Best Debut Fiction of 2022
Tired of the same old same old? Take a leap into something new, with our favorite debut fiction titles from 2022. Whether you enjoy literary fiction, fantasy, science fiction, thrillers, horror, romance, or short stories, there's a newly published author here for you to try. Get in on the ground floor with these promising new authors.
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The Stardust Thief
A hunter and seller of illegal magic, Loulie al-Nazari, after saving the life of a cowardly prince, is blackmailed into finding an ancient lamp, drawing her into a world where nothing is what it seems and where she must decide who she will become in this new reality.
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The Ghetto Within
In 1940s Buenos Aires, three fellow Polish exiles grapple with identity and allegiance for the rest of their lives, including Vicente Rosenberg, who is riddled with guilt about leaving his family behind, in this unique mix of fiction, biography and memoir that reimagines the author's grandfather's life.
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Mother of Strangers
Based on a true story, this novel follows the lives of a gifted 15-year-old mechanic and the 13-year-old peasant girl he hopes to marry against the backdrop of the indiscriminate bombing of Jaffa and the displacements of Palestinian families, in this portrait of a city and a people irrevocably changed.
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The Houseboat
A stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 1960s, a midcentury heartland gothic with abounding twists and a feverish conclusion.
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Legends & Lattes
The much-beloved BookTok sensation from Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes is a novel of high fantasy and low stakes.
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Deep Water
Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, a Captain discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife who describes how their exotic trip to a tiny, remote island forced her to become a murderer.
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Twice in A Lifetime
The Time Traveler's Wife meets Oona Out of Order in this imaginative and moving debut novel of a love more powerful than time.
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Stories No One Hopes Are About Them
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, these stories explore convergences of power, privilege, and place.
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Her Perfect Twin
When Megan discovers photographs of her estranged identical twin sister on her husband's phone, she wants answers. Leah already has everything Megan has ever wanted. Fame, fortune, freedom to do what she wants. And when Megan confronts Leah, an argument turns to murder.
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The Lemon
When the universally adored host of a culinary travel show is found dead in a Belfast hotel room in an apparent suicide, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative, in this darkly hilarious and ultimately devastating interrogation of the underside of success and fame.
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