Eight top Christmas novels

Skylar Miklus serves as Editorial Intern at Electric Literature and Poetry Editor at Barnstorm Journal. They obtained their B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College and are pursuing their MFA in Poetry at the University of New Hampshire. Their writing has appeared in Rogue Agent Journal, Identity Theory, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. They live in Dover, NH, and are currently working on their first collection of poems.

At Electric Lit Miklus tagged eight top Christmas novels, including:

The Christmas Bookshop by Jenny Colgan

From the queen of cozy romance comes this tale of two very different sisters and an ancient bookshop that needs saving. After losing her job, Carmen moves in with her pregnant sister Sofia in Edinburgh, Scotland and tries to help one of Sofia’s clients rescue his bookstore from bankruptcy. Surprising herself, Carmen starts to repair the rocky relationships in her family as well as the bookshop’s finances—and finds not one but two love interests. My favorite parts of this book were the atmospherically written scenes set in the bookshop; I could practically picture the cheery displays in the windows.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue