21 Anticipated YA Reads of September
Hi everyone :) I wanted to share a list of books with you that I am dying to read. If you would rather watch me talk about these books this is the link to my video on YouTube.
Lets get started:
1. The Body Institute by Carol Riggs comes out on September 1,2015. This is a Sci-Fi Dystopian. It kind of reminds me of Starters by Lissa Price-Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Morgan can temporarily take over another girl’s body, get her in shape, and then return to her own body—leaving her client slimmer, more toned, and feeling great.
2. The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly comes out September 1, 2015. This is a Mystery-Thriller. -It started with the murdered deer in the playground with the unmistakable purple of a foxglove in its mouth.
3. Catacomb by Madeleine Roux comes out September 1, 2015. This is a Horror paranormal mystery. The third book in the Asylum trilogy. -For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it's a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane.
4. Mary-Unleashed by Hillary Monahan comes out September 8, 2015. This is a Horror re-telling of Bloody Mary the urban legend of the lady in the mirror who comes to kill you when you say her name three times. This is the sequel to Mary-The Summoning. - There is a right way and a wrong way to summon her. Jess had done the research. Success requires precision: a dark room, a mirror, a candle, salt, and four teenage girls. Each of them--Jess, Shauna, Kitty, and Anna--must link hands, follow the rules . . . and never let go.
5. Dark Shimmer by Donna Jo Napoli comes out September 8, 2015. This is a Snow White Re-telling. With the Evil Queen as the main character. -Dolce has grown up hidden away on an island in a lagoon. She is a giant, a freak, tormented by everyone but her loving mother. She spends her time learning the valuable secret of making mirrors. Following a tragedy, Dolce swims away and lands on an island where people see her as normal, even beautiful. Marin, a kind widower, and his little daughter bring Dolce to live with them in their grand palazzo. Eventually, Dolce and Marin marry. She secretly continues to make mirrors, not realizing that quicksilver endangers her . . . and so evil begins in innocence.
6. Edgewater by Courtney Sheinmel comes out September 8, 2015. This is a Contemporary Mystery Thriller. It sort of reminds me of Compulsion by Martina Boone. -Lorrie Hollander used to be a rich girl, but now she’s lost everything because of the secrets and lies of the people around her. It’s been 12 years since Lorrie’s mother skipped town and left Lorrie in the care of her unstable aunt Gigi. Together they live in a neglected, decrepit mansion called Edgewater, the eyesore in a town of extraordinary wealth and privilege.
7. The Boy Meets Girl Massacre by Ainslie Hogarth comes out September 8, 2015. This is a Horror Mystery. -Noelle takes a summer nightshift job at the infamous Boy Meets Girl Inn, even though she's well aware of the grisly murders that happened there decades ago. That's why she has a diary—to write down everything she experiences in case things go bump in the night. But the cryptic and often incoherent entries suggest there is more to the bizarre case than can be rationally explained...
8. Drift and Dagger by Kendall Kulper comes out September 8, 2015. This is a Fantasy Historical Fiction about witches. - As a boy in the late nineteenth century, Mal's only friend was Essie, daughter of the Roe witch, and it was she who discovered that he is a "blank," not affected by magic, setting him on a career as a con artist, traveling the globe in search of a legendary magical dagger that can steal a witch's power.
9. The Suffering by Rin Chupeco comes out September 8, 2015. This is the sequel to The Girl From The Well. This is a Horror Paranormal Mystery re-telling of the Japanese movie The Ring. - A dead girl walks the streets.She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago.
10. The Dead House by Dawn Kurtagich comes out September 15, 2015. This is a Horror Mystery Thriller. - Over two decades have passed since the fire at Elmbridge High, an inferno that took the lives of three teenagers. Not much was known about the events leading up to the tragedy - only that one student, Carly Johnson, vanished without a trace......until a diary is found hidden in the ruins. The case has been reopened. Police records are being reexamined: psychiatric reports, video footage, text messages, e-mails. And the diary.
11. Lock and Mori by Heather W. Petty comes out September 15, 2015. This is a Mystery re-telling of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty. It's also a romance and thriller. This has a feel of a CW t.v. show. - In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students, one Sherlock Holmes and a Miss James "Mori" Moriarty, meet. A murder will bring them together. The truth very well might drive them apart.
12. Ash & Bramble by Sarah Prineas comes out September 15,2015. This is a YA Fairy-tale re-telling of Cinderella. -Pin has no recollection of who she is or how she got to the Godmother’s fortress. She only knows that she is a Seamstress, working day in and out to make ball gowns fit for fairy tales. But she longs to forsake her backbreaking servitude and dares to escape with the brave young Shoemaker. Pin isn’t free for long before she’s captured again and forced to live the new life the Godmother chooses for her—a fairy tale story, complete with a charming prince—instead of finding her own happily ever after.
13. Bits & Pieces by Jonathan Mayberry comes out September 22, 2015. This is a collection of new short-stories that take place in the Rot& Ruin world along with all of the novellas that were published in ebook form. Plus the script for the Rot & Ruin comic book. -In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
14. The Sleeper & The Spindle by Neil Gaimen comes out September 22, 2015. This is a collection of short story fairy-tales in a graphic novel format. Illustrated by Chris Riddell. -In this captivating and darkly funny tale, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have twisted together the familiar and the new as well as the beautiful and the wicked to tell a brilliant version of Snow White's (sort of) and Sleeping Beauty's (almost) stories.
15. Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs comes out September 22, 2015. This is the third and final book in the Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children. This is a YA Historical fiction paranormal fantasy. -A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.
16. The Murdstone Trilogy by Mal Peet comes out September 22, 2015. This is a YA fantasy about books with a splash of dark humor. -Award-winning YA author Philip Murdstone is in trouble. His star has waned. The world is leaving him behind. His agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip—allergic to the faintest trace of Tolkien—is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.
17. Beastly Bones by William Ritter comes out September 22, 2015. This is the sequel to Jackaby a YA Historical Fiction Paranormal Mystery. -Doctor Who meets Sherlock. Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job, Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
18. This Monstrous Thing by Mackenzi Lee comes out September 22, 2015. This is a YA Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Historical Fiction re-telling of Frankenstein. - In 1818 Geneva, men built with clockwork parts live hidden away from society, cared for only by illegal mechanics called Shadow Boys. Two years ago, Shadow Boy Alasdair Finch’s life shattered to bits. Then comes the publication of Frankenstein and the city intensifies its search for Shadow Boys, aiming to discover the real life doctor and his monster.
19. Ungodly by Kendare Blake comes out September 22, 2015. This is the third and final book in a YA Greek mythology re-telling with a hint of romance. The first book is Antigoddess.- Old Gods never die…Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health. Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god. These days, Cassandra doesn’t involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn’t even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning. The Goddess War is about to begin.
20. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo comes out September 29, 2015. This is a YA High Fantasy set in the same world as Leigh Bardugo's debut series the Grisha Trilogy starting with Shadow and Bone. In this spin off series -Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone...Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.
21. Sanctuary by Jennifer McKissack comes out September 29, 2015. This is a Gothic YA mystery thriller.- After the untimely death of her aunt Laura, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to Sanctuary, a rambling, old French-Gothic mansion that crowns a remote island off the coast of Maine. Cecilia is both drawn to and repulsed by Sanctuary. The scent of the ocean intoxicates her, but she's also haunted by the ghosts of her past--of her father who died at Sanctuary five years ago, and of her mother who was committed soon after.
