148 Forthcoming SF/F/H Books for May 2011
Here’s the huge (but still incomplete) list of forthcoming U.S. book releases for May 2011. Se anything you like? I know I do!
- 2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks (Tantor Media)
- 7 Billion Needles, Volume 4 by Nobuaki Tadano (Vertical)
- A Rope of Thorns: Volume Two of the Hexslinger Series by Gemma Files (ChiZine Publications)
- A Tale of Two Castles by Gail Carson Levine (Harper Collins)
- After Midnight (The Youngbloods) by Lynn Viehl (Flux)
- Age of Darkness (Horus Heresy) by Christian Dunn (Black Library)
- Almost Final Curtain: A Vampire Princess Novel (Vampire Princess of St. Paul) by Tate Hallaway (NAL Trade)
- Always the Vampire by Nancy Haddock (Berkley Trade)
- As You Wish by Gabi Stevens (Tor Books)
- Awaken by Katie Kacvinsky (Houghton Mifflin Books for Children)
- Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño (New Directions)
- Big Bad Beast by Shelly Laurenston (Brava)
- Bite Club (Morganville Vampires, Book 10) by Rachel Caine (NAL Hardcover)
- Black Magic Woman (Others Novels) by Christine Warren (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
- Blindness / Seeing by Jose Saramago (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Blood Law (Blood Moon Trilogy, Book 1) by Karin Tabke (Berkley Trade)
- Blood Magic (The Blood Journals) by Tessa Gratton (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- Blood Reaver (Night Lords) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Games Workshop)
- Boom! by Mark Haddon (Doubleday Canada)
- Born of Shadows (The League) by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Grand Central Publishing)
- Bound by Darkness: A Paladin Novel by Alexis Morgan (Pocket Star)
- Bumped by Megan Mccafferty (Balzer + Bray)
- Burn Down the Sky by James Jaros (Harper Voyager)
- Burning Skies by Caris Roane (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
- Caledor (Time of Legends: the Sundering) by Gav Thorpe (Games Workshop)
- Camera Obscura (Angry Robot) by Lavie Tidhar (Angry Robot)
- Captives (The Druids Saga, Book 2) by Barbara Galler-Smith & Josh Langston (Edge)
- Central Park Knight by C.J. Henderson (Tor Books)
- Chosen By Blood (A Para-Ops Novel) by Virna DePaul (Berkley)
- City of Ruins by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Pyr)
- Dancing With Bears by Michael Swanwick (Night Shade Books)
- Dark Descendant by Jenna Black (Pocket)
- Darkfire Kiss: A Dragonfire Novel by Deborah Cooke (Signet)
- Dawnbringer: A Forgotten Realms Novel by Samantha Henderson (Wizards of the Coast)
- Dead Is Not an Option by Marlene Perez (Graphia)
- Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 11) by Charlaine Harris (Ace Hardcover)
- Demon Hunting In Dixie by Lexi George (Brava)
- Divergent (Divergent Trilogy) by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
- Don’t Breathe a Word: A Novel by Jennifer Mcmahon (Harper Paperbacks)
- Dragon Bound (A Novel of the Elder Races) by Thea Harrison (Berkley)
- Dragon Virus Laura Anne Gilman (Fairwood Press)
- Dragons of Ordinary Farm, the by Tad Williams & Deborah Beale (Quercus Publishing Plc)
- Eclipse 4: New Science Fiction and Fantasy SC by Jonathan Strahan (Night Shade Books)
- Elf Realm: The Road’s End (Elf Realm Trilogy) by Daniel Kirk (Amulet Books)
- Embassytown by China Mieville (Del Rey)
- Ember and Ash by Pamela Freeman (Orbit)
- Enemy Games by Marcella Burnard (Berkley Trade)
- Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism by David Nickle (ChiZine Publications)
- Everfound (Skinjacker Trilogy) by Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Extremis: N/A (Starfire) by Steve White & Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- Fool’s Republic: A Novel by Gordon W. Dale (North Atlantic Books)
- Forever Vampire by Michele Hauf (HQN Books)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Puffin)
- Frankenstein: The Dead Town: A Novel by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
- Future Imperfect by K. Ryer Breese (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (Tor Books)
- Ghost Huntress Book 5: The Discovery by Marley Gibson (Graphia)
- Gods & Monsters (Shadows Inquiries) by Lyn Benedict (Ace)
- Hard Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, Book 4) by Chloe Neill (New American Library)
- Hard Magic: Book I of the Grimnoir Chronicles by Larry Correia (Baen)
- Hell’s Bells by (Hodder & Stoughton)
- I So Don’t Do Famous by Barrie Summy (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
- Illusions (Aprilynne Pike) by Aprilynne Pike (HarperTeen)
- Illustrated Masques: Masques Stories in Graphic Format by Stephen King (Gauntlet Pr)
- Infernal Devices (Angry Robot) by K.W. Jeter (Angry Robot)
- Jace (Shadow Wranglers) by Sarah McCarty (Berkley Trade)
- Jake Ransom and the Howling Sphinx by James Rollins (HarperCollins)
- Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever. by Caissie St. Onge (Ember)
- Juniper Berry by M. P. Kozlowsky (Walden Pond Press)
- Korval’s Game (Liaden) by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Baen)
- Lamekis by Charles de Fieux Chevalier de Mouhy (Hollywood Comics)
- Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine & Kiri Moth (Prime Books)
- Mercy Burns (Myth and Magic, Book 2) by Keri Arthur (Dell)
- Mercy by Rebecca Lim (Hyperion Book CH)
- Mind Storm: A Strykers Syndicate Novel by K.M. Ruiz (Thomas Dunne Books)
- Mirror Sword and Shadow Prince (Novel) by Noriko Ogiwara (VIZ Media LLC)
- Morlock Night (Angry Robot) by K.W. Jeter (Angry Robot)
- Night Mares in the Hamptons: A Willow Tate Novel by Celia Jerome (DAW)
- One Magic Moment by Lynn Kurland (Jove)
- Path of the Planeswalker, Volume 2: A Magic: The Gathering Graphic Anthology (A Planeswalker Novel) by Doug Beyer & Brady Dommermuth & Jenna Helland (Wizards of the Coast)
- Pathfinder Tales: The Worldwound Gambit by Robin D. Laws (Paizo Publishing, LLC.)
- Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein by Jonathan Green (Solaris)
- Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (Harper Voyager)
- Queen of Kings by Maria Dahvana Headley (Dutton Adult)
- Retribution Falls by Chris Wooding (Spectra)
- Ruby Red (Ruby Red – Trilogy) by Kerstin Gier (Henry Holt and Co. (BYR))
- Savage Nature (Leopard) by Christine Feehan (Jove)
- Scarlet Dream (Outlanders) by James Axler (Gold Eagle)
- Scars of Mirrodin: The Quest for Karn: Scars of Mirrodin Block (Magic: the Gathering) by Robert Wintermute (Wizards of the Coast)
- Shadow Raiders: Book 1 of the Dragon Brigade by Margaret Weis & Robert Krammes (DAW Hardcover)
- Skeleton Crew (The Underworld Cucle) by Cameron Haley (Luna)
- Small Memories by Jose Saramago (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Spellcast by Barbara Ashford (DAW)
- Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock by Christopher L. Bennett (Star Trek)
- Stonewielder: A Novel of the Malazan Empire by Ian C. Esslemont (Tor Books)
- Tainted Cascade (Deathlands) by James Axler (Gold Eagle)
- Tangled Threads (Elemental Assassin, Book 4) by Jennifer Estep (Pocket)
- Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs (Walker Books for Young Readers)
- The Ambassador’s Mission (The Traitor Spy Trilogy) by Trudi Canavan (Orbit)
- The Cellar by A. J. Whitten (Graphia)
- The Chaos Crystal by Jennifer Fallon (Tor Books)
- The Child Garden: A Low Comedy by Geoff Ryman (Small Beer Press)
- The Council of Shadows (Shadowspawn) by S. M. Stirling (Tantor Media)
- The Cypress House by Michael Koryta (Back Bay Books)
- The Dark Zone: A Galahad Book by Dom Testa (Tor Teen)
- The Demon Left Behind by Marie Jakober (EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy)
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (Puffin)
- The Falling Machine (The Society of Steam, Book One) by Andrew Mayer (Pyr)
- The Fecund’s Melancholy Daughter by Brent Hayward (ChiZine Publications)
- The Fires Beneath the Sea: a novel by Lydia Millet (Big Mouth House)
- The Five by Robert McCammon (Subterranean)
- The Goddess Test (Harlequin Teen) by Aimee Carter (Harlequin)
- The Great Night: A Novel by Chris Adrian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- The Hidden Goddess by M. K. Hobson (Spectra)
- The Hot Gate: Troy Rising III by John Ringo (Baen)
- The Inheritance: And Other Stories by Robin Hobb & Megan Lindholm (Harper Voyager)
- The Kane Chronicles, The, Book Two: Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan (Hyperion Book CH)
- The Last Warrior (Hqn) by Susan Grant (HQN Books)
- The Lone Warrior by Denise Rossetti (Berkley Trade)
- The Meowmorphosis (Quirk Classics) by Franz Kafka & Cook Coleridge (Quirk Books)
- The Mornith War by Patrick Doud (North Atlantic Books)
- The Nebula Awards Showcase 2011 by Eugie Foster & Kij Johnson & Kage Baker & Paolo Bacigalupi (Tor Books)
- The Noise Revealed by Ian Whates (Solaris)
- The Other Crowd (Rogue Angel) by Alex Archer (Gold Eagle)
- The President’s Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth (Putnam Adult)
- The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi (Tor Books)
- The Resisters #1: The Resisters by Eric Nylund (Random House Books for Young Readers)
- The Restorer (Graveyard Queen) by Amanda Stevens (Mira)
- The Rogue Crew: A Tale of Redwall by Brian Jacques (Philomel)
- The Silver Bowl by Diane Stanley (HarperCollins)
- The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature by Jeff VanderMeer & S. J. Chambers (Abrams Image)
- The Time Weaver by Shana Abe (Bantam)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons: A Novel of the Light Dragons by Katie MacAlister (Signet)
- The Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries #3: The Craving by L. J. Smith & Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec (HarperTeen)
- The Vampire Dimitri (Books of the Regency Draculia) by Colleen Gleason (Mira)
- The World Above The World by Jules Perrin & Andre Mas (Hollywood Comics)
- Theories of Flight (Samuil Petrovitch) by Simon Morden (Orbit)
- Tighter by Adele Griffin (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
- Troubletwisters by Garth Nix & Sean Williams (Scholastic Press)
- Twilight Prophecy (Children of Twilight) by Maggie Shayne (Mira)
- Uncertain Allies (Connor Grey, Book 5) by Mark Del Franco (Ace)
- Undead and Unfinished (Undead/Queen Betsy) by MaryJanice Davidson (Jove)
- Untamed Highlander: A Dark Sword Novel by Donna Grant (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
- Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings by Ellen Schreiber (Katherine Tegen Books)
- Victorious (The Lost Fleet, Book 6 of 6) by Jack Campbell (Ace)
- Warcry (Chronicles of the Warlands) by Elizabeth Vaughan (Berkley)
- Warrior Betrayed: The Sons of the Zodiac by Addison Fox (Signet)
- Wickedly Charming by Kristine Grayson (Sourcebooks Casablanca)
My name is Paul and I am a book addict… 😉
What kind of diet do those guys eat?
Thank you for compiling this list. It’s very helpful!
I sincerely hope that it’s not just you by yourself that does this. With just the few publishers that I try to keep up with, it’s a daunting task! Kudos to you!
@James: Yep — just me. I wortoe a program to help with the HTML. Still, the whole thing took a little over an hour.