Warm Winter Read 2025

Welcome back to Warm Winter Read! To keep you inspired to read daily this season, this year's author-ambassadors Ann Liang, Christian White, Melanie Cheng, Sarah Firth, Emelia Hart, Rachael Johns, and Connie Cao 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 July 17, 2025
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A room made of leaves : a novel
Grenville, Kate
Paper Book
What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously found and published it? That's the starting point for A Room Made of Leaves, a playful...
The nowhere child : a novel
White, Christian
Paper Book
"A nervy, soulful, genuinely surprising it-could-happen-to-you thriller -- a book to make you peer over your shoulder for days afterwards."--A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary...
I Am Not Jessica Chen
Liang, Ann.
Paper Book
Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will...
Red River Road : a novel
Downes, Anna
Paper Book
Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback. Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife...
I hope this doesn't find you
Liang, Ann (Young adult author)
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! Snarky and romantic, I Hope This Doesn't Find You is Never Have I Ever meets To All the Boys I've Loved Before if Lara Jean wrote hate emails instead of love letters. Sadie Wen is perfect on paper: school captain, valedictorian,...
A song to drown rivers : a novel
Liang, Ann
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK An October 2024 Indie Next Pick * An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED...
The wife and the widow
White, Christian
Paper Book
The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow...
Moonlight and the pearler's daughter
Pook, Lizzie
Paper Book
For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl diving industry in 19th-century Western Australia, about a young English woman who sets off to uncover the truth about the disappearance of...

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