The Buzziest Books of December | 2022

16 Dec 2022

The Buzziest Books of December | 2022

The month of December was a great time for readers with a host of exciting new releases from bestselling authors. So many page-turning novels will captivate you from cover to cover. If you want to know what new books everyone has been talking about, here are our picks for December’s 10 most noteworthy releases. Happy reading!

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Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction

by Ben Abraham and More

Release Date: December 20, 2022

Essays on speculative/science fiction explore the futures that feed our most cherished fantasies and terrifying nightmares, while helping diverse communities devise new survival strategies for a tough millennium.

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Well Traveled

by Jen DeLuca

Release Date: December 6, 2022

A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa “Lulu” Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it’s all wrong. Lulu’s cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Renaissance Faires, and when she spies one at a time just when she needs an escape, she leaps into the welcoming environment of turkey legs, taverns, and tarot readers. The only drawback? Dex MacLean: a guitarist with a killer smile, the Casanova of the Faire… and her traveling companion for the summer…

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A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré

by John le Carré

Release Date: December 6, 2022

An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré, giving readers access to the intimate thoughts of one of the greatest writers of our time. This collection is a treasure trove, revealing the late author’s humour, generosity, and wit–a side of him many readers have not previously seen.

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Twice in a Lifetime

by Nyla Melissa Baron Hajji

Release Date: December 12, 2022

The Time Traveler’s Wife meets Oona Out of Order in this imaginative and moving debut novel of a love more powerful than time. Melissa Baron’s time-crossed romance features a quintessentially endearing and brave protagonist, and an engrossing plot that will keep you turning pages until its breathtaking finish.

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The Widowmaker: A Black Harbor Novel

by Hannah Morrissey

Release Date: December 6, 2022

A wealthy family shrouded in scandal; a detective tasked with solving an impossible cold case; and a woman with a dark past collide in Hannah Morrissey’s stunning Black Harbor mystery, The Widowmaker.

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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

by Evette Dionne

Release Date: December 6, 2022

A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender—and toward a brighter future—from National Book Award nominee Evette Dionne.

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Zodiac Academy 8: Sorrow and Starlight

by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Release Date: December 11, 2022

All stars must fall. Bloody, lost, broken. We live to fight another day. But with so much stolen from us, can the fates ever twist in our favour again? My sister and I have been torn apart by shadows and despair, and now we each stand alone. Our sorrow is spun like a web, trapping us tight, and I fear our enemies will soon come to feast upon our souls. But if I have my way, the merciless sky will have dealt us its final fortune. It’s time for us to take back the power that’s been ripped from our grasp and turn the tide of this war.

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The Vibrant Years

by Sonali Dev

Release Date: December 1, 2022

From USA Today bestselling author Sonali Dev comes a heartfelt novel about three generations of hilarious, unconventional, ambitious women navigating bad dates, a spiteful HOA board, reemerging exes, and secrets that refuse to remain hidden. Join the Desai women on a shared journey of self-discovery as they dare to live their most vibrant lives.

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Queen of Myth and Monsters (Adrian X Isolde Book 2)

by Scarlett St. Clair

Release Date: December 20, 2022

The next book in the vampire fantasy series by USA Today and international bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair. Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland. Now, as politics in the Red Palace grow more underhanded, inexplicable monster attacks plague the villages, and a deadly crimson mist threatens all of Cordova, Isolde must trust in the bond she’s formed with Adrian, even as she learns troubling information about his complicated past.

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Weightless: The Light Pirate

by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Release Date: December 6, 2022

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous child born out of a devastating hurricane—as she navigates a rapidly changing world: A “symphony of beauty and heartbreak” (Associated Press). Told in four parts—power, water, light, and time—The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it. It is a meditation on the changes we would rather not see, the future we would rather not greet, and a call back to the beauty and violence of an untamable wilderness.

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