List of Christmas-themed literature

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

Novels and novellas

• Cecelia Ahern, The Gift
• Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
• Howard Bahr, Pelican Road
• Max Brand, The Boy Who Found Christmas
• Max Brand, Fortune's Christmas
• Max Brand, The Man Who Forgot Christmas
• 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
• Lloyd C. Douglas, Home for Christmas
• Alexandre Dumas, Histoire d’un casse-noisette
• Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums
• Frederick Forsyth, The Shepherd
• Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery
• John Grisham, Skipping Christmas
• 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
• Sarah Morgan, Moonlight over Manhattan
• Sarah Morgan, Christmas ever after
• Sarah Morgan, Maybe this Christmas
• Angela Thirkell, High Rising
• Anthony Trollope, Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

Short stories

• Hans Christian Andersen, "The Fir-Tree"
• Wolfgang Borchert, The three dark kings (Die drei dunklen Könige)
• Truman Capote, "A Christmas Memory" (published in Mademoiselle)
• Truman Capote, "One Christmas"
• John Cheever, "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"
• Peter Cheyney, Christmas With a Punch
• Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
• Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy
• Wayne Curtis, Sleigh Tracks in the Snow: Maritime Christmas Stories
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Christmas Tree of Christ
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" ([Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke] Error: {{Transliteration}}: unrecognized language / script code: rus (help)) (from A Writer's Diary)
• Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"
• Neil Gaiman, Nicholas Was
• Nikolai Gogol, "Christmas Eve" (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka)
• O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi
• E. T. A. Hoffmann, "Nussknacker und Mausekönig" (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King)
• Robert E. Howard, "Golden Hope" Christmas
• Arthur Machen, A New Christmas Carol
• Ruben Saillens, "Le Père Martin"
• Frank R. Stockton, The Great Staircase at Landover Hall
• Frank R. Stockton, Old Applejoy's Ghost
• 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)
• Edgar Wallace, Christmas Eve at the China Dog
• Stanley Waterloo, Christmas 200,000 BC

Children's

• L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• Cornelia Funke, When Santa Fell to Earth
• 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 Noisy Village (Jul i Bullerbyn)
• Astrid Lindgren, Christmas in the Stable (Jul i stallet)
• Astrid Lindgren, Lotta’s Christmas Surprise (Visst är Lotta en glad unge)
• Astrid Lindgren, Pippi’s After-Christmas Party (Pippi Långstrump har julgransplundring)
• 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)
• Ogden Nash, The Christmas that Almost Wasn't

Poetry

• "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight"
• Clement Clarke Moore, "Twas the Night Before Christmas" (originally published as "A Visit from St. Nick")
• Anne Sexton, Christmas Eve
• George Robert Sims, Christmas Day in the Workhouse
• T. S. Eliot, "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees"
• T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi"
• Viktor Rydberg, Tomten

Collections

• Sabine Campbell (ed.), Home for Christmas: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland
• Walter Learning (ed.), Gifts to Last: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree
• Anthony Trollope, Christmas at Thompson Hall

Nonfiction

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

See also

• List of Christmas novels