Warm Winter Read 2024

Welcome back to Warm Winter Read! To keep you inspired to read daily this season, this year's author-ambassadors Michael Earp, Pip Williams, Matt Preston, Shelley Parker Chan, Melissa Lucashenko, Alison Goodman, Garry Disher and Ahona Guha have recommended thirty-two books across a wide variety of forms and genres, fiction and non-fiction, for you to enjoy.

Stay warm and get reading this winter!

Updated May 22, 2024
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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things: Bold, Vegetable-Forward Recipes Plus Homemade Sauces, Condiments, and More to Build a Flavor-Packed Pantry
Murad, Noor
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Yotam Ottolenghi, Noor Murad, and the test kitchen superteam behind Shelf Love deliver maximum-flavor recipes with make-ahead condiments, sauces, and more toppings that transform any dish into an Ottolenghi favorite. IACP AWARD FINALIST * ONE OF...
Taste: My Life Through Food
Tucci, Stanley
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Notable Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.
Dark Rise
Pacat, C. S.
Paper Book
* Instant New York Times Bestseller * Indie Bestseller * In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C. S. Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit...
A Marvellous Light
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
An International Bestseller! Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy! Locus Award Finalist! An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick--with four starred reviews! A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble |...
A strange and stubborn endurance
Meadows, Foz
Paper Book
"Many a reader longing for a sense of homecoming in the realm of romantic fantasy will find it in A Strange and Stubborn Endurance."--Jacqueline Carey "Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky." Velasin vin Aaro never...
And Then She Fell
Elliott, Alicia
Paper Book
A Globe and Mail "Best Book of 2023"; a Most Anticipated Book Pick by Good Morning America, Bustle, CrimeReads, Electric Literature, Debutiful, Ms. Magazine, The Nerd Daily, and Paste A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at...
Here for the right reasons
McAlister, Jodi
Ebook
A hilarious and heartwarming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom in - well, the most likely of places. Perfect for fans of The Hating Game and The Soulmate Equation. When Cece James agrees to be cast as a 'Juliet' on the next season...
The Murder Rule
McTiernan, Dervla
Paper Book
A New York Times best thriller of the year! "Matters culminate in a courtroom fireworks display worthy of Perry Mason in his prime. The Murder Rule holds one's interest from its cheeky opening pages through its final scene." --Wall Street Journal For fans of the compulsive...
The mystery writer : a novel
Gentill, Sulari
Paper Book
"A mischievous twist on mystery novels and the people who write them." -- Benjamin Stevenson, author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on the Train is a Suspect There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be true From 2023...
Wake
Burr, Shelley
Paper Book
"Politically savvy, cleverly plotted...the kind of book that invites the ravenous language of binge reading: compulsive, propulsive, addictive."--New York Times Book Review For fans of Jane Harper's The Dry or Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, a searing debut crime novel set in...

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