Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022

1.
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 704,704 ratings
2.
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent 4.40 avg rating — 8,833 ratings
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Brother Alive
Brother Alive 3.66 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Pink Hotel
The Pink Hotel 2.93 avg rating — 1,821 ratings
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Witches
Witches 3.50 avg rating — 3,398 ratings
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires 3.86 avg rating — 2,147 ratings
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Shrines of Gaiety
Shrines of Gaiety 3.84 avg rating — 40,487 ratings
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Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers 3.79 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish
Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish 3.80 avg rating — 405 ratings
10.
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages 3.82 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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Total: Stories
Total: Stories 3.45 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4)
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4) 3.91 avg rating — 78,662 ratings
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Saturnalia
Saturnalia 3.44 avg rating — 1,518 ratings
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The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City 4.43 avg rating — 424 ratings
15.
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius 3.65 avg rating — 3,165 ratings
16.
Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)
Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 19,729 ratings
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Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis 3.63 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
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Balladz
Balladz 3.71 avg rating — 364 ratings
19.
Butts: A Backstory
Butts: A Backstory 3.73 avg rating — 9,365 ratings
20.
Night of the Living Rez
Night of the Living Rez 3.89 avg rating — 12,357 ratings
21.
Bad Eminence
Bad Eminence 3.18 avg rating — 298 ratings
22.
Harry Sylvester Bird
Harry Sylvester Bird 3.22 avg rating — 566 ratings
23.
Fire Season
Fire Season 3.39 avg rating — 1,079 ratings
24.
Our Wives Under the Sea
Our Wives Under the Sea 3.73 avg rating — 113,686 ratings
25.
Gods of Want: Stories
Gods of Want: Stories 3.68 avg rating — 1,867 ratings
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves 4.02 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Crying in the Bathroom
Crying in the Bathroom 3.97 avg rating — 7,033 ratings
28.
Why Didn't You Tell Me?
Why Didn't You Tell Me? 3.75 avg rating — 2,726 ratings
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The Man Who Could Move Clouds
The Man Who Could Move Clouds 4.04 avg rating — 4,266 ratings
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Death by Landscape
Death by Landscape 4.19 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Hokuloa Road
Hokuloa Road 3.31 avg rating — 3,259 ratings
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau 3.57 avg rating — 37,717 ratings
33.
The Force of Such Beauty
The Force of Such Beauty 4.03 avg rating — 2,081 ratings
34.
How to Read Now
How to Read Now 4.03 avg rating — 1,920 ratings
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld 4.12 avg rating — 766 ratings
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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan 4.35 avg rating — 950 ratings
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Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew 4.06 avg rating — 675 ratings
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Afterlives
Afterlives 3.77 avg rating — 13,276 ratings
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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream 3.82 avg rating — 708 ratings
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The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World 4.28 avg rating — 7,783 ratings
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self 4.19 avg rating — 2,162 ratings
42.
Woman Without Shame: Poems
Woman Without Shame: Poems 4.10 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
43.
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin 4.32 avg rating — 153 ratings
44.
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus 4.20 avg rating — 2,001 ratings
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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America 4.09 avg rating — 10,300 ratings
46.
Catching the Light
Catching the Light
by: Joy Harjo
4.32 avg rating — 434 ratings
47.
Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain
Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain 3.32 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family 3.78 avg rating — 649 ratings
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The Consequences: Stories
The Consequences: Stories 4.08 avg rating — 811 ratings
50.
The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
The Passenger (The Passenger #1) 3.58 avg rating — 35,778 ratings
51.
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human 4.29 avg rating — 14,157 ratings
52.
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle 4.46 avg rating — 9,390 ratings
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Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge 3.91 avg rating — 2,458 ratings
54.
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better 4.46 avg rating — 4,311 ratings
55.
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night 3.99 avg rating — 602 ratings
56.
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers 3.80 avg rating — 1,025 ratings
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Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker 4.12 avg rating — 156 ratings
58.
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 21,905 ratings
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures 4.10 avg rating — 13,402 ratings