Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is about our spring 2023 reading plans. So many exciting new books to choose from!
Here are 10 books I’m especially looking forward to this spring:
The Poisoner’s Ring by Kelley Armstrong
Said No One Ever by Stephanie Eding
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
Not the Ones Dead by Dana Stabenow
In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
Happy Place by Emily Henry
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
To Swoon and To Spar by Martha Waters
Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey
Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean
What books will you be reading this spring? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is 2023 Debut Books I’m Excited About — but I really don’t tend to get very excited about debut books in advance (and don’t even keep track of upcoming debuts), so this topic was a non-starter for me.
Instead, I thought I’d spin off from the designated topic, moving from books by new authors to books by authors who are new to me. Much easier to come up with a list of ten!
Here are ten authors whose books I plan (or hope) to try in 2023:
Farrah Rochon
Deepa Varadarajan
Victor LaValle
Claire Keegan
Nikki Erlick
Colleen Oakley
Jenni Fagan
Trish Doller
Nita Prose
Deesha Philyaw
Two of these (Nikki Erlick and Claire Keegan) are authors of books my book group will be reading later this year, and the rest are an assortment of books that I’ve had on my radar for a while plus a couple of ARCs.
Have you read any of the books pictured above, or read other books by these authors? Are there any in particular you’d recommend?
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2023 brings joy and health for one and all!
As is my annual tradition, rather than setting a bunch of reading goals that I probably won’t actually try to achieve, I prefer to limit my bookish goals to series reading. There are so many series out there that I want to get to!
I absolutely recognize that I may end up changing my mind on some or all of these, but as of now…
My priority series to read in 2023 will be:
A bunch of carry-overs from 2022:
Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky: I own two of these books, and the 3rd comes out in January. I meant to at least start these last year… hoping to do better this year!
The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir: Another carry-over. I’ve read the first book (Gideon the Ninth), and have books 2 & 3 on my shelves, ready to go!
Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers – I finished the first two in 2022, and definitely plan to read the remaining two ASAP.
The Lady Janies series by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows: I read My Lady Jane in 2022, and want to read the next two in 2023.
Plus, some new additions to the list — series to start (and maybe even finish!) in 2023:
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon: My daughter recommended these to me, and so far, I haven’t had any romance series on my annual series lists.
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper: This is an older fantasy series that I really should have read by this point in my life! I read the first book years ago with one of my kids, but I think it’s about time that I give the series a shot, just for me.
Regency Faerie Tales by Olivia Atwater: This series slipped past my radar, but then I started seeing a lot of positive reviews. I think I need to give these books a try.
And finally…
A couple of series that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while now. Who knows? Maybe 2023 will finally be the year that I give them a try. My “maybe” series for this year are:
The Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn
Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny
Are you planning to start any new series this year? If you’ve read any of the series on my list for 2023, please let me know what you thought and if you have any recommendations!
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