2016 Must Be Mine List

I feel ready for a new year's reads. Do you? These are the ones I'm salivating over the most:

And no covers on these yet, but the anxiousness I feel is no less real:

The Inexplicable Logic of My Heart by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Thirteenth Earl by Evelyn Pryce

The Howling Boy by Cath Crowley

Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Rookie Move by Sarina Bowen

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn

A Scot in the Dark by Sarah MacLean

Tell me. Which titles are you languishing away for?

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