With the chilly weather outside, why not remain indoors and read a good book while sipping some hot cocoa and devour some Christmas cookies?

We’ve picked 5 books that you ought to add to your reading list before December 31 hits midnight. They are all page-turners.

1. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

The new Abby Abernathy is a nice young lady. She doesn’t drink, she doesn’t swear, and she has the right amount of cardigans in her closet. The Walking One-Night Stand at Eastern University throws a wrench in Abby’s plans for a fresh start just as she thinks she has sufficiently distanced herself from her dark past. Abby is attending college with her best buddy.

The person who Abby has to avoid is Travis Maddox, who is trim, slim, and covered in tattoos. He works as the ideal college campus charmer during the day and spends his nights winning money in a floating battle ring. Travis entices Abby into his life with a simple bet because he finds her resistance to his attraction intriguing. If he loses, he is required to abstain for a whole month.

2. Reflected in You by Sylvia Day

Cross, Gideon. His exterior beauty and perfection belied his inward suffering and harm. He burned me with the deepest of joys because he was such a brilliant, intense flame. I was powerless to resist. I was opposed to it. He fulfilled all of my needs and was my addiction.

His background was exactly as violent as mine was, and I was as broken. There would be no collaboration between us. Except when everything was wonderful, it was too painful and difficult. The most delicious insanity was experienced during those times of intense desire and fervent love.

Our necessity kept us together. And our passion would push us past our limitations to the most intense, cutting edge of obsession…

3. Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

The truth might sometimes make you feel more dismal than when you believed the lies…
Sky, a seventeen-year-old, comes to that conclusion after meeting Dean Holder. A man whose notoriety rivals her own and who has the amazing capacity to arouse emotions in her that she has never felt before. In the course of just one encounter, he both terrifies and enthrals her, and something about the way he makes her feel stirs up memories from the past that she wishes would stay hidden.
Sky tries to remove herself from him because she knows he would only cause trouble, but Holder is adamant about getting to know her completely. After giving in to Holder’s relentless pursuit, Sky quickly discovers that he isn’t at all who he had been led to believe.

4. Butterfly Weeds by Laura Miller

Julia Lang anticipated a relaxing evening away from work, free of worries about the case, her failed engagement, or her background. However, she ought to have known better. She was tonight confronted by lyrics she never anticipated hearing again—not after ten years, not while being held by a different guy, and most definitely not in the form of a confession. These days, her history haunts her at every opportunity. Now it is up to Julia to decide for herself if the song—and more crucially, the guy behind it—will convince her to give up her brand-new life in favour of her small-town roots in Missouri and a second shot at love.

5. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez

In 2017, Olga and Pedro “Prieto” Acevedo are well-known figures in their own New York. In Brooklyn, where they live in a gentrifying Latinx enclave, Prieto is a well-liked congressman, and Olga is a posh wedding planner for Manhattan’s power players.

Despite their appealing public lives, the reality is much less pleasant when they are alone. Olga may be able to plan the love lives of the 1%, but she has trouble finding her own. That is, until she meets Matteo, who compels her to face the fallout from long-held family secrets.

Blanca, a former Young Lord turned extremist who gave birth to Olga and Prieto, left her kids to be raised by their grandmother in order to support a militant political cause.

With the onset of storm season, Blanca has returned with a vengeance.

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez is a story that explores political corruption, familial strife, and the very idea of the American dream while also posing the question of what it really means to weather a storm. It is set against the backdrop of New York City in the months leading up to the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico’s history.