{Leseplanung} Herbst 2019: Ran an den SuB

Wow, es ist mal wieder einige Zeit vergangen, seit ich die letzte Leseplanung veröffentlicht habe. Da der Sommer bei mir traditionell eher mau ist, was das Lesen angeht, ist es vermutlich gar nicht so verwunderlich, dass die letzte Leseplanung die für das Frühjahr 2019 war. Doch wie dem auch sei: Der Herbst steht vor der Tür. Und weil ebendieser meine liebste Jahreszeit ist, gibt es dafür auch endlich mal wieder eine geplante Leseliste. Los geht’s!

Leseplanung – was ist das?

Zu jedem (meterologischen) Jahreszeitenwechsel suche ich mir zehn Büchern aus, die ich in der besagten Jahreszeit lesen möchte. Dabei handelt es sich in der Regel um eine bunte Mischung aus SuB-Leichen und Neuerscheinungen.

Leseplanung Herbst 2019 – diese 10 Bücher sind dabei

Für die Zeit zwischen dem 1. September und dem 30. November 2019 habe ich mir also zehn Bücher herausgesucht, die ich gern lesen möchte. Da es dieses Jahr mit dem SuB-Abbau bisher eher mäßig geklappt hat, möchte ich mich dabei vor allem auf die Bücher konzentrieren, die schon ewig auf dem Stapel ungelesener Bücher liegen. Zwar erwarte ich auch gespannt einige Neuerscheinungen, doch die beziehe ich zumindest dieses Mal nicht direkt von vornherein in die Leseplanung mit ein.

Auf der Leseliste für den Herbst 2019 stehen bei mir diese zehn Bücher:

1. Dale Bailey – In other Lands

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow’s remote Yorkshire mansion. In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods. In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow’s ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens’ dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer. Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture into the night wood. Soon enough, they’ll learn that the darkness under the trees is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.

2. Cassandra Clare – Ghosts of the Shadowmarket

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks and vampires. There the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. Follow Brother Zachariah and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market’s dark dealing and festival, Anna Lightwood’s doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild’s great sin and Tessa Gray plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland’s soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no-one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah.

3. Agatha Christi – Murder on the Orient Express

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

4. Jennifer Fallon – Der unsterbliche Prinz

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): Hunderte Jahre lang regierten die Gezeitenherrscher das Land Amyrantha, bis ihre magischen Kräfte nachließen. Inzwischen sind sie kaum mehr als eine Legende. Da taucht eines Tages ein Mann auf, der behauptet, Cayal, der unsterbliche Prinz, zu sein. Die junge Herzogin Arkady kann nicht daran glauben, und doch übt der Unbekannte eine enorme Anziehungskraft auf sie aus…

5. Maureen Johnson – The Vanishing Stair

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon) – ACHTUNG, SPOILER FÜR BAND 1:

The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with crime. Stevie’s willing to do anything to get back to Ellingham, be back with her friends, and solve the Truly Devious case. Even if it means making a deal with the despicable Senator Edward King. And when Stevie finally returns, she also returns to David: the guy she kissed, and the guy who lied about his identity—Edward King’s son. But larger issues are at play. Where did the murderer hide? What’s the meaning of the riddle Albert Ellingham left behind? And what, exactly, is at stake in the Truly Devious affair? The Ellingham case isn’t just a piece of history—it’s a live wire into the present.

6. Mackenzie Lee – This Monstrous Thing

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): In an alternative fantasy world where some men are made from clockwork parts and carriages are steam powered, Alasdair Finch, a young mechanic, does the unthinkable after his brother dies: he uses clockwork pieces to bring Oliver back from the dead. But the resurrection does not go as planned, and Oliver returns more monster than man. Even worse, the novel Frankenstein is published and the townsfolk are determined to find the real-life doctor and his monster. With few places to turn for help, the dangers may ultimately bring the brothers together—or ruin them forever.

7. Kerri Maniscalco – Hunting Prince Dracula

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon):

Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper’s true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe’s best schools of forensic medicine…and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend. But her life’s dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school’s forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

8. Bernd Perplies – Tarean. Ritter des Ersten Lichts

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon) – ACHTUNG, SPOILER FÜR BAND 1+2: Nachdem Tarean die Kristalldrachen aus ihrem Kerker in den Dunkelreichen befreit hat, ist es nun an ihm, die letzten Ritter des Kristalldrachenordens zu suchen. Zuvor jedoch steht ihm eine schwere Reise bevor: Er durchwandert den Cerashmon auf der Suche nach Moosbeeres Heimat, um das tote Irrlicht nach Hause zu bringen – wie Moosbeere es sich gewünscht hat. Unterdessen regt sich im Herzen Nondurs eine uralte Macht, die eine Gefahr für die gesamte Welt darstellt. Nur mit vereinten Kräften können die Kristalldrachen und ihre Ritter das wiedererwachte Böse in seine Schranken weisen.

9. V. E. Schwab – The Near Witch

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the moor at night, she knows that at least one of these sayings is no longer true. The next night, the children of Near start disappearing from their beds, and the mysterious boy falls under suspicion. As the hunt for the children intensifies, so does Lexi’s need to know about the witch that just might be more than a bedtime story, about the wind that seems to speak through the walls at night, and about the history of this nameless boy. 

10. Maggie Stiefvater – The Scorpio Races

Kurzbeschreibung (© Amazon): Some race to win. Others race to survive. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition – the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.

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Das sind also die zehn Bücher, die ich im Herbst 2019 gern lesen möchte – wenig überraschend ist die Liste mal wieder sehr Fantasy-lastig. Habt ihr schon eins oder mehrere der Bücher gelesen? Dann lasst mich gern in den Kommentaren wissen, welches Buch es war und wie es euch gefallen hat. In diesem Sinne: Bis zum nächsten Mal!

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