Thursday, January 29, 2026

Favorite Winter Books - Vintage Edition! 🤩❄️💙📘

Happy Mid-Winter! 🤩💙❄️✨

I'm really excited to share my winter book collection! 😊 These are all of the books I own, read or want-to-read with “winter” in the title (or with a winter-themed cover.) Do you see any favorites here? 🤔📚

Books with Winter in the Title: Photo A

I’m MOST excited to read Winter's Grace by Ruby Ferguson!! Yay! 🥰 (Marion @fortheloveofbooks75 was so incredibly kind to ship this book to me from the UK! Thank you, dear friend! 💕)

Winter in the Title: Photo B

WINTER TITLED BOOK RATINGS:

❄️ The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4🌟
❄️ Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher 5🌟
❄️ Winter and Rough Weather by D.E. Stevenson 4🌟
❄️ Winter at Thrush Green by Miss Read 5🌟
❄️ Stories for Winter 3.5🌟
❄️ Winter Carnival by Frances Pascal 3🌟
❄️ Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins, etc. 4.25🌟
❄️ A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett 4.5🌟
❄️ Winter Story by Jill Barklem 4.5🌟
❄️ Honey Bunch: Her First Winter at Snowtop by Helen Louise Thorndyke 4🌟
❄️ The Little Ghost Quilt’s Winter Surprise by Riel Nason 5🌟
❄️ The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz 4🌟
❄️ A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair 4🌟
❄️ The Willows in Winter by William Horwood 5🌟 (a gift from Caro at carosbookcase 😍)

READ, BUT DO NOT OWN:
☃️ Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink 4.5🌟
☃️ Iris in Winter by Elizabeth Cadell 3🌟

The Perfect Winter Children's Book!

WINTER TITLED BOOK TBR:

💙 The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons
💙 Winter Kitchen by Louise Andrews Kent
💙 Winter Wedding by Betty Neels
💙 Winterwood by Dorothy Eden
💙 A Winter Love Story by Betty Neels
💙 Emma in Winter by Penelope Farmer
💙 Jean’s Winter with the Warners by Christine Whiting Parmenter

One of the first Dean Street Press Furrowed Middlebrow books I ever read!

WINTER TITLED BOOK WISHLIST:

❄️ Mary Jane Winter Sports by Clara Ingram Judson
❄️ The Bobbey Twins’ Wonderful Winter Secret by Laura Lee Hope

Now, here are the books in my collection that have winter-y covers, but don't have "winter" in the title.

Wintery Covers: Photo A

WINTERY COVER BOOKS:

🌨 Ice on the Lawn by Jill Stevens 3.75🌟 (the sweetest gift from Carla @c.brown685!💗)
🌨 White Holiday by Viola Bayley 4.5🌟
🌨 Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence 4🌟
🌨 Shoulder the Sky/Winter in Rough Weather by D.E. Stevenson 4🌟
🌨 The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge 5🌟

Wintery Covers: Photo B

WINTERY COVERS TBR:

💙 Angel on Skis by Betty Cavanna (a buddy read with Andrea @sorrythankyou79 🥳)
💙 Brown Door Venture by Pamela Brown (a thoughtful gift from Carla @c.brown685!💝)
💙 Concerning Casey by Eve Bennett (a wonderful gift from Andrea @sorrythankyou79 💙)
💙 Practically Seventeen by Rosamond du Jardin
💙 The Jennifer Gift by Eunice Young Smith
💙 The Unfinished House by Margaret Sutton
💙 The Great Blizzard by Albert E. Idell
💙 Bobbsey Twins: Merry Days Indoors and Out by Laura Lee Hope

Riel Nason's books are sooo wonderful! I've loved both in the series so far! 5🌟

I hope to update this post every year with new books, photos and ratings! If you have any favorite winter-themed books or winter-titled suggestions for me, please comment below or send me an email! Thank you! 🤩

The best cozy books plus vegan marshmallow squares and a cup of lemon balm tea!

I had to add a couple more photos of wintery books...and my new-to-me Brambly Hedge Winter teacup and snack plate set! Along with the Brambly Hedge Winter Story and A Visit to Brambly Hedge (another awesome Christmas gift from Caro @carosbookcase! ❤️)

A thoughtful and imaginative contemporary middle grade book!

Here's our house after the snowstorm last weekend...it's so magical!

Warm hugs to you, lovely friends! 💕☃️🤗☃️💕

Our New Hampshire home in winter!

P.S. Did I mention that my son, Benji, was born on December 23rd and his middle name is Winter! 😍 (This is a pic of him on his 1st birthday...awww!)

Baby Ben Winter House

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Favorite 25 Books of 2025! 🤩🎉📚🌈

Happy New Year, Friends!! 😍💕✨

I'm just under the wire for posting my 25 Favorite Books of 2025 before the end of January—whew!

Before I go right into my post, I thought I'd share some of the lovely things happening in my life right now:

💙 Organizing the details of my April trip with Liz/Raspberry Tart to visit London for the first time! (Ahhh! 🤯 So excited! 🥳)
💙 Planning my trip to the BFF Sticker Club Camp in September with the BFF Sticker Group! (Yay!! 🤩🌈💫)
💙 Currently adoring White Holiday by Viola Bayley (a Children's Press edition 🥰)
💙 Re-watching Downton Abbey with Ian
💙 Movie and knitting dates with Caro ☺️🧡 (Check out her 2025 favorite books!)
💙 Re-listening to A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie audiobook
💙 Setting up my cork B6 Traveler's Journal for 2026 with inserts for books read, my planner, to-do list and sketchbook.
💙 Trying not to collect too many Calico Critter figurines...but it's hard! 😂
💙 Reading as many winter vintage books as possible (and loving it!)

Okay...FINALLY onto books!

This was another fantastic reading year with 240 BOOKS under my book belt. Woo-hoo!

If you'd like to see some of more of My Favorite Books From Past Years, here are links to my Instagram posts:

24 Favs in 2024

23 Favs in 2023

22 Favs in 2022

21 Favs in 2021

Here are the books that brought me the MOST HAPPINESS last year 🥰

All were 5🌟 ratings and books that I will 100% read again!