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 Memory Librarian
Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts—as a means of self-conception—could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
When a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, Lia, her husband Harry and their beloved daughter, Iris, find the past colliding with the present as the world around them begins to transform, centering around the shifting landscape of Lia's body.
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The Mountain in the Sea
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.
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Thistlefoot
Reunited when they receive a strange inheritance--a sentient house on chicken legs called Thistlefoot, the Yaga siblings find themselves being hunted by the Longshadow Man, who bears with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in their blood for generations.
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Someday, Maybe
After her husband, the greatest love of her life, commits suicide, a young woman finds the strength to move on with the help of her tight-knit Nigerian family and happy memories of the man she'll never forget.
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Things They Lost
Set at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, this stunning debut novel tells the story of Ayosa, a lonely girl who struggles to free herself from her unpredictable, beautiful mother -- a mysterious and aloof photographer who comes and goes as she pleases.
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Four Nigerian friends who met at an all-girls boarding school, leaving adolescence behind, grapple with the unexpected possibilities -- and limitations -- of adulthood and the uncertainties of the world within and outside of Nigeria as they are caught between tradition and modernity.
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Vagabonds!
In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters--some haunted, some defiant--navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives.
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The Last Feather
South African born, debut author brings a threat-and-danger, hidden-world fantasy with touches of Suzanne Collins which fans of VE Schwab or Sarah J Maas will love.
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Pride and Protest
A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.
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