There is no better way to spend the Christmas holiday than eating lots of food, watching lots of films and, of course, reading lots of books.

But the choice can be overwhelming: do you go for a classic or contemporary novel? Horror or romance? Young adult or a more mature read?

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To help you with this Christmas conundrum, we asked the edu-Twitter community Team English what they were reading this festive period.

Here are just some of the most popular books they are reading this year (and recommend you do, too).

• T’was The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

• The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti

• The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

• Underland by Robert McFarlane

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

• The Word For Woman is Wilderness by Abi Andrews

• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Stoner by John Williams

• The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

• The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

• A Christmas Cornucopia by Mark Forsyth

• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith

• The Last Wild trilogy by Piers Torday

• The Enemy series by Charlie Higson

• The Uncommon Life of Alfred Warner in Six Days by Juliet Conlin

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

If you like these and need more ideas for your Christmas reading or some last-minute stocking fillers for the book lovers in your life, follow this link to see the full thread.