2025 Reading Challenge discussion

For the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards Challenge, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread where we can share books being published in 2016, that have caught our attention.

So, are there any books coming out soon that you are interested in reading?

(If this sort of thread already exists, let me know and I'll take this down!)

Here's some books I'm hoping to read that are coming out next year:
The Fireman
The Winged Histories
Mr. Splitfoot
Sleeping Giants
Travelers Rest
After the Woods
The Girl from Everywhere
All the Birds in the Sky
Every Heart a Doorway
Revenge and the Wild
The Last Days of Magic: A Novel

And two sequels I'm looking forward to, especially they are the last book in a trilogy:
Morning Star (Red Rising #3)
Death's End (Three-Body #3)

L'm really excited for this one Hidden Bodies so far I haven't checked the 2016 releases but l'm sure my list will be big

Dont forget A Torch Against the Night! SO excited for the second book after An Ember in the Ashes.

Lulu wrote: "Here's some books I'm hoping to read that are coming out next year:
The Fireman
The Winged Histories
Mr. Splitfoot
Sleeping Giants
[b..."

Well, my TBR just grew a whole bunch! Thanks for the tips!

I want At the Edge of the Orchard

Thank you for all the suggestions! Like SealyBug, I've just added whole lot of books to my TBR list!! Sleeping Giants sounds particularly interesting :)

All these are unpublished? Does someone know why some of these have reviews when they're not even out yet ?

Winter - I think because a lots of people who do reviews (especially on youtube) manage to get 'Advanced Reader Copies' (ARCs), which they get by contacting the publisher or if they are very well known, the publishers may send books to them without being requested.

LIberty at Book Riot has been putting out some great "must read" lists for 2016, including a fiction, non-fiction, and YA list.

http://bookriot.com/2015/12/21/15-boo...
http://bookriot.com/2015/12/22/15-boo...
http://bookriot.com/2015/12/23/15-boo...

Hannah wrote: "Winter - I think because a lots of people who do reviews (especially on youtube) manage to get 'Advanced Reader Copies' (ARCs), which they get by contacting the publisher or if they are very well k..."

Ah thank you :)

I think The City of Mirrors is still scheduled to come out in 2016! I'm excited for this one since it's the last one in Justin Cronin's The Passage series.

It's been a long time since the first two books, but i'm so curious to see where this one goes...

Thank you for starting this thread! I'm so excited to add a "yet-to-be-published" category to my book lists. You just filled it up for me!!

I'm looking forward to Everfair.

Also (oddly enough), a friend turned me on to The Star-Touched Queen. It's not at all my usual, but it certainly looks interesting.

I'm so excited for these books!
Forever Doon
Lady Renegades
Glass Sword
The Glittering Court

The books on my TBR coming out next year are:

This Census-Taker
All the Birds in the Sky
The Geek Feminist Revolution
The After Party

And as part of series:
Morning Star (Red Rising trilogy)
Rewind (Newsflesh series)

Samantha wrote: "Also (oddly enough), a friend turned me on to The Star-Touched Queen. It's not at all my usual, but it certainly looks interesting."

Wow, that's a beautiful cover! I just added it to my list.

Missy wrote: "Thank you for starting this thread! I'm so excited to add a "yet-to-be-published" category to my book lists. You just filled it up for me!!"

Glad the suggestions have helped you too! I've got way too many books on my TBR now :)

SealyBug wrote: "LIberty at Book Riot has been putting out some great "must read" lists for 2016, including a fiction, non-fiction, and YA list.

http://bookriot.com/2015/12/21/15-boo......"

Thank you SealyBug those lists are great!

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I was just looking at a list of books people can't wait to have published this year - and it was nearly all in the Fantasy genre! Why is that genre so popular? Personally, I don't much like it - after all, all fiction is fantasy to a large degree - with a few notable exceptions.

Any answers?

These are some of my most anticipated releases of 2016:

The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia by C.W. Gortner
Six Tudor Queens: Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen by Alison Weir
The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh
This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab
A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

The book I'm most looking forward to doesn't have a title yet. It's the last book in the Cal Leandros series by Rob Thurman. It's supposed to be out in December 2016!
There are other books coming out this year that I intend to buy, but none that I want as much as the one above!

René wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I was just looking at a list of books people can't wait to have published this year - and it was nearly all in the Fantasy genre! Why is that genre so popular? Personally, I don't m..."

Thank you for answering me, René. I guess that's the difference - I find the real world utterly fascinating - what I like to read is about people's motivations behind what they do and to watch people, just like me (ish) operating in a different context (I read a lot of HF, for instance and I want the context to be realistic) and grappling with a moral dilemma. Getting beneath the onion layers of a personality! So, I guess that means I have no need for alternate realities. I've always been a bit of a psychological detective - see my question in the first place! As a result I rarely experience boredom (one exception is when I have to make nice socially - I want a REAL conversation, not an ersatz one!)

We are all so different and so much the same, all at the same time....so thank you for taking the time to answer my puzzlement at something I found hard to understand; it is simply that a lot of people have a need for an alternate reality, perhaps. I can live with that! And it is a pretty obvious answer if I had taken my own 'head' off and tried to see with someone else's eyes!

Deborah wrote: "I was just looking at a list of books people can't wait to have published this year - and it was nearly all in the Fantasy genre! Why is that genre so popular? Personally, I don't much like it - af..."

Possibly to do with a number of the books being sequels/another book in a series. More people will know about these than other books such as debut novels. In Fantasy, book series are more common than in other genres.

Deborah wrote: "René wrote: "Deborah wrote: "I was just looking at a list of books people can't wait to have published this year - and it was nearly all in the Fantasy genre! Why is that genre so popular? Personal..."

So many things to get excited about! Lulu and Sealy, thanks for the comprehensive lists. I'm also excited to see what non-fiction comes out as well... Sleeping Giants and Good on Paper look especially interesting.

@Deborah: I'm the exact same! Give me real world scenarios. Some of my favourite books are those that tackle real-world problems in very real (but uncharacteristic or unorthodox) situations (it's why books like Room have always amazed me). I agree with Hannah that most fantasy books are released in series. We'll have to keep our eyes peeled for the books that follow... HF especially... (:

Definitely Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard really excited.

Maybe also The Crown by Kiera CassI am still not sure if it will be a must read this year

I am definitely gonna read this one: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

This is such a great thread; I've found so many things to add to my tbr! Some of my most anticipated 2016 releases are:

Girl Through Glass
The Smell of Other People's Houses
Innocents and Others
Foxlowe
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Every Heart a Doorway
Girls on Fire: A Novel
You Will Know Me

I'm excited for The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson, which comes out in March.

On the fiction side, I am looking forward to these books:

The Lightkeepers
Blackass
What Lies Between Us
The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home

As for nonfiction:

The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American
Innocence
The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

I've read an Advance Reader's Copy of the new graphic novel The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death Under Soviet Rule which is not upbeat by any means but very very good.

I just started (and will finish quickly) the new short memoir called The Boy in the Mirror. Another ARC. It's about a guy diagnosed with stage four lymphoma at age 21. I'm only a few pages in and I'm bracing myself. Intense. It's written in second-person narration.

I'm addicted to Netgalley, where you can get lots of ARCs if you're not careful!

These please.

Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
The Girls

Thank you for all the suggestions!

Here are a few I like the look of for the 2016 Choice Awards Challenge:

1. When Breath Becomes Air
2. The Butcher's Hook
3. The Unfinished World: and other stories
4. Cities I've Never Lived In
5. Every Heart a Doorway
6. What is Not Yours is Not Yours
7. You Should Pity Us Instead
8. Boy Erased: A Memoir
9. The Unseen World
10. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
11. Foxlowe
12. The Underground Railroad: A Novel

Hi there,

As far as books being published this year, I go on a month-to-month basis.

Here are a few books that have caught my eye:

1. Tom Clancy (with Grant Blackwood) - "Under Fire"
2. Simon Scarrow - Britannia
3. Bernard Cornwell - Warriors of the Storm (The Last Kingdom series, book 9)
4. Scott Mariani - Star of Africa (Ben Hope series, book 13)
5. Andy McDermott - The Revelation (Wilde/Chase series, book 11) -- [though this is a book release coming in May]

It is not light reading, but I really liked Shtum by Jem Lester.

I was really excited for Passenger by Alexandra Bracken and Lady Midnight by Cassandra Claire

Right now, I'm excited for United as One which comes out in June and The Star-Touched Queen, Firstlife, Tell the Wind and Fire and Join which I still need to read!

I did not know this thread was a thing! How fun!

If anyone is interested, book 3 of the Dorothy Must Die series came out March 15. I would have posted this much sooner if I know about the thread.

Author Danielle Paige
book Yellow Brick War

So, I just found out Harry Potter and the Cursed Child isn't really going to be a book, but it's script for a play. I'm not sure I'm as excited to read it now as I was before.