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End-of-the-Year Contest 2021

Congratulations to the winners of our 2021 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 44 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2021, while 11 others won a selection of four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2021's Bets On books.

Winter Reading 2021

At Bookreporter.com, we kicked off 2021 with our seventh 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 the books you'll want to read during the winter months --- and into the warmer ones!

Sharon Virts, author of Masque of Honor: Book One in the Fields of Honor Series

General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead --- by nature a politician --- demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack --- by inclination a rover --- looks to forge his own path. When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute that sets in motion an irrevocable chain of events, leading them to the dueling grounds and an outcome that changes everything.

Masque of Honor: Book One in the Fields of Honor Series by Sharon Virts

March 2021

I have heard a lot of authors talk about what inspired them, but Sharon Virts’ inspiration for her first work of historical fiction, MASQUE OF HONOR, truly fascinated me. She was restoring her home in Leesburg, Virginia, called Selma when she started looking into its history. She came upon the story of a duel between Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty, who were brothers-in-law, second cousins and descendants of founding father George Mason IV.

Week of March 23, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of March 23rd include EXIT STRATEGY by Lee Child and Andrew Child, the page-turning 30th installment in the long-running series starring Jack Reacher, who will make three stops today --- not all of which were planned for; NOBODY'S FOOL, a stunningly twisty thriller from Harlan Coben in which a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce's college days comes back to haunt him; YOKO, David Sheff's intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono; TWIST by Colum McCann, a propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, which delves into a hidden world deep under the ocean; and Han Kang's WE DO NOT PART, which tells the story of a friendship between two women while powerfully reckoning with a hidden chapter in Korean history.

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