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End-of-the-Year Contest 2020

Congratulations to the winners of our 2020 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 42 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2020, while 14 others won a selection of three of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2020's Bets On books.

Spring Preview 2020

The arrival of spring signals the end of our Spring Preview contests. Many thanks to all who entered --- and a big congratulations to all our winners! You can see the winners here, and below are the books that we believe you’ll be talking about over the next few months.

Therese Anne Fowler, author of A Good Neighborhood

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented biracial son, Xavier, who’s headed to college in the fall. All is well until the Whitmans --- a family with new money and a secretly troubled teenage daughter --- raze the house and trees next door to build themselves a showplace.

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler

March 2020

Therese Anne Fowler’s A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD is a novel that I have been thinking about since I read a very early advance copy a year ago. Yes, you read that right, a year ago. I reread it this week and again realized how powerful it is. It’s set in a quiet suburban town in North Carolina, where neighbors are neighborly and life is peaceful…until it’s not. On one of these quiet blocks, a house is razed, and in its place a larger-than-usual house is built, along with a swimming pool. Suddenly the balance of the neighborhood shifts as the new neighbor is someone who has a lofty view of his life compared to others.

Week of March 1, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of March 1st include BECOMING, the deeply personal memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a five-question Q&A; HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD, Robert Kolker's fascinating account of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease; Therese Anne Fowler's A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, which asks big questions about life in America today as it explores the effects of class, race and heartrending love in a story that’s as provocative as it is powerful; and IN FIVE YEARS by Rebecca Serle, a striking and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever.

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