New year, new books! Get your TBR pile ahead of the curve with books we think everyone will be talking about in 2022.
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The Maid: A Novel by Nita Prose
A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut.
“An eccentric and unforgettable sleuth who captivated me and kept me furiously turning the pages.”—Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium
“The Maid is a masterful, charming mystery that will touch your heart in ways you could never expect. The endearing, unforgettable Molly reminds us to challenge our assumptions about one another, and shows us how meaningful it is to feel truly seen in the world.”—Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
Available Now in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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To Paradise: A Novel by Hanya Yanagihara
From the author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
“To Paradise is a transcendent, visionary novel of stunning scope and depth. A novel so layered, so rich, so relevant, so full of the joys and terrors—the pure mystery—of human life, is not only rare, it’s revolutionary.” – Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
“Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise is as good as War and Peace.”– Edmund White
Available January 11, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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Joan Is Okay: A Novel by Weike Wang
A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry.
“Incisive yet tender, written with elegant style and delicious verve. Joan isn’t just okay, she’s wonderful. I could listen to her smart, witty voice forever.”—Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-Winning author of The Friend
“Joan Is Okay charts the internal story of the mythic immigrant success narrative in a tragicomedy about the costs of generational betterment.”—Mona Simpson, author of My Hollywood and Casebook
Available January 18, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
A riveting page-turner about a Black classical musician’s desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.
“Utterly original and downright gripping.” —Zakiya Dalila Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Black Girl
“Finally, classical music gets the complex treatment it deserves. A wide-eyed look at the art form and its discontents.”
—Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Little Failure and Lake Success
Available February 1, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel by Jennifer E. Smith
An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years)
“The characters are drawn with a generosity that allows them to be wrong but also right, loving but also prone to missteps, and ultimately deserving of a resolution that’s full of hope.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Evvie Drake Starts Over
“Filled with music, passion, and love of all kinds . . . a fast-paced, emotional novel and an unforgettable exploration of family and the choices we make that shape our lives.”—Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost
Available March 1, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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The Love of My Life: A Novel by Rosie Walsh
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an up-all-night page-turner with a dark secret at its core.
I have held you at night for ten years and I didn’t even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house.
“Walsh’s hugely compelling The Love of My Life instantly pulls you deep into the interior of a marriage. Part thriller, part mystery, part heart-wrenching love story, this is a treasure for book clubs everywhere.”—Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push
“Rosie Walsh’s The Love of My Life is my favorite kind of thriller—gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me
Available March 1, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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What Happened to the Bennetts: A Novel by Lisa Scottoline
Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law . . . and justice.
“Twisty, propulsive and exhilarating. From this novel’s first pages, Scottoline caroms us into a heart-throttling journey as the Bennett family must navigate both urgent dangers and their own complicated pasts—all while the clock ticks. What Happened to the Bennetts left me dazzled and breathless.”—Megan Abbott, author of The Turnout
Available March 29, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, CD, and Audio Editions
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Memphis: A Novel by Tara M. Stringfellow
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.
“Written with the grace of a poet, Memphis is as hopeful as it is heartbreaking. I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come. . . . A stellar debut.”—Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone
Available April 5, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we’ve been so blind to its value.
Available April 5, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, CD, and Audio Editions
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Sea of Tranquility: A Novel by Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
Available April 5, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, CD, and Audio Editions
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One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos.
“For thirty years Phillips has been a must-read writer, and One-Shot Harry is probably his best ever—tense and suspenseful, of course, but also deep, resonant and intelligent. It’s a story that needed to be told, and therefore a book that needs to be read.”—Lee Child
Available April 5, 2022 in Hardcover and eBook Editions
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Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A searing and compassionate new novel about a young Black nurse’s shocking discovery and burning quest for justice in post-segregation Alabama, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench.
“Dolen Perkins-Valdez is a brilliant writer in a class all by herself. I love her voice and how she makes the past feel immediate and relevant, because it is.”—Terry McMillan, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze . . . an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
Available April 12, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart
The empowering story of a group of spirited stewardesses who fought for their rights in the cabin and revolutionized the workplace for all American women.
“I’ve spent so much of my life on the road that stewardesses have always been my friends in the sky. Now I am glad to see The Great Stewardess Rebellion, a book that finally honors these brave and skilled workers! It’s the true story of women who stood up to huge corporations and won, creating momentous change for all working women.”–Gloria Steinem, New York Times bestselling author of My Life on the Road
Available April 12, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, and Audio Editions
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The Good Left Undone: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani
From Adriana Trigiani, “a master of visual and palpable detail” (The Washington Post), comes a lush, immersive novel about three generations of Tuscan artisans with one remarkable secret. Epic in scope and resplendent with the glorious themes of identity and belonging, The Good Left Undone unfolds in breathtaking turns.
“Adriana Trigiani never fails to sweep you away with her richly transportive prose. The Good Left Undone takes you through time and across the globe from the Italian coast to the Scottish Highlands as long-held secrets of the Cabrelli family come to light. An emotional and beautiful tale of family, love, and loss.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid
Available April 26, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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The Other Mother: A Novel by Rachel M. Harper
A page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the name of family.
“The Other Mother breaks every rule of traditional world-building and creates the kind of full-hearted literary saga we are lucky to get once every generation. Dazzling.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy: An American Memoir
Available May 3, 2022 in Hardcover and eBook Editions
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All the Lights Above Us by M. B. Henry
Across Europe, on what history will call D-Day, five unforgettable women from all walks of life strive to survive the most terrifying night of their lives.
“Henry’s story of five uniquely different and courageous women grappling with their own turmoils while all of Europe crumbles around them is not to be missed. Written in confident and evocative prose, Henry has crafted a remarkable novel that belongs in the canons of thought provoking World War II literature.”—Anita Abriel, international bestselling author of The Light After the War
Available May 10, 2022 in Hardcover and eBook Editions
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This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different kind of love story.
On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday.
Available May 17, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, CD, and Audio Editions
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
From the New York Times bestselling author of River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy.
For millennia the location of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in mystery. In the 19th century, there was a frenzy of interest in ancient Egypt. At the same time, European powers sent off waves of explorations intended to map the unknown corners of the globe—and extend their colonial empires.
Available May 17, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, CD, and Audio Editions
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His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life . . . The Struggle For Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing—telling the singular story of how one man’s tragic experience brought about a global movement for change.
Available May 24, 2022 in Hardcover and eBook Editions
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Woman of Light: A Novel by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina.
“This indelible novel shines its big light on the Lopez family so brightly that I could draw a map of their breath. An absolutely glorious novel.”—Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here
“This is a rare and wondrous kind of novel that assembles the universe from mere words, whose unforgettable characters haunt like long shadows in the southwestern light.”—Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Lake Success
Available June 7, 2022 in Hardcover, eBook, Large Print, and Audio Editions
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Into the Mist: A Novel by P. C. Cast
From #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast comes a pulse-pounding dystopian novel for our times.
The Power meets The Stand in this gripping take on female power and the inevitable, destructive path of violent patriarchies.
As men fall to the mist, the age of womankind begins to rise.
The world as we know it ends when an attack on the U.S. unleashes bombs that deliver fire and biological destruction. Along with sonic detonations and devastating earthquakes, the bombs have also brought the green mist. If breathed in, it is deadly to all men—but alters the body chemistry of many women, imbuing them with superhuman abilities.
Available July 12, 2022 in Hardcover and eBook Editions
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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook by Ellen Marie Wiseman
In her most powerful novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully viscerally evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School, the infamous Staten Island, New York, mental institution that shocked a nation when exposed in the 1970s as a dumping ground for unwanted children. Girl, Interrupted meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in this gripping narrative of social injustice, survival, and a young woman determined to find her sister.
Available August 30, 2022 in Paperback and eBook Editions
