Status: 09.01.2024, 19:01 PM
By: Sven Trautwein
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Escape the holiday stress with these four Amazon bestsellers that were most in demand in 2023.
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Christmas time means finding your favourite place to read and immersing yourself in a beautiful novel. What could be better? By reading aloud together, a closer bond between the generations can be created, fairy tales at Christmas take you into foreign worlds. Books are gifts for the soul. With Amazon's four best-selling novels that were most in demand in 2023, it's easy to distract from the stress of Christmas.
Popular Novels 2023: Perfect Entertainment for Christmas
"Every Year in Winter" is one of the most popular novels on Amazon at Christmas time. © Chris Emil Janßen/Imago/Penguin Verlag (Montage)
Trude Teige "When Grandmother Danced in the Rain"
Teige's novel focuses on three unique and strong women. They are connected in many ways, their behavioral patterns influence each other, and the past seems to be the key to their future. A Norwegian fate, representative of many others, reveals an unknown chapter in German history. This year's bestseller invites you to immerse yourself in history. The detailed discussion can be found here.
When Juni returns to her deceased grandparents' house on the small Norwegian island, she discovers a photograph: it shows her grandmother Tekla as a young woman with a German soldier. Who is the unknown man? Her mother can't ask June anymore. The relationship between her mother and her grandmother was always overshadowed by something unspoken. June's search for the truth takes him to Berlin and the small town of Demmin in eastern Germany, which was overrun by the Russian army after the capitulation. June realizes that there is much more at stake than a hidden love. And that their discoveries have consequences for their own happiness.
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Trude Teige "When Grandmother Danced in the Rain"
2023, S. Fischer Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-949465-12-3
Price: Hardcover 22 euros, e-book 16.99 euros, 384 pages (depending on the format)
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Emily Stone "Every Year in Winter"
After "Forever in December", Emily Stone follows up romantically with "Every Year in Winter". The novel is a highly emotional read about great love and the painful consequences of a single mistake. It is the perfect winter novel to snuggle up in and for all those who are looking for romantic reading adventures.
Every year for the festival of love, Cassie meets the man with whom she spent her childhood. The man she had always secretly loved and who always seemed unattainable. But a single kiss on a snowy winter's day could change everything between them. Suddenly, more than just friendship seems possible. If it weren't for the life that drives them apart over and over again. But then the unimaginable happens: a terrible stroke of fate brings the two back together and threatens to break their love forever ...
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Emily Stone "Every Year in Winter"
Translated from English by Babette Schröder
2023 Penguin, ISBN-13 978-3-328-11011-8
Price: Paperback 12 €, 448 pages
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Colleen Hoover "Just One More Time"
The novel "Just One More Time" is the translation of the bestseller "It Ends With Us" by Colleen Hoover, who had great success with the book on TikTok and which was made into a film. Spending the Christmas holidays with a romantic story couldn't be better. For those who can't get enough of emotional stories.
When Lily meets Ryle, all her dreams seem to come true: a new city, her first job, and then Ryle – attractive, wealthy, and head over heels in love with Lily. Forgotten is Lily's difficult childhood. They also forget Atlas, their first love. But then Lily accidentally meets Atlas again, and all of a sudden, Ryle shows a side she never expected from him.
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Colleen Hoover "Just One More Time"
Translated from American English by Katarina Ganslandt
2020 dtv, ISBN-13 978-3-423-71862-2
Price: Paperback €12.95, E-Book €9.99, 448 pages (may vary in format)
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Carsten Sebastian Henn "The Book Walker"
What connects people and makes books so unique that you want to sink into them is described by Carsten Henn in "The Book Walker". If you know Nina George's "The Book Ship of Monsieur Perdu", you should take a closer look at Carsten Henn's novel. A wonderful feel-good novel that belongs on the bookshelf with these six books. You can find the book tip here.
It is special customers to whom the bookseller Carl Christian Kollhoff brings the books they have ordered to their homes, in the evening after closing time, on his walk through the picturesque alleys of the city. Because these people are almost like friends to him, and he is their most important connection to the world. When Kollhoff unexpectedly loses his job, it takes the power of books and a nine-year-old girl to make all of them, including Kollhoff himself, find the courage to approach each other ...
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Carsten Sebastian Henn "The Book Walker"
2020 Piper, ISBN-13 978-3-86612-477-6
Price: hardcover 15 €, e-book 11.99 €, 224 pages (different format)
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