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Novels and
novellas

Henry van Dyke

Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1938) by Agatha Christie

Miracle on 34th Street (1947) by Valentine Davies

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) by C. S. Lewis

The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians (1968) by August Derleth

The Shepherd (1975) by Frederick Forsyth

Nothing Lasts Forever (1979) by Roderick Thorp

The Christmas Mystery (Julemysteriet, 1992) by Jostein Gaarder

Skipping Christmas (2001) by John Grisham

Deck the Halls (2003) by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

Visions of Sugar Plums (2003) by Janet Evanovich

The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (2004) by Christopher Moore

Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008) by Maureen Johnson ("The Jubilee Express"), John Green ("A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle"), and Lauren Myracle ("The Patron Saint of Pigs")

By Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (1843)
The Chimes (1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (1845)
The Battle of Life (1846)
The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain (1848)

Short
stories

"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig, 1816) by E. T. A. Hoffmann "Christmas Eve" (Noch pered Rozhdestvom, 1832) by Nikolai Gogol (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka) "A House to Let" (1858) by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Adelaide Anne Procter "The Haunted House" (1859) conducted by Charles Dickens "A Christmas Eve" by Camillo Boito "Le Père Martin" (1888) by Papa Panov's Special Christmas" by Leo Tolstoy Le Jongleur de Notre Dame (1890) by Anatole France "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" (1904) by L. Frank Baum "The Gift of the Magi" (1905) by O. Henry "The Dead" (1914) by James Joyce "The Festival" (1925) by H. P. Lovecraft Christmas Morning (1936) by Frank O'Connor "Christmas on Ganymede" (1942) by Isaac Asimov "The Greatest Gift" (1943) by Philip Van Doren Stern A Child's Christmas in Wales (1952) by Dylan Thomas "A Present for Big Nick" (1954) by Kurt Vonnegut, collected in Bagombo Snuff Box with the title "A Present for Big Saint Nick" "The Star" (1955) by Arthur C. Clarke "A Christmas Memory" (1956) by Truman Capote (published in Mademoiselle) "Christmas Party" (1957) by Rex Stout "The Innkeeper's Wife" (1958) by A. J. Cronin "Rush Call" (1960) by Stephen King "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor" (1978) by John Cheever "Fish Cheeks" (1987) by Amy Tan "The Junky's Christmas" (1989) by William S. Burroughs "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" (1992) by Gael Baudino "Sharpe's Christmas" (1994) by Bernard Cornwell "The Best Christmas Ever" (2004) by James Patrick Kelly "The Lump of Coal" (2004) by Lemony Snicket "Christmas with the Dead" (2010) by Joe R. Lansdale
By Hans Christian Andersen	"The Fir-Tree" (Grantræet, 1844) "The Little Match Girl" (Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, 1845)
By Agatha Christie	" The Clergyman's Daughter " (1929) " A Christmas Tragedy " (1932) " The Manhood of Edward Robinson " (1934) " The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, or The Theft of the Royal Ruby " (1960)
By Fyodor Dostoevsky	"A Christmas Tree and a Wedding" (Yolka i svad'ba, 1848) "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" (Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke, 1876) from A Writer's Diary

Children's

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902) by L. Frank Baum The Box of Delights (1935) by John Masefield Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1939) by Robert L. May Madeline's Christmas (1956) by Ludwig Bemelmans How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) by Dr. Seuss The Story of Holly and Ivy (1958) by Rumer Godden The Polar Express (1985) by Chris Van Allsburg The Jolly Christmas Postman (1991) by Janet and Allan Ahlberg Waiting-for-Christmas Stories (1994) by Bethany Roberts Rocking Horse Christmas (1997) by Mary Pope Osborne and Ned Bittinger When Santa Fell to Earth (Als der Weihnachtsmann von Himmel fiel, 2004) by Cornelia Funke Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale (2004) by Martin Waddell The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition (2005) by Carol Aebersold and Chanda Bell Stick Man (2008) by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler The Man Who Could Be Santa (2008) by Joanna Wolper Dasher: How a Brave Little Doe Changed Christmas Forever (2019) by Matt Tavares
By Raymond Briggs	Father Christmas (1973) The Snowman (1978)
By Richard Paul Evans	The Christmas Box (1993) The Light of Christmas (2002)
By Astrid Lindgren	Brenda Brave Helps Grandmother (Kajsa Kavat hjälper mormor, 1950) A Calf for Christmas (När Bäckhultarn for till stan, 1951) The Tomten (Tomte är vaken, 1960) Christmas in the Stable (Jul i stallet, 1961) The Tomten and the Fox (Räven och Tomten, 1965) The Runaway Sleigh Ride (Titta Madicken, det snöar!, 1983)

Poetry

Sir Cleges (late fourteenth or early fifteenth century)
"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" (1821)
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", 1823) attributed to Clement Clarke Moore
"Epiphanias" ("Epiphaniasfest") by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Christmas Bells" (1863) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Christmas Day in the Workhouse" (1877) by George Robert Sims
"Tomten" (1881) by Viktor Rydberg
"The Oxen" (also known as "Christmas Eve, and Twelve of the Clock", 1915) Thomas Hardy
"Journey of the Magi" (1927) by T. S. Eliot
"Christmas Carol, Chemically Cleaned" ("Weihnachtslied, chemisch gereinigt", 1927) by Erich Kästner
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio (1944) W. H. Auden

Thomas Canty

"Amazing Peace" (2005) by Maya Angelou

"Twas the Night Before Christmas: Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st Century" (2012) by Pamela McColl

Collections

A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912) by Max Beerbohm
Letters from Father Christmas (posthumous 1976) by J. R. R. Tolkien

A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories (1997) compiled and edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas
Holidays on Ice (1997) by David Sedaris
Miracle and Other Christmas Stories (1999) by Connie Willis
Sharpe's Christmas (2003) by Bernard Cornwell
The Atheist's Guide to Christmas (2009) edited by Robin Harvie and Stephanie Meyers
My True Love Gave To Me: Twelve Holiday Stories (2014) edited by Stephanie Perkins
Christmas Days (2016) by Jeanette Winterson
A Very Scalzi Christmas (2019) by John Scalzi

Magazines

Beeton's Christmas Annual (1860–1898)
St. Nicholas (1873–1940, 1943)

Nonfiction

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" (1897 newspaper editorial) by Francis Pharcellus Church
"Santaland Diaries" (1992 essay) by David Sedaris
Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (2013) by Sarah Palin

Other

John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich

Family Guy: Peter Griffin's Guide to the Holidays (2007) by Danny Smith

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