40 festive books to get you in the mood for Christmas 2024

We will read any Christmas book written by Bella Osborne, and her release this year tells the story of Olivia, who has been ghosted countless times, and after her recent dream man suddenly disappears from the dating app, she heads up to Scotland to confront the chef. Except, he has no clue who she is.

Released on 10th October

Love them or loathe them, board games are an essential part of any good Christmas, and so Page's new novel is ideal to get you in the festive spirit. Kate has everything she could possibly want in her quaint Yorkshire town, but when she decides to create a living advent calendar to create more business for the town and her ex-boyfriends shows up, her perfect life is not looking so shiny anymore.

Released on 10th October

Thought burning your turkey was bad? Well, Anna just found a dead body in her larder, and her in-laws on the way. Talk about a double Christmas whammy. With just 24 hours until they arrive, she's got a day to figure out what the hell has happened, and crucially how to get rid of the body before Santa comes down the chimney.

Released on 24th October

Five years on from her ex-fiancée dumping her at the altar, musician Charlotte travels to spend Christmas with her quartet member in Colorado. Except all dreams of a peaceful cosy Christmas are slashed when her ex Brighton shows up. Charlotte refuses to talk to Brighton, which is pretty difficult when they've been signed up for a series of date activities. Can the pair make a Christmas reunion work?

Bella is Christmas obsessed, so when she agrees to let an author move into her family home for research purposes for his book who is less than thrilled by the festive season, is disaster destined to ruin Bella's happy Christmas?

Released on 10th October

If you loved Nita Prose's The Maid, then you'll be pleased to know Molly the Maid is back for the festive season and this time she's set to solve a Christmas mystery at the Regency Grand Hotel.

Released on 10th October

Bayliss' novel centres on three half-sisters Maggie, Simone and Star who are reunited following the death of their father. At the end of his will they discover he has left them a series of hoops to jump through in order to get the inheritance they all so desperately need. Cue all three sisters moving back to their hometown and a serious amount of family secrets reaching the surface, oh and a few rekindled flames of course.

Ok so technically this is a sequel to Colgan's previous novel The Christmas Bookshop, but you can definitely read it as a standalone. It's all going wrong for Carmen who runs a bookshop in Edinburgh. Her sister has booted her out of her house, the love of her life has just flown away and the bookshop she works in is the site of a cringey Christmas film. However, when the owner of the bookshop comes to Carmen with a difficult Christmas wish, Carmen must do everything in her power to make it come true.

Melody is the daughter of rock royalty, who likes to keep herself very much out of the spotlight. But when a producer offers her a lot of money to reunite her mum's band live on TV, she can hardly say no. Teaming up with Beat, the son of the other band member, the two go on a mission to reunite their mothers, all while trying to deal with their own feelings for each other too. But will a decades old scandal threaten to ruin the festive reunion and their potential new found love?

Newly single and unsure about her next career moves, Holly settles down for a festive season of housesitting for a friend who has gone out of town. In her new neighbourhood Holly becomes friends with an older lady and her adorable sausage dog. She then meets Bear, a rather attractive guy at her new local pub, and soon her decisions about her future are even less certain than before.

After a hellish year, Haf kisses a stranger under the mistletoe at a Christmas party. However, the next day rumours begin spreading and now everyone thinks Haf is spending Christmas with Christopher. In order to save him from major embarrassment she agrees to go to his family house for Christmas. But their ruse may not last long, after Haf starts to fall for Christopher's sister Kit.

Both Charlie and Rose were expecting to spend this Christmas alone. Rose, who once loved Christmas now can't go back to her family home, and Charlie is facing his first Christmas alone. Unbeknownst them they both book in for a cosy cottage stay in rural Donegal, the only problem is they've both booked the exact same cottage. Er, awkward. Will they be able enjoy what should have been a solitary Christmas?

Real-estate agent Blythe is just one sale away from the title of 'Agent of the Month' and so she bends the truth a little to sell Christmas-hating Sam a house in what he thinks is the perfect village. However, what Blythe hasn't told him is Holly Cross is the most Christmassy village in the whole country, and is on a mission to win the title of Britain's Most Perfect Christmas Village, but with Sam's hatred of Christmas, could the festive town be in jeopardy? Or could Sam learn to love Holly Cross?

A murder mystery set at a cosy Christmas country estate? We're so here for it. Ashley is an American studying in London who is invited to spend Christmas at her classmate's family at their Cotswolds manor house. It all seems like the dream Christmas, but things are not exactly what they seem and some holiday horrors may be lying in wait for Ashley.

When Holly Roberts, keen cold weather hater, gets her heart broken, she surprises everyone by heading off for a job as a sous-chef in a luxury ski chalet working for twins Genevieve and Luca. There with the help of chalet girl Liv and chef Xavier, she learns to love the cold weather, get on a ski-lift and they introduce her to the joys of fondue. Oh, and there's rich and attractive Luca there too.

This is the ultimate cosy read in the run up to Christmas. Erica, Claudia, and Anna are best friends who meet up every year for their annual book club. This year their trip takes them to the Maple Sugar Inn, run by Hattie, a widower doing everything she can to to keep her husband's inn dream alive. What happens when the four women's lives become interwoven? And are there secrets even best friends don't know about each other?

Presenting the holiday rom-com of your dreams! Bee Hobbes takes the lead in a romantic Christmas movie, and things start to heat up on set with her co-star, Nolan Shaw. But Bee and Nolan must keep this steamy affair under wraps, or they could ruin everything.

In this festive spin on Groundhog Day, fed-up Gwen is forced to endure Christmas Day over and over again until she begins to make some unexpected discoveries about herself and the people around her.