TTT - Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.

I'm actually signed on for that Artsy Reader Girl's 2015 Debut Author challenge (12 debut YA authors in 2015), so this TTT may end up being an incredibly useful reference for me in coming months!  I tried to pick a couple of obscure ones so that my list isn't a mirror of everyone's, but... we'll see.  Right now the only debut books that are really being promoted are the ones being published in the first half of the year, so I'm sure as time passes there will be even more books to be excited about!

Top Ten Most Anticipated 2015 Debut Novels (in my opinion)

(in order of release dates)

1. City of Savages - Lee Kelly

     February 3rd, 2015

     As someone who works in midtown Manhattan and lives in Brooklyn, the idea of cannibals in the subway tunnels really doesn't sound that absurd or futuristic ;P.  I feel like this book could be to Manhattan what Neverwhere was to London.  Or well no, not at all, but I like the idea of setting a futuristic story in a familiar place.  I'm sure it's been done before, but I can't think of any that I've read that turned the island of Manhattan into a POW camp (and didn't include zombies).

TTT - Top Ten New-To-Me Authors I Read in 2014

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish.

It's also a lot harder than I anticipated to stay on top of in light of the holidays/stuff.  I have drafts for the past three sitting in my blogger, but none of them completed in time to post!  What I've come to realize through writing this post is that I had a serious Trilogy thing going in 2014... Maybe I'll start a Trilogy Thursday thing and bring you all up to speed on my thoughts :)

Top Ten New-to-me Authors I Found in 2014

     

    

1) Marie Lu - Legend, Prodigy & Champion
         I know, everyone's been shouting the praises of this series for years, my mother and brother (who doesn't read willingly) included.  Blame it on college, but I never really bothered to pick the books up until my post-graduation binge-read.  On the plus side that meant I was able to binge read all three books in one weekend without having to wait years and years between them.  Might make me seem like less of a fan and more of a bandwagon jumper but with this series that's exactly what I was.  I haven't read her newest book yet, but I'm on the library waiting list!

TTT - Top Ten Books I Want to Re-Read

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at the Broke and the Bookish, I've been meaning to jump in for a while now, but was waiting for a TTT list that I definitely had answers for!

I could basically put any book I've ever liked on this list; I love to re-read.  I like finding new in the familiar and the feeling of coming home.  When I was a smidgen I basically only read Harry Potter and the Tamora Pierce series.  Just those books, over and over and over again.  Now that I'm older and have less free time, I feel kind of guilty when I re-read... is that weird? I think it's weird.

So anyway, for this list I tried to stick with books that I've really been thinking about re-reading lately...

TOP TEN BOOKS I WANT TO RE-READ:

(in no particular order)

1. The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan  

Probably because I've been reading The Blood of Olympus, I've been feeling super nostalgic about the original quintet... especially the big finale. Mostly I just want to relive the big turning points for sixteen year old Percy and see how they differ from the boy at the end of the Heroes series.  Kid can't catch a break.