{"id":211570,"date":"2025-12-16T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/11-festive-books-for-the-holiday-season\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:14:24","slug":"11-festive-books-for-the-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/11-festive-books-for-the-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Festive Books for the Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Secret Christmas Library<\/a><\/center>
Mirren Sutherland stumbled into a career as an antiquarian book hunter after finding a priceless antique book in her great aunt\u2019s attic. Now, as Christmas approaches, she\u2019s been hired by Jamie McKinnon, the surprisingly young and handsome laird of a Highland clan whose ancestral holdings include a vast crumbling castle. Family lore suggests that the McKinnon family\u2019s collection includes a rare book so valuable that it could save the entire estate\u2014if they only knew where it was. Jamie needs Mirren to help him track down this treasure, which he believes is hidden in his own home.<\/p>\n

But on the train to the Highlands, Mirren runs into rival book hunter Theo Palliser, and instantly knows that it\u2019s not a chance meeting. She\u2019s all too familiar with Theo\u2019s good looks and smooth talk, and his uncanny ability to appear whenever there\u2019s a treasure that needs locating.<\/p>\n

Almost as soon as Mirren and Theo arrive at the castle, a deep snow blankets the Highlands, cutting off the outside world. Stuck inside, the three of them plot their search as the wind whistles outside. Mirren knows that Jamie\u2019s grandfather, the castle\u2019s most recent laird, had been a book collector, a hoarder, and a great lover of treasure hunts. Now they must unpuzzle his clues, discovering the secrets of the house\u2014forming and breaking alliances in a race against time.<\/p>\n

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Grace & Henry’s Holiday Movie Marathon<\/a><\/center>
The new year had barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler both lost their spouses. Now, nearly a year later, the first holiday season since their “Great and Terrible Sadnesses” approaches. Although their mothers scheme to matchmake the two surviving spouses, it\u2019s clear that neither is ready to date again. Yet no one understands what they are going through better than each other, and a delicate friendship is born.<\/p>\n

When Henry sees an ad for a Christmas movie marathon\u2014once an annual tradition for him and his wife\u2014Grace offers to watch some films with him, despite her aversion to a few of his picks. Her two young kids, Ian and Bella, also join in whenever possible\u2014bedtimes permitting, of course.<\/p>\n

With each movie, Grace and Henry\u2019s shared grief eases as they start to see a life beyond the sadness. But as they draw closer, other romantic possibilities leave them uncertain about their future together. Is their bond merely the result of loneliness and shared circumstances, or have they found something that\u2019s worth taking a shot at . . . again?<\/p>\n

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Holly and Nick Hate Christmas<\/a><\/center>
Holly Sinclair has hated Christmas for as long as she can remember. Who names their Christmas baby Holly in the first place? She was teased mercilessly growing up. Holly Berry, Holli-days, Holly Jolly . . . not to mention the fact that her birthday is often totally overlooked amidst the season.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, instead of getting the promotion she was expecting, Holly\u2019s been downsized\u2014which is just fancy holiday talk for fired. Now Holly has to go home single, unemployed, turning thirty, and only a tinsel strand of faith. Bah, humbug.<\/p>\n

Holly\u2019s big brother, Ryan, has dragged his best friend, known holiday-hater Nick Kinsley, home with him. But when Holly discovers that Nick\u2019s here to be her pity date, she decides the best revenge is to play along . . . and Christmas like she\u2019s never Christmas\u2019d before. Commence Operation: Naughty List. The fact that she\u2019s attracted to Nick is totally not the point. She\u2019ll teach him a lesson, one ho ho ho at a time.<\/p>\n

The holiday grows more complicated when Holly and Ryan find out their parents asked all the siblings to come home for Christmas this year, but refuse to say why. The rest of the Sinclair siblings descend, each with their own sleigh full of secrets. Rumors spread as everyone tries to guess the reason for their parents\u2019 demand\u2014and Nick turns out to have a secret of his own. Will this be a Christmas to forget? Or will Holly and Nick discover there is so much more?<\/p>\n

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Joy to the Girls<\/a><\/center>
For Alex and Molly, the last three years have felt like Christmas every day. So what better way to celebrate winter break of their senior year than a romantic getaway in a town right out of a Christmas card?<\/p>\n

Aside from sampling all the holiday cheer Barnwich has to offer, Alex and Molly have an important mission this weekend: to help their friend Cora get her crush to fall for her. But in between ice skating, snowball fights, and matchmaking schemes, it becomes obvious that Alex and Molly have another mission this weekend: to not reveal the huge secrets they\u2019re keeping from the other. Secrets about their post-college plans that threaten to tear them apart.<\/p>\n

Will these two be able to help Cora get the girl and keep theirs\u2014or will this be the last Christmas of Alex and Molly\u2019s love story?<\/p>\n

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Epilogue to a Christmas Murder<\/a><\/center>
There\u2019s no place like the seaside Massachusetts town of Greyborne Harbor for the holidays, and there\u2019s no better feeling for Addie than donating to the lighthouse museum\u2019s Twelve Days of Christmas charity fundraiser. Of the dozen books she\u2019ll be offering as prizes from her Beyond the Page Books and Curios shop, the most special volume is a first edition of The Gift of the Magi imported from England\u2014signed by O. Henry! Addie receives an unexpected Christmas bonus when the book is hand delivered by visiting Detective Inspector Noah Parker, whom she met in England, and has been daydreaming about ever since.<\/p>\n

But on the night Addie delivers the book to the museum, someone posing as one of Santa\u2019s Little Helpers swipes it\u2014and the rest of the charity gifts. As if the theft wasn\u2019t bad enough, a body is found on the rocks outside the lighthouse, believed to be murdered. Now, it\u2019s up to Addie to connect the clues, find stolen goods, and catch a killer\u2014in order to usher in a Happy New Year . . . <\/p>\n

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A Spell for Midwinter’s Heart<\/a><\/center>
Rowan Midwinter has sworn off magic after a spell gone wrong back in high school, so she\u2019s not exactly thrilled when she\u2019s guilted into returning to her quaint mountain hometown for the holiday season. But it\u2019s already Yule and much-needed snow still hasn’t fallen, so Rowan decides she can put up with her former coven and unwanted memories if it means saving the town\u2019s beloved winter festival from the megacorporation threatening to buy it out.<\/p>\n

But Rowan\u2019s plans to save the beloved tradition and make it through the holiday magic-free go awry when Gavin McCreery, prodigal son of the festival\u2019s landlord, insists on helping, and their unwanted chemistry keeps setting off holiday lights\u2026literally.<\/p>\n

As the end of the festive season draws closer and Rowan realizes what is truly at stake, she must reconnect with what she tried to leave behind, overcome the fear of her power, and let her heart lead the way.<\/p>\n

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How to Slay at Christmas<\/a><\/center>
She\u2019s making a list, she\u2019s checking it twice\u2026<\/p>\n

Jessica Williams loves Christmas: the food, the drink, the fairy lights, the opportunities to take out all the miserable people who ruin the festive season for others. And what better cover for her murderous intentions than taking a job as Mrs Claus at the Ellsbury Christmas Market grotto? After all, who would possibly think Mrs Claus could stab a man through the eye with a Phillips-head screwdriver?<\/p>\n

Fearne Dixon hates Christmas. As the long-suffering wife of the Ellsbury Christmas Market\u2019s manager, she\u2019s sick to the back teeth of it and it\u2019s still only November. But then the bodies start piling up, an old rival arrives back in her life, and Fearne reaches breaking point.<\/p>\n

When the lives of the two women collide, who will end up on the Naughty List?<\/p>\n

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My Favorite Holidate<\/a><\/center>
To my surprise my billionaire boss is more than up for the challenge of coming down the chimney as my holiday boyfriend. The sexy single dad desperately needs a plus one at a Christmas Eve wedding, where he\u2019s the best man and I\u2019m the maid of honor.<\/p>\n

And since my ex is in the wedding party too, my boss and I team up as a pair of insta-lovebirds for the holiday season, including during the annual week-long Christmas competition leading up to the snowy destination wedding.<\/p>\n

But soon staying up late to string the best popcorn balls ever turns into a scorching night in his arms where the chestnuts aren\u2019t the only thing roasting on the open fire.<\/p>\n

Can all these winter wonderland nights seeking revenge turn into the real thing when we return to the office? Or are we destined to go the way of a Christmas tree on New Year\u2019s?<\/p>\n

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A Mannequin for Christmas<\/a><\/center>
Henry Aster swears he is unlucky when it comes to love. He thought he\u2019d finally found The One, but a sudden break-up has left him hopeless right before the holiday season.<\/p>\n

Facing another family Christmas alone, Henry makes a wish for \u201cThe Perfect Man.\u201d The next morning, when he arrives at the Jersey Shore vintage shop he manages, he finds one of the male display mannequins has sprung to life and entirely wrecked the place.<\/p>\n

The magicked man is gorgeous, of course, but he comes with a Cinderella-style caveat: If he doesn\u2019t experience true, human love before the midnight chime on New Year\u2019s Eve, he will turn back into a mannequin for good.<\/p>\n

Now Henry doesn\u2019t have to show up to family Christmas alone. The catch? This new man\u2014self-named Aidan Smith\u2014knows nothing about being a human. Henry has one month to teach Aidan how to be a functioning person in the modern world and the swoony boyfriend that will win over his family. It\u2019s an arduous task that draws them close together… but can human love ever really be true?<\/p>\n

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Anne of Avenue A<\/a><\/center>
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke Freddie Wentworth\u2019s heart when she refused to give up her five-year plan for the sake of adventure. But despite big dreams, Anne, now thirty, is still living at home with hardly a plan in sight. Anne tries to be optimistic\u2014she knows better than anyone that regret will get you nowhere\u2014but that goes out the window when, thanks to her father\u2019s bad spending habits, her childhood apartment is rented out to the very man still living in her head rent-free.<\/p>\n

Freddie Wentworth never thought he would see Anne Elliot again after she dumped him for accepting a job overseas. He spent years trying to forget her, and he\u2019s been mostly successful. So when a job opportunity takes him back to New York, he\u2019s shocked to find out that Anne is not only his new neighbor, but also the former resident of his new Greenwich Village penthouse.<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade after Anne and Freddie\u2019s fateful romance, the only thing they still have in common is a desire to leave their relationship firmly in the past. But between a disastrous off-Broadway show and a drunken Thanksgiving dinner, nosey neighbors, and flirtatious friends, Anne and Freddie suddenly find their lives more intertwined than ever before. When old feelings start rising to the surface, they must decide whether to put their hearts on the line or walk away all over again.<\/p>\n

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Not Another Bloody Christmas<\/a><\/center>
Anna\u2019s taking the family away for a quiet Christmas in this hilarious, standalone murder mystery\u2026<\/p>\n

Unlike last year, there will be no risk of her burning the turkey, far less nagging from her mother-in-law and \u2013 crucially \u2013 a zero per cent chance of finding a dead body in her larder.<\/p>\n

All she wants is to relax with a glass of wine in front of the fire. But when another group of guests show up just before a snowstorm, her plans begin to go awry. And the appearance of a dead body threatens to bugger up Christmas once again\u2026<\/p>\n

Can Anna get merry and root out the murderer? Or will this be another bloody Christmas nightmare?<\/p>\n

There aren’t usually new book releases before Christmas, so please enjoy this selection of holiday themed books.<\/p>\n

Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 9<\/a>, 10<\/a>, 11<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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