Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that currently resides at The Artsy Reader Girl and features bloggers sharing lists on various book topics. The official Top Ten Tuesday topic for this week was around Bookish People I’d Like to Meet, however, I decided to instead move up my quarterly post about the best upcoming books to read (TBR) for the following three months. This is a regular post I do at the start of each season, and as this is the first Tuesday of Autumn (Spring for folks in the Northern Hemisphere), this is the ideal time to put this up.
For this list, I have come up with 10 of the most anticipated novels that are coming out between 1 March 2023 and 31 May 2023. There are quite a few very cool novels set for release in the next few months that I am extremely excited for, including some of my most anticipated book of the year (as well as my most anticipated fantasy/science fiction books of the year). Due to how impressive some of these upcoming books are, it took me a little while to finalise my list but I was eventually able to whittle it down into a Top Ten list (with a few honourable mentions). I have primarily used the Australian publication dates to reflect when I will be able to get these awesome novels, and these might be somewhat different to the rest of the world. I have previously discussed a number of these books before in prior Top Ten Tuesdays and Waiting on Wednesday articles and I think all of them will turn out to be pretty incredible reads. I have extremely excited for the next three months as quite a few up these upcoming reads are easily going to be amongst the best books of 2023.
Honourable Mentions:
The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson – 7 March 2023
The intriguing new novel from the entertaining Peter Swanson (Rules for Perfect Murders and Nine Lives), The Kind Worth Saving sounds very cool and I’ve heard some great stuff about it from fellow reviewers. I might try to read the preceding novel, The Kind Worth Killing, before I get to The Kind Worth Saving, but we’ll see how it goes.
A Hunger of Thorns by Lili Wilkinson – 18 April 2023
A cool young adult fantasy read from the always impressive Australian author Lili Wilkinson. I had a lot of fun with her last two young adult books, After the Lights Go Out and The Erasure Initiative, and I imagine this one is going to be a ton of fun as well.
Empire by Conn Iggulden – 25 May 2023
Intense and detailed historical fiction from legendary author Conn Iggulden, this will be an exceptional read that I am quite excited for.
Top Ten List:
Battle Song by Ian Ross – 28 March 2023
Fire With Fire by Candice Fox – 4 April 2023
Her Sweet Revenge by Sarah Bonner – 6 April 2023
Fatal Legacy by Lindsey Davis – 11 April 2023
Usagi Yojimbo: The Green Dragon by Stan Sakai – 18 April 2023
The release dates for this comic keeps getting knocked back, but I’m really hoping that I will be able to get this epic new volume in April.
The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst – 25 April 2023
The Sword Defiant by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan – 2 May 2023
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence – 11 May 2023
An epic Mark Lawrence novel set in a massive fantasy library; do I need to say any more?
The Will of the Many by James Islington – 23 May 2023
Witch King by Martha Wells – 30 May 2023
Well, that is the end of my Top Ten list. I think it turned out pretty well and it does a good job of capturing all my most anticipated books for the next three months. Each of the above should be extremely epic, and I cannot wait to read each of them soon. Let me know which of the above you are most excited for and stay tuned for reviews of them in the next few months. In the meantime, it looks like I have quite a few books to get through soon and they should all be pretty awesome.
The Unseen Library 
I hope you love all of these books!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-bookish-people-id-like-to-meet/
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The Gareth Hanrahan and Mark Lawrence books both look amazing
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Looks like you have a lot of good books coming up. I hope you get to read and love them soon.
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I hope you enjoy all of these!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/top-ten-tuesday-410/
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I’m always up for a good mystery/thriller and the ones you mentioned all sound good. I’d never heard of any of them, so thanks for the heads-up!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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