The Most Anticipated Books to Read in 2022

This will be a year of spectacular books. The best books of 2022—that is, the most anticipated new book releases of the year ahead—are stunners. There are nonfiction books and novels about cults, female friendships, family ties, and future civilizations. Books that will make you laugh until the mascara drips down your face. Chilling thrillers and thrilling memoirs. Romantic books that will have you downloading dating apps again. There’’s no reason to ask, “What book should I read?” for a full year.

Get your card out—whether it’s a Visa or a good old-fashioned library card—and get ready to preorder or get on wait lists for these new 2022 books that are expected to be Amazon best sellers. Do what you can to get your hands on these glossy hardbacks, their candy-bright covers just waiting to transform a built-in bookshelf or be tucked into a tote bag. Go ahead, spam your bookclub group text with arguments for why your novels to read this year should include literary fiction about an octopus (Remarkably Bright Creatures, May) or a novel about obsessive female friendship set in early 2000s Berlin (Other People’s Clothes, February) or the book about a mixed-race vampire who can’t stop watching mukbang videos (Woman, Eating, April.) 

Get excited: The 2022 book releases are coming. These are Glamour’s most anticipated books to read in the year ahead.