14 Christmas-y Books for December

1. The Gift of The Magi

Author: O. Henry

I’ve never heard of this book before… ‘first published in 1905. The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.‘

4. Winter Solstice

Author: Rosamunde Pilcher

Elfrida Phipps, once of London’s stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life — shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name — still she finds herself lonely.

5. One Day in December

Author: Josie Silver

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic… and then her bus drives away.

6. Winter Street

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Seems this one is a series of books, so you can pile up.

Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket’s Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four, all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray. Patrick, the eldest, is a hedge fund manager with a guilty conscience. Kevin, a bartender, is secretly sleeping with a French housekeeper named Isabelle. Ava, a school teacher, is finally dating the perfect guy but can’t get him to commit. And Bart, the youngest and only child of Kelley’s second marriage to Mitzi, has recently shocked everyone by joining the Marines.

7. The Snowman

Author: Jo Nesbo

If you’re thinking, that sounds like a thriller. Well, you’re right it’s a suspense, thriller book.

One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow.

8. The Christmas Box

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Richard, a busy and preoccupied father, discovers a Christmas box full of love letters from an old woman to her dead daughter and, with the help of an angel, begins to learn the true meaning of Christmas

9. The Nutcracker

Author: E.T.A. Hoffmann

Classic one for Christmas, movies, ballet, theatre or book. We have heard of The Nutcracker.

10. Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Authors: John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle

Sparkling white snowdrifts, beautiful presents wrapped in ribbons, and multicolored lights glittering in the night through the falling snow. A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end with a delicious kiss from a charming stranger. And no one would think that a trip to the Waffle House through four feet of snow would lead to love with an old friend. Or that the way back to true love begins with a painfully early morning shift at Starbucks.

11. Anxious People

Author: Fredrik Backman

For what I read and while it’s not exactly about Christmas, it takes place during the holiday. So, perhaps…

12. The Christmas Bookshop

Author: Jenny Colgan

I think I have recommended or seen, or added to the TBR, this one before… it sounds familiar.

When the department store she works in closes for good, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. She doesn’t want to move in with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered Edinburgh life.

13. In a Holidaze

Author: Christina Lauren

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

14. Holidays on Ice

Author: David Sedaris

I’m not sure about it either… but everyone has their tastes.

This is a collection of short stories.