Our Top Anticipated Books for 2022

Welcome to Showcase Wednesday. This week we wanted to show off our most anticipated books for the upcoming year. We are so excited to share this amazing list with all of you wonderful people.

Top 7 most anticipated books of 2022:

1. Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong. From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong returns with a deeply personal and intimate poetry collection depicting his struggle to come to terms with his mother’s death. With vulnerability and courage, he expresses his grief, the power of family, and hope.

2. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihar. From the author of A Little Life comes another emotional powerhouse of a novel. This brilliant work is told in three sections—set in the years 1893, 1993, and 2093—and while each section is vastly different, each character at their core grapples with the lengths we would all go to to protect those we love.

3. Burning Questions by Margret Atwood. In this collection of essays, the always prescient and endlessly entertaining, Margaret Atwood sets out to answer some of today’s most burning questions. Comprising her works from the years 2004 to 2021, Atwood covers everything from the climate crisis to the tech industry, from the rise of Trump to how we should define granola.

4. Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James. With Moon Witch, Spider King Marlon James presents the second book in his Dark Star trilogy following Black Leopard, Red Wolf. In the first book the Moon Witch was presented as the worthy adversary to our mythical hero. Now, readers get to hear her own account as she forges her own battles across the empire. This adventure tale is a good reminder that sometimes the difference between good and evil is a matter of perspective.

5. House of Sky and Breath by Sarah J. Maas. Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal-they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri's power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels' plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what's right. And they've never been very good at staying silent.

6. The Betrayal Of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan. Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door. With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behaviour of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.

7. The Diamond Eye: A Novel by Kate Quinn. In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life. Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.