2020 was trash, but brought us many, many gifts in terms of books that came out. Here are the presents coming to us in 2021 that I’m personally far too excited to read.

The books are in order of release. Since I did a top 40 list of faves for 2020, figured I do a top 40 for 2021. All links go to Bookshop.org for easier pre-ordering. 

40 Books I am Excited to See Come Out in 2021

1. A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson (January)
2. We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen (January)
3. A Dark and Hollow Star (#1) by Ashley Shuttleworth (February)
4. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey (February)
5. A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel (February)
6. The Memory Theater by Karin Tidbeck (February)
7. On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu (February)
8. The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst (March)
9. The Conductors by Nicole Glover (March)
10. A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) by Arkady Martine (March)
11. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue (March)
12. The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore (March)
13. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1) by C.L. Clark (March)
14. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec (March)
15. Defekt (Finna #2) by Nino Cipri (April)
16. First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara (April)
17. These Feathered Flames (#1) by Alexandra Overy (April)
18. Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders (April)
19. The Widow Queen (The Bold #1) by Elżbieta Cherezińska (April)
20. The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (May)
21. In The Ravenous Dark by A.M. Strickland (May)
22. Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (May)
23. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (May)
24. The All-Consuming World by Cassandra Khaw (June)
25. Cinders of Yesterday (#1) by Jen Karner (June)
26. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (June)
27. For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten (June)
28. The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1) by Tasha Suri (June)
29. The Ship of Stolen Words by Fran Wilde (June)
30. Star Eater by Kerstin Hall (June)
31. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (July)
32. A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee (August)
33. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (August)
34. A Psalm of Storms and Silence (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #2) by Roseanne A. Brown (August)
35. No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull (September)
36. The Scratch Daughters (The Scapegracers #2) by H.A. Clarke (September)
37. Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (September)
38. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (September)
39. Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw (October)
40. The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling (Fall)

10 Books I am Excited To Read in 2021

1. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (1946)
2. Deathless by Catherynne Valente (2011)
3. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins (2015)
4. Strange Practice by Vivian Shaw (2017)
5. The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker (2017)
6. What Girls are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold (2017)
7. City of Lies by Sam Hawke (2018)
8. The Fever King by Victoria Lee (2019)
9. Jade War by Fonda Lee (2019)
10. Never-Contented Things by Sarah Porter (2019)

RIP to your TBR lists.

Happy reading,
Jo