Book Hype hosts Jen, Karen, Kyle, Marama, and Michal join together to talk about everything they’re looking forward to in the book world for 2014.

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What are we reading right now?
–Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
–Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
–The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
–The HBO Effect by Dean J. DeFino
–Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
–Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg
–The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine
–Grimm (anthology)

What are our book resolutions for the New Year?
-Kyle wants to write more and read faster
-Karen needs to finish Insurgent because seriously
-Michal wants to read more often throughout the week
-Jen needs to read more consistently and diversely
-Jen and Marama make the rest of us feel terrible because they’ve read so many books
-Marama needs more balance in her life and also read more A Song of Ice and Fire

What debut authors are we looking forward to?
–No One Else Can Have You by Kathleen Hale
–Half Bad by Sally Green
–The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
–Talker 25 by Josh McCune
–Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
–Red Rising by Pierce Brown
–The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

Which new series or standalones are we excited about?
–Disruption by Jess Shirvington
–The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
–Armada by Ernest Cline
–Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff
–Death Sworn by Leah Cypess
–Avalonby Mindee Arnett
–Don’t Look Back by Jennifer Armentrout
–The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt
–Sleep No More by April Lynn Pike
–After the End by Amy Plum
–The Taking by Kim Derting
–Uninvited by Sophie Jordan

What sequels are we looking forward to in 2014?
–Ashes to Ashes by Jenny Han
–Firefight by Brandon Sanderson
–The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
–Blightborn by Chuck Wendig
–The Dark King by C.J. Abedi
–Cress by Marissa Meyer
–The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey
–Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
–Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
–The Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
–Cuckoo’s Calling sequel by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling
–Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins
–The One by Kiera Cass
–The Rapunzel Dilemma by Jennifer Kloester
–Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
–Evertrue by Brodi Ashton
–Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
–Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead
–Opposition by Jennifer Armentrout
–City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

We also have some adult and non-fiction recommendations!
-Hilary Clinton autobiography
-John Cleese autobiography
–My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
-John le Carre biography
–The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
–Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

And, of course, adaptations:
The Fault in Our Stars
Divergent
The Vampire Academy
Winter’s Tale
Gone Girl
Outlander
My Mad Fat Diary
Game of Thrones
Days of Future Past
Captain America
The Amazing Spider-Man
Guardians of the Galazy
The Maze Runner
The Hobbit

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