15 Highly Anticipated Books Of 2022
Even though I’m running a little behind, I finally set my goal for the reading challenge on Goodreads. You could say I am a little obsessed with their website. While I was browsing, I made a list of highly anticipated books that hit the shelves this year. If you are a book nerd like me, this list will make you happy!
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The School For Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Release date: January 4, 2022
In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.
The Maid by Nita Prose
Release date: January 4, 2022
A Clue-like, locked-room mystery and a heartwarming journey of the spirit, The Maid explores what it means to be the same as everyone else and yet entirely different—and reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart.
Let’s Get Physical by Danielle Friedman
Release date: January 4, 2022
A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women’s exercise culture–from jogging and Jazzercise to Jane Fonda–and how women have parlayed physical strength into other forms of power.
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
Release date: January 11, 2022
From the author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
A Little Closer To Home by Ginger Zee
Release date: January 11, 2022
In Ginger Zee’s follow-up to the bestselling Natural Disaster, the ABC chief meteorologist takes readers on a much deeper journey of self discovery.
Violeta by Isabel Allende
Release date: January 25, 2022
This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Release date: February 22, 2022
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide…
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
Release date: March 1, 2022
From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay’s electrifying next novel, The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart… and the ties that bind them.
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Release date: March 1, 2022
The New York Times bestselling author of the “heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hard to put down” (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) modern classic In Five Years returns with a moving and unforgettable exploration of the powerful bond between mother and daughter set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Release date: April 1, 2022
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li
Release date: April 5, 2022
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity
Book of Night by Holly Black
Release date: May 3, 2022
#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Release date: May 3, 2022
An insightful, delightful new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…
The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager
Release date: June 21,2022
With his trademark blend of sharp characters, psychological suspense and gasp-worthy twists, Riley Sager’s The House Across the Lake will shock readers until the very last page.
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Release date: July 12, 2022
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder.
