26 December Books You'll Spend the Holidays Devouring

As kids, we learned a lot from our Little Golden Books, and now Diane Muldrow has put together her own adult version of a childhood classic with Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned From a Little Golden Book.

Out Dec. 23

In Anita Diamant's historical fiction The Boston Girl, a young Jewish woman tells her story of friendship, family, feminism, and the quest for love while growing up in Boston in the early 1900s.

Out Dec. 9

Sometimes the most significant moments in a relationship are the small ones, made meaningful because of who you're with. Soppy: A Love Story is Philippa Rice's collection of illustrations and comics based on real experiences she shares with her boyfriend that all couples can relate to.

Out Dec 2.

The trial of the century is happening in Rosewood, and the four Liars are at the center of the action — and accused of murder. In Vicious, Sara Shepard's 16th novel in the Pretty Little Liars series, fans will find out the fates of Aria, Spencer, Emily, and Hanna in the aftermath of Alison DiLaurentis's death.

Out Dec. 2

The second installment of the Pure Sin series follows the beautiful and angry Bell on her path to revenge against the family of the man she is trying to seduce. But is he an ally or an enemy? Dangerous Alliance by Kyra Davis is a sexy novel full of passion, mystery, and a deep web of lies built by all sides.

Out Dec. 30

Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are back, and this time with a baby on the way. Graeme Simsion follows up his bestseller The Rosie Project with The Rosie Effect, another sweet, smart, and laugh-out-loud-funny love story.

Out Dec. 30

In Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction, zoologist Jules Howard explores the how and why of sex on Earth by looking at animal interactions.

Publisher's Weekly says that the "infectious optimism" of Howard's "fascination with an Earth full beings doing exactly what they need to to go on gives the reader a comforting sense that, in the grand scheme of things, everything is right with the world."

Out Dec. 2

Fans of the Hunger Games series will love Boundary, the second installment in Heather Terrell's Books of Eva series about a girl living in a war-torn world and betrothed to a one man as she falls for another.

Out Dec. 9

The Life Intended is about a widowed woman finding love for the second time. Kristin Harmel "weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move forward in life without forgetting the past?"

Out Dec. 30

When Elias and Clara's identical carry-on bags are switched during their flight, the two learn things about each other they never expected. In Jonathan Friesen's Both of Me, Clara discovers that Elias suffers from dissociative personality identity disorder, and she finds herself tangled up in both of his lives while she fights to keep the real Elias — the one she is falling in love with — from disappearing again.

Out Dec. 23

If you've ever fantasized about Harry Styles, then After We Fell, Anna Todd's third installment in her steamy fan-fiction novels based on the One Direction heartthrob, is the December read you need.

Out Dec. 30

Determined not to let your long-term relationship deteriorate or fall into a rut? Read Ashley Rodriquez's Date Night In: More Than 120 Recipes to Nourish Your Relationship, a must-have cookbook for couples.

Out Dec. 23

Just the Tips is a sexual guide from Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. The book is a "collection of tips, tricks, moves, advice, suggestions, stories, and confessions, how-tos, dos, don'ts, and do-agains-but-slower-this-times from the unmissable letters column of Sex Criminals."

Out Dec. 16

To protect herself and avenge her husband's death, a woman must track down his killer before he finds her. Karen Robards's Hush is a romantic suspense novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page.

Out Dec. 30

Grimm's Fairy Tales meets A Game of Thrones in Stacey Jay's Princess of Thorns, a YA romance and adventure novel that follows Sleeping Beauty's daughter as she fights to reclaim her throne.

Out Dec. 9

When the honeymoon phase ends, marriage can become a little less about the romance and more about the everyday experience of a real relationship — which can be just as sweet. Amber Dusick's Marriage Illustrated With Crappy Pictures is a hilariously honest look into the daily lives of married couples.

Out Dec. 30

We've grown up hearing tales of glass slippers, evil queens, and magic spells, but where did they come from? Marina Warner's Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale explores these famous stories, their origins, and their modern film, literature, and stage adaptations.

Out Dec. 15

Suspicion by Alexandra Monir is a dark and suspenseful YA novel about a young girl's quest to discover the truth behind the fire that killed her whole family.

Booklist calls it "intensely dramatic, fast-paced, and twisty . . . the combination of paranormal elements with a star-crossed romance between almost-royals should keep readers rapt."

Out Dec. 9

Jane Green's novel Saving Grace tells the story of a couple's unraveling marriage as one husband's rage and infidelity threatens to ruin his wife's life and sanity. Grace must find a way to save herself and escape before it's too late.

Out Dec. 30

Priya Parmar's novel Vanessa and Her Sister is a historical fiction set in prewar London in the early 1900s. As Vanessa falls in love, her sister spirals out of control from loneliness and jealousy, and Vanessa is forced to choose between her own happiness and her family's.

Out Dec. 30

In Josh Sundquist's We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, a True Story, a perpetually single guy tracks down his past girlfriends to try and figure out exactly what went wrong in each relationship.

Out Dec. 23

A brilliant surgeon saves the life of a dying girl by replacing her heart with a clockwork substitute, but his efforts come at a cost. In Lisa Mantchev's Ticker, the girl with the clockwork heart must find a balance between friends, romance, and family ties before her time runs out.

Out Dec. 1

In Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Sustenance, a vampire in post-World War II Europe must protect his American friends fleeing persecution, and the mysterious appearance of his lover threatens to complicate things further.

Out Dec. 2

The third installment in Alice Clayton's "Cocktail" series, Mai Tai'd Up follows a newcomer in a seaside community, who immediately catches the eye of the town veterinarian. Neither wants to be tied down, but tied up? Now that's another story.

Out Dec. 2

In Sabrina Jeffries's Silver Deceptions, London's latest actress on the scene, known as the "Silver Swan," is seeking fame in order to get revenge on the father who abandoned her family years before, and she must place her faith in a very desirable but untrustworthy suitor to help her in her quest.

Out Dec. 30

In Ripped by Katy Evans, a heartbroken girl is forced to be around her bad-boy rocker ex-boyfriend, and the fire between them is reignited, despite how much she tries to fight it. Check out some sexy excerpts from the novel to hold you over until it comes out.

Out Dec. 9