Buongiorno booklovers! Avete mai sognato di vedere un'astronave aliena da vicino (io no)? Avete mai avuto paura di quei programmi TV un po' crap sugli alieni a tarda notte? Pensate che ci sia vita là fuori?

Se avete risposto sì anche a solo una di queste domande... siete nel posto giusto! Io stessa ho risposto sì ad almeno una delle domande sopracitate (ehm, facciamo tutte), e per questo ho scelto vari libri legati allo spazio pieni di storia reale, passeggiate nello spazio, cospirazioni e tante tante stelle!

NB: Questa è la seconda parte di 2

ILLUMINAE FILES, DI AMIE KAUFMAN E JAY KRISTOFF

1.Illuminae-01

2.Gemina-02

3.Obsidio-03

                                                      

TRAMA:

Anno 2575: il cielo del pianeta Kerenza si oscura all’improvviso. Tra le esplosioni e le urla degli abitanti terrorizzati, una squadra d’assalto della XXXXX, una potente corporation interstellare, dà inizio all’invasione. Ezra e Kady, che si sono appena lasciati, sono costretti a cercare insieme una via di fuga. Alcuni giorni dopo, però, un mortale XXXXX mutante inizia a diffondersi a bordo di una delle navi sulle quali si trovano i due ragazzi e gli altri superstiti.

E nessuno sembra intenzionato a spiegare ciò che sta accadendo.

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- Serie di tre libri, completa, anche in italiano

- un NA strambissimo: è fatto di soli file

- protagoniste femminili assolutamente kickass

- alieni, alienini (tipo Xenomorfo di Alien) e piaghe contagiose (EW)

LUX SERIES DI JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

1. Obsidian

2. Onyx

3. Opal

4. Origin

5. Opposition

TRAMA: 

Kathy è una blogger diciassettenne con un grande sense of humour, si è appena trasferita in un paesino soporifero del West Virginia, rassegnandosi a una noiosa vita di provincia, noiosa finché non incrocia gli occhi verdissimi e il fisico da urlo del suo giovane vicino di casa. Daemon Black è la quintessenza della perfezione. Poi quell'incredibile visione apre bocca: arrogante, insopportabile, testardo e antipatico. Fra i due è odio a prima vista. Ma mentre subiscono un'inspiegabile aggressione, Daemon difende Kathy bloccando il tempo con un flusso sprigionato dalle sue mani. Sì, il ragazzo della porta accanto è un alieno. Un alieno bellissimo invischiato in una faida galattica, e ora anche Kathy, senza volerlo, c'è dentro fino al collo. Salvandola, l'ha marchiata con un'aura di energia riconoscibile dai nemici che li hanno aggrediti per rubare i poteri di Daemon. L'unico modo per attenuare questo pericoloso marchio è che Kathy stia più vicina possibile a Daemon. Sempre che lei non lo uccida prima...

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- Serie di cinque libri, completa, anche in italiano

- un NA che parte decisamente come Twilight ma decolla dal secondo libro

- talmente cringe e trash da essere cute a una certa

- Daemon Black

PER ASPERA AD ASTRA SERIES, DI CHIARA SACCUTA

SCHEMA:

1. Per Aspera ad Astra

2. Post Fata Resurgo

2.5. Animae Duae, Animus Unus

3. TBA

4. TBA

5. TBA

TRAMA:

Ambrosine ha diciotto anni quando viene promessa in sposa ad Harald Arpinia, futuro Signore Planetario di Giove. Lei è la scelta ideale: è la pupilla dalla famiglia Lira, figlia dell’inventore dei motori a curvatura, istruita al combattimento e alle buone maniere delle più potenti famiglie stellari e, soprattutto, l’Incarnazione Stellare di Vega, la quinta stella più luminosa del cielo.
Quando la sua astronave raggiunge il satellite Europa, Ambrosine fa la conoscenza del secondogenito della famiglia gioviana, e le carte in tavola iniziano a mutare. Fra Edward e Ambrosine cresce un’attrazione magnetica che rompe gli equilibri di potere del Kosmos, svelando i segreti dei più importanti clan stellari della Via Lattea.
Ma il loro incontro non sarà l’unica cosa a minare il successo dell’unione fra famiglie: il ritorno del clan sovversivo dei Nox porterà infatti a galla una terribile verità in grado di sconvolgere la galassia. Le grandi autorità del Kosmos si muoveranno per impedire che la Via Lattea venga scossa da una nuova guerra, ma le sorti di un futuro incerto finiranno per crollare sulle spalle di Ambrosine ed Edward, designati, fin dall’inizio, a caricarsi di un peso che potrebbe schiacciarli.
Fra dissidi familiari, complotti interstellari e antiche faide irrisolte, Edward e Ambrosine dovranno riuscire a trovare il loro spazio nell’universo, e a sopravvivere ai misteri che minacciano il Kosmos.

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- Serie di cinque libri (in corso di pubblicazione)

- saga tutta made in Italy

- Bellissima

- Edward Arpinia ti amiamo 

- Uno spazio barocco che mixa anche la religione

- storie d'amore a gogò

#RentABook | Spazio, alieni, alienini e (b)UFO pt. 1

Buongiorno booklovers! Avete mai sognato di vedere un'astronave aliena da vicino (io no)? Avete mai avuto paura di quei programmi TV un po' crap sugli alieni a tarda notte? Pensate che ci sia vita là fuori?

Se avete risposto sì anche a solo una di queste domande... siete nel posto giusto! Io stessa ho risposto sì ad almeno una delle domande sopracitate (ehm, facciamo tutte), e per questo ho scelto vari libri legati allo spazio pieni di storia reale, passeggiate nello spazio, cospirazioni e tante tante stelle!

NB: Questa è la prima parte di 2

ORBITAL, DI SAMANTHA HARVEY

TRAMA:

A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate.

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- Standalone

- se ti piace lo spazio è un must (anche breve)

- disponibile anche in Italia

- non solo scienza, ma anche emotività

SEA OF TRANQUILITY, DI EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL

                                                      

TRAMA:

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

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- Standalone molto breve

- Tematiche delicate, trattate con riflessività

- tre piani temporali diversi

- parla molto bene di sensazioni dei nostri giorni

ATMOSPHERE, DI TAYLOR JENKINS REID

TRAMA:

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

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- Standalone

- Women in STEM

- Ambientazione storica con molto focus sui diritti

- una storia d'amore

- stessa autrice di Daisy Jones & The Six / The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

2026 | My most anticipated novels

Buongiorno booklovers, buon inizio anno!

Il periodo tra studio e lavoro è stato estremamente caotico, e mi ritrovo adesso a stilare la lista delle mie uscite più anticipate del 2026! Siete curiosi di sapere quali sono?

aggiornato ad aprile 2026

1. RELEASE ME DI TAHEREH MAFI

TRAMA:

Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. Now she wants revenge. To save her sister she needs to get back home and destroy the system that created her. Rosabelle’s greatest strength is her ability to deaden her mind and body; it’s the only way to survive the surveillance state of Ark Island. But lately her heart has been beating harder; her thoughts are spiraling; her defenses are coming undone.

And there’s only one person to blame.

James Anderson had a plan. Now he has nothing but problems. Rosabelle might be the ally they need in a fight against The Reestablishment, but no one wants to trust an enemy assassin. It doesn’t help that Rosabelle’s not much of a talker, doesn’t work well in groups, and kills people on instinct. Taking her side has cost James nearly everything—but keeping her alive might help save his world.

If only he could convince his older brother.

Aaron Warner Anderson has a headache. Something dark is coming, and Rosabelle’s arrival is just a prelude. In her, he sees shades of himself he can’t trust, and he can no longer get a read on the girl. She’s a dead battery, emanating no emotional feedback. At least not until James walks into a room…

Volcanic tension, breathless reveals, breakneck action—and a dystopian world that never stops raising the

Welcome back to The New Republic.

2. DAYBREAK, DI AUTUMN WOODS

TRAMA:

Alex’s Corbeau-Green’s world is burning down around him, and Ophelia Winters is desperate to prove she didn’t light the fire.

When Ophelia first accepted a scholarship from Sorrowsong, an elite university in the Scottish Highlands, she wanted nothing more than to destroy Alex and his family at any cost. But that was before she knew him, before they became each other’s everything. Now, after an unthinkable betrayal and the disappearance of his father, Alex is forced to return to New York, desperate to forget what they had, and salvage the damage done to his family. In Scotland, Ophelia is left reeling, alone . . . and watched.

With a new anonymous tormentor threatening to release evidence that Ophelia and Alex committed a murder on campus, it’s clear that they’re going to need each other once again. But can they find a way to trust each other, and repair the love that they had? And even if they can—will it be enough this time to keep them alive?

3. THE LAST KING OF FAERIE, DI CASSANDRA CLARE

TRAMA:

The highly anticipated first book of The Wicked Powers, the final Shadowhunters trilogy! #1 New York Times bestselling author Cassandra Clare brings the saga that began in The Mortal Instruments to a stunning conclusion.

It’s Drusilla Blackthorn's third year at Shadowhunter Academy when a chance encounter at a nightclub turns into a kidnapping. Dru finds herself held prisoner by Prince Ash Morgenstern in the land of Faerie, a place that proves just as dangerous as it is beautiful. Despite herself, Dru is drawn to Ash and the darkness that seems to surround him—but one false move could cost her life.

Meanwhile, a shocking disappearance rocks the foundations of the Shadowhunter world. Kit Herondale and Ty Blackthorn must set aside the bitterness that lingers between them and join forces on a perilous quest to save everything they cherish.

The first installment of the long-awaited concluding trilogy to the Shadowhunter Chronicles has all the nail-biting adventure, heart-pounding romance, and trademark humor that makes Cassandra Clare the reigning queen of YA romantasy.

4. DEAD BEAT, DI LEIGH BARDUGO

TRAMA:

The highly anticipated, explosive conclusion to the Ninth House trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here…

Alex Stern made it to hell and back more than once, but this time she left the door open behind her. Demons are creeping through the streets of New Haven and the Yale campus, feeding on the souls of the living, terrifying the dead. Alex and her allies can hunt them, but it’s only a matter of time before the gates to the underworld open and they face a war they cannot win. To stop it, they’ll have to reach deep into the secrets of Yale and its societies, and discover the truth hidden in Alex’s own blood.

While she struggles to hold onto the dream of a future Yale once offered, Alex must contend with the machinations of a corrupt Lethe Board and a deadly vampire with his own connection to the societies. But for the first time in her life, she won’t have to face the fight alone. Dawes, Turner, Mercy, and even Tripp will have a role to play, none more so than Alex’s mentor Darlington, the golden boy who lived so long in her head, now back in the flesh and cursed with dangerous powers of his own. Hell itself is stalking the delegates of Lethe House, and they’re all about to learn that demons don’t play by human rules.

5. THE ARACHNID, DI I.V. OPHELIA

TRAMA:

The hauntingly beautiful second book in the gothic romance Poisoner series, where Alina Lis finds herself the prey of her vampiric ex-lover, Silas. They’re a couple deadly as sin, and as intoxicating as a sip of poison . . .

Return to the world of The Poisoner...

In the shadows of 1890s Buffalo, a poisoner's bite leaves more than just scars—even for the undead.

Two years after fleeing London, Alina Lis has built something she never thought possible: a home. Leading a commune of women like herself, she's found a new, greater purpose; experimenting on the Vipera. But peace, she learns, is as fragile as a spider's web in winter.

Silas Forbes, the Vipera she escaped, hasn’t forgotten. But his thirst for Alina threatens everything he’s created in her absence. And he’s brought another along for the hunt: Luka Novikov, the man who once betrayed her, now bound to them both by wounds that won't heal and debts that can't be paid.

As human and Vipera worlds violently collide, old poisons surface and new alliances form. In a society where survival means choosing sides, Alina must protect the family she’s built, Silas must decide what price he'll pay for his obsession, and Luka—marked forever by the poisoner’s kiss—must survive the clash of an immortal’s longing and a woman’s fury.

Some venoms have no antidote. Some hungers can never be satisfied.

The Arachnid is the second installment of the darkly seductive Poisoner series, where humans and Vipera twist together like lovers in the dark.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

- SJM's book 6 of ACOTAR (previsto per l'autunno 2026)

- Daemonica (Wicked Games #3), di Kaylie Smith