11 best books of December, according to Amazon's editors

Looking for a holiday read for yourself or a gift for a voracious reader? These are the best new titles this month, hand-picked by Amazon's editors. Amazon’s editorial director of books and Kindle Sara Nelson tells us why they were chosen.

4. 'Married Love: And Other Stories,' by Tessa Hadley

This collection of stories explores relationships at their most fascinating – generational conflicts, agonizing love affairs, domestic dramas – with unflinching precision, acuity, and clarity. From a middle-aged janitor stuck in a factory job to a wife unbridled by her film director husband’s sudden death, the stories in this collection are as wide-ranging as they are razor-sharp. “They’re small, incredibly well-observed stories [that are] not sentimental,” says Nelson “It’s an odd and really fascinating collection.”

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