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10 books to read || I Could Still Let Myself Down — 10 Books for 2023

of course I’ve got a TBR for the year. I stuck with 10 books because, well, I didn’t even complete all 10 books last year 😵‍💫 here’s hoping I have better luck this year!

only a few of them are on my owned tbr, but I also have got a few anticipated releases that I want to read this year and a few remainders from my 5 star predictions list.

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Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025 | Top Ten Tuesdays

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week’s topic is “Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2025!” Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear by Seanan McGuire Nadya had three mothers: the…

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2025 Anticipated Book Releases

I have a number of anticipated book releases for 2025, but not as many as last year I think. Which is kinda good, because I can work on reading what I have on my physical tbr and backlist tbr too. I love new releases, but I need time to read other stuff too!

January:

Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee and Shannon Lee (Jan 7th): YA asian fantasy with dragons, featuring a martial arts tournament. I'll read anything by Fonda Lee I think, and this seems fun!

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children 10) by Seanan McGuire (Jan 7th): I think this is the last book? I remember reading somewhere that Seanan said it's only going to be 10 books? Either way, I'll cry when it's over.

Motheater by Linda H. Codega (Jan 21st) this seems to be some sort of witchy queer appalachian folklore story, and I am all here for it. I want all the rural gothic vibes please.

Carving Shadows into Gold by Brigid Kemmerer (Jan 28th) I've been waiting for the sequel to Spinning Silver into Stars for a while now, and I'm super excited to finally get this. I might need to reread book 1 in January

February:

Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey (Feb 4th): I've been waiting for a new Eowyn Ivey book for years, and we're getting a beauty and the best retelling set in Alaska that is literary fiction/magical realism, I couldn't be happier

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales (Emily Wilde 3) by Heather Fawcett (Feb 11th), one of my most anticipated releases of the year, and the final book to one of my favorite on-going series. A lot of people are excited for this one.

March:

Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid (March 4th): I'll read everything Ava Reid writes, and this is her first queer dystopian book. The covers are beautiful, and I need to read Lady Macbeth before this comes out!

Oathbound (Legendborn 3) by Tracy Deonn (March 4th) Another one of my most anticipated releases of the year. Legendborn is just fantastic, and I would consider taking the day off of work just to start reading this

Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy (March 4th) A mystery thriller set on an island near Antartica, with nature and climate themes like McConagly's other books. I need to read her Once there were wolves before this comes out

May:

The Sun Blessed Prince by Lindsey Byrd (May 1st), this looks like a queer fantasy and characters who have life/death powers. Seems like something I'd be interested in.

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (May 13th) A queer dark academia book about the director of a magical school.

The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig (May 20th) I wasn't a huge fan of Gillig's other book, but I'm 100% willing to give this a try. A heretic knight and a prophetess must team up to save her missing sisters. The cover is beautiful too.

June:

The Tower of the Tyrant by JT Greathouse (June 19th) This seems like the start of a new epic fantasy about a sorceress going on a quest. I'm interested in this author's other published books too.

A Far Better Thing by HG Parry (June 17th): I'll read anything Parry writes, and this a portal fantasy during the French Revolution.

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefavter (June 3rd), Maggie's first adult book, and historical fiction set in Appalachia during ww2.

Second half of 2025 or Release Date to be determined:

While the Dark Remains by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Hot Wax by ML Rio

Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher

A Land So Wide by Erin Craig

Katabasis by RF Kuang

That's all for now! Release dates are susceptible to change, and there will probably be more books I add over the new year. If you comments/thoughts please share them with me!

[elrielffs]

Anyone else feel like they are bursting at the seams for Elriel?

Like, I don't go hard for ships like this. I'm pretty casual about all other pairings across the board and in different media.

But I NEED Elriel.

Ever since we entered post-HOFAS era, I've felt like I've been foaming at the mouth.

As someone who read ACOMAF when it came out and clocked Elriel immediately that was just further solidified as the books went on, it's BEEN YEARS.

I want their book so bad.

[whilereadingandwalking]

Introducing my top most anticipated reads of 2025! I skipped a couple I'm still reviewing, and the heavily hyped ones are at the end. I wanted to focus on books I'm psyched for that you may not have heard of! Anything catch your eye?

[thestarfishface]

Because I am infected with "loving my D&D characters too much" disease I have decided that my next really big video project is going to be a dramatic retelling of the events of our D&D game (the one Verity comes from).

I'm going to narrate it and I have the other players and DM on board to do voice lines for their characters. I want to storyboard the whole thing. The first video will be the entire first story arc that covers about 6-7 months of the campaign. I've spent most of the weekend turning my rambling campaign recaps into a script and I'm probably about halfway done? The whole thing may end up being close to an hour.

I am so excited.

[kwrite1776]

Just over a week until December 6th and the release of Wind and Truth. I cannot wait. Life before death.

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ 2025 ANTICIPATED RELEASES ✨

QOTD: What 2025 releases are you excited for?

Here’s all the ones on my radar, though I’m sure I’ve forgot some too. Some I’m lucky to have ARCs for, others I am desperate to get my hands on.

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January

- The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold

- Motheater by Linda H Codega

- French Pressed Love by MC Hutson

- I am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang

- I Think They Love You by Julian Winters

- The Two Hungers of Prince Fierre by Darcy Ash

- Enemies to Booksellers by Laura Catherine

- Out of the Woods by Hannah Bonam-Young

February

- Deep End by Ali Hazelwood

- Fate of the Five by Niamh Rose

- Upon a Starlit Tide by Kell Woods

- Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

- Cursebound by Saara El-Arifi

- The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon

- The Prince’s Heart by Ben Chalfin

- Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

March

- House of Frank by Kay Synclaire

- The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

- A Song for You and I by K O’Neil

- Emberclaw by LR Lam

- Homegrown Magic by Jamie Pacton and Rebecca Podos

- Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

- A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander

- Go Luck Yourself by Sara Raasch

- Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne

- Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

- Pole Position by Rebecca J Caffery

- The Shots You Take by Rachel Reid

April

- I Love You S’more by Auriane Desombre

- The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennett by @Lindz McLeod

- My Best Friend’s Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner

- When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelly

- Once Upon You and Me by Timothy Janovsky

May

- The Vengeance by Emma Newman

- All’s Fair in Love and Field Hockey by Kit Rosewater

- All-Nighter by Cecilia Vinesse

- Dream On, Ramona Riley by Ashley Herring Blake

- The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

- Ascension by ST Gibson

June

- Vesuvius by Cass Biehn

- Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales

- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by VE Schwab

- Amelia, if Only by Becky Albertalli

- Roll for Love by MK England

- Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race

- Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

July - December

- Tenderly I Am Devoured by Lyndall Clipstone

- Hazelthorn by CG Drews

- Once a Villain by Vanessa Lem

- Hemlock & Silver by T Kingfisher

- The Forsaken and the Fated by Camilla Raines

- Empire of the Vampire 3 (as yet untitled) by Jay Kristoff

- Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot by Alexis Hall

- Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne

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july anticipated releases

(note: i have not yet read any of these and cannot speak to their quality- i’m just intrigued by the synopsis or author!)

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst is a cozy fantasy about a woman and her familiar (a sentient spider plant) open an illegal spell shop and falls in love with her nosy neighbor.

The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Mi-Yee Lee (translated by Sandy Joosun Lee) is a Korean novel about a store that sells dreams. I believe this is also sort of a cozy fantasy, but I'm not sure!

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle is a novel about a Hollywood writer who is being pressured to kill off the gay characters in his long-running series. When he refuses, monsters from his past begin to haunt him. I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I'm intrigued!

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones is a slasher movie from the point of view of the teenaged boy cursed to be the slasher. I love SGJ and I'll read pretty much anything he writes.

The Blonde Dies First by Joelle Wellington is another slasher with a twist- when a group of teens accidentally summon a demon that follows slasher movie tropes, Devon realizes that the group's blonde, she's up to die first, while her longtime crush is slated to be the final girl.

[bekah-reading]

2025 Romance Anticipated Releases

[howlsmovinglibrary]

Does anyone have any good recommended books from this year or last year? Preferably fantasy or romance, but NOT romantasy unless it slapped.

[apoptoses]

Something that's been on my mind is seeing the idea that in order for smut to be valid to write it has to have a purpose. It has to say something about the characters, it has to serve as a tool for the plot, it has to have some deep meaning beyond the sex acts involved.

And honestly, that's not true no matter how much some very vocal people might insist that smut without a 'purpose' is just porn and porn is shameful to make and consume.

It's okay to write smut because you think the concept is hot. It's okay to write it just because you want to give your readers jerk off material about their favorite characters. It's absolutely, 100% fine to write smut for smut's sake.

And sure, you want it to be in character, you want to write it so that you can't just file the names off and replace them with anyone. But you can just write something because you think character X should fuck character Y in this very specific way and have that be the end of it.

Call it smut, call it porn, call it whatever. Write the stuff you want to write. You don't have to do literary gymnastics in order to make it 'valid' for anyone, and you especially don't have to make excuses to yourself to justify writing it in the first place.

[theinquisitxor]

2024 Anticipated Book Releases

I thought I had a lot of anticipated book releases for 2023, but 2024 is also proving to be a year of many books I'm excited about too. These are all the books I'm looking forward to in the first half of the year!

January:

-A Fragile Enchantment by Alison Saft: (Jan 2nd) rom-com fantasy about a dressmaker hired to make the royal wedding dress, but she starts to fall for the prince instead.

-Mislaid in Parts Half-Known Wayward Children 9) by Seanan (Jan 9th) The second to last book in this novella series, this one featuring dinosaurs!

-The Atlas Complex (The Atlas Series #3) by Olive Blake (Jan 9th) the final books to this magical dark academia trilogy, and I've been excited for this one since the ending of book 2.

-Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde 2) by Heather Fawcett (Jan 16th) The second book in this new historical fantasy series, in which Emily and Wendall go on a new adventure in the Austrian Alps. This is one of my most anticipated books of the year.

-City of Stardust by Georgia Summers (Jan 30th) this is a new fantasy debut that sounds similar to The Starless Sea and features a woman descending down into a subterranean world to try and break a generational curse.

-House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City 3) by SJM (Jan 30th) I've been enjoying SJM's crescent city books the most of all her series, and I'm looking forward to this one after how book 2 ended.

February

-The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (Feb 13th) This is possibly my most anticipated book of the year, and Katherine Arden's newest adult release. A historical fiction (and a little magical realism?) set in Europe during WW1 following a combat nurse trying to find her (presumably) dead brother.

-The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (Feb 13th) A debut magical realism fantasy set in NYC with books, bookstores, and a mystery book. I've heard many good early reviews of this one.

-What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher (Feb 13th) This is a follow up novella to What Moves the Dead following Alex Easton in a new horror adventure. This one has such a cool cover.

-The Briar Book of the Dead by AG Slatter (Feb 13th) A coven of witches keeps a town and the border between realms safe.

March

-A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft (March 5th) I'm very excited to get two new Allison Saft books in 1 year. This is a dark academia fantasy about two rival scholars trying to figure out who killed their mentor. Sapphic romance too I believe.

-The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black (March 5th) This is the conclusion to The Stolen Heir, and I'm looking forward to the seeing more of the characters from the original series make an appearance in this one.

-The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo (March 19th) This is a spooky queer horror novella set in 1920s Appalachia. Small town religiosity and something sinister creeping in the woods? This just sounds like a novella I'd enjoy.

-Song of the Huntress by Lucy Holland (March 21st) A new book from Lucy Holland, also set in magical ancient Briton. A warrior queen falls into trouble and teams up with the Wild Hunt to save her kingdom. Sapphic/queer romance.

-The Hedewitch of Fox Hall by Anna Bright (March 24th) a fantasy romance book set in medieval Wales as a hedge witch and prince team up to help prevent magic from fading away. The cover of this book is so beautiful!

April

-The Familiar by Leigh Barduo (April 9th) I don't really know much about this one, other than it is a new adult novel by Leigh Bardugo set in 1400s Spain. Also one of my most anticipated releases of the year.

-Song of Six Realms by Judy Lin (April 23rd) A young adult fantasy about a musician who goes to the Duke of Dreams's realm and must help stop a disaster.

June

-Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland (June 13th) A new high seas fantasy that was directly inspired by OFMD and Terry Pratchett. This is very queer and seems like it's going to be a lot of fun.

-Foul Days by Genovena Dimova (June 25th) A slavic fantasy story about a witch who has to team up with a detective as she is being hunted by her ex, the Tsar of Monsters. I've heard some very good early reviews of this book too.

-Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Children of Blood and Bone 3) by Tomi Adeyemi (June 25th) I honestly don't know if I'm going to read this anytime soon, but I've been waiting for this final book for almost 4 years now, so I just want to see how the series ends.

I think that's it for now! Release dates tend to change, and I'm sure I will be adding or editing this list as the new year starts. I'd love to hear of any new releases you are excited for!

Second half of 2024/To be determined:

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher (August)

The Mercy of Gods by James SA Corey (August)

The Whisper Between Worlds by Amanda Foody (TBD)

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid (TBD)

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JOMP & tarotoctoberbpc day 13

Purple books & the chariot - anticipated release

Less than 2 weeks til A Curse For True Love!!! … now just have to wait for my copies to get here 😂