10 Aug 2016

Hot Books To Add On Your Growing TBR Pile

This post is included in my Stacking The Shelves category since the books that I'm about to share are the newest on my to-be read shelf. Anyway, it's been a long time since I recommended books for everyone to get interested in. Some may have been read it already but I hope most would love to come back on my blog someday because of my recommendations.


The Graces (The Graces #1)
by Laure Eve
In The Graces, the first rule of witchcraft states that if you want something badly enough, you can get it . . . no matter who has to pay.
Everyone loves the Graces. Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace are captivating, wealthy, and glamorous. They’ve managed to cast a spell over not just their high school but also their entire town—and they’re rumored to have powerful connections all over the world. If you’re not in love with one of them, you want to be them. Especially River: the loner, new girl at school. She’s different from her peers, who both revere and fear the Grace family. She wants to be a Grace more than anything. And what the Graces don’t know is that River’s presence in town is no accident.
This fabulously addictive fantasy combines sophisticated and haunting prose with a gut-punching twist that readers will be dying to discuss. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars as well as nostalgic classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the 1996 movie The Craft, The Graces marks the beginning of a new wave of teen witches.

A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell #1)
by Deanna Raybourn
London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica intends to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
But fate has other plans when Veronica thwarts her own attempted abduction with the help of an enigmatic German baron, who offers her sanctuary in the care of his friend Stoker, a reclusive and bad-tempered natural historian. But before the baron can reveal what he knows of the plot against her, he is found murdered—leaving Veronica and Stoker on the run from an elusive assailant as wary partners in search of the villainous truth.

A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2)
by Deanna Raybourn
"London, 1887." Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia, Ramsforth will face the hangman s noose in a week s time if Veronica cannot find the real killer.
But Lady Sundridge is not all that she seems, and unmasking her true identity is only the first of the many secrets Veronica must uncover. Together with her natural historian colleague Stoker, Veronica races against time to find the true murderer a ruthless villain who not only took Artemisia s life in cold blood but is happy to see Ramsforth hang for the crime. From a Bohemian artists colony to a royal palace to a subterranean grotto with a decadent history, the investigation proves to be a very perilous undertaking indeed...."

The Girls
by Emma Cline
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged—a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. As she spends more time away from her mother and the rhythms of her daily life, and as her obsession with Suzanne intensifies, Evie does not realize she is coming closer and closer to unthinkable violence, and to that moment in a girl’s life when everything can go horribly wrong.

Girl in Pieces
by Kathleen Glasgow
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.
Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.




Ink and Bone
by Lisa Unger
Twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery is rarely alone. Visited by people whom others can’t see and haunted by prophetic dreams, she has never been able to control or understand the things that happen to her. When Finley’s abilities start to become too strong for her to handle – and even the roar of her motorcycle or another dazzling tattoo can’t drown out the voices – she turns to the only person she knows who can help her: her grandmother Eloise Montgomery, a renowned psychic living in The Hollows, New York.
Merri Gleason is a woman at the end of her tether after a ten-month-long search for her missing daughter, Abbey. With almost every hope exhausted, she resorts to hiring Jones Cooper, a detective who sometimes works with psychic Eloise Montgomery. Merri’s not a believer, but she’s just desperate enough to go down that road, praying that she’s not too late. Time, she knows, is running out.
As a harsh white winter moves into The Hollows, Finley and Eloise are drawn into the investigation, which proves to have much more at stake than even the fate of a missing girl. As Finley digs deeper into the town and its endless layers, she is forced to examine the past, even as she tries to look into the future. Only one thing is clear: The Hollows gets what it wants, no matter what.

Thank you publishers: ABRAMS Kids, Amulet Books, Berkley Books, Random House, Delacorte Press and Touchstone, and Netgalley.

Have you read any of these books? What have you thought of these titles? What books would you highly recommend for me to read next? Any other hot titles you want me to add on my shelf?




12 comments

  1. Not going to lie, the covers of all of these books are to die for. They are all so gorgeous, befitting of the stories contained within. I am highly anticipating Girl In Pieces and the Veronica Speedwell series. It offers such a variety in their respective genres. :)

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    1. I agree! But I hope that they are totally worth reading. Thanks for stopping by!

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  2. I liked The Girls a lot and I can't wait to read The Graces! Great list!

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    1. Thank you, Eva! I heard so much of The Girls. They say it's worth the read.

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  3. Oh I'm very curious about Victoria Speedwell series and Ink and Bone. Thanks for putting it on my radar.

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  4. Great list! The Girls is currently sitting on my nightstand and I'm hoping to get to it soon. I'm also really curious about Girl in Pieces.

    Traci @ The Reading Geek

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    1. Thank you. The Girls is next on my reading list. I think we'll read it together then. I can't wait what to read what you think of it. :) The Girl in Pieces, as I've heard, is good.

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  5. OMFGG Two great books I read are on this list- The Graces and Girl In Pieces. Girl In Pieces has already made my top books of this year but omg the Graces is getting so much hate, idk why. I really enjoyed it and recommend it to anyone who's looking for a YA fantasy/witch cult horror story. Great recommendations, and I can't wait to check out the others.

    Alex @ The Book's Buzz

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    1. Oh God. I hate to hear that about The Graces. I dislike being discouraged first before reading a book I am interested with. I am sure I'll highly recommend it once I finish it. Thank you, Alex. <3

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  6. The Graces, and Girl In Pieces are on my tbr. I wiil probably be getting them from the library. The Veronica Speedwell books sound super interesting. Thanks for the list!

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