Christmas in literature
The following is a list of literary works which are set at Christmas time, or contain Christmas amongst the central themes.
Novels
- Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
- Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
- Howard Bahr, Pelican Road
- Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth
- Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain
- Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums
- Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery
- Anne Holt, Fear Not
- 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
- Angela Thirkell, High Rising
- Anthony Trollope, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Short stories
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir-Tree
- Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory
- John Cheever, Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
- Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
- Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Blue Carbuncle
- Neil Gaiman, Nicholas Was
- Nikolai Gogol, Christmas Eve
- O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
- Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
- Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep (book of short stories)
- Fiodor Dostoievski, The Christmas Tree of Christ
Collections
- J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree
Poetry
- Clement Clarke Moore, Twas the Night Before Christmas (originally published as A Visit from St. Nick)
- Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Anne Sexton, Christmas Eve
Nonfiction
- Francis Pharcellus Church, Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (newspaper editorial)
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