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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.

Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here

When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares.

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

May 2020

ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub brings us a mother and her three adult children, all of whom are coming to terms with who they are in life today. Let’s just say they are not the versions of themselves that they once imagined, but they are still family --- and it’s challenging to share their lives now, but onward they stride. It’s a wonderful balance of being simultaneously heartfelt, witty and relatable.

Week of April 12, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of April 12th include ALL ADULTS HERE by Emma Straub, a warm, funny and keenly perceptive novel about the life cycle of one family --- as the kids become parents, grandchildren become teenagers, and a matriarch confronts the legacy of her mistakes; BECOMING DUCHESS GOLDBLATT, which is part memoir and part joyful romp through the fields of imagination, as the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living; THESE WOMEN by Ivy Pochoda, a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before --- a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change; and WHY WE SWIM, in which New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui, a swimmer herself, dives into the deep, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea, to investigate what about water --- despite its dangers --- seduces us and why we come back to it again and again.

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