# List of Christmas-themed literature

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
* Stephen V. Masse, Christmas Ransom formerly A Jolly Good Fellow
* 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)
* 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
* Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace
* L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
* Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man
* Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas
* 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
* Stephen V. Masse, The Taste of Snow
* 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

## 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

* Bettye Collier-Thomas, A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories
* David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
* J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas
* Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days

## Nonfiction

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