Novellas are great for a lot of reasons. 

I love to squeeze them in between longer reads as a break, they’re perfect if you’re trying to reach a reading goal, they work wonders if your attention span isn’t great (especially during busy times such as the holiday season).

For whatever reason you have for reading them, here are quite a few options. Some I’ve read, some were recommended to me by others.

Contemporary

• Denise Williams – Love and Other Flight Delays (3 novellas bound into one)
• Rachel Lacey – Out of the Blue 
• Suleikha Snyder – Tikka Chance on Me 
• Devney Perry – Timeless 
• Rilzy Adams – Treble 
• Evie Mitchell – Knot My Type
• Tessa Bailey – The Sweetest Fix 
• Chelle Sloan – Thirst Trap 
• Jenny Bunting – Safe With You
• Penny Reid – Live and Let Grow

Historical

• Erin Langston – A Day Until Forever 
• Beverly Jenkins – A Prisoner of love 
• Alyssa Cole – Let It Shine 
• Courtney Milan – A Governess Affair
• Mimi Matthews – A Holiday by Gaslight  
• Erin Langston – Some Winter’s Evening
• Felicity Niven – Duke the Halls 
• Nicola Davidson- Her Virgin Duke 
• Tessa Dare – When She Was Naughty 
• Megan Frampton – The Earl’s Christmas Pearl

Audible Originals

• Rebekah  Weatherspoon – A Walk In The Park 
• Cara Bastone – Sweet Talk 
• Kennedy Ryan – Coming Home
• A Thief in the Night- KJ Charles
• Michelle Stimson – Let It Snow 
• Codi Hall – Along Came Holly
• Karen Schaler – Once Upon a Christmas Carol 
• Mahi Cheshire – Whisked Away At Christmas

Monster Romance

• Lucy Eden – Bear with Me
• Monster Pucker – Clio Evans & Ashley Bennett
• Honey Phillips – Her Alien Farmhand
• Ruby Dixon – Ice Planet Barbarians

Series Starters

• Claire Kingsley – Protecting You
• Max Monroe – Gotta Have Fate
• Elsie Silver – Out of the gate
• Devney Perry – Christmas in Quincy

Christmas I’ve read and recommend:

• Talia Hibbert – Merry Inkmas
• Devney Perry – Holiday Brothers (3 novellas) 
• Lucy Score – One Night Only
• Chloe Liese – Mistletoe Motive 
• Melanie Harlow – Baby it’s cold outside
• J Saman – Just One Kiss 
• JR Jenner – One Week With You 
• Talia Hibbert – Wrapped Up In You
• Katie Reus- How the Hitman Stole Christmas
• Melissa Ivers – Mistletoe and Mischief

Christmas recommended to me by others:

• Hannah Bonam-Young – Set the Record Straight
• Rilzy Adams – Spiked Hot Chocolate
• Kate Clayborn – Missing Christmas 
• Wren K Morris – From Cocktails to Sleigh Bells 
• Rachel Holm – Carry Me Through Christmas
• Carrie Aarons – A Wonderful Lie 
• Stacey Kennedy Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
• Oona Grace- Santa’s Broken Toy
• Dirty Santa – Daphne Loveling 
• The Christmas Blanket – Kandi Steiner 
• Exes and Ho Ho Hos – Pippa Grant 
• Gingerbread Kisses – Lucy Eden

2023 releases on my TBR:

• Ilsa Madden Mills – Christmas Cupid
• Victoria Wilder – December Midnights
• Jessica Joyce – A Risk Worth Taking
• Ann Einerson – If You Give A Grump A Holiday Wishlist
• Echo Grayce – Provoking Saint Nick
• Maren Moore – A Festive Feud
• Nellie Wilson – Corporate Mandated Holiday Romance
• Adriana Herrera – Run Darling

Extra Spicy

• Naima Simone – Only For A Night

• Katee Robert  – Your Dad Will Do
• Molly Doyle – Scream for Us
• Briana Michaels – Glitch
• Eve Dangerfield – Dysfunctional
• Kayla Grosse – Trick Shot 
• Eliza McClane – Santa Baby
• Katee Robert – Gifting Me to His Best Friend

Kissing Only

• Jenny Proctor – The Christmas Letters
• Summer Dowell – The Elle Project
• Cindy Steel – A Christmas Spark
• Hailey Gardner – The Holiduel

New Years

• Tessa Bailey – Same time next year 
• Kathryn Nolan- Keep You Both 
• MJ Duncan – Champagne Kisses 
• G Marie – Snowed in Fling 
• Erin McClellan – Party Favors 
• Sara Ney – New Years Steve 
• Alexandria House A New Year New Boo? 
• JL Sterling – Kissing My Coworker

Bonus – Even More

Authors who have a lot of novellas:

• Kat Baxter (insta-love)
• Cassie Mint (insta-love)
• TS Joyce (shifters)
• Honey Phillips (aliens/monsters)

Novella Series

• ST Abby – Mind*ck
• Adriana Herrera – Toy Runners (3 books)
• Aurora Rose Reynolds – Adventures in Love (3 books)
• Evie Mitchell – Capricorn Cove (10 books)
• Annabeth Albert – Portland Heat (6 books)
• Jackie Lau – Holidays with the Wongs (4 books)
• Ruby Dixon – Risdaverse (11 books, I think two are not novellas)
• Multi authored – Bold Brew (10 books)
• Jillian Dodd – Kitty Valentine (9 books)
• Brook Blaine – The Elite (3 books)
• Kendall Ryan – Hitched (3 books)

Not technically novella but short and very bingeable:

• KA Tucker – The Wolf Hotel (5 books)
• KA Tucker – Empire Night Club (4 books)
• Ruby Dixon – Ice Planet Barbarians, Ice Home
• Amber Kelly – Poplar Falls (6 books)
• Rebekah Weatherspoon – Loose Ends (2 books)
• Devney Perry – Runaway (5 books)