Top Ten Books
for a 2025 Christmas song tag
TTT for December 9
#TopTenTuesday
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Today’s theme is Books Set in Snowy Places.
Snow is not really my thing (I’m already tired of the 8 inches we got last week and which will take for ever to melt…).
BUT we usually associate snow with Christmas,
so I’m going to do the Christmas song tag I saw recently at Readerbuzz, and which was originally created by the host of this Top Ten Tuesday (and she published her post last Friday)!
I’ll try to only pick books read this year.
Click on the covers to read my review
or info on the book
1. “All I Want for Christmas Is You”
Favorite bookish couple
Riko the gamer and her beloved cat Musubi,
in Cat+Gamer, by Wataru Nadatani
2. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Name a book where a character is away from home (school, vacation, etc.)
The Lady Vanishes, by Ethel Lina White
Iris was on vacation somewhere in Europe
3. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Name your favorite “little” book (children’s book, short story, novella, etc.).
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch
was the last awesome scif short-story/novella (85 pages) I read:
4. “Santa Claus is Coming to Town“
What book(s) do you hope Santa brings you this year?
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories,
edited by Jay Rubin
Though Santa rarely brings me books
5. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
Which book turned your nose red (made you cry)?
Les Ombres du monde, by Michel Bussi
Historical novel based on the Rwanda genocide:
6. “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”
Your favorite book/kind of book to read during the holidays.
This year, I’m listening to
The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries, ed. by Otto Penzler
7. “We Three Kings”
Your favorite trilogy/book from a trilogy
(or feel free to fudge it and pick a book from a series).
Cat Massage Therapy, by Haru Hisakawa
#1 is my favorite of the whole trilogy
8. “Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow”
A character you would love to be snowed in with.
Tove Jansson
in Notes from an Island
She is not a character, she is the author, and she passed away.
Woudl have been nice to spend time with her
on her beloved island.
9. “Last Christmas”
A book that seriously let you down.
I had to DNF
Empire of the Atom, by A. E. van Vogt
(read another one by him instead)
10. “White Christmas”
An upcoming release you’re dreaming about.
Platform Decay, by Martha Wells
The next volume in the Murderbot series
to be released on May 5, 2026
Have YOU read
or are YOU planning to read any of these?
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so I can visit
Try the tag!
Words And Peace