I am so excited to be attending Book Expo America (BEA) this year! It will be my fourth year and it just occurred to me that while I did update the BEA Tips Guide, I didn’t tell you all what books I am looking forward to hopefully snagging at the expo!
Most of the ARCs that I receive, I will be giving away to those who donate $30 or more to YA Runs A 5K for We Need Diverse Books. The funds will create a grant which WNDB told me I could name, so I chose to name it after my late grandmother, BJ Joseph! I’m so excited about the BJ Joseph Grant and all that YA Runs A 5K has accomplished in a year. What’s really exciting is that if you donate $30 or more between THIS Wednesday and NEXT Friday, you can receive THREE ARCs instead of ONE. That is super exciting!
Be sure to follow me on Twitter as I’ll be sending out tweets using #YARunsA5K to share which books will be up for grabs! To get an idea of what you might see on that list, check out the below list of titles I am highly anticipating!
Also, if you see me at Teen Author Carnival or BEA, be sure to say hello! I’ll wear the YA Runs A 5K shirt (see below, me on the right) at the Teen Author Carnival so you can easily spot me!
Wednesday
Leila Sales – Tonight the Streets Are Ours
Susan Dennard – Truthwitch
EC Myers – Silence of Six
Lauren Saft – Those Girls
Virginia Boecker – The Witch Hunter
Thursday
A.S King – I Crawl Through It
Ernest Cline – Armada
Emily Lloyd-Jones – Illusive
Rebecca Serle – Truly Madly Famously
Susane Colasanti – City Love
Megan Sheperd – The Cage
Adi Alsaid – Never Always Sometimes
Libba Bray – Lair of Dreams
Barry Lyga – After the Red Rain
Jennifer E. Smith – Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between
Gwenda Bond – Lois Lane: Fallout
Friday
Lamar Giles – Endangered
Julie Murphy – Dumplin’
Carrie Ryan – Daughter of Deep Silence
I. W. Gregorio – None of the Above
Leigh Bardgo – Six of Crows
Scott Westefeld – Zeroes
Marcy Beller Paul – Underneath Everything
Liza M. Wiemer – Hello?
Dahlia Adler – Under the Lights
Maggie Lehrman – The Cost of All Things
Nicola Yoon – Everything, Everything
Marie Lu – The Rose Society
David Levithan – Another Day
Mindy Kaling – Why Not Me?
Felicia Day – You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)
Ellen Hopkins – Traffick
Richelle Mead – Soundless
Marieke Nijkamp – This is Where it Ends
Aaron Hartzler – What We Saw
Erin Bow – Scorpion Rules
Rae Carson – Walk on Earth a Stranger
Patrick Ness – The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Lexa Hillyer – Proof of Forever
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