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August 22, 2025

On Wednesday, August 27th, Bookreporter will celebrate its 29th anniversary! When I think of this, so many memories come to mind, the first of which is the sound that we used to hear when we connected to AOL in those very early days.

At that time, book covers and author photos were the size of postage stamps, and they needed to be uploaded into the AOL system 24 hours in advance if we wanted them to show up. When authors would “appear” with us, the interviews were conducted by phone. There often would be someone on the team in the office typing for the author, and the interview would run in lines of chat in an “auditorium setup” online where readers sat in make-believe rows. Events could “sell out,” and you wanted to be in the row with your friends so you could “chat” during the program. I know, it is pretty amusing and sounds so archaic!

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Amy Neff Book Group Signup

Links to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g2eiFy7NR0Wn_s5FdUoO2A.

August 20, 2025

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Reading Contest by Thursday, August 21st at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE HEIR: A Young Queen Victoria Mystery by Darcie Wilde, which releases on August 26th. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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August 19, 2025

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Reading Contest by Wednesday, August 20th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE LOST BAKER OF VIENNA by Sharon Kurtzman, which is now available and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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August 19, 2025

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of August 18th, August 25th and September 1st 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 Fall Reading Contests and Feature, a series of 24-hour giveaways that are taking place on select days through October. Enter for your chance to win titles that we think will be great fall reading picks.

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Special Preview: Bookreporter.com's Fall Reading 2025

This Bookreporter.com SPECIAL PREVIEW Newsletter brings you a sneak peek at the titles that are included in this year's Fall Reading feature.

Each title below will be featured in a contest where you will have a 24-hour window of opportunity to enter for your chance to win a copy of the book being featured that day. You will need to act quickly! Learn more about the feature here.

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Juliette Fay, author of The Harvey Girls

Charlotte Crowninshield was born into one of the finest Boston society families. Now she’s on the run from a brutal husband. Billie MacTavish is the oldest of nine children born to Scottish immigrants in Nebraska. She quit school in the sixth grade to help with her mother’s washing and mending business, but even that isn’t enough to keep the family afloat. Desperate, both women join the ranks of the Harvey Girls, waitresses who serve in America’s first hospitality chain on the Santa Fe railroad. Hired on the same day, they share three things: a room, a heartfelt dislike of each other…and each has a secret that certainly will get them fired. But when they’re sent to work at the luxurious El Tovar hotel at the Grand Canyon, Billie struggles to hide her young age from would-be suitors, and Charlotte discovers the little-known dark side of the national park’s history.

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Jason Mott, author of People Like Us

Two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. As their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.

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Michael M. Grynbaum, author of Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America

For decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life in America. The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest and many other titles manufactured a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped consumer habits, cultural trends, intellectual attitudes and political beliefs the world over. Condé’s billionaire owner, Si Newhouse, and his stable of star editors, photographers and writers were the gatekeepers who decided what and who mattered, and they offered those opinions to tens of millions of readers every month. EMPIRE OF THE ELITE is full of fresh behind-the-scenes reporting about a plethora of boldface names and sets out to explain how Condé Nast established itself as a de facto American aristocracy, anointing an elite and dictating the culture they presided over.

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Kate Price, author of This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

Kate Price, who grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania, was able to escape the unbroken cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master’s and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her. Overcome with unexplainable grief and sadness, Price sought out Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. When Price felt safe enough, she discovered what that darkness that lay within her was. Her father had abused and trafficked her as a child. Price grappled with what had been revealed. And so began a 10-year quest alongside a journalist to prove what Price knew to be her truth.

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