Hello friends!
TIS THE SEASON… Of all the fun end of the year bookish lists. I can’t believe I’m writing my most anticipated releases for the first half of 2019 when I feel like I wrote the same one for 2018 just the other day. Most of these are YA, but there is some Adult and a Middle Grade in there as well!
Remember how last year I was overwhelmed by the 32 books I had on the list? Well, this year…I have almost 50, don’t even get me started on how much time it took me to put this post together. And also, considering that out of those 32 books, I only read 11, I’ll be lucky to make it through even a quarter of this list…THEY JUST COME OUT TOO FAST, OKAY? But anyway. Some of the books on this list don’t have covers yet, which is why the number of books doesn’t match the number of covers.
- The Kingdom of Copper (Daevabad #2) – S. A. Chakraborty (8th)
- The Girl King – Mimi Yu (8th)
- Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals #2.5) – Alyssa Cole (8th)
- Crown of Feathers – Nicki Pau Preto (12th)
- The Gilded Wolves – Roshani Chokshi (15th)
- The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali – Sabina Khan (29th)

- Enchantée – Gita Trelease (5th)
- On the Come Up – Angie Thomas (5th)
- The Weight of Our Sky – Hana Alkaf (5th)
- We Set the Dark on Fire – Tehlor Kay Mejia (26th)
- An Affair of Poisons – Addie Thorley (26th)
- Last of Her Name – Jessica Khoury (26th)

- The Last 8 – Laura Pohl (1st)
- Wolf-Light – Yaba Badoe (1st)
- The Fever King – Victoria Lee (1st)
- Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid (5th)
- Ruse (Want #2) – Cindy Pon (12th)
- Opposite of Always – Justin A. Reynolds (12th)
- Internment – Samira Ahmed (19th)
- Small Town Hearts – Lillie Vale (19th)
- The Weight of The Stars – K. Ancrum (19th)
- The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James – Ashley Herring Blake (26th)

- The Takeover Effect – Nisha Sharma (2nd)
- Descendant of the Crane – Joan He (2nd)
- The Devouring Gray – Christine Lynn Herman (2nd)
- When We Left Cuba – Chanel Cleeton (9th)
- If I’m Being Honest – Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka (23rd)
- Belly Up – Eva Darrows (30th)
- A Prince on Paper (Reluctant Royals #3) – Alyssa Cole (30th)

- With the Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo (7th)
- Somewhere Only We Know – Maurene Goo (7th)
- The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) – Helen Hoang (7th)
- Her Royal Highness (Royals #2) – Rachel Hawkins (7th)
- We Hunt the Flame – Hafsah Faizal (14th)
- Don’t Date Rosa Santos – Nina Moreno (14th)
- I Wish you All the Best – Mason Deaver (14th)
- Symptoms of a Heartbreak – Sona Charaipotra (21st)
- Going Off Script – Jen Wilde (21st)
- These Witches Don’t Burn – Isabel Sterling (28th)
- I Love you so Mochi – Sarah Kuhn (28th)
- The Wise and the Wicked – Rebeccah Podos (28th)
- There’s Something about Sweetie – Sandhya Menon
- Love from A to Z – S. K. Ali

- I Wanna Be Where You Are – Kristina Forest (4th)
- Like A Love Story – Abdi Nazemian (4th)
- Blood Heir – Amélie Wen Zhao (4th)
- Tell Me How you really Feel – Amina Mae Safi (11th)
- Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune – Roselle Lim (11th)
That’s it until next time.
What are your most anticipated releases of 2019?
Hope you enjoyed, write to you soon.
OMG FADWA WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY TBR I DON’T NEED THIS!!!!!!!!! but lmao no seriously this post is amazing and thank you for bringing so many awesome books to my attention that i wasn’t aware of!!! i’m excited for so many of these 😍
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AHAHAHAHAH YOU’RE WELCOME!! And yaay i hope you love them ❤
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AHHHHHHH. So many amazing looking releases ahh I’m so excited to read all of these. Great list Fadwa! I’m especially impatient about The Gilded Wolves, We Set The Dark On Fire, Last of Her Name, The Fever King, Opposite of Always, Small Town Hearts, The Devouring Gray, If I’m Being Honest, Going Off Script, Don’t Date Rosa Santos 😀
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Right? this year is treating us so well and I’m beyond excited!
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My TBR pile doesn’t need more help to grow, but thanks anyway for the recommendations, Fadwa 🙂
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haha you’re welcome!
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The Princess and the Fangirl, Wicked King, Darkdawn, and Courting Darkness are my most anticipated releases for 2019!!!
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I hope you enjoy them!
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So many exciting books to read in 2019!!! Kingdom of Copper is on the very top of my most anticipated read!!!!
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I hope you love it!! It’s absolutely mindblowing
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Wonderful post!! ❤️ My 2019-releases shelf on Goodreads has expanded so much because of this, haha. There are so many incredible books coming out next year!! I can’t wait. 😍
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hahahah you’re welcome..? An yes this year is going to be so great!! ❤
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So my tbr list has officially been expanded by a lot. Some of these books sound epic. I’d say my most anticipated are On the Come Up, King of Scars, and The Starless Sea. I can already see those books punching me in the feels.
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hahaha my job here is done! I hope they live up to your expectations.
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I’m so with you. They are coming out all too soon. I need to read them all. ❤ Great list.
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Thank youu ❤
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Wowww RIP my TBR.
Even though quite a few of them are already on my list!🙈
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hahaha it’s okay, my TBR is very frightening as well.
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What does it say about me that I have all of these except 2 on my TBR 😂 and I added those two too
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It says you have great reading tastes hahaha. I hope you enjoy them!
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Daisy Jones and the Six!!!! Cannot wait for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s next book.
Some of my most anticipated books for the first half of of 2019 are The Winter of the Witch (Winternight #3) & The Shadow Glass (The Bone Witch #3).
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I unfortunately ended up not enjoying it as much as i hoped, but i hope you have better luck with it!
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A lot of these are new to me! I’ll have to check them out. Some of my most anticipated books this year are Romanov by Nadine Brandes and Within These Lines by Stephanie Morrill.
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I hope your anticipated releases live up to your expectations!!!
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With Fire On High is one of my most anticipated releases this year and I cannot wait to read it myself! I love your blog by the way!
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Aww thank you so much!! And i hope we both love it when we read it!
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