The Buzziest Books of August | 2022

26 Aug 2022

The Buzziest Books of August | 2022

The month of August is a great time for readers with a host of exciting new releases from bestselling authors. There are so many page-turning novels that will captivate you from cover to cover. If you want to know what new books everyone has been talking about, here are our choices for the 10 most noteworthy books of August. Happy reading!

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Mad About You

by Mhairi McFarlane

Release Date: August 9, 2022

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a sharp, emotional new novel about a woman who calls off her engagement to “the perfect man” and moves in with a charming stranger who makes her question everything about her life, her past, and the secrets she’s kept for far too long…

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Girl, Forgotten

by Karin Slaughter

Release Date: August 23, 2022

From the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her, comes an electrifying thriller featuring newly minted US Marshal Andrea Oliver as she investigates a cold case with links to her father’s past.

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I’m Glad My Mom Died

by Jennette McCurdy

Release Date: August 9, 2022

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

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Soul Taken (A Mercy Thompson Novel Book 13)

by Patricia Briggs

Release Date: August 23, 2022

Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series.

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Royally Not Ready

by Meghan Quinn

Release Date: August 9, 2022

From USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn, comes a fresh take on a royal romance with a twist. Laugh out loud funny and full of some of her steamiest scenes yet, Quinn takes you on an unexpected, sizzling fairytale journey.

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The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games Book 3)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Release Date: August 30, 2022

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. Secrets upon secrets. Riddles upon riddles. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake—and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning.

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Carrie Soto Is Back

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Release Date: August 30, 2022

In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells her most vulnerable, emotional story yet. “Gorgeous. The kind of sharp, smart, potent book you have to set aside every few pages just to catch your breath. I’ll take a piece of Carrie Soto forward with me in life and be a little better for it.”—Emily Henry, author of Book Lovers and Beach Read

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Babel

by R. F. Kuang

Release Date: August 23, 2022

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal…

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Mika in Real Life

by Emiko Jean

Release Date: August 2, 2022

n this brilliant new novel from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love—how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns.

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All Good People Here

by Ashley Flowers

Release Date: August 16, 2022

In the propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown’s dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor—and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. Twisty, chilling, and intense, All Good People Here is a searing tale that asks: What are your neighbors capable of when they think no one is watching?

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