2008 Titles I'm Most Eager to Find

This morning I noticed that lots of people were writing about books that they are looking forward to reading in 2008, and I thought that I would join in. Colleen Mondor has the round-up of other participants - all great posts, well worth reading.

I'm not including books that are already in my to be read stack (because those are a foregone conclusion that I will get to them), or 2008 titles that I've already been fortunate enough to read (2007, 2008). But here are a few titles that come out this year that I don't already have that I am particularly looking forward to:

Middle Grade and YA Fiction

• Linda Buckley Archer: The Time Thief (Simon & Schuster). This is the sequel to Gideon the Cutpurse, and I just realized it came out right after Christmas. Will have to track it down once I'm done with Cybils reading.
• Jeanne Birdsall: The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Knopf)
• Tanita S. Davis: A La Carte (Knopf)
• Jenny Davidson: The Explosionist (HarperTeen) (I borrowed this one from Colleen's list, because it looks fascinating)
• Jim Fusilli: Marly Z and the Bloodstained Violin (Dutton). First children's book by one of my favorite adult mystery authors.
• E. Lockhart: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (Hyperion)
• Sara Pennypacker: Clementine's Letter (Hyperion)
• Mitali Perkins: First Daughter: White House Rules (Dutton)
• Rick Riordan: Battle of the Labyrinth (Hyperion)
• Trenton Lee Stewart: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey (Little, Brown)

Adult Fiction

• Nancy Atherton: Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter (Viking)
• Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (William Morrow)
• Julia Spencer-Fleming: I Shall Not Want (St. Martins Minotaur)
• Victoria Thompson: Murder on Bank Street (Berkley)
• Jacqueline Winspear: An Incomplete Revenge (Henry Holt)