Winter 2025-2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop

Welcome to the Winter 2025-2026 Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, hosted by It Starts At Midnight and Versatileer!

Once upon a time, this was the Month of Books Giveaway Hop, now it’s the Seasons of Books Giveaway Hop, with the hops starting on the days the seasons change. Yesterday, December 21, was the first official day of WINTER for the 2025-2026 season, meaning that the hop started YESTERDAY everywhere else but, thanks to the graciousness of the hop’s organizers, starts TODAY here at Reading Reality.

Winter in the ATL is a bit, well, wintry, but ONLY a bit. I lived in the Midwest for what is now the first two-thirds of my life, so I’m programmed to expect that the winter holidays occur in real wintry weather, with short days, long dark nights (we get those here too) but also cold temperatures, cold weather and “freezy-skid-stuff” on the ground and especially the roads and the sidewalks. Meaning that the weather here never triggers my sense that the holidays are coming because its just too warm for THAT even though the leaves do turn pretty colors and fall to the ground. Where they make a mess and we track them into the house for the cats to play with.

C’est la vie.

I’m also still wondering if my reading tastes really don’t match anyone else’s. This is yet another season where not a one of the books featured in the hop graphic are on my personal TBR pile for the season – not that I’m not always looking forward to more than a few books EVERY season. Here are a baker’s dozen that have risen to the top of my list for this winter of 2025/2026:

agnes aubert's mystical cat shelter by heather fawcett

through gates of garnet and gold by seanan mcguire

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
The Cyclist by Tim Sullivan
Fire Must Burn by Allison Montclair
Green and Deadly Things by Jenn Lyons
Inside Man by John McMahon
Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove
A Lion’s Ransom by Candace Robb
Make It Out Alive by Allison Brennan
A Pretender’s Murder by Christopher Huang
The Shadow Carver by Nadine Matheson
The Shop on Hidden Lane by Jayne Ann Krentz
Stolen in Death by J.D. Robb
Through Gates of Garnet and Gold by Seanan McGuire

What about you? What books are you most looking forward to this season? Answer in the widget for your choice of either a $10 Amazon Gift Card or $10 in books so you can get one or two of the books on your list!

For more fabulous WINTER bookish prizes, be sure to visit the other stops on this hop!