#TopTenTuesday Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the First Half of 2022

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Most Anticipated Books Releasing In the First Half of 2022. No sooner have we finished looking back than we’re looking ahead to the bookish delights to come. Historical fiction fans, here are a few for your wishlist. Links from the titles will take you to the book description on Goodreads where available. 

January 2022

  • The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde #6) by Rory Clements – Cambridge professor and spy Tom Wilde must find the truth behind Hitler’s death. Exactly who is the man in the bunker?
  • The Winter Guest by W. C. Ryan – A gripping mystery packed with twists and turns… the perfect chilling read this winter.

February 2022

  • The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch – Rosie’s only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a book of Russian fairy tales. But there is another story lurking between the lines.
  • The Language of Food by Annabel Abbs – Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world’s most successful cookery writers, revolutionizing cooking and cookbooks around the world. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and truly inspiring.

March 2022

  • The Marsh House by Zoe Somerville – Part ghost story, part novel of suspense two women, separated by decades, are drawn together by one, mysterious house on the North Norfolk coast.
  • The Physician’s Daughter by Martha Conway – It is 1865, the American Civil War has just ended, and 18-year old Vita Tenney is determined to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a country doctor like her father.
  • Sell Us The Rope by Stephen May – Revolutionary, poet, lover. Robber, murderer, spy. May 1907 and a young Stalin is in London for a conference of Russian communists.
  • These Days by Lucy Caldwell – April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war – so far. Over the next two months, it’s going to be destroyed from above, so that people will say, in horror, My God, Belfast is finished.

April 2022

  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint – The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied to this curse, and the fickle nature of men and gods.
  • The Caretakers by Amanda Bestor-Siegal – Set in a wealthy Parisian suburb, an emotionally riveting debut told from the point of view of six women, and centered around a group of au pairs, one of whom is arrested after a sudden and suspicious tragedy strikes her host family

#TopTenTuesday Best Books I Read In 2021

Top Ten Tuesday new

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Best Books I Read In 2021. This is a topic I look forward to but at the same time dread because it is so difficult to choose only ten books from the many fabulous books I read this year. However I know I’m not alone in this dilemma. Having rewritten this list about a hundred times and with apologies to the authors whose books so nearly made the list, here are my chosen ten. My thanks also to the publishers who sent me review copies of the books or approved my requests for digital copies on NetGalley.

Links from the titles will take you to my review.

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers – Tender, intimate and heart-breaking
Blasted Things by Lesley Glaister – Intense, compelling and moving
White Dog by Rupert Whewell – Satirical, witty and provocative
When The World Was Ours by Liz Kessler – ‘an inspiring testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the kindness of strangers’
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson – Gripping, atmospheric and immersive

 

The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed – Compelling, intense and chilling Booker shortlisted novel
The Hidden Child by Louise Fein – Thought-provoking, moving and immersive
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – ‘a quietly powerful novel, an exquisite little gem of a book’
Little by Edward Carey – Quirky, imaginative and engaging
The Visitors by Caroline Scott – Eloquent, tender and emotional