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Hot and Fresh: 60 Highly Anticipated Debut Novels
With each new year comes the chance to discover a new favorite author. It’s fun to get in on the ground floor with a new literary talent, and it can earn you considerable cool points down the line. Plus, it’s just good karma to support your humbly endeavoring debut novelist.
Below we’ve collected 60 debut novels dropping in 2022, most of which are slated for the first few months of the year, including contemporary fiction, historical fiction, mystery/thrillers, and sci-fi/fantasy.
There are plenty of stories to choose from. Perhaps you’d like to read about Chinese immigrants in 1880s American West? Try Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang. How about Southern Gothic voodoo in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Check out None but the Righteous by Chantal James.
Also on tap: the adult fiction debut of celebrated YA author Nina LaCour and an oddly relevant story concerning enthusiastic readers who devour new books—literally.
Scroll over the book covers to learn more about each title, and add the ones that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
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Which debut novels are you most excited to read this year? Let us know in the comments below!
Check out more recent articles, including:
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Check out more recent articles, including:
Readers' Most Anticipated Mysteries of 2022
The Most Anticipated Books of 2022
Snowed In! Mysteries and Thrillers for the Wicked Cold
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Jan 05, 2022 02:44AM
Plenty of new authors, good selection of books.
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Very nice variety of interesting books! The year is off to a good start!
I got Black Cake from BOTM! So excited to read it :)
Wow, so many good ones! And I love all the colorful covers!
Elentarri wrote: "Good grief! Another year of hideous covers."Tamara wrote: "The cover designs just so eyecatching! 😍"
Yeah... I'm with Elentarri on this one. We can be done with the trend of title text that is partially tucked behind the abstract art.
Gosh these covers are a delight for the eyes! So many promising new titles
Harper Collins is publishing my debut adult historical fiction, Daughters of the Occupation, in April in Canada and May in the US. It's set in Riga, Latvia during WWII and Chicago/Riga in the 1970's. Here's a review on the cover:
"Daughters of the Occupation is a neatly crafted saga of personal and national trauma, a story of tentative hope in a world of menace, as three generations of women strive to understand who they are, where they came from and how they can feel free."
--Lucy Adlington, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz.
I have been lucky enough to read both Black Cake and Lessons in Chemistry. I think that even established authors will struggle to knock them from the top two spots in my favourite reads of the year list (and it is only January!) I highly recommend them both.
The Last Heir, Summer SullivanThis isn't on the list, but should be! Add "The Last Heir", Summer's debut book, to your reading list! Book 2 is coming in February!
just finished reading "The Maid." found it well written and interesting. has a main character on the spectrum and addresses the "invisible" aspect of these people
Great list. Don’t forget about Jules Ohman’s debut Body Grammar in June!!
I got to read Black Cake through NetGalley. Be sure to add this one to your want to read list.
Tobacco Wives and The Violin Conspiracy are on my to-read list!
