YA Guy: YA Guy Resolves... To Read Lots of Great Books in 2014!

In 2013, YA Guy read fifty-four books. All but two were YA (one was a Middle Grade novel about Jim Thorpe, the other a literary novel about English department adjuncts). I'm counting Huck Finn, which I re-read for a class I was teaching, as YA. That was a pretty good year's worth of reading.

But time marches on, and the cavalcade of intriguing YA waits for no person. (And I can mix metaphors with the best of them.) So to keep me on track and to pique the interest of other readers, I've listed below twenty-five 2014 YA novels I hope to read. Many (though not all) of these books are debuts, which I've decided to focus on since my own debut comes out in 2014. If all goes according to plan, I'll not only be able to read these novels (and more) but to review at least some of them on the blog.

So here we go, in order according to release date... YA Guy's 2014 Wish List!

Christine Kohler, No Surrender Soldier (January 1)

Amalie Howard, The Almost Girl (January 7)

John Dixon, Phoenix Island (January 7)

Rachel Searles, The Lost Planet (January 28)

Christina Farley,Gilded (March 1)

Erica Cameron, Sing, Sweet Nightingale (March 4)

Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of AvaLavender (March 25)

Danielle Paige, Dorothy Must Die (April 1)
Alexandra Duncan, Salvage (April 1)

Kristi Helvig, Burn Out (April 8)

Philip Siegel, The Break-Up Artist (April 29)

Chris Struyk-Bonn, Whisper (April)