Looking Forward

Now that I've signed up for the New Release Challenge this year, I've started watching publication schedules a little more closely than I have in recent years. And I've put together a list of soon-to-be-published books that seem interesting. I definitely can't hope to read all of them, but I'm hoping it'll help keep me focused on what's coming up in 2022. (And I do love a list!) I'll try to remember to add to it as I discover new titles throughout the year. (Not every book published during the year will make the list — just books that sound like something I'd like to read.)

JANUARY Releases

• Chivalry. Neil Gaiman; illustrated by Colleen Doran (Dark Horse Books; 11 Jan)
• The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Eva Jurczyk (Poisoned Pen Press; 25 Jan)
• Devil House. John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 25 Jan)
• The Maid. Nita Prose (Random House / Ballantine; 4 Jan) 
• The Twyford Code. Janice Hallett (Viper; 13 Jan) 

FEBRUARY Releases

• Beneath the Stairs. Jennifer Fawcett (Atria Books; 22 Feb) 
• City of the Dead (Alex Delaware #37). Jonathan Kellerman (Random House / Ballantine; 8 Feb)
• The Christie Affair. Nina de Gramont (St Martin’s; 1 Feb)
• Dead Silence. S.A. Barnes (Tor Nightfire; 8 Feb) 
• The Family Chao. Lan Samantha Chang (W.W. Norton; 1 Feb)
• The Fashion Orphans. Randy Susan Meyers and M.J. Rose (Blue Box Press; 1 Feb)
• A Game of Fear (Inspector Rutledge #24). Charles Todd (William Morrow; 1 Feb)
• Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age. Dennis Duncan (W.W. Norton; 15 Feb)

MARCH Releases

• The Book of Cold Cases. Simone St. James (Berkley Publishing Group; 15 Mar) 
• The Cartographers. Peng Shepherd (William Morrow / Custom House; 15 Mar)
• French Braid. Anne Tyler (Knopf; 22 Mar) 
• I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir. Harvey Fierstein (Knopf; 1 Mar) 
• Portrait of an Unknown Lady. María Gainza; trans: Thomas Bunstead (Catapult, 22 Mar)
• Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. Azar Nafisi (Dey Street Books; 8 Mar)
• Secret Identity. Alex Segura (Flatiron Books; 15 Mar) 

APRIL Releases

• The Children on the Hill. Jennifer McMahon (Gallery / Scout Press; 26 Apr)
• The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare. Kimberly Brock (Harper Muse; 12 Apr)
• Sea of Tranquility. Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf; 5 Apr)

MAY Releases

• Blame It on the Brontës. Annie Sereno (Grand Central / Forever; 3 May) 
• The Cherry Robbers. Sarai Walker (Harper / Mariner Books; 17 May) 
• The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened. Bill McKibben (Henry Holt & Co.; 31 May) 
• The Hacienda. Isabel Cañas (Berkley; 3 May) 
• Hidden Pictures. Jason Rekulak (Flatiron Books; 3 May) 
• Hide. Kiersten White (Del Rey Books, 24 May) 
• The House of Marvellous Books. Fiona Vigo Marshall (Fairlight Books; 19 May) 
• The Library. Bella Osborne (Aria; 1 May) 
• The Marlow Murder Club. Robert Thorogood (Poisoned Pen Press; 3 May) 
• Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance. Alison Espach (Henry Holt & Co.; 17 May) 
• River of the Gods: Sir Richard Burton, Sidi Mubarak Bombay, John Hanning Speke, and the Epic Search for the Source of the Nile. Candice Millard (Doubleday; 17 May) 
• The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960. John Taylor Williams (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 17 May) 
• Take Your Breath Away. Linwood Barclay (William Morrow; 17 May)

JUNE Releases

• Death By Beach Read (Lighthouse Library Mystery #9). Eva Gates (Crooked Lane Books; 7 Jun) 
• A Face to Die For (Eve Duncan #28). Iris Johansen (Grand Central; 14 Jun) 
• The Goldenacre. Philip Miller (Soho Press; 28 Jun)
• Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch #13). Paul Doiron (St. Martin's / Minotaur; 28 Jun)
• The House Across the Lake. Riley Sager (Dutton; 21 Jun) 
• In Search of the Magic Theater. Karla Huebner (Regal House; 1 Jun) 
• Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting. Clare Pooley (Penguin Viking; 7 Jun) 
• The Kingdom of Sand. Andrew Holleran (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 7 Jun) 
• Lapvona. Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin; 21 Jun) 
• Local Gone Missing. Fiona Barton (Berkley; 14 Jun) 
• The Omega Factor. Steve Berry (Grand Central; 7 Jun) 
• The Woman in the Library. Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press; 7 Jun) 

JULY Releases

• Acts of Violet. Margarita Montimore (Flatiron Books; 5 Jul) 
• Chrysalis (Jeremy Logan #6). Lincoln Child (Doubleday; 12 Jul) 
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Random House - DelRey (19 Jul)
• Fellowship Point. Alice Elliott Dark (Scribner /Marysue Rucci Books; 5 Jul) 
• The It Girl. Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press; 12 Jul) 
• J.R. Silver Writes Her World. Melissa Dassori; illus. by Chelen Ecija (Christy Ottaviano Books; 19 Jul) 
• The Poet's House. Jean Thompson (Algonquin Books; 12 Jul)
• The Retreat (Detective Elin Warner #2). Sarah Pearse (Pamela Dorman Books; 19 Jul) 
• Upgrade. Blake Crouch (Ballantine Books; 12 Jul) 
• What Moves the Dead. T. Kingfisher (Tor Nightfire; 12 Jul) 
• When We Were Bright and Beautiful. Jillian Medoff (Harper; 5 Jul)

AUGUST Releases

• Daisy Darker. Alice Feeney (Flatiron Books; 30 Aug) 
• The Deepest Black. Randall Silvis (Poisoned Pen Press; 2 Aug) 
• Elizabeth Finch. Julian Barnes (Knopf; 16 Aug) 
• Small Angels. Lauren Owen (Random House; 2 Aug) 
• Stay Awake. Megan Goldin (St. Martin's; 9 Aug) 

SEPTEMBER Releases

• Back to the Garden. Laurie R. King (Random House - Bantam; 6 Sep) 
• The Bad Angel Brothers. Paul Theroux (Mariner Books; 6 Sep) 
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death. Amanda Flower (Berkley; 20 Sep) 
• The Deception. Kim Taylor Blakemore (Lake Union Publishing; 27 Sep) 
• Fairy Tale. Stephen King (Scribner, 6 Sep) 
• Lucy by the Sea. Elizabeth Strout (Random House; 20 Sep) 
• Other Birds. Sarah Addison Allen (St. Martin's ; 13 Sep) 
  
• The Other Side of Night. Adam Hamdy (Atria Books; 27 Sep) 
• We Spread. Iain Reid (Gallery/Scout Press; 27 Sep) 
  

OCTOBER Releases

• Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan. Darryl Pinckney (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 25 Oct)
• The Dark Between the Trees. Fiona Barnett (Solaris; 11 Oct) 
• The Dark Room. Lisa Gray (Thomas & Mercer; 25 Oct) 
• Ghostwritten: Four Novellas. Ronald Malfi (Titan Books; 4 Oct) 
• Marmee. Sarah Miller (William Morrow; 25 Oct) 
• Our Missing Hearts. Celeste Ng (Penguin; 4 Oct) 
• Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World. Irene Vallejo; trans. by Charlotte Whittle (Knopf; 11 Oct)
• Shadow Sister. Lindsay Marcott (Thomas & Mercer; 18 Oct) 

NOVEMBER Releases

• Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur #3). Elly Griffiths (Mariner Books; 15 Nov) 
• The Cloisters. Katy Hays (Atria Books; 1 Nov)
• Dead Men Don’t Decorate (Old Town Antiques Mystery #1). Cordy Abbott (Crooked Lane Books; 8 Nov) 
• Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century. Roseanne Montillo (Atria Books; 1 Nov)
• The Magic Kingdom. Russell Banks (Knopf; 8 Nov) 
• Murder at Black Oaks. Phillip Margolin (Minotaur; 8 Nov) 
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic. Kevin Wilson (Ecco; 8 Nov) 
• Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Lisa Unger (Park Row; 8 Nov) 
• The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey. Serena Burdick (Park Row; 1 Nov) 

DECEMBER Releases

• Devil's Delight (Agatha Raisin #33). M.C. Beaton, R.W. Green (Minotaur Books, 13 Dec) 
• The Ingenue. Rachel Kapelke-Dale (St. Martin's Press; 6 Dec) 
• Night Shift (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery #13). Robin Cook (Putnam's Sons; 6 Dec) 
• Showstopper (Peter Diamond #21). Peter Lovesey (Soho Crime; 6 Dec) 
• Stella Maris (Passenger #2). Cormac McCarthy (Knopf; 6 Dec) 
• The Widowmaker. Hannah Morrissey (Minotaur Books; 6 Dec) 
• Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England. Nino Strachey (Atria Books; 6 Dec) 

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