Experience the 2026 12 Days of Book-Club-Mas Advent Calendar from Once Upon a Book Club!

Our Advent Calendar recipients will receive an anthology of about 440 pages featuring 12 short stories (each ~35 pages long) featuring one of the 12 gifts. Each story is written by a different author who wrote these tales specifically to bring our selected gifts to life! This year's anthology will also featured beautiful sprayed edges 

As you read each short story, you'll be prompted at key moments within them to open the corresponding gift for the day. These gifts are all incredibly useful, beautiful items, perfect for the bookworm in all of us! These gifts are not Christmas themed (only the wrapping is wintery to match the season!) and each item can be used and enjoyed year-round.

Each book box will include a custom and exclusive book of 12 short stories that can only be found in our box, along with 12 beautiful gifts (one for each story!).

This box has a value of over $400 and are expected to ship by November 30th, 2026.

This year's box will feature three days where the wrapped gifts will be full-length, published novels. Genre and format will vary between each title. We will have extra books available for individual purchase in January after boxes have shipped.

This year's anthology includes short stories written by Angela Montoya, Teri Wilson, Bri Eberhart, A. E. Purvis, Lindsay Hameroff, Kristin Kisska, Katie Frendreis, Lou Wilham, Danielle Robertson, Adah B. Li, Kylie Puck, and Katherine Kovacic.