I am unabsedly losing it over all the 2022 romance releases. Romance is the place I go to when I need something comforting, a reassurance that happiness in relationships exist. This genre is the closest you can ever get to self love. It’s rich with good dialogue and character mixed in with really fun and well loved tropes.
If you’re looking for cupake baking heroes, a coastal romance, body positive photographers, and Georgian villain escapades than you’re sure to find something swoonworthy in 2022.
When You Get the Chance by Emma Lord
Release date: January 4th from Wednesday Books
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Dreams of a broadway career, a search for her birth mother, and a rivalry between Millie’s drama club crush. A romantic YA novel featuring hopes, stardom, and family.
Count Your Lucky Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
Release date: February 1st from Avon
Genre: Adult Rom-com
In the third astrology inspired romance from Alexandria Bellefleur, comes a sapphic estranged friends-to-lovers romance set in Seattle.
Ramón and Julieta by Alana Quintana Albertson
Release date: February 1st from Berkley
Genre: Adult contemporary romance
Bitter taqueria food rivals are brought together on the Day of the Dead in an enemies-to-lovers romance.
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
Release date: February 22nd from Berkley
Genre: Adult Rom-com
A New York City photographer returns to her small-town, where she re-meets a former bully turned single-mom bookseller in this sapphic romantic comedy.
Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
Release date: March 1st from Avon
Genre: Adult contemporary romance
In another flirty crab fisherman romance, Tessa Bailey promises good times with a former casanova and his best friend in this matchmaker romance with Cher Horowitz high-drama. But when King crab Fox Thornton helps Hannah with her romantic troubles, he ends up falling for her.
The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
Release date: March 15th from Berkley
Genre: Adult Magical rom-com/alternate history
Miss Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret league of women, known as witches. These witches, instead, use their witchcraft to tidy, correct, and manipulate in the proper sense. In this companion to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels, where magic exists in an alternate history of Victorian England, an Irish pirate falls for a proper witch.
The Date From Hell by Gwenda Bond
Release date: April 5th from St. Martin’s Griffin
Genre: Adult Magical rom-com
In the magical rom-com sequel to, Callie and Luke’s date is thwarted by Lucifer. In a relationship with the literal Prince of Hell means having a difficult time for a romantic get-away. But a wayward soul cuts all that short.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Release date: May 3rd from Berkley
Genre: Adult rom-com
A slow burn small-town romance between a literary agent and a brooding editor develops in Emily Henry’s new romantic comedy.
Blame It On the Brontës by Annie Sereno
Release date: May 3rd from Forever
Genre: Adult rom-com
An English professor obsessed with the Brontës writes a biography of the author heating up bestseller lists with spicy retellings of classic literature. Uncovering his secret identity means coming face-to-face with her ex, Thorne Kent. The Heathcliff to her Catherine and the Rochester to her Jane. But unlike a Brontë, Sereno promises a happy ending for her heroine.
From Bad To Cursed by Lana Harper
Release date: May 17th from Berkley
Genre: Adult Magical rom-com
In Lana Harper’s next Salem-esque magical rom-com, a romance between a wild witch slash demon summoner and her arch-nemesis, Rowan, grows from hate to love.
You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Release date: May 24th from Atria Books
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
In their romance debut, Akwaeke Emezi spins a Florence + the Machine inspired Happily-Ever-After between an artist and a new love set on a tropical island.
A Lady For A Duke by Alexis Hall
Release date: May 24th from Forever
Genre: Historical romance
A Queer estranged friend-to-lovers historical romance between a Waterloo-heroine and a Duke.
The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
Release date: June 7th from Avon
Genre: Historical Romance
When Marian Haynes, the Duchess of Clare, shoots her evil husband, she flees from London. A cheerful villain meets a scrappy lady in a romance of blackmail, kidnapping, and armed robbery.
Fake It Till You Bake It by Jamie Wesley
Release date: June 21st from St. Martin’s Griffin
Genre: Adult rom-com
Likely to appeal to Princess Switch fans, a reality tv star and a cupcake baker fake date to save his bakery.
American Royalty by Tracey Livesay
Release date: June 28th from Avon
Genre: Adult rom-com
Inspired by the real romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, a prince falls for an American rapper.
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Release date: July 5th from Berkley
Genre: Adult Magical rom-com
A ghostwriter literally falls in love with a ghost in this magical rom-com.
The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson
Release date: July 19th from Berkley
Genre: Adult contemporary romance
Rival Chicago photographers collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen
Release date: August 23rd from Orbit Books
Genre: Adult Fantasy rom-com
A quirky enemies-to-lovers fantasy rom-com pitched as the Princess Bride meets You’ve Got Mail.
I am so excited for Book Lovers and the Accidental Pinup!
Pinup looks so interesting and trope-tastic.