Holiday Themed Books
New Seasonal Reads for Winter 2025
There’s no better time to curl up with a cozy story than during the winter months. Whether you’re snowed in or simply craving a bit of festive magic, these holiday themed books for winter 2025 bring warmth, romance, laughter, and a touch of nostalgia to the season.
You usually start building your winter holiday reading list around Halloween. Days grow shorter, mornings turn chillier, and you’re in desperate need of some Major Coziness to look forward to as we enter the last few months of the year—months that can be, as you know, a bit…challenging.
You try to schedule your reading “correctly” and keep your holiday list focused on feel-good cozies, but of course other titles tend to bubble up as you talk books with colleagues and friends. You’re always eager to add a recommended title to your TBR. Here is a roundup of the titles you’re most looking forward to reading in front of a crackling fire, with a pet or reading buddy snuggled against your hip…and a seasonal adult beverage to complete the moment.
At this time of year, you love to make your famous hot chocolate. Sometimes you add a splash of peppermint schnapps, sometimes butterscotch, but it’s always delicious—and always a perfect pairing with your next great read.
Page & Pairing has gathered the perfect reads to pair with your favorite mug, blanket, and holiday playlist.
My Beloved: A Mitford Novel
by Jan Karon
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon gives her beloved fans what they want for Christmas: a new Mitford novel.
When Father Tim's wife, Cynthia, asks what he wants for Christmas, he pens the answer in a love letter that bares his most private feelings. Then the letter goes missing and circulates among his astonished neighbors. So much for private.
Can a letter change a life? Ask Helene, the piano teacher who has avoided her feelings for a lifetime. Ask Hope, the village bookseller who desperately needs something that's impossibly out of reach. Or, if you'd like to know how a brush with death can be the portal to a happy marriage, Cynthia will tell you all about it.
Murder at Holly House
by Denzil Meyrick
**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
A festive mystery perfect for fans of Murder on the Christmas Express and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot's Christmas
A village of secrets.
Yorkshire, 1952. Christmas is fast approaching when a dead stranger is found lodged up the chimney of Holly House in the snow-covered village of Elderby. Is he a simple thief, or a would-be killer?
A mystery that can't be solved.
Inspector Frank Grasby is ordered to investigate. But as is often the way for him, things don't go according to plan.
A Christmas to remember.
When the local doctor's husband is murdered, Grasby begins to realize that everyone in Elderby is hiding something.
And if he can't uncover the truth soon, the whole country will pay a dreadful price…
Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon
by Matthew Norman
A sentimental advertising creative and a blunt, no-nonsense bar owner find a second chance at love while binge-watching iconic holiday movies in this poignant and heartwarming romance, from the author of Charm City Rocks and All Together Now.
The new year had barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler both lost their spouses. Now, nearly a year later, the first holiday season since their "Great and Terrible Sadnesses" approaches. Although their mothers scheme to matchmake the two surviving spouses, it's clear that neither is ready to date again. Yet no one understands what they are going through better than each other, and a delicate friendship is born.
Winter Stories
by Ingvild Rishøi - Diane Oatley
The internationally acclaimed and nationally bestselling author of Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of courage and overcoming adversity
Ingvild Rishøi is one of Scandinavia's most revered literary voices, winner of the Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy, and her American debut Brightly Shining made her into a national bestseller and earned her a wide English-language readership. Now, in the highly acclaimed and award-winning Winter Stories, Rishøi paints three vivid and evocative portraits of the lives of those existing on the fringes of society.
Fair Play
by Louise Hegarty
"Louise Hegarty's genre-splicing debut is a treat--clever, confident, and always surprising, a mystery story that ingeniously escapes the locked room of the genre to take on the biggest questions of life and death."--Paul Murray, author of The Bee Sting
For fans of Anthony Horowitz and Lucy Foley, a wonderfully original, genre-breaking literary debut from Ireland that's an homage to the brilliant detective novels of the early twentieth century, a twisty modern murder mystery, and a searing exploration of grief and loss.
A group of friends gather at an Airbnb on New Year's Eve. It is Benjamin's birthday, and his sister Abigail is throwing him a jazz-age Murder Mystery themed party. As the night plays out, champagne is drunk, hors d'oeuvres consumed, and relationships forged, consolidated or frayed. Someone kisses the wrong person; someone else's heart is broken.
In the morning, all of them wake up--except Benjamin.