5-Star Books I Read in 2022 & Books I Read That Were Published in 2022

I read four 5-star books this year. Two of them were published in 2022.

Everything I read in 2022 is listed on my Goodreads – starting from most recently read.

And here I’ve included a list of everything PUBLISHED in 2022 that I read.

(NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Goodreads links to my star-ratings and thoughts.)

5-STAR READS
5 STARS: Amy Suiter Clarke: Girl, 11: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: & Paperback: Goodreads
5 STARS: Jodi Picoult: The Color War: eBook: Goodreads
5 STARS: Amy McCulloch: Breathless: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
5 STARS: Claire Askew: A Matter of Time: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

2022 RELEASES
4 STARS: Eliza Jane Brazier: Good Rich People: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: P. J. Tracy: Desolation Canyon: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
5 STARS: Amy McCulloch: Breathless: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Claire Kohda: Woman, Eating: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Kate McLaughlin: Daughter: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
4 STARS: Alex Kava: Fallen Creed: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
4 STARS: Allie Reynolds: The Bay (also published as The Swell): Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
4 STARS: Hannah Gadsby: Ten Steps to Nanette: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Fran Dorricott: The Lighthouse: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Holly Black: Book of Night: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Lisa Scottoline: What Happened to the Bennetts: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Kelley Armstrong: A Rip Through Time: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Katharine McGee: Rivals: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Andrew Neiderman: The Woman Beyond the Attic: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Kelley Armstrong: The Deepest of Secrets: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Erica Spindler: The Detective’s Daughter: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Karin Slaughter: Girl, Forgotten: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Lydia Kang: The Half-Life of Ruby Fielding: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Darcey Bell: All I Want: Kindle Edition: Goodreads
4 STARS: Riley Sager: The House Across the Lake: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
2 STARS: Paul Tremblay: The Pallbearers Club: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
5 STARS: Claire Askew: A Matter of Time: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward): River Clyde: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Amanda Panitch: Gone Dark: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Final Gambit: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Samantha Hayes: The Ex-Husband: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
2 STARS: V. C. Andrews: Becoming My Sister: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback & Mass Market Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Seanan McGuire: Where the Drowned Girls Go: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
3 STARS: Francesca Zappia: Katzenjammer: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads
3 STARS: Natasha Preston: The Fear: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Megan Shepherd: Malice House: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads
4 STARS: Rachel Caine & Carrie Ryan: Trapper Road: Kindle Edition & Paperback: Goodreads
4 STARS: Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan: Mad Honey: Kindle Edition & Hardcover: Goodreads

November 2022 Releases

(NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Goodreads links to my star-ratings and thoughts.)

Kelley Armstrong: Ghosts & Garlands: Kindle Edition

Kelley Armstrong: Christmas at Thorne Manor: Hardcover & Paperback

Claire Askew: A Matter of Time: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Eliza Jane Brazier: Good Rich People: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Katelyn Detweiler: The People We Choose: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

Christina Farley: The Dream Heist: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Alex Kava: Fallen Creed: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

John Ajvide Lindqvist (translated by Ebba Segerberg): Let the Right One In: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Seanan McGuire: Skeleton Song: Kindle Edition

Marissa Meyer: Cursed: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige: The Monarchs: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

Natasha Preston: The Twin & The Lake & The Fear: Paperback: Goodreads (The Twin) & Goodreads (The Fear)

Cherie Priest: Flight Risk: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

Tiffany Reisz: Wrapped in Black: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Beth Revis: Museum of Magic: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Lisa Scottoline: Most Wanted: Kindle Edition & Paperback & Mass Market Paperback: Goodreads

Lisa Scottoline: What Happened to the Bennetts: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Amy Tintera: The Q: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Lisa Unger: Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

March 2022 Releases

Better late than never, right? So here are some books you may have missed, released March 2022. All are US publication dates, and all buy links are to Amazon US. (NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Goodreads links lead to my star-ratings (out of five) and any thoughts.

Cassandra Alexander: Year of the Nurse: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

V. C. Andrews: Becoming My Sister: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback

Tara Isabella Burton: The World Cannot Give: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Alyssa Cole: When No One Is Watching: Kindle Edition & Paperback & Mass Market Paperback: Goodreads

Janet Edwards: Earth Prime: Kindle Edition) & Hardcover & Paperback

Hannah Gadsby: Ten Steps to Nanette: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Tracey Garvis Graves: The Girl He Used to Know: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback & Mass Market Paperback

Megan Hart: Coming Up for Air: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Alex Kava: Fallen Creed: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Mindy McGinnis: The Last Laugh: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Seanan McGuire: Spelunking Through Hell: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Kate McLaughlin: Daughter: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Marissa Meyer: Cinder: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Marissa Meyer: Cinder’s Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding!: Kindle Edition

Natasha Preston: The Fear: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Madeleine Roux: The Book of Living Secrets: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Holly Schindler: A Blue So Dark: Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback: Goodreads

Lisa Scottoline: What Happened to the Bennetts: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Maria V. Snyder: Up to the Challenge: Kindle Edition & Paperback

Erica Spindler: From the Deep (previously published as See Jane Die): Kindle Edition

Erica Spindler: The Detective’s Daughter: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

Now Available for US Pre-Order

(NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

NOW AVAILABLE
Janet Edwards: EARTH PRIME: Kindle Edition & Paperback
Karen Ann Hopkins: THE OFFERING: Kindle Edition & Paperback
Carrie Jones: WHEN YOU BRING THEM BACK: Kindle Edition & Paperback
Maria V. Snyder: THE KING OF KORAHA: Kindle Edition & Paperback

PRE-ORDER
Jessica Brody: SAVE THE CAT! WRITES A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: 2nd August 2022: Kindle Edition & Paperback
Simone Buchholz (translated by Rachel Ward): RIVER CLYDE: 17th January 2022/1st July 2022: Kindle Edition & Paperback
Hannah Gadsby: TEN STEPS TO NANETTE: 29th March 2022: Kindle Edition & Hardcover
Kim Harrison: MILLION DOLLAR DEMON: 26th April 2022 (KE & HC out now): Kindle Edition & Hardcover & Paperback
Emiko Jean: MIKA IN REAL LIFE: 9th August 2022: Kindle Edition & Hardcover
Alex Kava: FALLEN CREED: 15th March 2022: Kindle Edition & Hardcover
Katharine McGee: INHERITANCE: 3rd May 2022: Kindle Edition
Katharine McGee: RIVALS: 31st May 2022: Kindle Edition & Hardcover
Danielle Valentine: HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR MURDER: 30th August 2022: Kindle Edition & Hardcover

[REWIND] August 2020 Releases

If you stopped keeping updated on book stuff in 2020, this blog series is for you. A list, organised by month, of 2020 book releases. All are US publication dates, and all buy links are to Kindle Editions. (NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Goodreads links lead to my star-ratings (out of five) and any thoughts.

AUGUST 2020 RELEASES

Janet Edwards: Earth Prime: Buy
R. Z. Held: Unjust Theft: Buy
Kristi Helvig: Strange Skies: Buy
Kristi Helvig: The House on 6th Street: Buy: Goodreads
Alex Kava: Hidden Creed: Buy: Goodreads
Laura Lam & Elizabeth May: Seven Devils: Buy
Kate McLaughlin (also published as Kady Cross): The Girl in the Steel Corset: Buy: Goodreads
Carrie Mesrobian: The Whitsun Daughters: Buy
Stephenie Meyer: Midnight Sun: Buy
Sara Raasch & Kristen Simmons: Set Fire to the Gods: Buy
Lilja Sigurðardóttir (translated by Quentin Bates): Betrayal: Buy: Goodreads
Karin Slaughter: The Silent Wife: Buy

Book Releases: 1st June 2020 – Onward

Think I stopped sharing pre-order links at some stage, but don’t know when. So I’ll just go through the alphabet, and post books released on or after 1st June 2020.

April 2020 Releases

The following is a thread of books released in April 2020, which was last month.

Darcey Bell: SOMETHING SHE’S NOT TELLING US: US Kindle Edition; US Hardcover; US Paperback; UK Hardcover; UK Paperback; CA Kindle Edition; AU Hardcover; AU Paperback; Worldwide Hardcover; Worldwide Paperback

Christina Dalcher: MASTER CLASS/Q: US Kindle Edition; US Hardcover; UK Kindle Edition; UK Hardcover; CA Kindle Edition; AU eBook; AU Hardcover; Worldwide Hardcover; Worldwide Paperback

Megan Hart: ALL THE HARDEST CHOICES: US Kindle Edition; UK Kindle Edition; CA Kindle Edition

Megan Hart: REASON ENOUGH: US Kindle Edition; UK Kindle Edition; CA Kindle Edition

Kristi Helvig: THE MISSING: US Kindle Edition; UK Kindle Edition; CA Kindle Edition

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff: AURORA RISING: US Paperback; UK Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff: AURORA BURNING: AU eBook; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Alex Kava: LOST CREED: US Paperback; UK Paperback; CA Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Alex Kava: DESPERATE CREED: US Paperback; UK Paperback; CA Paperback

Laura Lam: GOLDILOCKS: UK Kindle Edition; UK Hardcover; AU eBook; AU Paperback; Worldwide Hardcover; Worldwide Paperback

L. A. Larkin: PREY: US Kindle Edition; US Paperback; UK Kindle Edition; UK Paperback; CA Kindle Edition; AU eBook; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Tiffany Reisz: THE PRIEST: US Paperback; UK Paperback; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Veronica Roth’s CHOSEN ONES: US Kindle Edition; US Hardcover; UK Kindle Edition; UK Hardcover; UK Paperback; CA Kindle Edition; AU eBook; AU Hardcover; AU Paperback; Worldwide Hardcover; Worldwide Paperback

Lisa Scottoline: EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES: US Paperback; UK Paperback; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Andrew Shaffer: LET’S SEE THEM POEMS: US Kindle Edition; CA Kindle Edition

Lilja Sigurðardóttir: CAGE: US Paperback; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

Erica Spindler: THE FINAL SEVEN: US Kindle Edition; CA Kindle Edition

Wendy Walker: THE NIGHT BEFORE: US Paperback; UK Paperback; AU Paperback; Worldwide Paperback

[REVIEW] Silent Creed – Alex Kava

Alex Kava
Silent Creed (Ryder Creed, Book 2)
Penguin G.P. Putnam’s Sons (US & CA: 28th July 2015); Hachette Little, Brown Sphere (UK & AU: 28th July 2015)
Buy (US Kindle Edition) Buy (US Hardcover) Buy (US Paperback) Buy (UK Kindle Edition) Buy (UK Hardcover) Buy (UK Paperback) Buy (CA Kindle Edition) Buy (CA Hardcover) Buy (CA Paperback) Buy (Worldwide Hardcover) Buy (Worldwide Paperback)

While I’d recommend all of Alex Kava’s books, if you lack time to read her entire backlist, the Ryder Creed series is the most recent. Only two books so far have been published, with a third set for early 2016.

We first met Ryder Creed in Stranded, the “last” book in the Maggie O’Dell series. But Maggie’s still alive and kicking so fear not. Silent Creed references Exposed, but while it may be beneficial to catch up on Maggie’s books, you should still be able to keep up with the Creed ones without the backlist.

Ah, the military – they can be shady as hell, even to their own. While Senator Ellie Delanor is fighting to get medical benefits for veterans exposed to pathogens, Creed and Maggie are trying to recover bodies and a medical research facility from the debris of a landslide.

As for the dogs, Grace is again the star, but with a good showing from Bolo, too. Young veteran Jason Seaver was a worry early on in the book, but a new dog friend could be his reason to live.

Fans of thrillers and dogs alike will find Alex Kava’s combination a winner. The story trots along, and never outstays its welcome. Another great read in this author’s arsenal.

5 New Deals (Kava, Langager, Na, Campbell Powell, Sirowy)

Alex Kava‘s next four thrillers. Two books featuring recurring character Special Agent Maggie O’Dell, and two books featuring a new character, ex-Marine Ryder Creed, and his K9 Search and Rescue dogs.

Marie Langager‘s Haven to Bloomsbury Spark, as part of their launch. A seventeen-year-old girl’s dying ship has landed on an unexpectedly inhabited planet. She is marked by the Locals as a specimen for their grueling and dangerous tests, and is the only one who can determine whether they’re out to understand or destroy their uninvited guests.

An Na‘s The Middle Place to Atheneum (2015, North American rights). An existential exploration of the link between genetics and madness.

William Campbell Powell‘s Expiration Day, for publiction in April 2014. In a not-so-distant future, the decline of human fertility has resulted in android children who, on their eighteenth birthdays, are returned to the factory, no questions asked. But one girl wants to know more and fights to gain the answers she craves.

Alexandra Sirowy‘s The Creeping to Simon & Schuster (World Rights) in a two-book deal. Publication set for 2015. YA thriller. A girl vanished with her friend when they were both five, and was the only one who returned. Now, years later, she is beginning to recover memories from that time amid a wave of creepy events.