Expected publication: February 5th 2013 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.First in a four book YA series set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe. - Goodreads
1. Katsa (Graceling Realm) - Born with the Grace of Killing, she is smart, strong and beautiful. She walks away from being used as a thug for her uncle and instead tries to save the seven kingdoms. 
2. Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games)- I didn't always agree with her actions but lets face it, she's deadly with a bow and arrow, she volunteered, and started the rebellion. 
3. Cinder (Lunar Chronicles)- She's a cyborg. She is mechanically minded, smart and strong. She's completely awesome. =)
6. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) - A brave, mischievous 6 year old who is open minded, and accepting - more then the adults. 
7. Anna (Anna) - She killed anyone and everyone that set foot in her house, but once you know why, I think you would too if you were her. ;)
8. June (Legend) - A prodigy raised to work for the highest military circle who turns her back on them and the life she has always known.
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From Goodreads-
Anna Whitt, daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she’d never do the work of her father—polluting souls. She’d been naive to make such a claim. She’d been naive about a lot of things. Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school’s party girl. Her life has never looked more bleak. And all the while there’s Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind. When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life?
Expected publication: January 8th 2013 by HyperionThis sounds creepy, but it has that crime story feel that I love to read, and that blurb makes me want to know what happens.
Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived… and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection with her father and sister, Darcy, leaving their friends and family without so much as a goodbye.
Starting over in a new town with only each other is unimaginable for Rory and Darcy. They were inseparable as children, but now they can barely stand each other. As the sisters settle in to Juniper Landing, a picturesque vacation island, it seems like their new home may be just the fresh start they need. They fall in with a group of beautiful, carefree teens and spend their days surfing, partying on the beach, and hiking into endless sunsets. But just as they’re starting to feel safe again, one of their new friends goes missing. Is it a coincidence? Or is the nightmare beginning all over again? - Goodreads
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I read a military book once when it wasn't something I had read before (about 4 years ago). For 6 months I moved over to where my then boyfriend (now husband) was working and I didn't have my books with me so I read one of his. It was fantastic - Fighting Scared by Robin Horsfall **I just want to clarify that this is non-fiction.
Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn’t happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.Another dystopian with a very intriguing and, I'm happy to say, unique premise of alternate dimensions. I find alternate dimensions to be such an interesting subject and even though it didn't go into great detail concerning the alternate Chicago, it was still captivating. This certainly has an original plot. The notion of Shades - how they live, what they can do - was enchanting.
Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. But Conn’s interest in her is confusing. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.
As if she were his enemy.
When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can’t rely on anything—not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades’ latest terrorist plot. What she finds out will change her world forever . . .
In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won’t soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense. - Goodreads
Quotes:
"But there's not enough time. There never is. Not for anybody in this whole universe. We always want more. Why waste it doing nothing?" ~ Loc 1248 Kindle
"Anyway, a Greek philosopher was talking about a river when he wrote 'Everything flows.' he said that you can't step into the same river twice. Even if you set your foot in the very same spot, nothing is the same. Everything is different. You are different. The river has gotten warmer. The sun shines with a different light." ~ Loc 2292 Kindle
I stumbled across this one on goodreads and of course the cover got my attention first but how awesome does that blurb sound!Expected Publication: April 16, 2013 by Henry Holt and Co
Three high school girls become the avenging Furies of Greek legend.
We were only three angry girls, to begin with. Alix, the hot-tempered surfer chick; Stephanie, the tree-hugging activist; and me, Meg, the quiet foster kid, the one who never quite fit in. We hardly knew each other, but each of us nurtured a burning anger: at the jerks in our class, at our disappointing parents, at the whole flawed, unjust world.
We were only three angry girls, simmering uselessly in our ocean-side California town, until one day a mysterious, beautiful classmate named Ambrosia taught us what else we could be: Powerful. Deadly. Furious. -Goodreads
9. Charlaine Harris
