Wow, there are a lot of great books coming out this year! I don’t know if it’s just that I’m in a good reading place right now, but I feel like there’s a lot more new releases coming out than normal! I’d love to make a list for all of 2022, but it’s too hard to narrow it down and I’m sure there will be so many more great books in the latter part of the year as well, so here’s a few of my anticipated reads for January, February, and March!
Fiction
Olga Dies Dreaming
Author: Xochitl Gonzalez
Pub. Date: January 4
“A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane Maria.”
Fiona and Jane
Author: Jean Chen Ho
Pub. Date: January 4
“A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades.”
Brown Girls
Author: Daphne Palasi Andreades
Pub. Date: January 4
“A blazingly original debut novel about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York–a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.”
Wahala
Author: Nikki May
Pub. Date: January 11
“An incisive and exhilarating debut novel of female friendship following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda.”
Black Girls Must Be Magic
Author: Jayne Allen
Pub. Date: February 1
“In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life’s challenges and a happy surprise–a baby–with a little help and lots of love from friends old and new.”
Black Cake
Author: Charmaine Wilkerson
Pub. Date: February 1
“In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother’s death and her hidden past–a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.”
Mystery/Thriller
The Maid
Author: Nita Prose
Pub. Date: January 4
“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.”
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
Author: Elle Cosimano
Pub. Date: February 1
“Finlay Donovan is—once again—struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. On the bright side, she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to rely on. With her next book’s deadline looming and an ex-husband to keep alive, Finlay is quickly coming to the end of her rope. She can only hope there isn’t a noose at the end of it…”
Girl In Ice
Author: Erica Ferencik
Pub. Date: March 1
“From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller set in the unforgiving landscape of the Arctic Circle, as a brilliant linguist struggling to understand the apparent suicide of her twin brother ventures hundreds of miles north to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive.”
Historical Fiction
To Paradise
Author: Hanya Yangihara
Pub. Date: January 11
“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.”
An Impossible Impostor
Author: Deanna Raybourn
Pub. Date: February 15
“While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.”
The Diamond Eye
Author: Kate Quinn
Pub. Date: March 29
“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.”
Romance
Yinka, Where Is Your Husband?
Author: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Pub. Date: January 18
“Meet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is ‘Yinka, where is your huzband?'”
Running Wild
Author: K.A. Tucker
Pub. Date: January 25
“From the internationally bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life, struggling between the safe route and the one that will only lead to more heartbreak.”
Science Fiction
The School for Good Mothers
Author: Jessamine Chan
Pub. Date: January 4
“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.”
Non-Fiction
An Abolitionist’s Handbook
Author: Patrisse Cullors
Pub. Date: January 25
“In An Abolitionist’s Handbook, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors.”
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