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Books set in the month of December, or at least starting then. Also books featuring December holidays: Yuletide, Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year's Eve.
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A Christmas Carol
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The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
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The Cat Who Came for Christmas (Compleat Cat #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 5,195 ratings
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Winter Solstice
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
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Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
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3.95 avg rating — 7,233 ratings
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How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 95,985 ratings
score: 195,
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Last Christmas in Paris
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Hazel Gaynor (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 25,906 ratings
score: 195,
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The Cat of Yule Cottage
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4.05 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Hercule Poirot, #20)
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3.98 avg rating — 99,329 ratings
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Fired Up (Arcane Society, #7; Dreamlight Trilogy, #1)
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Jayne Ann Krentz (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 11,214 ratings
score: 186,
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Small Things Like These
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4.11 avg rating — 376,806 ratings
score: 181,
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Rosemary and Rue (October Daye, #1)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 39,920 ratings
score: 173,
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Too Many Husbands
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3.90 avg rating — 49 ratings
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I Am the Only Running Footman (Richard Jury, #8)
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Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 4,697 ratings
score: 163,
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Ice
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3.55 avg rating — 8,844 ratings
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Badlands (Highway Quartet, #3)
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4.06 avg rating — 17,972 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder (Benjamin Franklin, #2)
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3.53 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 141,
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Mrs. Malory Investigates (Mrs. Malory Mysteries, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 911 ratings
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Prophet Motive
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2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Spirit of Steamboat (Walt Longmire, #9.1)
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4.28 avg rating — 9,909 ratings
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A Carol in the Dark
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3.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 130,
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Christmas Carol Murder (A Lucy Stone Mystery, #20)
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Leslie Meier (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 3,024 ratings
score: 109,
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Skipping Christmas
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 84,494 ratings
score: 107,
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A Puzzle in a Pear Tree (Puzzle Lady, #4)
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Parnell Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 834 ratings
score: 107,
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A Holly, Jolly Murder (Claire Malloy, #12)
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3.68 avg rating — 683 ratings
score: 107,
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Holiday in Death (In Death, #7)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 44,933 ratings
score: 100,
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Succubus Dreams (Georgina Kincaid, #3)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 29,576 ratings
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When Snow Falls (Whiskey Creek, #2)
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Brenda Novak (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 5,354 ratings
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Death of the Cosset
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Kimberly Jane Oswald (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Once Upon a River
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Diane Setterfield (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 98,736 ratings
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A Brotherly Christmas
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Rhett Blue (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Christmas in a Safe Room
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Kieran Frank (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Seeking Immanuel
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows: 24 Cozy Love Stories to Warm Your Heart Before Christmas
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Alessia Blayne (Goodreads Author)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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A Christmas Homecoming (Christmas Stories, #9)
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3.52 avg rating — 2,198 ratings
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Under the Mistletoe
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3.94 avg rating — 2,438 ratings
score: 99,
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A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 140,583 ratings
score: 99,
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The Unburied
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3.47 avg rating — 1,754 ratings
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Travelling in a Strange Land
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4.05 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
score: 99,
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To Have Him and Hold Him
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Kieran Frank (Goodreads Author)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 99,
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The Confessions of Dorian Gray: Ghosts of Christmas Past
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4.21 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 99,
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The Wood at Midwinter
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3.45 avg rating — 19,596 ratings
score: 99,
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Hidden Riches
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 22,347 ratings
score: 98,
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On the Blue Train
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3.09 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Vitklädd med ljus i hår
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3.22 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Silver Bells
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Luanne Rice (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 4,204 ratings
score: 98,
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Hogfather (Discworld, #20)
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4.26 avg rating — 101,834 ratings
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A Castle in the Clouds
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3.95 avg rating — 23,367 ratings
score: 98,
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The Confessions of Dorian Gray: The Spirits of Christmas
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4.20 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Winter Ghosts
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3.49 avg rating — 16,149 ratings
score: 98,
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Whispers Under Ground (Rivers of London, #3)
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Ben Aaronovitch (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 63,312 ratings
score: 97,
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The Man With a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, #1)
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Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,552 ratings
score: 97,
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Henry the Queen’s Corgi
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4.13 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Tragedi på en lantkyrkogård
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3.41 avg rating — 307 ratings
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Lanterns Across the Snow
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4.26 avg rating — 123 ratings
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O' Artful Death (A Sweeney St. George Mystery #1)
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Sarah Stewart Taylor (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 771 ratings
score: 97,
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Merry Christmas, Little Elliot (Little Elliot, #5)
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3.83 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Daisy Ducks
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3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 96,
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Bortom sanningen (Hanne Wilhelmsen, #7)
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3.60 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
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The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 9,725 ratings
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The Christmas Eve Craigslist Killer
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4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Substitute Guest
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4.26 avg rating — 958 ratings
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The Fifth Doctrine (The Guardian, #3)
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Karen Robards (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 2,574 ratings
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The Mysterious Howling (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, #1)
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Maryrose Wood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 22,897 ratings
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Christmas in the Trenches
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4.27 avg rating — 572 ratings
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The List of 7
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Mark Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,613 ratings
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 51,555 ratings
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Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 243,984 ratings
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Ture Sventon i Stockholm
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3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Book of Christmas: Everything We Once Knew and Loved About Christmastime
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3.94 avg rating — 378 ratings
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Love Walked In
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Marisa de los Santos (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 38,345 ratings
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A Snowfall of Silver
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Laura Wood (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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4.38 avg rating — 441,533 ratings
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Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle
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4.15 avg rating — 18,163 ratings
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The Best Christmas Present in the World
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4.31 avg rating — 571 ratings
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Evensong
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3.76 avg rating — 2,099 ratings
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The Enchanted Sonata
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4.03 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Night and Silence (October Daye, #12)
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Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 8,092 ratings
score: 92,
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Tales from the Umbrella Academy: Hazel and Cha Cha Save Christmas
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3.15 avg rating — 484 ratings
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A Wild Winter Swan
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3.23 avg rating — 2,663 ratings
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Chiefs (Will Lee, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 9,009 ratings
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Christmas At The Beach Hut
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Veronica Henry (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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A Face in the Crowd / The Longest December
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,076 ratings
score: 91,
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A Wedding in December
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3.14 avg rating — 21,627 ratings
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Alfie in the Snow
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4.15 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The Twelve Clues of Christmas (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #6)
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 18,146 ratings
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Charles Dickens' The Chimes
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3.22 avg rating — 10,221 ratings
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The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)
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4.14 avg rating — 113,714 ratings
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In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1)
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Julia Spencer-Fleming (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 16,861 ratings
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Christmas at Highclere
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4.22 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Some Kind of Fairy Tale
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The Proof of the Pudding (Her Royal Spyness #17)
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 7,070 ratings
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The December Boys
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3.01 avg rating — 356 ratings
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The Ghost of Christmas Past (Molly Murphy, #17)
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #19)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 30,713 ratings
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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas
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4.11 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions In Norway And The New Land
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4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Festive in Death (In Death, #39)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 26,460 ratings
score: 86,
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Twelve Nights
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3.39 avg rating — 299 ratings
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