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The Best Holiday Romance Books and Novels!

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Get ready to curl up with the coziest holiday love stories!  This list features the best Christmas and winter romance books, including small-town charm and snowy meet-cutes to second-chance love and heartwarming happily-ever-afters. If you love swoony rom-coms, Hallmark-style holiday magic, LGBTQ romance, or a...
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Traditional Romance Books

Traditional Christmas and holiday romance books capture the warmth, charm, and magic of the season. Filled with cozy settings, festive decorations, and heartwarming moments, these stories often follow characters finding love, reconnecting with family...

 
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This is a cute holiday story. Dream Harbor has new residents. Grumpy sunshine in the form of a Christmas tree farm owner and a Golden Retriever hero. Starts off with a meet cute that turns into a story of how a grinch found love in a town she least e...
The Christmas Tree Farm (Dream Harbor, Book 3)|Paperback
 
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All I Want for Christmas is a great holiday romance. It is filled with Christmas magic set in the Nashville country music scene. The classic tropes of enemies-to-lovers and fake dating are brought to life by, Sadie and Max. The two are spontaneously ...
All I Want for Christmas|Paperback
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If you love holiday romances, or Hallmark movies, and want them to be a bit... naughtier than nicer, this book is for you!
The Christmas Fix|Paperback
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Every story has two sides. So why not two authors? Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone bring a lil’ sweet and a lil’ spicy to your holidays this year.
A Merry Little Meet Cute (Christmas Notch #1)|Paperback
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A heart-warming, feel-good festive romance about six estranged friends and lovers who find themselves reunited on a four-day train ride during the most magical time of year.
The Christmas Express: A Novel|Paperback
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This small-town, fake-dating romance gives the Grinch a makeover. Travel to Kringletown this holiday season and try not to fall in love.
How My Neighbor Stole Christmas|Paperback
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Sparks fly when two childhood acquaintances decide to fake date when they come home for the holidays, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Snowe and B.K. Borison.
Snowed In
 
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey delivers a sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to convince their estranged mothers to play a Christmas Eve concert...
Wreck the Halls
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Knives Out gets a holiday rom-com twist in this rivals-to-lovers romance-mystery from New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter.
The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
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Two rival coworkers with two very big secrets . . . What could possibly go wrong? Cozy up with this charming holiday romance by USA Today bestselling author Tif Marcelo.
The Holiday Switch
 
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Heartwarming and hilarious, The Matzah Ball is a fantastic, festive, fresh take on a holiday happily ever after.
The Matzah Ball: A Novel|Paperback
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The Holiday Swap dishes up a double dose of fun-loving, feel-good, Christmas cheer, with a recipe for love that’s deliciously irresistible.
The Holiday Swap|Paperback
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Kristin Hannah is beloved by readers around the world for her unique blend of powerful emotion and exquisite storytelling. In Comfort & Joy, she offers a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness.
Comfort and Joy|Paperback
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Fans of Christina Lauren and Maggie Knox will adore this fun and festive romcom featuring a grumpy/sunshine duo who find themselves stuck together over the holidays, where the weather outside is frightful—but inside, things are heating up in this sex...
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Filled with family ties, both rekindled and new, and sparkling with Christmas magic, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS delivers everything Mary Kay Andrews fans adore, all tied up in a hilarious, romantic gem of a novel.
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A prominent romance author has a slump in her love life and book sales, but a chance encounter with a hot firefighter helps her reignite her muse in this swoony holiday romance, perfect for book romantics.
A Novel Christmas
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In this heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole, an unhappily married couple makes a wish on an enchanted snow globe that they had never met, but when they wake up the next day in separate lives, the magic of Christmas...
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LGBTQ+ Holiday Romance Books

Celebrate the holidays with love stories that are as joyful and diverse as the season! This list features the most popular LGBTQ+ Christmas and holiday romances on BookTok — from small-town snowed-in romances to festive fake dating, cozy meet-cutes, ... 

 
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The perfect queer romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Casey McQuiston who crave a side of holiday magic, small-town charm, and enough steam to melt even the biggest snowstorm.
Any Girl But You: An unputdownable queer holiday romance|Paperback
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Two exes find themselves stuck at the same house for Christmas in this holiday romance by Ashley Herring Blake, USA Today bestselling author of Iris Kelly Doesn't Date.
Make the Season Bright|Paperback
 
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'Tis the season for a Bromance Book Club matchmaking mission! This time, they're pulling out the mistletoe for everyone's favorite country music star, Colton, and his second chance at love.
A Very Merry Bromance|Paperback
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An adorable Christmas novel filled with terrible schemes, a grand ball and one very horrible goose.
Make You Mine This Christmas |eBook
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Get swept away in a sweet and spicy tale of love, hope, and the magic of Christmas, as Jen and Sarah discover that love can ignite even in the most unexpected places, bringing joy and warmth to every corner of their lives.
It's More or Less Christmas|eBook
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For fans of The Holiday comes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in which finding yourself and finding love come hand in hand.
I'll Be Gone for Christmas: Festive Queer Romance
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Cozy, queer, and Christmas-y, Look Up, Handsome reads like a love letter to bookstores’ Laurie Gilmore‘A cozy and emotional holiday romance.
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“Cochrane’s (Wake Up, Nat and Darcy) latest is a satisfying and sexy sapphic holiday romance. JT and Ali give each other much needed support and love, and readers will enjoy watching as they fall for each other. Recommend to those who enjoyed Make th...
Yours for the Season: A Spicy Sapphic Christmas Romance|Paperback