I know I’m a week (and a day) late in this, and there will be loads of books already out – but that means there’s loads more books already out (Trying to be a bit more positive this year)! I tried to get this done yesterday, but stuff happened and I couldn’t get back to this.
I’m also going to try something new with my formatting of this series. Let me know what you think! Do you like the new way? Prefer the old way? Have no comments or concerns?
January 7, 2025
Amber arrives home one spring afternoon on her bike. As soon as her mother sees her, she screams. Why? Because Amber’s been dead seven years – hit by a car on the very bike she pulled up to the house in.
By: Gayle Forman
Bletchley Park. London. 1923. Dragons soar through the skies, but Vivian Featherswallow isn’t worried, she’s going to study the dragon language and make sure her little sister doesn’t have to grow up in Third Class. But by midnight, civil war has started. Viv is recruited for a codebreaker job to save her family – but the more she learns, the harder it is for her to distinguish what what war she’s actually fighting.
By: S.F. Williamson
A dystopian, water covered world where a family tries to save the history of humans while creating a settlement on top of New York City’s National History Museum.
By: Eiren Caffall
A sapphic YA debut novel that follows two girls has they fall in love, fighting for survival in an abandoned bookstore.
By: Lily Braun-Arnold
January 14, 2025
Written in prose and verse, this YA novel following sixteen-year-old Carmela as she’s finally able to help in her mother’s apothecary in the Campo Marzio neighborhood of Rome. But the workroom is no simple place, for every simple ingredient, there is else even less pleasant, and Carmela begins to find out the secrets she never bargained for.
By: Joy McCullough
What would you do if you found a magical bookstore that transports you back through time to be face-to-face with your teenage self?
By: Edward Underhill
A multi-level, page turning murder novel about pyramid schemes.
By: Maria Abrams
January 21, 2025
Ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr is now at the reservation where her father grew up: they need a new tribal marshal to help with the women who have disappeared from the rez. Now, local college student is missing and Starr begins drown in memories of her own daughter’s murder. As she works on the cases, Starr can’t shake the feeling of a fearsome spirit watching her, one of a woman with antlers of a deer.
By: Laurie L. Dove
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