Everyone wants to spend Christmas with the Weasleys, right? Wizard crackers, chocolate frogs, steaming mugs of butterbeer, a charmed gnome on the tree . . . we all agree, the Weasleys’ house in the Harry Potter series is the ideal place to spend the holidays.

We asked our book experts here at the New York Public Library to go beyond the Burrow, though, and name more families from books that they’d love to celebrate with during the festive season.

Until Mrs. Weasley knits you a sweater with your initial on it, here are a few more ideas for ideal families to spend the holidays with. (And thanks to library folk Colleen Gibson, Annie Lin, Joe Pascullo, and Susen Shi for the Weasley-related suggestions.)

Okay, well, if the Weasleys aren't available, or I just can't take another minute of Celestina Warbeck, I can always spend more time with Jeanne Birdsall’s The Penderwicks. Girls, boys, cats, dogs, and a father who occasionally breaks into Latin. And of course there's the Swallows & Amazons, by Arthur Ransome. Whichever you end up with, there's going to be adventure and high times on the lake, fortified by plenty of hot chocolate and cakes. Both are series; non-fantasy; pocket worlds where there is danger and heartbreak but also innocence and absolute love. I can't imagine anything cozier on a cold winter's night. —Kay Menick, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

I would like to spend the holidays with Lee Child’s rootless, wandering hero Jack Reacher. We would meet on Christmas Eve in a snowed-in Manhattan, in a lonely 24-hour diner (there’s one conveniently kitty-corner from my place). After a plea from me, Reacher would glare at the proprietor, and the Christmas music pouring through the loudspeakers would be shut off. We’d order; Reacher would have the steak, I’d have the Greek salad. I’d tell him the story of my life. Reacher would say nothing. We’d both have pie for dessert and look out the window at the blowing snow and the occasional cross-country skier out on Ninth Avenue, and we would wish each other a very Silent Night. Two Reacher Christmas stories are included in No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories. —Kathie Coblentz, Rare Materials

Now and forever, it's the Murry family, and it has been since I first read this sentence in A Wrinkle In Time: "When they got back to the house Mrs. Murry was still in the lab. She was watching a pale blue fluid move slowly through a tube from a beaker to a retort. Over a Bunsen burner bubbled a big, earthenware dish of stew." Bunsen burner stew sounds like the perfect holiday dinner. And you know any dinner-table arguments would be intriguing, to say the least . . . —Stephanie Anderson, Selection Team

Chris Claremont's X-Men comics of the 70's always had a holiday special every year. The parties at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters looked like a lot of fun, until they were inevitably attacked by monsters! —Benjamin Sapadin, Morris Park

I want to spend my holidays with the Spellmans, please. First, with all their Private Eye-ing it would definitely not be boring, Second, they would have lots of people there because of all the characters they draw into their lives out of utter chutzpah, and third, there's so much happy dysfunction and glaring flaws and muddling through in the family (especially Izzy) that it would be very relaxing and I'd fit right in. —Jill Rothstein, Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library

I'm currently reading The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street, which is about a family of seven living in Harlem, and it even takes place during the holiday season—their house is filled with crooked Christmas trees, a grinchy recluse landlord, lots of chaos, holiday cookies and croissants, and love . . . perfect! —Susie Heimbach, Mulberry Street

I should like to spend Christmas with the Pickwickians at Wardle's house in Dingley Dell. We'll be a jovial company travelling in the coach with the able Sam Weller to manage the luggage, the wine, and the holiday delicacies. When we arrive we'll feast, and dance, and gather round the roaring fire and tell ghost stories. What a jolly time with Mr. Pickwick and his friends in Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. —Virginia Bartow, Rare Books

I would like to spend the holidays with Polly Waterford and the Little Beach Street Bakery villagers. Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan reunites us with the same cast of characters as in the other books in the series in the Cornish coastal town of Mount Polbearne. Islands, baked goods, and a pet puffin named Neil? Yes, please. —Jenny Baum, Jefferson Market

I'd love to spend the holidays with the close-knit family of friends in the fictional town of Three Pines, Quebec, the setting for most of Louise Penny's Armand Gamache novels. I'd need really good directions since GPS doesn't know the town exists and would hope that Gabri and Olivier had room at the B & B. I'd be happy to stay with anyone but Ruth, really. I could pick up gifts at Myrna's bookshop—maybe some of Leonard Cohen's poetry—and enjoy delectable, convivial meals by the fire at the cafe and perhaps a holiday potluck with the whole crowd at Clara's. And there would be plenty of snow! —Elizabeth Waters, Mid-Manhattan

I know they're animals, but I would LOVE to spend the holidays with Mole and Rat from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. I can just imagine being in the countryside building a big fire with Ratty, making food with Mole, and of course drinking plenty of beer. And hey, maybe we'll even see a deity or two! —Richard Dowe, Aguilar

I used to pretend I was Laura Ingalls Wilder waking up in a cozy Little House in the Big Woods on Christmas morning. A big fire in the fireplace, snow falling outside, and a big plate of flapjacks with real maple syrup and a glass of fresh cow’s milk to drink. (I may have made my mother buy whole milk to simulate this.) And, later, riding in a big sleigh and having a "sugaring off," which I'm pretty sure my mother also actually did with me one Christmas. To be honest, it wasn't much different from my snowy, childhood Christmases in Northern Idaho, just with a lot more farm animals, cousins, and dancing to fiddle music. Clearly, now that I am remembering all this, I had a pretty great Mom who put up with my nonsense. —Anne Rouyer, Mulberry Street

I'd love to spend the holidays with Mary "Sweetie" Potts and her husband, Eddy, from Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God. Sweetie and Eddy are everything you'd want parents to be: warm, loving, honest, and just a tiny bit flawed. They're the perfect pair to enchant you with holiday stories and traditions from an Ojibwe reservation . . . or break you out of a government-run birthing center at the beginning of a biological apocalypse. —Alexandria Abenshon, Webster

If I could I'd definitely be partying it up with the Court of the Night-Blooming Flowers for the Midwinter Masquerade. Kushiel's Dart is a beautiful fantasy series that weaves the story an alternate history full of sensuality, mystery, and intrigue. Join us for the celebration of the Longest Night of the Year, "joie!" But don't say that I didn't warn you. For fans of The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty,  The Black Jewels Trilogy, and Fifty Shades of Grey. —Chantalle Uzan, Francis Martin

I would love to spend the holidays with Miles Morales and his family! They are such a welcoming family and the mom cooks delicious meals and I can just imagine myself having deep conversations with the dad as he drops knowledge. —Elisa Garcia, Bronx Library Center

Well, it's not a book, but I would love to spend Christmas with Buddy the Elf from Elf, in the hopes that his infectious joy and Christmas spirit would rub off on me! —Ronni Krasnow, Morningside Heights

I'll spend my holidays traipsing around with Locke Lamora and the rest of the Gentlemen Bastards. These guys get up to all manner of shenanigans as they swindle the rich and give . . .  well . . . to themselves. But man, do they have a great time doing it. Just don't get on the wrong side of Jean and his Wicked Sisters. Scott Lynch rips out great fantasy capers with these characters. —Joshua Soule, Spuyten Duyvil

I wouldn't mind spending the holidays with Nick and Nora Charles of Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. They know how to have fun; parties, dances, speakeasies. Lots of glamour, excitement, and clever repartee. I would volunteer to be their designated driver—they certainly need one! —Maura Muller, Volunteer Program