Trying to figure which books you have to request or put on hold at your library now? Tamara from Traveling With T and I are here to help! Every three months, we’ll share the books we’re most looking forward too in the next quarter, which means that today it’s time to share our top picks from October to December. Whether you love nonfiction or romance, literary fiction or cozy mysteries, we’ve got you covered!
Katie’s October 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
October Selections: The Woman Who Would Be King, Stitching Snow, The Hilltop, The Missing Place, The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Tamara’s October 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
October Selections: The Silent Sister, Truth Be Told, Winter Street, Maybe This Christmas, Gossamer Ghost, Christmas on Chestnut Street, The Way Life Should Be, Christmas at Tiffany’s
Katie’s November 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
November Books: The End of Days, Lives in Ruins, Hello From the Gillespies, Best European Fiction 2015, Jane Austen Cover to Cover
Tamara’s November 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
November Books: On Borrowed Time, The Job, The Cinderella Murder, Lovely Wild
Katie’s December 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
December Books: Her Brilliant Career, Vanessa and Her Sister, Moriarty, The Strange Library
Tamara’s December 2014 Futuristic Friday Selections
December Books: Once Upon A Grind, Death With All the Trimmings, Vanished
Do any of those sound good to you? What books are you particularly looking forward too between now and the end of the year?
Tamara
Oh yippeeeee! I love your list! So, I just recently heard of The Missing Place- and the Wonder Woman cover I am totally digging! And Hello from the Gillespies is intriguing me- that blue door is making me wonder things!
Great list- *runs off to update my TBR list*
DoingDewey
The Missing Place and Hello from the Gillespies are definitely some of the ones I think are most likely to appeal to you too! I actually just finished The Silent Sister and I think Lovely Wild looks fascinating. And I do hope to add a cozy mystery to my reading at some point, so I’ll definitely look to you for recommendations when I do 🙂
Lindsey
Oh my goodness, you two know how to plan ahead! I usually have my next few reads planned out, but that is about it!
I’m off to look into The End of Days!
DoingDewey
I recently started planning more in advance so I could request physical ARCs, but I’m busy enough with school that I think I’ll go back to not requesting so many books for a while.
I thought The End of Days look really interesting! It’s translated fiction with a really interesting premise.
Monika @ Lovely Bookshelf
Okay, I need to step away… bookmarking, but stepping away… 😉 Love this post!
DoingDewey
Haha, yeah, I love learning about new books, but it’s so hard to limit yourself!
Becca Lostinbooks
Um…I want to read almost every single one of these. How did you guys do that? Katie, I am a BIG Egyptophile. I have been wanting to read The Woman Who Would Be King for a while now.
DoingDewey
We must just have similar taste! I’ve loved stories about Egypt since I was in middle school and I also really enjoy reading about women in history, so that’s at the top of my list too 🙂
Anya
Yey, Stitching Snow looks like it’ll be a lot of fun! I haven’t heard of many of the rest, but I trust you two to pick good books 😉
DoingDewey
I’m excited for that one! No matter how many retellings I read, I always want to read more 🙂
tanya (52 books or bust)
Such a great eclectic list. I’m really glad you guys do this.
Tamara @ Traveling With T
Aww! I love hearing that! While this helps me with my reading list (reviewing/pleasure-reading) seeing what the sweet Katie posts always opens my eyes- because she gets some great sounding books that I am totally unaware of!
DoingDewey
Like Tamara said, it’s nice to hear that! Thanks Tanya 🙂
Aloi (guiltlessreading)
Argh, another dangerous post! 🙂 Thanks for the recommendations! (TBR quaking!)
DoingDewey
Yeah, my TBR pile is pretty out of control too! There are just too many exciting books 🙂
Leila @ LeilaReads
I’m looking forward to Stitching Snow. My request on NetGalley for it was declined (sadness). Lovely Wild and The End of Days look really good. I do so love (hate) posts that introduce me to books I’d otherwise not see. So not good for my TBR list…
DoingDewey
Oh, that’s too bad! I hope you end up getting to read it anyway 🙂 I feel the same way about hearing about new books. It’s a blessing and a curse!
Catherine
Great chocies! I’m looking forward to Vanessa and Her Sister because those girls lived a life stranger than fiction so I want to see what will happen when it is fictionalized.
I’m a Frank Bascombe fan so am really excited about Richard Ford’s decision to write another novel about him. Let Me Be Frank With You is out in Nov and I’ve set a high bar for it! I’m also curious about Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things. He’s covered some pretty diverse territory in his novels so want to see what he’s doing next.
DoingDewey
I love reading fiction with famous people as characters, especially authors, so I’m really looking forward to that one too! I’ll have to pick up a nonfiction account as well or just skim wikipedia though, because I don’t actually know anything about their true story.
Those both sound interesting! I hope you end up enjoying them 🙂