MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022!! | TOP 10 BOOKS COMING OUT | Literary Diversions

this video is about to slowly descend into cat entertainment and trying to keep the last threads of my sanity together also that is not envy in my really that is not envy in my eyes that is a studio light because it's incredibly dark here in scotland just like my soul also covered in tree detritus which seems appropriate being as i am team santa but let's try and talk about some books shall we please [Music] [Music] hi guys it's leanne and you're about to see my most anticipated books of 2022. did i almost forget what year it was gonna be no not me i'm a professional booktuber this is my favorite video to film every year i get very very over excited thinking about all the new shinies that are about to make their way into my lives but i'm doubly excited this time around because this video is once again sponsored by the wonderful people at book of the month which means of course that some goodies have already made their way into my house book of the month is of course exclusively available to you wonderful people in the us it is a curated book subscription service which means that every month you get a selection of titles that you can pick from which have been hand plucked from the ether by the wonderful team at book of the month they have waded through all of the books and picked only the best ones so that you don't have to worry book of the month is also a completely risk-free subscription service because not only do you get to choose from a range of books every month meaning that you will get something to suit your particular taste but if there's nothing on that list on that amazing list which you think that you will like you can just skip that month just like last month i picked my favorite of all the books available to get in my shiny iconic blue book of the month box but book of the month we're amazing and they have sent me everything else that is on offer for december so let's crack on shall we [Music] every month they include a bookmark and this month's bookmark says if you wish upon a star you might read your tbr which i am taking as a personal attack book of the month just just so we know in my iconic blue box i have a flicker in the dark by stacy wellingham which is a debut thriller again are we surprised no i am predictable it's comforting okay a flicker in the dark is all about chloe davis she grew up in rural louisiana and during her childhood teenage girls started to go missing and as if the fear of going missing herself wasn't bad enough chloe's world is then rocked when her father confesses to police that he is the serial killer who has been kidnapping and murdering her friends years and years later chloe is now a therapist and she has her own life held together by very very thin threads when teenage girls start once again to go missing from the town that she is in definitely know what i'm doing with the first week of my christmas holidays yes what else is on offer leanne i hear you ask well we have a history of wild places this one is a little bit of thrillery and a little bit paranormal it is about a man who has a talent for finding missing people next up we have a nonfiction that i was absolutely thrilled to see in this box because i already own it it is on my shelves which means that this lovely copy will be making its way to one of my friends for christmas this is somebody's daughter a memoir by ashley c ford this one starts with a line just remember you can always come home and the rest of the book is just that powerful so yay and the last two picks that we have for the month are the holiday swap which is a adult twin swapping holiday romance which looks so stinking cute and olga dies dreaming which is about a wedding planner who is struggling with her quest for status in the world whilst also grappling with her puerto rican roots and everything that is going on at home and as always book of the month do also do some special edition add-ons which you can choose to add to your subscription and the one that they sent me this month to highlight is one that i think will be making everybody very excited and it is the apothecine reviewed by john green and specifically for the month of december to celebrate the festive period book of the month are offering you your first box for five dollars and considering some of these books aren't even out yet i think that's amazing so if you are interested in signing up for book of the month the link and the code to get your first box for five dollars is down in my description below and now let us move on to my list of most anticipated books for 2022 the new shinies which will eventually be in my hands and some of which may be on my floor already because you know beg borrow or steal for the books you want guys just don't quote me on that in your bail hearing okay i'm poor i've already bought books i can't help you honestly all of the new angles that i'm trying out to stop this light from reflecting in my glasses it just was what is life like when you can just wake up in the morning and see what is it like when you don't have to worry about studio lights reflecting in your glasses and you know being blinded when you're driving at night what is that like okay first up let's just rock through the three sequels that are on my list because i can't give you all that much in the way of actual descriptions for them i can only tell you that in all of them the vibes they are immaculate oh and also all of the dates that i mentioned in this video are subject to change by publishers and are outside of my control but these are the dates that we currently have to the best of my knowledge first up coming on the 4th of may we have family of liars this is of course the follow-up to we were liars by e lockhart which i think is fair to say is a fairly iconic why thriller slash mystery about a group of very very privileged teenagers who go to their family's private island for summer holiday and then their entire world falls apart everything just it's bad but it's great and i loved it and i still stand all these years later and i i won't i want the follow-up which i actually think isn't a follow-up i think it's a prequel i think it's how we got to the events and we were liars but i don't care just just give me next on the 13th of october we have silverborn which of course is the next book and jessica townsend's the tales of morrigan crow i am so impressed that i got through all of those in one go one take leanne that's what they're gonna call me from now on said nobody ever in case you are somehow not on this bandwagon the tales of morgan crowe is about a young girl called morrigan who is destined to die in fact the book opens with her family announcing when her funeral plans are going to be and then just before she dies or is slain question mark she is plucked up and washed off to a magical world where she is told that she is about to come into her magical powers and i can't really tell you anything else because again spoilers but needless to say it is a thoroughly enjoyable romping magical adventure and i think it's really perfect for christmas let's be perfectly honest so it's lovely that we're getting another one of these i'm still incredibly salty that i can't find nevermoor and hardback could the publisher get on the reissue of that at some point thank you and then lastly be still my beating heart on the 21st of july we have the family remains which is the sequel to the family upstairs which you guys know was just honestly discovering lisa jill as a thriller author has changed my thriller reading life i am reading another one of hers right now i have not stopped talking about her in her books since i discovered this one i am completely addicted a total convert the family upstairs is now one of my favorite thrillers in the world it is about a young woman who when i think it's her 21st birthday she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that she has just inherited because she has come of age her huge family home in london except that she is adopted after being found as a very young crying baby on the top floor of this house with her parents dead below after a seeming suicide pact and she has no idea that there was anything in fact to inherit or anybody else out there left connected with her birth family and she is about to find out very differently i think i would actually sell a body part to receive this book early must contain excitement right now we are on to standalones or first in series z books and i'm going to start by telling you about the twyford code this comes out on the 13th of january and once again i i actually think i would sell so maybe the cat that's eating and making crunching noises in the background i would sell fits to get this book early the triford code is of course by janice hallett who is the author of the appeal which was another one of my absolute favorite books this year you will be seeing it in my top 10 books in january you absolutely will there's no way it won't be there i love mysteries that play with the genre like this and play with the form and it was just it was so good and the twyford code is similarly told in a very different format so 40 years ago from the present day a young boy called steven finds a manuscript of a children's book and it has tons and tons of stuff written in the margins this children's book was written by a famous children's author called edis twyford and it could be very valuable so he takes it to his english teacher miss isles and asks her to find out more but very shortly afterwards miss isles is murdered now 40 years on in the present day stephen has just been released from prison and he has decided that it is time that he looks into this murderer he looks into this book and he finally finds out what really happened in this mystery which has been stalking his entire life for so long one of the quotes on this says that janice hallett is like enid blyton meets agatha christie and that is very much the feels that i get from her writing so i'm so excited for this the cats literally think i've gone insane like actually insane i mean maybe i have i was doing this for seven years it was gonna happen eventually next up we have something fabulous by alexis hall alexis hall is of course the author of boyfriend material and this is our first historical romance debut i am choosing to find out nothing about this i haven't read any of the blurbs which have been sent to me and believe me several people have sent them to me alexis hall's books are absolutely hilarious characters are absolutely cracking with electricity and i am oh i'm so looking forward to reading this book is this entire video just going to be me making like desperate noises about the covers that are beautiful and the things that i can't have yet possibly possibly yes so i can't tell you much more about this except that it's going to happen in january and it's going to be in my house the next one coming in january is one that i can tell you a little bit more about because i have it here in physical form and it is the krusty affair this one is about nan who had a fairly awful london upbringing and finally escaped to somewhere idyllic and the irish countryside where she was very happy until the shadow of the great war happens and she has to return to london but when she gets there the back of the book says after fighting her way back to england nan sets her sights on the enigmatic agatha christie because agatha has something nan wants and it's not just her husband despite their differences the two women will become the most unlikely of allies and during the mysterious 11 days that agatha goes missing they will unravel a dark secret that only nan holds the key to i have read quite a few books in my time about the 11 days that agatha christie went missing which we don't really have any explanation for in reality but i love that this one is not trying to really answer the question but instead giving us an alternative adventure that agatha could have gone on i am very very excited for this one and i'm likely going to say that about every one of these because it wouldn't have made this list if i wasn't pumped how does that song go i saw it i need it i want it next up again coming in january we have one that not only is it one of my favorite topics to read about but it's also one of my favorite colors in proof form so it was just meant to be this is in defense of witches by mona collette and it is a feminist historical investigation into the roots of witchcraft and the way that it has made its way into our popular culture but looking at it from a very different angle because it says on the back but they're selling grimoires on etsy posting photos of their crystal adorned altars on instagram or gathering to cast spells on donald trump witches are everywhere but who exactly were the forebears of these modern witches and also has a forward by carmen maria machado who we all love this one can just get in my brain immediately i mean i actually could it's in my hand i could read it now or possibly you know i could finish this video so continuing on with january because it is a bumper month for releases we have the beautiful pandora this is a retelling by susan stokes chapman of the pandora myth and it is set in georgian london which i know is going to make some of you just as happy as it made me unlike a lot of other retellings this one doesn't go a very obvious route we start with a woman called dora blake who is a jewelry artist who works in her uncle's shop and then one day they take a delivery of artifacts and in it there is a mysterious greek vaz dora's uncle is a little bit strange when it comes to this vaz and won't give her any straight answers and loving a bit of mystery she unless the help of an antiquarian scholar and they set about to find out the origins of said jar i'm very excited there's two retellings on this list but i would be lying if i said that this wasn't at the top of it again another january baby a sixth of january baby in the case of this one so very very early if you would like to also stuff it in your eye holes this is hair house by sally hinchcliffe and it is described as a gothic mystery but i think i would more accurately describe it as a gothic horror mystery with some very very creepy creepy vibes so the back starts with a line from the book and it says there was nothing there i thought nothing but the shadows of the trees my own imagination it was only when it moved that i could make out the silent hair turning and looping away into the dark i love it a young woman arrives in scotland i don't know why i went scottish bbc caricature but here we are a young woman arrives in scotland looking to escape the shadows of her past moving into one of the cottages on the remote estate of hair house she begins to explore her new home in his beautiful wild surroundings but her house is hiding something sinister and as winter draws in with snow falling soft and heavy its dark history of grief and madness begins to emerge i am just hoping that when it says madness it doesn't mean that we're going to end up with asylums and mental health plots and instead it's just going to be like the house driving you slightly mad which of course i'm totally here for i am chaotic evil i am always on the haunted house's side and finally finally for january i have to paradise by hanya yanagahara this one is a doorstop it is a brick it is literally bigger than my head and to be honest i'm quite excited about that fact hanya yanigahara is of course the author of a little life which is and here forever shall remain a extremely controversial booktube book i personally am on the side of i loved it and i flew through it but i see it's many many flaws and i accept all of the arguments that it is an awful book because they are simultaneously also true so when this one arrived on my doorstep i was simultaneously delighted and terrified because the blurb on this guys it is something else it's extremely long so i'm not going to read you the whole thing i'm just going to give you a general overview of it as best that i can so essentially this novel all takes place in one house and that was a very big part of a little life less bernard street and the apartment there became like quite iconic and it seems that hanayana gahara has gone down that route again so this one particular house we see the inhabitants over three different timelines this is set in an alternate history america so the first timeline we get is 1893 where new york where the house is is part of the free states where people may live and love whomever they please or so it seems so it seems that the idea of uh homophobia and things is just it doesn't exist in the three states but then we see the same place in 1993 which is besieged by the aids epidemic and then again in 2093 in a world driven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule and we see a powerful scientist damage grand or trying to navigate life without him which is a very different type of character from the other two characters and the other two timelines and i believe all three timelines tie up at the end somehow i i have a feeling harry yanagara may end up being a one-hit author for me and a lot of other people but i have an open mind about this one because i want to give it a good go which i'll have to because i feel like i'm not going to get to any kind of actual plot until at least halfway through which is oh 300 pages into a 700 page and proform book so yay for me and now moving on to march which is of course the best month because it's the leanne month of the calendar we have first up got our waves under the sea by julia armfield and can we can we just take a moment for this cover i don't know if the camera is picking it up but all the drips on this cover of the water is all glossy and it's just it's so gross but i'm so loving it i'm gonna just read you the blurb on this one because it's what sold me on it it says mary thinks she has got her wife back when leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe it soon becomes clear though that leah may have come back wrong whatever happened in that vessel whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor leah has carried part of it with her onto dry land and into their home so many different kinds of authors have blurbed the back of this one including like kirsty logan who we know does like deeply disturbing fairy tale retelling stuff and like kieran millwood hardgrave so i am very excited again to see what this one ends up being especially because it starts out with the line the deep sea is a haunted house a place in which things that ought not to exist move about in the darkness next up on the 24th of march we have cunning women which is another book that i'm trying not to hear any spoilers whatsoever for the reason for that is not because it's a twisty turny thriller or a mystery or anything it's because of this line that i read it says a feminist tale of forbidden love after the witch trials and that's all i need it's literally all i need the only other things that i know about it is that it's set in like 1620 i guess in lanarkshire and england which is something that i'm also very happy about more witchy books set in the uk please oh and i also know that it was blurbed by jennifer saint which again that's all i need it's all i need i'm quite happy with that you will also have to be happy with that or you can click on one of the links down below somewhere to go and find out more i may have said finally in march about cunning women i'm not sure if i did but if i did this is finally finally in march it is moonlight and the pearl's daughter by lizzie pook and can we just this is just the proof can you imagine what the final cover is going to look like if this is just the proof so this one says 1886 bannon bay australia and you guys know how much i like things that are set in australia thank you fortune waits at the bottom of the sea for reckless souls who push themselves and others to the limits to seek it when eliza's beloved father the town's most successful perler goes missing whispers from the town's folks suggest mutiny or murder it is only eliza who refuses to believe her father is dead and falls to her to ask the questions no one else dares to ask beneath the glamorous veneer of south sea perils eliza discovers a town of sweltering stinking decay the sun's scorched streets of bannon bay a place where she once thought she knew so well are teeming with corruption and the journey to save the one she loved may cost her more than she could have imagined am i ever gonna stop doing this no probably not and now my last two books both of which are published in april there are more on my longer list from like me onward so i might have to do like a second part of this video later in 2022 but for now these last two books are enough to keep me going and they're far enough away that i feel like i'm allowed to still be salty about the fact that they're so far away the first of them is nettle and bone by t kingfisher you guys also know that i absolutely fell in love with tea kingfisher recently i read the twisted ones and it was very much my gateway to the world of t kingfisher and the extremely twisted tales that they tell they used to do a lot of fairy tale retellings and then they moved into like speculative horror which is absolutely where i live and now nettle and bone is kind of like a return to the fairy tale genre but bringing all of those horror elements in with it in this world mara has watched her sister suffer at the hands of an abusive prince for years and she has finally woken up she's realized that she's not really living in a fairy tale nobody is coming to save them the only person who can save them is mara she decides that the only way that they are going to ever be free is if she kills the prince but in order to do this she seeks the help of a grave witch who gives her an impossible errand to go on first because nothing is ever for free in fairy tale life nothing ever and on this quest i believe from the blurb she meets a few people who will become companions so this book really does have all of the t kingfisher elements that i am desperate to recreate and more also this cover is just and finally an absolute doozy to round this list off we have a book that i'm sure is going to be on a lot of people's wish lists for next year we have elektra by jennifer saint jennifer saint is of course the author of ariadne which had this stunning cover i really feel like jennifer scent has locked out when it comes to cover designs they are all just perfect elektra is of course another greek myth retelling and i just i love that jennifer saying as plucking out the characters from greek myths who get no attention and giving them entire books all to themselves because of course this one is the retelling of the fall of the house of archers and i feel like there has been plenty about clytemnestra and cassandra out there but very very little about elektra so i am very excited like as in i'm actually actively vibrating for this one i have very very high hopes and i do not want to be disappointed jennifer saint make it good make it good so that's it that is everything that is on the first half of my most anticipated list for next year the books that i thought were the most pressing to tell you about the ones that i thought that you would enjoy the most so as always please let me know if you are also anticipating any of the books on this list or if based on this list you have any recommendations for me about other books that i should check out either new to be released or already out there give me more books that i could have in my sticky hand right now that i don't have to wait for and of course speaking about books that you can have in your sticky hands right now don't forget the offer that book of the month has on for december the code is in my description box below so go and run and get your hands on this if you are in the us and thank you again to book of the month for kindly sponsoring this video if you enjoyed this little taste of festive madness then please hit the like button it really does help and if you would like to stick around there'll be more of me in 2022 so hit the subscribe button i love you all guys and i will speak to you very soon bye i think i deserve chocolate now jingle bell jingle bell jingle all the way you

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Published: Fri Dec 17 2021