Episode 51: Cozy Christmas Reads 2025

Hello, hi, and welcome to Medium Lady Reads. This is episode 51 - A VERY special episode, our FIFTH annual Cozy Christmas Reads! This is the perfect time of year for some emotional junk food in book form!We are celebrating the fifth season of our annual Cozy Christmas Reads episode. Here are the links to 2021, 2022 and 2023 and 2024. For those who know the Cozy Christmas episode traditions well, you know that means we’re joined by two amazing and special guests Stef Cunningham and Ali Oppenlaender.In This Episode:The show starts how it always does, with the ladies & their special guests checking in on how their reading is going.The ladies rank their reads from Scrooge to Christmas on Hallmark Street.Next up, the friends share the books they brought to the episode. Listener, you’ll be walking away with 8 cozy books for your holiday listening.It wouldn’t be an episode of Medium Lady Reads without hot takes. Tune in to find out what we’re all thinking.All four women share what they’re waiting for from the library and what they’re reading next.Books Mentioned in This Episode:All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker Maple Syrup: A Short History of Canada's Sweetest Obsession by Peter KuitenbrouwerMistborn by Brandon SandersonTress and The Emerald Sea by Brandon SandersonHot Desk by Laura DickermanGreat Big Beautiful Life by Emily HenryGirl Dinner by Olivie BlakeI’ll Be Home for Christmas by Jenny BaylissSeason for Second Chances by Jenny BaylissMeet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny BaylissThe Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny BaylissDecember to Remember by Jenny BaylissKiss Me at Christmas by Jenny BaylissHalf Spent was the Night by Ami McKay The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella by Nita ProseA Merry Little Lie by Sarah MorganThe Book Club Hotel by Sarah MorganThe Bookbinder by Pip WilliamsThe Dictionary of Lost of Words by Pip WilliamsGood Spirits by B.K. BorisonLove Light Farms by B.K. BorisonFirst Time Caller by B.K. BorisonThe Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally CarterChristmas at the Ranch by Julia McKayHow to Read a Book by Monica WoodOne In A Million Boy by Monica WoodThe Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu MandannaA Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu MandannaSweet Heat by Bolu BabalolaIn the Veins of the Drowning by Kalie CassidyAlchemised by SenLinYu Spectacular by Stephanie GarberWinterhouse by Ben GutersonWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyThe Summer Storms by Sarah MacLeanWreck by Catherine NewmanThe Correspondent by Virginia Evans Walking with Beth by Merilyn SimondsAccomplish to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer August Lane by Regina Black