Starting the new year off right with our MOST anticipated books of 2023! This list was so hard to narrow down and we're surely missing a lot of releases, but here are some of the titles we cannot wait to read this year. Emma, Joe, and Jill also chat about our undying love for Santino Fontana, the struggle in pronouncing character names from fantasy books aloud, a term we're coining "murder-coms," Joe's chat with Grady Hendrix, MLMs, gothic stories and manifesting the release of the next Crescent City book from Sarah J. Maas.

Jill’s Picks 


The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins 


I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai 


Reckoning by V (formally Eve Ensler) 


Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer 


How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix 


The Golden Frog Games by Claribel A Ortega 


She is a haunting by Trang Thanh Tran 


The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor 


VenCo by Cherie Dimaline 


Kiss me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis 

 
Emma’s Picks 


Happy Place by Emily Henry  


A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon 


Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken  


A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing  


Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong  


Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey (and Unfortunately Yours)  


A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand  


Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison  


Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffen  


The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes  

 
Joe’s Picks 


In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune 


For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes 


The Only One Left by Riley Sager  


The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro


Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto 


Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood 


Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby 


The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt 


The Sun and the Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz 


Zero Days by Ruth Ware 


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