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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The Ones We Love
Snoekstra, Anna.
Paper Book
Meet the Jansen family: Since the weekend of the party - the one Liv can't remember, the one that left her covered in bruises - there's been a padlock on the door of her bedroom. Her parents said they found mould, and it needs to be decontaminated, but they're behaving oddly. Her friend Leilani isn...
Everyday Permaculture: Sustainable Living For Every Space
Gibbons, Anna Matilda.
Paper Book
Whether you're a renter, homeowner or apartment dweller, Everyday Permaculture is the guide to sustainable living for everyone. This book gives practical and simple ways for people to incorporate permaculture and other eco-friendly habits into their lifestyle, no matter where they...
The love contract
Vizard, Steph
Audiobook
The nowhere child
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...
The Hemsworth effect
Weir, James
Ebook
A sleepy town is about to wake up and smell the turmeric lattes #DontForgetYourKeepCup   It started with the Hemsworths. Now, Byron Bay local, Aimee Maguire, is about to lose everything because she can't afford to pay the rent. Her engagement is also on an official time-out...
Red River Road
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.
Ebook
A Song to Drown Rivers
Liang, Ann.
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER OCTOBER 2024 GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK An October 2024 Indie Next Pick * An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick Order now and receive the stunning...
This time it's real
Liang, Ann (Young adult author)
Paper Book
Get ready to fall in love in this hilarious romcom about a girl who begins a fake relationship with the famous actor in her class, perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han, by New York Times bestselling author Ann Liang. When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin's essay about meeting the...
Tenderheart : A book about vegetables and unbreakable family bonds
McKinnon, Hetty Lui
Paper Book
JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AND IACP BOOK AWARD WINNER * ONE OF BON APPETIT'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * The acclaimed author of To Asia, With Love explores how food connects us to our loved ones and gives us the tools to make vegetarian recipes that are healthful, economical, and bursting...
Moonlight and the pearler's daughter
Pook, Lizzie
Paper Book
From the author of The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives and Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge, a "sensitive and compassionate" (The New York Times Book Review) feminist adventure story and historical mystery set against the backdrop of the dangerous...
Never thought I'd end up here
Liang, Ann
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of the instant New York Times bestseller I Hope This Doesn't Find You comes another hilarious and romantic romcom, this time following a former model determined to get revenge on the boy who ruined her...

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