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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.

Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

March 2023

PINEAPPLE STREET arrived just when I needed what I call an “escape book.” I had heard Jenny Jackson talk about this one at a publisher preview, and I knew her name as she edits a wide range of bestselling authors: Emily St. John Mandel, Kevin Kwan, Erin Morgenstern, Lauren Fox, J. Courtney Sullivan, Chris Bohjalian and Gabrielle Zevin, to name a few. So she knows her way around publishing, but this time she delivers from the other side of the desk.

Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street

PINEAPPLE STREET follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected old money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood but giving up far too much in the process. Sasha, a middle-class New England girl, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family and finds herself cast as the arriviste outsider. And Georgiana, the baby of the family, has fallen in love with someone she can’t have and must decide what kind of person she wants to be.

Week of March 11, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of March 11th include THE ONLY SURVIVORS by Megan Miranda, a thrilling mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the 10th anniversary of a tragic accident --- only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy; Kathleen Grissom's CROW MARY, a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary, an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America; THE WHITE LADY by Jacqueline Winspear, a heart-stopping book set in post-WWII Britain that follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind; and Jenny Jackson's zeitgeisty novel, PINEAPPLE STREET, a deliciously funny, sharply observed debut of family, love and class that follows three women in one wealthy Brooklyn clan.