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Summer Reading 2025

Summer is here! 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 are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through mid-August, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win. We also are sending a special newsletter to announce the day's title, which you can sign up for here.

End-of-the-Year Contest 2024

Congratulations to the winners of our 2024 End-of-the-Year contest! One reader received all 40 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2024, while 10 others won four of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2024'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 40 picks.

Fall Reading 2024

Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. We spotlighted 10 of these books in our Fall Reading Contests and Feature. While our series of 24-hour giveaways have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles, which we know people will be talking about this fall and beyond.

William Kent Krueger, author of Spirit Crossing

The disappearance of a local politician’s teenage daughter is major news in Minnesota. As a huge manhunt is launched to find her, Cork O’Connor’s grandson stumbles across the shallow grave of a young Ojibwe woman --- but nobody seems that interested. Nobody, that is, except Cork and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police. As Cork and the tribal officers dig into the circumstances of this mysterious and grim discovery, they uncover a connection to the missing teenager. And soon, it’s clear that Cork’s grandson is in danger of being the killer’s next victim.

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger

September 2024

While I have not read all 20 titles in the Cork O’Connor series, I have thoroughly enjoyed those that I have read. William Kent Krueger has a knack for delivering a new plot while also bringing in enough backstory that a newcomer does not feel lost. Just as importantly, he does not overwrite the backstory for longtime readers.

SPIRIT CROSSING, the latest installment, takes on an issue that I have so many thoughts on --- the marginalization of Native American women, especially when it comes to kidnapping, sex trafficking and murder. Here, the daughter of a prominent Minnesota politician has gone missing, and there is an active manhunt underway to find her. At the same time, Native American women have been disappearing, but the same tactics are not undertaken to find them.

Week of June 30, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of June 30th include SPIRIT CROSSING, the 20th book in William Kent Krueger's one-of-a-kind series, in which a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer; ERUPTION, the passion project that Michael Crichton had been pursuing for years ahead of his untimely passing in 2008, but now has been expertly revived by James Patterson; Chris Whitaker's ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, a soaring thriller and an epic love story about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope; HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty, an intricately plotted novel that brilliantly looks at friends, lovers and family, and how we manage to hold on to them in our harried modern lives; and COME AND GET IT, a thought-provoking work of fiction from Kiley Reid that explores the choices we make, particularly for the things that can and cannot be paid for.

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