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End-of-the-Year Contest 2025

Congratulations to the winners of our 2025 End-of-the-Year contest! One reader received all 42 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2025, while seven others won six of these titles.

You can see all the winners below, along with 2025's Bets On selections.

If you would like to know more about these books, be sure to check out this video and podcast where Carol talks about each of her 42 picks.

Boat Baby: A Memoir by Vicky Nguyen

December 2025

I have read many memoirs and books about the immigrant experience, but migration from Vietnam to the United States is a trail that I had not explored until BOAT BABY. Vicky Nguyen was just eight months old when her family left communist Vietnam by boat for a refugee camp in Malaysia. In the photo on the front of the book, she is about 18 months old. She learned to walk as her family was in the camp waiting for their next steps. They were sponsored by an organization in Eugene, Oregon, and moved there as their first stop in the U.S.

Week of April 13, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of April 13th include THE ACADEMY, the irresistible, deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school from Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter, Shelby Cunningham; BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS, the long-awaited memoir of beloved Food Network personality and Instagram sensation Ina Garten, who presents an intimate, entertaining and inspiring account of her remarkable journey; THREE DAYS IN JUNE, a deeply sensitive novel from Anne Tyler about a socially awkward mother of the bride who navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding; and BOAT BABY, in which NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family’s daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love.

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