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

1. The Teachers by Alexandra Robbins
2. I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
3. Reckoning by V (formally Eve Ensler)
4. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
5. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
6. The Golden Frog Games by Claribel A Ortega
7. She is a haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
8. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
9. VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
10. Kiss me in the Coral Lounge by Helen Ellis

Emma’s Picks

1. Happy Place by Emily Henry
2. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
3. Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
4. A Twisted Love Story by Samantha Downing
5. Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong
6. Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey (and Unfortunately Yours)
7. A Crown of Ivy and Glass by Claire Legrand
8. Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
9. Bring Me Your Midnight by Rachel Griffen
10. The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Joe’s Picks

1. In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
2. For You and Only You by Caroline Kepnes
3. The Only One Left by Riley Sager
4. The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro
5. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto
6. Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood
7. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
8. The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt
9. The Sun and the Void by Gabriela Romero Lacruz
10. Zero Days by Ruth Ware

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