Adults! Welcome to year 4 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2025. Earn bigger prizes by reading more!
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January’s theme is Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Books set in Winter, Winter Cookbooks, or Nordic Noir. Here are a few suggestions to get you started:
THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey
“Eowyn Ivey’s exquisite debut transports the reader away to a world almost out of time, into a fairytale destined to both chill and delight. Her portrayal of an untamed Alaska is so detailed you can feel the snowflakes on your own eyelashes, even as her characters’ desperate quest for, and ultimate redemption by, love will warm your heart.” ~Melanie Benjamin, author of Alice I Have Been
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THE WINTER PEOPLE by Jennifer McMahon
“This mystery-horror crossover is haunting, evocative, and horrifically beautiful, a triumph that shares good literary company with Karen Novak’s Five Mile House (2000), Tananarive Due’s The Good House (2003), Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale (2006), and Robert McCammon’s Speaks the Nightbird (2007). ~Booklist
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WINTER GARDEN by Kristin Hannah
“It’s a tearjerker, but the journey is as lovely–and haunting–as a snow filled winter’s night.” ~People magazine
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DEAD OF WINTER by Darcy Coates
“Coates’s (The Twisted Dead) latest is a compelling page-turner for readers of horror and thriller fiction, in the vein of Dean Koontz and Stephen King. The writing is magnetic and descriptive in a way that will have readers shivering from both the cold and outright fear.” ~Library Journal
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MIDWINTER MURDER: FIRESIDE TALES FROM THE QUEEN OF MYSTERY by Agatha Christie
“It is a pleasure to spend some cold winter nights in the comfort of Agatha Christie’s special stories, where the holiday spirit is helped along by some expert detectives who make sure that things remain merry and all is made right again by Christmas Day.” ~Book Reporter
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AN UNWANTED GUEST by Shari LaPena
“Proving that time periods may change but people do not, Lapena delivers a solid whodunit with an ending that would make Dame Christie proud.”
~USA Today
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