From Rom-Coms to Mysteries, Here Are 42 Christmas Books to Keep You Cozy This Season

Older kids looking for a magical tale this holiday season will love reading "Twelve Nights" after finishing" A Wrinkle in Time" and "The Golden Compass". Andrew Zurcher's debut novel follows Kay and her sister Elle as they search for their father, who goes missing on Christmas Eve after everyone's gone to bed. It becomes more complicated as their father's coworkers say they never met him and have no memory of him existing. Two strangers appear at Kay's window to find her father, too, which kicks off their journey into the unknown. The quest begins as a Christmas mystery and ends in a centuries-old war with wraiths and other magical creatures to save the world.