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End-of-the-Year Contest 2016

Congratulations to the winners of our 2016 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2016, while eight others won a selection of five of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2016's Bets On selections.

Summer Reading 2016

All summer long, we at Bookreporter.com have been sharing some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Feature. While our series of 24-hour contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles for some sizzling summer reading ideas.

- Click here to see the winners of our 2016 Summer Reading Contests.

Summer Reading 2017: July Prize Books

Summer will be here before you know it! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature. We will be hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through August 24th, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win.

Week of June 26, 2017

Paperback releases for the week of June 26th include BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, Imbolo Mbue's debut novel about a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy; KILLER LOOK by Linda Fairstein, a heart-pounding thriller starring Alex Cooper that explores the dark secrets of Manhattan's iconic fashion scene; THE FATE OF THE TEARLING, the thrilling conclusion to Erika Johansen's Tearling trilogy, in which the fate of Queen Kelsea --- and the Tearling itself --- will finally be revealed; and THE LYNCHING by Laurence Leamer, which chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid the Ku Klux Klan.

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue

August 2016

I had the pleasure of hearing Imbolo Mbue present her debut novel, BEHOLD THE DREAMERS, a few months ago. Two minutes into her presentation, I found myself racing to get a copy of the book. She drew me in from the first page; I barely looked up as I read.

It’s the story of Jende and Neni Jonga, a young Cameroonian couple living in Harlem who are making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Jende wants his six-year-old son to have the best of what America has to offer --- an education and opportunity. But Jende lacks the papers to get a legal job. In the fall of 2007, luck comes his way as he takes a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, who works on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers in an executive spot. He gets to know Clark, his wife Cindy and his family as he drives them around town each day.