THE WRITING RETREAT by Julia Bartz

Publisher: Emily Besther Books/Simon & Schuster Published: 2023 Pages: 309 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is thrilled. Upon arrival, they discover they must complete an entire novel from scratch, and the...

HOW TO SELL A HAUNTED HOUSE by Grady Hendrix

Publisher: Berkley Published: January 17, 2023 Pages: 419 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s...

WHAT LIES IN THE WOODS by Kate Alice Marshall

Publisher: Flatiron Books Published: January 17, 2023 Pages: 319 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy and Olivia, spent the summer roaming the woods, imagining a world of ceremony and wonder. They called it the Goddess Game. The summer ended suddenly when Naomi...

SORCERY OF THORNS by Margaret Rogerson

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Published: June 4, 2019 Pages: 456 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath...

ALL THE EVER AFTERS BY Danielle Teller

Publisher: William Morrow Published: 2018 Pages: 373 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, a woman who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. But what unfolds is not...

EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES BY HEATHER FAWCETT

Publisher: Del Rey Published: January 10, 2023 Pages: 321 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION: Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good...

SMALL ANGELS BY LAUREN OWEN

Publisher: Random House Published: 2022 Pages: 383 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION A wedding in a small English village attracts a malicious spirit, forcing deep secrets to surface--a hypnotic tale of sisterhood, first love, and hauntings. As a teenager, Kate found a safe harbor from her parents' constant fighting in the company of the four Gonne sisters, who...

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus

Publisher: Doubleday Books Published: April 5, 2022 Pages: 400 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a...

Fairy Tale by Stephen King

Publisher: Scribner Published: September 6, 2022 Pages: 608 GOODREADS DESCRIPTION: Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how...

My Most Anticipated Books of 2023

My TBR list continues to grow. So many books, so little time! I am always trying to find time to read the books I have on my bookshelf and stored in my Kindle, but yet I continue to buy new books and look for new adventures and books to escape in. 2023 is no different....