This is the breakdown of all the new books that I read in 2022 by genre. This list does not include anything that I reread during 2022.
Mystery/Thriller:
1. Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
2. Homicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
3. The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
4. The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
5. So Happy for You by Celia Laskey
6. You're Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
7. The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
Contemporary Fiction:
1. Who I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall (YA)
2. What the Fireflies Knew by Kai Harris
3. True Biz by Sara Novic
4. Island Time by Georgia Clark
5. The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott (YA)
6. I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston (YA)
7. When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley
8. The Shore by Katie Runde
9. Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (YA)
10. The Beach Trap by Ali Brady
11. The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh
12. Like a House on Fire by Lauren McBrayer
13. Florida Woman by Deb Rogers
14. The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth (YA)
15. Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi (tr. by David Body and Lucy North)
16. I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers (YA)
17. The Art of Insanity by Christine Webb (YA)
18. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum (YA)
19. We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds (YA)
20. Begin Again by Emma Lord (YA)
Romance:
1. Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
2. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
3. Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
4. Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
5. Dating Dr. Dil by Nisha Sharma
6. The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
7. She Gets the Girl by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick (YA)
8. Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar (YA)
9. A Brush with Love by Mazey Eddings
10. Birds of California by Katie Cotugno
11. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
12. Melt with You by Jennifer Dugan (YA)
13. Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
14. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
15. The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett
16. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
17. Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler (YA)
18. Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales (YA)
19. Season of Love by Helena Greer
20. Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
21. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
22. Lease on Love by Falon Ballard
23. In the Event of Love by Courtney Kae
24. The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
25. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
26. Flip the Script by Lyla Lee (YA)
27. The Godparent Trap by Rachel Van Dyken
28. When in Rome by Sarah Adams
29. Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander
30. Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
31. Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
32. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
33. Sizzle Reel by Carlyn Greenwald
34. Kiss Her Once for Me by Alison Cochrun
35. How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow (YA)
36. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
37. For Her Consideration by Amy Spalding
38. 6 Times We Almost Kissed by Tess Sharpe (YA)
39. Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick (YA)
Historical Fiction:
1. Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
2. Babel by R.F. Kuang
Literary Fiction:
1. No Light to Land On by Yara Zgheib
2. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
3. Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
4. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
5. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
6. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
7. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
9. Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (tr. by Sam Bett and David Boyd)
10. Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin (tr. by Anton Hur)
11. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
12. Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour
13. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
14. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
15. Idol, Burning by Rin Usami (tr. by Asa Yoneda)
16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
17. We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart
18. Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
19. Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
20. An Island by Karen Jennings
21. Second Place by Rachel Cusk
22. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
23. The Trees by Percival Everett
24. Trust by Hernan Diaz
25. My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
26. American Fever by Dur E Aziz Amna
27. All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
28. Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
29. Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress
30. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
31. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
32. We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets (tr. by Emma Rault)
33. Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-jin (tr. by Jamie Chang)
34. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
35. Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
36. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
37. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
38. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
39. When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
40. The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones
41. The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
42. Foster by Claire Keegan
43. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
44. Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo
45. Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
46. How to Turn into a Bird by Maria Jose Ferrada (tr. by Elizabeth Bryer)
47. A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
Fantasy/Paranormal
1. From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
2. Youngblood by Sasha Laurens (YA)
3. The Wilderwomen by Ruth Emmie Lang
Sci-Fi/Dystopian:
1. The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3. The Employees by Olga Ravn (tr. by Martin Aitken)
4. Clean Air by Sarah Blake
5. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
6. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
Memoir:
1. Admissions by Kendra James
2. Tell Me Everything by Erika Krouse
Other Nonfiction:
1. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (tr. by Sherif Hetata)
Short Story Collection:
1. Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
2. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (tr. by Anton Hur)
3. Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
4. Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
5. Nobody Gets Out Alive by Leigh Newman
6. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai
7. Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin (tr.by Megan McDowell)
8. If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Poetry Collection:
1. Finna by Nate Marshall
