Laurie sees a man through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day and knows he is the one, but the bus drives away. She spends the next ten years hoping fate will bring them together again. It was a Reese’s Book Club pick and rates 4.5 stars from about 18,500 ratings on Audible.

Maelyn Jones is living with her parents, hates her job and is spending her last Christmas at her favorite place, a Utah cabin, when a time loop sends her back to relive the same snowy holiday. Patti Murin makes it hilarious and swoon-worthy. It rates 4.2 stars from about 3,700 ratings on Audible.

Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has little cash and few options, and the prospect of Christmas with her perfect sister is not helping. She takes a job in a bookshop, and a love triangle follows. It rates 4.3 stars from about 3,200 ratings on Audible.

Caleb, grieving his mother, returns to Martha’s Vineyard and the inn where he spent a wonderful teenage Christmas, and finds the local girl he almost kissed under the mistletoe now running it. It rates 4.4 stars from about 1,300 ratings on Audible.

Photographer Libby has just been fired, again, and discovered her boyfriend in bed with someone else. She becomes assistant to a terse businessman and finds a sweet side to him while they train his Golden Retriever puppy. It rates 4.5 stars from about 2,400 ratings on Audible.

Lily returns from Australia to a small, gossipy English village for Christmas, only to find her mother dating the man next door, the father of the ex who broke her heart. It is the shortest pick here at about 4½ hours, and it rates 4.4 stars from about 7,100 ratings on Audible.

Holly, the Queen of Christmas Cheer, is next door to the town grinch, Declan, and the two start an all-out prank war in Mistletoe, Idaho. When her plan for the Festival of Lights falls apart, she has to call her handy sworn nemesis. It rates 4.3 stars from about 5,500 ratings on Audible.

Merry Winters has the holiday blues and finds the pickings slim in Mistletoe, Idaho, except for the stoic new foreman at her family’s Christmas tree farm. He is a single dad who has also signed up for online dating, and he is chatting with a sassy, crafty stranger. It rates 4.4 stars from about 7,700 ratings on Audible.

On a flight home for Christmas, Molly spills all her secrets to the hot guy seated next to her after a few too many cocktails, then discovers he is one of the new in-laws at the festive rental house her family is sharing. It rates 4.4 stars from about 5,700 ratings on Audible.

After a snowstorm grounds her flight, Lucy books a rideshare to get home for Christmas, and the driver is the hookup she ghosted a few months ago. It is a steamy, laugh-out-loud road trip romance that rates 4.3 stars from about 5,500 ratings on Audible.

A Christmas-town hermit’s quiet life falls apart when his nemesis, Storee Taylor, moves in next door and enters the town Christmas Kringle contest. Meghan Quinn is always funny and always spicy. It rates 4.3 stars from about 6,200 ratings on Audible.

Four holiday M/M novellas in one bundle: Eight Nights in December, In Case of Emergency, Santa Daddy and Where the Lovelight Gleams. It contains mature themes, and it rates 4.7 stars on Audible.