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Here are ten books that will be published during the winter of 2020 that I hope my local library gets copies of soon.
As always, my TBR list is heavily influenced by which books my library orders and how long the wait lists are for them.
The photo in today’s post was included mostly because it made me chuckle. To the best of my knowledge, there are no ostriches in Toronto who expect winter bedtime stories.
1. Born in the Wrong Time: Female Husbands and the Transgender Past by Jen Manion
Publication Date: January (no book cover photo or precise publication date currently available.)
Why I Want to Read It: I know very little about this topic and would like to learn more.
2. Cold Fusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology that Transformed Our World by Dagogo Altraide
Publication Date: January 15
Why I Want to Read It: Cold fusion is a fascinating topic that I do not understand well enough to discuss in this post. With that being said, I like reading about science and technology in general.
3. The Seep by Chana Porter
Publication Date: January 21
Why I Want to Read It: It’s been too long since I read anything about alien invasions. The fact that the protagonist is a middle-aged woman only entices me more. Will she have more common sense than the typical teen hero in these tales? I hope so!
4. Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Publication Date: January 21
Why I Want to Read It: There’s nothing like the bond between siblings. The characters in this book sound like they’re going to go through a lot of hard times together. I want to see them come out triumphant at the end.
5. Remembrance by Rita Woods
Publication Date: January 21
Why I Want to Read It: There’s something I really like about books that jump between the past and present, especially when the timelines seem like they might somehow intersect.
6. Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond by Lydia Denworth
Publication Date: January 28
Why I Want to Read It: Friendship is a fascinating topic.
7. Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Deborah Riley Draper
Publication Date: February 4
Why I Want to Read It: I know only a few scraps of information about the 1936 Olympic Games and would like to read more about it.
8. Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
9. Common Bonds: An Aromantic Speculative Anthology by Claudie Arseneault
Publication Date: February (no cover photo or precise publication date currently available.)
Why I Want to Read It: I’m demisexual and curious to compare my experiences to theirs.
10. Finna by Nino Cipri
Publication Date: February 25
Why I Want to Read It: Of course there would be a portal to a different dimension that just so happened to open up in a retail store. If anyone deserves an adventure, it’s two people who work for minimum wage! We honestly need many more books about characters like these.
Wow! I did NOT expect a cold fusion book on your list and now I want to read it too just because you made me think about it. 🙂 My comment to it would be the same as yours. Looking forward to your review!
Heh, thanks. I hope you enjoy that book, too.
Ooh thank you for bringing Common Bonds to my attention, that one’s going straight on my TBR! I hope you enjoy all of these. =) Great list!
You’re welcome. Happy reading!
I’m going to have to share that cold fusion book with my husband – he loves all the science of energy stuff and watches documentaries and YouTube videos on it all the time. Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome. I hope he likes it!
Adding Finna to my list for sure! Of course it’s already like a hundred titles long. 🙂
Enjoy! And, yeah, my TBR is super long, too.
I had a friend who was a physics professor at UNM. He gave me the idea for Vander’s Magic Carpet. I proofread a speech he gave on cold fusion. This as back in the 80’s. I’ve been waiting for this to happen a long time. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2019/12/ttt-winter-tbr-list.html
Oh, that is so cool!
Fascinating selections. I’m going to look for Olympic Pride. I’ve read a few other books on that Olympics–one I recently reviewed was Berlin 1936.
Thank you. 🙂 I need to check out Berlin 1936 sometime.
There’s something about the Remembrance cover that’s really beautiful. It has so much emotion in it.
Totally agreed with you there!
Interesting list! I haven’t heard of any of these, but I hope you love them all when you get to them.
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Susan
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Thank you very much.
Great list! Riot Baby in particular sounds really interesting 😊
Thanks. Yeah, that one does sound pretty good.
Finna sounds like so much fun! I’ll be looking that one up now. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by my TTT. Happy Reading!
Yay! And you’re welcome.
That Friendship book sounds like it would be really interesting. I hope it is!
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Thanks. My fingers are crossed.
Great list! None of these were on my radar before, but I’ll be curious to see what you think of them!
Thank you. 🙂
I hope you will enjoy all of them!
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Thanks!
Love your list! You chose some great unique reads for this. I look forward to your review of Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. It looks like a great read.
Thank you very much.
I’d love to read Riot Baby as well and this is the first time I’m seeing The Seep. It sounds interesting as well. Hope you find some new favorites!
Thank you very much.
These are all new to me except Remembrance. I hope you like them, and may the library waiting lists be short and not hit you all at once.
Ha, thanks! I’m hoping for the same thing.
That cover for The Seep is gorgeous!
Thank you very much.
These are all quite unfamiliar to me, but I hope you enjoy ALL Of these once you’re able to read them, Lydia. Always fun to have some new books to anticipate. 🙂 Happy winter TBR-ing – and thanks for the visit to Finding Wonderland.
Aww, thanks. And you’re welcome.
Looks like you are in for quite an informative winter! Cold fusion certainly feels apt 🙂
Heh, for sure. And cold fusion sure seems like a winter-ish topic to me, too.
Great unusual and refreshing list! I’m intrigued by your last book
Aww, thanks. I hope you enjoy Finna.
I hadn’t heard about the transgender book you have listed. I’ll have to see if I can get my hands on that one. Like you, I’d like to learn more. I only hope the author is a good researcher.
My thoughts exactly. I hope it was well researched!
I don’t think I’m smart enough for those science books. I hope you enjoy all these!
Heh, thanks. 🙂
This looks like a wonderful list. I read The Seep recently- hoping to get a review up soon. It’s pretty quick and an interesting take on alien invasion. I think it’s really more of a satire than anything else, but I mostly enjoyed it. Finna sounds like fun too!
Thanks. I’m looking forward to your review of The Seep!
The Sleep and Born in the Wrong Time sound really interesting. Definitely going to check them out.
Hope you enjoy these!
Thanks a lot. 🙂 I hope you enjoy The Sleep and Born in the Wrong Time, too.
Finna is on my wishlist, and The Seep sounds great!
Yay! Hope you like them both.
What a great and varied list of interesting books!!! Cold fusion to alien invasions it’s certainly diverse!
Thanks a lot. 🙂
I haven’t heard of any of the books on your list but The Seep looks amazing! What a beautiful cover and I actually don’t think I’ve ever read anything alien invasion related so my interest is piqued! Hopefully the MC has more sense than a teen 😉 Haha I hope you enjoy all of these reads, Lydia!
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Heh, my fingers are crossed that she will. Thank you for your kind words as always, Dini.
Interesting list. I have not heard about any of these books. I hope that you will enjoy them!
Thanks a lot.
Ohh, The Seep sounds really interesting. I haven’t heard of it before but now I’m curious! Great list 😀
Thank you. I hope you like The Seep.
I hope you love all of these!
Thanks. 🙂
I hadn’t heard of The Seep at all but that sounds really good! I hope you will enjoy it.
Thank you!
The Seep’s cover looks so amazing!
Totally agreed!
I don’t know any of these but happy reading!!
Thanks a lot. 🙂
Very interesting list Lydia. Remembrance appeals to me, off to Goodreads to check it out.
Thanks. I hope you like Remembrance!
The Seep has such a creepy cover! I love the idea of a middle-aged protagonist, though! There’s not enough of those, especially in sci-fi and fantasy.
Exactly!
Great list! I’m so excited for Riot Baby. I hope we both love it! Good luck and happy reading 🙂
Thanks and ditto.
Poem? 🙂
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42891/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening
I love that poem.