New year, new reading goals, new books!
As a long time bookworm, I love heading into a new year full of optimism and excitement for all the new books I plan to read. Be it those which have sat patiently on my shelves (many of which bidding their time for a few years...), tucked away inside my kindle (not a big e-book fan but I do dabble) or those on one of my many online/offline wish lists waiting to find that special place in my home library - the possibilities to discover my next favourite read are endless.
But, one of the most enjoyable things about the new year, is the publication of new books. And 2023 brings a bunch of books I can't wait to read (or at least, purchase and stare lovingly at their covers on my bookshelves whilst I wade through my ever expanding TBR...).
As mentioned in my first post of 2023, I love a good book list, so without further ado here's a list of some of my most anticipated new books of 2023!
Expected Publication: 17 January 2023
Publisher: Berkley
Genre: Horror
From the blurb; When their parents die at the tail end of the coronavirus pandemic, Louise and Mark Joyner are devastated but nothing can prepare them for how bad things are about to get. The two siblings are almost totally estranged, and couldn’t be more different. Now, however, they don’t have a choice but to get along. The virus has passed, and both of them are facing bank accounts ravaged by the economic meltdown. Their one asset? Their childhood home. They need to get it on the market as soon as possible because they need the money. Yet before her parents died they taped newspaper over the mirrors and nailed shut the attic door.
Expected Publication: 21 February 2023
Publisher: Harper
Genre: Horror
From the blurb; Sequel to Lovecraft Country. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit.
Expected Publication: 28 February 2023Publisher: Mysterious Press
Genre: Non-Fiction
From the blurb; Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions, becoming the bestselling novelist in the history of American publishing. Surrounded by controversy for the overt violence and suggestive sexual content of his iconic Mike Hammer private eye novels, Spillane was loathed by critics but beloved by his readers. There is, however, more to Spillane’s life than the books. He also starred as Hammer in a movie, was a circus performer, worked with the FBI in capturing a notorious criminal, and starred in Miller Light beer commercials that were so popular they ran for a quarter of a century.
Expected Publication: 21 March 2023
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Genre: Mystery
From the blurb; Charlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she’s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as ‘The Saucer People’; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound to be the site of an extraterrestrial Second Coming.
Expected Publication: 2 May 2023
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Genre: Fantasy / Horror
From the blurb; Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.
Expected Publication: (paperback TBC)
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Genre: Horror
From the blurb; Five men and one beautiful woman. Marooned on a floating island of arctic ice. Together they had the equipment and skills to fight the freezing cold, the violently savage storms. Then suddenly from the angry seas the jaws of horror opened wide as nature's deadliest creature rose from the depths—a huge killer whale of enormous intelligence, incredible power, indestructible endurance, ravenous for human prey..
Expected Publication: July 2023Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Genre: Crime
From the blurb; It’s the summer of ’74…Richard Nixon has resigned from office, CB radios are the hot new thing, and in the great state of Texas two cousins hatch a plan to drive $1 million worth of stolen weed to Idaho, where some lunatic is gearing up to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered motorcycle. But with a vengeful sheriff on their tail and the revered and feared marijuana kingpin of Central Texas out to get his stash back, Chuck and Dean are in for the ride of their lives – if they can make it out alive…
Expected Publication: 5 September 2023
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Genre: Crime
From the blurb; A cinematic new mystery from an award-winning crime writer, California Bear follows two unlikely vigilantes whose decision to take justice into their own hands pits them against the villains behind California’s coldest cases—and their own twisted histories.
