Happy New Year everyone! Another new year for fresh new series, sequels, novellas, debuts, and many more. The year 2020 was the best year in publishing with the amount of books that came out during such a horrible time. This year I am hoping to discover new writers and look out for new books that will be released. The order of the list is in the release dates, the list consist of my personal anticipated books in 2021. If I didn’t include the book you’re anticipating please let me know as I will look for it too.

❁ Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor ❁

Release Date : January, 19th 2021

“She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.”

When I read the description of this book, it felt so ominous and mysterious. A novella about a girl that forgot her name, with mysterious powers that can kill, searching for answers about the thing that changed her.

❁ Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell ❁

Release Date : February, 2nd 2021

A debut novel pitched as Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in a space opera setting, a story between a widowed prince forced into an arranged political marriage with a distant relative of the prince’s late husband as they “navigate the perils of the court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war… all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.”

❁ A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) by Arkady Martine ❁

Release Date : March, 2nd 2021

The stunning sequel to A Memory Called Empire that I have not read yet but excited to read. Teixcalaan series is a story about an epic space opera about the Teixcalaanli Empire which follows Mahit, the new ambassador of a small mining station, as she tries to “navigate an alien culture, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.”

❁ Act Your Age, Eve Brown (Brown Sisters #3) by Talia Hibbert ❁

Release Date : March, 9th 2021

The youngest sister of the Brown sisters, Eve Brown, the song bird of the three siblings that strives to do right but always ends up in a chaotic mess. She gave up on herself but one day her chaos ruined a very expensive so her parents draws a line. Now she has to prove herself of capable, how will she do it? A certain owner of a bed and breakfast could be that solution.

❁ The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1) by C. L. Clark ❁

Release Date : March, 23rd 2021

The Unbroken is the first installment of the Magic of the Lost series and debut by C. L. Clark. A North Africa inspired military-political fantasy, as a princess fights for her place on the throne against her uncle and a bad ass soldier lady with massive biceps (as on cover) helps the princess to fight for her rightful place in the kingdom.

❁ The Shadow of the Gods (The Bloodsworn Saga #1) by John Gwynne ❁

Release Date : May, 4th 2021

John Gwynne author to the Faith and the Fallen series, returns with a brand new epic fantasy series with a Norse inspired world, full of myth, magic and bloody vengeance. The story will be told in a multi POV following three people : a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman who has rejected privilege in pursuit of battle fame, and a thrall who seeks vengeance among the famed mercenaries known as the Bloodsworn.

Just look at that massive dragon on the cover and how tiny that man fighting the dragon. The scale! Just *chefs kiss*.

❁ The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He ❁

Release Date : May, 4th 2021

A young adult dystopian sci-fi standalone, marketed as We Were Liars with sci-fi scope, Lost with a satisfying resolution. The story follows a girl, Cee, abandoned on an island alone with the only memory of her sister as she embarks to find her, not knowing how or why she is on this island. On the other side we follow a science prodigy, Kasey, living in a place committed for planetary protection as she has to decide if she is ready to use her abilities to help humanity.

❁ A Master of Djinn (Fatma el-Sha’arawi #3) by P. Djèlí Clark ❁

Release Date : May, 11th 2021

Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, after her triumphant achievement of preventing the destruction of the world she is back with a new case. A dangerous case of a self acclaimed murderer with powerful magical powers, with her colleagues and her girlfriend Siti she must unravel the mystery.

❁ Black Water Sister by Zen Cho ❁

Release Date : May, 11th 2021

Jessamyn Teoh is broke, alone, and closeted as she comes back Malaysia. Jess starst hearing voices, the voice claims to be her estranged grandmother, Ah Ma. In life Ah Ma is a spirit medium to mysterious deity called Black Water Sister. The spirit is determined to settle a score in her afterlife against a gang boss that offended the deity with the help of Jess. With Jess’ life and her grandmother’s retribution on the line she dives into the world of gods, ghosts, and family secrets.

❁ Son of the Storm (The Nameless Republic #1) by Suyi Davis Okungbowa ❁

Release Date : May, 11th 2021

“A young scholar’s ambition threatens to reshape an empire determined to retain its might in this epic tale of violent conquest, buried histories, and forbidden magic.”

❁ The Black Tongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman ❁

Release Date : May, 25th 2021

“THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF is the story of an indebted thief (now student loans even follow us in to fantasy worlds), a witch-in-training, and a knight – with a giant war raven – forced to journey together through a world scarred by a brutal, decades-long war with goblins. It’s delightfully dark, balancing the grit of fantasy adventure with vibrant and beautiful notes.”

❁ The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo ❁

Release Date : June, 1st 2021

The Chosen and the Beautiful is an attractively lush coming-of-age reimagining Asian-American of the Great Gatsby following an adopted Asian queer girl called, Jordan in a world full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries.

❁ One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston ❁

Release Date : June, 1st 2021

A queer sci-fi love story between August, a cynical 23 year old that just moved to New York City and Jane, a mysterious leather jacket wearing from the 1970s. “One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.”

❁ The Jasmine Throne (Burning Kingdoms #1) by Tasha Suri ❁

Release Date : June, 8th 2021

The Jasmine Throne is the first book to a new trilogy inspired by “history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.”

❁ Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta ❁

Release Date : June, 29th 2021

“We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...”

Girls. Mechas. A rebellion. Caught on the same side of the battle with the same mission to overthrow the cruel Godolia overlords. Eris Shindanai, brash rebel Gearbreaker that specializes in taking down Windups. One day a mission goes awry and she gets captured and thrown to prison. There she meets Sona Steelcrest, a cybernetically enhanced Windup pilot. Both discover they have come with the same mission to destroy Godolia from within all the while growing closer–as comrades, friends, and perhaps something more…

❁ Six Crimson Cranes (Six Crimson Cranes #1) by Elizabeth Lim ❁

Release Date : July, 6th 2021

Six Crimson Cranes is a fresh new take reimagining of a classic tale from East Asian folklore called “The Wild Swans” by Elizabeth Lim. The story follows Shiori, the princess of Kiata, she’s been keeping her powers a secret until the day of her betrothal. She loses control then she is banished by her evil stepmother, Raikama. Shiori’s brothers is then turned into cranes by Raikama and she curses Shiori to not speak of her doings or else her brothers dies. To save her brothers and her kingdom, Shiori has to learn to trust the person she is suppose to marry and embrace her powers. *cue Let It Go*

❁ The Empire’s Ruin (Ashes of the Unhewn Throne #1) by Brian Staveley ❁

Release Date : July, 6th 2021

First of all, look at that beautiful cover! And will be released a day after my birthday? YES. The Empire’s Ruin is Brian Staveley’s new trilogy set in the same world as his previous series the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne. The Annurian Empire is disintegrating. In order to save the empire it is up to one surviving Kettral to find the nesting ground of the giant war hawks and a monk turned con-artist with knowledge the secret to the kenta gates. But time is running out …

❁ She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Empire #1) by Shelley Parker-Chan ❁

Release Date : July, 20th 2021

She Who Became the Sun is my number one anticipated release this year, marketed Mulan meets The Song of Achilles, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After the fatal death of her brother during a bandit attack, Zhu Yuanzhang the daughter that is destined for nothingness uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as young male novice. From there she starts her journey to greatness and rise to power..

❁ We Cry for Blood (The Reborn Empire #3) by Devin Madson ❁

Release Date : August, 3rd 2021

The third installment to The Reborn Empire series, the continuity of a multi POV epic fantasy following a new empress of Kisia, a death walker, a conflicted general trying to protect the Levanti emperor, and an outcast Levanti captain that fights to remind his fellow Levanti of who they are.

❁ Under the Whispering Door by T.J Klune ❁

Release Date : September, 21st 2021

When it’s time for Wallace to move on to the after life, the reaper takes him to a tea shop in the forest. There he meets Hugo, the tea shop’s owner to locals and the ferryman to souls who need to cross over. But Wallace isn’t ready to move on, within seven days he is on a mission to do everything he missed in life.

❁ Jade Legacy (Green Bone Saga #3) by Fonda Lee ❁

Release Date : September, 21st 2021

I am not going to say anything about this book to avoid spoilers for myself because I have not read a single book from this series. All I know it’s an urban fantasy “Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu”. It’s awesome. Buy it, read it, thank me later!

❁ The Thorn of Emberlain (The Gentleman Bastard #4) by Scott Lynch ❁

Release Date : October, 12th 2021

Another book that I am not going to say anything about to avoid spoilers for myself because I have not read a single book from this series. To avoid life as a slave or even death, Locke Lamora becomes a thief under the tutelage of the leader of an infamous ban of thiefs, the Gentleman Bastards. “Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.”

❁ The Bone Shard Emperor (The Drowning Empire #2) by Andrea Stewart ❁

Release Date : November, 11th 2021

The Bone Shard Emperor is the unmissable sequel to The Bone Shard Daughter, one of the biggest fantasy debuts of 2020 – a captivating tale of magic, revolution and mystery, where a young woman’s sense of identity will make or break an empire

❁ Nowhere (Skyward #3) by Brandon Sanderson ❁

Release Date : To Be Determined

Title not yet confirmed.

As updated on Brandon Sanderson’s website, he is done writing for this third installment of Skyward, a young adult sci-fi series following Spensa, a girl that has always dreamed of becoming a pilot.

That is a lot of books, please let me know in the comments your most anticipated releases in 2021. Have you preordered them? Or have you read an ARC of the book? I would love to know your thoughts.