Ahh \u2019tis the season! As I\u2019m writing this I\u2019m in the coziest pajamas I own, with freshly fallen snow on the ground (not nearly as much as they said we\u2019d get but I\u2019ll take it), a cup of cocoa next to me, two blankets on me and the strongest vibes to read all the Christmas romance books!<\/p>\n
It seriously does wonders to my soul in December to consume all the Christmas movies and Christmas themed romances \u2014 ESPECIALLY in these times. A steady diet of Christmas romcoms and cozy Christmas romance novels is the perfect way to close out this year and it definitely is one of my ways to enjoy winter<\/a>. <\/p>\n So prepare your future reading list and don your coziest apparel and let me tell you about 11 Christmas romance books to add to your list!<\/p>\n ALSO please tell me the best Christmas romances to read that I might not have gotten to yet!<\/p>\n Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links which means that if you click on a link and purchase something I\u2019ve talked about or recommended, I\u2019ll receive a very small percentage of the sale. Please see my disclosure policy<\/a> for more info.<\/em><\/p>\n Below you\u2019ll see Bookshop.org<\/a> mentioned. Bookshop.org<\/strong> is a fantastic place to buy books online that supports local bookstores. If you are looking to shop small when it comes to your books, I personally buy my books from here (when I can\u2019t shop in person) and highly recommend! Local bookstores are the heart of communities and Bookshop.org makes it SUPER easy to support them. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n New Releases For 2024<\/p>\n Looking for newer Christmas romance books to read? Here are some newly published and upcoming festive romances and rom-coms to read this year if you feel like you\u2019ve already read most of the ones you see recommended.<\/p>\n My Christmas reading pile is huge considering how many new Christmas related romances are coming out this year.<\/p>\n Read it if you want: LOTS of Christmas cheer & festivities, Hallmark feel good vibes, a grumpy\/sunshine pair, a Christmas challenge\/game aspect, closed door romance<\/strong><\/p>\n If you like your Christmas romances heavy on the Christmas cheer and activities of the holiday season, this one is for you. <\/p>\n What it\u2019s about<\/em>: Still down in the dumps from being<\/em> dumped by her childhood sweetheart, Callie is officially hibernating for Christmas (and life).<\/p>\n Her sister intervenes and cooks up a homemade Advent Calendar challenge inspired by a childhood tradition \u2014 full of gifts as well as festive tasks \u2014 to help snap her out of her Scrooge mode at home and get her feeling more positive about life again.<\/p>\n As she reluctantly plays along on her sister\u2019s challenge for her, she finds herself trading bah-humbug for more cheer \u2014 especially when she meets a cheerful baker who helps her out along the way.<\/p>\n Out October 22, 2024<\/em> from G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read it if you want: exes (and professional rivals) snowed in together at Christmas-time<\/strong><\/p>\n I love Falon Ballard\u2019s romances so I was so excited to see she was coming out with a Christmas-time romance featuring exes who are romance writing rivals and (my favorite) forced proximity, only-one-bed goodness during a snowstorm!! <\/p>\n Better yet \u2014 they are both in writing slumps and realize that channeling their own personal frustrations\/tension might be the cure to ridding them both of it. *fans self*<\/p>\n Out now<\/em> from G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read it if you want: a romance revolving around a<\/strong> rag-tag cast of characters putting on a derelict theater\u2019s last Christmas production<\/strong><\/p>\n I couldn\u2019t get enough of The Twelve Dates of Christmas<\/a> a few years ago and this one sounds so fun! <\/p>\n What it\u2019s about<\/em><\/strong>: It\u2019s about a divorced mom feeling pretty blah about Christmas when her college-aged daughter decides to spend her holiday away from home. <\/p>\n Her holiday season turns unexpected after a one-night stand and a trip to the police station after she takes the fall for a group of her students breaking into a derelict theater.<\/p>\n Her penance to the owner is to help clean up the theater and help put on what will be the theater\u2019s last production ever \u2014 A Christmas Carol. <\/p>\n And just who is the lawyer the theater owner has involved in this agreement and overseeing it? The very man she had a one night stand with.<\/p>\n Out now<\/em> from G.P. Putnam\u2019s Sons<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read it if you want: something with The Santa Clause vibes on the outside but deeper on the inside<\/strong> plus a marriage in peril<\/strong> romance<\/strong><\/p>\n The Santa Clause with Tim Allen was a staple as a kid and I still find it being one of my comfort Christmas movies and this book is giving the fun that movie brings to Christmas but with a gay married couple whose marriage is straining under the weight of life and being married.<\/p>\n What it\u2019s about<\/em>: A couple, barely keeping their marriage together in its first year, find a new challenge on Christmas Eve: having to save Christmas after one of them knocks out an intruder who happens to be Santa Claus.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t end there \u2014 they must assume their roles as Santa and his Merriest Mister or else Christmas is cancelled forever. They decide to stay together \u2013 if only to save Christmas \u2013 for the next year to fulfill the duty but it might take a Christmas miracle for their relationship to survive.<\/p>\n Out October 1 from St. Martin\u2019s Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read it if you want: a Christmas romance that will having you want fresh baked cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n I was already adding this book to my list because this Christmas rom-com looks exactly like all the things I love in them \u2014 small town setting, a cookie competition (!!), an enemies to-lover- thing going on between a small town baker and a woman who works for a big cookie chain that is now the bane of his existence.<\/p>\n BUT THEN? <\/strong>I saw the small town setting is none other than the charming town that is 15 minutes from where I grew up (and still go to even though now I\u2019m a little further away) and the exact town our wedding reception was in.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not saying<\/em> I\u2019m at an advantage reading this but I kind of am<\/em> because I can envision this town so vividly from the cute Christmas train I\u2019ve taken Riley on and all the shops\/eateries that line the downtown and the picturesque view of the river. It ooooozes charm any time of year but definitely at Christmas.<\/p>\n Out October 1 from St. Martin\u2019s Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Read it if you want: a Hallmark-worthy heartwarming & fun Christmas romance inspired by Jane Austen\u2019s Emma<\/strong><\/p>\n I love meddling characters whose meddling goes awry like this character, a widow and holiday shop owner, who loves to meddle in everyone else\u2019s love life and make attempts at matchmaking \u2014 all while ignoring her own love life. That is until this holiday season when things go awry around her and she has to look inward for once.<\/p>\n The main character is in her 50\u2019s which I find so refreshing as it\u2019s harder to find books to recommend that feature a character of a more mature age than what is currently the trend in publishing.<\/p>\n Out October 1 from <\/em>MIRA<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You May Also Like<\/strong>: The Best, Unique Gifts For Book Lovers (That Aren\u2019t Books)<\/a><\/p>\n Read it if you want: a heartfelt & emotional marriage of convenience romance with a small ranch town setting at Christmas-time<\/strong><\/p>\n This Idaho-set romance is about a divorced rancher who enters in a marriage of convenience all thanks to a \u201chusband for hire\u201d ad a friend put up as a joke for her. But a man does respond as a serious inquiry \u2014 a man whose 4 year old daughter is in kidney failure and who desperately is fighting to help her.<\/p>\n Honestly what a perfect plot for marriage of convenience but bring tissues!<\/p>\n Out October 1 from <\/em>MIRA<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You May Also Like<\/strong>: Best Gifts For Book Lovers On Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n Read it if you want: a holiday read (not necessarily just Christmas) that will have you armchair traveling<\/strong><\/p>\n Emily Stone has become one of my staples when it comes to delivering me with holiday reading in December! They tend to have some sort of emotional thread running throughout them than being your more holiday rom-com type read though this one seems like it might be a little<\/em> less emotional than her others. Though it does look like it deals with grief and forgiveness so who knows!<\/p>\n This one is about a woman who finds out that her estranged father has passed away and comes into an unexpected inheritance \u2014 half of the holiday travel company he owns. The travel company specializes in giving you a travel experience focused on other cultures during different holidays.<\/p>\n The will stipulates that she must run it for a year with the mentee & young executive he left the other half to before they can decide what the fate of the company will be. <\/p>\n There\u2019s some enemies to lovers vibes going on with these two opposites who don\u2019t have the same vision. <\/p>\n Out October 15 from Dell.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n My Top Christmas Romance Recommendations<\/p>\n These are the ones I loved the most and am always recommending when people are looking for some Christmas-y romances for the season. I really enjoyed all of these so feel free to ask questions or let me know what you thought!<\/p>\n Dating hijinx\u00a0set at Christmas-time in this rom-com when a woman,\u00a0down on her luck in that department, gets suckered into a dating agency that promises LOVE before Christmas in the form of 12 dates with 12 different men.\u00a0<\/p>\n Perfect for<\/em><\/strong>: fans of small town set romances with nosy neighbors (a la Lorelei in Stars Hollow but British village), lovers of banter in their rom-coms, cute & cozy books<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Perfect if you like<\/em><\/strong>: Groundhog Day-esque plots (especially if you enjoyed the plot of In A Holidaze), books in the Bridget Jones vein or Sophie Kinsella\u2019s work, second chance romances\/ the boy-next-door trope, books that are more contemporary fiction with a heap of romance, dysfunctional family sideplots As she tries to figure out what she needs to do to get out of this cycle, she sees a way to use this time to make her family member\u2019s wishes come true. Not to mention she enjoys spending time the guy next door who could be her second chance at love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ivy, a lover of Christmas,\u00a0has been hired to make a Cornish\u00a0castle rental be super festive and\u00a0ultra Instagrammable for a client.<\/p>\n When she arrives\u00a0early to start the decorating, she finds two things in the way of succeeding in this task: she basically got castle catfished as it doesn\u2019t look at all like the pictures and the owner of it is a (grumpy) crush from her past.\u00a0<\/p>\n Perfect for<\/strong>: fans of cozy settings,\u00a0lovers of grumpy male leads, people who love a great secondary cast of characters, readers who want a sweet and heartwarming book<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n One of my FAVORITE\u00a0romances set around Christmas-time: this book is an absolute DELIGHT. <\/p>\n When Sophie gets dumped by her boyfriend, she flees to the refuge of her grandparents house and gets to spend her Christmas break with her HUGE (super fun and nosy) family\u00a0that live nearby too.<\/p>\n Wanting to help her with her heartbreak, they create a competition in which each of them set her up on a blind date\u00a0with\u00a010 different guys.<\/p>\n Absolute fun dating shenanigans in this\u00a0smile-inducing YA rom com that will make you want to be a part of this fictional family.\u00a0<\/p>\n Perfect for<\/strong>: Lovers of cute and funny\u00a0YA books, readers who are looking for books featuring close knit families you will fall want to\u00a0adopt you, readers looking for a sweet kind of romance (aka not remotely on the steamy side)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You May Also Like<\/strong>: The Best Wintry Reads Book List<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n You\u2019ll be content prying yourself away from the Hallmark channel for this one, I promise.<\/p>\n When cab driver and guardian to his little sister, Leo, stops to help a woman\u00a0nothing will prepare him for the fact that a real life princess\u00a0will be sitting in\u00a0his cab and is in need of his help for the rest of her help in her quest to prove herself\u00a0as the fate of her small country is on her shoulders. And little did either of them know that maybe\u00a0they\u00a0could be what each other needs. You May Also Like<\/strong>: Books For Fans of Bridgerton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Perfect for<\/em><\/strong>: readers who are looking for a heartwarming contemporary Christmas romance, lovers of royal related romances, fans of A Princess For Christmas<\/em>, readers who appreciate a slow burn friends to lover romances,<\/em> Hallmark Christmas lovers that want a bit of added steam<\/em><\/p>\n This one is a followup to last year\u2019s Christmas romcom A Princess For Christmas and is about Leo\u2019s bff Dani. You don\u2019t have to read that one to enjoy this one but you\u2019ll be familiar with the characters and have more context if you do.<\/p>\n Maximillian von Hansburg is being pressured, by his father, to find a suitable bride before he inherits the title he feels like will trap him. Sent to New York to meet a potential bride, he ditches his responsibilities and shows up at the doorstep of the woman who is the Best Woman in the Eldovian wedding he\u2019s the Man of Honor in to get to know her better.<\/p>\n Dani is newly single and swearing off men, especially a rake like Max, which is a perfect match for Max who is looking to escape life and seek a distraction also. As they form a friendship and their bond deepens, this shouldn\u2019t-happen romance finds a spark. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Check it out if you like<\/em><\/strong>: second chance romances, queer romcoms, the fake-dating trope (but with a twist!), heart-warming romcoms<\/em><\/p>\n This one is about a woman who fakes an engagement of convenience with her landlord to help him get his inheritance (and her to get a nice chunk of change for doing so) only to find out that his sister is the woman she fell for last Christmas Eve after their meet cute and never saw again. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n16 Christmas Romance Novels To Read in 2024<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nAll I Want Is You by Falon Ballard<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nKiss Me At Christmas by Jenny Bayliss<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Merriest Misters by Timothy Janovsky<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Christmas Crush by Noelle Douglas<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Merry Matchmaker by Sheila Roberts<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nThe Christmas You Found Me by Sarah Morgenthaler<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nA Winter Wish by Emily Stone<\/h4>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Family shenanigans & meddling + a Christmas wish made by a family member has the newly single main character waking up to relive Christmas Day over and over again. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.perpetualpageturner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/49953133._SX318_SY475_.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nA Cosy Christmas In Cornwall by Jane Linfoot<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nKiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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