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 Echo Man
Investigating a string of brutal murders echoing famous cases from the past--Manson, Kemper, Dahmer and more--detectives Cara Elliott and Noah Deakin find the cases hitting too close to home, while a woman on the run discovers a shocking link between her case and that of the ultimate copycat.
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The Immortality Thief
Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova.
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Under Fortunate Stars
A modern, progressive homage to classic space opera stories, with flawed heroes and time travel.
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At Certain Points We Touch
It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realise that it's February 29th the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago.
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Bad Fruit
A recent high-school graduate, Lily, watches her volatile Singaporean mother become increasingly unhinged and starts to have flashbacks that are not her own as she begins to unravel the harrowing history that has always cast a pall upon her family.
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An Impossible Return
It’s 1967 in the Chagos Archipelago—a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean—and life is peaceful for hardworking Marie. Her fierce independence and love for her home are quickly apparent to Gabriel, the handsome and sophisticated Mauritian secretary to the archipelago’s administrator; it’s love at first sight.
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All That's Left Unsaid
In Cabramatta, Australia after her younger brother is murdered inside a restaurant while celebrating his high school graduation Ky Tran vows to uncover his killer despite an indifferent police force and witnesses who claim they saw nothing.
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The Book of Everlasting Things
From an oral historian comes a sweeping debut novel about a Hindu perfumer and a Muslim calligrapher, who fall in love against the backdrop of the Partition.
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The Book of Gothel
Everyone knows the story of Rapunzel in the tower, but do you know the story of the witch who put her there? Told from her own perspective, The Book of Gothel is a lush, historical retelling filled with dark magic, crumbling towers, mysterious woods, and evil princes. This is the truth they never wanted you to know, as only a witch might tell it.
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Death and the Conjuror
A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes.
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