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-A-

Adler, C.S.
     
     Good-bye Pink Pig

Aguirre, Ann

     • Sirantha Jax Series
        Grimspace
        Wanderlust
        Doubleblind


Ahdieh, Renee

     The Rose & the Dagger

Alcott, Louisa May

     Rose in Bloom

Alexander, Cassie
     
    • The Edie Spence series
       Nightshifted
       Moonshifted
       Shapeshifted
       Deadshifted

Alexander, Lloyd

     • The Westmark Trilogy
        Westmark
        The Kestrel

Alexander, Tasha

     • The Lady Emily Ashton Series
        And Only to Deceive
        A Poisoned Season

Alexie, Sherman


Allen, Sarah Addison

     Garden Spells

Anderson, Jodi Lynn

     Tiger Lily

Anderson, Lily
    
     The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You

Anderson, R.J.

     • The Faery Rebels Series
        Spell Hunter

Andrews, Ilona

     • The Kate Daniels Series
        Magic Bites
        Magic Burns
        Magic Strikes
        Magic Bleeds
       
 Magic Slays

        Magic Dreams

     • The Edge Series
        On the Edge
        Bayou Moon

      • The World of Kinsmen       
        Silent Blade


      • Hidden Legacy
         Burn for Me

Armstrong, Kelley

     • The Women of the Underworld Series
        Bitten

Ashe, Katharine
     
     • Devil's Duke
       The Prince

-B-

Baratz-Logsted, Lauren

     Crazy Beautiful

Bardugo, Leigh

     Six of Crows
      Crooked Kingdom

Bennett, Jenn

 • The Arcadia Bell Series     
   Kindling the Moon 

Benway, Robin

     Audrey, Wait!

Berry, Liz

     The China Garden

Bezzant, Pat

     Angie

Bickle, Laura

     Embers

Bishop, Anne


  • The Others
     Written in Red 

Black, Holly

  • The Modern Faerie Tales
     Valiant

Blackman, Malorie

   • The Noughts & Crosses Sequence
      Noughts & Crosses


Bouchet, Amanda

      The Kingmaker Chronicles
        A Promise of Fire

Bow, Erin

     Sorrow's Knot
Bowen, Sarina

     • The Ivy Years     
        The Year We Hid Away
Bracken, Alexandra

     Brightly Woven

Brashares, Ann

     The Last Summer (of You & Me)
Bray, Libba

     • The Gemma Doyle Series
        The Sweet Far Thing

Brennan, Sarah Rees

      • The Demon's Lexicon Trilogy    
        The Demon's Lexicon
        The Demon's Covenant
       
 The Demon's Surrender

Brent, Madeleine


Briggs, Patricia

     • The Mercy Thompson Series
        Iron Kissed
        Bone Crossed
        Silver Borne

     • The Alpha and Omega Series
        Cry Wolf
        Hunting Ground
        Fair Game
        Burn Bright

Brooks, Martha


Brower, Beth

     The Q

     • The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion 
        Volumes 1 & 2

Bunce, Elizabeth C.

     A Curse Dark as Gold

Burden, Meg

   • The Tales of the Borderlands   
      Northlander


Burnett, Frances Hodgson

     The Secret Garden

-C-

Caine, Rachel

     • The Weather Warden Series
        Ill Wind
        Heat Stroke
        Chill Factor
        Windfall
        Firestorm
        Thin Air

Capps, Benjamin

     A Woman of the People

Carlson, Sarah J.

     All the Walls of Belfast

Carriger, Gail

     • The Parasol Protectorate
        Soulless

     • Claw & Courtship
        How to Marry a Werewolf

Cashore, Kristin

     Graceling
     Fire

Choi, Mary H. K.

     Emergency Contact

Clayborn, Kate

    • Chance of a Lifetime   
       Luck of the Draw

Colgan, Jenny
   
     • The Summer Seaside Kitchen
        The Café by the Sea
        The Endless Beach


Collins, Suzanne

     • The Hunger Games Trilogy
        The Hunger Games
        Catching Fire
        Mockingjay

Collison, Linda

     Star-Crossed

Colwin, Laurie

     Happy All the Time

Condie, Ally

     Matched

Connolly, Tina

     Ironskin

Cooper, Susan

     • The Dark is Rising Sequence
        The Grey King

     Seaward

Cornwell, Autumn

     Carpe Diem

Cotugno, Katie


     How to Love

Costa, Annabelle

     Harvard Hottie

Crane, Carolyn

     • The Disillusionists Trilogy
        Mind Games

Creagh, Kelly

     Nevermore

Creasy, Sara

     Song of Scarabaeus
     Children of Scarabaeus


Crowley, Cath

     Graffiti Moon
Crusie, Jennifer

     Bet Me
     Maybe This Time

Crutcher, Chris

     Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Cypess, Leah

     Mistwood

-D-

Daniels, J.C.
     
     • The Colbana Files
        Blade Song
        Night Blade

Dare, Tessa

     • Girl Meets Duke            
        The Governess Game
     
Dessen, Sarah


Dexter, Susan

     • The Warhorse of Esdragon Trilogy
        The Prince of Ill Luck
        The Wind-Witch

Dolamore, Jaclyn

     Magic Under Glass


Doller, Trish

     Something Like Normal

Donaldson, Julianne

     Edenbrooke

Dolan, Lian

     Elizabeth the First Wife
Duncan, Lois

     Locked in Time

Dunkle, Clare B.

     • The Hollow Kingdom Trilogy
        The Hollow Kingdom
        Close Kin
        In the Coils of the Snake

Duran, Meredith

      • Rules for the Reckless    
        Fool Me Twice

Durst, Sarah Beth

     Ice

-E-

Eagar, Kirsty

    
 Raw Blue

Eaton, Jillian


  The Bow Street Brides
    A Dangerous Proposal
 
Echols, Jennifer

     Going Too Far
     Forget You

     Such a Rush

Elkeles, Simone

     • The Perfect Chemistry Trilogy   
        Perfect Chemistry
        Rules of Attraction
   
      • Leaving Paradise Series   
        Leaving Paradise
        Return to Paradise

-F-

Fitzpatrick, Becca

     Hush, Hush

Fitzpatrick, Huntley

     My Life Next Door
     The Boy Most Likely To

Flinn, Alex

     Beastly

Florand, Laura

     • Amour et Chocolat
       The Chocolate Thief
       The Chocolate Kiss
       The Chocolate Touch

     • Paris Nights
        Chase Me

Forman, Gayle

     If I Stay 
     Where She Went

Freitas, Donna
   
     This Gorgeous Game

Freymann-Weyr, Garret
     
     My Heartbeat
Frost, Jeaniene

     • The Night Huntress Series
        Halfway to the Grave
        One Foot in the Grave

-G-

Gaughen, A. C.
     
     Scarlet
     Lady Thief

Galbraith, Robert

     • Cormoran Strike
        Career of Evil

Gee, Emily


George, Jessica Day


George, McKelle


     Speak Easy, Speak Love

Gibbons, Stella

     Cold Comfort Farm

Gillard, Linda

     Emotional Geology  
     House of Silence   
     Star Gazing

     Untying the Knot
Godbersen, Anna

     • The Luxe Series
        The Luxe
        Rumors
        Envy

Golden, Christopher

     When Rose Wakes

Grant, K.M.

     • The de Granville Trilogy
        Blood Red Horse


Graves, Tracey Garvis

     On the Island
Green, John

     Paper Towns

Greene, Bette


Guillory, Jasmine

     The Wedding Date

-H-

Haines, Lise


Hale, Shannon

     • The Books of Bayern    
        Enna Burning


Halpern, Julie

     Get Well Soon

Hanff, Helene


Harmon, Elizabeth

     Pairing Off

Harris, Charlaine


     • The Southern Vampire Series
        From Dead to Worse
        Dead and Gone
        Dead in the Family

     • The Harper Connelly Series
        An Ice Cold Grave
        Grave Secret

Harrison, Mette Ivie

     The Princess and the Hound

Hazelwood, Ali


Healey, Judith Koll

     The Canterbury Papers

Henry, Christina
     
     • The Chronicles of Alice
        Alice

Heyer, Georgette

     The Convenient Marriage
     The Nonesuch

Hieber, Leanna Renee

     • The Strangely Beautiful Series

Higgins, Kristan

     All I Ever Wanted
     Until There Was You
     Catch of the Day
     The Best Man

Hinton, S.E.

     The Outsiders

Hoang, Helen

     The Kiss Quotient

Hoban, Julia

     Willow

Hodge, Rosamund

     Cruel Beauty
     Gilded Ashes

Honeyman, Gail

    Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Huber, Anna Lee
     The Anatomist's Wife

-I-

Ibbotson, Eva


-J-

James, Julie

     Practice Makes Perfect
     Something About You


Jay, Stacey

     Juliet Immortal

Johnson, Alissa

     Nearly a Lady

Johnson, Maureen

     Suite Scarlett

Jones, Carrie

     Need

-K-

Kantra, Virginia

     Carolina Home


Karr, Julia
     
     XVI

Katherine, Anna

     Salt and Silver

Kaufman, Amie & Kristoff, Jay
  
    • The Illuminae Files
       Gemina

Kay, Guy Gavriel

     Tigana

     • The Fionavar Tapestry
        The Summer Tree 

Kearsley, Susanna

     The Winter Sea

     A Desperate Fortune

Kelly, Tara

     Harmonic Feedback

Kemmerer, Brigid


     A Curse So Dark and Lonely 
     More Than We Can Tell

Keplinger, Kody

     The DUFF

Keyes, Pamela

     The Jumbee

Kiernan, Celine

     • The Moorehawke Trilogy
        The Poison Throne
King, Laurie R.

     • The Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes Series
        The Language of Bees

King, Stephen

     It

Kingsolver, Barbara

     Animal Dreams

Kinsella, Sophie

     I've Got Your Number

Kirby, Jessi

     Golden

Kleypas, Lisa

     • Friday Harbor Series
        Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

       Travis Family Series
        Blue-Eyed Devil

      • The Wallflowers        
         Devil in Winter

Knowles, John

     A Separate Peace

Knox, Ruthie
    
     Big Boy
     Truly

Kurland, Lynn

     • The Nine Kingdoms Series
        Star of the Morning
        The Mage's Daughter

Kushner, Ellen


-L-

Lackey, Mercedes

     • The Heralds of Valdemar Series
        Arrows of the Queen

LaFevers, Robin

     • His Fair Assassin Trilogy
        Grave Mercy
        Dark Triumph

Leavitt, Martine

     Keturah and Lord Death

Lee, Tanith

     The Claidi Journals

L'Engle, Madeleine

     And Both Were Young


      The Austin Family Chronicles
        The Young Unicorns

Lerner, Rose

     
In for a Penny
     A Lily Among Thorns 

Lindner, April

     Jane
Lippman, Laura

     • The Tess Monaghan Series
        Baltimore Blues
        Charm City
        Butchers Hill
        In Big Trouble

Llewellyn, Richard

    
 How Green Was My Valley
Lockhart, E.


Long, Julie Anne
     
• The Palace of Rogues
        Lady Derring Takes a Lover

Lorimer, Janet


-M-

Maas, Sarah J.

     A Court of Mist and Fury 

Mackall, Dandi Daley
     
     Eva Underground

Mackler, Carolyn
     
     Tangled


MacLean, Sarah

     • Love by Numbers Series
       Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

      Scandal & Scoundrel
        A Scot in the Dark

     • The Bareknuckle Bastards
        Wicked and the Wallflower

Mafi, Tahereh


     • Shatter Me Series     
        Shatter Me
       Unravel Me

Malley, Gemma

     The Declaration

Manning, Sarra

     Unsticky
Mantchev, Lisa

     • The Théâtre Illuminata Series
        Eyes Like Stars

Marchetta, Melina

     Jellicoe Road

Marillier, Juliet

     • The Sevenwaters Series
        Daughter of the Forest
        Son of the Shadows
        Heir to Sevenwaters

     • The Wildwood Series
        Cybele's Secret

Marion, Isaac

     Warm Bodies

Marney, Ellie

     Every Breath
     Every Word

Marr, Melissa

     • The Wicked Lovely Series
        Ink Exchange
        Fragile Eternity
        Radiant Shadows
        "Stopping Time"
        Darkest Mercy

Marriott, Zoë


Marston, Ann

     • The Rune Blade Trilogy
        Kingmaker's Sword

Martinez, Jessica

     Virtuosity

Massey, Misty

     Mad Kestrel

Mayberry, Sarah

     Her Best Worst Mistake

McDonald, Sandra

     The Outback Stars

McFarlane, Mhairi

     If I Never Met You
     Don’t You Forget About Me

McGarry, Katie

     Pushing the Limits

McGuire, Jamie

     Beautiful Disaster

McKillip, Patricia A.

     The Changeling Sea

     The Book of Atrix Wolfe
McKinley, Robin

     Dragonhaven  
     Chalice
     Rose Daughter

     Sunshine

McMann, Lisa

     • The Dream Catcher Trilogy
        Wake
        Fade

Mead, Richelle

     • The Vampire Academy Series
        Vampire Academy
        Frostbite
        Shadow Kiss
        Blood Promise

Meyer, Marissa

     • The Lunar Chronicles
        Cinder
        Scarlet
        Cress
        Winter

Meyer, Stephenie

     • The Twilight Series
        Breaking Dawn

     The Host

Michaels, Charis

      Brides of Belgravia
        Any Groom Will Do

Milan, Courtney

     • The Turner Brothers
       Unraveled

      The Brothers Sinister
       The Governess Affair

Millay, Katja

     The Sea of Tranquility

Miller, Madeline


     The Song of Achilles
     Circe

Moning, Karen Marie

     • The Fever Series
        Darkfever
Monk, Devon

     • The Allie Beckstrom Series
        Magic to the Bone

Moore, Moira J.

     • The Hero Series
        Resenting the Hero
        The Hero Strikes Back
        Heroes Adrift
        Heroes at Risk
        Heroes Return

        Heroes at Odds

Moriarty, Liane

     What Alice Forgot
-N-

Nelson, Jandy

     The Sky is Everywhere

Nix, Garth

    • The Abhorsen Trilogy
        Sabriel

Nixon, Joan Lowery


Norton, Andre

     • The Gryphon Trilogy

Novik, Naomi

     Uprooted     
     Spinning Silver

-O-

Ockler, Sarah

     The Book of Broken Hearts

O'Dell, Scott

     The Road to Damietta

O'Leary, Beth


     The Flatshare

Oates, Joyce Carol

     Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

-P-

Pace, Alison
     
     If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend

Pagliassotti, Dru

     Clockwork Heart

Palmer, Liza

     Seeing Me Naked
     More Like Her
     Nowhere But Home
     Girl Before a Mirror

Park, Jessica

     Flat-Out Love

Park, Patricia

     Re Jane

Parr, Allison

     Rush Me

Peet, Mal

     Tamar

Perkins, Stephanie

     Anna and the French Kiss

     Lola and the Boy Next Door

Peterfreund, Diana

     • The Secret Society Girl Series
        Secret Society Girl
        Under the Rose
        Tap & Gown

     • The Killer Unicorns Series

Peters, Elizabeth

• The Amelia Peabody Series
        Crocodile on the Sandbank
     
• The Vicky Bliss Series
        Borrower of the Night

Pierce, Meredith Ann

     • The Darkangel Trilogy
        The Darkangel
Pierce, Tamora

• The Song of the Lioness Quartet
        Alanna: the First Adventure
   
• The Beka Cooper Trilogy
        Bloodhound

Prior, Hazel

     Ellie and the Harpmaker

Pryce, Evelyn

     A Man Above Reproach
     The Thirteenth Earl

Pullman, Philip

     • The Sally Lockhart Series
        The Ruby in the Smoke

-Q-

     • Bridgertons

-R-

Raybourn, Deanna

     • The Lady Julia Grey Series
        Silent in the Grave
        Silent on the Moor
        Dark Road to Darjeeling
       
 The Dark Enquiry

     The Dead Travel Fast

     A Spear of Summer Grass

     • Veronica Speedwell
        A Curious Beginning
        A Perilous Undertaking

Richardson, Kat

     • The Greywalker Series
        Greywalker
        Poltergeist
        Underground

Richland, Anna

     His Road Home

Ritter, William
     Jackaby

Rivers, Mary Ann

     The Story Guy
     Snowfall

    • The Burnside Series
       Live  

Roberson, Jennifer

     • The Robin Hood Duology
        Lady of the Forest

     • The Sword-Dancer Saga
        Sword-Dancer

Rosoff, Meg

     How I Live Now   
     What I Was
     The Bride's Farewell

Rowell, Rainbow

     Fangirl
     Eleanor & Park
     Landline

     • Simon Snow
        Wayward Son

-S-

Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

     Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe


Sagara, Michelle

     • The Chronicles of Elantra
        Cast in Shadow

Sandell, Lisa Ann

     Song of theSparrow

Saunders, Kate

     Bachelor Boys

Schroeder, Lisa

     Chasing Brooklyn

     Falling for You

Schwab, V.E.
   
     A Darker Shade of Magic

Scott, Elizabeth

     Bloom
     Heartbeat

Serle, Rebecca

     When You Were Mine

Sfar, Joann

     The Professor's Daughter

Shaffer, Mary Ann

     The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society


Shalvis, Jill

     • The Lucky Harbor Series
        Simply Irresistible
        It Had to Be You

Shearin, Lisa

     • The Raine Benares Series
        Armed & Magical

Shinn, Sharon

     • The Samaria Series
        Angel-Seeker     

     • The Twelve Houses Series
        Reader and Raelynx
        Fortune and Fate

     • The Safe-Keeper's Trilogy
        The Dream-Maker's Magic

     Summers at Castle Auburn

     • Shifting Circle Series
        Still Life with Shapeshifter

Shulman, Polly

     Enthusiasm
Sinclair, Linnea

     • The Dock Five Universe Series
        Gabriel's Ghost
        Hope's Folly


Singh, Nalini

     • The Guild Hunter Series
        Angel's Blood

Siplin, Karen

     Whiskey Road

Sloan, Holly Goldberg

     I'll Be There


Smith, Jennifer E.

     The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
     This is What Happy Looks Like
Smith, Sherwood


Smith-Ready, Jeri

     • The WVMP Radio Series
        Wicked Game
        Bad to the Bone

Snyder, Maria V.

     • The Study Trilogy
        Poison Study
        Magic Study
        Fire Study

Sones, Sonya

     What My Mother Doesn't Know


Sorensen, Jessica

     The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden 

Speare, Elizabeth George

     Calico Captive
Spooner, Meagan

      Hunted

Stevenson, D.E.


Stewart, Mary


Stiefvater, Maggie

     • The Books of Faerie Series

     • The Wolves of Mercy Falls Series
        Shiver
        Linger
       
 Forever

        Sinner

     The Scorpio Races

      • Raven Cycle  
        The Raven Boys
        The Dream Thieves
        Blue Lily, Lily Blue
        The Raven King
     

       • Dreamer Trilogy
          Call Down the Hawk

Stork, Francisco X.

     Marcelo in the Real World

Summers, Courtney

     Some Girls Are


Sumners, Shelle

     Grace Grows

-T-

Thomas, Sherry
    
     • The Elemental Trilogy
        The Burning Sky

     The Luckiest Lady in London

     • Lady Sherlock
     A Study in Scarlet Women
     A Conspiracy in Belgravia
     The Hollow of Fear

Thornton, Rosy
     
     The Tapestry of Love

Turnbull, Ann


Turner, Megan Whalen

     • The Queen's Thief Series
        The Thief
        The Queen of Attolia
        The King of Attolia
        A Conspiracy of Kings

-V-

Vincent, Rachel

     • Shifters Series
        Rogue
        Pride
        Prey

Voigt, Cynthia

     • The Tillerman Cycle
        Seventeen Against the Dealer

Volsky, Paula

     Illusion

-W-

Webber, Tammara
     
     Easy

Werlin, Nancy

     Impossible

Whelan, Julia

     My Oxford Year

Whitcomb, Laura 
     

     • The Light Series    
        A Certain Slant of Light
        Under the Light 

White, Ellen Emerson


     • The President's Daughter Series

Wiess, Laura

     Such a Pretty Girl

     Me Since You

Wilks, Eileen

     • World of the Lupi     
        Tempting Danger
Wilson, C.L.

     • The Tairen Soul Series

Wright, Nina

     Sensitive

-Y-

Yarros, Rebecca


Yoon, Nicola

     Everything, Everything

Young, Samantha
    
     • On Dublin Street Series
        Down London Road

-Z-

Zarr, Sara


     How to Save a Life

Zusak, Markus

     I am the Messenger

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I've been a bit scarce round these parts of late and I feel badly about it. But there is a good reason and I've been waiting until today to share it with you. Just so I could include one rather pertinent detail. It's a boy! Fortunately I'm at the point where I'm starting to feel better, so things should soon start resembling business as usual around here. I, for one, am relieved.

Forever Blog Tour + Giveaway!

I'm awfully excited to be a part of this unique blog tour in celebration of the release of Forever by the insanely talented Maggie Stiefvater .  Scholastic recently launched an online community called  This Is Teen  to connect readers with their favorite YA authors and books. Visit their page on   Facebook   for all the latest news on   Maggie Stiefvater   and   Forever .  Each stop on the tour is hosting a particular character from the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, and I have the good luck to be the stop for Sam--my favorite emo-wolfboy!  Sam is so very endearing, in a decidedly non-angsty or overt way. His breathtaking blend of maturity and vulnerability tugs at my heartstrings and the strength of his relationship with Grace is unswerving.  He is warm and thoughtful and artistic, and I liked him right from the start of the series . Because I can't resist, here are two of my favorite Sam quotes, the first from Grace's point of view in  Shiver and the second from Sam&

Angie's 2024 Must Be Mine

  As ever, begin as you mean to go on. And so here are my most anticipated titles of 2024: And no covers on these yet, but I'm looking forward to them every bit as much: The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 8 by Beth Brower Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan Skybriar by Talia Hibbert Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell Father Material by Alexis Hall The Duke at Hazard by K.J. Charles Hell's Belle's book four by Sarah MacLean What titles are on your list?