PubCrawl Podcast: Recommended Reads of 2015

This week, Kelly and JJ recommend ALL THE BOOKS. This is our year-end reading round-up, so be prepared for A LOT OF BOOKS to be thrown your way. (Also Hamilton. Again.)

Kelly’s Recommended Reads

• The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
  • Cinder
  • Scarlet
  • Cress
  • Winter
• The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
  • Throne of Glass
  • Crown of Midnight
  • Heir of Fire
  • Queen of Shadows
• The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman
  • The Magicians
  • The Magician King
  • The Magician’s Land

JJ’s Recommended Reads

• Another vote for The Lunar Chronicles!
• The Study (apparently also known as the Soulfinders) series by Maria V. Snyder
  • Poison Study
  • Magic Study
  • Fire Study
• The Original Sinners (The Red Years) series by Tiffany Reisz
  • The Siren
  • The Angel
  • The Prince
  • The Mistress
• The Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J. K. Rowling)
  • The Cuckoo’s Calling
  • The Silkworm
  • Career of Evil
• Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (companion to Serafina)
• Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray (companion to The Diviners)
• Red Rising and Golden Son by Pierce Brown
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Books Discussed/What We’re Currently Reading

• The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
• The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
• The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
• Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
• The entire Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
• The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Shadow Study by Maria V. Snyder
• The Glass series by Maria V. Snyder
  • Storm Glass
  • Sea Glass
  • Spy Glass
• The Queen by Tiffany Reisz
• The Winner’s Curse and The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski
• The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh
• Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Reasons We Did Not Finish Books

• Not in the mood at the time
• Just not for us
• Didn’t care enough to finish
• Couldn’t read them quickly enough before they went back to the library

Books We’re Looking Forward To:

• Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones (hey-o!)
• Morning Star by Pierce Brown
• The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski
• The Rose and the Dagger by Renee Ahdieh
• The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi
• Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber
• Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan
• Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda
• The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee
• Heartless by Marissa Meyer
• The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
• The Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

Off Menu Recommendations

In what makes her third musical recommendation since she started the podcast, JJ recommends Deaf West’s production/Broadway revival of Spring Awakening. The cast performed “Touch Me” on Late Night with Seth Meyers, so please watch and tell me this isn’t the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen.

Those of you who can make it, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GO. PLEASE GO AND LET ME LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH YOU.

That’s all for this year! In 2016, we will return with a podcast about REVISIONS to help those of you who have won NaNoWriMo (congrats!). We also have more Publishing 101 episodes, as well as some other topics we hope you guys will find useful. As always, if you have a question, feel free to ask us!