The best Christmas books to curl up by the fire with hot cocoa

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The best books to celebrate Christmas (or just somehow to get through it)

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The best books with human condition themes

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The best books on redemption that inject you inside the story to consider your own values

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The best middle-grade horse stories as a horse crazy gal who never grew up

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The best literary Christmas books

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The best middle grade and YA books, and other stories, that capture kindness, and the struggles of dealing with change

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The best Christian action books with heavy allegorical references

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The best fantasy folktale campfire stories

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The best ghostly Christmas books

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The best books that will dazzle you with their science and allegorical magic—and stoke the science/religion debate

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The best books for Christmas nostalgia

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The best Christmas books to read to each other at a fireside

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The best books to raise the spirits

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The best magical realism books for escapists

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The best heartwarming Christmas books

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The best books about second chances, from an author who’s on her fifth chance (and teetering on the sixth)

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The best books to deliver holiday magic with a dark twist

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The best books with “difficult” protagonists

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The best novels about outsiders and misfits

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