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Josie Silver · 2018 · UK · romance
★ 3.82 Goodreads · 371,442 ratings

Laurie sees a man from the top deck of a London bus one December day and falls for him on sight, and a year later her best friend introduces him as her new boyfriend.

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12 books for readers of One Day in December

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan · 2010 · US 99% match ★ 3.74 Goodreads · 103,073 ratings
shares: holiday, winter, dual perspective · easy read, hopeful

Over Christmas in New York, Lily leaves a red notebook of dares on a shelf at the Strand bookshop, and Dash, a cynical teenager who hates the holidays, picks it up.

The Holiday Swap

Maggie Knox · 2021 · Canada 98% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 72,975 ratings
shares: holiday, winter, dual perspective · easy read, hopeful

Charlie Goodwin, a television chef in Los Angeles who has lost her sense of taste, swaps lives for Christmas with her identical twin Cass, who runs the family bakery in a snowy mountain town.

In a Holidaze

Christina Lauren · 2020 · US 98% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 256,300 ratings
shares: holiday, winter, romantic · easy read, hopeful

Mae Jones, at her family's last Christmas at a cabin in Utah, wishes for a different life and wakes up back on the drive there, given another go at the holiday and at her crush on Andrew.

This Time Next Year

Sophie Cousens · 2020 · UK 98% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 112,441 ratings
shares: holiday, dual perspective, London · easy read, romance-driven

Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton were born minutes apart on New Year's Eve in the same London hospital, and he took the prize for the first baby of the year, and her name for it. Thirty years later they meet again.

One Day

David Nicholls · 2009 · UK 98% match ★ 3.88 Goodreads · 424,106 ratings
shares: bittersweet, longing, friendship · romance-driven, easy read

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew spend one night together after their graduation on 15 July 1988, and the novel returns to them on that same date every year for twenty years, through friendship, missed chances and very different lives.

Let It Snow

John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle · 2008 · US 98% match ★ 3.65 Goodreads · 161,589 ratings
shares: holiday, winter, romantic · easy read, hopeful

Three linked love stories set over one snowbound Christmas Eve in a small town, starting with a train stuck in a blizzard.

Love, Rosie

Cecelia Ahern · 2004 · Ireland 97% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 142,355 ratings
shares: bittersweet, longing, romantic · easy read, earnest

Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been best friends in Dublin since they were five, and over decades of letters, notes and emails they keep missing each other.

The Christmas Train

David Baldacci · 2002 · US 97% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 38,113 ratings
shares: holiday, winter, romantic · easy read, hopeful

Tom Langdon, a burned-out journalist banned from flying, takes the train across America to Los Angeles for Christmas, and finds an old love among the passengers.

Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 2005 · US 96% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 620,435 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Something Borrowed
shares: love triangle, friendship, romantic · easy read, romance-driven

On the night of her thirtieth birthday, Rachel White, a dutiful Manhattan lawyer, ends up in bed with Dex, her best friend Darcy's fiancé, and spends the summer before their wedding in the Hamptons torn between the friendship and him.

28 Summers

Elin Hilderbrand · 2020 · US 96% match ★ 4.17 Goodreads · 303,623 ratings
shares: bittersweet, longing, romantic · easy read, earnest

When Mallory Blessing's son learns she is dying, she asks him to make a phone call that reveals her secret: for twenty-eight years she and Jake McCloud, whose wife is now running for president, have spent one weekend together every summer at her Nantucket cottage.

The Light We Lost

Jill Santopolo · 2017 · US 96% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 207,519 ratings
shares: bittersweet, love triangle, romantic · easy read, earnest

Lucy and Gabe meet as students at Columbia on the morning of September 11, 2001, and over the next thirteen years their lives keep pulling them together and apart.

The Matzah Ball

Jean Meltzer · 2021 · US 96% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 23,335 ratings
shares: holiday, romantic · easy read, hopeful

Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish author secretly writing Christmas romances, has to get a ticket to the hottest Hanukkah party in New York to save her career, and it is run by her old summer-camp enemy.