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Readers' Most Anticipated Speculative Fiction of 2022
Science fiction and fantasy are the go-to genres for writers—and readers!—who like to explore the wilder borderlands of contemporary fiction. This is where the admirably weird concepts roam, where new imaginative territories are mapped.
The year 2022 is looking to be a particularly good one for those of us partial to this stuff. The book titles collected below represent the most anticipated books of 2022 in the realm of speculative fiction and associated micro-genres. The list is generated by tallying up the books that Goodreads readers are tagging in their Want to Read lists.
A remarkable number of debut novels have made the cut in 2022—always good news for the health of any genre. Author Sue Lynn Tan delivers a new fantasy mindscape based on Chinese mythology with Daughter of the Moon Goddess. SFF writer Sunyi Dean brings innovative fabulism to the English moors with The Book Eaters. And Sequoia Nagamatsu ponders the far future of humankind with the centuries-spanning, post-postapocalyptic debut How High We Go in the Dark.
Also on tap in 2022: Sea of Tranquility, the cross-genre smashup from superstar author Emily St. John Mandel. Book of Night, the adult fantasy debut of veteran YA writer Holly Black. And the extremely buzzy #BookTok phenomenon The Atlas Six, a queer exploration of eldritch peril and dark academia. Good times!
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 of these books are you most excited to get your hands on? Tell us in the comments!
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Jan 17, 2022 01:55AM
Ok, I'm in trouble: I want them all :)
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Nice selection, I would not know which to read first.
After looking at the list, I've decided to read Tad Williams Memory Sorrow Thorn series.
A lot of these seem too cheesy for my taste..
I was able to read How High We Go in the Dark and thought it was well worth a read.
Personally I'm waiting for part one of the new historical-fiction book by historian Dan Jones called Essex Dogs. A tale that begins with two blokes heading off to serve at what became known as The Battle of Crecy.
Why is Atlas Six on here? That has been out for two years.
I just wish that the list makes would split Science Fiction from Fantasy in these lists. Not disparaging one over the other, but one I'm interested in, the other just clutters the lists up. They are two different genres.
The majority of these are not what I would call "speculative". Where's all the properly weird fiction, the stuff that'll break your brain?
Amy wrote: "Why is Atlas Six on here? That has been out for two years."This is its first traditional publishing; it was self-published before. I understand this version will be better edited at the very least, maybe other changes.
Brent wrote: "I just wish that the list makes would split Science Fiction from Fantasy in these lists. Not disparaging one over the other, but one I'm interested in, the other just clutters the lists up. They ar..."And then the comments could be full of people complaining something's in the wrong category, then everyone fighting about where the line is drawn, demanding "hard" sci-fi get its own list, etc.. There's a reason "speculative fiction" became a thing.
Also, funny thing, you may see the genre you don't like as mere "clutter" but that doesn't mean it IS clutter.
I was so impressed by ATLAS SIX which is a wonderful immersive story of a Hunger Games kind of fight to become part of a dangerous secret society. Can't wait for the second one!
Nothing on this list sounds too appealing to me.
Brent wrote: "I just wish that the list makes would split Science Fiction from Fantasy in these lists. Not disparaging one over the other, but one I'm interested in, the other just clutters the lists up. They ar..."I totally agree! This drives me crazy.
A lot of good ones here but by far I want to read House of Sky and Breath, Book 2 of the Crescent City series. I have waited for it ever since I finished Book 1.
Amy wrote: "Why is Atlas Six on here? That has been out for two years."I was wondering the same thing, got. Y hopes all up for book 2!
Aviva wrote: "The majority of these are not what I would call "speculative". Where's all the properly weird fiction, the stuff that'll break your brain?"Brent wrote: "I just wish that the list makes would split Science Fiction from Fantasy in these lists. Not disparaging one over the other, but one I'm interested in, the other just clutters the lists up. They ar..."
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Nothing on this list is even remotely Scifi - or even fantasy - it's just a load of wishy-washy, touchy-feely pseudo mills & boon set in some fatuous pixie-shit land
there is NO imagination in just setting some relationship twaddle in space or pixie land.
to have your mind fried - tryXX
or real twisted fantasy Christina Henry
read lost boy and you'll never see peter pan in ever the same way!
Brent wrote: "I just wish that the list makes would split Science Fiction from Fantasy in these lists. Not disparaging one over the other, but one I'm interested in, the other just clutters the lists up. They ar..."I agree!!
Scalzi's Kaiju Preservation Society because I've been hearing him talk about it in his blog and that man is a hype man. In the best way. JLA's War of Two Queens because there are things I need to know.
Hannah Whitten's For The Throne because For the Wolf was fantastic.
There are others that look interesting. How High We Go In The Dark sounds intriguing.
Until the Last of Me,
Elektra,
The Atlas Six,
Book of Night,
The Kaiju Preservation Society,
How High We Go in the Dark,
The Paradox Hotel,
The School for Good Mothers,
A Mirror Mended,
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy,
Last Exit,
The Starless Crown,
Tell Me an Ending,
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution - overall, a nice list :) Well done!
oh my! I just added like 10 more books to my TBR!
Not impressed if I'm being honest. Some seem Fantasy which, I'm sure we know, isn't the same as science fiction.Show me something that would give me an existential crisis at the end. Sci-fi at it's finest. Just penny for thoughts though.
Honestly disappointed that House of Sky and Breath is on this list despite not being this genre at all. I'm tired of seeing Sjm's books everywhere despite having no reason for being there
