There are two prominent themes among the novel January book : YA fantasiesand horror novels , with several submission in each genre . But there ’s also plenty of sci - fi ( includingthe late fromio9 atomic number 27 - founderAnnalee Newitz ! ) and adult illusion wait your eyeballs — so originate 2023 off mighty , with a new book or two !
When a lone witch decides to take a chance on romance , a disastrous first engagement trigger off an unexpectedly magical connexion . ( January 3 )
A young woman who ’s been preserve her powerful magic hide out — while test to outrun her powerful destiny — undertakes a dangerous pursuit into an enchanted woods , where she ’ll have to decide if chance everything is deserving it . ( January 3 )
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In this tale inspired by ancient Taiwanese mythology and folklore , a girl hold out in a of late conquer realm meets a magician who helps her awaken her own clandestine magical gifts . ( January 3 )
The author returns to her creation of Elfame with this first entry in a new duology . It succeed a runaway queen who must team up with the prince she was once affiance to and undertake a fiend - fighting quest . Read an excerpthere . ( January 3 )
Three caretaker and a scientist working in an isolated enquiry institute are startled one day by the coming into court of an unidentifiable target in the snow — a frozen whodunit that soon becomes an obsession for everyone . ( January 3 )
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An “ autistic retard leave in the human macrocosm by the fae as an baby ” teams up with her twin sister on a holdup gone wrong , and find she ’ll need to exploit into her magic powers to save them both . ( January 3 )
A half - human , half - lamia finds liveliness at a Swiss boarding school day for elect vampire kids more perilous than he ’d realise . ( January 3 )
In a future tense where a infestation has divided humanity into people who live underground as well as on the surface , a brilliant young char emerges from her subterranean world hoping to aid bring around the world — but instead , she ’s drawn into the race to save an imperiled mankind from entire extinction . ( January 10 )
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Cinderella ’s stepsister tell apart their story in this first in a newfangled series focusing on Disney ’s most famous villains . say an excerpthere . ( January 10 )
In this first book in a new duology , a young patrician and a bookstall proletarian form a surprising bail bond over their battle for women ’s right — as well as their share giving of forbidden deception . ( January 10 )
A socially uneasy college professor and faerie expert travels to a small Greenwich Village for inquiry purposes — where she clash with an donnish competitor while digging into charming secrets . record an excerpthere . ( January 10 )
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The continuation to Ninth House finds Alex and Dawes launching a program to break Darlington out of purgatory , requiring mystifying dives into ancient texts and secret societies , as well as battle monsters . ( January 10 )
This surreal , musical style - turn away novel follow a woman whose globe crumbles when the Centennial State - worker she ’s unhealthily obsess with dies by self-destruction . ( January 10 )
The Hugo and Nebula - get ahead Wayward Children series continues with an exploration of the “ Shop Where Lost thing Go , ” a place both wonderful and dangerous . ( January 10 )
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Billed as Mad Max : Fury Road meets Frozen , this sequel to Winter , White and Wicked follows tackle driver Sylvi as she undertakes a grievous journey across terra firma and sea , aiming to use her icy magic to help the rebellion . ( January 10 )
In this dark YA fantasy , a young serviceman with the power to remove bane must figure out what to do when he himself falls under a grave spell . ( January 10 )
“ This instigative YA phantasy unveiling follows a girl who will stop at nothing to economize her village after it ’s discovered by a life-threatening warlord and his regular army of undead monster . ” ( January 10 )
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A girl being address for Great Depression befriend her neighbor after realizing how much they have in coarse — including a enchantment and fear of the magical forest at the edge of their street . ( January 10 )
teen in 1986 and 2044 smithy a connection across the astral planing machine thanks to unknown nightmare and an even unknown self - help book about interdimensional travelling . ( January 17 )
After her parents pall , a cleaning woman reluctantly hark back to her hometown to avail her brother enclose up their function — include sell the fellowship home , which has its own surprising approximation about being put on the mart . ( January 17 )
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As the final stage of the world looms amid a atomic wintertime , a immature Tibetan man heads into the Himalayas trying to find his missing father — and agnise there may be a magical way to fix the future . ( January 17 )
In this tale , “ a world - hopping , badass , spell - slinging mother determine out to rescue her kidnapped adult Word from a dragon lord with everything to lose . ” ( January 17 )
A failed comedian hold a unkept heart embarks on a cross - country route head trip — and along the way , gains the ability to see three dissimilar versions of the life he could be leading . ( January 17 )
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This novella , a sequel to Sorcery of Thorns , finds librarian Elisabeth , sorcerer Nathaniel , and demon companion Silas trying to escape the go that ’s keeping them confined within Thorn Manor . ( January 17 )
A recent college grad is delirious about his fresh fishgig work for a dating app — until he realizes the technical school public is a dweeb . Things get even more chaotic when he tries out the app and it transports him to another cosmos . ( January 17 )
Celtic legends and folktales inspire this phantasy adventure about a warrior princess who sets out to become the first poove of Ireland . ( January 17 )
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An agent who ’s turn over on the corporation that brainwash her heads to a dangerous , storm - engulfed hobo camp planet , team up up with an unlikely friend to track down the friend who saved her life . ( January 17 )
antecedently published in the UK , this horror novel is now getting a U.S. discharge and is described as “ an important and disruptive work of trans fiction from a trans writer . ” It ’s about a cleaning lady who comes to regret pass one terrifying night in an abandoned house . ( January 17 )
In this tale set in the suburban area on Halloween of 1984 , young trick - or - treater encounter a quartet of strange children monish them about a ambush threat they call “ the Cunning Man . ” ( January 24 )
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“ A group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never - before - attempt technology challenges to rescue colleague strand at a distant asteroid — kicking off a newfangled space race in which Earth ’s climate crisis could well give ear in the remainder . ” ( January 24 )
The author ’s Tales of the Forever Sea fantasy series — mark in a world where ships use legerdemain to sail across grass — continues with escapade , conflicts , and giant both below and atop the planet ’s control surface . ( January 24 )
The crew of shade - hunting reality show Fade to Black — include the hubby - and - married woman team that leads it — enquire a obsessed mansion that once belong to a paranormal research group , and detect horror lurking in its abandoned room . ( January 24 )
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In an Arabian - enliven domain ruled by occult magic , a 16 - twelvemonth - old warrior battles sand monsters and other perils while trying to track down her outlaw brother . ( January 24 )
In this far - next tale , the intelligent bears who have been ruling the major planet are felled by a terrible plague — leave the remnants of mankind , who ’ve been serving as their hard worker , to figure out what ’s next for Earth . ( January 31 )
In a future humankind ravage by climate change and dearth , where humanoid creatures scream “ Klujns ” have become the predominant species , a 16 - class - sure-enough human lady friend is taken hostage and ram into a deadly competition . ( January 31 )
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In this Shadowhunters novel that caps off the Last Hours serial publication , James and Cordelia must salvage both a fiend - menaced London and their wedlock . ( January 31 )
As the earthly concern edge toward its end , three ordinary but significant people struggle to survive , and to avail others around them outlast , against seemingly insurmountable odds . ( January 31 )
The in style from the io9 co - beginner is about a terraformer who makes a startling discovery while work on a new planet . Read an excerpthere . ( January 31 )
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The outside bestseller about a city of magic hide within London — and the young woman who gets to know it — receive a U.S. freeing . ( January 31 )
A lonely punk rock stone lamia who ’s growing weary of her routine—“a lot of blood bags and night jobs”—finds a new reasonableness to hold out the undead living when she meet a long - lost teenage congenator . ( January 31 )
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