December Newsletter

Goodreads Choice Award Winners Paula Hawkins, Neil Gaiman, Victoria Aveyard, and tons of new books! Find your next great read! View this email in your browser Hi Ravi, This month we look back at some of the year's best books, including our Goodreads Choice Award Winners! You started reading Operation Blue Star: The True Story 450 days ago. Update Your Progress EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS Paula Hawkins The Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Mystery & Thriller explains how the runaway success of her novel, The Girl on the Train, has—and hasn't—changed her life. More Neil Gaiman In his short story collection Trigger Warning, the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Fantasy demonstrates the haunting genius that has kept him on top. More Connor Franta The young YouTube sensation talks movingly about coming of age in the digital era in A Work in Progress, the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Memoir. More BEST BOOKS OF 2015 Announcing the 2015 Winners! Best Fiction, Best Mystery, Best Romance, Best Nonfiction, and many more! Three million votes were cast in the 7th annual Goodreads Choice Awards! Check out the winners in 20 categories, and start packing your want-to-read list with the best books of the year. View the full results to see all the champions and runners-up. See the Winners! BOOK LOOK The Only Child View the Gallery GOOD MINDS SUGGEST Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples's Favorite Books with Stellar Worldbuilding Readers were swept away by their Saga, Volume 4, the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Graphic Novel. Brian and Fiona suggest: More... Drew Daywalt's Favorite Picture Books for Grown-ups Kids love the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Picture Book, The Day the Crayons Came Home, but adults will also appreciate these recs. Drew suggests: More... Ree Drummond's Favorite Cookbooks The author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime, the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Cookbook, offers some tasty treats. Ree suggests: More... DO GOOD WITH GOODREADS The Imagination Library Inspired by her father's struggle to read and write, country star Dolly Parton started a program to improve early childhood literacy that now serves thousands of communities. Learn More DEBUT AUTHOR SNAPSHOT Victoria Aveyard Her riveting fantasy, The Red Queen, dominated the YA world this year and is the Goodreads Choice Winner for Best Debut Author. More BEST BOOKS OF THE MONTH The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimmons (Goodreads Author) A decade ago Suzanne Lombard, the teenage daughter of a powerful U.S. politician now campaigning for the presidency, disappeared. Enter hacker Gibson Vaughn, Suzanne's childhood friend, who embarks on a dangerous new quest to find her. More Médicis Daughter by Sophie Perinot (Goodreads Author) The youngest daughter of Queen Catherine de Médicis, Marguerite de Valois is thrust into cutthroat 16th-century French court life, where she must navigate political scheming, family warfare, and the perils of forbidden love. More The Age of Reinvention by Karine Tuil Identity, prejudice, and deception are at the heart of this bestselling French novel about an impoverished Tunisian immigrant in Paris who steals his Jewish friend's identity and reinvents himself as a top New York lawyer. More Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David A riveting, in-depth account of the dramatic 1976 Special Forces mission at Entebbe Airport, in which Israeli commandos disguised as Ugandan soldiers killed the hijackers of an Air France plane and freed the hostages. More Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer & James A. Owen (Goodreads Authors) A fascinating look at the workings of the famous writers' group and literary society the Inklings, whose members included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. More The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett (Goodreads Author) On a late-night mission to see some cadavers—perfect new subject for an artist!—Beatrix meets Jack, a mysterious graffiti artist whose work has the whole city talking. But their secrets may keep them apart in this teen love story. More View Past Best Books of the Month... GOODREADS POETRY CONTEST Want your words to reach millions of people? Goodreads and the ¡POETRY! group have partnered to host an ongoing poetry contest. Join the ¡POETRY! group and vote each month to pick a winner from among the finalists. You can also submit a poem for consideration. Here is our December winner! The Quilters of Gee's Bend by Alarie Tennille Seems like that old river tied itself in a knot just to keep black folks there at Gee's Bend while time and fortune swept on by. And Master Pettway gave those folks his name, but stripped everything else he could. Left just scraps, but they were used to that. So those hands that hardly needed something else to do unraveled their worn-out world. Pieced together remnants of Africa and raggedy dreams to make something new. Let dress tails dance with britches—heat from the cotton fields pressed deep in their seams. So tired of plowed furrows, they let their stitches bend now and then just like that river. Nothing perfect, yet God was in the details. And the quilters called that making do and visiting and keeping warm and pulling up memories each night, till one day they were told— we call that art. 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