ALA Midwinter—The Books

I already mentioned all the awesome things about ALA Midwinter 2012, so what I want to do now is highlight some of the books I am especially excited to read!


Here we are, just before the doors opened, ready to head out into the exhibit hall. Notice our bags are EMPTY!


My top 5 I am most excited to read...




INVISIBLE SUN by David Macinnis Gill (Greenwillow, March 27, 2012)
TIMEPIECE by Myra McEntire (Egmont, June 12, 2012)
PANDEMONIUM by Lauren Oliver (Harper, February 28, 2012)
SWITCHED by Amanda Hawking (St. Martins, January 3, 2012)
UNDER THE NEVER SKY by Veronica Rossi (Harper, January 3, 2012)


SFF/Dystopic YA:




LOSERS IN SPACE by John Barnes (Viking, April 12, 2012)
INSIGNIA by S. J. Kincaid (Katherine Tegen, July 10, 2012)
THE DESERTER by Peadar O Guilin (Random House, March 13, 2012)
REPLICATION: THE JASON EXPERIMENT by Jill Williamson (Zondervan, December 27, 2011)
THE DROWNED CITIES by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown, May 1, 2012)


YA Fantasy:





SERAPHINA by Rachel Hartman (Random House, July 10, 2012)
THE BOOK OF BLOOD AND SHADOW by Robin Wasserman (Knopf, April 10, 2012)
ILLUMINATE by Aimee Agresti (Harcourt, March 6, 2012)
HEMLOCK by Kathleen Peacock (Katherine Tegen, May 8, 2012)
INCARNATE by Jodi Meadows (Katherine Tegen, January 31, 2012)


MG:






STORYBOUND by Marissa Burt (Harper, April 3, 2012)
THE FALSE PRINCE by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic, April 1, 2012)
THE CABINET OF EARTHS by Anne Nesbet (Harper, January 3, 2012)


I got lots more, and of course, there were some titles I just wasn't able to get that I really wanted to, but of the books I got, these are the ones closest to the top of my TBR list :)

Happy Weekend! And until the next conference :)