5 Most-Anticipated and Best Books of 2022

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 basedon what I’ve read, early buzz, and reviews others have written. It’s limited tobooks that are being newly published in 2022.

I’ll be updating this list as 2022 goes along, and I’d expect the titleslisted here to shift pretty dramatically as books are released and additionaltitles are announced, so stay tuned!

Have a suggestion for this list of the Most-Anticipated and Best Booksof 2022? Drop a comment below!

The Diamond Eye Kate Quinn

What It’sAbout: The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with anunforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’sdeadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenkoorganizes her life around her library job and her young son–but Hitler’sinvasion of Russia sends her on a different path…

Publication Date: March 29, 2022   4.74 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 2022 releases giveaways

The Maid Nita Prose

What It’sAbout: Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skillsand misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world forher, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by.Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has beennavigating life’s complexities all by herself…

Publication Date: January 4, 2022   4.21 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 arc

Book Lovers Emily Henry

What It’sAbout: One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type ofheroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially notthe 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 herbeloved little sister Libby…

Publication Date: May 3, 2022   4.58 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 contemporary

The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley

What It’sAbout: Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just lefther job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t soundthrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’tsay no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she showsup – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’snot there…

Publication Date: February 22, 2022   3.98 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 mystery thriller

Sea of Tranquility Emily St. John Mandel

What It’sAbout: The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The GlassHotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the readerfrom Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred yearslater, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St…

Publication Date: April 19, 2022   4.58 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 science fiction sci fi

Violeta Isabel Allende

What It’sAbout: This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of ALong Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whoselife spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of thetwentieth century.Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in afamily of five boisterous sons…

Publication Date: January 25, 2022   4.23 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases giveaways 2022

Gallant V. E. Schwab

What It’sAbout: Everything casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with everyshadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meetsits source.#1 New York Times–bestselling author Victoria Schwab weaves a dark and originaltale about the place where the world meets its shadow, and the young womanbeckoned by both sides…

Publication Date: March 1, 2022   4.28 out of 5 on Goodreads fantasy 2022 young adult

Lessons in Chemistry Bonnie Garmus

What It’sAbout: A delight for readers of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and The MarvelousMrs. Maisel, this blockbuster debut set in 1960s California features thesingular voice of Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career takes a detour whenshe becomes the star of a beloved TV cooking show.Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman…

Publication Date: April 5, 2022   4.60 out of 5 on Goodreads historical fiction 2022 releases 2022

Reminders of Him Colleen Hoover

What It’sAbout: A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in thisheartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling authorColleen Hoover.After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns tothe town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-olddaughter…

Publication Date: January 18, 2022   4.76 out of 5 on Goodreads romance 2022 colleen hoover

The Christie Affair Nina de Gramont

What It’sAbout: A stunning new novel that reimagines the unexplained 11-daydisappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world.“A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It’s aparticular feeling, the urge to murder. First comes rage, larger than anyyou’ve ever imagined. It takes over your body so completely, it’s like a divineforce, grabbing hold of your will, your limbs, your psyche…

Publication Date: February 1, 2022   3.97 out of 5 on Goodreads mystery 2022 releases giveaways

One Italian Summer Rebecca Serle

What It’sAbout: When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’smom, 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 plannedmother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: two weeks in Positano, the magicaltown Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father…

Publication Date: March 1, 2022   4.17 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 giveaways

The Golden Couple Greer Hendricks

What It’sAbout: If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you onas a client. Her successes are phenomenal–she helps people overcome everythingfrom domineering parents to assault–and almost absorb the emptiness shesometimes feels since her husband’s death.Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple–until Marissa cheats…

Publication Date: March 8, 2022   4.22 out of 5 on Goodreads thriller 2022 releases 2022

The Book of Cold Cases Simone St. James

What It’sAbout: A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for whileinterviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling newnovel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. 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 leftbehind…

Publication Date: March 15, 2022   4.13 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 mystery thriller

Reckless Girls Rachel Hawkins

What It’sAbout: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs comes adeliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with adark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to aremote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of alifetime…

Publication Date: January 4, 2022   3.94 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 thriller

Yonder Jabari Asim

Publication Date: January 11, 2022    out of 5 on Goodreads

Family of Liars (Prequel to We Were Liars) E. Lockhart

What It’sAbout: The thrilling prequel to the TikTok phenomenon and #1 New York Timesbestseller 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…

Publication Date: May 3, 2022   3.76 out of 5 on Goodreads young adult mystery 2022

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution R. F Kuang

What It’sAbout: Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act ofbetrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by themysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, AncientGreek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in OxfordUniversity’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation — also known asBabel…

Publication Date: August 23, 2022   4.04 out of 5 on Goodreads

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   4.66 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 to be released

For the Throne (Wilderwood #2) Hannah F. Whitten

What It’sAbout: The First Daughter is for the ThroneThe Second Daughter is for the Wolf…Red and the Wolf have finally contained the threat of the Old Kings but at asteep cost. Red’s beloved sister Neve, the First Daughter is lost in theShadowlands, an inverted kingdom where the vicious gods of legend have beentrapped for centuries and the Old Kings have slowly been gaining control…

Publication Date: June 7, 2022   4.50 out of 5 on Goodreads 2022 releases 2022 romance

The Alienist at Armageddon (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #3) Caleb Carr

What It’sAbout: When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it became a literaryphenomenon, sold millions of copies and was a worldwide sensation. It became amodern classic, and a cornerstone of the historical suspense genre.After morethan twenty years, the Alienist is back! The Alienist at Armageddon begins inthe winter of 1915, soon after the start of the First World War…

Publication Date: September 1, 2022   4.08 out of 5 on Goodreads historical fiction series to buy

Thursday Murder Club Book 3 (Thursday Murder Club #3) Richard Osman

Publication Date: September 15, 2022   3.85 out of 5 on Goodreads