Hello and welcome to another Six for Sunday post! How are you all? I hope you’ve had a good week! The meme #SixforSunday was created by A Little but a Lot. You can find weekly prompts here. This week’s prompt is 2019 books that I’m excited for. I just want to say, that all of these covers are absolutely gorgeous! 😍😍 Alos, honestly, there are so many good books coming out this year but since this is Six for Sunday, here’s my six choices.
This book is feminist and set in the 90’s in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I mean, that’s really all I needed to know before I added this to my TBR!
Synopsis:
In 1992 Baton Rouge, a single rumor has the power to change a girl’s life forever.When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys–or anyone, for that matter. Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren’t exactly mainstream at St. Ann’s, her conservative Catholic high school.Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls…a rumor that her popular, pretty, pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer. A rumor that has the power to not only hurt Helen, but possibly see her expelled.Despite their wildly contrasting views, Athena, Helen and their friends must find a way to convince the student body and the administration that it doesn’t matter what Helen did or didn’t do…even if their riot grrrl protests result in the expulsion of their entire rebel girl gang.
This sounds so cute and real wholesome but also hard hitting and I am here for it!
Synopsis:
Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad’s restaurant, all while her mum stays in bed. Dad’s new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren’t right at home, she’s starting to feel like she could just be a normal teen.
But when Mum finally gets out of bed, things go from bad to worse. And as Mum’s condition worsens, Anna and her family question everything they understand about themselves and each other.
A nourishing tale about the crevices of culture, mental wellness and family, and the surprising power of a good dumpling.
This book has one of my favorite tropes, fake dating! This sounds so good, ya’ll! Also, if I’m not mistaken the author of this book, is Nicola Yoon’s husband so that’s pretty cool.
Synopsis:
High school senior Frank Li is a Limbo–his term for Korean-American kids who find themselves caught between their parents’ traditional expectations and their own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance–“Date Korean”–which proves complicated when Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful–and white. Fellow Limbo Joy Song is in a similar predicament, and so they make a pact: they’ll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. Frank thinks it’s the perfect plan, but in the end, Frank and Joy’s fake-dating maneuver leaves him wondering if he ever really understood love–or himself–at all.
I added this for the cover, obviously. 😂
Synopsis:
Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Nicola Yoon comes a novel about first love and family secrets from Stonewall Book Award winner Brandy Colbert.
Dove “Birdie” Randolph works hard to be the perfect daughter and follow the path her parents have laid out for her: She quit playing her beloved soccer, she keeps her nose buried in textbooks, and she’s on track to finish high school at the top of her class. But then Birdie falls hard for Booker, a sweet boy with a troubled past…whom she knows her parents will never approve of.
When her estranged aunt Carlene returns to Chicago and moves into the family’s apartment above their hair salon, Birdie notices the tension building at home. Carlene is sweet, friendly, and open-minded–she’s also spent decades in and out of treatment facilities for addiction. As Birdie becomes closer to both Booker and Carlene, she yearns to spread her wings. But when long-buried secrets rise to the surface, everything she’s known to be true is turned upside down.
This sounds so weird and awesome! Also, it’s a sapphic horror novel! 😱😍
Synopsis:
It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her.
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don’t dare wander outside the school’s fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.
But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there’s more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
This story takes place in Kentucky which, if you didn’t know, is basically my backyard and I don’t see too many books that take place in KY. This book has a disabled, pansexual main character and a lesbian main character and they become best friends!! 😍😍
Synopsis:
Critically-acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime, in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past.
In Samsboro, Kentucky, Kalyn Spence’s name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager. Forced to return to town, Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym . . . or face the lingering anger of Samsboro’s citizens, who refuse to forget the crime.
Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. A Samsboro native, he’s either known as the “disabled kid” because of his cerebral palsy, or as the kid whose dad was murdered. Gus just wants to be known as himself.
When Gus meets Kalyn, her frankness is refreshing, and they form a deep friendship. Until their families’ pasts emerge. And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned, Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar. Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward?
And that’s my six picks for 2019 books that I’m excited for.
What did you think of my choices? Any that you are interested in as well?
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I’m so excited for Frankly In Love
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Oh, gosh, all of these books sounds sooo good. And the only book I’ve actually really heard of from this list is Wilder Girls, which I’m super super excited for too because it’s sapphic and it apparently has a lot of body horror. Its cover is also gorgeous! Also, how did I not know that Frankly in Love was written by Nicola Yoon’s husband? That’s so cool, and its premise of fake dating (one of my fave tropes!) is so intriguing! Plus, it features Korean-American main characters, so yes. Rebel Girls might carry some very important themes on abortion and feminism so I’ll definitely keep my eye out for it. I think I’ve heard of the author of The Revolution of Birdie Randolph, but I’ve never read her works before. But Birdie Randolph sounds so interesting–gosh all of these are interesting 😂 Needless to say, this was a great list, and I hope you enjoy all of the books here!
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I know, that cover for Wilder Girls is so stunning! I didn’t know that the author of Frankly in Love was Nicola Yoon’s husband either until I heard someone say it on a booktube video that I was watching one day! The author of The Revolution of Birdie Randolph is also the author of Little & Lion, Finding Yvonne and she was a contributor on Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America and Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft. You’ve probably hear of some of those.
Thank you for your wonderful comment and feedback! 😁 I hope you enjoy any of these books too if you decide to check them out!
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