Category: Riot Rundown

Sponsored by Featherweight by Mick Kitson (Canongate)

Annie Perry is born beside the canals of the Black Country, at the height of the Industrial Revolution. The youngest in a Romani family who cannot afford to keep her, Annie is sold as a servant to the famous and feared bare-knuckle boxer Bill Perry, The Tipton Slasher.

Bill is starting to lose his strength but refuses to give up his crown. When it looks like a fight might become Bill’s last, Annie steps into the ring, fists raised in his defense. From that moment she is determined to follow in Bill’s footsteps, to learn to fight for herself.

Sponsored by The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, with Fierce Reads

Marissa Meyer’s #1 bestselling series reimagines classic fairytales in a futuristic world where humans, androids, and cyborgs coexist. In Cinder, a teenage cyborg (half human, half machine) must deal with a wicked stepmother, start a rebellion against the evil Queen Levana, and decide how she feels about a handsome prince.

As the series continues, Cinder forges alliances with Scarlet, a spaceship pilot who is determined to solve the mystery of a missing loved one; Cress, a computer hacker who is imprisoned by Queen Levana; and Winter, a princess who’s in love with a commoner, and who discovers that Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress may hold the key to saving her kingdom—and the world.

Sponsored by Harper Perennial, publisher of The Fiancée by Kate White

The New York Times bestselling author Kate White returns with an unsettling but riveting psychological thriller about a captivating woman who joins a family and threatens to upend their picture-perfect lives.

They had everything they needed for a perfect family vacation: close-knit relatives, a bucolic setting . . . and a murderer in their midst?

Sponsored by Tor Books

When the Sparrow Falls illuminates authoritarianism, complicity, and identity in the digital age, in a page-turning, darkly-funny, frightening and touching story that recalls Philip K. Dick, John le Carré and Kurt Vonnegut in equal measure.

Sponsored by HarperPerennial, Publisher of How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina

The first kidnapping wasn’t my fault. The others—those were definitely me. So begins Rahul Raina’s original, bitingly hilarious, sweeping satire of modern-day India, narrated by the brilliant—yet cursed—Ramesh Kumar. Ramesh makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India’s elite—a situation that becomes complicated when he accidentally causes one of his clients, Rudi Saxena, to place first in the national university entrance exams. Ramesh sees an opportunity—perhaps even an obligation—to cash in on Rudi’s newfound celebrity. Unexpected love, wild trouble, and kidnapping follows.

Sponsored by Amazon Publishing

When a PTA mom is poisoned by a smoothie at the fifth-grade graduation party, all eyes are on the accused: PTA president Kira Grant. For Kira’s defense attorney, single mother Allison Barton, the case is a chance to finally get the career she deserves. And Kira certainly appears innocent—except for the toxic blossoms in her backyard and a bit of a mean streak. But what about those in Kira’s orbit? What do they really know about Kira? What does Kira know about them? For Allison, the answers are getting darker every day. Read The Darkest Flower by Kristin Wright.

Sponsored by Sourcebooks

Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But as the plane takes off, Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger: “The following instructions will save your daughter’s life…”

When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers…or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home?

It’s twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.

Sponsored by Epic Reads

The authors of the New York Times bestseller My Lady Jane return with the courtly tale of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Mary is the jewel of the French court. Except when she’s a mouse. Yes, Mary is an Eðian (shapeshifter) in a kingdom where Verities rule. It’s a secret that could cost her a head.

Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at court take a treacherous turn after the king meets a suspicious end. Thrust onto the throne, Mary and Francis face a viper’s nest of conspiracies and treason. And if Mary’s secret is revealed, heads are bound to roll.

Sponsored by Darling by K. Ancrum, with Fierce Reads

Reimagining Peter Pan for today’s world, this YA thriller follows Wendy as she gets lost on a dangerous adventure after following Peter into the city’s underground.

“Darling is the Peter Pan retelling with the diverse cast and queer representation of your dreams.” —Aiden Thomas, New York Times–bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

Sponsored by Sourcebooks

1860: Elizabeth Packard is facing a battle. Her husband of twenty-one years feels increasingly threatened—by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So, one summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum.

The conditions inside the hospital are horrific, but most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women who tell the same story: they’ve been committed to keep them in line.

But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose…