Pro Book Nerds Most Anticipated Reads of 2023!

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 

Readers can sample and borrow the titles mentioned in today's episode on OverDrive.com or in Libby. Library friends can shop these titles in OverDrive Marketplace here.

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