Tis the season for perfect meet-cutes, thought-provoking tales, and a little holiday magic.✨

I can’t remember the last time I read a holiday book until I picked up The Most Wonderful Crime of The Year by Ally Carter back in November. Thanks to that book, I’ve ended up falling back in love with holiday reads, and I have even added, not one or two, but four more festive reads to my ever-growing book wishlist in hopes I can find time to to read them before the Christmas tree comes down and the magic of the holidays fades away. 

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Bill Furlong is a coal merchant in a small Irish town. The weeks leading up to Christmas is always his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill discovers something that will force him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

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In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren

A Christmas wish turns into a Christmas nightmare when Maelyn gets stuck relieving the holiday season, Groundhog Day style. 

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One Day in December by Josie Silver

Laurie used to not believe in love at first sight until one snowy day in December when she locked eyes with a man through the misted-up window on the bus as it was pulling away. It would be a year until she sees the mysterious man again at a Christmas party when her best friend, Sarah, introduces him as her new boyfriend, Jack. What follows for Laurie, Sarah, and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities and destinies reconsidered.

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The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan

The Maple Sugar Inn is the ultimate cozy destination for the winter season, and as the holidays approach, the inn is fully booked with guests looking for their dream getaway. But for Hattie Coleman, who is exhausted from juggling the hotel and being a dedicated single mom, her only dream is to make it through the festive season. When three lifelong friends check in for a girlfriends’ book club holiday, Hattie can see they’re packing some major emotional baggage, and nothing prepares her for how deeply her own story is about to become entwined in theirs.

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