2022 is already shaping up to be a good year for new releases. In this list, I have my Winter 2022 anticipated books (which includes the months of January and February).
JANUARY
1. The Girl Who Knew Too Much by Tiffany Brookes ~ January 1, 2022
The Girl Who Knew Too Much is about twenty teenagers who are dropped on a deserted island to compete for a cash prize but there is also a vast treasure hidden on the island that everyone else is also looking for and they will stop at nothing to find it. It's a mystery thriller and it sounds so good that I've already preordered it and am excited to read it.
2. Love at First Spite by Anna E Collins ~ January 4, 2022
I recently got into contemporary adult romance and this one is supposed to be about an interior designer who teams up with an architect at her firm to get revenge on her ex by building a spite house next door to him. It's also supposed to be sort of grumpy x sunshine which is one of my favorite tropes.
3. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins ~ January 4, 2022
The Royals duology by Rachel Hawkins is one of my favorite YA Contemporary series so I am excited to try one of Rachel Hawkins' adult thrillers. This is about a group of mostly entitled 20 somethings who are all on trips on a remote island. It begins as a fun journey but eventually leads to murder.
4. Echoes and Empires by Morgan Rhodes ~ January 4, 2022
This is by the same author who wrote the Falling Kingdoms series which I loved and is about a a world where magic is forbidden and a girl who has to team up with a criminal in order to cure herself of forbidden magic.
5. Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan~ January 11, 2022
This is a retelling of the legend of Chang'e who is the Chinese moon goddess and honestly it was the cover that sold me on this book because it is so pretty.
6. The Bone Spindle by Leslie Vedder ~ January 11, 2022
This is pitched as a genderbent Sleeping Beauty meets Indiana Jones and is also compared to Sorcery of Thorns which is a favorite of mine and the book just seems like so much fun.
7. How to Love Your Neighbor by Sophie Sullivan ~ January 18, 2022
This is another contemporary romance book and it's an enemies to lovers book about a woman who is trying to fix up a beach house. However, when a real estate developer moves in next door who wants to buy the house that she wants to fix up, the two end up in an all-out feud.
8. Lucky Leap Day by Ann Marie Walker ~ January 18, 2022
The main reason this book originally intrigued me is that it reminded me of the rom-com movie Leap Year. This book is about a woman who wakes up to find out she proposed to a man on Leap Day in Ireland and now has a husband. I am so excited for this one!
9. The Red Palace by June Hur ~ January 25, 2022
This is a historical fantasy thriller book set in Korea, about a girl who has a position as a palace nurse but when four women are murdered one night, her teacher is the prime suspect and she is determined to clear him and launch her own secret investigation.
FEBUARY
1. Castles in Their Bones by Laura Sebastian ~ February 1, 2022
This is by the same author who wrote the Ash Princess series and though I've never read that series, this book reminds me of the Three Dark Crowns series and the cover is beautiful. It's abut three sisters who were trained from birth to takeover kingdoms.
2. This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi ~ February 1, 2022
The Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi is one of my favorite series and this is supposed to be the first book in a series inspired by Persian mythology.
3. These Deadly Games by Diana Urban ~ February 1, 2022
I read All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban and though I didn't love it, this book is another young adult thriller that seems to have even bigger stakes and it has a game trope which I am always down for.
4. Horror Hotel by Victoria Fulton ~ February 1, 2022
This book is a YA horror book about teen ghost hunters who spend the night in a haunted LA hotel who expect it to be spooky and attract subscribers to their video but harmless overall. However, they stumble upon something unexpected in the former room of a serial killer and realize that they're in way over their heads. It sounds really fast paced and I love a good YA horror story.
5. Bright Ruined Things by Samantha Cohoe ~ February 15, 2022
This is a retelling of The Tempest by Shakespeare and I don't think I've ever read a retelling of this story. It's definitely looks like it's set in the 1920s from the cover and I'm really excited to read it.
5. Only a Monster by Vanessa Len ~ February 22, 2022
This is about a girl who is half monster and wants to be a hero, with rival families and a paranormal world hidden within London. It's compared to This Savage Song which I loved and it gives me The Infernal Devices vibes as well which I also loved.
6. Extasia by Claire Legrand ~ February 22, 2022
Claire Legrand has written some of my favorite books and I am excited to read another one from her. This is a YA horror novel about a girl who has joined a coven in order to root out a vicious evil that's stalking her village.
7. League of Liars by Astrid Scholte ~ February 22, 2022
This is a fantasy thriller that is about four teens who were charged with murder and the illegal use of magic who have to work together to devise the ultimate jailbreak. This is compared to Six of Crows and that has sold me.
8. Daughters of a Dead Empire by Carolyn Tara O'Neil ~ February 22, 2022
This is pitched as Anastasia and Romanov related and anytime a book is pitched to be that, I immediately have to read it. It is an alternate history set during the Russian Revolution about Anna, a bourgeois girl who escaped the massacre of her entire family.
