12 best-selling holiday books like Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

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Bright Lights, Big Christmas

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, co…

If you liked the holiday plot in Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Summer Book Club

By: Susan Mallery

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The rules of summer book club are simple: •  No sad books •  No pressure •  Yessssss, wine! … read more

Similar categories in Susan Mallery's The Summer Book Club book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr

2. The Friendship Club

By: Robyn Carr

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Carr's The Friendship Club book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2) by Jenny Colgan

3. Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.60

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Carmen is at a loose end. Her gorgeous bookshop is the filming site of a cheesy Christmas movie, sh… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Colgan's Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2) book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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4. The Wishing Bridge

By: Viola Shipman

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Once the hottest mergers and acquisitions executive in the company, Henrietta Wegner can see the am… read more

Similar categories in Viola Shipman's The Wishing Bridge book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"It's about history ... We're all shaped by it. Most run from it. But it's still in there ... How you come to terms with it is what matters."

-Viola Shipman, The Wishing Bridge

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5. The Summer We Started Over

By: Nancy Thayer

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Thayer's The Summer We Started Over book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
Cover of The Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Susan Wiggs

6. The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

By: Susan Wiggs

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rush… read more

Similar categories in Susan Wiggs's The Twelve Dogs of Christmas book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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7. The Twelve Months of Christmas

By: Sheila Roberts

3.97

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women. Three terrible Christmases. Can they finally perfect the holiday by celebrating every … read more

Similar categories in Sheila Roberts's The Twelve Months of Christmas book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Christmas at the Shelter Inn (Shelter Springs) by RaeAnne Thayne

8. Christmas at the Shelter Inn (Shelter Springs)

By: RaeAnne Thayne

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Come home to Shelter Springs this Christmas, where hearts are warm and hopes are bright… Growin… read more

Similar categories in RaeAnne Thayne's Christmas at the Shelter Inn (Shelter Springs) book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan

9. The Book Club Hotel

By: Sarah Morgan

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This Christmas, USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with another heartfelt exploratio… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Morgan's The Book Club Hotel book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"... Just because someone doens't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"... Just because someone doesn't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"It was like hugging a cat. Not Panther, because she is unusually cuddly, but you know what I mean; sometimes they go all stiff and rigid and you know that all they want is for you to stop so that the…"

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

Cover of The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson Harvey

10. The Summer of Songbirds

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

3.97

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's The Summer of Songbirds book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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13. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2) by Elin Hilderbrand

14. What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradis… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2) book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

Cover of Love, Holly by Emily      Stone

15. Love, Holly

By: Emily Stone

3.90

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman tries to heal a rift in her elderly pen pal’s family in time for Christmas, all while… read more

Similar categories in Emily Stone's Love, Holly book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

16. Bright Lights, Big Christmas

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, co… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A December to Remember by Jenny Bayliss

17. A December to Remember

By: Jenny Bayliss

3.71

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Three bickering half sisters. One unique antiques shop. The coziest holiday season of their lives. … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Bayliss's A December to Remember book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

18. A Winter in New York

By: Josie Silver

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been… read more

Similar categories in Josie Silver's A Winter in New York book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn't that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real lif…"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of …"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

Cover of Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

19. Wreck the Halls

By: Tessa Bailey

3.43

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

A sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Wreck the Halls book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acknowledgement. Apparently that was all it took to want to forgive someone. Just to have them acknowledge that you were hurt, out loud."

-Tessa Bailey, Wreck the Halls

Cover of Faking Christmas by Kerry Winfrey

20. Faking Christmas

By: Kerry Winfrey

3.67

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Laurel Grant is playing house for the holidays--complete with a fake husband and kids--in this deli… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Winfrey's Faking Christmas book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • holiday
  • christmas
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey

21. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

21 best-selling fiction books like Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Book Club

Susan Mallery

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Friendship Club

Robyn Carr

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)

Jenny Colgan

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Bridge

Viola Shipman

4.02

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21 Best fiction books like The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Book Club

Susan Mallery

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Friendship Club

Robyn Carr

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins

4.25

Transform Your Habits

For the Love of Summer

Susan Mallery

4.28

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