COSYING UP TO the Christmas tree with a good book and some sweet treats is a favourite pastime for many during the holiday season.

The literary year has belonged to EL James and her Fifty Shades of Grey series but a number of recently-released autobiographies from Olympians and other household names have been wrapped and readied as Christmas gifts.

Are you planning to re-read an old favourite or are any of these from this month’s top-sellers list (according to Nielsen BookScan) on your book list? Share your recommendations in the comments section below.

• Fifty Shades of Grey
• The Hunger Games
• A Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy
• The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling
• The Shelbourne Ultimatum, the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly series
• Isn’t it Well for Ye? The Book of Irish Mammies by Colm O’Regan
• Just Mary: My Memoir by Mary O’Rourke
• The Bull: My Story by John Hayes (co-written by Tommy Conlon)
• My Journey by Jim Stynes
• All I Want for Christmas, Barnardos short story collection
• Tyringham Park by Rosemary McLoughlin
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel by Jeff Kinney
• Reflected in You: A Crossfire Novel by Sylvia Day
• The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year by Sue Townsend
• The Drop by Michael Connelly
• A Sixpenny Christmas by Katie Flynn
• Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
• Three Letters by Josephine Cox
• I, Michael Bennett by James Patterson
• Is it just me? by Miranda Hart
• Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
• Cheryl: My Story by Cheryl Cole
• Bradley Wiggins: My Time: An Autobiography by Bradley Wiggins
• One Direction: the Official Annual 2013

Want to get into the Christmas spirit? Check out our holiday section for some more great reads.