Hey there, book mongers!
With a brand new year comes fresh new books to sink our ever-loving and book-addicted fangs into. While I don’t have a book tag for you this month, I figured I could at least bestow you an extra book list so you can add even more books to your TBR.
So with great anticipation, I bring you 5 books from YA, fiction, and nonfiction that will be released this year.
YA
I Must Betray You
Author: Ruta Sepetys
Release: February, 2022
Cristian Florescu is forced to become an informer as tyrannical rule under communist Romania falls across Europe. He does what he must to keep his dreams alive.
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Horror Hotel
Author: Victoria Fulton & Faith McClaren
Release: February, 2022
Two Youtubers go into a spooky old hotel, they may not be coming out. The bonus? At least they just might bump up their subscribers.
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The Fear
Author: Natasha Preston
Release: March, 2022
Izzy’s classmates are only keeping boredom at bay when they start sharing a meme about their worst fears. When those very same classmates start dying, Izzy is determined to find out who’s killing them.
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Hotel Magnifique
Author: Emily J. Taylor
Release: April, 2022
A tale about a hotel that never stays in one place. When it arrives in Jani’s hometown, she and her sister jump at the opportunity to join the staff. All the possibilities of wonder vanish as Jani happens across the hotel’s horrible secrets. With the help of a new friend, Jani investigates what makes the hotel work.
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League of Liars
Author: Astrid Scholte
Release: February, 2022
Four teens band together after being charged with using illegal magic. Now they’re planning the ultimate jailbreak. Dark and twisting, these teens are set aflame in a rich, magical world where nothing is ever as it seems.
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Fiction
Elektra
Author: Jennifer Saint
Release: April, 2022
A retelling set in ancient Greece about three women: Clytemnestra, Elektra, and Cassandra. They’re tied to the House of Atreus and its curse.
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The Hacienda
Author: Isabel Cañas
Release: May, 2022
A Gothic horror set after the Mexican War of Independence. After the loss of her father to the war, Beatriz just wants to have control in her life again. She doesn’t care about rumors or thoughts of anybody, but for all of that solace and control she seeks, she won’t find it in Hacienda San Isidro.
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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Author: Riku Onda
Release: June, 2022
Aki and Hiro spend one last night together before parting ways forever. Both think the other is a murderer. Both are determined to get a confession before the night is over. But who did they kill?
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The It Girl
Author; Ruth Ware
Release: July, 2022
April was the first person Hannah met at Oxford. Pulled into her orbit by her dazzling it-girl personality, she and April developed a group of close-knit friends that could take on anything. But by the end of the second term at Oxford, April was dead. A decade later, a journalist came to Hannah’s door and shook up her life by telling her that the man who was responsible for killing her was innocent.
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How High We Go in the Dark
Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Release: January, 2022
A tale of human resilience across centuries, spanning continents, and even celestial bodies after an archeologist goes to the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter’s work. After uncovering the body of a girl who died of an ancient virus, everything changes. Once unleashed, the ARctic plague reshaped earth and everyone’s lives.
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Nonfiction
And We Rise
Author: Erica Martin
Release: February, 2022
An eye-opening journey that takes the reader through the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s-1960s with Martin’s impactful poetry. With vivid verse and unique photography interspersed, readers are taken through the movement with the lesser-known figures to and the cruciality of the long fight against the nation’s injustice against Black people.
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The Nineties
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Release: February, 2022
A culmination of everything nineties from the fall of the Berlin wall to Titanic. This book is a homage and historical recounting of a decade that shape our technology-driven world.
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Finding Me
Author: Viola Davis
Release: April, 2022
Viola Davis tells the story of her life from growing up in Rhode Island to becoming the empowering woman and award-winning actress she is today.
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Release: June, 2022
Perfect for the true-crime junkies. From an award-winning journalist comes stories that explore the intricacies of crimes such as a wine forgery and the takedown of a black market arms merchant.
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God is a Black Woman
Author: Christena Cleveland
Release: February, 2022
Christena grew up believing in God, but as time went by she realized this wasn’t her idea of God. Her God wasn’t a white man. In this book, she re-evaluates what this vision of God does to fuel racism and oppression and shares the spiritual journey she took through France to find her faith. She encourages everyone to find their own path as well.
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So many wonderful books are coming out this year! What new release are you excited about?
More to come soon…
-K.
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Thoughts? Let’s chat in the comments below!
The Scarlet Reader 
Some really exciting nonfiction coming out this year! I am so excited for Finding Me and Rogues!
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Yes!! Same! Some pretty great ones!
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Ooh so many exciting books! I’m especially looking forward to Elektra and How High We Go in the Dark. Thank you for sharing the nonfiction releases too – I hope to read more nonfiction this year so will definitely be checking them out 📚❤️ X x x
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A variety is a beautiful thing. I’m also excited about How High We Go in the Dark. ☺️
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