2012 Must Read Sci-Fi / Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic Books
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Ah, 2012…..the year continents crack up and fall into the ocean, the dead start walking, and fires and storms and floods (oh my!) wipe out humanity as we know it. All will not be lost though—whatever humans remain will band together for protection, most likely into an iron-fisted all-controlling government hellbent on destroying all semblance of freedom. Hooray for humans!
Has there ever been a year better suited to an overflowing Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic/Sci-fi TBR pile?
Here is our list of unmissable reads for 2012…..bring on the Apocalypse baby!
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (January 3, 2012)
Cinder by Marissa Meyer (January 3, 2012)
A Million Suns by Beth Revis (January 10, 2012)
In Darkness by Nick Lake (January 17, 2012)
Truth by Julia Karr (January 19, 2012)
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe (January 24, 2012)
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons (January 31, 2012)
Incarnate by Jodi Meadows (January 31, 2012)
Pure by Julianna Baggott (February 8, 2012)
Brave New Love: 13 Dystopian Tales of Desire Edited by Paula Guran (February 14, 2012)
Fever by Lauren DeStefano (February 21, 2012)
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver (February 28, 2012)
Partials by Dan Wells (February 28, 2012)
BZRK by Michael Grant (February 28, 2012)
Starters by Lissa Price (March 13, 2012)
Invisible Sun by David Macginnis Gill (March 27, 2012)
After the Snow by S.D. Crockett (March 27, 2012)
Fear by Michael Grant (April 3, 2012)
The Obsidian Blade by Pete Hautman (April 10, 2012)
The Selection by Kiera Cass (April 24, 2012)
Thumped by Megan McCafferty (April 24, 2012)
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin (April 24, 2012)
Insurgent by Veronica Roth (May 1, 2012)
Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi (May 1, 2012)
The Other Life by Suzanne Winnacker (May 1, 2012)
The Forgetting Curve by (May 1, 2012)
Struck by Jennifer Bosworth (May 8, 2012)
Revived by Cat Patrick (May 8, 2012)
Shadows Cast by Stars by Catherine Knutsson (June 5, 2012)
Surrender by Elana Johnson (June 5, 2012)
Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne (June 5, 2012)
The Glimpse by Claire Merle (June 7, 2012)
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund (June 12, 2012)
This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers (June 19, 2012)
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker (June 26, 2012)
Once by Anna Carey (July 3, 2012)
Insignia by S.J. Kincaid (July 10, 2012)
The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse (July 10, 2012)
Glitch by Heather Anastasiu (August 7, 2012)
The Kill Order by James Dashner (August 14, 2012)
False Memory by Dan Krokos (August 14, 2012)
Defiance by C.J. Redwine (August 28, 2012)
Black City by Elizabeth Richard (August 2012 – TBD)
Rage Within by Jeyn Roberts (September 4, 2012)
The Unwanteds: Island of Silence by Lisa McMann (September 4, 2012)
Shadows (Ashes #2) by Ilsa Bick (September 11, 2012)
Flesh & Bone by Jonathan Maberry (September 11, 2012)
What’s Left of Me (Hybrid #1) by Kat Zhang (September 18, 2012)
Because it is My Blood (Birthright #2) by Gabrielle Zevin (September 18, 2012)
Adaptation by Malinda Lo (September 18, 2012)
Outpost by Ann Aguirre (September TBD)
Crimson Rising (Skyship Academy #2) by Nick James (September TBD)
UnWholly by Neal Shusterman (September TBD)
Yesterday by C. K. Kelly Martin (September 25, 2012)
Ashen Winter (Ashfall #2) by Mike Mullin (October 8, 2012)
Rebel Heart (Dustlands #2) by Moira Young (October 30, 2012)
Feedback (Variant #2) by Robison Wells (October TBD)
Legend #2 by Marie Lu
Reached by Ally Condie (November 13, 2012)
Shatter Me #2 by Tahereh Mafi
Ashes of Twilight by Kassy Taylor (November 13, 2012)
Rootless by Chris Howard (November – TBD)
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken (December 2012)
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Level 2 by Lenore Applehans (2012 – TBD)
Cybernetic by Laura Riken (2012 – TBD)
Altered by Jennifer Rush (2012 – TBD)
Beta by Rachel Cohn (2012 – TBD)
Renegade by J.A. Souders (TBD)
The Soul by Stephenie Meyers (TBD)
Elementals by Antony John (TBD)
Breathe by Sarah Crossan (TBD)
In the After by Demetria Lunetta (TBD)
The Fetch by Kat Falls (Fall 2012 – TBD)
Half Lives by Sara Grant (Fall 2012 – TBD)
Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam (TBD)
Stung by Bethany Wiggins (Fall 2012)
Which Sci-fi/Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic books are YOU looking forward to reading in the big 2012? Let me know in the comments!
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