Hi everyone!! Happy New Year!! ❤️
2022 is here, as well as new book releases! This year, especially this winter, has some of the most anticipated new releases and I just can’t wait to buy and read these books.
Without further due, let’s find them out!
❄️ JANUARY ❄️
THE MAID, NITA PROSE
Release date: January 4
Genre: Mystery
Synopsis: This debut mystery from industry veteran and longtime book editor Nita Prose demonstrates the author’s deep knowledge of the form. It’s a locked-room mystery, Agatha Christie style, with deep characterizations and a heartwarming center. Naive 20-something maid Molly Gray has her orderly world shattered when she comes across a dead body. But Molly is good at what she does—hotel maids know a lot more about our habits than we think.
To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara
Release date: January 11
Genre: Historical fiction, fiction
Synopsis: Hanya Yanagihara, author of the acclaimed 2015 novel A Little Life, is not fooling around with her wildly ambitious new book. To Paradise threads together three separate timelines—an alternate history of America circa 1893, a contemporary Manhattan story in 1993, and a futuristic vision of our ravaged and totalitarian nation in 2093. It’s three fin de siècle novels in one, stitched into one powerful vision—nothing less than the past, present, and future of the American experiment. Sounds awesome, frankly.
How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu
Release date: January 18
Genre: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Set in the year 2030—and several centuries after—Sequoia Nagamatsu’s literary sci-fi epic imagines a grim future in which climate change has unleashed an ancient virus previously frozen in the Arctic permafrost. Things get weird as the virus takes hold, the weather gets heavy, and the years roll by. Think funerary skyscrapers, talking pigs, interstellar colonialism—that sort of thing. Fans of cerebral sci-fi will want to put this one in the queue.
Olga Dies Dreaming, Xochitl Gonzalez
Release date: January 4
Genre: Fiction, contemporary
Synopsis: Siblings Olga and Pedro Acevedo have it going on in their hometown of New York City. She’s a high-society wedding planner; he’s a popular congressman for their Latinx Brooklyn neighborhood. But when Hurricane Maria devastates Puerto Rico, waves of change charge in from the south. For one thing, Mom is coming for an extended visit…
The School For Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan
Release date: January 4
Genre: Dystopia, fiction
Synopsis: Author Jessamine Chan’s debut novel takes parental anxiety to new and terrifying places in this dystopian sci-fi parable. In Chan’s frightening future, the government keeps a close eye on all mothers, and if you dare to slip up—let your child walk home alone, say—you might be sent to the institution known as the School for Good Mothers. One mom endures the worst-case scenario, and only her invincible love for her daughter will see her through.
Notes on an Execution, Danya Kukafka
Release date: January 25
Genre: Thriller
Synopsis: Danya Kukafka (Girl in Snow) takes an inventive approach to the familiar serial killer narrative with Notes on an Execution, which is being heralded as a new kind of literary suspense novel. As killer Ansel Packer awaits execution, his story is told through the eyes of the women in his life. Recommended for fans of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, Notes examines our culture’s ghoulish obsession with crime stories about (invariably male) serial killers.
🌹FEBRUARY🌹
The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley
Release date: February 22
Genre: Thriller, mystery
Synopsis: Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there…
House of Sky and Breath, Sarah J. Maas
Release date: February 15
Genre: Fantasy, romance
Synopsis: 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.
Court (Crave #4), Tracy Wolff
Release date: February 1
Genre: Fantasy, romance
Synopsis: The fourth book in the smash hit Crave series will not disappoint—full of shocking twists, high-stakes romance, and deep fantasy lore, it’ll be a must-have for die-hard series fans and new readers alike.
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead
Release date: February 1
Genre: Mystery, contemporary
Synopsis:
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, and the only dead body she’s dealt with lately is that of her daughter’s pet goldfish.
On the not-so-bright side, someone out there wants her ex-husband, Steven, out of the picture…
🌱MARCH🌱
The Golden Couple, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Release date: March 8
Genre: Mystery, thriller
Synopsis: If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal–she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault–and almost absorb the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s death.
Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple–until Marissa cheats…
Gallant, V. E. Schwab
Release date: March 1
Genre: Fantasy, young adult
Synopsis: 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…
One Italian Summer, Rebecca Serle
Release date: March 1
Genre: Romance
Synopsis: 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…
The War of Two Queens (A Blood and Ash #4), Jennifer L. Armentrout
Release date: March 15
Genre: Romance, fantasy
Synopsis: From the desperation of golden crowns… Casteel Da’Neer knows all too well that very few are as cunning or vicious as the Blood Queen, but no one, not even him, could’ve prepared for the staggering revelations. The magnitude of what the Blood Queen has done is almost unthinkable.
And born of mortal flesh… Nothing will stop Poppy from freeing her King and destroying everything the Blood Crown stands for…
And…That’s it!!
Which book release are you most excited about? Personally, I can’t wait for Hanya Yanagihara new novel, “To Paradise” and “The School for Good Mothers”. Both seem amazing!
Let me know your opinions in the comment section down below!
Stay safe,
This is a great list Mariana! I’m looking forwarding to reading several of these which are on my TBR list as well.
Fab selections! I love a good mystery so I’m definitely adding The Maid to my list, I love the locked-room concept! I don’t usually read sci-fi but I have to admit I’m intrigued about How High We Go in the Dark, so I’ll have to add that one too. Thanks for sharing x