The Most Exciting Book Releases of 2022

First half edition!

Another year, another intimidating, impressive, beautiful TBR of new releases. 2022 appears particularly rich, which is why I was unable to help myself: I went a bit overboard with this first half of 2022 book preview. You’ll want to pay particular attention to Danya Kukafka’s NOTES ON AN EXECUTION, a fearless dive into the mind of a serial killer as he approaches his last days on death row — and more importantly, into the lives of the women who were impacted by his choices; Heather O’Neill’s WHEN WE LOST OUR HEADS, a bizarre, funny, brilliant look at two best friends in 19th century Montreal; and Julie Otsuka’s THE SWIMMERS, a novel about a community of swimmers at a local pool that Publisher’s Weekly calls “brilliant and disarming.”

This list is incomplete; it’s already unwieldy, but I could have kept going. For regular updates, be sure to check in every Monday, in which I catalog the best of each week’s book releases. Happy reading!

JANUARY

FIONA AND JANE, Jean Chen Ho. January 4. Two childhood best friends struggle to maintain their friendship over twenty years. “This packs in plenty of insights about…