New Year's Eve Reads

I have mixed feelings about New Year’s Eve. My birthday is December 30, which I’ve never hated, but I do think I’ve always felt the extra pressure of sharing my personal new year with the world. But there is something sparkly and magical about it, isn’t there? Flowing champagne and sparkling cocktails, proposals and wishes and goal setting. Everything feels just a little bit heightened and it feels special. I think that is the perfect feeling to capture in a book! If you agree, maybe one of these books will be the perfect companion for your New Year’s Eve.

A Kiss at Midnight by J.Nichole

This is a lovely little KU novella about Kayla, who is without a date for her company’s New Year’s Eve Party. She ends up in the elevator with her co-worker, Ben, and ends up with a New Year’s Kiss…but what will they do on Monday morning?

New Year’s Kiss by Lee Matthews

A super cute, super atmospheric YA read set at a ski resort!

The Rewind by Allison Wind Scotch

This is one I have on my TBR for the season. It’s a second chance romance with a little bit of a time travel element.

This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens

If you’re looking for something full of fun coincidences and two main characters both born on New Year’s, and a bit sweeter than One Day in December, this will be the book for you!

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

“On the last night of 1937, 25-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve.” —Amazon

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

“At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born) produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence.” —Amazon

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

"One New Year's Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers' favorite, they might encounter company. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn't." --The New York Times Book Review

New Year’s Kiss by Delaney Cameron

“Can a Christmas bachelor auction help two people find love? When Norah and Lance meet, their chemistry is undeniable. But will the return of a first love ruin their chance for happiness?” —Amazon

I hope this bring you New Year’s joy, no matter when you decide to read them!