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Author Read Alikes: Holiday Edition December 2025 |
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The Holiday Hookup List
by Alexis Daria
After a breakup ruins her holiday spirit, Valencia unexpectedly reunites with her old high school rival Gideon at a Christmas party, sparking a steamy 12-day fling that turns into something that neither had planned.
Physical copy available only.
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The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukkah
by Jean Meltzer
Evelyn Schwartz has the perfect Hanukkah planned: eight jam-packed days producing the live-action televised musical of A Christmas Carol. Who needs family when you've got long hours, impossible deadlines, and your dream job? That is, until an accident on set lands her in the medical bay with one of her chronic migraines, and she's shocked to find her ex-husband, David Adler, filling in for the usual studio doctor. It's been two years since David walked away from Evelyn and their life in Manhattan, and his ex-wife is still the same workaholic who puts her career before everything else--especially her health. But when Evelyn begins hallucinating 'ghosts' tied to her past heartbreaks, and every single one leads to David, he finds himself spending much more time with her than he anticipated.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Most Wonderful Time
by Jayne Allen
With Christmas coming, Ramona is desperate to get away. She has been lying to her family about her engagement to Malik, her (ex) fiancé. But breakups are fickle, and Ramona is convinced that she can make her pretend wedding real again—but only if she can avoid everyone discovering her secret at her mother’s Christmas Eve party. Far away in Malibu, Chelsea needs money to hold on to the cottage she shared with her late parents. The taxes are expensive, and her art isn’t paying the bills. Chelsea seems to have lost that spark that vaulted her to the top. The two women swap homes, just in time, thanks to some careful planning by Ramona’s friend and a nudge from Chelsea’s gallerist godmother.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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Mom Com
by Adriana Mather
Maddi DeLuca is coming home for the holidays with her nine-year-old son, only it’s not the triumphant return she might have hoped for. She recently broke down on a reality TV baking show, letting the entire country know she feels like a colossal failure, and she can be certain her mother will remind her of all the ways she hasn’t lived up to expectations over the years.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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Santa Loves Curvy Girls
by Kelsie Stelting
Belle, who makes a Christmas wish to find love, falls for a man who is secretly playing Santa Claus. Although they develop a connection, their relationship is complicated by the secret identity tradition in the town of Garland, Maine, which prevents him from revealing his true identity.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Christmas Clash
by Suzanne Park
Enemies Chloe Kwon and Peter Li, whose families operate rival restaurants in the food court, must work together to save the mall from a developer and discover that the feud between their families goes far deeper than either of them realized.
Available on Hoopla.
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Second Chances in New Port Stephen
by TJ Alexander
Eli Ward hasn't been back to his suffocating hometown of New Port Stephen, Florida, in ages. Post-transition and sober, he's a completely different person from the one who left years ago. But when a scandal threatens his career as a TV writer and comedian, he has no choice but to return home for the holidays. He can only hope he'll survive his boisterous, loving, but often misguided family and hide the fact that his dream of comedy success has become a nightmare. Just when he thinks this trip couldn't get any worse, Eli bumps into his high school ex, Nick Wu, who's somehow hotter than ever. Divorced and in his forties, Nick's world revolves around his father, his daughter, and his job. But even a busy life can't keep him from being intrigued by the reappearance of Eli.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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A Wish for Christmas
by 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 helps them to realize that some love is just meant to be.
Available on Hoopla.
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Finding My Elf
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.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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The Christmas Orphans Club
by Becca Freeman
Hannah and Finn have spent every Christmas together since college. Neither has anywhere else to go: Hannah's parents died, and Finn's disowned him when he came out. Their tradition of offbeat holiday adventures only grows more outrageous with time. When the pair starts their adult lives in New York City, they add stylish Priya and mysterious Theo to the group, solidifying a found family and sense of belonging they've always craved. But now, when Finn announces a move to L.A., this Christmas may be their last. Hannah is terrified of losing the family she's built for herself, even as her boyfriend nudges her toward commitment. Meanwhile, Finn struggles with the things he's about to leave behind--namely, his unexpressed feelings for Theo.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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When Christmas Comes
by Andrew Klavan
A sleuthing English teacher will need a Christmas miracle to prove a condemned man innocent.
Physical copy available. Also available on Hoopla.
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Christmas in Peachtree Bluff
by Kristy Wood Harvey
Three generations of the Murphy women must come together when a hurricane threatens to destroy their hometown--and the holiday season in the process.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Candy Cain Kills
by Brian McAuley
When Austin's parents drag him and his little sister Fiona to a remote cottage for Christmas, he's less than thrilled about the forced bonding exercise. But after learning that their holiday getaway was the site of a horrific crime, this family on the rocks will have to fight for their lives against a legendary killer... because Candy Cain is slashing through the snow with a very long naughty list.
Available on Hoopla.
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Merry Kiss Me: A Kiawah Island Christmas Romance
by Louise Lennox
A decade after leaving home, culinary magazine editor Symone Farris is heading back to Kiawah Island for the holidays. She's escaping New York and a failed engagement to reconnect with her grandmother's storied restaurant and speakeasy, The Haint. But before she can say Merry Christmas, she's fighting her mother's campaign to sell the beloved establishment to the local real estate developer and love she left behind without notice ten years ago.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Family Game
by Catherine Steadman
A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds out what it really takes to join the 1% in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Mistletoe Trap
by Cindi Madsen
Best friends Julie and Gavin’s families have been trying to set them up for years. During a holiday visit home, their families ramp up the matchmaking efforts. Between playing elves in the holiday bazaar to nights spent one-on-one watching rom-coms or soaking in their town's hot springs, suddenly the reverse parent trap they've fallen into is actually starting to work. But this could be one scheme where letting themselves get trapped might be way too dangerous.
Available on Hoopla.
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Always, in December
by Emily Stone
Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she writes the same three words: Missing you, always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a handsome stranger--a stranger who will change the course of Josie's life.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Winter Street
by Elin Hilderbrand
Colin Quinn owns a Bed and Breakfast on Nantucket and is a proud father of four-Patrick, Shane, Ava, and Bart, all grown and living in varying states of disarray. As Christmas approaches, Conor and his wife Mitzi anticipate a wonderful family reunion. But when Bart, the golden child and a recent Dartmouth graduate, announces that he has joined the Marines and is leaving for Afghanistan two days before Christmas, Mitzi is so distressed that she confesses to having an affair with a long-time guest at the Inn. As more secrets unravel and chaos ensues, it's up to Ava to piece together the holiday before everyone leaves-possibly forever.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Christmas by the Book
by Anne Marie Ryan
In small-town England, two booksellers facing tough times decide to spread some Christmas cheer through the magic of anonymous book deliveries in this uplifting holiday tale for book lovers everywhere.
Physical copy available only.
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Make the Season Bright
by Ashley Herring Blake
It's been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar. She has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a dream come true. As the holidays draw near, her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado. But when Charlotte arrives, she discovers that Sloane's sister Adele also brought a friend home-her ex, Brighton.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Libby now.
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