16 Christmas Romance Books To Cozy Up With In 2024

Relationship hijinx set at Christmas-time on this rom-com when a lady, down on her luck in that division, will get suckered right into a relationship company that guarantees LOVE earlier than Christmas within the type of 12 dates with 12 totally different males. 

Good for: followers of small city set romances with nosy neighbors (a la Lorelei in Stars Hole however British village), lovers of banter of their rom-coms, cute & cozy books

Good when you like: Groundhog Day-esque plots (particularly when you loved the plot of In A Holidaze), books within the Bridget Jones vein or Sophie Kinsella’s work, second probability romances/ the boy-next-door trope, books which might be extra up to date fiction with a heap of romance, dysfunctional household sideplots

Household shenanigans & meddling + a Christmas want made by a member of the family has the newly single foremost character waking as much as relive Christmas Day time and again.

As she tries to determine what she must do to get out of this cycle, she sees a method to make use of this time to make her member of the family’s needs come true. To not point out she enjoys spending time the man subsequent door who could possibly be her second probability at love.

Considered one of my FAVORITE romances set round Christmas-time: this guide is an absolute DELIGHT.

When Sophie will get dumped by her boyfriend, she flees to the refuge of her grandparents home and will get to spend her Christmas break along with her HUGE (tremendous enjoyable and nosy) household that stay close by too.

Wanting to assist her along with her heartbreak, they create a contest wherein every of them set her up on a blind date with 10 totally different guys.

Absolute enjoyable relationship shenanigans on this smile-inducing YA rom com that may make you need to be part of this fictional household. 

Good for: Lovers of cute and humorous YA books, readers who’re in search of books that includes shut knit households you’ll fall need to undertake you, readers in search of a candy type of romance (aka not remotely on the steamy aspect)

Good for: readers who’re in search of a heartwarming up to date Christmas romance, lovers of royal associated romances, followers of A Princess For Christmas, readers who recognize a gradual burn pals to lover romances, Hallmark Christmas lovers that need a little bit of added steam

This one is a followup to final 12 months’s Christmas romcom A Princess For Christmas and is about Leo’s bff Dani. You don’t need to learn that one to get pleasure from this one however you’ll be acquainted with the characters and have extra context when you do.

Maximillian von Hansburg is being pressured, by his father, to discover a appropriate bride earlier than he inherits the title he appears like will entice him. Despatched to New York to fulfill a possible bride, he ditches his tasks and reveals up on the doorstep of the lady who’s the Finest Girl within the Eldovian marriage ceremony he’s the Man of Honor in to get to know her higher.

Dani is newly single and swearing off males, particularly a rake like Max, which is an ideal match for Max who’s trying to escape life and search a distraction additionally. As they kind a friendship and their bond deepens, this shouldn’t-happen romance finds a spark.

Test it out when you like: second probability romances, queer romcoms, the fake-dating trope (however with a twist!), heart-warming romcoms

This one is a few girl who fakes an engagement of comfort along with her landlord to assist him get his inheritance (and her to get a pleasant chunk of change for doing so) solely to search out out that his sister is the lady she fell for final Christmas Eve after their meet cute and by no means noticed once more.

A vacation-themed romantic comedy about an identical twins who swap lives, due to a piece associated catastrophe, within the days main as much as Christmas.

One heads off to maintain a cooking present alive whereas the opposite makes their method residence to run the household enterprise. It’s a troublesome act to maintain themselves straight particularly after they each expertise some romantic emotions.

Good for: romcom lovers, followers of dual swap plots a la Guardian Entice or The Princess Change,

Test it out when you like: a very good cry, scavenger hunts, this creator’s guide ALWAYS IN DECEMBER, gradual burn romances, the film P.S. I Love You, a guide with romance but in addition that life-affirming ladies’s fiction kind story, pals to lovers romances

This one would make an important guide membership guide for the vacations!

Cassie feels the burden of loneliness and grief this 12 months on the holidays after the current and tragic passing of her brother. She and her brother have relied on one another, and the discovered household they selected, since turning into orphans at a younger age.

After which an envelope arrives with Tom’s handwriting and she or he is aware of it’s the primary clue within the yearly scavenger hunt he places on for her yearly at Christmas and this one he’d been boasting about as the perfect one but.

This final bittersweet present from her brother units her off on a journey of a lifetime of touring and reconnecting with pals, herself and an outdated love that had drifted away and who additionally occurred to be Tom’s greatest pal and an enormous a part of Cassie’s life years earlier than.

An aspiring designer and the son of a excessive finish division retailer mogul, in want of a girlfriend to fulfill his household’s pressuring, come to an settlement on a fake relationship for his story’s grand opening in alternate for a highlight on her work. This short-term enterprise association is in jeopardy when sparks fly and neither certainly one of them have room of their life for one thing actual.

Good for: readers in search of a guide that has minimal Christmas elements (extra so simply set round Christmas-time than about Christmas), followers of faux engagements, readers who will probably be smitten with the London Christmas-time backdrop, readers who received’t shrink back from some powerful points alongside the candy romance facet

Test it out when you like: steamy gradual burn romances, second probability & friends-to-lovers tropes, books by Casey McQuiston, Alexandria Bellefleur or Ashley Herring Blake’s romances, queer romances, small-town Hallmark Christmas film vibes, cities that really feel just a little like Stars Hole

A tabloid blowup sends occasion planner Morgan Ross again residence to her small city for a strategic retreat to regroup over the Christmas vacation and repair her picture by throwing an occasion to avoid wasting a neighborhood enterprise.

Shortly into her return residence she is pressured to confront her former greatest pal and old flame, Rachel, who additionally occurs to be operating the Christmas tree farm that the city and Morgan’s occasion will purpose to avoid wasting towards grasping builders.

Heartache and lingering emotions should be put apart to throw this essential occasion to avoid wasting Rachel’s Christmas tree farm, her profession and the small city she loves a lot.

Good when you like: Christmas romances with extra emotional parts (when you’ve learn her different books you already know), household dramas

Oh this one actually was amongst my vacation favorites final 12 months! Ooh nonetheless get just a little teary.

The previous few Christmases, now estranged from her household after a horrible & tragic accident, have been very lonely for Holly — apart from the one shiny gentle to the season which is the nameless letter writing/pen-pal membership she joined and connects with different lonely strangers by way of letter each December.

This 12 months the letter she receives from an older girl, who shares in a grief she is aware of effectively, mentions a location she could be very acquainted with and this connection makes her need to hunt down the sender of the letter outdoors of the letters and possibly even assist her reunite along with her estranged grandson.

When she does monitor down the grandson, Jack, she realizes they met as soon as and had a loopy connection — on the very evening of the accident that modified every thing for her.

Test it out when you like: books with a contact of magic, candy romances greater than spicy, Christmas markets, romances that includes 30-somethings, star-crossed lovers, candy & heartwarming books, Hallmark Christmas motion pictures

warning: have pastries close by studying this!!

Newly divorced Astra makes her yearly journey to the Milwaukee Christmas market decided to have a good time along with her pals buying and consuming and, as soon as she’s there, including flirt with the lovable baker she meets.

What she doesn’t know is that she’s met this cute baker, Jack, a number of occasions earlier than at his household bakery however magic prevents her from remembering him — although she does at all times really feel an inkling of familiarity with him.

Jack lives inside Julemarked — a magical Christmas alley that defies time and the place it’s at all times December even after it disappears from one location and pops up on the subsequent.

The 2 fall for each other after spending a while collectively however can they be with one another given they stay in parallel worlds?

Good when you like: winter in New York vibes, a reasonably slow-burn romance, heart-warming books, household secrets and techniques, foodie-centric, one thing wintry however not completely Christmas-centric

Iris, a chef, involves New York in search of a recent begin from her abusive ex and the dying of her late mom who had a particular connection to New York.

She stumbles upon a family-owned gelato store that her mother visited a long time in the past and has seen in images and finds out, from the good-looking proprietor, that it’s at risk of closing as his uncle forgot the key household recipe after he had a stroke.

After tasting the gelato she realizes she simply might need the important thing because it tastes EXACTLY just like the gelato she makes — a recipe she is aware of his uncle will need to have given her mom however she doesn’t know why.

She decides to assist him by providing her chef abilities to recreate the recipe however with out letting on to the very fact she is aware of the key recipe with a purpose to not dredge up household drama and outdated secrets and techniques with this man who simply could possibly be one thing extra in her life.

Good when you like: discovered household, friendship tales, vacation traditions, non-linear tales, followers of Associates/different “pal group” reveals, Christmas in New York

This was being billed as a rom-com and I don’t need you to overlook this one as a result of it’s a improbable Christmas examine discovered household/friendships with a very good dose of a romance. BUT I wouldn’t say it’s actually a rom-com or romance.

IT IS improbable although and I feel lovers of Christmas rom-coms will dig it for certain as a result of the romantic plots in it are improbable.

It’s about 4 pals who got here collectively and created a practice of spending Christmas collectively for a few years as they — for their very own causes — don’t spend Christmas with their households.

Their vacation adventures are sacred whilst they’ve gotten older. However now the custom is about to be upended when certainly one of them publicizes an enormous life change.

The non-linear storytelling actually works as we study the ins and outs of this group and expertise their traditions collectively in addition to the drama all through the years and clearly within the current with an enormous change upending the custom.

As somebody who has had a tough time with Christmas traditions after shedding my mother (no less than till Riley was born), this guide was such an important take a look at unconventional Christmas traditions and located household.

Good when you like: vacation romances that embody however aren’t nearly Christmas, snowy settings (Canada in winter but in addition probably the most atmospheric small city throughout the holidays!), experiencing all types of various traditions and cultural celebrations

Why restrict your vacation cheer (and chaos) to only Christmas?? Add in two different winter holidays and a marriage for good measure! This can be a improbable vacation romance that features Christmas but in addition Hanukkah and Ramadan (oh and a holiday-set marriage ceremony).

Get able to land within the small city of Snow Falls with two strangers and seatmates flying to Toronto — one for a marriage, one to fulfill her boyfriend’s household — as the 2 ladies and a bridal get together get detoured there due to an emergency touchdown. All this after the 2 ladies begin dishing their secrets and techniques and hopes and fears throughout their scary and turbulent aircraft experience.

As soon as their truest emotions have been uttered they usually set foot on this small city — some surprising issues begin to occur throughout the vacation season in each of their love lives exhibiting them that simply possibly this unplanned detour is strictly proper the place they wanted to be.

Candy, gentle and heart-warming! Tremendous enjoyable in case your vibe is Hallmark film however you need extra range! The city gave me Stars Hole vibes.

Good when you like: small city romances, gradual burn romances, grumpy/sunshine vibes

Elisha Rowe will do no matter it takes to get her small city again on the map with a sequel to a beloved vacation traditional film that was shot in her hometown fifty years in the past. Together with getting her late pal Maeve’s historic home to be featured once more because the Christmas Home within the movie.

There’s just one downside — she has to persuade the brand new proprietor, Maeve’s nice nephew, to get on board particularly contemplating she already gave the inexperienced gentle for the home to be accessible for filming.

However Ves desires nothing to do with it — he’s solely on the town to promote the home and get again to his life rapidly and he additionally notably doesn’t love the vacations.

However Elisha isn’t somebody who provides up rapidly and takes on the problem to get him on board.

Add in a faux relationship plot and a few no strings connected enjoyable turned one thing extra? You bought your self a enjoyable Christmas rom-com!

Good when you like: faux relationship (effectively husband) plots, snowed in romances, enemies to lovers romances, rom-coms

Should you like fake relationship/marriage plots — the primary character of this one fakes a complete husband (along with her nemesis), children and possession of a neighborhood farm (that’s actually her twin sister’s).

A misunderstanding makes her boss assume she really owns her twin sister’s farm (she solely does the social media for it) and doesn’t assume it’s an enormous deal to appropriate — that’s till her boss, after getting dumped by his spouse earlier than the vacations, invitations himself over for the massive vacation dinner on the farm that he thinks SHE owns.

No downside although, proper? She will simply fake to not be her scorching mess self and switch into her cozy home-maker sister full with a faux household at some point of the dinner festivities.

Posing as spectacular hostess for her boss proves to be troublesome particularly when her faux husband is her nemesis from her sister’s marriage ceremony and a snowstorm makes the festivities final a complete lot longer than supposed.

Good when you like: one thing spicier than most cute vacation/Christmas romances, rom-coms, household drama

A enjoyable Christmas-time romance in regards to the two grownup kids of two former rock stars who should workforce as much as persuade their now estranged moms to play a Christmas Eve live performance after 30 years because the duo’s very public break up.

The well-known duo’s music has develop into in style once more and the individuals need a reunion — one thing a actuality television producer desperately desires to make occur with the kids on the helm for this actuality particular reunion.

Each Melody and Beat — who haven’t seen one another since they had been 16 — reluctantly need to do it for their very own causes (cash to call one!) regardless of it being outdoors of their consolation zone however they know reuniting the 2 ladies is a tall order!

Much less Christmas-y than some others on this checklist and extra “set amidst the backdrop of Christmas” — nonetheless an important Christmas-time learn!

Good when you like: snowed-in shenanigans, steamy/spicy Christmas romances, grumpy/sunshine romances

Becca Fairfield is worked up for the college vacation as a sorority home mother — a break from her duties being Home Mother to the younger ladies but in addition loads of scorching cocoa, books and comfortable alone time.

However when a HUGE blizzard cuts off energy, with a purpose to keep heat she should keep along with her grumpy neighbor who has a fire — a soccer coach who ghosted her two years in the past after what she thought was an important date and connection and who she now has a reasonably strained and awkward relationship with.

Good when you like: rom-coms, second probability romances, Christmas romances with no spice, travels gone hilariously awry, pressured proximity

Dangerous sufficient to get a concussion earlier than the vacations however our foremost character, an formidable NYC legal professional named Katherine, will get one and needs to be monitored for 48 hours.

Having forgotten to vary her emergency contact, the individual that will get referred to as is her ex-husband they usually each reluctantly agree, with nowhere else for Katherine to go, to journey with Tom to his household in Chicago for the vacations the place he plans to suggest to his new girlfriend. (Simply let me take the possibilities and be concussed alone, amirite?).

A blizzard turns a fast aircraft experience into fairly the misadventure to get them to Chicago and outdated, sophisticated emotions begin to stir between the exes.