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Summer Reading 2016

All summer long, we at Bookreporter.com have been sharing some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Feature. While our series of 24-hour contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at our featured titles for some sizzling summer reading ideas.

- Click here to see the winners of our 2016 Summer Reading Contests.

End-of-the-Year Contest 2015

Congratulations to the winners of our 2015 End-of-the-Year Contest! One Grand Prize winner received all 33 of Carol Fitzgerald's Bookreporter.com Bets On picks from 2015, while 11 others won a selection of three of these titles. You can see all the winners below, along with 2015's Bets On selections.

Fall Preview 2015

Fall is known as the biggest season of the year for books. The titles that release during this latter part of the year often become holiday gifts, and many are blockbusters. Here are a number of outstanding books that we know people will be talking about over the next few months.

- Click here to see the winners of this year's Fall Preview contests.

House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure

John Cross only cares about two things: becoming the most prominent society architect in New York and upholding his family’s spotless reputation. His entire life changes the day he discovers that his oldest son, George, has racked up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent, the city’s most notorious criminal mastermind. Desperate to save his son’s life and uphold his family’s good name, he uses his architectural knowledge to help Kent and his gang of thieves pillage the homes of his friends and clients until the debt is paid in full.

Week of August 1, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of August 1st include X, Sue Grafton's 24th Kinsey Millhone mystery that features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes; PURITY by Jonathan Franzen, a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity and murder; A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN, which compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin; THE PINE TAR GAME, Filip Bondy's account of the infamous baseball game between the Yankees and Royals in which a game-winning home run was overturned and set off one of sports history’s most absurd and entertaining controversies; and KL, Nikolaus Wachsmann's unprecedented, integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise in the spring of 1945.

House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure

Set during the Gilded Age in New York City, HOUSE OF THIEVES takes readers on a breathless journey from the wealthy halls of high society to the sewers of the criminal underworld.

House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure

Set during the Gilded Age in New York City, HOUSE OF THIEVES takes readers on a breathless journey from the wealthy halls of high society to the sewers of the criminal underworld.

House of Thieves by Charles Belfoure

September 2015

Last year, I read THE PARIS ARCHITECT by Charles Belfoure and selected it as a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. I could not wait to see what he wrote next, thus I was eager to read HOUSE OF THIEVES. Set in New York in 1886, it features John Cross, an architect who must work with a prominent underworld gang member to cover the debts of his gambling son, George. He’s charged with using his insider knowledge of high society homes and places of business to plot the perfect heists.

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