My Very Long 2023 TBR List: Which Books Do You Recommend?

By Curlygeek04 @curlygeek04

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, is about our Winter TBR list. I decided to spin this a little differently, instead thinking about my TBR for 2023. I’ve organized this by a few categories. First, there’s all the books released in 2022 that I didn’t get to. A lot of these books are showing up on the 2022 “best of” lists. Then, there’s the backlist books that are highest rated on Goodreads. There’s books I own that I haven’t gotten to yet. And finally, the next books in series I’m reading.

All that adds up to way more books than I can read, so I’d love to get your recommendations on which books I should move up on my TBR for 2023.

2022 Releases By Favorite Authors

  • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
  • Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
  • Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie
  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  • The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
  • True Biz by Sara Novic
  • Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  • Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
  • Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
  • The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Silvia Moreno Garcia
  • Ocean’s Echo by Evarina Maxwell
  • What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

2022 Releases By New to Me Authors

  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  • Olga Lies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
  • What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
  • Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
  • Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow
  • What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
  • Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott
  • Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek Young
  • Nuclear Family by Joseph Han
  • The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
  • The Grace of Sorcerers by Maria Ying
  • Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
  • This Rebel Heart by Katherine Locke

Backlist Nonfiction:

  • See What You Made Me Do by Jess Hill
  • The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton
  • The Choice by Edith Eger
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
  • I Was Told to Come Alone by Souad Mekhennet

Backlist Fiction:

  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  • Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra
  • The Arsonist’s City by Hala Alyan
  • The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery

Books Sitting on My Shelf:

  • Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
  • All Clear by Connie Willis
  • The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
  • The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss
  • A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf

Next in Series:

  • A Prayer for the Crown Shy by Becky Chambers
  • The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
  • Under a Veiled Moon by Karen Odden
  • Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
  • The Secret Place by Tana French
  • Miss Kopp Investigates by Amy Stewart
  • The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
  • Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
  • The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
  • Vision in Silver by Anne Bishop
  • Not Your Ex’s Hexes by April Asher
  • Well Played by Jen DeLuca
  • The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

So I hope you can help me out with my TBR list! Which books should I elevate? And which didn’t live up to the hype?