Nothing says holiday fun like curling up with your favorite festive movies, both traditional and new. Lifetime just released its upcoming movies for this winter holiday season and as you make your way through the heartfelt holiday tales, we have a few books that pair perfectly with the season and these movies.

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Movie: Christmas at Plumhill Manor

Book Pairing: The Christmas Lodge by Fiona Baker

Lacy focuses on success in her fast-paced career owning an investment firm. Her calculated life gets skewed when she inherits a large house in Snowy Pine Ridge, New Hampshire, from her great-grandfather who she never knew about. She heads to the house to do some renovations and oversee its sale, but as she spends more time in the town and gets to know the locals, including Derek, the handsome and caring dogsledder, she uncovers a family secret that shows her change can be a good thing and love finds you even when you aren’t looking for it.

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Movie: Holiday in Happy Hollow

Book Pairing: The Wishing Bridge by Viola Shipman

On the brink of losing her job, Henrietta’s boss makes her a deal: land a big sale for the company by Christmas or she’ll get the boot. In a frantic moment, she says she can convince the owners of Wegner’s Christmas Store to sell to the executive corporation. The owners happen to be her parents, but this store is their entire life, so her early arrival home is met with some happy and suspicious eyes. Will she convince her parents to sell this precious small-town store in time to save her career, or will the warmth and joy of the season be enough to change her mind?

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Movie: Christmas in the Spotlight

Book Pairing: Holiday Star by Melissa Dymond

With two versions of the novel, one a sweet and clean romance, the other a spicy and heart-racing, this book is perfect for all kinds of readers. When Caleb Lawson, Hollywood’s hottest actor, crashes Gwen’s Christmas to escape the paparazzi, her plans for housesitting alone for her mother and stepfather go out the window. Agreeing to let the moody celebrity hide out until her parents return, Gwen can’t help but feel drawn to him, but will they survive the pressure of his status during the already hectic holiday season?

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Movie: Sincerely, Truly Christmas

Book Pairing: The Christmas Wish by Lindsey Kelk

We all love a cozy Christmas story, but a sprinkle of holiday magic can take a story from sweet to superb, like Gwen’s, who, after a disastrous December, wakes up to find Christmas has started all over again. She hopes a calm holiday at home will help her heal from her recent breakup and the downward spiral of her career, but when she gets home, she returns to all the same bickering her family has every year. Luckily, her next-door neighbor and friend Dev is still as sweet, fun, and charming as he was when they were kids, now he’s also tall, handsome, and tragically taken. After the family’s hectic Christmas is over, Gwen wakes up to find the day has repeated and it’s Christmas again. This time she tries to make her wishes for a more stable future come true while spreading some holiday love and cheer to her family and friends.

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Movie: Bebe Winans’ We Three Kings

Book Pairing: The Christmas Sisters by Sarah Morgan

Hoping to help her three adopted daughters reconnect this holiday season, Suzanne invites them all to spend Christmas with her in the Scottish Highlands. But when old tensions begin to bubble up, it seems like these sisters will never be on the same page again, each with their own struggles waiting for them at home. Maybe this will be the year Suzanne brings them back together and proves that the love of a family at Christmas is the strongest love of all.

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Movie: Make or Bake Christmas

Book Pairing: The Christmas Crush by Noelle Douglas

A big-city marketing executive and small-town baker clash in this Christmas cookie showdown. Elena Voss is about to make the biggest career move of her life and bring in some serious dough for her newest client, Sparkle Cookie, a large cookie-making conglomerate. She heads to a small-town bakery for some inspiration and finds herself in a heated argument with the owner, Laurence Higgins, who is hotter than his ovens. He is less than thrilled about a corporate cookie factory moving into town and taking his customers. When a cookie competition forces Elena and Laurence to work together, they feel the pressure get to them, and they don’t know if their new connection will survive the heat of the kitchen and the flames of their new feelings for one another.

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Movie: A Very Merry Beauty Salon

Book Pairing: You’re a Mean One Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky

Like A Very Merry Beauty Salon, this book features a forced proximity work relationship in a small town organizing a festive gala that may get our main duo in a little over their elf ears. Matthew Prince is a spoiled, fame-obsessed rising star, and that’s the way he likes it. But after a PR blunder, he must spend the holidays with his grandparents in a town that is as sickeningly sweet as a dozen Christmas sugar cookies. Once there, he meets Hector, who is handsome, charming, and unimpressed by Mathhew’s former fame. Matthew wants to leave ASAP, so he takes a job coordinating a Christmas gala to get back the love of the public and his old life. But with Hector’s help and holiday cheer, Matthew may find a new perspective on life and learn that being good isn’t so bad.

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Movie: How to Fall in Love by Christmas

Book Pairing: Season of Love by Helena Greer

To save her late Aunt Cass’s Jewish Christmas Tree farm, Miriam must put her career as a thriving artist on hold and team up with Noelle, the farm’s grumpy manager. Noelle wants nothing to do with Miriam. Everything has been crazy since Cass passed away and more change will not help the ache in Noelle, even if Miriam’s ideas have been good for business. The two form an undeniable connection while working together, but to save the farm, they must trust each other and the spirit of the holiday season to bring people to the farm.

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Movie: The Holiday Junkie

Book Pairing: The Christmas Dress by Courtney Cole

Christmas is the time to spread cheer, fall in love, and connect with those who are no longer with us. Meg will be reconnecting with her father this holiday season after taking over the apartment building he managed until his passing. With many tenants needing attention, her dreams of being a fashion designer quickly fall by the wayside. That is until she meets one of her tenants, Ellie Wade, who is begrudgingly packing up to move into a nursing home at her family’s request. They form a friendship, and Ellie tells Meg of a dress she can’t seem to let go of, so she gives it to Meg on the promise that Meg will wear it to the building’s Christmas party. She agrees and the dress fits like a dream, leading to one of the best nights of Meg’s life and inspiring her to save the building and keep around one of her favorite residents.

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Movie: Christmas on the Alpaca Farm

Book Pairing: One Spicy Christmas Elf by Lucy McConnell

While this story does not have alpacas or a fashion designer, there is a festive reindeer ranch and an equally posh career for our main character, Natasha, a film production liaison. She is looking for a location to film a new movie and hold reindeer auditions, and the Reindeer Wrangler Ranch is the perfect place. Once she arrives in her elf outfit and manages to charm all the reindeer at their auditions, Jack, a wrangler on the ranch, is smitten with her and feels his heart aglow whenever she walks by. But when disaster strikes on set, will Jack be able to help her save her career and risk saying goodbye to the woman who he may be in love with?

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Movie: A Carpenter Christmas Romance

Book Pairing: A Novel Christmas by Charity Shane’

Novelist Saira heads to a small town to regroup and write her next bestselling novel. If she does not finish her next book, her publisher will drop her, and as one of the few prominent Black female authors, she cannot run that risk. No matter how corny and cliché Christmas romance novels are to her, she will write one to save her career. She heads to the holly jolliest town she can find for inspiration, where she meets her neighbor who is the total package. Dorian checks all the boxes, he’s tall, dark, handsome, a little-league coach and volunteer firefighter known throughout the town as Mr. December for his sexy contribution to the firefighters’ annual calendar. While his mind is far from any relationship, even he can’t deny the sparks between him and Saira. But as the festivities pick up, the two are unprepared for the fire about to light between them.

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Movie: Engaged by Christmas

Book Pairing: It Happened One Christmas Eve by Jenn McKinlay

If you are a fan of strong and bold female leads with a side of romantic deal-making, we have a great book for you. Being 40 and single makes Claire Macintosh a failure in her mother’s eyes, but Claire cannot help but want her approval, which is why she agrees to marry the man her mother chose for her even though she doesn’t love him. If she doesn’t marry him, the Museum of Literature, where Claire works, will no longer receive the large donations from the Macintosh fortune. But when the rings arrive at the charity gala where the engagement is set to happen, Claire bolts and rides off into the night on a horse-drawn carriage with Santa leading the coach, who is really Sam Carpenter, a reporter who can’t wait to dive into the new story that has fallen into his lap. After her mortifying display, she strikes a deal with Sam. If he helps her get to her home in Maine by Christmas Eve, she will give him an exclusive interview. Along their journey, they hit more bumps in the road than they thought they would, and it will take a Christmas miracle to see this trip to its end.

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