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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Spanish at home
Warren, Emma
Paper Book
Away from the tapas bars and eateries of Spain's bustling cities, you'll find another world of Spanish cuisine. From the inland mountainous regions and fiercely independent provinces of Basque Country and Catalonia, to the glittering coastlines of the Mediterranean and across to the Balearic...
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 |...
Only a monster
Len, Vanessa
Paper Book
The sweeping romance of Passenger meets the dark fantasy edge of This Savage Song in this stunning contemporary fantasy debut from Vanessa Len, where the line between monster and hero is razor thin. Don't forget the rule. No one can know what you are. What we are. You must...
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...
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
Gentill, Sulari.
Paper Book
There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory--until it turns out to be true When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother...

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