What Authors are you waiting to read?
Mr Young can worry about the end of the world, while one of my colleagues and I worry about what new titles are coming out in 2011.
Coming to Amazon, February 1st is Swamplandia! by Karen Russell. 
Booklist gives it a Starred Review, Ravishing, elegiac, funny, and brilliantly inquisitive, Russell’s archetypal swamp saga tells a mystical yet rooted tale of three innocents who come of age through trials of water, fire, and air. –Donna Seaman
Then for those Jasper Fforde fans, I know there are lots and lots of those folks around, here comes One of Our Thursdays is Missing. This is a return to BookWorld and the Thursday Next series. I hate to admit I couldn’t get into Shades of Grey, it was just too much of a struggle to get my colors straight.
Looks like you’re going to have to wait until March for this one.
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen is bringing us a new one, that will welcome you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be. Titled Peach Keeper, this looks like another excellent work by Allen. To remember her Girl Who Chased the Moon, go back to this trailer.
One of my very favorite authors, Ian Rankin is coming out with a new one, The Complaints. I’m going to miss Rebus desperately. But I’ll have to give this new Inspector Fox a try. Any year with an Ian Rankin book in it, is going to be a good year. 
So WHO are you waiting to read? I’ve gone on long enough, comment your authors in waiting, so we can all add them to our TBR (to be read) stacks. It’s going to be a chilly winter, so stack up and get started.
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How do! I’m on MLS’s waiting list for “The Inner Circle” by Brad Meltzer. Listened to an interview with him the other day. Was online putting in my request before the interview ended. Can hardly wait for my request number to come up!
Happily, because I was at ALA Midwinter, I no longer have to wait for Holly Black’s Red Glove, sequel to White Cat. I’m over halfway through and it’s just as good as the first book. I do have to wait for Karen Healey’s second novel, Shattering as the advanced reader’s copies weren’t ready for Midwinter.
Also on my list is City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare’s fourth book in the Mortal Instruments series, any book by Mo Willems and Delirium by Lauren Oliver.
Kitty–
I’ve heard from someone else who had problems with Fforde’s Shades of Grey. It’s on my reading list, so I’ll report back eventually!