Books are a great way to celebrate the Christmas spirit. In some countries, families open and read books together on Christmas Eve. Glorious! Here are different Christmas-themed books, from murder mysteries to horror stories to rom-coms and more!
A Court of Sugar and Spice by Rebecca F. Kenney
A Reimagining of the Nutcracker Suite. Clara and Louisa live with their godfather. The strange nutcracker dolls in the house are cursed fae princes and one night, they come to life. The Seelie kingdom and the Dread Court are at war. This is a spicy adult retelling.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter
Knives Out with a holiday rom-com twist. A cozy mystery writer and a thriller writer are invited to the mansion of the most excellent murder mystery writer of the time. Snowed in, their host disappears from a locked room. Is she in danger, or is this a test? Enemies to lovers, mystery, cozy snow mansion.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
Christmas and other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow
An anthology of scary holiday stories. Featuring Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and more! Uncanny neighborhoods, unwelcome guests, golems, ghouls, and more are all featured in this collection, which describes the longest nights of the year.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch
Coal, the prince of Christmas, and Hex, the prince of Halloween, compete for a marriage of convenience to Iris, the princess of Easter. The catch? Hex and Coal have a short history of a one-night tryst behind a bar. And they still can’t seem to keep their hands off each other.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
Ice Planet Holiday by Ruby Dixon
This is the 4.75 book in the ice planet barbarians series. The humans are stuck on an ice planet but with no holidays. What do they do? Make a new holiday, obviously. This is a fun, smutty book series. Sci-fi romance.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
A bored child in winter is visited by a magical creature who takes him to a place where all the days are fun, and Christmas comes every night. This is not a fun holiday children’s book—it is a creepy horror to keep you up on snowy nights.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-A-Million
The winter Spirits- An Anthology
Following the tradition of ghost stories at Christmas, this collection tells a series of supernatural stories to give you goosebumps.
Check it out: Amazon
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
It’s Christmas Eve, but Death comes down chimneys instead of Santa and presents and says, “Ho ho ho.” Susan, a gothic governess, has to figure out what’s going on before it’s too late.
Check it out: Amazon, Books-a-Million, Better World Books
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