The year 2022 just flew away like the wind. I can’t believe it’s October 2022 already, and We’re ready to flip the page, don a sweater, and curl up with some autumnal literature. Since publishers are preparing for the holidays, October is a significant month for books. So, here, we’ll be looking at some of the many excellent books publishing in October 2022.
As a book lover and a constant reader, Nothing makes me happier than learning about a new book and then sharing it with my friends, and so that’s exactly what I’m going to do with books that are all set to be released in October 2022. Plus, I can’t wait to read the books coming out in October 2022 since they look fantastic.
Like other months this year, October books will also be a whole package with a little of everything. Our most awaited book releases of the month are those scheduled for October 2022, spanning the genres of fiction, fantasy, romance, and young adult. Definitely, there is something for everyone.
Let’s get into it without wasting any more of your time, shall we?
Publishing Books That You Must Read in October 2022
1. Bad Girl Reputation
Full Title: Bad Girl Reputation: An Avalon Bay Novel
Author: Elle Kennedy
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publishing Date: 4 October 2022
Description:
Genevieve West, a former bad girl, is ready to avoid her ex-boyfriend Evan Hartley when she visits her family for her mother’s burial. Their past is fraught with upheaval. But in the tiny coastal village where they once went berserk, it’s impossible to avoid running into Evan. Gen can immediately tell that her stunning ex-boyfriend is still as wild, seductive, and alluring as ever when she first meets him.
But this time, she’s determined to go a different route—no more celebrations—No more careless errors. She intends to stay briefly in town to assist her father in running his business, but as soon as he finds someone else, she leaves.
Evan has different plans. Even if it means turning over a new leaf, he must persuade Genevieve that they can be a good match. Can a poor reputation, however, ever really be erased?
2. It Starts with Us
Full Title: It Starts with Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Romance novel
Publishing Date: 18 October 2022
Description:
Just as Lily and her ex-husband Ryle are getting used to their amicable co-parenting routine, she unexpectedly runs into Atlas, her first love, once more. She is thrilled that, for once, time is on their side after over two years apart, and she says yes right away when Atlas asks her out.
Although they are no longer married, Ryle is still a part of her life, and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will detest in the lives of his ex-wife and daughter, which soon dampens her delight.
3. The Atlas Paradox
Full Title: The Atlas Paradox
Author: Olivie Blake
Genre: Dark fantasy
Publishing Date: 25 October 2022
Description:
Six magicians. Two conflicts. One scientist is also a man who can traverse dreams. Everyone must choose a side: do they want to save or end the planet? The Alexandrian society is exposed as the raw, world-changing power it truly is in this electrifying follow-up to the internet phenomenon The Atlas Six. It is commanded by a man whose plans to alter life as we know it is already well underway.
However, knowledge comes at a high price, and as the cost of power forces each character to pick a side, whose alliances will hold and which will see their rivalries grow more intense?
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the dark academic sensation The Atlas Six is here, and you can count on it to be just as chaotic and full of longing and backstabbing.
4. Just Like Magic
Full Title: Just Like Magic
Author: Sarah Hogle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publishing Date: 4 October 2022
Description:
Bettie Hughes previously exuded the ease of affluence, showing off an absurd assortment of designer shoes and a covert dependence on CBD oil. That is, until her parents cut off her financial freedom. Bettie has long been preoccupied with maintaining a perfect public image and posts pictures of her abundant life online.
Bettie’s family is unaware that she is impoverished and living in squalor in Colorado. When a buzzed Bettie plays a vinyl record of “All I Want for Christmas Is You” backward and unintentionally summons Hall, a surprisingly endearing Holiday Spirit in the shape of a man, Christmas, with its pressure to match familial expectations, is just around the corner.
After the initial shock subsides, Bettie realizes she has found the ultimate gift, a chance to fulfill all of her holiday dreams and a potential fiancé. But as magic’s spell wears off, Bettie discovers that Hall’s kind actions throw her off balance. Bettie’s heart is suddenly becoming joyful and light. But Hall’s time on earth is getting shorter the happier she is.
5. A Scatter of Light
Full Title: A Scatter of Light
Author: Malinda Lo
Genre: Lesbian literature
Publishing Date: 6 October 2022
Description:
Before heading off to college, Aria Tang West was looking forward to spending the summer on Martha’s Vineyard with her closest friends. Aria’s parents send her to live with her grandmother, artist Joan West, in California when a graduation party goes wrong. Aria anticipates monotony, but instead, she meets Steph Nichols, the gardener who works for her grandma.
A summer that once seemed lost quickly turns into something special for Aria, her family, and the working-class gay community Steph exposes her to. Soon, Aria questions who she is and what she wants to be. This summer will forever alter a person’s life.
6. Partners in Crime
Full Title: Partners in Crime
Author: Alisha Rai
Genre: Romance novel
Publishing Date: 5 October 2022
Description:
In this entertaining romantic adventure, Indian Matchmaking meets Date Night as a match-made couple ready to get engaged and embroiled in a scheme that threatens their future and lives. Mira Chaudhary, an accountant who is 35 years old and has a steady career, would do anything to find a dull man to spend the rest of her life with. Naveen Desai comes on. Naveen is ideal, a professor of English with an unremarkable, typical, and, dare she say it, dull life.
But just as everything seems to be going smoothly, Mira learns that her aunt has passed away. Suddenly, Mira’s trip to Las Vegas to settle her aunt’s business becomes a scramble to avoid kidnappers, avoid art thieves, and make friends with hackers who can figure out exactly what Mira’s aunt was up to.
Mira wants to ensure that Naveen isn’t driven away by the same “excitement” she has been trying to escape. However, Mira and Naveen may discover their true love during one wild night.
7. Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove
Full Title: Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove
Author: Rati Mehrotra
Genre: Fiction
Publishing Date: 18 October 2022
Description:
In the kingdom of Chandela, Katyani’s function has always been clear: after Ayan succeeds on the throne, she will serve as his bodyguard and counselor. Katyani was raised in the royal family and has developed into the best guardswoman Garuda has ever seen. She is connected to the Queen of Chandela through a forbidden soul tie that saved her when she was a child.
Katyani is sent to the gurukul of the renowned Acharya Mahavir as an escort to Ayan and his cousin, Bhairav, to protect them as they develop the talents necessary to be the next leaders of the country. Still, when a series of murder attempts threaten the royals, she is sent there.
Kalyani encounters Daksh, Acharya’s son, who never stops harping on the rules. Whose look makes her feel he can see the only things that might irritate her more than being forced to attend a monastic school amid a forest into her soul. Katyani is tragically wrenched from the only life she has ever known when she and the princes are suddenly called back to Chandela before their training is finished.
To save everyone she loves and create her future, Katyani finds herself alone and betrayed in a place where monsters abound. Debts must be paid back; bonds can be severed.
8. Prince of Song & Sea
Full Title: Prince of Song & Sea
Author: Linsey Miller
Genre: Fantasy
Publishing Date: 4 October 2022
Description:
Prince Eric’s mother, the Queen of Vellona, had reminded him of the specifics of the fatal curse that had dogged his entire life before she vanished two years prior. The omen? He would perish if he shared a kiss with anybody other than his true love. Eric is in desperate need of any knowledge that could assist him in breaking his spell and restoring stability to Vellona in light of the neighboring kingdom’s eagerness to invade their territory and stories of ghost pirates prowling in the seas.
His mother’s letter, which states that Eric must find his true love, the person whose voice is pure in heart, or slay the sea witch who first cursed him, brings him the answers he has been seeking. Eric is now trying to locate the witch’s fabled home, the Isle of Serein. However, Eric’s heart is broken after being saved by an enigmatic young lady with a captivating singing voice.
Does he pursue a love that might not even exist or engage in a conflict that he is pretty confident he cannot win? Eric may also learn that real love cannot be determined by magic when a stranded young woman with fiery red hair and a smile that could soothe the seven oceans enters his life.
9. Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Full Title: Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken
Author: Nita Tyndall
Genre: Young adult fiction
Publishing Date: 18 October 2022
Description:
Charlotte Kraus is unaware that the summer before World War II starts that summer. All she can recall is the electric tingle she has each time her best friend Angelika Haas takes her hand. Charlie would follow Geli wherever she went, which is how she ends herself one Friday night, dancing to bootleg American jazz and swing music and feeling as though everything is possible.
Returning to the club is risky under the heavy shadow of the Nazi dictatorship. Charlie nevertheless does it, unable to resist the seduction of telling the girl she can’t stop thinking about a secret or the excitement of breaking the Party’s rules.
The Swingjugend movement soon transcends being only an escape. It’s a location where Charlie and her pals discover acceptance, independence, and camaraderie among people who are adamant about not seeing history pass them by. Charlie is drawn to bigger and bigger acts of resistance as Geli, the daughter of a top Party officer, starts to distance herself from Charlie as he grows increasingly afraid of the tightening grasp of Hitler’s power.
However, fighting the Nazis is risky, and the war will test how much Charlie is ready to give up to protect her friends, family, and the girl she loves.
10. The Hollow Kind
Full Title: The Hollow Kind: A Novel
Author: Andy Davidson
Genre: Gothic fiction
Publishing Date: 11 October 2022
Description:
When Nellie Gardner finds out that her long-lost grandpa, August Redfern, has left her his turpentine plantation, she is trying to escape an abusive marriage. She packs a bag with all she owns and runs away to Georgia, taking her eleven-year-old son Max with her.
Nellie is pleased about the opportunity for a new beginning for her and Max and a chance for the happy household she never had, even though the estate is a dilapidated farmhouse on a thousand acres of ancient pine forest.
So it takes her some time to notice the odd scratching in the walls, the nighttime whispering, or how quiet the woodland is. Max, however, can perceive what his mother cannot: they are not any safer here than they were in South Carolina.
Things could become worse. Redfern Hill requires repair. Something hungry and ancient, capable of destroying souls and corrupting hearts, lies beneath the dirt. The key to this realm of sorrow and death, to which Nellie’s blood has given her access, is the true legacy of Redfern Hill.
Conclusion | Top Books Publishing in October 2022
So, these are some of the books I chose for myself to add to my reading list for October 2022, and I would suggest you give them a read once they get published.
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