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Winter Reading 2025

At Bookreporter.com, we kicked off 2025 with our 10th annual Winter Reading Contests and Feature. We hosted a series of 24-hour contests spotlighting a book releasing this winter and gave five lucky readers a chance to win it.

Even though our contests have wrapped up, we encourage you to take a look at this year's featured titles, as these are books you will want to read during the winter months --- and into the warmer ones!

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Nickolas Butler, author of A Forty Year Kiss

Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles, even though the love didn't quite die. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin 40 years later, he's not sure what he'll find. He is sure of one thing --- he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But 40 years is a long time. It's 40 years of other relationships, 40 years of building new lives, and 40 years of long-held regrets, mistakes and painful secrets.

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Week of January 19, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of January 19th include NEMESIS, the 10th installment in Gregg Hurwitz's stellar Orphan X series, in which Evan Smoak --- having lived his life by the assassin’s Ten Commandments --- finds himself at odds with his oldest friend in the world; THE OLIGARCH'S DAUGHTER by Joseph Finder, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of "Succession" with the tense and disorienting spycraft of "The Americans"; Eric Puchner's DREAM STATE, an ambitious ode to the power of friendship, the weird weather of marriage, and the beauty of impermanence; A FORTY YEAR KISS, an exquisitely written, small-town story from Nickolas Butler about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, 40 years after their divorce; and RAISED BY A SERIAL KILLER by April Balascio, an unforgettable memoir that traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.

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