22 books to read in 2022 📚 👀 high fantasy, sci-fi, classics, historical fiction, more...

a list maker at heart do i follow my lists now these are two separate hobbies people you should know where we're at lists on lists on lists is what i feel happens at the end of every year we're making all of our goals making all of our plans making lists of all the books that we want to read the coming year and still we don't read them we buy more books and we completely ignore every single list that we've made and because of all of that and despite of all of that i am making a list of 22 books to read in 2021 and so i've basically gathered a list of 22 books that i want to read in 2022. now you can take this list and from whatever you haven't read follow it yourself or add or take away however you want you can also make your own list i highly encourage you to do so and if you want to leave it in the comments down below i'll make sure to check those out i have a massive collection of books as you'd be able to see and honestly one of my biggest goals of 2022 is to not buy as many books as i've accumulated this year because i've accumulated quite a bit of books and so because of that i generally thought this video idea was genius because it gave me an opportunity to look at the grand scheme of my shelf and see what 22 books am i the most excited to get to in the year of 2022 and before i get started with those 22 books i do need to give a thank you to the sponsor of today's video which is a book of the month if you guys are not familiar with book of the month it is a super popular and fast growing online book service for those of you who have been here you know i've been working with them for the majority of the year and i absolutely love what they do they have this stunning mission every single month to promote new and emerging authors and help readers discover books that they love by cutting out the entirety of the research process that a reader has to do in order to find new releases because their team goes through hundreds of books every single month and they 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into an isolated forest town with some secrets their thriller this month is a flicker in the dark and when a serial killer emerges with an eerily familiar pattern chloe davis wonders if she's really escaped her past they also have a memoir this month somebody's daughter a moving coming-of-age memoir about the complications of family provides ample testament to the resilience of love and last but not least and i love that they included this this year we have a holiday romance the holiday swap twins who could both use a reset decide to revive their childhood habit and swap places book of the month also renews their add-on catalog and everything remains on their website so if you want to get more books besides the one pick out of the main five you can do so in this month they included the anthropos in reviewed by john green and those are the december books for book of the month again i will be leaving my link and code down below so that you guys can sign up if you want to again this is the best code that you'll get out of the entire year because your first book will be for five dollars instead of the usual 9.99 so thank you so much to book of the month for sponsoring today's video i love you guys so much and let's get right on to the 22 books that i want to read in 2022. so for the very first book on this list is a book that i actually wanted to read this year i actually had a whole video in which i thought i'd be able to include this book but then i saw how long this book was and i said hold up not happening can't do it this year abort mission and so i'm leaving this book for next year and that is the secret history by donating what seems to be the poster child of dark academia in this one we follow a group of students who end up following this set of doctrines set by a professor at their new england college and they go from a very humdrum experience of their contemporary lives into what seems like a whirlwind of events full of betrayals and deaths and corruption obsessions and ultimately a lot of evil it sounds like the best compilation of twists and turns and a train wreck that i can't look away from and honestly i've read quite a bit of train wrecks i can't look away from and i feel like this is gonna be one of those and i'm just ready for all of the chaos that i'm sure will end you with this one now i didn't count these as separate books i counted this all as a single unit and that is taylor jenkins read as an author i really want to read all three of her main works daisy jones and vi the seven husbands of evelyn hugo and also malleable rising which is her most recent entry these are all very different books although i do know that daisy jones and the six and then the seven husbands of evelyn hugo kind of fit a little bit more perfectly into the historical fiction genre while malibu rising is just straight fiction and i do know that these two books are also connected i believe we follow one of the husbands in malibu rising with his new life and so i just want to make sure that i read all three books because i cannot escape taylor dinkins read over on booktube everybody's talking about her about her works how they've all made people emotional all the audiobooks are fantastic and how they just keep continuously getting better and so i need to see what it's all about i need to experience these by myself and i already own all three i own these two physically and then i own daisy jones in audiobook format because i was told that is the best way to do it so here we are it's happening in 2022 hopefully and we're here we're thriving you'll realize very quickly that i have left all of my lengthy books for 2022. it's going to be a journey to get through these but i honestly want to make it my mission and you guys will see more of it because i am planning to upload a 2022 reading goals but i do plan to make just 2022 a lot more chill in terms of reading than i did this year i feel like this year i just kind of rushed through books and made sure that i was reading so so much because i thought reading more meant more content meant more recommendation videos and i could not have been more wrong from the actual truth of things so i definitely want to be more intentional with my reading next year and so that is why i kind of left the longer books for next year because i knew it was going to be impossible to fit them all in a way that i could actually read and enjoy them all this year so with that being said outlander by diana gabaldon it's here it's on the list one of the books that i definitely want to get to next year i said that i wanted to get to it this year and then i didn't do it and now i'm just staring at this and i'm like i want to read you which is not enough time this year but this is a historical fiction slash magical realism fantasy and we have claire who's our main character a former combat nurse who's come back from her final service and is reunited with her husband into their second honeymoon and it is there that she finds this very mythical magical stone in scotland that she touches she finds herself transported back in time where she will find herself in a tug of war between past present and future two very distinct loves and relationships and where she belongs best i remember watching the show a few years back honestly a while ago it feels like and i never finished it and then i really wanted to get into the books but it's always been intimidating because it's so many books and they're all so long honestly if i'm planning to get into the wheel of time i can also get into outlander heck i can handle it all okay confirmation thank you motorcycle i promise you it's happening maybe lookie lookie who's here i just had to put it in here because i knew not only a am i really gonna get to this because it's one of my patreon booklet books for january and so i thought it'd be worth putting on this list so that i could say that i at least read one of these books next year and that is the song of achilles by madeline miller now i know at first i was like will i ever read this i don't know i love greek retellings i think what was spoiling me off is the fact that everybody was talking about this and i was like i hear y'all i hear you all i get it it's so good and they make you cry but like do i want to be in this trend like do i want to succumb to it and then my brain said yes you do i am super curious to see how this will go down for me i know the vast majority of people absolutely adore this book while there's a very small minority hence why it's a minority email come on girl that genuinely didn't like this book and that ended up dnfing it and so i'm very curious because sometimes i'm on the opposite side of things and i would really like to know where i'm gonna fall on with this one but i'm really excited to read this all i know is that this is an iliad retelling have i ever read the iliad absolutely not but has that ever stopped me and the answer is no it has not i'm very excited to read this next year and i have no synopsis for you because i want to keep this book a surprise well hello hello jade city it has to be on this list if you guys have not watched the announcement video make sure to leave it linked down below but i have planned an entire read-along starting january for the greenbone saga and i am beyond this world with excitement to finally be reading these because it's been a long time coming okay i've been putting these off for a while now in this one we've got the honorable greenbone warriors who for hundreds of years have been enhancing their bodies and strength using jade in order to ward off any danger from the island of kekkon however the war is finally over and now a new generation of this family is planning to take over and it'll boil down to four siblings of the cow family to prepare for battle because the peace amongst clans is about to break and this is supposed to have all of those mobster gangster vibes set in hong kong i'm just so ready to read this it's said to be full of magic with consequences on the most amazing characters with family at the forefront of the story and it just sounds so amazing and i've seen everybody love this so in 2022 a girl will be a part of the hype okay next up i've got the fifth season by n.k jemisin could also apply to the entirety of the broken earth trilogy much like the green bone saga it is one that i am very excited to get to next year i have heard nothing but amazing things about this one and some of my patrons have been pushing me for ages to read these books and quite honestly i don't know why i'm so intimidated by the broken earth trilogy i just am and i will read the back of the book just because every time i read this it just gives me chills you know when sometimes you read the synopsis of something but then you don't necessarily click then you read the back of the book and you're like oh hold me that's me with this book i'm gonna channel my inner rosamund pike this is the way the world ends for the last time it starts with a great red rift across the heart of the world soul continent spewing ash that blots out the sun it starts with death with a murdered son and a missing daughter it starts with betrayal and long dormant wounds rising up to fester this is the stillness a land familiar with catastrophe where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon and where there is no mercy am i ready to narrate an audio book or what i was channeling my inner audible greener this sounds so good and it sounds like the magic system itself will be solidified and very rounded on elemental power that is something that i used to be very fascinated by when i was younger so i really do feel like i love this i'm very excited so hear me out this is me giving you ammunition i don't know why i'm doing this well last year if you've been here for a while or if you've been watched the videos which thank you if you have i put this book on uh the list of books that i wanted to start this year and then i didn't do it i don't know what happened there let's not lie to the people mel you just didn't read it because you didn't get around to it and that is red rising uh when's the last time i'm gonna put this book on a list i should probably just go hide somewhere after showing this book for like the millionth time on my channel i've said the synopsis more times than i care to count for a book i have yet to read and that i've said i'm going to read in at least five videos need i say more we have a futuristic society so this is a sci-fi dystopian where society is separated by different castes and zero is a red which is the lowest tier of castes there is and once dara discovers the truth of the way that this society works he will try and infiltrate the ranks of the gold cast which is the top tier in society and he will quite literally have to fight for his life and for the fate of the world i've told myself to read it like five times now in five different videos and in everyday life i just keep the short and sweet before i embarrass myself further thank you for coming to my ted talk insane thank you malice by john gwynne is another one that i really want to tackle i have heard incredible things about john gwynn in general about his writing about his storytelling i feel like this is one of those staples i kind of need to read to introduce myself to the genre a little bit deeper now the back of this is quite long we seem to have four different main characters who all come from different backgrounds have led very different lives but it's the very end of this has always caught my eye the banished lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed in battle but now giant stir anew stones we blood and there are sightings of giant worms those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars or if the black sun gains ascendancy mankind's hopes and dreams will fall to dust and it can never be made whole again it's so interesting to me because i have yet to read black sun which i also need to get to in 2022 if i'm being honest though it's not on this list again i don't want to embarrass myself too much because it's already been on tbr list it strikes me as so interesting that black sun is also mentioned here and i want to see how this plays out in both of these books honestly i'm curious more high fantasy for this list we've got the lies of lok lamora by scott lynch another one that i really need to get to i bought this one a while back and i have yet to read this one also the cover i know some people don't like like the minimalist sort of covers i love them i love the foiling i'm living for this it's fantastic this one is said to be like an adult six of crows now i hope it won't be like six of crows if i'm being honest you guys know my history with six of crows i've never been able to finish that book however i am hoping for like a robin hood sort of story based on the synopsis because we have our main character the thorn of gamora who literally steals off the rich to give to the poor and the way that the tagline for this book goes is they say he's spartman part myth and it's mostly street corner rumor they are wrong on every count now i am excited to see the fantasy element of this because i don't know exactly how or why the fantasy kicks into this story but i have heard really great things about this one i know this is a fan favorite amongst the high fantasy community a girl will get immorsed in this and see what it's all about next year next up i have assassin's apprentice by robin hobb a series in the book that a lot of people have recommended i read especially given my new found interest for high fantasy and in this one we follow fitz who is by all intents on purposes a royal bastard now the way that this world works is that every house born to royalty is catalogued for a different virtue and fitz defies basically every rule there is in this world except that now he is brought into royalty and he has to leave behind this magic in order to become the royals apprentice i know as far as high fantasy goes we'll literally adore robin hobb with the entirety of their being so i'm just excited to see what this one's all about this is the collector's edition so there's a bunch of cool illustrations in between chapters and stuff and the bind up is just really really beautiful so i'll probably be reading off this copy with a lot of character a girl is on a streak here okay we're seeing a pattern we're seeing a theme the blade itself by joe abercrombie lord grimdark himself as he calls himself as his fanbase calls him i am really excited to read this i also know mina framina reads absolutely adores this series the first loss series and the synopsis at the back it's nothing listen to this a bitter torturer a dashing useless army officer a berserker who no longer has a cause and the bald old fraud of omegas who brings them all together all there is to know i oftentimes find that when it comes to high fantasy it's a lot better to go into it without any set of expectations though i know that's a little bit hard because sometimes you have such a long book and you kind of want to know what it's about but i found myself being kind of disappointed by certain stories by knowing the synopsis because then i build expectations and so i'm trying to go into these as blind as humanly possible is it not i just i don't want to hate books okay i don't want to rate books low it makes me feel bad maybe one that you guys didn't foresee me putting on this list but the handmaid's tale by margaret attwood is absolutely being read in 2022 we have an established dystopian world where the decline of birth rates and environmental issues cause a second american civil war therefore a totalitarian regime rises up in power and creates extra rigid roles which ultimately end up enslaving the last few fertile women i also know there's a fantastic show to go along with this i have heard nothing but praise for that too i am here to read this in 20.2 not a book but a manga bind up and that is uzumaki by junti ito i in general want to get into junjie those works i have heard that these are terrifying my brother started reading this and he said that he had never been as spooked as this whenever he's read anything and so i'm excited to see what this is about because apparently people develop like a fear of spirals due to this one and my brother and i were literally talking about this and we were like there's no way there's no way and then he started reading this and he said oh yes way since it's manga like i know oh that was scary what face was that oh i hate it great fantastic we're off to a great start with this one not a book that you think you'd see in one of my list oh sir no i find myself compelled to include this book in this list just because i really want to read it because i'm curious i'm very curious um y'all are gonna hate me for this for the people for my patrons when they watch this you're gonna be like why are you doing this to yourself and the answer is i don't know beautiful world where are you i said i was going to read this in november it didn't happen it also won't happen in december maybe january will be the month for this but will i love this will i hate this who who knows i just know we follow a bunch of friends in their different threats of life what a great synopsis smell but that's really all i know and i am keeping it to a bare minimum because honestly i'm just hoping sally rooney will surprise me i'm not hoping for anything else i just want her to prove to me that a book can be better than two stars if it's a good book it's a good book another book that i said i would read this year and then i didn't get around to it but honestly i will in 2022 and that is house of leaves this is a scary intimidating book it is said to be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside there's like a million different ways to read this there's like an outer body experience as you read this it just sounds like a mess it sounds like chaos it sounds traumatizing honestly oh my god i need to prepare myself for this book like i need to know what i need i know you need like a magnifying glass i'm like a mirror and i'm not trying to be possessed by anything in this life or in the next but i'll give this a try and i know we follow johnny i think he's a tattoo artist from what i somewhat remember oh there is something here and then he finds a book that he has to read or something amongst those lines i just i forgot the synopsis i'll just leave it at that die of the world so i wanted to read this book this year not only because the show was coming out but also because i've seen so many people rave about this and you know it's such an amazing ride and it's so worth it for a 14 book series and i just need to get into this i also am now extra excited because rosamund pike narrates a new audiobook for the eye of the world and there's just something about her voice it's just so magical and i was like i kind of need this experience in my life and so the very top of the book is just it's it's also in the show i'm also watching the show by the way this says the wheel of time turns and ages come and pass leaving memories that become legend legend fades to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave at birth returns again and i know the book and the show so far are very different i kind of watched people dissect the show you know episode by episode and apparently the changes made to the show are different the pacing is different the way that they've decided to present the story is somewhat different and so i'm excited you know to compare and contrast to see what's up with the book versus the show it is said that he spends a lot of pages just setting the scene the atmosphere describing dresses that one i've heard a lot and honestly i do not mind a long story or long introductions to anything typically high fantasy books that are this long they have an open space for everything and so i'm just excited to take this ride however it's presented to me however the dragon is presented to me moraine lan and rand and gwayne and perrin and matt and naive and everybody all of the characters i am just really excited about this journey i don't know exactly the synopsis for the book versus the show and i'm not confident in telling you what the show is about and kind of saying that it's the exact same as the book so i'll refrain myself from doing so so for now i am leaving it like that next up is a book that i'd honestly never heard of in my life up until one of my patrons sent a picture on the citadel server and i was just not only in love with the cover but then i read the synopsis and i was like i need this crossings by alex land dragon i had never heard of this book again you guys but the synopsis sounds so good and it kind of gives me shadow of the wind vibe so i kind of had to get it and in this one we follow a parisian blue binder who is handed a manuscript by one of his clients in order to tidy it up dress it up make it look really pretty except that in his journey of binding up this manuscript the owner of it dies and he ends up doing the exact opposite of what he was commanded to do and he ends up reading it and in there he'll find three different tales that are all connected in some sort of way and i guess it will somewhat leak into his own personal life i don't know how i don't know when i don't know even if it will happen but that's what the synopsis is leading me to think this is one that i'm definitely excited about again especially because i haven't heard a lot of people talk about this so the fact that i'm going into this with only that little bit of synopsis but mostly blind makes me really really hopeful and excited that i'll really enjoy this one the next is this stunning copy of the master and the margarita by mikael and this is translated fiction it was initially published in russian and this book initially was written in the 30s i believe and it depicted soviet life at the time so perfectly that it couldn't be published traditionally and thus a censored version was delivered out into the public in the 1960s but now we've got like an all-new translation and it's like supposedly completed not centered and it's supposed to be so good and we follow the devil as he arrives in moscow and he is accompanied by two individuals one a cat and the other one a beautiful naked witch these three presences bring a lot of peace to two very unlikely individuals first the master who is a writer and the second is margarita who is in love with the master and will do just about anything to be with him even if it includes going to hell it's supposedly satirical but philosophical and just so full of just good stuff in here i cannot wait to give this a read i knew nothing about this and i bought it that's that's how much it got me so i'm very excited to read this and for the last three books i first have el silencio la silva blanca it is a book in spanish but i'm just so excited to read this next year especially after shadow of the wind again i feel like it has ignited my love for reading in spanish it's so nice because i haven't read in spanish since high school and this is also a mystery which is something that for some reason spaniards just do very well in this one we follow tacio ortiz who is an archaeologist that got condemned for supposedly committing a series of murders in vittoria a few years in the past now 20 years have passed and freedom is just within reach except that a couple in their 20s is found dead present time with the same science as those serial murders 20 years ago and on the other end we have our detective unai lopez dayala who not only has a relationship with somebody in the police force but who also is very obsessed with solving this one crime that's the gist of it what i could translate that is in spanish at the back it just sounds so fun so attention filled and like a great thriller i can't wait to see all of the twists and turns and see what it has to offer again spaniards are so good at doing thrillers executing them in a way that are always so twisty and good so i can't wait to see what it has to offer in this format another book that i thought i'd get to in 2021 though i didn't is the night circus by erin morgenstern especially now reading the starless c i really want to get to this as soon as possible and in this one the snob says the very beginning is literally the circus arrives without warning and we follow particularly returning characters celia and marca who have for their entire lives been trained towards being mercurial instructors except that unknown to them only one can be left standing it sounds so good it's lyrical and if it's anywhere near as good as the star lucia so far i just know i'm gonna enjoy this maybe more than the starless sea maybe the same we'll find out in 2022 and last but not least i have spinning silver by naomi novik which is a rumpled stiltskin retelling that is literally all i know about this book and that is kind of all that i want to know going into this i have heard incredible things i've also gotten this book recommended to me a lot by a lot of you guys obviously the winter vibes seem to be at an all-time high with this one i literally just uploaded a winter book recommendations today and one of you guys said obviously spinning silver is the perfect book for winter and so here i am in my non-existent winter saying i'll probably read this during winter because it seems like the perfect book to do so and she also has another one called uprooted now i don't know if i'll ever read uprooted because that one hasn't been as recommended as this one however this one though has received so much praise not only by you guys but the general public everybody around the world and so i kind of just need to read this and see what it's all about and therefore i am going in as blind as humanly possible if you took a shot every time i said excited you'd probably be smashed by now but yes you guys that is it for today those are the 22 books that i want to read in 2022 i hope that you guys loved this i hope that you guys enjoyed this if you did don't forget to smash that like button down below let me know down below what are some books that you would like to get to in 2022 are there any that overlap with your list have you read any of these books what have you thought about them as always let's chat down in the comments don't forget to subscribe down below if you haven't done so already i'm constantly uploading videos i'm sure you do not want to miss and if you reach the end of the video let's leave some calendar emojis down below i feel like that one's perfect if you want to support the channel further i also have a patreon we call ourselves the citadel and that is always linked down below 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Length: 27min 18sec (1638 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021