2025 Bookreporter Bets On Selections: Books We're Betting You'll Love

Dec 18, 2025

1h 25m

Episode Description

Carol Fitzgerald shares commentary about her 42 Bookreporter Bets On selections from 2025. These are books that she is betting Bookreporter readers will love! (* means a video/podcast interview with that author is available.)

Fiction

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall *
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans *
The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb
Heart the Lover by Lily King *
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

Speak to Me of Home by Jeanine Cummins *

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger *

The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage (* to come)

Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson *

More or Less Maddy by Lisa Genova *

What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange *

When the Cranes Fly South written by Lisa Ridzén, translated by Alice Menzies
What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
Pictures of You by Clare Leslie Hall *
Days You Were Mine by Clare Leslie Hall *

Historical Fiction

The Stolen Queen by Fiona Davis *

Atmosphere: A Love Story, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

One Good Thing by Georgia Hunter *
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray *
The Lost Baker of Vienna by Sharon Kurtzman *
Last Call at the Savoy by Brisa Carleton *
Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? by Sarah McCoy

Thrillers & Mysteries

The Doorman by Chris Pavone *
Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow *
Apostle's Cove by William Kent Krueger
The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark *
All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan *

The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline

She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney
Saltwater by Katy Hays *
Please Don't Lie by Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt
The Queens of Crime by Marie Benedict *
The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder *
The Break-In by Katherine Faulkner
The Note by Alafair Burke
The Maid's Secret: A Maid Novel, by Nita Prose *

Memoirs & Other Nonfiction

Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds, by Michelle Horton *
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America, by Jeff Hobbs *
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning, by Kate Price
Boat Baby: A Memoir, by Vicky Nguyen *

Our Latest "Bookreporter Talks To" Interviews:

Vicky Nguyen: https://youtu.be/ssPMpaokVp8

Brisa Carleton: https://youtu.be/aE2cCH4oMsk

Alex DeMille: https://youtu.be/EstkI7Caul8

Lily King: https://youtu.be/ir_IaUnaru4

Virginia Evans: https://youtu.be/6FtYT5KRW2Q

Hank Phillippi Ryan: https://youtu.be/7O3gIC1IJN4

Sharon Kurtzman: https://youtu.be/CMCnGJitKMY

Francesca Serritella: https://youtu.be/XmmvtzilXg0

Bruce Holsinger: https://youtu.be/KukE7DscmsY

Our Latest "Bookaccino Live" Book Group Events:

Clare Leslie Hall: https://youtu.be/j0j3_ScryJg