But for me, and for anyone who has read my November RTG blog over the last few years, the one thing I have an overabundance of, at any time of the year, are books on my Kindle. And in November, that overabundance is in the category of holiday romance—Christmas, Hanukkah, and any other November / December seasonal holiday.
Below are the seasonal books I read. I’m sure each of you have lists of holiday books you enjoy. And some you may reread each year.
So, enjoy a quiet moment with a book, amid all the rush of the season.
This year my holiday rush includes another special event, the marriage of my daughter. So, I am happy to say a few of these books contain holiday weddings.
What topics and/or genres do you like to read during the fall into winter transition?
This list is not considered a recommendation (since we all have different reading tastes,) but is a list of books I have read in the last two months. I have another list I plan to read the rest of November and into December. I do go a bit overboard on holiday books, but then I do love reading them all year round. Enjoy!
Snowflakes & Stockings (Oct 2021) – Marianne Rice
Eighteen quick reads, ranging from sweet to steamy. The money raised from this anthology goes to Young Survival Coalition for Breast Cancer, which is an international organization to help women under the age of forty who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Spirit Of Christmas (Sept 2019) – Fern Michaels
A transplanted small-town heroine gets called back from the big city, and the thriving company she built from the ground up, to fulfill her grandmother’s dying wish. Before she can get back to work, she is thrown into a crazy holiday schedule and a comical cutthroat, annual holiday competition between inn owners. With a few of her grandmother’s matchmaker friends, she is partnered with the inn’s lawyer. A fun romp through the backend world of running an inn, of course, leads to a HEA. Christmas Town Homecoming: A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection (Oct 2021) – Melinda Curtis, Anna Stewart, Anna Adams, Cheryl Harper, Liz Flaherty, Leigh Riker, Beth Carpenter, LeAnne Bristow, Claire McEwen
Love these annual anthologies, with novelettes from Harlequin Heartwarming authors. All take place in Christmas Town, Maine, a town that celebrates Christmas all year round. Each anthology brings back characters and locations the reader has seen in past stories, and adds new ones. They even mentioned my home town in one of the stories. 😊 This book has connected 10th high school reunion stories, which is a lot of fun.
Christmas, Alabama (Oct 2017) – Susan Sands
Experience the over-the-top, small-town Christmas cheer, and the harried lifestyle of two characters from the big city—one an event photographer, the other an ER physician. Add in crazy families and friends, and you have a holiday Rom-Com with a touch of serious drama.
Cole for Christmas (Oct 2021) – Janet Raye Stevens
A meet-cute, mistaken identities story, between two who end up working together to pull off a holiday wedding in a Maine blizzard. Add in fun and quirky secondary characters, a bit of slap-stick comedy, a great setting on the ocean, and lots of chemistry between the fill-in event manager and the sous chef who must take over the chef’s job, and you have an entertaining RomCom.
Home for the Holly Days (Holly Point) (Nov 2021) – Cindy Kirk
The third book in an annual Christmas series in a sweet town in Vermont, where celebrating Christmas is a huge part of their economic base, so you get to know the business owners, who come back in every book, plus the new featured couple—this time a sweet reunion.
A Big Easy Christmas (Oct 2021) – Sue Ward Drake
A duet of novelettes about the Guidry brothers, family, and friends. The first is a follow-up look at characters from Walking the Edge, as they celebrate Christmas in New Orleans. The second story is about two who meet around the Guidry Christmas dinner table and celebrate New Year’s Eve together. Full of New Orleans atmosphere.
Christmas Mountain Romance (Dec 2020) – Susan Hatler
A trilogy of sweet romance novels that take place in Montana. I enjoyed book one, and look forward to reading the next two in the series, as we move into late November and December.
Morgan's book has her thrown together through circumstance with someone who is totally opposite her. Their differing life goals set up great conflict, but also a chance to really see the other for who they eachare.
A fake-engagement, friends-to-lovers, millionaire romance that gives the readers wonderful architectural and culinary romps through London and Paris, as well as glimpses of the French countryside at the chateau and the English countryside at the manor. Lots of family and corporate workplace fun and drama. This is the fourth book in a series, where the reader will reconnect with characters from past books, but definitely can be read as a standalone, with a lovely holiday ending.
A Lot Like Christmas (Sept 2021) – Jennifer Snow
The small town baker who
who bakes everyone else’s wedding cakes, would love the chance to bake herown. But love seems elusive, until a friend’s older brother comes to town for the holidays. Only home to regroup, a wandering doctor who goes from country-to-country with Doctors Without Borders, finds he needs to do more than regroup after the last assignment. Instant attraction and a chance to spend a few fun weeks with each other…could this lead to true love.
Gift-Giving Cowboy (Nov 2021) – Vicki Lewis Thompson
Book 10 is a combination end to one series and introduces characters and a new location for the next cowboy series. Throw in lots of Christmas-on-the-ranch traditions, and a love story between two unlikely soul-mates and you have a fun ending to the Buckskin Brotherhood series.
If you read last year’s Christmas book, the prequel, you will now see the heroine
all grown up. With the loving help of her parents and the “irritating handyman,” the heroine finally believes in acceptance and finds love–sweet and funny, all rolled into one. The prequel is super sweet, but this book can be read as a stand-alone.
Do you have a favorite holiday book OR a list you plan to read?
Come Dance With Me
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Woman’s World 5-minute Romance Holiday
A digest of 40 holiday shorts – I have a Thanksgiving story and a Valentine’s Day story
(on stands until Feb 7, 2022)
~ cottages to cabins ~ keep the home fires burning ~
Delsora Lowe writes small town sweet and spicy romances and contemporary westerns from the mountains of Colorado to the shores of Maine.
Author of the Starlight Grille series, Serenity Harbor Maine novellas, and the Cowboys of Mineral Springs series, Lowe has also authored short romances for Woman’s World magazine. Her novella, The Love Left Behind, released in October, 2020. She is currently editing her own holiday book, The Inn on Gooseneck Lane.
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8 comments:
I'm traveling today, but will try to check in along the way. In the meantime, I'll be reading my long list of holiday romances to report back in on my December blog.
great book choices, my dear girl!!!! My kindle is filled with holiday themed books, too. Thank goodness we travel a lot during the holidays because I take all that car time and just read my way through them.
happy holidays and great blog post!
Wouldn't be a great holiday read list without a Peggy Jaeger holiday book! Yes, holiday books, here I come, with a 4 hour layover today. Ugh! Glad you could stop by Peggy!
Thanks for the list. I can read one a day during Christmastide.
Great post and suggestions, Deb! Have an enjoyable time at the wedding.
I love that there are plenty of RomComs on your list! Thank you for all the great recommendations. I like reading Holiday Romances this time of year.
Wow! You have been reading a lot of Holiday stories. I do love holiday stories but finding time to read is difficult. This is quite the list. I'd love to hear what your favorite single story was so far. Yes, I know favorites are like picking your favorite child. But just try to help me narrow down the list. Enjoy the wedding!
Holiday reads and Hallmark movies are my favorite things at Christmastime. Thanks for the great post and a good list to work through. I think I am going to start another category on my Kindle for holiday reads so I can find them the next year if I am inclined to reread one. Have fun at the wedding!
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