She desires nothing more than to attend the newly opened Weaving Academy, take complete control of her powers, and pursue a glorious future on the battlefield with the first all-female military regiment. As a Bookshop affiliate and Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.įrom debut author Hadeer Elsbai comes the first book in an incredibly powerful new duology, set wholly in a new world, but inspired by modern Egyptian history, about two young women-Nehal, a spoiled aristocrat used to getting what she wants and Giorgina, a poor bookshop worker used to having nothing-who find they have far more in common, particularly in their struggle for the rights of women and their ability to fight for it with forbidden elemental magicĪs a waterweaver, Nehal can move and shape any water to her will, but she’s limited by her lack of formal education. You can click the title of the post or the ‘more…’ link after the sixth book to read the entire article.Ĭover images link to Bookshop if available, and the rest link to Amazon or other pages for the book.

These books are ordered by scheduled publication date, if they have one, and these are US release dates unless otherwise stated.ĭue to the length of this blog post, I’m only showing the first 6 books on the main page. I hope those of you with similar tastes and interests discover some books here that appeal to you, too. This includes fantasy inspired by various mythologies and histories, space opera, foes having to work together, a couple of books featuring animals (including a giant bird of prey), stories with dark magics, dark academia and a dragon academy, a couple of creepy houses, and more. (And of course, there were some books that were already on my list because I loved the previous book in the series or other books by the same author.) In the end, I came up with 24 science fiction and fantasy books I wanted to highlight for 2023.Īs always, this is not a comprehensive list of all the speculative fiction books being published this year: these are just the books I came across that sound most captivating to me.

Like the last couple of years, I scoured the web for book descriptions and interviews with their authors, early reviews, and excerpts to learn more about some of the books coming out this year. For the past few years, there have been so many speculative fiction books that sound wonderful that it has been difficult to narrow down a list of anticipated releases to a somewhat reasonable number.

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