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Twelve Days of Romcoms

'Tis the season for fun, romantic, feel-good binge reading. High demand for holiday-themed publishing has led to festive mash-ups across every genre for an absolute feast of options.

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  • Music plays a central role in this complicated holiday romance with exes forced back into close proximity at the worst possible time of year.
    Book, 2024New York : Berkley Romance, ©2024. — FICTION BLA
  • Two strangers, one from Ohio, the other from San Francisco, swap houses for the season and inadvertently swap their entire lives. Escaping Christmas could be the best holiday plan of all time!
    Book, 2024New York : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ©2024. — FICTION BOO
  • Friendship reigns supreme in this offbeat comedy of unconventional holiday tradition with a refreshing cast of not-so-perfect characters.
    Book, 2023[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, ©2023. — FICTION FRE
  • This novella-length gem of detection gets its cozy vibes from a cast of community theatre devotees. The stage is set. Evidence is presented. If the show must go on a murder must be solved.
    Book, 2023New York : Atria Books, ©2023. — FICTION HAL
  • If high-stakes, high-speed, demon-hunting action is more your comfort zone than all the romance and mystery, here is a very rare specimen of sci-fi holiday romance.
    Book, 2022New York : Daw Books, Inc., ©2022. — SCIENCE FICTION KUH
  • Chemistry between an artist and an architect simmers off the page in a classic 'home-for-Christmas in a small town' situation. A mutual, inevitable, heavy Christmas crush.
    Book, 2023New York, New York : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ©2023. — FICTION MEA
  • An homage to Dr. Seuss' Grinch mashes somehow with a super steamy enemies-turned-lovers romance. So many holds it may not arrive until beach season, but it's gonna be fun in any month of the year. The author's more recent release, Merry Christmas,…
    Book, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Bloom Books, ©2024. — FICTION QUI
  • Rivals attract in the classic You've Got Mail formula, except it's a dog-training business instead of Meg Ryan's indie bookstore. And there's a Boston Terrier on the cover, so yeah, worth checking out 100%.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, ©2023. — FICTION SCH
  • Clues are presented in the structure of an advent calendar. It's the perfect holiday mystery, like if "Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe".
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, ©2024. — MYSTERY STE
  • A tiny 96-page novella that goes to much darker places than the average holiday mystery romance, for readers seeking a more serious Christmas story.
    Book, 2023New York, New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2023. — FICTION SWA
  • A fun, flirty comedy at a farm full of fake daters. When a snowstorm traps them all for multiple nights, things get serious, but still sweet and adorable.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, ©2023. — FICTION WIN
  • December 1. Memorial Park Library. It's a Book Lover's Dream Market. Wordfest assembles all your favourite indie booksellers—Cookbook Co. Cooks, Owl’s Nest Books, Shelf Life Books, and Slow Burn Books—who have curated selections of their fave books…
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