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Here are 6 Christmas books for your book club to read this holiday season!
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Holidays are a fun theme for book clubs. In addition to getting together over the book everyone chose, they can have a white elephant gift exchange, enjoy tasty cookies and/or fun cocktails. It’s a perfect way to end the year.
and while there are more books centered around halloween, there isn’t much about thanksgiving. but when it comes to the holiday season, there are plenty of books! you have the old classics but also quite a few new ones. in fact, there are so many releases this year that I wrote a post dedicated to them.
I quite enjoy reading Christmas books, so I wanted to put together a list of books I’ve read in the last two years that I think would fit right in for the December book club meeting.
laurie is pretty sure that love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere else except in the movies. But then, through a steamy bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man she knows instantly he’s the one. His eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.
Sure that they are destined to meet again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and coffee shop in London looking for him. but she doesn’t find it, not when she matters anyway. Instead, they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend, Sarah, giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man on the bus. would be.
What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack are ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, paths not taken and destinations reconsidered. one day in december is a joyous, moving and immensely moving love story to escape to and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns on the road to happiness.
you can order the book on amazon here. check out my book club questions here.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for Maelyn Jones. she lives with her parents, hates her useless job, and has just made a romantic mistake of epic proportions.
but perhaps worst of all, this is the last christmas mae will spend in her favorite place in the world: the snowy utah cabin where she and her family have spent every vacation since she was born, along with two other darlings families. Mentally melting as she walks away from the cabin for the last time, Mae sends out what she believes to be a simple plea to the universe: please. show me what will make me happy.
Next thing you know, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when she mae she wakes up with her mouth hanging open…she’s on a plane to Utah, where she starts the same vacation all over again. With hilarious disaster after hilarious disaster sending her back onto the plane, Mae must find a way to break free of the strange time loop and finally get her true love to hide under the mistletoe.
Packed with holiday cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s (Helen Hoang, author of The Bride Test) trademark “downright hilarious” antics, this swoon-worthy romantic read will have you believing in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
you can order the book on amazon here. see my book club questions here.
In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride dreams of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can’t wait to see them. but tensions are high…
workaholic hannah knows she can’t help but vacation with her family two years in a row. but it’s not the weight of her expectations that’s scaring her, it’s the secret she’s hiding that will change her life. housewife beth is having a personal crisis. all she wants for christmas is time to decide if she’s ready to go back to work: seeing everyone was supposed to help her stress levels, not increase them! Posy isn’t sure she’s living her best life, but since her parents depend on her, making a move seems risky. but not as risky as falling in love with the handsome new neighbor luke…
As Suzanne’s dreams of the perfect McBride Christmas fall apart, she must rely on the magic of the season to bring her daughters together. But will this new union teach the sisters that their close bond is strong enough to withstand anything, including a family Christmas?
you can order the book on amazon here. check out my book club questions here.
Vivian Forest has been out of the country a total of once, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie’s work trip to England to style a member of the royal family, she can’t refuse. She is excited to spend the holidays enjoying the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn’t expect is to be instantly attracted to a certain private secretary, her charming accent and her unwavering dependability.
malcolm hudson has worked for the queen for years and has never given a personal, private tour, until now. He is intrigued by Vivian the moment he meets her and finds himself making excuses just to spend time with her. when flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe, things snowball into a full fling.
Even though their holiday romance is well under way, they’re totally on board to end their brief and passionate romance on New Year’s Day…or are they?
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you can order the book on amazon here.
joy candellaro once loved christmas more than any other time of the year. now, as the holidays approach, she finds herself at a crossroads in his life; Newly divorced and alone, she can’t recapture her old enthusiasm for celebrating. she then she, without telling anyone, buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful pacific northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the forests of the Olympic Rainforest, Ella Joy makes the bold decision to leave her ordinary life behind, just walk away from her, and so she begins an adventure unlike any she could have. imagine.
In the small town of Rain Valley, six-year-old Bobby O’Shea faces his first Christmas without a mother. Unable to handle the loss, Bobby has isolated himself from the world, speaking only to his invisible best friend. his father, daniel, is beside himself, desperate to help his son cope. however, when the boy meets joy, these two unlikely souls form a deep and powerful bond. By helping Bobby and Daniel heal, joy is found again.
But all is not as it seems in the peaceful valley of the rain, and in an instant, joy’s world is torn apart and her heart breaks. On a magical Christmas Eve, a night of impossible dreams and unexpected chances, Joy must find the courage to believe in a love—and a family—that is impossible to exist, and go in search of what he wants. . . and the new life that only she can find.
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you can order the book on amazon here.
minnie cooper knows two things for sure: that her new year’s birthday is unlucky, and that it’s all because of quinn hamilton, a man she’s never met. Her mothers gave birth to them in the same hospital shortly after midnight on New Year’s Day, but Quinn received the cash prize for being the first baby born in London in 1990, and the name Minnie was also due. with luck like that, it’s no wonder each of her birthdays has been more disastrous than the last.
When minnie unexpectedly runs into quinn at a new year’s party on their mutual 30th birthday, she sees only more evidence that fortune has continued to favor him. The beautiful and charming owner of the business really does seem to have it all, while Minnie is on the verge of losing her bakery company and her home. But if Quinn and Minnie are from different worlds, why do they keep bumping into each other? And why does each tense encounter leave them wanting more?
A joyous and heartwarming love story, This Time Next Year explores the way fate leads us to the people we least expect, no matter the odds.
you can order the book on amazon here. check out my book club questions here.
have a wonderful holiday season!
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