Christmas Books to Read

Each year I stuff myself with books to read that use Christmas as a setting.  I love this.  It is my favorite thing to do over the holidays.  Me, book, fireplace, cookies...

This year I had the opportunity to read several, starting in October.  Here are my choices for Favorite Christmas Reads:

Christmas Under a Cranberry Sky by Holly Martin

Piper Chesterfield has a job as being a mystery guest at luxury hotels.  She goes around the world writing up reviews for a magazine.  She decides to do one last review before going on a sabbatical for a few months.  Little does she know that this might be her last hotel to review, ever.  Did I leave you with a sense of doom?  I shouldn't, the book is a lovely Christmas romance set in a remote winter land.  Beautiful book.  Buyer beware, this book has some steamy scenes in it, unusual for a Christmas romance.

Christmas at the Comfort Food Cafe by Debbie Johnson

This story is full of fun characters, friends and belly jiggling humor.  It has some moments that only sisters understand, how impossible it is to love and hate in the same moment.  Laura and Becca are two sisters, opposite in personalities but united in that they are there for each other when needed. When Becca's husband unexpectedly passes away, Laura makes a complete change in her life to support her sister when she decides to move away.  Beautiful story of how one's life can take a turn for the better in a twist of fate.

The Christmas Bride by Christian Michael

This book is full of short stories about mail order brides.  The stories are one to three chapters long, each with its own version of how a man writes for a mail order bride, the woman comes alone "out west" or "down south" and marries a complete stranger the day she arrives.  Even with that being said, there was something nice about finishing an entire story before going to bed.

All I Want For Christmas by Jenny Hale

Leah has only one wish, to move into her late grandmother's mansion and open a bed and breakfast in order to create a better life for her and her daughter, Sadie.  The problem is, Grandmother left the property to TWO people, Leah and David Forester, the previous owner of Evergreen Hill.  It seems that Grandmother purchased the property from David's grandmother when she ran out of money and sold the place.  It had always been David's desire to buy the property back from Grandmother in the future.  Now Leah has to figure out how to manage a dual ownership and if that is the best thing for her daughter.  A nice story with a predictable ending, but a lovely path to the ending!

These are a just a few of the Christmas books I read this year, but ones that I enjoyed and that were relatively inexpensive.  If you like reading Christmas romance, these will certainly fit the bill.