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End-of-the-Year Contest 2018

Congratulations to the winners of our 2018 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 45 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2018, while nine others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2018's Bets On books.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

November 2018

I am playing catch-up on some books that are getting great buzz that came out this year that I never got to at the time of their release. One is WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens, which was published in August. I have been hearing friends talk about it for weeks, and those with such varied tastes loved it, so I was drawn to make time for it instead of doing my usual “reading ahead.” And I am glad that I did. It is a beautifully written story that will stay with me.

Week of March 29, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of March 29th include the worldwide sensation WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens, which is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder; MASKED PREY, the 30th installment in John Sandford's series featuring Lucas Davenport, who is on the trail of a prolific serial killer who has been operating for years without notice, and whose quarry is ruthless and --- as Davenport will come to find --- full of surprises; REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler, an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who finds those around him just out of reach; and I WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’RE STILL HERE, a poignant and deeply moving memoir by Esther Safran Foer, who found out that her father had a previous wife and daughter --- both of whom were killed in the Holocaust --- and resolved to find out who they were, and how her father survived.

July 2022

July's Books on Screen roundup includes the films Where the Crawdads Sing, The Gray Man, The Forgiven and Persuasion; the series premieres of "Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin" on HBO Max, "The Terminal List" on Amazon Prime Video, and "How to Change Your Mind" on Netflix; the season four premiere of Netflix's "Virgin River"; the season one finale of Showtime's "The Man Who Fell to Earth"; and the DVD releases of Drive My Car and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.