Do you have a favorite Christmas author?  Do you like to read holiday books all year long, or do you save them up for December?

 

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is: Holiday Reads (Books you love reading during the holiday season.)

Here are 10 holiday #mustreads I’ve either read personally or had highly recommended.

The Journey of Joseph Winter: A Christmas Fairy Tale by John Anthony

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An inspirational Christmas story in the tradition of the holiday classics It’s a Wonderful Life and A Miracle on 34th Street. Joseph Winter is a good and gentle man, but he carries with him the pain and regret of a childhood mistake. When a package mysteriously arrives on his doorstep, he is invited on a trek that defies logic.

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Christmas at Cranberry Cottage by Talli Roland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

With a whirlwind lifestyle traveling the world, the one thing Jess Millward relies on is Christmas with her gran in cozy Cranberry Cottage. When her grandmother reveals the house is directly in the path of a new high-speed railway, Jess is determined to fight. Can Jess save the cottage from demolition, or will she have no home to come to this Christmas?

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The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In the snowy Highlands of Scotland, Suzanne McBride is dreaming of the perfect cozy Christmas. Her three adopted daughters are coming home for the holidays and she can’t wait to see them. But tensions are running high…

Goodreads | Amazon

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Moonlight Over Manhattan by Sarah Morgan

She’ll risk everything for her own Christmas miracle…  Determined to conquer a lifetime of shyness, Harriet Knight challenges herself to do one thing a day in December that scares her, including celebrating Christmas without her family. But when dog walker Harriet meets her newest client, exuberant spaniel Madi, she adds an extra challenge to her list–dealing with Madi’s temporary dog sitter, gruff doctor Ethan Black, and their very unexpected chemistry.

Goodreads | Amazon

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Christmas in Vermont by Anita Hughes

Emma can’t believe her luck when she finds an open pawnshop on Christmas Eve in Manhattan. She’s there to sell the beautiful bracelet her ex-boyfriend gave her when a familiar-looking watch catches her eye. It’s the same engraved watch she gave her college boyfriend, Fletcher, years ago. On a whim, she trades the bracelet for the watch and wonders at the timing.

Goodreads | Amazon

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Christmas in London: A Novel by Anita Hughes
A charming, glamourous love story set at Claridge’s in London during the magical week before Christmas starring a sweet NYC baker and the Cooking Channel Producer who could change her life.

Goodreads | Amazon

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The Christmas Spirits on Tradd Street by Karen White

Melanie Trenholm should be anticipating Christmas with nothing but joy–after all, it’s only the second Christmas she and her husband, Jack, will celebrate with their twin babies. But the ongoing excavation of the centuries-old cistern in the garden of her historic Tradd Street home has been a huge millstone, both financially and aesthetically. Local students are thrilled by the possibility of unearthing more Colonial-era artifacts at the cistern, but Melanie is concerned by the ghosts connected to the cistern that have suddenly invaded her life and her house–and at least one of them is definitely not filled with holiday cheer…

Goodreads | Amazon

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Christmas at Carol’s by Julia Roberts

An uplifting tale of people’s desire to help each other in the season of goodwill – a romantic comedy with a twist in the tale.
Carol fell in love with Wisteria Cottage the moment she laid eyes on it and moved in two weeks before Christmas hoping it would be the start of a new more positive period in her life.
Goodreads | Amazon (FREE on Kindle Unlimited)

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Miracle on Chance Avenue by Jane Porter

Rory Douglas is the oldest Douglas and McKenna’s adored big brother, but this big, quiet cowboy rarely returns to Marietta, choosing to exorcise his demons by a life on the road, riding bulls every night on the American Extreme Bull Riding Tour. Thirty-eight-year-old Rory needs a miracle, and he gets one when Sadie Mann, one of his sister’s childhood friends, appears on his motel doorstep, asking for a favor.

Goodreads | Amazon

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Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

Can you imagine writing to Father Christmas and actually getting a reply? For more than twenty years, the children of J.R.R. Tolkien received letters from the North Pole – from Father Christmas himself! They told wonderful stories of mischief and disaster, adventures, and battles: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place, how the accident-prone Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house, and many others.

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What are some of your favorite holiday reads?

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

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