Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins. OK, so listing this one is both a cheat and a tease. I’ve already read Ms. Perkins’ new book (ARC), and I’m planning to review it here just as soon as it hits the bookstores sometime after the publication date of January 13, 2009. Trust me, it’s worth the wait.

Tuck by Stephen Lawhead. This third in the trilogy that began with Hood and continued with Scarlett promises to be another adventurous story with some thoughtful moments thrown in to make the mix delightful.

Foundling and Lamplighter, both by D.M. Cornish. I have review copies of both of these books, but what with all the Cybils reading, I haven’t managed to start this series. The blurb says that they’re about Rossamund Bookchild, an orphan with an unfortunate name, and Europe, a girl who can shoot electricity out of her body. The series is called Monster Blood Tattoo, which I think is an unfortunate name, but since Lamplighter was one of the finalists for the Fantasy and Science and Fiction Cybil Award, I’m also thinking I can overlook the series title.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Barrows and Annie Barrows. Recommended by caribousmom. I think it was the quotations that Wendy included in her review that got me on this one. It’s about a literary society with an unwieldy name that serves as a front for resisting the Nazi occupation of one of the Channel islands. I still haven’t read this book, but I requested it at the library today. Everybody seems to have loved it.

Brett Lott, author of Jewel (Semicolon review here) and A Song I Knew By Heart (Semicolon review here), has a new book, Ancient Highway.. It’s about “the hopes and regrets of three characters from three generations as they reconcile who they are and who they might have been.” And the grandfather is from Texas. How could I not read that one?

I still haven’t read Leif Enger’s not-so-new anymore book, So Brave Young and Handsome, although I plan to do it soon.

Nor have I read Marilynne Robinson’s Home, although I really, really want to, and it’s in my library basket NOW.

C.J. Sansom, Revelation. 4th Matthew Shardlake mystery; his search for an old friend’s murderer leads him to Bedlam Hospital for the insane and also to Katherine Parr and the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. Due out in February, 2009.

Anne Perry, Execution Dock. The return of police superintendent William Monk; Victorian mystery. Due out in March, 2009.

For my U.S. Presidents Reading Project, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham sounds like a winner. But first I have to finish the George Washington bio I’m reading now and the John Adams biography by David McCullough that’s the next one on the list.

The Duggars: 20 and Counting!: Raising One of America’s Largest Families–How they Do It by Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar. I’ll admit that I’m curious. Aren’t you?

The Appeal by John Grisham. I’m always a sucker for a good Grisham thriller. All work and no play makes Sherry a dull reader.