Is it really even Christmas without any new Netflix Christmas movies to binge? Hell no!
There’s a whole new bunch of movies joining the already sizeable Netflix Christmas collection this year. From The Princess Switch: Switched Again to The Knight Before Christmas, there’s an adorably cheesy, low stakes romance adventure for everyone, filled with impossible meet-cutes and festive baked goods a-plenty.
After spending much of last week on the couch nursing a bad virus, I find myself a new devotee to these movies. Who could have foreseen that I would become so deeply invested in the A Christmas Prince saga? Not I, yet here I am, hoping against all hope that Amber and Prince Richard don’t name their baby something dumb like ‘December’.
So, to celebrate the release of A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby yesterday (!!!), I thought I’d rustle up a list of young adult and contemporary fiction books to accompany your Netflix Christmas movie marathons. Read on!
10 Blind Dates
by Ashley Elston
Sophie wants one thing for Christmas – time with her boyfriend Griffin. So when her parents plan a trip to visit her sister over the holiday, Sophie begs to be left behind with her grandparents and her boisterous extended family. But she and Griffin break up and she’s devastated.
Sophie’s grandmother, hating to see her so upset, devises a (not so) brilliant plan – to distract her from heartbreak. Over the next ten days, different family members will set Sophie up on ten different blind dates, which doesn’t sound awkward at all. When Griffin turns up unexpectedly, it makes Sophie more confused than ever. Because maybe, just maybe, she’s started to have feelings for someone else. Someone who is definitely not available …
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Let it Snow: Three Holiday Romances
by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.
A trio of today’s bestselling authors – John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle – brings all the magic of holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.
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Christmas Shopaholic
by Sophie Kinsella
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It’s always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas pudding, and the next-door neighbours coming round for sherry in their terrible festive jumpers. And now it’s even easier with online bargain-shopping sites – if you spend enough you even get free delivery. Sorted!
But this year looks set to be different. Unable to resist the draw of craft beer and smashed avocado, Becky’s parents are moving to ultra-trendy Shoreditch and have asked Becky if she’ll host Christmas this year. What could possibly go wrong?
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One Day in December
by Josie Silver
Laurie doesn’t believe in love at first sight. Life isn’t a scene from Love Actually, after all. But then, through a bus window one snowy December day, she sees him. There’s one glorious moment when their eyes meet … and then her bus drives away.
Laurie thinks she’ll never see the boy from the bus again. But at their Christmas party a year later, her best friend Sarah introduces her to the new love of her life. Who is, of course, the boy from the bus. Determined to let him go, Laurie gets on with her life. But what if fate has other plans?
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Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
It’s Christmas time in New York, and world-weary Dash has managed to persuade each of his parents that he is staying with the other, thus sending them both off with their new ‘paramours’ and leaving him happily shuffling back and forth between their empty apartments. Meanwhile, Christmas-loving Lily is bereft at the thought of spending Christmas without her full complement of family, and has been consoling herself with cookie-baking and carols-singing. When Lily’s brother plants a red moleskin notebook in Dash’s favourite store, leaving instructions that lead him not only around the bookstore but eventually out into the Christmas-sozzled city, the scene is set for a back-and-forth series of clues, coincidences and missed rendezvous.
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Read the sequel! The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily
Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
by Melissa de la Cruz
Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones – one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family.
Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way?
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My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
by Stephanie Perkins (editor), Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Pena, Jenny Han, Gayle Forman, David Levithan, Kiersten White, Laini Taylor, Rainbow Rowell, Myra McEntire and Kelly Link
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favourite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories by twelve bestselling young adult writers. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice or Kwanzaa, there’s something here for everyone. So curl up by the fireplace and get cozy. You have twelve reasons this season to stay indoors and fall in love.
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A Mrs Miracle Christmas
by Debbie Macomber
Laurel McCullough is in desperate need of help. Her beloved grandmother has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the baby she and her husband Zach have longed for now seems like an impossible dream.
So when Mrs Miracle appears at the door, Laurel couldn’t be more relieved. She invites the nurse into her life and it’s not long before they become firm friends. When her grandmother’s condition begins to improve, and as Laurel and Zach continue their desperate quest for a child, Laurel soon realises that there is more to Mrs Miracle than meets the eye …
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