Christmas 2025: Audiobooks that bring the Christmas spirit to life

This holiday season isn’t just about twinkling lights and gingerbread cookies, it’s also the perfect excuse to escape into stories that make the season feel bigger, warmer and occasionally a little darker. The right audiobook can turn quiet evenings into memorable moments. Here we list audiobooks that bring together a mix of festive suspense, cozy tales and cinematic cheer - stories that make you feel the magic of holidays in unexpected ways.

Twelve Slays of Christmas

It is a warm, snow-dusted mystery leaning fully into the charm of the holidays. Holly White returns to her family’s Christmas Tree Farm after a painful breakup, seeking tranquillity, solace and possibly too many holiday cookies. But upon her arrival, she quickly finds herself involved in a murder while attending her hometown’s annual Reindeer Games event. As Holly stumbles into amateur sleuthing, the small town of Mistletoe, Maine, wraps the story in twinkly lights, cocoa-sweet moments and a mysterious ambience. The audiobook has the right amount of humour, festivities, and suspense to keep your attention through all the chapters.

Mistletoe Murders 4

Set against a snowy backdrop, Mistletoe Murders 4 follows Emily Lane (Cobie Smulders) as her festive return to Fletcher’s Grove turns deadly. Between a complicated ex and a mysterious figure from her past, Emily must determine if she’s being targeted as the bodies pile up. It’s a cozy, high-stakes holiday mystery perfect for a night in with hot cocoa.

A Christmas Carol

Narrated by Hugh Grant, this rendition of A Christmas Carol brings Victorian London to life as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted by the ghost of his late partner, Jacob Marley. After a night of haunting visitations from the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, Scrooge is forced to face his bitter history and the grim future facing Bob Cratchit’s son, Tiny Tim. By dawn, the once-grumpy moneylender is reborn, trading his cold heart for a life of boundless generosity and festive spirit.

The Christmas Party

The story follows Sasha, who reluctantly accepts an invitation from her old friend Gabby to spend Christmas at Gabby’s remote lake house, primarily because she has not spoken to Gabby and the rest of their friend group since a horrible tragedy took place twelve years ago. That night, Sasha and her five university friends were together when Gabby’s little sister Seffie disappeared without a trace, with the memory haunting them ever since. Snowed in by a storm with the group cut off from the outside world, tensions flare, old secrets resurface and Sasha is forced to confront a past she’s tried to forget. What begins as a festive reunion turns into a chilling psychological thriller as the truth about the fateful Christmas long ago slowly unravels.