Asian as a main character. The only exception to this rule is when Asian character is fetishize or portrayed in a racist way.
- the main character, Sora, has ALS. From the blurb on goodreads, his disorder doesn't seem to stop him from doing kickass things
-the blurb also mentions samurais. Samurais, enough said.
- the internet is portrayed in a positive light!!! I love the internet. I know that there are horrible things that become possible or become even easier to commit thanks to the internet. However, YA novels seem to forget the positive impact of the internet!
five
title: Valiant
author: Sarah McGuire
date of publication: 9 June 2015
This book is suppose to be a re-telling of The Brave Little Tailor. Basically, it's a (male) tailor who kills seven flies with one sweep of his belt and somehow like a game of Chinese whispers, his deed is blown out of proportion.
The re-telling is of a female tailor! I'm all for more female characters. She is described in goodreads as being 'cunning'. I'm so up for more cunning characters who still veer on the 'good' side.
six
title: Love Fortunes and other Disasters
author: Kimberley Karalius
date of publication: 12 May 2015
The plot on goodreads seems kinda dystopian? It looks like the opposite of the Delirium trilogy haha. Anyway, the cover is adorable and from this post you would know that I totally judge a book by its cover.
seven
title: Our Endless Numbered Days
author: Claire Fuller
date of publication: 26 February 2015
Description from goodreads:
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.
Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. And so her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything.
Peggy is not seen again for another nine years.
1985: Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? And why has she come back now?
eight
title: Disclaimer
author: Renee Knight
date of publication: 9 April 2015
The storyline sounds like something everybody has ever thought about, reading a book of their own life. However, out of the ten in my list this book is the one I'm least excited about. Don't get me wrong, I'm still excited but a few things have made me reduce my excitement by a few notch. One, the cover. That vignetting is so....instagram. I like instagram, but I don't like a mediocre photograph as a book cover. The vignetting makes it look so tacky. The cover is a turn off. Two, reviews on goodreads seem to paint a picture that it's just a 'just okay' book.
However, if the writing and characters are good. I'll still enjoy this very much.
nine
title: Weathering
author: Lucy Wood
date of publication: 15 January 2015
"A beautifully bewitching novel of memories, mothers, ghosts and daughters, from the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of "Diving Belles". As Pepper and Ada find themselves entangled with the life of the valley, each will discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together." x
*goodreads
ten
title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
author: Christopher Scotton
date of publication: 6 January 2015
This is a coming of age story. I love coming of age stories, they always make me feel so nostalgic.
Ever since I've watched Boyhood, a film that chronicles the life of Mason from 5 to 18, I've been itching to read a good coming of age novel. From the reviews on goodreads, this seems like it is able to fill that void in my life.
Ever since I've watched Boyhood, a film that chronicles the life of Mason from 5 to 18, I've been itching to read a good coming of age novel. From the reviews on goodreads, this seems like it is able to fill that void in my life.
Honourable mentions!
I'm so excited. I love Archie and the new drawing style looks so cool. Honestly, Archie looks really cute. Jughead also looks cute. Betty looks cute.
From my internet searching, I gather that the new comics will have a Twin Peaks twist. I am up for anything described as having a Twin Peaks twist.
title: Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2)
author: Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham
date of publication: 25 March 2015
I read the first one and really enjoyed it. It was a solid mystery novel in my opinion. It also helps that I'm already so attached to Veronica as a character. So, I'm definitely picking up this one when it comes out.
If you haven't watch the Veronica Mars series. Get on it. Trust me.
If you haven't watch the Veronica Mars series. Get on it. Trust me.
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