Winter Holiday Romance Books for Teens & Adults
The winter holidays are upon us! What’s a better way to get into the season than picking up a new read?
Young Adult Books
By Hannah Reynolds
Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.
By John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town.
by Jake Maia Arlow
Snowy weather and fish fossils help bring together two Jewish college freshmen spending winter break in Washington, D.C.
My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
Edited by Stephanie Perkins
Whether you enjoy celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or New Years, there’s something here for everyone. So, curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love
By Tif Marcelo
Planning to enjoy her last snowy winter break of high school by working at a cozy local inn and moonlighting as an anonymous book blogger, Lily Santos’ plans are upended when the boss’s frustratingly cute nephew, Teddy Rivera, becomes her nemesis co-worker … then the two accidentally switch phones, a snafu that may just reveal their secrets and bring the rivals together
By Suzanne Park
Chloe Kwon can’t stand Peter Li. Now it’s the holiday season and Chloe’s the photographer at the mall’s Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium. Eviction notices are being handed out right before Christmas. Their parents don’t know what to do, and soon Chloe and Peter realize that the two of them need to join efforts to try to save the mall.
By Beth Garrod
Elle is a social media star with the #DreamLife…or so it seems. Determined to shake up her content and gain new followers, she’s on a mission: Can she find a British fan to swap houses with for the holidays? Holly loves everything about Christmas. But after a mortifying mistletoe disaster with her ex, her perfect plans unravel like a bad Christmas sweater. Can Holly save the season by leaving Britain to switch places with her favorite social media influencer?
By Betsy Aldredge
Teens Hannah and Noah, who each have different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah, team up to save the last Jewish remnant in small-town Texas.
By Various Authors
In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.
By David Valdes
While home for winter break, Cameron takes a job as a Christmas elf and finally finds his “people” and possibly “the one” in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth where he least expected it.
Honorable Mention: This Winter by Alice Oseman
A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season… Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie’s boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season.
Adult Books
By Jean Meltzer
When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood acquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah.
By Jasmine Guillory
Vivian Forest’s excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn’t expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming accent and unyielding formality. When flirtatious banter turns into a kiss under the mistletoe, things snowball into a full-on fling. Despite a ticking timer on their holiday romance, they are completely fine with ending their short, steamy fling come New Year’s Day…or are they?”
By Uzma Jalaluddin and Marissa Stapley
An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love–both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays.
By Roan Parish
Greta Russakoff needs some space from her overbearing family. Truman Belvedere needs a place to heal after a devastating heartbreak. The solution is obvious: Truman and Greta decide to swap houses for the month of December. Can a change of scenery be the start of something new?
By Talia Hibbert
The infamous tattoo artist’s been watching geeky Bailey Cooper for months, but that’s all he’ll ever do: watch. Bailey’s too sweet, too smart, too good for the likes of him, and he knows it. So Cash keeps his distance… until a Christmas miracle makes him Bailey’s boss.
By Suleena Bibra
When city meets country, finding the perfect Christmas will mean finding common ground. Don’t miss this charming opposites-attract holiday romance! There’s no place like New York City for the holidays…At least, according to Sonia Gupta. If only she could get South Carolina farmer Beau Abbot to agree.
You’re a Mean One, Matthew Prince
By Timothy Janovsky
Young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled, Matthew has no intention of being shipped off to some small town in New England to stay with his grandmother for Christmas…or to play nice with the attractive young man he meets there. Find a little “Joy to the World”? Not today, Santa. But when the two are forced to work together to make a charity gala go off without a hitch, Matthew may find the home he’s been missing all along
By Helena Greer
Miriam Blum’s beloved and eccentric great-aunt has just died-leaving her part-owner of the only Jewish-owned Christmas tree farm in the country. Facing the family Miriam abandoned terrifies her. But facing the farm’s unbelievably sexy zaftig manager is another complication entirely…
By Alison Cochrun
Finding work at a local coffee shop, Ellie Oliver just getting through the days-until Andrew, the shop’s landlord, proposes a shocking, drunken plan: a marriage of convenience that will give him his recent inheritance and alleviate Ellie’s financial woes and isolation. But when Andrew introduces his new fiancée to his sister, Ellie is shocked to discover it’s Jack-the mysterious woman she fell for over the course of one magical Christmas Eve the year before. Now, Ellie must choose between the safety of a fake relationship and the risk of something real.
All’s Fair in Love and Christmas
By Sarah Monzon
Mckenzie Graham’s work crush, Jeremy Fletcher, has barely noticed her–until they compete for the same much-needed promotion. But winning has less to do with work performance and everything to do with showing the most Christmas spirit. As their yuletide duel progresses, it might be more than a job they risk losing.
Honorable Mention: Death By Peppermint Cappuccino by Alex Erickson
Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy’s blooming relationship with Officer Paul Dalton has her in an especially festive mood. And as if on cue, a shop owner who’d been price-gouging his customers is found dead after receiving a mysterious gift… Krissy doesn’t want to let the troubling events put a damper on the holiday, especially with her father and his girlfriend in town. But when other shop owners are targeted she has no choice. She needs to wrap up this case quickly before one of her friends–or even Krissy herself–ends up on a Grinchy killer’s deadly gift list.
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