Most Anticipated Books of 2022
It’s time to list some of my most anticipated books of 2022! This is by no means an exhaustive list. I want to realistically be able to read all of the books on this list, so I’m keeping it short. Let’s dive in!
2021 Most Anticipated Books Check-In
First, let’s see what I had on my 2021 list, and if I managed to read any of those.
Most Anticipated Books of 2021!
Here is my 2021 list:
- Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire – Read
- All the Tides of Fate by Adalyn Grace – Read
- We Are the Fire by Sam Taylor – Not Read
- The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst – Not Read
- The Infinity Courts by Akemi Dawn Bowman – Not Read
- Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart – Read
- A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark – Not Read
- In The Ravenous Dark by A.M Strickland – Read
- A War of Swallowed Stars by Sangu Mandanna – Not Read
- The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson – Read
I managed to read 5/10 of those, which I would say is not bad. I am terrible at reading books I put on lists, and this is probably my best list so far. Yay me!
Most Anticipated Books of 2022
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
I recently crowned The Love Hypothesis my number one book of 2021, so having Love on the Brain on this list is no surprise. Ali Hazelwood is also coming out with a bunch of novellas this year, and I am equally excited for those!
Release Date: August 23rd 2022
Synopsis: Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuro-engineering project—a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia—Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward.
Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school—archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away.
Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. And the possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there’s only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?
Nona The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Do I know what’s going on in this series? No. Will this book confuse the hell out of me? Yes. Who the HELL IS NONA? All of these questions I need answered immediately. I will warm up all of my brain cells, because Tamsyn Muir is the queen of writing and her books are so good. Harrow the Ninth is one of my all-time favourite books. I need this book in my hands ASAP. (Also the cover is coming on Thursday and I am not ready).
Release Date: September 13th 2022
Synopsis: Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona’s not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger’s body, and she’s afraid she might have to give it back.
The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.
And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face…
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Yeah, of course, this book was going to be here. I haven’t finished The Poppy War series yet, but I will soon. R.F. Kuang’s writing is amazing, pair that with a dark academia novel set in Oxford and you have my favourite book of the year (hopefully).
Release Date: August 23rd 2022
Synopsis: 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enrol in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation — also known as Babel.
Babel is the world’s centre of translation and, more importantly, of silver-working: the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation through enchanted silver bars, to magical effect. Silver-working has made the British Empire unparalleled in power, and Babel’s research in foreign languages serves the Empire’s quest to colonize everything it encounters.
Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, is a fairytale for Robin; a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge serves power, and for Robin, a Chinese boy raised in Britain, serving Babel inevitably means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to sabotaging the silver-working that supports imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide: Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence? What is he willing to sacrifice to bring Babel down?
The Kindred by Alecia Dow
The premise of this book sounds amazing. I’m a huge sci-fi fan, and I need more sci-fi books in my life. The Kindred has been on my radar for a while and I hope to get to it in 2022. It’s already out as of writing this post, but I still wanted to put it on this list. Hopefully, more people will read it and hype it up.
Synopsis: Joy Abara knows her place. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life—apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility’s most infamous playboy brings.
Duke Felix Hamdi has a plan. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face.
Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne…and accused of the murders. Someone will stop at nothing until he’s dead, which means they’ll target Joy, too. Meeting in person for the first time as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal…and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scandal—and a love—that may decide the future of a galaxy.
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
I’ve mentioned this book before, so it’s no surprise that it’s on this list. Unfortunately, I’ve already heard some troubling reviews, but I won’t let that stop me. This is pitched as Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell, 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.
Release Date: April 5th 2022
Synopsis: History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.
Will Chen plans to steal them back.
A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son that has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a shadowy Chinese corporation reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.
His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine—or at least, the closest he can get. Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they’ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.
There you have it! Some of my most anticipated books of 2022!
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I’m also really excited to read The Kindred. I just got it from the bookstore! I loved The Sounds of Stars.
Ah, The Bone Maker is a 2021 release also on my TBR which I’ve yet to read. I didn’t read The Poppy War but Babel sounds much more to taste some I’m excited to finally try something by Kuang!