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The following is a navigational list of notable literary works which are set at Christmas time, or contain Christmas amongst the central themes.

Novels and novellas

Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, The Chimes
Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth
Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life
Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain
Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums
Frederick Forsyth, The Shepherd
Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery
John Grisham, Skipping Christmas
Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

Short stories

Hans Christian Andersen, "The Fir-Tree"
Truman Capote, "A Christmas Memory" (published in Mademoiselle)
John Cheever, "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"
Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" (Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke) (from A Writer's Diary)
Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
Nikolai Gogol, "Christmas Eve" (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka)^[1]
O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig)
Leo Tolstoy, "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" (translation of Saillens)
Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
Philip Van Doren Stern, The Greatest Gift
Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep (book of short stories)

Children's

Tony Abbott, Kringle
Janet and Allan Ahlberg, The Jolly Christmas Postman^[2]
Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace^[2]^[3]
L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man^[2]
Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas^[2]^[4]
Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth
Matt Haig, A Boy Called Christmas
Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Astrid Lindgren, Brenda Brave Helps Grandmother (Kajsa Kavat hjälper mormor)
Astrid Lindgren, A Calf for Christmas (När Bäckhultarn for till stan)
Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in the Stable (Jul i stallet)
Astrid Lindgren, The Runaway Sleigh Ride (Titta Madicken, det snöar!)
Astrid Lindgren, The Tomten (Tomte är vaken)
Astrid Lindgren, The Tomten and the Fox (Räven och Tomten)
John Masefield, The Box of Delights
Mary Pope Osborne and Ned Bittinger, Rocking Horse Christmas
Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express
Martin Waddell, Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale^[2]^[5]

Poetry

"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"
Clement Clarke Moore, "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas")
George Robert Sims, Christmas Day in the Workhouse
T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi"
Viktor Rydberg, Tomten

Collections

Nonfiction

Francis Pharcellus Church, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" (1897 newspaper editorial)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Adrienne Westenfeld (14 December 2021). "The 10 Best Christmas Books to Read During the Holidays". Esquire. Hearst Communications. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Megan Christensen (15 December 2021). "10 cozy Christmas books to introduce to your kids this month". ksl.com. Deseret Digital Media. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

^ Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem. King County Library System. 2008. ISBN 9780375841507. Retrieved 1 January 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

^ "The Light of Christmas". kcls.bibliocommons.com. King County Library System. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

^ Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale. King County Library System. October 2004. ISBN 9780689868412. Retrieved 1 January 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

^ A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories. Washington County Cooperative Library Services. 1997. ISBN 9780805051223. Retrieved 1 January 2022. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

^ "Christmas Days". kcls.bibliocommons.com. King County Library System. Retrieved 1 January 2022.

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

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