Most Anticipated Releases of 2020: July to September
As June comes to a close, it’s time to look ahead to the Science Fiction and Fantasy reads I’m most excited about in the months of July to September. Not only do I enjoy making these lists, they also help me organize my reading by focusing my attention to the highly anticipated releases that I’d like to check out. This year, the pandemic has really done a number on book release dates, so hopefully most of these are accurate!
As always, I’m under no illusions that I’ll be able to read everything here all, but I will try – and hopefully I still got to put some new books on people’s radars.
So what are your most anticipated releases for the third quarter of 2020? Do you have any of these books on your list? What’s missing that I should be checking out?
July
July 7 – The Shadows by Alex North, The Damned by Renée Ahdieh, The Bright Lands by John Fram, Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay, Every Sky A Grave by Jay Posey, Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power, Unravel The Dusk by Elizabeth Lim
July 14 – The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
July 21 – The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan, Ashes of the Sun by Django Wexler, Malorie by Josh Malerman, The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson, He Started It by Samantha Downing, Savage Legion by Matt Wallace
July 28 – Afterland by Lauren Beukes, Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz, Deal With the Devil by Kit Rocha, The End of Her by Shari Lapena
August
August 4 – A Chorus of Fire by Brian D. Anderson, Harrow The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, The Night Swim by Megan Goldin, The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis, The Living Dead by George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus, Seven Devils by Laura Lam & Elizabeth May
August 11 – It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan, The Last Uncharted Sky by Curtis Craddock
August 14 – Driftwood by Marie Brennan
August 18 – Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho
August 25 – Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare, Architects of Memory by Karen Osborne, The Woods by Vanessa Savage, Final Cut by S.J. Watson
September
September 1 – Fable by Adrienne Young, A Dance With Fate by Juliet Marillier, Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn, The Residence by Andrew Pyper, Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
September 8 – The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry, The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
September 15 – The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie, They Threw Us Away by Daniel Kraus, To Sleep in A Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini, The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
September 22 – The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
September 29 – Battle Ground by Jim Butcher, The Nesting by C.J. Cooke, The Cabin on Souder Hill by Lonnie Busch, A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
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The Damned and Unravel the Dusk are on my list and preordered!
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I’m hoping to read Unravel the Dusk soon – so excited!
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I need to read Spin the Dawn so badly! I’ve heard so many good things about the series!
These are all great choices!
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Spin the Dawn is fantastic – you definitely should check it out if you have a chance! 😀
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Wow! There are way too many here I’d love to try. So I’m looking forward to your reviews to help me narrow down the list. 🙂
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I know, the list is overwhelming 😀
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Ahhhh I forgot Fable! And I guess I was thinking that Doors of Eden already came out, but that was in the UK only (which we’ve been unable to get books out of and I just forgot about it). Sigh, I can’t be perfect, I suppose.
Well, I’m looking forward to all your reviews of them! 😁 Especially the 19 in July and 16 in September! You certainly have your work cut out for you! Good luck!!
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Yep, we here in the States have a few more months to wait for Doors of Eden to officially come out 😀 I could probably order from Book Depository, but it’s not like I have a shortage of books to keep me occupied in the meantime 😛
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WHOAAA! So many pretty books to choose from. I think my tbr is afraid of your post, Mogsy! 🤣🤣
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I know, I’m afraid of my own tbr, lol!
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🤣🤣🤣
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Well, the most appealing title is Abercrombie’s The Trouble with Peace, but that’s just because I’m particularly invested with his world right now – there are a LOT of other intriguing titles here, and my TBR is going to suffer a bad case of indigestion soon… 😀 😀
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I can understand why! I would say that’s one of the biggest highlights for me too in this list!
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There are still so many exciting releases to come!
I can’t wait for Burn our bodies down and Vicious spirits!
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Yep, those two are high on my list 😀
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So many amazing books! It’s going to be impossible to read everything I want to read, but like you, I’m going to try, lol. I’m glad I already have quite a few ARCs of these already😁
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It will definitely be impossible, especially since more books are being added by the week lol! Trying my best is my mantra 😀
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Great list of books! I hope you enjoy everything you get to read.
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Thanks! I hope I get to most of these 😀
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SO MANY BOOKS. I still can’t believe we’re getting two Dresden Files this year. Super excited for new Thrawn. Curious about A Deadly Education and so many others!!
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It’s definitely a treat! I already finished Peace Talks and it was AMAZING!
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Many things! I did read The Sin in the Steel
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Oh, I hope you liked it! I’m going to read that one soon.
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I can’t believe I still haven’t read The Beautiful 🙈 I majorly hope to pick it up soon as it’s definitely one of the highest priority books on my TBR. I majorly can’t wait for Year Of The Witching & A Deadly Education. I adore the sound of Bone Shard Daughter too and definitely remember adding Driftwood to my TBR the other day too. I hope you enjoy all of these.
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I know that The Beautiful received some mixed reviews, but I personally loved it. It was a nice take on vampires and I thought it was her best book yet. Hope you get a chance to check it out soon and that you will enjoy it as much as I did 🙂
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Ooh that sounds promising and thank you 💞
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The new Marie Brennan!
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That’s high on the list!
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I’m looking forward to so many of these. Night of the Mannequins really appeals to me – I’ll have to keep my eye out for that one.
Lynn 😀
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I juts finished his book The Only Good Indians. It was…okay. But I will still check out Night of the Mannequins 🙂
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Oh gosh, there’s so many. *covers my eyes*
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It does get a little overwhelming, doesn’t it 😀
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Soooo many good books, but squeee – Dresden Files! 🙂 And Koli 2. And, and, and….!! 😉
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So much to look forward to!
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Well, I’ll be saving this to refer back to because I am not that organized this year LOL. I’m so excited for Peace Talks! Also Unravel the Dusk and Unconquered Sun come out on the same day. July is killing it with new releases.
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This is why I make these lists too, so I can refer back to it later on – it helps when the tbr is constantly growing, sometimes it gets hard to keep track! 😀
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I have copies of The Shadows and Malorie headed my way! I can’t wait!
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Yay! I enjoyed The Shadows, I hope you will goo! A copy of Malorie just landed today, so I hope to read that soon too!
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