20 Teen Books for the Winter Holiday Season

This Winter by Alice Oseman
Set in the Heartstopper universe, this novella reunites Tori Spring, her little brother Charlie, and Charlie’s boyfriend Nick during a particularly difficult festive season.

 

 

 

 

Blame It on the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod
When Elle and Holly switch places, will they find all they want for Christmas? Elle is a social media star with the #DreamLife…or so it seems. Can Holly save the  season by leaving Britain to switch places with her favorite social media influencer?

 

 

 

Eight Dates and Nights by Betsey Aldredge
Teens Hannah and Noah, who each have different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah, team up to save the last Jewish remnant in small-town Texas.

 

 

 

 

Let It Snow by various authors
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town.

 

 

 

 

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
After being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, Holly Chase chooses not to mend her spoiled ways, and upon her death discovers her selfishness has caused her to work for eternity as a ghost of  Christmas past.

 

 

 

Christmas Clash by Suzanne Park
Chloe Kwon can’t stand Peter Li. It’s always been that way. Now it’s the holiday season and Chloe’s the photographer at the mall’s Santa Land, and Peter works at the virtual reality North Pole experience right across the atrium.

 

 

 

Love in Winter Wonderland by Abiola Bello
Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland. Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer.

 

 

 

Whiteout by various authors
In Atlanta, just before Christmas, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic apology of her life during the storm of the century, which results in a magical moment that changes everything.

 

 

 

Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds
Sixteen-year-old Shira is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend over Hanukkah, but after getting snowed in on Nantucket with her nemesis-slash-former-crush her plans begin to go off the rails.

 

 

 

Sleepless in Dubai by Sajni Patel
Nikki, an aspiring photographer, thinks she is embarking on a trip of a lifetime to Dubai to celebrate  Diwali, until she finds out Yash, the boy-next-door with whom she has a rocky history, is also taking part.

 

 

 

Talk Santa to Me by Linda Urban
Fifteen-year-old Frankie Wood tries to pull off the Christmas of her dreams as she juggles trying to keep in touch with her best friend, family dynamics at the family’s Holliday shop, and recovering from world’s worst first kiss.

 

 

 

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow
It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally, with her mom’s Subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani’s plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously dumped days before winter break.

 

 

 

The Reckless Kind by Carly Heath
It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island.

 

 

 

I Shall Awaken by Katerina Sardicka
In a remote borderland village where everyone still lives by their own rules and believes in old gods, four children disappear without a trace. Twelve years later, during winter solstice, three of them return out of nowhere, with no memory of what happened. 

 

 

 

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw
Sally Skellington is the official, newly-minted Pumpkin Queen after a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack, who Sally adores with every inch of her fabric seams — if only she could say the same for her new role as Queen of Halloween Town.

 

 

 

My True Love Gave to Me by various authors
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with this collection of short stories.

 

 

 

 

Reggie and Delilah’s Year of Falling by Elise Bryant
Reggie and Delilah, who have practically nothing in common, meet for the first time on New Year’s Eve. And then again on Valentine’s Day. And then again on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s almost like the universe is pushing them together for a reason.

 

 

 

I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
Herron Mills town has been on edge since Zoe Spanos, a local girl, disappeared New Year’s Eve. Main character, Anna Cicconi resembles Zoe, which causes Anna to delve into Zoe’s life.

 

 

 

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston
Sophie wants one thing for Christmas–a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much-needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship.

 

 

So This is Love by Tracy Andreen
Trying to figure out their relationship status when they return to boarding school after one magical Christmas Eve kiss, Finley and Arthur are faced with old enemies who add to the confusion, putting what could be love in jeopardy.