What books did you get for Christmas?

[Georgiemc]

I received The Safekeep by Yael van de Wouden and Heart the Lover by Lily King

Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
Last Days In Hunting Camp by Eowyn Ivey
Between The Waves by Hilary Tailor

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe ( was recently on ch 4 as a series)
The Women by Kirsten Hanna

Toilets of the World. 🤣 It's actually fascinating. 😃

Backstage by Donna Leon

Several Penguin cloth bound classics for my collection.

I got that too, off the back of a thread here on MN 😆
It's really interesting 😁

The Artist by Lucy Steeds.

The list of Suspicious people, Jennie Godfrey.

Four books on Victorian social history - two by Judith Flanders.

Not one and I specifically requested two titles that I really want from both adult DDs. Got bath bombs from one and some more bath stuff and socks from the other. 😥
The books I will now buy myself are The Artist which I first read on my Kindle and loved so much I really want a hard copy; the second is a new American book called The Correspondent.

Kathy Burke's autobiography

The Safekeep is an unusual read but very good imo. I got stuck halfway through but picked it up again after I read some reviews.

I have read both and enjoyed!

None 😭

The Safekeep is a great read. Not conventional and a difficult subject but the writing is sublime.

I have so many on my TBR pile so will have enough for 2026.

Dream Count - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Martian - Andy Weir
The Women - Kristin Hannah

My favourite 2025 book (and Waterstones too!,) hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

No actual books but did get book vouchers so I'm ready to go shopping asap!

Oh we love those!

DS1 is a budding bookworm and he adores them.

I got the latest Thursday Murder Club and a book about a man who lives for a year with a flock of wild turkeys. There was a doco on him recently and it was fascinating. DH got a first edition PG Wodehouse and The Forager's year and he is a mad keen forager.

DS1 got Dracula and DS2 got a book about cats.

I got mostly T Kingfisher books which I'm very happy with. Currently on Paladins Strength and really enjoying it.

Really want to read Dream Count

A box set of all the Beatrix Potter books
The Rector’s Wife and A Village Affair by Joanna Trollope

I got the new The Stand stories it's soooo exciting

The Witching Hour short story collection
Moveable Feasts by Chris Newens
Beasts of The Sea by Iida Turpeinen
Motherland by Julia Ioffe

Me too! Can’t wait to start it.

not strictly a Christmas present, but I was recently at a LIterature Festival where I bought myself a signed copy of Belinda Bauer's book ' The Impossible Thing', and promised myself I'd save it for Christmas. Started it Christmas Day morning and finished it the same day (we have a very quiet Christmas, just me and OH).