For the end of year book asks I’m curious about #38 because you always have good book recs and reviews.
38. Releases you’re looking forward to next year: I feel like this is the universe playing a joke on me because just the other day I realized that I haven't done my hunt for 2023 releases yet and was lowkey stress over it. I was even debating whether to even have any since I read only 3-5 out of 20+ of my 2022 anticipated reads. But that said, according to my StoryGraph there's 4 books coming out next year on my to-read shelf:
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane [Jan 17 2023; a dystopian story where people who commit crime receive an extra shadow for every crime they commit rather than being incarcerated but as such these individuals face discrimination and the main protag has to raise a child while facing these obstacles]
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman [Feb 28 2023; nonfiction book on Black Environmentalists written by the woman who co-founded the Soul Fire Farm]
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown [April 4 2023; a scifi horror novella about a spaceship of humans attempting to return to Earth after failing to colonize another planet]
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah [April 4 2023; another dystopian exploring a law enforcement system and examining the treatment of those who find themselves the victim of the department's inherent corruption - this is the same author who wrote Friday Black, the anthology Jacob Geller recommended in I think 2 of his videos; I've read the anthology and liked it too]