Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that currently resides at The Artsy Reader Girl and features bloggers sharing lists on various book topics. For this week’s Waiting on Wednesday, participants were required to list their most anticipated books for the first half of 2023. However, as I covered this last week with two separate lists (one for fantasy and science fiction, and one for other genres), I am instead mixing things up and instead featuring the top books of 2022 that I wanted to read but didn’t get a chance to.
2022 was a great year for novels and I had an outstanding time getting through a solid collection of cool new releases and older novels, which were pretty much all epic and impressive reads. However, no matter how hard one tries, there are always a couple of books each year that I did not get a chance to read, either due to time constraints, lack of access or from being overwhelmed with other books that I really wanted to read. As a result, this is a list that is rather tinged with regret, as each book I plan to mention below is one that I really wish I had taken the time to read.
To complete this list, I pulled together some of the more interesting and compelling sounding novels that I did not get a chance to read in the last year. Each entry was released last year and while I knew that they were coming out, I did not get a chance to read any of them. In many cases I have these books sitting on my shelf at this moment, silently and constantly judging me, and I think I will have to try and read them to stop their bookish glares. I was eventually able to cull my list of regret down to 10 entries with an honourable mentions section. The final list is an interesting collection of books from across the genres and includes a couple of big 2022 releases I did not get a chance to look at.
Honourable Mentions:
Road of Bones by Christopher Golden
Three-Edged Sword by Jeff Lindsay
The Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence
Top Ten List:
Kingdoms of Death and Ashes of Man by Christopher Ruocchio
A joint entry to start things off as there were actually two books in the excellent Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio released in 2022. Unfortunately, I missed both, but hopefully I get chance to read them in 2023 as this is an extremely good series to get into.
An Empty Throne by Robert Fabbri
The Misfit Soldier by Michael Mammay
The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish
Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith by Adam Christopher
Falling Sky by Harry Sidebottom
Warhammer 40,000: Witchbringer by Steven B. Fischer
The Starless Crown by James Rollins
Well, that is the end of my latest list and it looks like I have a lot catch-up reading to do if I am going to make a dent in it. There are some truly amazing-sounding novels on this list and I fully intend to get through all of them at some point, although with all the outstanding books coming out in 2023, it might take me a little time. In the meantime, let me know what books you most regret not reading in 2022 in the comments below.
The Unseen Library 
I hope you love all of these when you get to them.
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The Girl and the Moon sure sounds interesting.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-most-anticipated-books-releasing-in-the-first-half-of-2023/
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I had Road of Bones on my wishlist all last year and I only just noticed the aerial shot depicts a skull. I still haven’t got round to it either though.
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I hope you manage to get to all these in 2023!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/10/top-ten-tuesday-402/
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