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BCC’s Top Ten Most Anticipated Reads 2010
by Carolyn • Posted in BCC's Top Ten's of 2009
So, I have posted my Top Ten Reads ’09, Top Ten Covers ’09 and Top Ten Most Anticipated YA Reads ’10. Now for my Top Ten Most Anticipated Reads 2010. There are many… I was going to post my top twenty but then I thought that was too many and to keep in with the theme I narrowed it down to ten. It was very difficult. I thought 2009 was a great book year, but it looks as though 2010 is going to be even better.
So, without further ado, here is my top ten most anticipated reads of 2010:
1. Mr Shivers by Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date: Jan 2010
Summary:
It is the time of the Great Depression. The dustbowl has turned the western skies red and thousands leave their homes seeking a better life. Marcus Connelly seeks not a new life, but a death – a death for the mysterious scarred man who murdered his daughter. And soon he learns that he is not alone. Countless others have lost someone to the scarred man. They band together to track him, but as they get closer, Connelly begins to suspect that the man they are hunting is more than human. As the pursuit becomes increasingly desperate, Connelly must decide just how much he is willing to sacrifice to get his revenge.
2. Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy (Bk 1) by Mira Grant
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date: May 2010
Summary:
The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.
3. Dead Streets by Tim Waggoner
Publisher: Angry Robot Books
Release Date: March 2010
Summary:
Meet Matt Richter. Private Eye. Zombie. His mean streets are the city of the dead, the shadowy realm known as Nekropolis. Book two of the Nekropolis series sends Matt Richter out on another deathly adventure. More pulp than Pulp Fiction, more butt-kicking than Buffy, Dead Streets is the second in this deathly new series.
4. The Orphaned Worlds by Michael Cobley
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date: April 2010
Summary:
Darien is no longer a lost outpost of humanity, but the prize in an intergalactic power struggle. Hegemony forces have a stranglehold over the planet and Earth watches, immobilised by galactic politics. But its Darien ambassador will become a player in a greater conflict. An ancient Uvovo temple hides access to a hyperspace prison, housing the greatest threat sentient life has known. Millennia ago, malignant intelligences were caged there following a great war. And their escape is near. However, Darien’s guardians have gathered resistance on the planet’s forest moon. The galaxy depends on the Uvovo reclaiming their past – and humanity must safeguard its future. For a new war is coming.
5. Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill
Publisher: New American Library
Release Date: 6 July 2010
Summary:
Merit, Chicago’s newest vampire, is learning how to play well with others. Other supernaturals, that is. Shapeshifters from across the country are convening in the Windy City, and as a gesture of peace, Master Vampire Ethan Sullivan has offered their leader a very special bodyguard: Merit. Merit is supposed to protect the Alpha, Gabriel Keene—and to spy for the vamps while she’s at it. Oh, and luckily Ethan’s offering some steamy, one-on-one combat training sessions to help her prepare for the mission. Merit must accept the assignment, even though she knows that she’ll probably regret it. And she’s not wrong. Someone is gunning for Gabriel Keene, and Merit soon finds herself in the line of fire. She’ll need all the help she can get to track down the would-be assassin, but everywhere she turns, there are rising tensions between supernaturals—not least between her and a certain green-eyed, centuries old master vampire.
6. Horns by Joe Hill
Publisher: Gollancz
Release Date: Feb 2010
Summary:
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, a raging headache… and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned American musician, and the younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, Ig had security and wealth and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more – he had the love of Merrin Williams, a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. Then beautiful, vivacious Merrin was gone – raped and murdered, under inexplicable circumstances – with Ig the only suspect. He was never tried for the crime, but in the court of public opinion, Ig was and always would be guilty. Now Ig is possessed with a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look, and he means to use it to find the man who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It’s time for a little revenge; it’s time the devil had his due.
7. Ghosts of Manhatten by George Mann
Publisher: Pyr
Release Date: April 2010
Summary:
1926. New York. The Roaring Twenties. Jazz. Flappers. Prohibition. Coal-powered cars. A cold war with a British Empire that still covers half of the globe. Yet things have developed differently to established history. America is in the midst of a cold war with a British Empire that has only just buried Queen Victoria, her life artificially preserved to the age of 107. Coal-powered cars roar along roads thick with pedestrians, biplanes take off from standing with primitive rocket boosters, and monsters lurk behind closed doors and around every corner. This is a time in need of heroes. It is a time for The Ghost. A series of targeted murders are occurring all over the city, the victims found with ancient Roman coins placed on their eyelids after death. The trail appears to lead to a group of Italian American gangsters and their boss, who the mobsters have dubbed “The Roman.” However, as The Ghost soon discovers, there is more to The Roman than at first appears, and more bizarre happenings that he soon links to the man, including moss-golems posing as mobsters and a plot to bring an ancient pagan god into the physical world in a cavern beneath the city. As The Ghost draws nearer to The Roman and the center of his dangerous web, he must battle with foes both physical and supernatural and call on help from the most unexpected of quarters if he is to stop The Roman and halt the imminent destruction of the city.
8. Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane
Publisher: Harper Voyager
Release Date: May 2010
Summary:
The world is not the way it was. The dead have risen, and the living are under attack. The powerful Church of Real Truth, in charge since the government fell, has sworn to reimburse citizens being harassed by the deceased. Consequently, there are many false claims of hauntings from those hoping to profit. Enter Chess Putnam, a fully-tattooed witch, freewheeling Debunker, and ghost hunter. She’s got a real talent for nailing human liars and banishing the wicked dead. But she’s keeping a dark secret from the Church: a little drug problem that’s landed her in hot and dangerous water. Chess owes a lot of money to a murderous drug lord named Bump. And Bump wants immediate payback. All Chess has to do is dispatch a very nasty species of undead from an old airport. But the job involves black magic, human sacrifice, a nefarious demonic creature, and crossing swords with enough wicked energy to wipe out a city of souls. Toss in lust for a rival gang leader and a dangerous attraction to Bump’s ruthless enforcer, and Chess begins to wonder if the rush is really worth it. Hell, yeah.
9. Black and White by Jackie Kessler & Caitlin Kitteridge
Publisher: Piatkus
Release Date: Jan 2010
Summary:
Jet, the darling good girl of the city, uses her shadow-power to battle the forces of evil. Iridium is her former best friend; able to wield the power of light, she trained as a hero only to become one of the most infamous villains in the city – for what she feels are truly heroic reasons. Alternating between the present-day threat and their past exploits as friends – and later rivals – at the Superhero Academy, the novel brings these two women to vivid life, portraying the complexities of being a true hero in a world determined to categorise you in a neat box of good or evil – black or white.
10. A License to Steal by Samantha Graves
Publisher: Piatkus
Release Date: May 2010
Summary:
Can an art thief earn an honest living? Raven Callahan does, with the help of a rare psychic power that lets her read the emotions locked inside ancient objects. But when her partner is kidnapped, Raven is forced to steal a priceless masterpiece to save him. Ex-cop Dax Maddox made just one mistake on the job, but it took a young rookie’s life and cost Dax his ability to see colour. Now stalking a killer brings Raven into his life – and floods his grey world with vivid and conflicting emotions: anger and lust, suspicion and awe. Are the criminals they seek one and the same?
What are your most anticipated reads of 2010?
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Always when I come to your blog my TBR pile grows at least with 2 books.
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Almost every book is unknown to me LOL But this one sounds really intriguing: Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane. I hope each book is going to delivered the good stuff for you BCC!
Have an incredible New Years evening/night, may 2010 bring all you want.
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Feed sounds very good. I'll look out for that one!
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Great list! I'm going to have to look out for some of these
Happy New Year!
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Ooh, some excellent books! I'm going to have to take note on a couple of these as well.
2010 is going to be my year for Speculative Fiction. Such a broad genre with so many great books. That is where I'm choosing to go with my reading next year.
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I too am really interested in Feed. I wonder how it will be.
And thanks…just added a bunch of new reads to my TBR list =)
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Nice list! I'm adding a bunch of those to my wishlist!
Happy New Year!
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This is an amazing list! After reading the premises I just added most of them to my (infinite) reading list. Happy New Year!
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Wow, those look like some great reads! I already hade Joe Hill's Horns on my wish list! I know some more of these are on their way there. thanks!
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