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Looking for a fun and easy Christmas reading challenge?
One of the things I’ve wanted to make more of was reading challenges and I figured a Christmas reading challenge was the perfect place to start!
Usually for reading challenges, I try to pick a lot of different topics, but seeing as the Christmas season isn’t all that long, I’m keeping this one short with just six challenges.
I figure that is 1.5 books per week, which seems like a solid number. It’s not too many but just enough to be challenging.
If you read a lot and six isn’t enough for you, you could always do two in each category, and for the non-Christmas specific ones, you could do one Christmas book and one non-Christmas.
I’ve included suggestions for each prompt to help make the challenge a little easier if you’re not sure where to start. It doesn’t all have to be Christmas books or winter books but of course, that would be fitting for the season.
Christmas Reading Challenge Instagram Templates
Want to join in on my Christmas reading challenge this holiday season? These templates will help you keep track of everything you’ve read! If you do join and share on Instagram, tag me! I love seeing everyone’s progress and book choices.


Christmas Reading Challenge
This is a fun and easy Christmas reading challenge perfect for the holiday season or the month of December. It’s sure to get you in the winter Christmas spirit.
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Red Cover
- Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas
- Christmas at Rosie Hopkins Sweet Shop
- My New Crush Gave to Me
- North Pole High: A Rebel Without a Claus
- The Library Book
- Persepolis
- The Hypnotist
- The World is a Narrow Bridge
You can find my whole post of books with red covers here!



Green cover
- Nutcracked
- Skipping Christmas
- The Body in the Woods
- Haunting the Deep
- Rolling in the deep
- Lucky Girl
- The Foreigner
- The Kingdoms
You can find my whole post of books with green covers here!



Christmas romance
- Secret Santa
- The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily
- The Twelve Dates of Christmas
- An Alaskan Christmas
- My True Love Gave to Me
- Christmas at Mistletoe Cove
You can find a lot more Christmas romance books here.



Christmas horror
- Krampus and Friends: Tales of Terrifying Christmas Monsters From Around the World
- Hark! The Herald Angels Scream
- Horror Stories to Ruin Christmas: Serenity Falls Forever
- Snow Angels (technically Nordic Noir, not horror)
- The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghosts
- Secret Santa
- Snowball
- You Better Watch Out
You can find a lot more Christmas horror books here!



Christmas cozy mystery
- It Came Upon a Midnight Shear
- A Christmas Candy Killing
- Murder in the First Edition
- Christmas Corpse
- Candy Slain Murder
- Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off



Snow on the cover
- Sleigh Rides and Silver Bells and the Christmas Fair
- The Christmas Boutique
- The Bear and the Nightingale
- A Tundra Tale
- Snowblind
- The Hunting Party
- The Dark
- No Exit
You can find more winter thrillers here and cozy winter books here!
Are you doing this Christmas Reading Challenge? What are you reading? Let me know how it goes if you do it!