Books

Kick off the new year with one of these page-turning reads.

2022 is finally here!

Yes, somehow, time is still marching on.

‘Joan Is Okay,’ ‘Bibliolepsy,’ ‘Thank You, Mr. Nixon,’ and ‘Olga Dies Dreaming’ are among the best b…

This month has something special for everyone, but genre fiction lovers will be particularly pleased.

Below, the most anticipated books of January 2022.

We only include products that have been independently selected by Bustle’s editorial team.

‘Bibliolepsy’ by Gina Apostol

To the freewheeling Lenore, Alexs certainty is boring at best, and frustrating at worst.

When the dukes family is wiped out in an assassination attempt, all eyes are on him and Joy.

Does Rues human heritage disqualify her from leading the charge to recover the gods stolen magic?

‘Brown Girls’ by Daphne Palasi Andreades

And whom can she really trust, when everyone around her seems to have an ulterior motive?

Briar Rose has been sleeping for a century, and Fi is supposedly the woman destined to awaken him.

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Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

‘Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World’ by Danielle Friedman

Yinkas satisfied with her life, even if her friends and aunties cant believe it.

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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

Kendra James publishes her debut memoir this month.

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Akata Woman

The heroine ofAkata WitchandAkata Warriorreturns this month inAkata Woman.

‘One True Loves’ by Elise Bryant

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Joan Is Okay

Chemistryauthor Weike Wangs latest novel isJoan Is Okay.

Now, Karen Brooks gives the character a new voice inThe Good Wife of Bath.

DVaughn and Kris are up to the challenge, but will their fake wedding bells turn to real ones?

‘The School for Good Mothers’ by Jessamine Chan

InThank You, Mr. Nixon, Gish Jen explores international politics through the voices of the Chinese diaspora.

‘Fiona and Jane’ by Jean Chen Ho

‘The Kindred’ by Alechia Dow

‘Luckenbooth’ by Jenni Fagan

‘Olga Dies Dreaming’ by Xóchitl González

‘You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays’ by Zora Neale Hurston

‘When You Get the Chance’ by Emma Lord

‘Where the Drowned Girls Go’ by Seanan McGuire

‘The Ivory Key’ by Akshaya Raman

‘Ashes of Gold’ by J. Elle

‘A More Perfect Union’ by Tammye Huf

‘Wahala’ by Nikki May

‘Daughter of the Moon Goddess’ by Sue Lynn Tan

‘The Bone Spindle’ by Leslie Vedder

‘A Flicker in the Dark’ by Stacy Willingham

‘To Paradise’ by Hanya Yanagihara

‘Yinka, Where Is Your Husband?’ by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

‘Servant Mage’ by Kate Elliott

‘Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School’ by Kendra James

‘How High We Go in the Dark’ by Sequoia Nagamatsu

‘Akata Woman’ by Nnedi Okorafor

‘Joan Is Okay’ by Weike Wang

‘Violeta’ by Isabel Allende

‘The Good Wife of Bath’ by Karen Brooks

‘Devil House’ by John Darnielle

‘D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding’ by Chencia C. Higgins

‘The Red Palace’ by June Hur

‘Thank You, Mr. Nixon’ by Gish Jen

‘The Roughest Draft’ by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka

‘The Fields’ by Erin Young