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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