Warm Your Heart with the 20 Best Winter Holiday Reads

There are many great books that are perfect for the winter season. It’s difficult for me to recommend a specific wintery book that I’ve “ever read,”.

Instead, I can provide suggestions for popular and well-reviewed wintery books that you may enjoy.

These books all have elements of winter and the holiday season, and they are sure to warm your heart and get you in the mood for the season.

I will give you enough details to decide which one you kind of want to inspect the vast majority of those winter holiday books,

if I have I will state it these are in absolutely random order, and I will tell you the name of the Goodreads rating and a little brief description.

and the series is in my hopes a useful resource where you can find book recommendations from fellow readers.

If you could recommend fellow readers one wintry holiday book which one you would recommend.

if you have read any of these I’m going to mention if you like them.

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1. Frostheart

Frostheart by Jamie Littler

Frostheart was recommended possibly the most Frost Heart is actually a middle-grade book and the Goodreads rating is 4.09 so pretty hefty and it’s following our main character Ash.

when a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers and he’s whisked aboard the Frosted Heart a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help but can they help him find his family.

2. The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel

The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel by Katherine Arden

next up is actually my current read which is The Bear and the Nightingale this actually has the same ratings 4.09 is a YA fantasy inspired by some Russian folklore it is written by a non-Russian but they did study Russian folklore and also lived abroad in Russia I believe for a while and the story is about Vasia her mother kind of gets pregnant with her unexpectedly and decides to keep the child.

because she is hopeful that the powers of her grandmother who was said to be a witch will be transferred to this child she does kind of already know that she will die during childbirth and she does so we follow her story as she’s growing up and her father finds another woman for the family so and as stepmothers do she’s not very kind to her

while Vassia sees all of these old gods of old creatures around the house so does the ground so does the stepmother but the stepmother thinks they’re demons so it’s about the old gods versus the new gods and fighting again a fight between those and also there is this frost king something that has an eye on Vasia and he’s making the moves to meet with her.

3. Even the Darkest Stars

Even the Darkest Stars by Heather Fawcett

then we have even the Darkest Stars which is actually a story about mountain climbing um and it definitely is filled with snow the rating is 3.9 so a tiny bit lower than it is ya fantasy it does.

however, have tiny adorable dragons and I know there are a couple of you that that will be enough for in the story there are two sisters one is way better at the explorer path and they’re still they’re both still learning but their village actually gets visited by a very famous explorer who unexpectedly asks our main character to follow her to follow them and join their expedition.

her sister then kind of hurts and joins the rival explorer and so our main character has to decide where her loyalties lie this story will offer you, again, tiny dragons avalanche ice chasms, and even ghosts it sounds like it has a little bit of everything.

4. A Shiver of Snow and Sky

A Shiver of Snow and Sky by NA

next up we have another YA fantasy which is a shiver of snow and sky in this book we have kind of like northern lines predicting the future. so they are kind of color-coded green means that all is well and the goddess is happy blue means a snowstorm is on the way red is rare and red is a warning.

when we jump into the story the last time the red color was painted on the sky was 17 years ago when she was born which coincided with a massive plague that actually took a lot of lives as we jump into the story, of course, the sky goes red and our main character takes it upon herself to figure out why and how to stop the imminent disaster the rating for this one is 3.65.

5. The Snow Child: A Novel

The Snow Child: A Novel by Eowyn Ivey

A historical fiction set in Alaska this one is called The Snow Child and it was also one of the highest recommended books for this theme the reading is 3.97 and as I said it is set in Alaska in 1920 so a couple moves into Alaska. they both crumble under pressure but just for different reasons one night there is a massive storm and they just decide to take a kind of evening off and build a child out of snow the next morning that the snow child is gone.

however, there’s a very real girl running between the trees while they struggle to understand this child where it came from how is surviving outside, and who it belongs to um they soon learn to love her as their own and take care of her and then it says but in this beautiful violent place things are rarely as they appear and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them so it seems like it’s a little bit sinister and as I tell historical fiction and magical realism interesting.

6. Spinning Silver: A Novel

Spinning Silver: A Novel by Naomi Novik

Then we have Spinning Silver another YA fantasy that I thought actually was an adult one but I’m not quite sure with a very high rating of 4.22 this is a fairy-like story about a girl who lives with a father who is burdened by a lot of death she goes she gets a bit desperate and she goes and tries to take care of herself.

and she very quickly becomes known for her ability to turn silver to gold after a very ill-advised boast the existence of this ability reaches a king and once he hears about her and her abilities her fate and the whole kingdom’s fate are changed forever.

then it’s a story of deadly choices Mariam and her two unlikely allies embark on a desperate quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice power and love I’ve very rarely heard that someone did not like this book it seems to be a pretty loved story from what I’ve heard it’s also a very very atmospheric read and clearly very wintry.

7. A Winter’s Promise: Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet

A Winter’s Promise: Book One of The Mirror Visitor Quartet by Christelle Dabos

next, we have this beauty I’m so excited to be reading this at some point definitely soon and it’s called A Winter’s Promise this is actually a translated work from French um it is a YA fantasy once again apparently the rating is super high 4.17.

this is all about these floating cities which I’m obsessed with already and each city is it’s own I think kingdom if I’m not mistaken um they’re called arks we follow a character that has to leave hers and go and marry someone else and she actually has the ability to speak with objects there are mirrors that act like portals she has to hide her identity.

and I heard that this is a very this is there’s a lot of political intrigues so if you are into political intrigue based books I think this would be a good shout and uh it just looks so promising I don’t know something about this calls to me watch me not like it but.

8. Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green

moving a tiny bit away from YA fantasy we have a um YA contemporary by three authors apparently John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle, and it’s called Let It Snow the rating is 3.76 and it actually includes three romantic love Christmas stories there’s one about a hike from a stranded train there’s another one about a trip to a waffle house through four feet of snow.

and another one about the early shift and Starbucks and all very holiday-ish because it’s I think specifically written for like a holiday feels I have a feeling this would be a super-fast read if you are looking for something very cutesy very um probably ‘Insta-lovey’ i don’t know but it just sounds like it could be this could be a good grab.

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