Christmas in literature

The following is a list of literary works which are set at Christmastime, 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
• George Robert Sims, Christmas Day in the Workhouse
• T. S. Eliot, Journey of the Magi

Nonfiction

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

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