It’s that tiiiiime again when you open this post to the tune of your TBR screaming “nooooo”.
Yes, oh yes. I’m listing more highly anticipated YA releases! I hit you with my January-April list at the beginning of the year, so now you need to know what’s coming next. 👀 I’m sure you’ve successfully read all those beginning-of-2019 books anyway, right?
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All covers will link to Goodreads! All death-by-TBRs are not my fault!
Also how is it June already. This seems rude and something no one ran by me first to ask for permission. I am behind on my Goodreads goal, my ARCs, my life tbh. But I am excellently up-to-date with baking delicious bread. So who’s winning at life here.
YA 2019 releases from June to September
I WANNA BE WHERE YOU ARE | a girl chasing her ballet dreams (which her mum said no to) while her next-door-neighbour-annoying-boy tags along and if that isn’t going to be a super cute romcom, what will. 🤗
WILD AND CROOKED | ok this is about kids whose parents have terrible pasts and they’re trying to be themselves, but also queer!! and cerebral palsy rep!! AND LOOK AT THAT COVER.
SORCERY OF THORNS | and tbh this is like one of the top releases of the year so excuse me while I softly scream over the concept of sorcery librarians. Also I think books can become literal monsters? And that speaks to me because that’s how I feel while drafting.
GHOSTS OF THE SHADOWMARKET | I mean I am utter and absolute Shadowhunter trash and totally here for it so 🙌🏻 excuse me while I am all heart eyes over this short-story collection!
STRONGER THAN A BRONZE DRAGON | I mean DRAGONS and I don’t care about anything else tbh. I do believe a girl has to marry a dubious boy who turns out to be a thief and she ends up (probably) smacking him down. Sounds good.
LIKE A LOVE STORY | It’s about 3 teens and has Iranian, gay, and POC rep and it’s set during the 1989 AID crisis so like….! Important story and the three teens dynamics sound amazing.
CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT | ok I just love Brigid Kemmerer and will read everything she writes of ever. 😭💛Her contemporaries wreck me in the best possible way!!
WICKED FOX | this gives me total Teen Wolf vibes and I am no sad about that. The girl (a nine-tailed fox/gumiho) has to choose between her immortal life and a boy.
HUNGRY HEARTS | it’s an anthology about FOOD. Do I need to say anymore ok this one just calls to me from all of it’s 350-pages. Also so many epic authors involved, like Sandhya Menon, Anna-Marie McLemore, and Rin Chupeco!!
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THE MERCIFUL CROW | this one just looks epic and badass. An undertaker girl is trying to haul away the prince’s body except he faked his death. And is still alive. Seems awkward. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SHATTER THE SKY | this is about queer girls stealing dragons and all I can say is 🙌🏻 i will take ten of those, thanks so much.
THE UNDOING OF THISTLE TATE | duuuude, this is about a famous teen author…who secretly didn’t write the book she’s famous for. And I cannot say how much I want to read this.
SPIN THE DAWN | This is an #ownvoices Mulan retelling where she has to sew three magic dresses, from the sun, the moon, and the stars…and tbh you thought your wardrobe was unruly at times. It’s got nothing on this.
THE BECKONING SHADOW | this is about a girl who can summon fears and turn them into realities and that sounds absolutely terrifying. Imagine her around me; she’d summon infinite tins of tuna and I’d cry.
THE STORM CROW | ok uh July is the month of crows?? I will 100% get these confused, I just know it. Anyhow. It’s about a kingdom that has elemental crows and the princess is being forced to wed an enemy. And I assume has a POC cast!
WILDER GIRLS | ok basically this is like a foresty queer horror with a toxic illness spreading around and girls being badass and I have an ARC of this so I’m happy! Nothing like something to freak you out!
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ALL THE BAD APPLES | Alright I adore Moïra Fowley-Doyle and The Accident Season is one of my faves and LOOK!!! New book!! Also it’s about cursed families and her writing is always aesthetic goodness. 😍
LET’S CALL IT A DOOMSDAY | Again I loved this author’s first book (Heretics Anonymous) so I’m here for sophomores. This one is also about mental health and the end of the world.
ZIGGY, STARDUST AND ME | I think this one is gonna make us all cry and that’s ok, wreck me, little book. It’s about a withdrawn queer kid (seems like he’s disassociating from the blurb?) who thinks he needs to be “fixed” and journeys of selflove are just 😭💛
SWIPE RIGHT FOR MURDER | tbh this sounds like a good way to deal with your problems (KIDDING) but also murder mysteries that are also queer = yes thanks.
THE SILENCE BETWEEN US | this one has deaf rep and is about a deaf-hearing relationship and the cover is, quite frankly, gorgeous.
WE ARE LOST AND FOUND | I’m so so excited for this one because WOULD DIE for the author’s previous books (Boomerang is my fave!) and this is about queer teens and the AID crises and school anxiety. I have an ARC of this and I’m so so reading it soon.
HERE THERE ARE MONSTERS | i mean the cover absolutely says it is 100% for me but also the blurb has the words “building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones” so like YES.
THE REVOLUTION OF BIRDIE RANDOLPH | this one is about a black teen who falls for the “wrong” boy and also gets closer to her ex-addict aunt…much to her parents disapproval. Also family secrets yay.
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SLAY | it’s about a girl who’s this honours student, very responsible and has a family who doesn’t believe in video games…and secretly she’s OWNS a very famous video game. I think it’s about fighting back trolls too!
SUGGESTED READING | this is about a teen who’s school starts banning so many books so she starts an illegal library. Which speaks to me on so many levels. YOU GO, GIRL.
SERPENT & DOVE | ok this is about runaway witches and the cover has just called to me and I cannot!!! look away !!!
THE TYRANT’S TOMB | I am still in denial over the last Apollo book and how it ripped out my heart and ate it for a snack. BUT. Apparently I want more pain because am back for a fourth serve.
A COURT OF MIRACLES | this doesn’t have a cover yet but I’m already screaming. It’s a “diverse fantasy reimagining of Les Misérables and The Jungle Book.” And it’s being compared to Six of Crows os does that mean a heist?! HOLD ME.
KINGDOM OF SOULS | this cover is so badass it could kill you with its pinky finger. A witchdoctor’s daughter is sadly magicless and so she starts trading pieces of her soul for magic and I just 👀
PERMANENT RECORD | considering Emergency Contact was one of my favourite reads of this year I have to read Mary H.K. Choi’s next book. I’m not convinced it’s YA though? But it’s about famous vs nobodies falling in love.
GIDEON OF THE NIGHT | ok!! Again not YA but I’m breaking my own list rules because this has lesbian necromancers but the pitch is literally “this the most fun you’ll ever have with a skeleton” and considering I’ve never had fun with a skeleton — bring it.
SWORD AND PEN | This is the 5th book and FINALE of the Great Library series and afjldksad I have so many emotions. The last one rather destroyed me. But I’m so ready to find the ending??? Pls survive, Jess. 🙏🏻
AMERICAN ROYALS | ok this is an alternate history where America has a monarchy…and now the Washingtons are like this long line of royal family. I believe this is about the 3 royal siblings who are utter disasters and it just sounds super fun.
LOKI: WHERE MISCHIEF LIES | it’s Mackenzie LEEEEEE!!!! Aka the author of The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (one of my all time favourite books) who is writing a Loki, gendfluid and sassy and troublesome, story! I seriously hope this lives up to the extreme hype because omg.
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| TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS |
uhh how is your TBR going? anyone ready to yell?😬also tell me what your favourite 2019 release has been so far this year!!
Great. Thanks. Am poor but OH MY GOD ALL these books look so good I want to read them all!!
whyyyy do I do this to us 😭😂
Wow, I found so many nice new releases through this list, I’ve added a whole bunch of them to my wishlist :D. I haven’t read a lot of 2019 releases yet, but some that stand out to me are:
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit by Bianca Toeps
Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
Book Love by Debbie Tung
The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Geek Magnifique by Melissa Boyle
Volwassen worden is optioneel by Marloes de Vries
I have quite a few more 2019 releases on my TBR, including TBWSH (which I’m waiting until I’m in just the right mood for it and I also want to savour it) and I’ve also got some new releases pre-ordered (that haven’t come out yet).
Thanks so much for this list and telling me about these books. I had heard of some or some were already on my wishlist, but there were plenty that I hadn’t heard of and that sound really good, so :D. I’m here for all the diverse YA contemporaries (and the occasional fantasy book from the list that I liked the sound of).
omg I just read Bloom and it was SO CUTE!! I Also have I Wish You All the Best on my tbr so I’m super excited to know you loved it too. And I appreciate you having TBWSH on your tbr. 🙈
Um, so I’ve only read one 2019 release so far… *stares at bookshelf* Don’t look at me that way! I meant to read more, but my library is super slow on buying new releases. *shrugs*
Thanks for the list! The Language of Fire and A Court of Miracles sound amazing! (Even though the Court of Miracles is from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, not Les Mis, and I am confusion.) I’m also hoping I Wanna Be Where You Are is a road trip story. They are few and far between.
Yeah my library doesn’t seem super fast with the new releases either?! Unless they’re aussie ones. So I am like asking them to buy books hehe.
My thoughts are: Three minutes ago I finished tidying up my “want to read” section on Goodreads. The next thing I did was open the email that contained this blog post. THESE TWO THINGS WERE NOT COMPATIBLE. 😐 Luckily I did have quite a few of them on my list already haha, but still, there were a lot that went on. 😀
You are so so welcome, tbh, Jen.😌And HEY I started off this post saying everyone was about to have regrets (me included) so no blame can be mine.
Remember when I said I was trying not to buy books this year? Well I’ve bought three all year so far.
…Unfortunately people are lending whole stacks to me so my TBR is not seeing any improvement. :'(
Three is super controlled, I am in awe! I’m just wrecked because I also have a library now so 😂R.I.P my tbr.
What an amazing. List and this is no surprise that most of these are on my TBR 😃 Just tell me how to find time to read all of these books and not to miss anything?? WE NEED MORE TIME 😭
Right?! the real question is how do we possibly read them all ahhhhhh
This is destroying my self control😭 these all look so good! Especially excited for the queer books.
And there are so many coming out 🤗A GIFT.
Dangit, Cait! Way too many books. Thankfully I have some of these already on my wish list!!
-Lauren
Soooo many. 😍 We shall all be happily broke.
Wow so many cute and beautiful book covers:-) Book about Loki? I’m all for it. I love Loki <3 I can't wait to read Ghosts of the shadowmarket. Jem is one of my favorite characters from the shadowhunters world. I don't like all of her books. But I love The infernal devices. I love the cover on I wanna be where you are. It looks like a sweet romantic book. I'm all for Mulan-stories. So I will deffently read The magnolia sword. Thank you for sharing. I heard about some of them. But not all of them.
I’m so glad some of these caught your eye!! I adore all Shadowhunter books haha
OKAY THAT BANNED BOOK ONE.
I AM GOING TO DIE THINKING ABOUT IT.
THANKS A LOT CAIT!!
*is crushed under massive weight of TBR*
Some of these are on my TBR list! I’m especially excited for Wilder Girls. It sounds so weird. I want it.
As if my TBR list wasn’t already crushing me!! So many good ones to add, I tried so hard to get an ARC of Here There Are Monsters and a few of these others at BookCon but failed LOL
My TBR is already taller than me and These all look so good! Why do you do this to me 😅
Thank you for this list though, I’m so bad at knowing what’s coming out!
My TBR just exploded and it’s ALL YOUR FAULT.
My tbr literally just grew and now you add more, thanks, I’ll remember you when I’m buried under too many books.
For real though 2019 is slaying with releases, I’m so excited for so many books this summer! Sorcery of Thorns, Wicked Fox, Magnolia Sword, etc. But so far no release for me has topped The Wicked King and I have a feeling only The Queen of Nothing can
I read an ARC of The Silence Between Us last month and loved it so much!! It was so adorable, and it actually reawakened my love of ASL! I also got an ARC of Color Me In which looks really interesting. I’m excited to try it out!
I want to read every single book ASAP, but I have to wAIT.
patience is not a virtue. It is a curse.
(but also thx for posting these!!! There are so many that would have fallen off my radar if not for you blessing my blog feed with so many diverse and beautiful books. <3)
Ha ha my TBR is always screaming, even when I’m doing well, it’s screaming because I keep adding more to it! I’ve barely read any of the 2019 releases I listed as anticipated at the beginning of the year, I read 5/12 but in my defence two of those books haven’t even come out yet, so really it’s more like 5/10 which is much better no? My favourite 2019 release this year has to be King of Fools, it was SO SO GOOD. I also really loved Enchantee, I think those are the top two, the others have actually been kind of disappointing compared. I’m not sure if I have as many anticipated releases for the second half of the year? I definitely don’t have many for June or July, the next books I’m really anticipating come out in September, October and November: there’s The Tyrant’s Tomb in September, Ninth House in October and of course Call Down The Hawk in November. Also Crossfire, Malorie Blackman’s new book comes out in August and I can’t wait for that. It is so unfair that all of these wonderful new books come out whilst I’m trying to catch up on my poor neglected backlist!
Bloodwitch broke my heart into millions of tiny pieces so there’s that :/
I’m sooo excited for some of these ! *heart eyes* also The Deathless Girls and Million Pieces of Nina Gil.
THERE ARE SO MANY AWESOME LOOKING RELEASES AHH I AM SCREAMING.
Sorry haha. I got lucky enough to read I wanna be where you are already and i loved it SO much, I hope you can read it soon ahhh it was such a sweet read!!
I am so very excited to read This time will be different, technically you started it, spin the dawn, all the bad apples, PERMANENT RECORD AHH screaming about this one, but I’m not sure it’s young adult either? I don’t know but I love Emergency Contact SO much I can’t wait for that one!! 😀
normally when i read release posts i feel so EXCITED but i genuinely feel SO out of the loop with 2019 book releases. IDK WHY. yes yes, sword and pen im so excited. when did cover reveal even HAPPEN for this? HDSGDS this series is so underrated and im not ready for it to be over. Wolfe and Santi tho. AGH. feeeels. im just waiting until November and October because of ninth house, the starless sea, queen of nothing!! WOW, WE’RE REALLY BEING FED.
Oh my goodness? Are there actually YA releases that interest me this year? It’s about time! I’ve had a long enough reading slump!
There are so many amazing upcoming releases. You`re so lucky to have an ARC of Wilder Girls, it`s one of my most anticipated books of 2019. Really hope it lives up to the hype.
Seriously, I think you are trying to kill me. I just requested way too many NetGalley copies and added many to my TBR.
Hahahahaha, Cait why are you listing all these fantastic looking books and then linking them for easy access to Goodreads??? I LEGIT JUST ADDED 10 TO MY TBR BEFORE COMING TO MY SENSES. And then I came to my senses and continued to add them.
Seriously though, the next few months are filled with so many awesome looking books that I can’t wait to kill my money, time, and social life for!!
Okay I was all set to talk about all the books until I saw the UK cover for All the Bad Apples and WOW this puts the US to SHAME wow wow I am so in love with this cover I don’t even care if I get a US copy I NEED the UK one.
Good news is, I already knew about pretty much all of these, covers notwithstanding. AND I read a few and can tell you about them! You NEED Wild & Crooked, it is awesome. The Beholder was such a pleasant surprise for me- a little tropey, but I also couldn’t put it down. And Wilder Girls was really good- reminded me of The Call, have you read that? Very similar vibe!
oh YES i love this post and it reminds me of so many releases I will need to read soon
also, I love how I saw that you have like 10 releases for each month… and then like 10 more honorable mentions because that is a mood
Oh my gosh!!! There are just too many Cait! And may I just say that I already had too many on my wish list and now you just introduced about a million trillion more….. so thank you for that! HA! 🙂
Actually I’ve had my eye hardcore on the Wicked Fox!!!! I am so very excited for that one. And a zillion others.
But I already have a LOT of books at home I have not yet read. And I also just had to get rid of a bunch of books (I only parted with ones I actively disliked – kept everything I liked) to make some extra room on my book shelf.
I kind of want to line my entire house in book shelves though.,
Also, are YA book covers just getting extremely cool illustrations lately? I love so many of these covers, they look gorgeous!!
I think you do have to take at least some responsibility for death-by-TBR…
Ahh Cait, there are so many amazing books to be read!!! 🙈 I’m really excited for Tell Me How You Really Feel, it just sounds and looks (that cover!!!!) so perfect!
Lucky for me, I am very short, so achieving a TBR bigger than me isn’t all that impressive. Also, I’m really good at it, so I don’t think I’ll even have to take any notes. xD
I so need to read Sorcery of Thorns. LIFEL1K3 is actually on Kindle sale right now, which is just in time, in my opinion, because yay DEV1AT3. I’m still working on reading all of Jay Kristoff’s books. Just … very, very slowly.
Ooh, The Beckoning Shadow sounds so good! I think I would be safe, though, because she’d probably just summon a bunch of pigs, so I could just, like, climb a tree or something? But seriously, pigs are freaking terrifying lol.
I managed to get an ARC of Gideon the Ninth, and I could not be more thrilled! For all the reasons you mentioned.
Also in September: The Toll by Neal Shusterman! I would sell my firstborn for an ARC of this. xD Although, to be fair, she’s quite mouthy and disagreeable, so I’m not sure that’s a fair trade, but probably, they don’t know that.
I only added a few books from this to my TBR, so all told, it wasn’t too bad. I was spared!
I’ve been keeping one hand over my eyes while scrolling through this post so that I don’t get too tempted! And this is a brilliant idea! My TBR is not manageable at all, but for the most part I’ve decided to not add anything to Goodreads until I’ve finished with the books I have on my possession. Hopefully that shouldn’t take too long to finish since, as is suggested in this post, there’s soooooo many more books for me to read yet!
how is my TBR? Uh, just DOUBLED, gee thanks. STill not sure if I should be thanking or cursing you. Many new and shiny books! And oh my god, they all look so good!!! I guess I know what I will be doing for the whole rest of my summer. Lmao.
For real, though. Always love these posts. <3 <3 <3
I thought I already had a lot of upcoming releases on my TBR but nope you just made me add a whole bunch!!! I think my most anticipated releases from your list are The Grief Keeper, Wilder Girls, and Gideon the Ninth!! I was lucky enough to read Spin the Dawn already and it’s absolutely beautiful and I can’t wait for the rest of the world to experience it too 😍😍
OMG there are so many good books that I can’t really mention them all in a comment. It is gonna be a fab year. Tbh I was kinda disappointed in the first half in books so I am really keen to see what the new reads will bring me.
Yeah, yo, thanks for throwing a heck-ton of super-interesting-looking books in my face. Gonna be harassing my library to order a whole mess of these titles for me, no doubt. You’re a monster, you know it, and it’s why we love you.
Oh I really liked Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon. Especially as it is a standalone and we need more of those. 😀
There are just so many good things coming out!
Well, I was doing pretty good at slowly starting to go through my TBR…
But then this post happened, and now it’s sky-high. 😂
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE your tbr/upcoming releases posts. I’ve come across SO many amazing books through you in the past and there’s something so exciting about having the knowledge of ALL THESE UPCOMING BOOKS right there in front of you w a short explanation. I’ve been going back and forth between my browser and Goodreads for the past hour and I added literally 21 books to my tbr because of this post so THANK YOU FOR THAT (my eyes will probably not thank you but who cares). Please do more of these in the future. 🖤