Are you a seasonal reader like me?
What I mean is, I know some book lovers are seasonal readers: summer themed books - get read only in summer; spooky ghost stories only in fall and of course Christmas type books only around the holidays.
Well I think it is a bit early, but not to early to place your orders or library reserves on some new 2010 holiday books. Here are a few I came across - I'm not sure if I'll read too many, but at least one holiday mystery for sure.
- Call Me Mrs. Miracle
; Debbie Macomber (October)
- Christmas Mourning
; Margaret Maron (Nov 5)
- Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop
; Otto Penzler (Oct 12)
- The Christmas Journey
; Donna Van Liere (Oct 26)
- The Mischief of the Mistletoe
- The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story
; Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez (Nov)
- The Christmas Chronicles
; Tim Slover (Nov.)
- The Snow Globe
; Sheila Roberts (Oct 26)
- The Perfect Love Song
; Patti Callahan-Henry (Oct 12)
- Gingerbread Cookie Mystery
; JoAnn Fluke (Oct 1)
- A Darcy Christmas
; Amanda Grange
- Busy Body
; M C Beaton (Oct 12)
- Mistletoe and Mayhem
; Kate Kingsbury (Nov 2)
- Dating Mr December
; Phillipa Ashley (Nov 1)
- Christmas Odyssey
; Anne Perry (Oce 26)
- The Shooting in the Shop
; Simon Brett (Nov 17)
- Cat Coming Home
; Shirley Rousseau Murphy (Dec. 1)
- Double Knit Murders
; Maggie Sefton (Nov 2)
- Promise Me
; Richard Evans (Oct 5)
How about some Christmas Books for the Little Ones ?
- Llama, Llama, Holiday Drama; Dewdney (Oct 19)
- The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas; Madeleine L'Engle
- Santa Duck and His Merry Helpers; David Milgrim (Oct 14)
- Max's Christmas
; Rosemary Wells (Oct 14)
- Catching Santa
; Marc Franco (Sept 27)
- A Chanukah Noel
; Sharon Jennings (Oct 1)
- Grandma's Gift; Eric Velasquez
(Oct 12)
- Twelve Bots of Christmas; Nathan Hale (Sept 28)
- There's a Train Out of Dreamland
; Heider (Oct 1)
- The Nutcracker; Alison Jay
(Oct 14)
; Cohn and Levithan (Oct 26)
It might seem early, but it will be here before you know it.
ReplyDeleteI read a M C Bean Hamish Christmas mystery last year. I rather enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI don't normally read Christmas books, unless you count reading aloud A Christmas Carol to anyone who will listen (usually my son).
It sneaks on one and then its too late to do all what you want to do.
ReplyDeleteYay! I always have trouble finding holiday inspired reads, so your list is wonderful to me. Thanks for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list! I like to read a holiday book or two during the season. And, I already have an audiobook waiting on my iPod. :)
ReplyDeleteOh, we better start putting our tree up!
ReplyDeleteI took part in a christmas reading challenge last year and found it really hard to get hold of books as I didn't particularly want to buy most of them and our library had little in the way of such books. Thanks for recommending these, if I decide to take part in the challege this year your list will be very useful.
ReplyDeleteA Darcy Christmas sounds enjoyable!
ReplyDeleteGreat lists, Diane!
What a great list! Thanks for the info.
ReplyDeleteI think I will definitely try Debbie Macomber :)
ReplyDeleteDiane, thanks for producing this list! I can't wait to read some of them especially Sheila Roberts Christmas Book-I love her stories!!
ReplyDeleteI don't ONLY read seasonally, but I do love to throw in a few. Thanks for the heads up with a great list.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a seasonal reader - except for Christmas books. I thank you so much for the list. I'm going to click on them to see what I want to read. Many of the titles and authors are very appealing. I like to begin my Christmas reading in October.
ReplyDeleteThanks for scoping out the holiday territory! I love reading seasonally!
ReplyDeleteAlready?? Ha!Ha! I have a few of those off the big people list!
ReplyDeleteI've never read holiday themed books around the holiday. But I do have a few scary ones that I am going to read before Halloween this year!
ReplyDeleteNo no no no no!! I don't accept this post. I'm returning it! It is only SEPTEMBER!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I had to put two of these on my wishlist :o)
ReplyDeleteGlad you posted these!
I did a post on upcoming holiday books on my Christmas blog during Christmas in July. There are some really good ones coming out. I hope to get my hands on a few!
ReplyDeleteI hosted a Christmas Reading Challenge last year and I'm going to have it again this year. It usually starts the day after Thanksgiving and goes until the end of December. This year I'm going to extend it until Twelfth night (epiphany). I love holiday reading!