23 for 2023: My Most Anticipated Reads for 2023

This is the post where I look forward to the books that are supposed to be coming in the year ahead and start drooling over the ones I want to read the most.

It’s also an opportunity to look back at last year’s list and see how I did, as well as how they did. Some publishing plans don’t survive first contact with reality and the books don’t come out when intended. Or sometimes even yet. And that’s true for two of the books on last year’s list, Hiss Me Deadly and Warrior of the Wind. I do still want to read both of them, but their publication plans look a bit nebulous. Someday, I hope.

My own reading life is also more than a bit of life happening while making other plans. Out of the remaining 20 books I listed last year, my round tuit didn’t stretch to four of them, Aspects, Babel, The Discord of Gods and Fevered Star. I have audiobooks for both Babel and The Discord of Gods, but they are audiobooks I bought. Netgalley started letting me get review audiobooks and those have pushed audiobooks I purchase further down the queue. As far as Aspects and Fevered Star, those just ran into the “so many books, so little time” buzzsaw.

Back to this year, and the titles that are currently on the top of my “hit parade”. Some of the books don’t have final cover art as yet so I’m not judging any of these by their covers. As always with anticipated books lists, most of these are either in series I’m in the middle of, by authors whose work I’m already well-acquainted with, or a combination of the two. It’s difficult to look forward to something specific that one doesn’t yet know exists.

Howsomever, I am always looking forward to new-to-me authors and series in general – and the journey of discovery that awaits me therein.