My Top Winter / Christmas Book & Podcast Recommendations

We are close to the Winter Solstice now and I can see and feel the finish line ahead. I long for Christmas holidays - long lazy mornings with no phone reminders pinging telling me what to do or where to be. I want to be the fire, book in hand, a mulled wine in the other!

Reading is such a wintertime activity for me, and adapting to that energy is what seasonal living is all about! Rather than fight it, flow with it and get cozy!

Here’s some of my favourite Winter books, poems, reflections and podcasts:

Books:

The Christmas Chronicles by Nigel Slater
Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson (on audible - short stories)
The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen (not a wintery book but the most amazing book I've ever read. Perfect for holiday time)
Grown Ups by Marian Keyes (again not wintery but a big tome of a book, perfect for getting stuck into this season)

Poems:

Winter Time by Robert Louis Stevenson (a classic)
Winter by James Simpson (my favourite winter poem by far)
Christmas Poem by Mary Oliver (my favourite poet)
A Visit from St Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore (classic!)

Podcasts:

The Calm Christmas Podcast with Beth Kempton
As the Seasons Turns by Ffern (I adore this! Calm inducing every time)
Candlelit Tales (tales of Irish myths to a live audience with live music)

Wishing you a very hygge, heiter, teolaí (cozy!) bookish Winter and holiday season ahead.

Le grá,

Maeve x