Most Anticipated Releases of 2020: January to March
Happy 2020! As we get ready to begin another year, it’s time to look ahead to the Science Fiction and Fantasy reads I’m most excited about. Not only is it fun to organize my reading and to make lists, they also have the added benefit of focusing my attention to the highly anticipated releases that I’d like to check out. Every quarter I’ll be putting together a post of my “must reads”, and while I’m under no illusions that I’ll be able to read them all, hopefully I can get to most of them (and also put some new books on people’s radars)!
So here are the books I’m really excited for in early 2020. What are some of yours?
January
January 7 – The Secret Chapter by Genevieve Cogman, Mr. Nobody by Catherine Steadman, The Night Country by Melissa Albert, The Shadow Saint by Gareth Hanrahan, The God Game by Danny Tobey, Chosen by Kiersten White, City of Stone and Silence by Django Wexler
January 14 – A Longer Fall by Charlaine Harris, The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
January 21 – Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine
January 28 – The Bard’s Blade by Brian D. Anderson, The Other People by C.J. Tudor
February
February 4 – Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong
February 11 – Heart of Flames by Nicki Pau Preto, Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough, Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
February 18 – Twilight of the Gods by Scott Oden, Sword of Fire by Katharine Kerr
February 25 – False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
March
March 3 – Otaku by Chris Kluwe, The Vanishing Deep by Astrid Scholte, Cyber Shogun Revolution by Peter Tieryas
March 10 – The Deep by Alma Katsu, Cries From the Lost Island by Kathleen O’Neal Gear
March 17 – Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs, Crush the King by Jennifer Estep, Girls With Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young
March 24 – The Last Human by Zack Jordan, The Return by Rachel Harrison
March 31 – Anthropocene Rag by Alex Irvine
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Those are a lot of exciting books! The secret chapter came out in november over here, and its great. Im most excited for the new Aaronovitch book 😁
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Haha yup, you lucky readers in the UK get that one first 🙂 So glad to hear it was good though, I love Cogman’s series!
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I found it here in Dutchland over a week before the UK date 😋 was a fun surprise for sure!
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Alone in the Wild, The Vanishing Deep, Girls With Razor Hearts… those three I’m really looking forward to. Love that cover of Mr. Nobody too!
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Yeah, some really lovely covers this quarter!
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The Bard’s Blade cover reminds me a lot of Dark Blade by Steve Feasey
ooh, another book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia?? I wish it was fantasy, but still, how intriguing
and I have an ARC of The Unspoken Name, but will I actually read it before pub date? HMMM
The Deep looks really cool!
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Haha I love Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s fantasy too! At this point though I think I’ll read anything that woman writes 😀
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Man, the United States of Japan series is still going? I have to admit I am very surprised.
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Yep, this will be book three in the sequence, but another stand alone/”companion” novel, I believe.
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So many good books to come! I especially can;t wait for Heart of Flames!
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Right?! 2020 is going to be amazing! 😀
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Love how you did your list and I forgot all about The Vanishing Deep. There’s so many great books coming out this year. Where will we ever find the time!
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Yeah, I’ve come to realize I have to do these lists by quarter so I can include more books. I just can’t narrow it down to 10 for the whole year or even half a year for the Top Ten Tuesdays lists!
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Great List – I love seeing all these books lined up like this – it gives me complete grabby hands and book envy of course but I still can’t resist a good line up.
Currently reading God Game and loving it. The Shadow Saint is next up.
Lynn 😀
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Yeah, I love seeing all the books laid out like this too – gives me a feeling of excitement and panic at the same time, lol. Excited that there are so many books to look forward to, but freaking out because I know I’ll never have enough time!
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Great list. I have ARCs of The Bard’s Blade, The Unspoken Name, Sword of Fire, and The Deep all waiting for reads soon.
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Same, I have them all lined up and now let’s just see if I can stick with my reading schedule, haha! 😀
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I’m now doing my lists quarterly as well, it just makes more sense! We have so many in common, of course. It’s going to be hard to pick and choose this year because there are just so many books I want to read:-)
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Yeah, I’ve long given up trying to whittle my lists down to ten, fifteen, or even twenty books, lol. Doing it quarterly allows me to feature more books because let’s face it, there are always so many to look forward to! 😀
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Chosen is on my list as well and I have spotted one or two (or three or…) covers here that are drool worthy and make my thumb twitch to one click LOL
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Yes, Chosen! I’m hoping to dive into it soon!
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So many intriguing things!
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Absolutely! 2020 is going to be amazing!
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To say I’m deeply curious about Alma Katsu’s new novel, would be a *massive* understatement… 😉
And what an impressive list, indeed 🙂
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I can’t wait for that one! Horror and historical fiction, yes please!
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I am very curious about some of those
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Lots of good stuff coming out for sure, hope we’ll both enjoy them 🙂
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Almost too many to choose from here. Some I’d have to put aside for later until I read previous books in the series. But there’s plenty of first books and stand alones here, too. The Bard’s Blade is one I’m very interested in.
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Yes, for me trying to keep up with all these series is a struggle as well. There are quite a few exciting 2020 sequels I’ve left off because I haven’t caught up with them yet myself 😛
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The God Game is on my list!
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I’m hoping to start that one later this week! I’ve been hearing some great things!
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Ack, I almost forgot we get a new Mercy Thompson in a few months! I’m reading The Unspoken Name right now and enjoying it a lot.
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Yes, that one sort of snuck up on me too! But it’s like a nice surprise whenever that happens 🙂
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So many of these look amazing! I will definitely be picking up the sequels I need, the new books will have to wait until next year, alas. 🙂 Hope you enjoy some of these!
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AMAZING list!! I’m jumping into The Other People by C.J. Tudor tonight! I’m so pumped!
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I can’t wait to read my copy of The Night Country!! And I’m really interested in The God Game and The Vanishing Deep too. I still need to read the first books to a lot of the series but there are definitely a few here that I hope to catch up on this year. And I’m definitely looking up The Return in a minute – the cover really caught my eye for some reason.
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