2020 Books I'm Ready For

It's 2020 y'all! I cannot believe it's a new year already? Time is flying by as usual. Most people have resolutions and goals which in moderation is fine. But this year my only goal is to read just as much as I did last year. I read almost 50 books last year and I enjoyed every single moment of it! So this year I plan on doing the SAME EXACT THING! But I plan on including y'all in every book this time around. 2020 has some pretty exciting reads coming out, so let's go over my top 10 new releases for 2020!

1. American Dirt by Jeanie Cummins

This book is already being called "a grapes of wrath for our time". That's a lot of expectations to put on a book but I'm excited based on it's premise. Lydia lives in Acapulco, Mexico with her journalist husband and young son. They live a pretty normal middle class life till her husband writes a tell all about the head of the newest drug cartel. Their lives are never the same afterwards. This book I think will be one of the most popular book of 2020. The summary has pulled me in and tugged at my heart strings WITHOUT me ever reading the book. I definitely will be writing a review on it as soon as it hits the shelves.

Release date: January 21st, 2020

2.Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory

Jasmine Guillory has become one of my favorite writers in the last few years. Her first novel, The Wedding Date, was in everyone's book club and rightfully so! I use to read romantic novels more but it really bothered me that the characters NEVER looked like me. Maybe their "sassy" best friend but WOC deserve to be the leading lady in their own right. And Jasmine Guillory has made a series of novels with diverse, amazing, loveable WOC as the heroines. Party of Two is about Olivia Monroe moving to LA to start her own law firm and she meets a gorgeous man in a swanky hotel bar. That man ends up being rising junior senator, Max Powell. Olivia has NO plans on dating a politician because who needs all that drama? But love has a funny way of crushing your best laid plans. I cannot wait to snuggle up with this and a good glass of wine.

Release Date: June 23rd, 2020

3. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

Riley Sager is the QUEEN of keeping my butt up all night to finish the last page. How many of her books have I screamed, yelled, or been flat out shook at? Honestly I've lost count. So when I saw she was coming out with another one, I mentally prepped to lose a good night of sleep. Maggie Holt moved into Baneberry Hall with her parents when she was younger. The three weeks they lived in the house, before they left in the middle of the night, inspired her father to write a nonfiction book based on the ordeal. The book was a best seller but Maggie was too young to remember the events in her father's book. Present day, Maggie restores old victorian homes to their former glory. When her father dies, she inherits Baneberry Hall and plans to restore it. Though the locals aren't too happy with the reputation that Maggie's dad gave to their little town. But worst of all, the house and what dwells in it might have very sinister plans in store for Maggie. I love a good mystery and Riley Sager knows how to write one. I'm hoping this book continues her winning streak.

Release Date: July 7th, 2020

4.What Unbreakable Looks like by Kate McLaughlin

This book I've anxiously been awaiting like none other. Lex was sex trafficked when she was younger but when she's rescued she doesn't know how to be the old Lex again. She moves in with her family and tries to move on best she can. But when she's sexually assaulted by her boyfriend and his friends, Lexy has to come to terms with what happened with her. And when she realizes she has the power to help others, she must confront her past with the help of those who truly love her. Y'all the reviews for this book had me in tears. Such a powerful and heart wrenching story that I cannot wait to read.

Release Date: June 23rd, 2020

5.Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Talia Hibbert won my heart with Get A Life, Chloe Brown. She showed her writing talent in many ways more than once. Danika Brown does not do relationships. At all. So she likes to keep things causal and fun. Then she meets security guard Zafir Ansari when he rescues her from a workplace fire drill gone wrong. Danika thinks she's met her new person to keep it light and breezy with. But she's got it all wrong because Zafir is a hopeless romantic. When a the video of the rescue goes viral and the internet is shipping them, Zafir has a charity that all this publicity could help. So starts the fake relationship scheme and did I mention, I love this age old trope?

Release Date: June 23rd, 2020

6.Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier

Want to know a secret about me? I love a good book about someone getting revenge on a cheating spouse? Petty? Maybe! Entertaining? Always! And so we enter into the premise of Little Secrets. I feel like Jennifer Hillier books are best read without knowing too much. The book is about a mother driven into a dark place dealing with the disappearance of her son. While dealing with that horrible situation she learns that her husband is having an affair with the woman she suspects to have kidnapped him. I am buckled up and ready to go because I know this book is going to take me on a wild ride!

Release Date: April 21st, 2020

7. Followers by Megan Angelo

So the first time I read about this, I had to immediately put it down on my want to read list. It pulled me in from the tagline. "Some things aren't meant to be shared." In the present time, Ora and Floss are best friends who come up with an idea to get all the likes and fame they covet as influencers. But their plan changes American history. Thirty five years in the future, a woman named Marlow is living in constant surveillance as a government appointed celebrity. First of all, what is a government appointed celebrity? It already sounds like something I don't want to be. I struggle with the idea of social media to be honest. It isn't a honest picture of anything or anyone. But it influences a lot of our choices, ideas, spending, and so much more. What does that look like in the future? I think this book gives us a pretty scary look at that.

Release Date: January 14th, 2020

8.Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin

Before all these true crime podcast( which I love), I remember all those insane court cases that stayed on all the 24 hour news networks. Like Casey Anthony, Amanda Knox, Scott Peterson. All those insane cases that are now lifetime movies. Saint X premise sounds a lot like the missing persons case of Natalie Halloway. Already I'm intrigued! Claire is only seven years old when when her older sister, Allison, goes missing on the last night on vacation in the Caribbean island of Saint X. Her body is later found and two local men are arrested. But the evidence is slim and soon the men are released. Sound familiar anyone? Years late, Claire is working in the big apple and one day her cab driver turns out to be one of the men that was accused of her sister's murder.From then on, Claire is obsessed with finding the truth of what happened to her sister. But also who truly was her sister? I need this book now and I need to know what happened to Allison!

Release Date: February 18th, 2020

9. I Killed Zoe Spanno by Kit Frick

Inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca!? That's all I needed to read to get my stamp of approval. Rebecca is one of my favorite books of all time. The 1940 film adaption seriously creeps me out but I also love to watch it. Anna Cicconi arrives in the Hamptons for a nanny job hoping for a fresh start. But she's arrived at a time when the community all wound up after the disappearance of Zoe Spanno. Anna looks easily similar to Zoe and that makes people in the community a wee bit uncomfortable. Anna starts digging into Zoe's disappearance and starts to realize she might know more about Zoe than she realizes. Two months later, Zoe's body is found and Anna is charged with manslaughter. But Anna's confession isn't adding up and Martin ,the host of a podcast, wants to find out the truth. This book sounds like it'll be full of twist and an ending that's definitely going to shock me.

Release Date: June 2nd, 2020

10. Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

Snapped, Dangerous Women, Killer Siblings, Law and Order SVU. I love true crime! All of it sign me up for please! But any true crime case that deals with munchausen by proxy fascinates a weird part of me. Most of us are aware of the Gypsy Rose case that's been everywhere. It was even the premise of The Act, an award winning limited time series on Hulu. Darling Rose Gold delves into that premise but with a fascinating twist. What happens when you've been told you're sick all your life but turns out you've been poisoned by your mother? What happens when your caregiver is arrested for faking the sickness all your life? That is exactly what happens to Rose Gold and her mother, Patty. After five years of serving her sentence, Patty is released. Shockingly, Rose Gold welcomes her mother back into her home. But Rose Gold knows her mother and knows her mom isn't so quick to forgive. And Rose Gold isn't that sickly little girl anymore. Let mother vs daughter begin.

Release Date: March 17th, 2020

and one extra...I couldn't resist!

11. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

This book I won't say too much about. I think it's going to be very controversial but it could be done very well to spark an important conversation. The books deals with an adult woman looking back on the manipulative and highly inappropriate relationship she had with her teacher years ago. Once new revelations come out, she starts to think back and question the relationship and rethink events of the past. I'm looking forward to seeing a new author tackle such a complicated, nuanced subject.

Release Date: March 10th, 2020