WHAT TO READ IN 2022
In fiction in 2022, there will be a new novel of cross-cultural tensions from Monica Ali, Love Marriage, her first in a decade – already being made into a BBC drama – as well as a novel from Ali Smith, Companion Piece, a follow-on to her “seasonal quartet” of novels. Douglas Stuart, who won the Booker for Shuggie Bain, will publish Young Mungo, “a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men”.
Hanya Yanagihara () is back with , which ranges through alternative time and space from 1893 America to a distant future. Isabel Allende has a new novel, , about the complicated lives of young women. Sandra Newman () has a work of speculative fiction, , about the sudden disappearance of all Y-chromo-somed people from the world. Emily St John Mandel, of fame – now a TV show on Neon – has , which takes the reader from Canada in 1912 to a colony on the Moon and contains echoes of her previous books. Gary Shteyngart’s new novel, , is about a coming in March.
