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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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Winter Reading 2023

At Bookreporter.com, we kicked off 2023 with our eighth 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'll want to read during the winter months --- and into the warmer ones!

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Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce

January 2023

REEF ROAD by Deborah Goodrich Royce is my first Bets On selection of 2023. Any book that is set in Palm Beach, Florida, and opens on a beach is going to catch my eye in January. But it starts with a less than serene scene as a hand is found by some boys who are surfing on a beach that has been marked as closed. It sets up the crime that will be revealed later on.

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Week of January 8, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of January 8th include THE NAZI CONSPIRACY by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, which recounts the little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill FDR, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at the height of World War II; JUST THE NICEST COUPLE, a twisty novel of domestic suspense from Mary Kubica in which a husband’s disappearance links two couples; REEF ROAD, a riveting, haunting and timely thriller that finds the lives of two women colliding when a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida; HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES, Sabrina Imbler's fascinating tour of creatures that invite us to envision wilder, grander and more abundant possibilities for the way we live; and AFTER SAPPHO by Selby Wynn Schwartz, an exhilarating debut novel that reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the 20th century.

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