Trope · 275 books
Christmas hockey romance
Christmas hockey romance puts the holidays on the ice. Think winter festivals, holiday road trips, a Valentine's Day date and a midnight kiss on New Year's Eve. Hockey season and holiday season overlap, and these books make the most of it.
Top christmas hockey romance books
275 ranked · showing 48 
Same Time Next Year
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Marriage of convenience · Brother's best friend · Holiday · Forbidden 
One Frosty Pucking Meet Cute
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Brother's best friend · Grumpy / sunshine · Forced proximity · Holiday 
It's Mother-Pucking Christmas!
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Enemies to lovers · Holiday · Grumpy / sunshine · Small town Pucks & Penalties: Pucked Series Deleted Scenes and Outtakes Version 2.0
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Found family · Holiday 
Holiday Hostilities
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Enemies to lovers · Brother's best friend · Forced proximity · Holiday Why holiday works on the ice
The schedule does a lot of the work. Holiday games, travel delays and players stuck far from home all push two people together in December.
Most are short and cozy. Expect plenty of novellas, small towns and slow-burn heat.
They make good quick reads between longer series. Several popular series also have a holiday novella that checks in on couples you already know.
Readers who love these books often reach for forced proximity hockey romance, small town hockey romance and opposites attract hockey romance next. You can also browse every hockey romance trope or go back to the full hockey romance directory.
New to the genre? Wikipedia covers the history of the romance novel and how a game of ice hockey works.
Best M/M christmas hockey romance books
Best college christmas hockey romance books
Slow burn christmas hockey romance: lower-heat picks
Questions about holiday hockey romance
What is the best christmas hockey romance book?
Readers' favorite is The Trouble With Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson, followed by Time to Shine by Rachel Reid and My Phony Valentine by Courtney Walsh. Our ranking blends how many Goodreads readers rated each book with how often it appears on readers' own hockey romance lists.
Are there M/M christmas hockey romance books?
Yes. 69 of the 275 books here are M/M, led by Time to Shine by Rachel Reid and Epic by Sarina Bowen.
How spicy are christmas hockey romance books?
38% are rated spicy or scorching on our five-point heat scale. 170 are slow burn or sweeter, such as The Trouble With Valentine's Day by Rachel Gibson.
Are christmas hockey romance books set in college or the pros?
204 are set in pro hockey and 39 on college teams; the rest follow minor league, junior or retired players.