I know I’m not a working librarian anymore, but the American Library Association had its annual midwinter conference here in Seattle over the weekend. Which was really exciting since this is where the announce the Newbery and Caldecott books every year! I didn’t go to the awards ceremony, but I did spend Sunday afternoon walking around the exhibit floor.

I came away with stacks of fantastic ARCs (Advanced Reader Copies) to read this year, including a bag full of middle grade/YA books that I gave to the upper elementary class at H’s school.

Here’s what I picked up starting from the upper left corner, and when each will be released:

• Run Away by Harlan Coben – March 19th
• Auntie Poldi and the Vineyards of Etna by Mario Giordano – March 5th
• The Valedictorian of Being Dead by Heather Armstrong (This one is dooce’s memoir about depression, it’s fascinating)- April 23
• The Terminal List by Jack Carr – March 6th
• Scot & Soda by Catriona McPherson – April 8th
• The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (this one has actually been out for a couple of years, she was doing a signing – and she was delightful)
• You Owe Me a Murder by Eileen Cook – March 5th
• Blood Relations by Jonathan Moore – June 18th
• Keep This to Yourself by Tom Ryan – May 7th
• Foul Play on Words by Beck Clark – April 8th
• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths – March 5th
• If She Wakes by Michael Koryta – May 14th
• Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Killgariff and Georgia Hardstark (YAY! LOVE this podcast) – May 28th
• The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin – February 5th
• No Exit by Taylor Adams – January 15th, this one just came out
• Riverland by Fran Wilde (my friend! I adore her!) – April 9th
• The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes – May 7th
• Crimson Lake by Candace Fox (this one’s also already out, they had copies of a few of her books)
• Redemption Point by Candace Fox – March 19th
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins – May 21st
• The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz – June 25th

I’ll be starting in on this stack soon, I hope, but it should keep me busy reading for quite some time.