—Outstanding Creator Awards – 2nd Place, Science (2024)
—OnlineBookClub.org
—Readers’ Favorite – 5 Stars
December 16, 2025
In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of December 15th, December 29th and January 5th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.
This week, we are calling attention to our End-of-the-Year contest featuring Carol Fitzgerald’s Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2025. One Grand Prize winner will be awarded all 42 books, while seven other readers will receive six of these titles. The deadline for your entries is Monday, January 12th at noon ET.
In Friday's Bookreporter Weekly Update newsletter, we will share Carol's year-end Bets On video, where she talks about her 2025 Bets On selections and why she loved them so much. It also will be available as a podcast.
December 16, 2025
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this holiday season. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, December 17th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of ORDER OF SWANS by Jude Deveraux, which is now available in paperback. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
THE BRIGHT YEARS is Sarah Damoff’s nationally bestselling debut novel that explores the impact of each generation in a family torn apart by tragedy but, over time, restored by the power of grace and love. Her second work of fiction, THE BURNING SIDE, releases in June 2026 and is a family saga suffused with humor, longing and heartbreak. In her holiday blog post, Sarah recalls the first Christmas she spent in India while working as a teacher and the classic book by Fyodor Dostoevsky that helped remind her of the true meaning of the season.
