30 EXCITING New Books Coming in 2023

I loved Ariadne. I did a video on it. Great book.

At Night All Blood Is Black was something. It really was an incredible novel that deserved to win the prize, and I'm glad it did.

A few years ago, he rocked the world with an incredible short story collection called Friday Black, and the first story in that collection is my favorite short story ever, an incredible, angry, and painful piece of black American fiction.

His debut short novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, is a masterpiece.

If you watched my best-of-year wrap-up list for 2022, you'll know that her first book in this series, Her Majesty's Royal Coven, made my top three, I think. Was it my third or fourth favorite book of the year? I loved that book to bits, and the sequel is coming out later this year, I think during the summer.

And his follow-up, Lanny, was also something incredibly special.

I've mentioned many times that I'm a minor Shakespeare fanatic, and my second favorite Shakespeare play is Macbeth, and here is a book called Burnham Wood.

I liked The Ninth House. I thought it was a decent book. Not incredible, didn't change the world, but I liked it.

I remember hearing that book took about seven years to write, maybe more, and I really enjoyed it, and therefore the translation of this is in very good hands.

Her debut novel Tell Me I'm Worthless is one of the best horror novels in existence. It's one of my favorite books of all time.

I wrote a review of it. I love that book. It was disgusting and brilliant.

Terminal Boredom was an incredible collection of stories that came out in 2021, I think, and we've got more of her stuff coming in April, at least in the UK.

My favorite book of hers is The Corset. If you haven't read it, please, please check out The Corset. It's incredible.

The Mill House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, author of The Decagon House Murders, my favorite Japanese murder mystery novel ever, and The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama.

Her debut novel, The Manning Tree Witches, is another favorite of mine. This is probably my favorite piece of historical fiction, especially historical British fiction, ever.

But, The Priory of the Orange Tree was a perfect standalone fantasy book, and I'm going to reread it before this sequel comes out.

Yu Miri's first book translated by Morgan Giles was Tokyo Ueno Station, one of my favorite Japanese novels of all time, an incredible, angry, sociopolitical, socialist novel that I think about almost on a daily basis to this day.