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End-of-the-Year Contest 2023

Congratulations to the winners of our 2023 End-of-the-Year Contest! One reader received all 44 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2023, while 11 others won four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2023's Bets On selections.

If you would like to know more about these books, be sure to check out this video and podcast where Carol talks about each of her 44 picks.

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Evergreen: A Japantown Mystery by Naomi Hirahara

August 2023

I read CLARK AND DIVISION two years ago and learned so much from the story of Naomi Hirahara’s character, Aki Ito, who moved to Chicago with her parents as part of a resettlement of Japanese people during World War II. In EVERGREEN, the family moves back to Los Angeles and finds that the places they once knew changed in their absence. There is an epitaph at the start of the novel that I recommend you read to get an idea of the enormity of what happened to these people. While I often think of these books as historical fiction, they slide easily into the class of mystery as each one has a murder that must be solved.

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Week of July 1, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of July 1st include THE BURNOUT, a delightful novel from Sophie Kinsella about two burned-out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside; Kathy Reichs' THE BONE HACKER, the 22nd high-stakes thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who enters a sinister labyrinth in which a new technology may wreak worldwide havoc; THE CONNELLYS OF COUNTY DOWN by Tracey Lange, a moving novel about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love; EVERGREEN, the follow-up to Naomi Hirahara's CLARK AND DIVISION, in which a Japanese American nurse's aide attempts to find justice for a broken family; and the paperback original BOSS LADY, a funny and inspiring novel from Alli Frank and Asha Youmans featuring a mess of a heroine who is desperate to resolve her past so she can finally rediscover who she was always meant to be.

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