I'm going to be quite frank: my to-read shelf has 437 books on it.
That's a lot of books. Obviously.
But there are definitely a select few I want to read in the very near future, but they're on the shelf for a reason: I still really want to read all of them.
For now, here are five books that made the top of the list:
The Last Beginning: Lauren James.
I read the first book after I had it shipped from Australia because I wanted to read it so badly. Needless to say, I think I'll be doing the same thing for this book sometime in the near future because Lauren James is a British writer and the first book (The Next Together) hasn't even been published in the United States yet. (Um, hello? Publishers? Are you going to get on that please? I need all my other American friends to see how cute Katherine and Matthew are and how AMAZING this book is!) The Last Beginning is the companion to The Next Together, about a girl named Clove who is determined to find her lost relatives, but it's kind of difficult when they've been reincarnated at every key point in history.
A Study in Charlotte: Brittany Cavallaro
I've wanted to read this book for a very long time, to the point where I don't even remember why I wanted to read it in the first place, but I still very much need to. The story puts James Watson and Charlotte Holmes through the investigation of a murder that happened on their school campus (and yes, I believe the Watson-Holmes does have something to do with our favorite Sherlock Holmes, considering the synopsis on Goodreads tells us that Sherlock Holmes is her great-great-great grandfather). I read a sample of the book, and I really enjoyed it, (especially because it seemed like Holmes and Watson weren't going to work together so well at first) but I think Barnes and Noble took it off their shelves, so I'll have to order it online sometime soon.
A Million Worlds with You: Claudia Gray
I picked up the first and second books of this series last Thanksgiving holiday (around my birthday) with a Barnes and Noble gift card because the books I wanted weren't there and the covers of these two were super cool. I have been anxiously waiting the arrival of the third book, and here it is! Cover just as beautiful as all the others! The basic storyline of the first book (because I don't want to give anything away) (the first book is called A Thousand Pieces of You) is that Marguerite's dad was murdered by his apprentice of sorts, who steals the piece of technology they'd been working on to jump through dimensions and get away with murder. Of course, Marguerite doesn't like that, so she finds another Firebird, the piece of technology that will allow her to jump dimensions, to chase after him. It's a really fun read.
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
Is anyone familiar with Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series? Well, it takes place in England in 1878 and the main characters like to quote from older books, like a Tale of Two Cities. A Tale of Two Cities is mentioned quite a bit, so my friend decided to read it. Even though she didn't like it so much, I still really wanted to read it, just to see. Now, I have this huge book that has A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations all in one. I will definitely be reading it really soon, since it is now in my house. A Tale of Two Cities is about two men in England, Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, who both fall in love with Lucie Manette after her father has returned from prison. I'm really interested to see where it goes and how it relates to The Infernal Devices.
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman
(I don't recommend reading on if you don't want spoilers about things that happen at the end of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series.) I have been waiting for this book for as long as I can remember: first, Cassandra Clare announced that she was going to be releasing short e-books, one at a time, until there were ten released. She did the same thing a few years back about Magnus's story (TFTSA are Simon's story). Well, once the e-books were released, I waited anxiously for the publisher to bind them up and sell them in hardcover, like they did with the Bane Chronicles. It's been a little over a year now, and it's been released since the beginning of November and I'm so excited to get a copy! I've waited for this book for a little over two years probably! A wait like that is awful for a reader, trust me. Anyway (now here are the spoilers, to the people who read on regardless of my warning up above), Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy detail Simon's adventures after he is brought back to the human world after dying and losing all of his memories about the Shadow world. He goes to school and gets trained to become a Shadowhunter while having all these really fun escapades in between.
These are just the top five out of the 437 I'm still waiting to read. Hope some of these sparked your interest (because a lot of these are series books that are worth reading and waiting for). Read on!
That's a lot of books. Obviously.
But there are definitely a select few I want to read in the very near future, but they're on the shelf for a reason: I still really want to read all of them.
For now, here are five books that made the top of the list:
The Last Beginning: Lauren James. I read the first book after I had it shipped from Australia because I wanted to read it so badly. Needless to say, I think I'll be doing the same thing for this book sometime in the near future because Lauren James is a British writer and the first book (The Next Together) hasn't even been published in the United States yet. (Um, hello? Publishers? Are you going to get on that please? I need all my other American friends to see how cute Katherine and Matthew are and how AMAZING this book is!) The Last Beginning is the companion to The Next Together, about a girl named Clove who is determined to find her lost relatives, but it's kind of difficult when they've been reincarnated at every key point in history.
A Study in Charlotte: Brittany CavallaroI've wanted to read this book for a very long time, to the point where I don't even remember why I wanted to read it in the first place, but I still very much need to. The story puts James Watson and Charlotte Holmes through the investigation of a murder that happened on their school campus (and yes, I believe the Watson-Holmes does have something to do with our favorite Sherlock Holmes, considering the synopsis on Goodreads tells us that Sherlock Holmes is her great-great-great grandfather). I read a sample of the book, and I really enjoyed it, (especially because it seemed like Holmes and Watson weren't going to work together so well at first) but I think Barnes and Noble took it off their shelves, so I'll have to order it online sometime soon.
A Million Worlds with You: Claudia GrayI picked up the first and second books of this series last Thanksgiving holiday (around my birthday) with a Barnes and Noble gift card because the books I wanted weren't there and the covers of these two were super cool. I have been anxiously waiting the arrival of the third book, and here it is! Cover just as beautiful as all the others! The basic storyline of the first book (because I don't want to give anything away) (the first book is called A Thousand Pieces of You) is that Marguerite's dad was murdered by his apprentice of sorts, who steals the piece of technology they'd been working on to jump through dimensions and get away with murder. Of course, Marguerite doesn't like that, so she finds another Firebird, the piece of technology that will allow her to jump dimensions, to chase after him. It's a really fun read.
A Tale of Two Cities: Charles DickensIs anyone familiar with Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series? Well, it takes place in England in 1878 and the main characters like to quote from older books, like a Tale of Two Cities. A Tale of Two Cities is mentioned quite a bit, so my friend decided to read it. Even though she didn't like it so much, I still really wanted to read it, just to see. Now, I have this huge book that has A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Great Expectations all in one. I will definitely be reading it really soon, since it is now in my house. A Tale of Two Cities is about two men in England, Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay, who both fall in love with Lucie Manette after her father has returned from prison. I'm really interested to see where it goes and how it relates to The Infernal Devices.
Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman(I don't recommend reading on if you don't want spoilers about things that happen at the end of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series.) I have been waiting for this book for as long as I can remember: first, Cassandra Clare announced that she was going to be releasing short e-books, one at a time, until there were ten released. She did the same thing a few years back about Magnus's story (TFTSA are Simon's story). Well, once the e-books were released, I waited anxiously for the publisher to bind them up and sell them in hardcover, like they did with the Bane Chronicles. It's been a little over a year now, and it's been released since the beginning of November and I'm so excited to get a copy! I've waited for this book for a little over two years probably! A wait like that is awful for a reader, trust me. Anyway (now here are the spoilers, to the people who read on regardless of my warning up above), Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy detail Simon's adventures after he is brought back to the human world after dying and losing all of his memories about the Shadow world. He goes to school and gets trained to become a Shadowhunter while having all these really fun escapades in between.
These are just the top five out of the 437 I'm still waiting to read. Hope some of these sparked your interest (because a lot of these are series books that are worth reading and waiting for). Read on!
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