2023 Debuts I’m Excited About Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I definitely need to do a better job of tracking debut authors! I realized some of my most anticipated reads of the year are debuts, which is fun! Here are some I’m excited to read – broken down by genre and/or age target where appropriate. Contemporary (+ One Fantasy!) I already read and really enjoyed LUNAR LOVE (highly recommend you check it out!). The other books featured here are primarily contemporary novels (a couple YA and the rest adult). There’s also one highly anticipated fantasy read down there (EMILY WILDE) that didn’t fit anywhere else. Mystery / Thriller / Etc. I’ve been loving mystery/thrillers lately and all of these are on my highly anticipated list for the year! I didn’t realize a few of these were debuts. These are mostly adult books with just two YA picks (CLARISSA and HOW TO FIND). There’s at least one (RUTHY) that’s more of a mixed literary/mystery and BOARD TO DEATH is a cozy.

Freebie: Recent/Upcoming Covers I Love Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Three things are certain: death, taxes, and Lauren using a freebie TTT to talk about book covers. This week, I’m just sharing a quick snapshot of some books that just came out (within the last 6 months or less) and upcoming releases with covers I love. I keep track of these here on Goodreads if you want to check any of these books out!

Favorite New-to-Me Authors of 2022 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. This was fun to reflect on! It also inspired me to write a post about books I’m excited to read in 2023 from some of these authors, since quite a few of them have new/upcoming releases too! Here are the authors I read for the first time that I really enjoyed this year – there are a few other new-to-me authors and books I cut to keep this to ten, but this is really the true list of top faves! Ashley Winstead / Kate Spencer / Katy Birchall Carley Fortune / Lucy Clarke / Helena Greer / Holly Miller Kirsten Miller / Catherine Steadman / Emily Stone

Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2023 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. We’re a little ways into January but worth sharing some books from the first week or two of the year even though they’re out already! I’m going month by month and they’re going to be my true “most anticipated” reads – I want to be able to refer back to this like I did in a recent post (and last year). January February No highly anticipated February releases! March April May June

Favorite Books of 2022 Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I only rated 7 books five-stars this year and one of them was a cookbook! I’m going to just feature those in this post and be a little loose about the top ~ten~ Tuesday aspect. This is partly because I rated 23 (!!!) books 4.5 stars, so it would be a pain in the butt to show all of them. Contemporary and Magical Realism Cozy and Fun Mysteries Comics and Cookbooks

Books I Hope Santa Brings Me, Or Books I’ll Buy with Christmas Gift Cards! Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I don’t have a ton of books on my Christmas list this year, actually – I’ll show a few below but for the most part there are a good amount of books I may decide to buy with my inevitable gift cards. Christmas List Gift Card Buys & Preorders  

Winter TBR – New/Upcoming Releases Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. Believe it or not, I haven’t done a TTT since the last seasonal TBR post for fall! At least that made it really easy to update and reformat for the winter haha. I’ll be covering new and upcoming releases this winter that I plan to read. As usual, no books that I currently have egalleys for. December January

Fall TBR – New/Upcoming Releases Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. As usual, I like to make my seasonal TBRs for TTT about the new and upcoming releases within that season that I hope to read. I traditionally don’t include review copies I already have or already published books. I’m going to focus on upcoming fall releases that I am likely to read during the fall (so the Christmas books publishing in October won’t be on here, for example). This TBR will focus on books that are coming out primarily in October and November. October November

Books with Geographical Terms in the Title Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. I love TTTs where I can do some Goodreads keyword searching and call it a day! I know I’ve read a lot of books (especially by RaeAnne Thayne, weirdly) that include things like “cliff” or “mountain” or whatever. Lots of options to share here! I tried to pick unique words for all 10.

Books I Love Published 10+ Years Ago Top Ten Tuesdays were started by The Broke and the Bookish and are now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, where we make lists of our top ten books (or something else!) based on that week’s prompt. The topics are provided ahead of time and can be found here. Book links bring you to Goodreads or my review. It’s wild to think that 2012 was 10 years ago. Good lord. I went through my favorites shelf on Goodreads to pull these babies. They were all published in 2012 or earlier.