Favorite Books to Read for Winter

Five Favorite Books to Read for Winter

Twinkling Christmas lights, sipping hot chocolate, a warm crackling fire

Vacation days and time spent with family.  Watching all the holiday movies that you wait all year to see again.  Your house constantly smelling like cookies and Christmas cake. 

The Holidays are caught between fall slowly turning to winter.  It really is the most wonderful time of the year.

Or at least the coziest.

The internet has been buzzing with people discovering hygge – the Danish people’s way of coziness and togetherness.  And what could be cozier than curling up next to the blazing fire with several good books?

Get your hygge on with your candles and your grandma’s quilt and these great winter reads.

While you dream of a white Christmas, here are some good books to read:

1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Ove has an unusual personality for a main character.  He is socially inept, but you can’t help but fall in love with him.  In the midst of his blossoming relationship with his new neighbors the book bounces back to the past so you can figure out what made Ove the grumpy man he is today.  And just when you understand his grumpiness, his energetic, newfangled neighbors find a way to melt his heart.

Read if….

You ever misunderstood your grumpy old grandpa.  Or if you want to feel all the crying feels. 

2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Perhaps you’ve heard of this one? :)  I love the Harry Potter series of books.  Rowling in her mastery teaches us such great lessons about love and life while captivating us in her magical world.  This first book is the simplest of them all, yet packed with adventure, friendship, and an epic fight against evil.

Read if…

You want to be in touch with your inner child/preteen self.

3. The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty

An interesting take on family and secrets. This is an older book – the second one by Moriarty.  But it still has her page-turning style with a twist at the end that makes her books so great.  And I feel like the family dynamic makes it great for the holidays.

Single Sophie inherits aunt Connie’s house – the aunt of her ex-boyfriend, that is.  Connie’s house, the island on which it sits, and all the family members are tied up in a secret from years ago.  Does it hold the family together, or will it tear them apart?

Read if…

If you love Liane Moriarty’s other big sellers like TheHusband’s Secret, What Alice Forgot, Big Little Lies … or if you watched Big Little Lies on HBO!

4. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

Diana Gabaldon packs Outlander with interesting Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, adventure, love, complications, and hardships of the past.  Claire Randall is thrown back in time from her present-day of 1945 to 1743 in Scotland.  While she’s there she has to choose between staying faithful to her husband from 1945, or falling for Jamie from 1743… The back of the book puts it like this:

“For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire… and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.”

Woah.  Captivating

  

Read if…

You want a long book to get lost in on your winter vacation.

Warning – there are some detailed sex scenes. 

5. Nobody’s Cuter Than You by Melanie Shankle

While we tend to think about our family around the holidays, we should also remember our friends.  The people we see every day, the people we want to have our ugly Christmas sweater parties with, the people who will tell us our mascara is smeared.

Melanie Shankle tells the story of her and her best friend, Gulley.  Woven throughout are lessons we can all learn about having good friends, being friend, and how our friendships effect our lives.

Read if…

You appreciate your best friend!

Have you ever read any “Christmas books”?  I mean ones that are specifically designated for Christmas?  I think I’m going to try a few this year.  What are your suggestions?

Happy Reading!

Hannah

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