While we don’t have any actual science to back this up, experience suggests that the most voracious readers on Earth are YA readers. It’s actually quite startling, the number of books that pass through the young adult genre each year. How can any group of people read this much? It must be those fresh, young neural synapses. We older readers can only watch with envy. And try to keep up.
 
The year 2022 is shaping up to be more of the same, and in fact this year is fairly jammed with a ridiculously broad array of YA titles. Below we have collected 68 (!) of the new year’s most anticipated titles, as determined by readers’ Want to Read lists. Each of these books is slated for release in 2022, so start stretching out those synapses now.
 
Among the incoming goodies: Jennifer Lynn Barnes wraps up her popular series The Inheritance Games with the aptly titled concluding entry, The Final Gambit. Rom-com specialist Casey McQuiston (Red, White & Royal Blue) makes her YA debut with I Kissed Shara Wheeler. And Namina Forna is back with The Merciless Ones, book two of her West African–inspired epic fantasy series.
 
On the SFF tip, look for new books by genre veterans Charlie Jane Anders (Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak), V.E. Schwab (Gallant), and T.J. Klune (Heat Wave). Other marquee authors dropping in this year include Emma Lord, Alice Oseman, Ruta Sepetys, and Sabaa Tahir.
 
Whew. That’s a lot of reading. Take it easy on us olds, OK?

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!