Get Cozy: The Everygirl’s Winter 2025 Reading Challenge is Here!

This novella may be short, but it packs a punch. When Alice’s boss, a prominent wine importer, suggests she work a grape harvest in France, she sees it as a welcome opportunity to get out of her boredom-induced rut. Though Alice is plenty skeptical of the drink-pray-love premise, she begins to let her guard down when she finds herself picking riesling and practicing her French alongside a charming cast of international characters—and, most notably, Henri, the vineyard owner’s nephew, who’s just as lost as she is.

B.K. Borison is the queen of romance, and this holiday romance novel is no exception. Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to finish his holiday haunting, then return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future. Harriet has no idea why she’s being haunted. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together. With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts?

This double whammy book has snow on the cover and is set in winter. By the lake in Beartown, the town’s junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.

The movie adaptation of Hamnet was just released, so now is the perfect time to read the book. In this fictionalized version of the inspiration behind Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Once Agnes settles down with her husband, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast force in her young husband’s life, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but this blue one is just too gorgeous not to. On a back street in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but most will see a cozy ramen restaurant, and only the chosen ones will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets. Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger. Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice.

This buzzy new release definitely deserves a spot on your TBR. Luca Matius has one purpose—to carry on the family name, maintaining its presence in the Forum once his uncle dies. Maris Casperia knows what her future holds—a lifetime of service to a corrupt city. But her years of serving as a novice to the last Priestess who possesses the stolen magic of the Old War has made her envision a different kind of future for the city. When she meets Luca, a fated chain of events is set into motion that will divinely entangle their lives. But when an execution forces Luca to become the symbol of rebellion, he and Maris are thrown onto opposite sides of a holy war.

There’s nothing to make you feel better about your own family drama than a family drama novel. The three Blue sisters are exceptionally different. Avery, the eldest and a recovering heroin addict turned strait-laced lawyer; Bonnie, a former boxer, works as a bouncer in Los Angeles; and Lucky, the youngest, models in Paris while trying to outrun her hard-partying ways. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. When they return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in, they realize that the greatest secrets they’ve been keeping might not have been from one another but from themselves.

Winter is the perfect time for a cozy winter romance, and this is one of my absolute favorites. When literary rivals Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt both accept a cryptic invitation to attend a Christmas house party at the English estate of a reclusive fan, neither is expecting their host to be the most powerful author in the world: Eleanor Ashley. That night, the weather turns, and the next morning, Eleanor is gone. As the snow gets deeper and the stakes get higher, every clue will bring Maggie and Ethan closer to the truth—and each other.

Once you start this series, you won’t be able to put it down. Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons. Kell serves the Maresh Empire, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in one London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for glimpses of a world they’ll never see. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, saves him from a deadly enemy, and forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.

This winter whodunnit will have you on the edge of your seat from the very first page. When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she’s hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced to take shelter in an abandoned hunting cabin. Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing…only to be discovered the following morning, his severed head impaled on a tree outside the cabin. Christa finds herself trapped with eight total strangers. One of them kills for sport…and they’re far from finished.

I aways love adding a memoir to my TBR during the winter, especially during the New Year’s resolution season. It’s a great way to step out of the craziness of your own life and get inspired by someone else’s story. Malala’s new memoir opens up about her story, not the one we already know, but the one she’s been waiting to tell. It’s raw, open, honest, and is the perfect way to check off that “memoir” box on your bingo card.

This incredible novel checks off two boxes: it’s a translated work, and it’s not set in the U.S. One winter morning in Seoul, Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend, who has injured herself in an accident, and begs Kyungha to return to Jeju Island, where she lives, to save her beloved pet. A snowstorm hits the island when Kyungha arrives. She wonders if she will arrive in time to save the animal—or even survive the terrible cold. Lost in a world of snow, she doesn’t suspect the plunge into darkness that awaits her at her friend’s house.

Goodreads Choice Awards winners haven’t been announced, but I’m hoping this nominee gets its flowers. In the fall of Jordan’s senior year of college, she meets two star students from her Lit class: Sam and Yash. The boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter, and raucous card games. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. Decades later, a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, and she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.

If you love the forced-proximity trope, you will absolutely love this book. Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls. But when Delilah’s estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid’s stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun to be had in Bright Falls. When they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations, Claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist Delilah’s charms. Even worse, she’s starting to think she doesn’t want to…