It’s Tuesday again, which means it’s time to fangirl about books (or fanboy, in some cases). Today on Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) we’re going to talk about our “Most Anticipated Books of the First Half of 2020”. A lot of times I have difficulty coming up with ten books that I’m looking forward to in the next six months, but I came up with 10 this year.
I’m so looking forward to Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Gold. I pre-ordered it in 2018, and finally… we’re less than 2 months away from its release date!
Then there’s The Kingdom of Back, another March 3rd release. I know there’s going to be some overlap on this list with Books I Hope to Haul in 2020, but there are just some books I can’t stop looking forward to.
Renée Ahdieh’s The Damned is supposed to come out on June 9th, which is the first half of the year. I liked The Beautiful and am looking forward to reading this one.
I thought about putting Four Dead Queens on my favorite books of 2019 list, but it was definitely good enough for me to read Astrid Scholte’s The Vanishing Deep, which comes out… March 3rd. I pre-ordered this book on audiobook, because I just don’t have enough time to read all these March 3rd releases.
10 Things I Hate About Pinky comes out on June 30th… which counts as the first half of this year. I have an ARC of this book, but I haven’t had the chance to read this one yet.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes covers the tenth Hunger Games. I’m looking forward to reading about the early days of this dystopian society.
Veronica Roth is one of my auto-buy authors, and I can’t wait to read about Chosen Ones, her adult debut.
I adored Sky Without Stars, and am so looking forward to the conclusion, Between Burning Worlds. This is another March release, but it’s not coming out until March 24th, so I have a little bit of breathing room between that and the deluge of March 3rd releases.
Spectacle was one of my favorite books from 2019 and although I have an ARC for the sequel, Sensational, I haven’t had the chance to read it yet. This one comes out in February!
Today, Tonight, Tomorrow by Rachael Lynn Solomon sounds so good. I always love enemies to lovers stories… and one set around graduation? Sounds good.
So those are some of my most anticipated books for the first half of 2020! Next week we’re going to talk about bookish discoveries I made in 2019. I’m not sure how I’m going to interpret that one yet, but we’ll see what we come up with! What books are you looking forward to this year? I’m sure my TBR is going to expand this week.
The Vanishing Deep is pretty new to me (just saw it the other day scouring Goodreads lists ha!) but it sounds awesome. The new Suzanne Collins too!!
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I hope we both get to read them this year! It was featured on Bookish First and I thought about getting an ARC of it (to buy with my points), but I was too late.
At the one hand I am tempted by Cassandra Clare’s books but I need to be in a specific mood to read them. I still have to finish The Infernal Devices. Luckily for me she tends to get translated so I can get them from the library when I want to.
Anyway great list. 🙂
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Thank you! Clare says you don’t have to read The Infernal Devices before reading Chain of Gold, BUT I’m guessing it would be a better experience if you did.
Great list! Chosen Ones made my list this week, too, and I’d really like to try Sandhya Menon’s work.
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Yay! I’m so glad Sandhya is local to me, because her books are so funny (although the Of Curses and Kisses series is a little more serious) and sweet. If she hadn’t spoken at the Colorado Teen Literature Conference last year I might still be thinking that I’d read her books someday.
Oh hello, 10 Things I hate About Pinky and The Vanishing Deep — I’m loving these covers! There are more than a couple here I haven’t heard of before, and look so good!
The Pinky model looks so happy!
I’m so excited for the Hunger Games prequel.
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I think a lot of people will be reading that!
I am really curious about The Kingdom of Back. Hope all of these are great reads!
Thank you!
Chain of Gold and Kingdom of Back both made my list as well. 🙂
Happy Reading!
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There are so many good books coming out!
The Kingdom of Back is one that’s on my TBR!
Yay! I’m supposed to get an ARC but I might have to contact Bookish First about it since it hasn’t arrived yet.
So many of these sound like books I would love to read. I need to pull Wildcard up on my phone and listen to the audiobook at some point this year. I really enjoyed Warcross. The Kingdom of Back looks good too–and I love that cover. I am really looking forward to reading Spectacle, and so am glad to hear you loved it. Sky Without Stars is another one I am looking forward to reading. And of course, both of those books’ sequels which you feature here sound awesome as well. I hope you get to all of these and love them! Have a great week!
Thank you, you too! TKoB just arrived in my mailbox this afternoon, and it is even more beautiful than in pictures! The finished copy will probably be even prettier. I hope you like Wildcard when you get to it.
I am dying for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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That’s going to be popular this summer.
I have seen The Vanishing Deep on a few other lists. That cover is haunting. Hope you love it!
Thank you! I hope the audiobook is well-narrated. I read the first few chapters when it was on Bookish First, and it seems like it’ll be a good audiobook fit. There are some books that, for me, don’t do well in audiobook form. Furyborn was one of them because it jumped back and forth in time and I found that confusing… in a print book I would have just flipped the pages to help keep track of the timelines.