Use Your Favorite Holiday Movie To Point You Toward A Great New Book!

Daily Candy, the ever-inventive and always sassy website, recently published their list of heart-warming (and some not-so-heartwarming) new book releases, each that coincides with a holiday movie.

For some examples below, pick your favorite holiday movie below and check out which exciting new read corresponds with it:

Four Christmases
If nothing gets you going like familial dysfunction, check out Lauren Groff’s The Monsters of Templeton. Willie Upton’s return home — a place she swore she’d never go again — coincides with the discovery of a monster in a local lake (and that her dad isn’t who she thought). Good times abound.

Love Actually
Love doesn’t always turn out the way you plan. In the first paragraph of Alejandro Zambra’s touching novella, Bonsai, you learn Emilia is going to die and leave Julio alone- knowledge that makes the following pages all the more profound.

A Christmas Story
Molly McNett’s debut story collection, One Dog Happy , is like a BB gunshot through the heart. A reclusive man becomes a target for teenage bullies, sisters deal with their dad’s mail-order bride, and a girl finds solace in weird sexual fantasies in these funny-sad tales from the Midwest.

Go to Daily Candy to read up on even more holiday flicks and reads! And Happy Holidays!

Have you written a novel that will one day be gifted to many readers (and unwrappers) everywhere? Why not send a query and partial manuscript to Foundry Literary and Media? Maybe they’ll be the agency to take you from the computer to the book store to under the Christmas tree! WordHustler has our fingers crossed for you!