With new books being announced for 2022 and plenty of early reviews being published, it’s time to take a look at the most-anticipated and best books coming in 2022.
This list of the Most-Anticipated and Best Books of 2022 is based on what I’ve read, early buzz, and reviews others have written. It’s limited to books that are being newly published in 2022.
I’ll be updating this list as 2022 goes along, and I’d expect the titles listed here to shift pretty dramatically as books are released and additional titles are announced, so stay tuned!
Have a suggestion for this list of the Most-Anticipated and Best Books of 2022? Drop a comment below!
The Diamond Eye
Kate Quinn
What It's About: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.
In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path...
Publication Date: March 29, 2022
4.29 out of 5 on Goodreads
historical fiction audiobook book club
The Maid
Nita Prose
What It's About: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.
Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself...
Publication Date: January 4, 2022
3.76 out of 5 on Goodreads
audiobook book club thriller
Book Lovers
Emily Henry
What It's About: One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
NORA STEPHENS'S LIFE IS BOOKS—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laid-back dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister, Libby...
Publication Date: May 3, 2022
4.12 out of 5 on Goodreads
romance physical tbr contemporary
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
What It's About: 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…
Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances...
Publication Date: February 22, 2022
3.65 out of 5 on Goodreads
mystery thriller dnf
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
What It's About: A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party...
Publication Date: April 5, 2022
4.07 out of 5 on Goodreads
sci fi science fiction time travel
Violeta
Isabel Allende
What It's About: 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.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life will be marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth...
Publication Date: January 25, 2022
4.03 out of 5 on Goodreads
historical fiction historical book club
Gallant
V. E. Schwab
What It's About: Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source.
Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal—which seems to unravel into madness...
Publication Date: March 1, 2022
3.71 out of 5 on Goodreads
physical tbr young adult horror
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
What It's About: An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
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 very unscientific view of equality...
Publication Date: March 31, 2022
4.29 out of 5 on Goodreads
historical fiction book club dnf
Reminders of Him
Colleen Hoover
What It's About: A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover. After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter...
Publication Date: January 18, 2022
4.36 out of 5 on Goodreads
colleen hoover physical tbr books i own
The Christie Affair
Nina de Gramont
What It's About: Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge?
In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie...
Publication Date: February 1, 2022
3.72 out of 5 on Goodreads
historical fiction mystery dnf
One Italian Summer
Rebecca Serle
What It's About: When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magical town Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father...
Publication Date: March 1, 2022
3.59 out of 5 on Goodreads
romance audiobooks physical tbr
The Golden Couple
Greer Hendricks
What It's About: The next electrifying novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author duo behind The Wife Between Us.
Wealthy Washington suburbanites Marissa and Matthew Bishop seem to have it all—until Marissa is unfaithful. Beneath their veneer of perfection is a relationship riven by work and a lack of intimacy...
Publication Date: March 3, 2022
3.98 out of 5 on Goodreads
thriller mystery audiobooks
The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James
What It's About: In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect--a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crimes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion...
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
3.78 out of 5 on Goodreads
mystery thriller mystery thriller
The It Girl
Ruth Ware
What It's About: April Coutts-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.
Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends—Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily—during their first term...
Publication Date: July 12, 2022
3.85 out of 5 on Goodreads
mystery thriller mystery thriller
The Family Remains (The Family Upstairs #2)
Lisa Jewell
What It's About: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs.
Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery...
Publication Date: July 26, 2022
3.87 out of 5 on Goodreads
thriller mystery physical tbr
Yonder
Jabari Asim
What It's About: The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors’ tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own...
Publication Date: January 11, 2022
4.19 out of 5 on Goodreads
race magical realism historical
Family of Liars (Prequel to We Were Liars)
E. Lockhart
What It's About: The prequel to We Were Liars takes readers back to the story of another summer, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts.
A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow.
A fiery, addicted heiress...
Publication Date: May 3, 2022
3.77 out of 5 on Goodreads
physical tbr young adult books i own
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
R. F Kuang
What It's About: From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire
Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal...
Publication Date: August 23, 2022
4.17 out of 5 on Goodreads
fantasy physical tbr historical fiction
House of Sky and Breath (Crescent City #2)
Sarah J. Maas
What It's About: Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal―they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.
The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone...
Publication Date: February 15, 2022
4.46 out of 5 on Goodreads
fantasy physical tbr romance
For the Throne (Wilderwood #2)
Hannah Whitten
What It's About: The First Daughter is for the Throne
The Second Daughter is for the Wolf...
Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at a steep cost. Red's beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in the Shadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have been trapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control...
Publication Date: June 7, 2022
3.82 out of 5 on Goodreads
fantasy physical tbr romance
The Alienist at Armageddon (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #3)
Caleb Carr
What It's About: When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it became a literary phenomenon, sold millions of copies and was a worldwide sensation. It became a modern classic, and a cornerstone of the historical suspense genre.After more than twenty years, the Alienist is back! The Alienist at Armageddon begins in the winter of 1915, soon after the start of the First World War...
Publication Date: Not Available
4.24 out of 5 on Goodreads
historical fiction series mystery thriller
Thursday Murder Club Book 3 (Thursday Murder Club #3)
Richard Osman
What It's About: One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads the Thursday Murder Club to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. A new foe they call "Viking", wants Elizabeth to kill former KGB chief Viktor, or he will kill her sweet best friend Joyce...
Publication Date: September 15, 2022
4.37 out of 5 on Goodreads
mystery crime audiobook
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