26+ New Holiday and Winter Books for All Ages!

Published on by Cornelius Reed

With Thanksgiving over, it’s the official unofficial start to the holiday season!

To help get you in the holiday mood, we’ve curated a list of new holiday and winter books for all ages that recently hit our shelves. Some of these are brand new, and others are new to us, but they all take place either during the winter or holiday season. Check them out, curl up somewhere warm, and let the spirit of the season envelop you. Enjoy!

Children

Book cover of The Twelve Hours of Christmas

The Twelve Hours of Christmas

  • By Jenn Bailey, illustrated by Bea Jackson
  • Where to find it: New Juvenile Picture Books
  • View it on our catalog

Summary from our catalog: A reimagining of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” carol, featuring a large family coming together on Christmas Day

Book cover of Bluey: 12 Days of Christmas

Bluey: 12 Days of Christmas

Summary from our catalog: On the first day of Christmas, Veranda Santa gave to me…a fruit bat in a mango tree! Countdown the twelve days of Christmas with Bluey and Bingo!

Book cover of Chloe's Lunar New Year

Chloe’s Lunar New Year

Summary from our catalog: It’s almost Lunar New Year, and Chloe can’t wait to celebrate! But first, Chloe and her family must prepare for the new year. They buy new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate the red envelope, and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together to cook a fantastic feast, saving a plate for A-má, of course. Chloe enjoys the festive celebration and yummy food, but most of all, she loves spending time with her family.

Book cover of Brown Sugar Baby Christmas Joy

Brown Sugar Baby Christmas Joy

Summary from our catalog: A perfect keepsake gift for baby’s first Christmas, this board book captures the warmth and celebration of the holiday as Baby becomes the center of family joy and new traditions. Illustrations.

Book cover of Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas

Dasher Can’t Wait for Christmas

Summary from our catalog: With only one sleep left before Christmas Eve, Dasher can’t contain her excitement for her favorite holiday. With the sound of Christmas carols on the breeze and twinkling lights radiating from a nearby city, she sneaks off to visit the festivities. But as night deepens and snow starts to fall, Dasher realizes she can no longer spot the North Star in the sky to lead her home. Will the kindness of a child, an unexpected gift, and a dose of Christmas spirit get her back in time to help guide Santa’s sleigh? The New York Times best-selling creator of Dasher has crafted another delightful journey featuring everyone’s favorite reindeer doe, in a story full of giving, joy, and holiday magic.

Book cover of Dino-Hanukkah

Dino-Hanukkah

  • By Lisa Wheeler, illustrated by Barry Gott
  • Where to find it: New Juvenile Picture Books
  • View it on our catalog

Summary from our catalog: Hanukkah is coming, and the dinos are all busy getting ready! They make brisket and latkes, and the dino-kids play with a dreidel, act out the Hanukkah story, open gifts, and eagerly await their turn to light the menorah. Dinosaurs big and small gather to decorate, eat, and even compete in party festivities like only prehistoric carnivores and herbivores would.

Book cover of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh

Summary from our catalog: The pigeon really, really wants to drive Santa’s sleigh, but reconsiders once he learns how it flies.

Middle Grade

Book cover of Snow Foal

Snow Foal

Summary from our catalog: When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. But when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow, Addie discovers that perhaps she’s not so alone after all. 

And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what it is to be home again soon.

Book cover of Juniper's Christmas

Juniper’s Christmas

Summary: Eleven-year-old Juniper Lane is thrown into a Christmas adventure like no other when she seeks the help of a mysterious woodsman living in her local park, who she suspects is Santa himself, and accidentally gets exposed to North Pole magic. Join a boisterous cast of characters—including a neighbor who always believed in Santa, a young reindeer in training, and a cutthroat crime boss out to steal Santa’s magic—on an unpredictable journey bursting with Eoin Colfer’s signature exuberance and merriment. Complete with cheerful, festive illustrations, this is a beautifully packaged tale of wonder, sure to inspire the Christmas spirit in the whole family.

Celebrate the holidays with a story of hope, magic, and saving Santa Claus, from a celebrated author beloved for his spirited storytelling. Juniper’s Christmas is the perfect holiday read, year after year.

Book cover of Holiday High: We Witch You a Merry Christmas

Holiday High: We Witch You a Merry Christmas

Summary: Welcome to Holiday High, a magical school that exists for those who believe in holidays most. When legacy enrollee Eve December is surprisingly placed into the Halls of Halloween, all her Christmas dreams disappear into a thick haunted fog. With only one chance to earn her way back to Campus Christmas, Eve must lead a misfit crew of ghouls, monsters, witches, and costume keepers to reignite a forgotten All Hallows’ Eve tradition of magic, music, and song… just in time to find that there’s more than one place our hearts can belong. From the fantastic imagination of Hocus Pocus 2 writer Blake Harris.

Book cover of The Cardboard Kingdom 3: Snow and Sorcery

The Cardboard Kingdom 3: Snow and Sorcery

Summary from our catalog: The kids of the Cardboard Kingdom go on a new adventure! This time, they are in search of new friends–but what they discover is a lot more like enemies… It’s winter break in the Cardboard Kingdom, and kids from the town across the park want to play together! But according to the evil Sorceress, not just anyone can join the kingdom… So it’s not long before the two communities spiral into battle. Will the Sorceress realize the error of her ways before all hope is lost? Will friendship still manage to win the day?

Book cover of 15 Secrets to Survival

15 Secrets to Survival

Summary from our catalog: Forced to participate in an extra credit project in the middle of nowhere, classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner and Emerson must survive the wilderness with only a survival handbook and each other after their instructor goes missing

Book cover of The Christmas Carrolls: A Fantastically Festive Family

The Christmas Carrolls: A Fantastically Festive Family

Summary from our catalog: When she goes to a new school, 9-year-old Holly Carroll, the world’s most Christmassy girl, realizes not everyone shares her love of the holidays, especially when she discovers a group of children that may not get a Christmas at all.

Young Adult

Book cover of Love in Winter Wonderland

Love in Winter Wonderland

Summary from our catalog: Seventeen-year-olds Trey and Ariel embark on a hate-to-love journey when they band together to save Trey’s family’s business, the longest-running Black-owned bookshop in London.

Book cover of 10 Blind Dates

10 Blind Dates

Summary from our catalog: Sophie wants one thing for Christmas—a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship.

Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents’ house, where the rest of her boisterous extended family is gathered for the holiday. That’s when her nonna devises a (not so) brilliant plan: Over the next ten days, Sophie will be set up on ten different blind dates by different family members. Like her sweet cousin Sara, who sets her up with a hot guy at an exclusive underground party. Or her crazy aunt Patrice, who signs Sophie up for a lead role in a living nativity. With a boy who barely reaches her shoulder. And a screaming baby.

When Griffin turns up unexpectedly and begs for a second chance, Sophie feels more confused than ever. Because maybe, just maybe, she’s started to have feelings for someone else . . . Someone who is definitely not available. This is going to be the worst Christmas break ever . . . or is it?

Book cover of This Winter

This Winter

Summary from our catalog: A very special Heartstopper story set over a challenging holiday season… Reuniting Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie’s boyfriend Nick, this novella sees the Spring siblings brave a particularly difficult festive season

Book cover of Finding My Elf

Finding My Elf

Summary: Escaping to NYU for college didn’t turn out the way Cameron planned—he’s flunking his theater classes, about to lose his scholarship, and he still hasn’t found anyone he can call his “people.” When he gets home for winter break, he’s so desperate to avoid a Conversation with his dad that he takes the first acting job he can get—as a mall elf. Despite how Scroogey he feels, the plus side is that there’s a cash prize for the most festive of Santa’s helpers.

But the competition is fierce—especially from fellow elf Marco. Christmas spirit oozes out of his veins. At first Cam is determined to see him as nothing but a rival, but as they spend more time together, Cam starts to second-guess himself. What if he’s finally found his people here—in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth, where he least expected it?

Adult

Book cover of The Holiday Mix-Up

The Holiday Mix-Up

Summary from our catalog: Lonely-hearted waitress Katie Smith has nowhere to go for Christmas, and a huge crush on her gorgeous diner patron Juan Martinez. So when Juan asks Katie to pose as his girlfriend for holiday festivities at his family’s winery, Katie leaps at the chance… that is, until an accident lands Juan in a coma right after giving his folks the “news.” Katie knows she should tell the Martinezes the truth, but when they immediately embrace her, Katie is reluctant to let her fantasy of a family holiday go. And then there’s Juan’s brother, Mateo, whose smile tugs at her heartstrings just right—and who tells her perfect Juan might not be everything he seems. Second son Mateo Martinez loves his brother, but Juan’s plan to “rebrand and expand” Los Cielos Cellars has cost their family too much and put its entire tradition in jeopardy. Katie seems to understand, but she’s still committed to Juan… even when Mateo starts to wish her gentle heart and beautiful smile were committed to him instead. With the winery at stake, secrets on all sides, and Juan due to wake up any day, can Katie and Mateo follow their hearts to a Christmas miracle, or will this mix-up ruin their chances?

Book cover of Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop

Summary from our catalog: In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Christmas Bookshop, an American production company decides that McCredie’s is the perfect location to film a very cheesy Christmas movie and Carmen, the bookshop’s manager, uses this unexpected windfall to fend off a buyout offer from an obnoxious millionaire.

Book cover of In Farm's Way

In Farm’s Way

Summary from our catalog: Even the best-laid plants can go awry… After solving a murder and getting her organic farm ready to overwinter, Shiloh Bellamy still expects the next few months to be busy with repairs, spring planning, and networking with local businesses. She might even be able to broker a new partnership with Fields Brewery and its organic brewer’s association. Well, she could if the owner wasn’t found murdered at the county Ice Fishing Derby. Once again, Shiloh gets tangled up in the investigation when the police ignore an entire crop of suspects to blame one of her friends. She’ll have to dig deep to find the truth, reel in a killer, and convince her city-slicker pug to wear his winter boots. But with Bellamy Farm still struggling, can Shiloh spare the time to look into the town’s fishy characters? Or will her dream farm be the next thing floating belly up?

Book cover of Stalking Around the Christmas Tree

Stalking Around the Christmas Tree

Summary from our catalog: For innkeeper Holly White, Christmas time in Mistletoe, Maine, is the ultimate holiday gift. Business at the Reindeer Games Inn is booming, her wedding to Sheriff Evan Gray is nearly here, and the annual parade is about to begin. The town is lucky to have another gift this year with the state’s ballet company staying for several performances of The Nutcracker. But disaster strikes when Tiffany, the lead ballerina, shows up dead on a float during the parade, the Rat King’s mask nearby. Holly will have tospruce up her sleuthing skills if she wants to catch the killer before Christmas–and her wedding day. Immediately, Holly discovers that Tiffany had more than a few secrets. She finds out that the star of the show had a super fan that no one knows anything about. And the show’s understudy slips some other intriguing information Holly’s way: not only was Tiffany secretly seeing someone romantically, but there seems to be more than one rat in this company. When Holly discovers a secret passage leading to Tiffany’s dressing room, with footprints leading out; she wonders if this is evidence of a secret lover–or a stalking killer. With an impending snowstorm and the ballet company on the way out of town, Holly must act quickly if she wants to find the personresponsible for this terrible murder. Will she be able to save Christmas–or will her investigation turn cold like the weather?

Book cover of Three Holidays and a Wedding

Three Holidays and a Wedding

Summary from our catalog: As strangers and seatmates Maryam Aziz and Anna Gibson fly to Toronto over the holidays–Maryam to her sister’s impromptu wedding, and Anna to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family for the first time–neither expect that severe turbulence will scare them into confessing their deepest hopes and fears to one another. At least they’ll never see each other again. And the love of Maryam’s life, Saif, wasn’t sitting two rows behind them hearing it all. Oops. An emergency landing finds Anna, Saif, Maryam, and her sister’s entire bridal party snowbound at the quirky Snow Falls Inn in a picture-perfect town, where fate has Anna’s actor-crush filming a holiday romance. As Maryam finds the courage to open her heart to Saif, and Anna feels the magic of being snowbound with an unexpected new love–both women soon realize there’s no place they’d rather be for the holidays.

Book cover of A Christmas to Remember

A Christmas to Remember

Summary from our catalog: Christmas is just around the corner, and the town of Henry Adams is preparing for a wedding! Ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town of Henry Adams, her relationship with diner owner Malachi “Mal” July has had its share of ups and downs. But now they’re finally ready to say “I do.” Or are they? As wedding preparations go into full swing, and families both local and extended begin to gather for the festivities, that long awaited walk down the aisle begins to look like an obstacle course. But Mal and Bernadine’s relationship isn’t the only one being tested. Amari, one of the original foster kids who found a home in Henry Adams, takes stock of how far he’s come, especially with the help of his best friend Brain. But now he worries what may happen to their friendship when Brain goes off to college next year. And when Amari’s birth mother decides she wants to spend Christmas with her son, bringing with her plenty of drama, the town and its people must come together and remember the real meaning of the holidays.

Book cover of Reasonable Adults

Reasonable Adults

Summary from our catalog: The morning after a humiliating post-breakup social media post (#sponsoredbywine), Kate Rigsby learns she’s lost her marketing job along with her almost-fiancé. Worse, she realizes how little she truly cared about either. Craving a reset, Kate flees the big-city life she spent many years building–and almost as many doubting–to take a temporary gig at Treetops, a swanky, off-the-grid creative retreat in Muskoka, complete with meditation circles, deluxe spa, and artisanal cocktails. At least, that’s what the brochure promises . . . The reality is a struggling resort that’s stuck in the 1990s, fax machine included. Kate’s office is a bunker, her boss is a nightmare, and at night she shares a freezing hut with her seventy-pound Goldendoodle. Then there’s the sexy, off-limits coworker whose easy smile and lumberjack forearms are distracting Kate from the already near-impossible task of making this snowbound oasis profitable. On the upside, the surroundings are breathtaking. The Treetops crew is quirky and (mostly) kind. And somehow, Kate’s starting to feel new enthusiasm for her career–and her life. In fact, she’s daring to challenge herself in ways she never dreamed of before.

Book cover of Murder Under the Mistletoe

Murder Under the Mistletoe

Summary from our catalog: Landscape artist and owner of SeaScapes, Kinsley Clark has been re-hired to decorate the town of Harborside for the upcoming holiday season and boat parade. Using the local elements found in Maine, Kinsley creates kissing balls-the town’s official mistletoe-to hang downtown and along the wharf. Kinsley is also responsible for Harborside’s official “lobster-stacked” Christmas tree, located beside the local marina, where the annual Harborside Boat Parade & Fireworks Display takes place. When local alderman Chris Chesterfield dressed up as the Grinch right down to the green face paint, falls off the pier and into the icy Atlantic the night of the annual kickoff event, the town is in shock. But all eyes turn to Kinsley and her beautiful decorations when it becomes evident that Chris didn’t fall after all-and that he was looking to replace SeaScapes with a different decorating team. Kinsley, along with bestie, Becca and Pete, the owner of the Blue Lobstah, must unearth the truth before Kinsley takes the fall.

Book cover of Up on the Woof Top

Up on the Woof Top

Summary from our catalog: Chet the dog, “the most lovable narrator in all of crime fiction” (Boston Globe) and his human partner Bernie Little find themselves high in the mountains this holiday season to help Dame Ariadne Carlisle, a renowned author of bestselling Christmas mysteries, find Rudy, her lead reindeer and good luck charm, who has gone missing. At Kringle Ranch, Dame Ariadne’s expansive mountain spread, Chet discovers that he is not fond of reindeer. But the case turns out to be about much more than reindeer after Dame Ariadne’s personal assistant takes a long fall into Devil’s Purse, a deep mountain gorge. When our duo discovers that someone very close to Dame Ariadne was murdered in that same spot decades earlier, they start looking into that long ago unsolved crime. But as they reach into the past, the past is also reaching out for them. Can they unlock the secrets of Dame Ariadne’s life before they too end up at the bottom of the gorge? Is Rudy somehow the key?

What’s your favorite holiday book? Leave a comment and let us know!

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