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Christmas in literature

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

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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)

    • References

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