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Best Christmas guilty pleasures
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The Children of Green Knowe (Green Knowe, #1)
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Christmas Storybook Collection
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The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York
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Morris's Disappearing Bag
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The Christmas Fox
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Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas
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Father Christmas Goes on Holiday
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Snowflakes and Coffee Cakes (The Winter Series, #1)
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Joanne DeMaio (Goodreads Author)
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Unwrapping Christmas
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The Jolly Christmas Postman
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Home for Christmas
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Camilla Isley (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas
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Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea
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A Homemade Together Christmas
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Maryann Cocca-Leffler (Goodreads Author)
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You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
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The Story of the Other Wise Man
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The Holly and the Ivy
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Sarah M. Eden (Goodreads Author)
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The Christmas Thingy
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F. Paul Wilson (Goodreads Author)
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Mog's Christmas
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Chasing Christmas Past (The Airship Racing Chronicles, #0.5)
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Melanie Karsak (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas Brides
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Frost at Christmas (Inspector Frost, #1)
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Holidays on Ice
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Merry Christmas, Squirrels!
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Nancy Rose (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of Christmas: Everything We Once Knew and Loved About Christmastime
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The Viola Factor
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Sheridan Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Arthur's Christmas (Arthur Adventure Series)
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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Mistletoe Christmas: An Anthology
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Eloisa James (Goodreads Author)
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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face:
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Todor Bombov (Goodreads Author)
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Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
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The Fir Tree
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Alfie the Christmas Cat (Alfie #7)
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The Legend of the Poinsettia
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On Christmas Eve
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Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories
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Home for the Holidays
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Forever Winter
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Amber Daulton (Goodreads Author)
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Once Upon a Dickens Christmas: 3 Charming Christmas Tales Set in Victorian England
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Michelle Griep (Goodreads Author)
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A Newbery Christmas: Fourteen Stories of Christmas by Newbery Award-Winning Authors
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Martin H. Greenberg (Editor)
3.95 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Alan The Christmas Donkey: The Little Donkey Who Made a Big Difference
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The Reindeer Keeper: Believe Again...
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Barbara Briggs Ward (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas Gift!
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Millie in the Snow (Millie’s Misadventures #2)
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The Melodeon
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Hogfather
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Take Joy! The Tasha Tudor Christmas Book
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Tasha Tudor (Illustrator)
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The Politics of Christmas (The Politics Of... #1)
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Drew Taylor (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
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Maigret's Christmas: Nine Stories
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The Nine Lives of Christmas
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Sheila Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas Every Day
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Beth Moran (Goodreads Author)
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Trouble Won't Wait (Love-n-Trouble #2)
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Autumn Piper (Goodreads Author)
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Dino-Christmas (Dino-Holidays)
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Lisa Wheeler (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas in the Trenches
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The Unfinished Gift
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Dan Walsh (Goodreads Author)
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A Midnight Clear: Stories for the Christmas Season
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The Bears' Christmas
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A Lowcountry Christmas (Lowcountry Summer, #5)
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Mary Alice Monroe (Goodreads Author)
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Off-Duty Christmas
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Tammy Tate (Goodreads Author)
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On Strike for Christmas
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Sheila Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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A Texas Kind of Christmas: Three Connected Christmas Cowboy Romance Stories
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Jodi Thomas (Goodreads Author)
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The Box of Delights (Kay Harker, #2)
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How Winston Delivered Christmas: A Christmas Story in Twenty-Four-and-a-Half Chapters
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A Christmas to Remember: Tales of Comfort and Joy
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Karleen Bradford (Goodreads Author)
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Just Love Her
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Raz Mihal (Goodreads Author)
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Norman Rockwell's Christmas Book
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Cotswolds Holiday
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Kasey Stockton (Goodreads Author)
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (Hercule Poirot, #37)
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A Christmas Carol / The Chimes / The Cricket on the Hearth
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The Christmas Hirelings
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Friar Tuck and the Christmas Devil
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Steven A. McKay (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas At The Beach Hut
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Veronica Henry (Goodreads Author)
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The Tailor of Gloucester (World of Beatrix Potter, #3)
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On Christmas Day in the Evening
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The little drummer boy
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Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
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Hanna Hasl-Kelchner (Goodreads Author)
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Christmas Day in the Morning
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The Thirteen Days of Christmas
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The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree
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The Christmas Angel
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Christmas in Camelot (Merlin Missions, #1)
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Karen's Christmas Tree (Baby-Sitters Little Sister, #80)
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Cats' Letters to Santa
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Bill Adler (Compiler & Editor)
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Beasley's Christmas Party
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Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber
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Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King (The Guardians, #1)
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William Joyce (Goodreads Author)
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Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
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Oliver: The Cat Who Saved Christmas
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Sheila Norton (Goodreads Author)
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The Last of the Spirits
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Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine
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Deck the Walls: A Wacky Christmas Carol
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Erin Dealey (Goodreads Author)
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The Life of Our Lord: Written for His Children During the Years 1846 to 1849
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Intuition Magic: Understanding Your Psychic Nature
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Linda Keen (Goodreads Author)
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A Time of Gifts (Trilogy, #1)
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Miracle on the 17th Green
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Dec the Holls
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Jasinda Wilder (Goodreads Author)
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A Quilt for Christmas
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Santa, Baby
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Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
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A Rumpole Christmas
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