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I guessed two of the February 2022 Book of the Month picks, so I consider that a win! I know many of us were disappointed in the picks because we had our hearts set on some of the books from prediction posts. Remember that these posts are meant to put new books on your radar and increase anticipation in the next month’s picks!
We all have different reading tastes, so while you may be disappointed one month, another reader may find more books than they have space for in their box! That’s the great thing about reading though-we all bond over the hobby itself but we all have different interests and tastes when picking our next book.
Remember there are multiple ways to support the authors we love even when their books aren’t picked up by Book of the Month. Even reserving/requesting a copy through your local library helps authors!
At the time of writing this, Target is having their buy two get one free book sale and it includes preorders! So take a peak back at my February predictions you were hoping for and add them to your cart during the sale. (As of February 9, Amazon is also having a buy two get one free book sale!)
If you’ve been around for a while, you know Book of the Month (BOTM) is my favorite book subscription service. I love the anticipation of finally seeing the five monthly picks and always have fun trying to guess what may show up on the app on the first of every month.
If you aren’t familiar with BOTM, you can check out my full review of this subscription service. The basic idea is BOTM chooses five books from different genres every month and members can choose their pick when the books go live. You can also add on up to two more books for only $10.99 each.
If you don’t like any of the picks, you can choose to skip and save your credit for the next month, which is honestly the best part of this service to me. I don’t like subscription boxes that only offer one book selection that you don’t know ahead of time. If you are interested in trying BOTM, you can use my link to get your first book for only $5!
Thriller Predictions
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James
Release date: March 15, 2022
repeat author, possible add-on
A month ago I felt certain that The Book of Cold Cases would be a BOTM pick. But after they snubbed The Paris Apartment, another well-loved repeat author, I’m no longer sure of anything this year!
This is another one of my most anticipated 2022 book releases, so once again, I don’t have much for you because I don’t want to read the synopsis. Based on the author’s previous works, you can expect a supernatural element and an alternating timeline.
Her Last Affair by John Searles
Release Date: March 22, 2022
This sounds like a thriller/romance, which I feel like we see often in BOTM. Her Last Affair is a character driven psychological suspense novel that intertwines the lives of three people with dark pasts looking to rediscover love.
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
Release date: March 15, 2022
This one feels highly unlikely, so I am mostly throwing Nine Lives on this list in case anyone wasn’t aware Peter Swanson has a new book coming out. It sounds very similar to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None as nine people who receive a list with their name on it begin to die in suspicious ways.
I did receive a widget of this title on Netgalley (before I decided I wasn’t going to request more ARCs this year!), but I haven’t decided if I’m going to read an early copy of it yet because the blurb mentioned an FBI agent and I typically don’t enjoy thriller from a detective/police POV.
Related: Why I Am Breaking Up With ARCs in 2022
The Night Shift by Alex Finlay
release date: march 1, 2022
With the way picks are going this year, nothing surprises me anymore, so I am including The Night Shift by Alex Finlay in my predictions.
Four girls are attacked after their shift at Blockbuster on New Year’s Eve in 1999. Only one girl survives. Fifteen years later, there is another attack in the same town and once again, only one girl survives. Now three different people connected to the crimes find their lives intersecting as they try to piece together who is behind the attacks.
The Club by Ellery Lloyd
Release Date: March 1, 2022
repeat author, possible add-on
This also seems unlikely as a pick, but again, BOTM is full of surprises this year. This author duo’s debut, People Like Her, was a 2020 pick with favorable reviews.
The Club is a murder mystery about the world of exclusive celebrity clubs. I love rich people drama and isolated settings, so this is definitely going on my TBR whether it is a BOTM pick or not!
Romance Prediction
By Any Other Name by Lauren Kate
Release date: March 22, 2022
An enemies-to-lovers romance between an author and editor. The editor, Lanie, is excited to work with the world-renowned author. But there’s one problem-nobody has ever seen or spoken to the mysterious author and the reason will rock Lanie’s world.
The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
Release date: March 1, 2022
repeat Author
Leo, an obituary writer, is forced to face that he won’t have Emma, his wife who is recovering from cancer, forever and begins to write her obituary as a form of therapy. But he discovers that his wife is not who she says she is and is hiding a dark past. Now Emma must prove to Leo that she is still the woman he fell in love with despite all of her lies.
The Next Thing You Know by Jessica Strawser
Release date: March 22, 2022
Repeat author
A Star Is Born meets Me Before You in this heartbreaking story about an end-of-life doula and a musician facing the untimely end of his career.
Contemporary Fiction Predictions
The Way From Here by Jane Cockram
Release date: March 1, 2022
The Way From Here sounds very similar to P.S. I Love You except the plot is about sisters instead of a married couple.
When her sister Susie dies suddenly, Mills is devastated. Then a package of letters arrives with instructions to visit various places to spread Susie’s ashes. But each place Mills visits also unravels a secret that Susie was keeping from her family.
The Unsinkable Greta James by Jennifer E. Smith
Release date: March 1, 2022
A young musician goes on a cruise and reconnects with her estranged father after the loss of her mother.
Truth and Other Lies by Maggie Smith
Release date: March 8, 2022
The Devil Wears Prada meets All the President’s Men in this novel following a woman who must track down an online troll and salvage her Pulitzer prize-winning boss’ reputation. This one also features family drama between the main character and her politician mother as they clash over topics such as pro-choice and #MeToo.
Fantasy/Magical Realism Predictions
One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
Release date: march 1, 2022
Repeat Author, likely add-on, celebrity book club pick
Katy goes on a trip to Positano, the island town where her mother spent the summer before meeting Katy’s father. The trip was meant to be a mother-daughter trip, but Katy’s mom unexpectedly passes away. Once Katy is on the island, she finds that her mother is there, but she is thirty years old again. Katy doesn’t understand how or why and spends the summer reconnecting with her mom and learning who she actually was.
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
Release Date: March 15, 2022
BOTM has been including more fantasy picks lately, so I think The Cartographers could show up in March. I’m not sure they will choose fantasy in back-to-back months, but this one is worth mentioning.
A young woman finds a mysterious map in her father’s things after his death. The map leads to an exciting adventure that will unlock her family’s dark history.
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Release Date: March 15, 2022
A fantastical love story between a woman who is responsible for helping guide souls to the afterlife and a man who has recently taken a job as a gravedigger at the cemetery.
Historical Fiction Predictions
Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr
Release date: March 1, 2022
Debut author
A journalist finds herself in the center of an international art scandal after being tasked with tracking down a piece of art stolen stolen by the Nazis 75 years earlier.
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Release date: March 29, 2022
Based on a true story
A World World II novel about a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper.
The Tobacco Wives by Adele Myers
Release date: March 1, 2022
Debut author
A young girl with a talent for sewing begins working with her aunt to make dresses for the “socially elite” women in Bright Leaf, North Carolina, which prides itself on being the “tobacco capital of the South.” Soon the girl realizes that these women are experiences many health issues and thinks there is a connection to tobacco usage.
A Ballad of Love and Glory by Reyna Grande
Release date: March 15, 2022
A love story between two unlikely people on different sides of the Mexican-American War on 1846-1848.
Literary Fiction Prediction
French Braid by Anne Tyler
release date: March 22, 2022
A multigenerational family saga that begins in 1959 when the Garrett family takes their first and last family vacation and ends in the height of the pandemic.
Do you agree with my predictions? What are some of your March Book of the Month predictions? Let me know in the comments!
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Her Last Affair is such a great book, I hope it is one of the picks.
Love tuning in for your picks!
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So glad the Paris Apartment made this month! So surprised when it wasn’t an early release last month!