<h1 style="margin-left:0.0px;">The Woke Up Like This Recommendations</h1><h3 style="margin-left:0.0px;">Winter Book Releases 2025-2026</h3>The Woke Up Like This reader seeks authenticity and representation in every story. This winter’s lineup brings vibrant, diverse voices and meaningful narratives — from LGBTQIA love stories to powerful essays and memoirs — reminding us that every perspective deserves the spotlight.<h2 style="margin-left:0.0px;text-align:center;">December Picks:</h2><h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/Audrey%20Lane%20Stirs%20the%20Pot/9781464226076">Audrey Lane Stirs the Pot</a></h3>by Alexis Hall<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=U//p6wX7eVYOI7XkakK8j+nmJWhIkqKpYwSBnm/35xQ9YK/PwmB9kKBjcZB4k/2k4X5sGovdhU5IwhjFYtkkO9boyh9LeabHLFJaGGEEVEvMAf98VagSGG+13grgsxqfkLqHU6Y3/6mL+xR4Y4M+F2rQfWluyw19hQ3y4A8zJV0=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781464226076,template: list"></figure>A charming new LGBTQIA+ romcom from the bestselling author of BOYFRIEND MATERIAL.Audrey Lane is perfectly fine. Really. So what if she left her high-powered job as a Very Important Journalist--and her even higher-powered long-term girlfriend--to live a quiet life as a reporter for the second-biggest newspaper in Shropshire? And so what if she keeps hearing that same higher-powered long-term now-ex-girlfriend in her head night and day, constantly judging just how small Audrey's allowed her life to become?She's fine. She's happy. She's perfectly within her groove. Do not-in-their-groove people get weekday drunk and impulsively apply for the UK's most beloved baking show?<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/The%20Curse%20of%20the%20Cole%20Women/9798892423793">The Curse of the Cole Women</a></h3>by Marielle Thompson<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=FZkSFoxB4dUnVwsMOGOGuVcHSrX9JX9G1APwC4TaEA4PNDu6olROJxwMH2zDwv0KM8IiZy5Hx4SpIXKh1mkfvmFJdr412N2O+rrVKbk+OUKm8MIZvYWAbmtq/lZ10o28CEHeRC47Ow7ZZwkRFcX2/Hhjp/7lzZMW4zBj7v/TZzY=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9798892423793,template: list"></figure>Three generations of women struggle with a curse unfairly placed on their ancestor in this gothic story of magic, queer love, and mother-daughter relationships, perfect for fans of Spells for Forgetting and Practical Magic.The Cole women are cursed. Each generation will birth a daughter, lose their love, and, as surely as the tide beats against the rocky shore, take her own life by giving herself to the sea. For generations, the Cole women have lived as outcasts, maintaining a lighthouse on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire. Ever since their ancestor was accused of witchcraft and cast into the sea hundreds of years prior, the islanders have ostracized the Coles, distrusting their rumored magic and their control of the lighthouse.Despite their mistreatment, the Cole women are compelled to remain on the island because they know that if a Cole woman does not light the beacon on Juniper Island, anyone who is out at sea will be drowned.&nbsp;<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/Galapagos/9781662602269">Galapagos</a></h3>by Fátima Vélez - Hannah Kauders<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=XKIU/zpt3Oxy+SkRP/BGOtPz19gEmI3tBFZ0F2E4LoyN9ph6XImLlE1HK1L/punvJltkSyG4HMUCwp4xPMUdI/X47W4oug0gIlT8FQMYNTibikJ6A36IMNvzHQmWN2OA7liTij7MLTZ+MLUNaSgTEOff7pvYOCurYb5E9YVfbbU=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781662602269,template: list"></figure>"Vélez stuns with her corporeal descriptions and baroque literary allusions. This is a knockout." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) From NYC-based Colombian writer Fátima Vélez comes debut novel Galapagos, following a group of bohemian artists who are dying of AIDS as they embark on a surreal final voyage through the Galapagos Islands, their bodies cloaked in the skins of the dead.Lorenzo is a painter who doesn't paint. He spends his days watching Jeanne Moreau films, luxuriating in his partner Juan B's bed, and swapping letters with his lovers. Then, one day, his nail falls off. Then another nail, then all of them. Thus begins a journey of decomposition that carries him from Colombia to Paris, from Paris to the French countryside, and on a final journey to the Galápagos Archipelago.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/A%20Danger%20to%20the%20Minds%20of%20Young%20Girls%3A%20Margaret%20C.%20Anderson%2C%20Book%20Bans%2C%20and%20the%20Fight%20to%20Modernize%20Literature/9781668053645">A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature</a></h3>by Adam Morgan<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=U2EFajCOGv72g+lnj3M9WQis6QbGvRtxcGBMEvr4OQKXyt8kRViZ1NDg4f3ACI2HEA2hrvxURfzGgqYB5gywftS1q5uwa4UiMwsNtUw34r+MqT2UwKMF51ehPnx88PYle3B1oNEHY2RIrpg78Hwl89s5F75rzjQnXshn+mfJnLs=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781668053645,template: list"></figure>"Wholly transportive and spellbinding. I was beguiled." --Ling Ma, bestselling author of Severance and Bliss Montage"A fascinating account of a remarkable woman dangerously ahead of her time." --Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians"Exquisitely researched, deeply felt, and poignant. This one belongs on your shelf." --Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe and The Book of&nbsp;The life and times of literary pioneer and queer icon Margaret C. Anderson, who risked everything to be the first to publish James Joyce's Ulysses in America. Perfect for fans of The Editor, Flapper, and Nasty Women.Already under fire for publishing the literary avant-garde into a world not ready for it, Margaret C. Anderson's cutting-edge magazine The Little Review was a bastion of progressive politics and boundary-pushing writing from then-unknowns like T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Butler Yeats, and Djuna Barnes. And as its publisher, Anderson was a target. From Chicago to New York and Paris, this fearless agitator helmed a woman-led publication that pushed American culture forward and challenged the sensibilities of early 20th century Americans dismayed by its salacious writing and advocacy for supposed extremism like women's suffrage, access to birth control, and LBGTQ rights.<h3 style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://bookfinity.com/book/The%20Book%20of%20Luke/9781538770153">The Book of Luke</a></h3>by Lovell Holder<figure class="image image_resized" style="width:50%;"><img data-ot-ignore src="https://CWSImages.ingramcontent.com/cdsImages/imageloader?id=dKENyYjUnOa8PR+QNOKjRLs2RRY8u2OFJ54EQX6HmNxinqkO/MNKkWnupwdgRtdHnYX9kw/IsHedHYv3OGGN5NIj2Px0Vw4CdWN8u2faaP3M7b0n/7OV2XVj5KsxJk/aWrVKqPeNgD9MILSX4ySCOLCZ2V+BJserGo3U6F8aS78=&amp;size=640" alt="isbn: 9781538770153,template: list"></figure>For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut novel shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a gay man returns to the cut-throat show he won in his youth after his adult life begins to unravel.Following the car accident that ended his football career and left his body scarred, twenty-two-year-old Luke Griffin joins the cast of Endeavor, a new competition-based reality show that pits the tabloids' darlings against one another in tasks of endurance and problem solving. At first, he thrives, effortlessly forming friendships and even a romantic relationship that he thinks will last a lifetime. But Luke has aspirations far bigger than the show's million-dollar prize, and soon a series of betrayals leads to irreversible tragedy, changing the course of his and his fellow contestants' lives forever.&nbsp;

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