books in the future

[psocoptera]

So, last year, my top-ranked priority to-read books were My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 2, Alecto the Ninth and Nona the Ninth, Sisters of the Forsaken Stars, and Across a Field of Starlight from Blue Delliquanti, of which I read Nona and Sisters, and (coughs) got partway through Across a Field and let myself get sidetracked by other things, oops. Also Golden Enclaves went on as a priority 1 and popped off again.

Not much new in the current rank 1s: MFTIM2, Alecto, Across a Field, and Mel Gillman's Other Ever Afters, which shares with Across a Field the misfeature of my actually having purchased it instead of getting it from the library and having a natural deadline. Some exciting 2023 works in the rank 2s though: Arkady Martine's Prescribed Burn, Malka Older's Mimicking of Known Successes, Ann Leckie's new Radch novel Translation State, Ben Wilgus's MG graphic novel Grace Needs Space, and Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory, which used to be a 2022 release but seems to have pushed back at some point. And I'm actively in a library queue for Megan Whalen Turner's Moira's Pen 2022 story collection.

What are other people no really definitely reading this year (assuming it actually comes out, which MFTIM2 probably won't and Alecto is a tossup)? Answers are not binding. :)

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Hardinge

[vardibidian]

There's a new Frances Hardinge that isn't out yet in the US, and I'm very eager to read that. And I didn't know that there was a new Radch coming out, so that's definitely going on the list.

-V.