Happy New Year! Hold on to your hats, it’s going to be the most amazing year for books ever – and that’s a high bar! I’m excited to share the first big list of books for 2018 with you today. (I’m always excited when it involves books.) I hope you had wonderful holidays and that you find so many delightful things to read in the new year. It is an honor to help you learn about new books.
Sponsored by Missing Isaac by Valerie Fraser Luesse and Revell Books, a Division of Baker Publishing Group
When Pete McLean loses his father in the summer of 1962, his friend Isaac is one of the few people he can lean on. Though their worlds are as different as black and white, friendship knows no color. So when Isaac suddenly goes missing, Pete is determined to find out what happened–no matter what it costs him. With vivid descriptions, palpable atmosphere, and unforgettable characters, debut novelist Valerie Fraser Luesse breathes life into the rural South of the 1960s –a place where ordinary people struggle to find their footing in a social landscape that is shifting beneath their feet.
(And like last time, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)
Speaking of new books, on All the Books! this week, Rebecca and I discussed several 2018 titles we are excited about, including The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, The Third Hotel, and That Kind of Mother.
And if you’d like to win several of our favorite books of 2017 (20, to be exact), you can click here to enter our Best of 2017 book giveaway for a chance to receive a big beautiful book bounty.
The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Spring Girls by Anna Todd
Darkness, Sing Me a Song: A Holland Taylor Mystery by David Housewright
Promise Not to Tell by Jayne Ann Krentz
Between the Blade and the Heart (Valkyrie) by Amanda Hocking
The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson
Green: A Novel by Sam Graham-Felsen
Robicheaux: A Novel by James Lee Burke
A State of Freedom: A Novel by Neel Mukherjee
Chainbreaker by Tara Sim
Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske
Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Trouble by Anna Meriano
The Financial Diet: A Total Beginner’s Guide to Getting Good with Money by Chelsea Fagan
Ink by Alice Broadway
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin by James L. Swanson
The Devil’s Song by Lauren Stahl
The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness by Andrea Owen
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic by Eliot Schrefer, Emilia Dziubak (Illustrator)
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
The Queen of All Crows by Rod Duncan
Mouths Don’t Speak by Katja D. Ulysse
The Outcasts of Time by Ian Mortimer
Everless by Sara Holland
A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis
Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life by David Giffels
Unbound (A Stone Barrington Novel) by Stuart Woods
Don’t Cosplay with My Heart by Cecil Castellucci
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917 by Leslie S. Klinger
The Nothing by Hanif Kureishi
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci
Beneath the Mountain: A Novel by Luca D’Andrea
The Pyramid of Mud (An Inspector Montalbano Mystery) by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)
The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions by Maud Casey
Fallen Gods by James A. Moore
Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands
A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Meet Cute by Various Contributors
Someone to Love by Melissa de la Cruz
The Refugees: Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen (paperback)
That’s it for me today! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!
Stay rad,
Liberty