Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library. These Christmas Books were released in 2025.
Browsing: Ages 14 & up
A young woman is transported back in time and right into a legendary tale in The Maid of Sherwood Forest, by Sian Ann Bessey.
Court intrigue, political maneuvering and Scottish folklore collide in The Crimson Throne, the first book in the Spy and Guardian series by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis.
A chance encounter at Comic Con turns into a romance of epic proportions in Heartstrings, the third book in Ali Novak’s Heartbreak Chronicles.
A girl’s induction to a secret society comes at a price in Secrets of the Blue Hand Girls, a mystery by Rowana Miller.
One of eight girls who went missing returns to the group home where they lived in Seven for a Secret, a YA mystery-thriller by Mary E. Roach.
When the king is killed, the six people who were last with him all become suspects in I Killed the King, a YA fantasy mystery by Rebecca Mix and Andrea Hannah.
A girl must hide a deadly secret while wooing the king in Thorn Season, the first book in a new romantasy trilogy by Kiera Azar.
When Zeus and Demeter’s daughter disappears to the underworld, all hell breaks loose in Girl, Goddess, Queen, by Bea Fitzgerald.
A teen hoping to land a scholarship and a nepo baby looking to prove herself collide at the world’s most high-profile debutante ball in By Invitation Only, by Alexandra Brown Chang.