HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! A new year means new books to look forward to reading, alongside the ones from last year that we haven’t read yet. 2023 looks to be an exciting year once again for book releases. At the same time, it’s daunting to know that with several prequels/sequels/companion novels getting published this year, readers are trying to keep up with the books they still need to read, including myself. Regardless, I’m looking forward to reading some of the many books coming out this year.
Please note that the links will take you to the book’s Goodreads page. Here is a list of 50 (out of many more) books I hope to read in 2023:
Vita Nostra, #2 (Metamorphosis, #4): Assassin of Reality by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey –> March 14th
The Shepherd King, #2: Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig –> October 19th
The Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve Gornichec –> July 25th
Weyward by Emilia Hart –> March 7th
Wayward Children, #8: Lost in the Moment and Found by Seanan McGuire –> January 10th
Godkiller, #1: Godkiller by Hannah Kaner –> January 19th
Amina al-Sirafi, #1: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by S.A. Chakraborty –> March 7th
The Nightshade Kingdom, #1: The Foxglove King by Hannah F. Whitten –> March 7th
The Crane Husband by Kelly Barnhill –> February 28th
Craft Wars, #1: Dead Country by Max Gladstone –> March 7th
Magic of the Lost, #2: The Faithless by C.L. Clark –> March 7th
Iron Widow, #2: Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao –> August 29th
The Magician’s Daughter by H.G. Parry –> February 28th
Mistland, #1: Eleventh Cycle by Kian N. Ardalan –> February 1st
Emily Wilde, #1: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett –> January 10th
Nocturne by Alyssa Wees –> February 21st
Lone Women by Victor LaValle –> March 21st
Iris at the Front, #1: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross –> April 4th
The Roots of Chaos, #0: A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon –> February 28th
The Spice Road Trilogy, #1: Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim –> January 24th
The Alameda Duology, #1: The Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai –> January 10th
VenCo by Cherie Dimaline –> February 3rd
Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliot McLemore –> May 16th
Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang –> July 1st
Wildseed Witch, #2: Charmed Life by Marti Dumas –> May 2nd
Witch King by Martha Wells –> May 30th
The Warden by Daniel M. Ford –> April 18th
The Radiant Emperor, #2: He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan –> August 22nd
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi –> February 14th
Rook & Rose, #3: Labyrinth’s Heart by M.A. Carrick –> August 15th
The Drowning Empire, #3: The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart –> April 20th
Tainted Blood Duology, #1: Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun –> August 8th
Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati –> March 7th
Seven Faceless Saints, #1: Seven Faceless Saints by M.K. Lobb –> February 7th
The Stolen Heir Duology, #1: The Stolen Heir by Holly Black –> January 3rd
Flesh and False Gods, #1: Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong –> July 25th
The Murderbot Diaries, #7: System Collapse by Martha Wells –> November 14th
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn, #1: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence –> May 9th
The Night Eaters, Volume 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda (illustrator) –> Fall 2023
The Up-and-Under, #4: Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker –> October 17th
The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood –> February 21st
Song of the Last Kingdom, #1: Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao –> January 3rd
Forever Desert, #1: The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses One Utomi –> March 21st
Between Earth and Sky, #3: The Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse –> August 1st
The Winter Sea, #1: Dark Water Daughter by H.M Long –> July 11th
The Sandsea Trilogy, #2: The Ashfire King by Chelsea Abdullah –> November 14th
The Final Architecture, #3: Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky –> May 2nd
Alex Stern, #2: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo –> January 10th
The Burning Kingdoms, #3 by Tasha Suri –> TBD
The Burning, #3: The Lord of Demons by Evan Winter –> TBD
This is just the “short list” of what I hope to read in 2023. Add the books I missed from last year and from previous years, and include the books outside of the speculative fiction genre, and I should be set with my reading list for 2023. As my list grows more daunting, I find the time needed to read as many books as I can.
Which 2023 book releases are you excited for the most?
I’m looking forward to SO MANY of these!!
So many wonderful books. I have an arc of Nocturne and can’t wait to get to it.
There are so many amazing books coming out this year😁 I’m looking forward to lots of these!
I hope we have enough time to read most of them!
Looks like lots of sequels to explore! From this list, I think I’m most excited for LOST IN THE MOMENT AND FOUND. I’ll also be picking up EMILY WILDE and VENOM & VOW at some point.
AHH!!! I enjoyed looking at your list and saving some of them onto my TBR. You have so many good ones here. Some are already on mine too. I’m definitely looking forward to Rook & Rose #3. I was so sad when it wasn’t out at the end of this year.
I’m glad Orbit didn’t rush the release of that book; but, I’m looking forward to reading it!
Early 2023 is stuffed with amazing new releases, I don’t know how I will read them all! 😀
Reading them, and reviewing them!