2022 Romance Book Releases I’m Excited To Read
I am an avid romance reader—there’s no doubt about it. Looking back over my blog posts about books, I think it’s safe to say that I write about the romance novel I’m reading or have read about 75 percent of the time.
That being said, I don’t plan to stop reading romance novels. I compiled this list for my benefit, and yours, too, so that I can stay on top of what romance novels are coming out in 2022. I want to stay on top of the trends! I want to read the latest romance novel! Some of these I’ve read other books by the same author, and some authors are completely new. So, here are the romance novels I’m excited to read in 2022.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
As a cutthroat literary agent, Nora Stephens’ whole life is books—and her little sister, Libby. When Libby convinces her to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, for the entire month of August for a sisters’ trip away, Nora agrees. Libby is convinced that Nora needs to become the heroine of her own story, much like in her books that she reads. But instead of the typical book tropes, Nora finds herself bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. A meet cute? Nah, they’ve met before and it’s never been too cute. After being thrown together so many times, what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.
Release Date: May 3, 2022 // Pre-Order on Bookshop.org.
By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
Isabelle (Izzy), a 25-year-old editorial assistant living at home is the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself. After a touch of an existential crisis, she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be? Beau Towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell-all memoir. He is jaded and withdrawn and it turns out, just as lost as Izzy. But despite his standoffishness, Izzy needs Beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. However, the two realize they have more in common than they realize, and as the deadline nears, Izzy and Beau might realize there’s something there.
Release Date: May 3, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
In Tessa Bailey’s sequel to It Happened One Summer, a former player falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man. Fox Thornton is a sexy, carefree flirt and a King crab fisherman. With a player reputation, he meets Hannah Berlinger, who’s immune to his reputation. She just wants to be friends. She’s nursing her own crush on a colleague and Fox is the right person to help with her lackluster love life. With Fox’s help, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye, but the more she spends time with the player fisherman, she starts to want him instead. Torn between her feelings for Fox and not wanting to be just another girl to him, the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur. Fox, on the other side of the bed, thought this would be easy too, but after spending time with her and helping her to flirt with another guy, Fox actually realizes he falls for her.
Release Date: March 1, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Good Girl Complex by Elle Kennedy
As a people pleaser, Mac Cabot is exhausted following the rules. When she moves away to college in the town of Avalon Bay, at her parents’ insistence on getting a college degree, she doesn’t expect to fall for local bad boy Cooper Hartley. Surrounded by trust-fund kids of Garnet College and the locals in town. Mac, with demanding parents and prep school friends, long time boyfriend, is the complete opposite of Cooper, who is raw, candid, and well, a bad boy. When Cooper realizes that Mac is not like the trust fund kids that invaded into his town, he starts to fall for her.
Release Date: February 1, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Kenna Rowan has just gotten out of prison after serving five years for a tragic mistake. She returns to the town where it all went wrong to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. She runs into Ledger Ward, the only person in town who hasn’t shut her out, and he happens to have a link to her daughter. When Kenna and Ledger form a connection, the risk os losing the trust of everyone important to them grows. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing.
Release Date: January 18, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston
After Chloe Green’s moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. Winning valedictorian is the only thing that is keeping her going, and her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. In hunting for answers, Chloe is not the only one Shara kissed: Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind. The three chase a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery. This book, brought by author of Red, White, and Royal Blue, is sure to be a fun one!
Release date: May 3, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord
A search for her birth mother, a crush on her rival. What’s life without a little drama? Author Emma Lord has always written such great books and I’m excited to read this one! Millie, raised by her lovable but super introverted dad, sets out to find her mother—all while trying to fulfill her lifelong dream of becoming a Broadway star.
Release Date: January 4, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
A TV meteorologist and a sports reporter scheme to reunite their divorced bosses with unforecasted results. Ari, a TV meteorologist, seeks a mentor in her boss, weatherwoman Torrance Hale, but Torrance is too distracted by her ex-husband, the station’s director. When sweet and reserved sports reporter Russell Barringer teams up with Ari to bring their bosses together, real chemistry builds between Ari and Russell.
Release Date: January 11, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
When her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis Montgomery doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere” ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel, a ridiculously hot carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come (the complete opposite of Alexis), and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.
Release Date: April 19, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Lockdown on London Lane by Beth Reekles
For the inhabitants of London Lane, a simple slip of paper underneath each of their doors is about to change their lives in a hundred different ways. Through make ups, breakups, love-ins, and blowouts, friendships are tested as everyone scrambles to make it through the week unscathed. Amidst all the drama, one thing remains constant: life is full of surprises.
Release Date: February 1, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate
An enemies-to-lovers book! With a successful career as a romance editor, and an engagement to a man who checks of all ninety-nine boxes on her carefully curated list, Lanie’s more than good. She’s killing it. Then she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: to work with world-renowned author and her biggest inspiration in love and life—the Noa Callaway. All Lanie has to do is cure Noa’s writer’s block and she’ll get the promotion she’s always dreamed of. Simple, right? But there’s a reason no one has ever seen or spoken to the mysterious Noa Calloway. And that reason will rock Lanie’s world. It will call into question everything she thought she knew. When she finally tosses her ninety-nine expectations to the wind, Lanie may just discover that love By Any Other Name can still be as sweet.
Release Date: March 1, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
Here’s to Us by Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
This sequel to What If It’s Us continues the story of Ben and Arthur. Ben, after his freshman year of college, is feeling stuck. The only bright spot is his writing partner, Mario, who’s giving him Spanish lessons and lots of kisses. But why can’t Ben stop thinking about a certain boy from his past? Arthur is back in New York as an intern to the assistant of an off-off-Broadway director. He’s spending the summer away from his boyfriend, Mikey, but when his ex-boyfriend Ben stumbles back into the picture, things get weird; they keep running into each other.
Release Date: December 28, 2021 // Shop on Bookshop.org.
One True Loves by Elise Bryant
Lenore Bennett, as a star artist and style icon at her school, and for not giving a (you fill in the blank), is headed to NYU in the fall. She’s a little confused post-graduation from high school, which is unusual for her, so when her family embarks on a post-graduation Mediterranean cruise, her friend Tessa (Happily Ever Afters) is sure Lenore’s in for a whirlwind romance. But Lenore knows that doesn’t happen to girls like her. Then she meets Alex Lee. He’s a hopeless romantic with a ten-year plan, and also very irritating. But as they get to know each other, Alex may be able to help Lenore find something else she’s looking for: love.
Release Date: January 4, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
30 Things I Love About Myself by Radhika Sanghani
Nina didn’t plan to spend her thirtieth birthday in jail, yet here she is in her pajamas, locked in a holding cell. She reflects on her life: just broken up with her fiancé, and now has to move back into her childhood home to live with her older brother and their uptight, traditional Indian mother. Her career as a freelance journalist isn’t going in the direction she wants, and all her friends are too busy being successful to hang out with her. Just as she falls into despair, a book lands in her cell: How to Fix Your Shitty Life by Loving Yourself. She makes a decision to embark on a self-love journey, and by her next birthday, she’s going to find thirty things she loves about herself.
Release Date: January 4, 2022 // Pre-order on Bookshop.org.
