
This Top Ten Tuesday topic should have been one of the first ones in December, so I could sneakily show my boyfriend this list and would maybe get some of these books for Christmas! It’s Christmas Eve and now all is left to do is try to post this as early as possible to give him time to run to the bookstore that should still be open in the morning.
There are too many books I hope to find under the Christmas tree. To narrow things down a little bit, let’s talk about 2019 releases that I don’t own yet!

1 – Imaginary friend by stephen chbosky
IMAGINE…
Leaving your house in the middle of the night.
Knowing your mother is doing her best, but she’s just as scared as you.
IMAGINE…
Starting a new school, making friends.
Seeing how happy it makes your mother.
Hearing a voice, calling out to you… more

2 – the warehouse by rob hart
Paxton never thought he’d be working for Cloud, the giant tech company that’s eaten much of the American economy. Much less that he’d be moving into one of the company’s sprawling live-work facilities.
But compared to what’s left outside, Cloud’s bland chainstore life of gleaming entertainment halls, open-plan offices, and vast warehouses…well, it doesn’t seem so bad. It’s more than anyone else is offering… more

3 – the institute by stephen king
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”… more

4 – the grace year by kim liggett
No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden.
In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive… more

5 – city of girls by elizabeth gilbert
Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love… more

6 – the whisper man by alex north
After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank.
But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed “The Whisper Man,” for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night… more

7 – house of salt and sorrows by erin a craig
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge—and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents… more

8 – the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.
Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic… more

9 – middle game by seanan mcguire
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet… more

10 – the secret commonwealth by philip pullman
It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence.
Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . . more
Have you read any of these books? Did you love them? Let me know in the comments below!
I hope you all have a magical Christmas Eve and a wonderful Christmas Day!


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The Whisper Man was great! One of my favorite reads of the year. I really want to read Middlegame and Imaginary Friend too. I hope you find some of these under the tree and have a lovely Christmas! 🙂
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Thank you, hun! ❤ Merry Christmas! We're currently preparing food for tonight's dinner and listening to xmas songs. It's perfect! 🙂 I hope you're having a wonderful time as well!
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I own House of Salt and Sorrows but have yet been able to read it. Hopefully Santa have find you very nice this year so you get what you wish for 😀
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Eheh, thank you! ❤ I might get Imaginary Friend but I don't think I'll get House of Salt and Sorrows. Although! The websit I buy books from will have a sale after Christmas and I'm so treating myself to more books 😀
Merry Christmas! All the best and warmest wishes! ❤
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Wow, The Warehouse sounds like a good read.
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I was hoping to get the ARC, but didn’t… lol
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Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays!
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Thank you! Merry Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful day 🙂
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I hope these make it under your tree!
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Thank you! Some of them did! 🙂
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I’m excited to read The Institute as well. I hope you had a lovely Christmas!
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Thank you! and same 🙂 I actually found 2 of these books under my xmas tree, yay!
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Great list! I have quite a few of these on my TBR and hope to own/read one day. The Priory of the Orange Tree is such a huge book. I had to listen to it on audiobook, because I was scared of how big it looked LOL.
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Oh, lol. I don’t think I’d be able to listen to it as audiobook 😀 as soon as the app would show that it was over 20 hours long I’d quit. 😀
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It’s so smart (and also really funny) that you’re talking about showing your list to your boyfriend 😛 I can’t really complain, tho, I do the same. My girlfriend is not an avid bookworm so I always end up sharing my wishlist with her (and I lowkey ask hers because I’m too scared of messing up lol). But I’m really lucky because she got me “lord of shadows” and “the red scrolls of magic”! ❤ Did you get books for Christmas? 😀
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Ahaha, I didn’t actually show his this list (maybe next year? *wink*) but I did send him photos of a few books when I was in Bertrand, and he got me 2 as well – “City of Girls” and the 2ns volume in the Belle Savage series by Phillip Pullman ❤ You also got some amazing book! It's so special when your partner wants to get to exactly what will make you the happiest 🙂
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