Christmas Reading

 

Several years ago I compiled a list of Christmas-themed books from suggestions posted by other readers. Here I've divided the list into the books I've read, and those I have yet to read. 

Christmas Books I've Read (alphabetical by author's name) The starred ones are those I've particularly enjoyed. 

Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories - Bess Streeter Aldrich

*God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Rhys Bowen

*Once Upon a Wardrobe - Patti Callahan Henry

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

A Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg

*Skipping Christmas - John Grisham

*The Mistletoe Murders and Other Stories- P. D. James

*Shepherds Abiding - Jan Karon

*Winter Solstice - Rosemunde Pilcher

*Christmas at Fairacre - Miss Read

*No Holly for Miss Quinn - Miss Read

Miss Read's Christmas - Miss Read

*The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson

*The Christmas Chronicles - Nigel Slater

An Irish Country Christmas - Patrick Taylor

Let It Snow - Nancy Thayer

Christmas at Thompson Hall & Other Christmas Stories - Anthony Trollope

*By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder (and her other books)

Christmas Books Recommended by Others (alphabetical by author's name)

Christmas Not Just Once a Year - Heinrich Boll

God is in the Manger - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Night Before Christmas - Jan Brett

A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

Hercule Poiret's Christmas - Agatha Christie

A Pussycat's Christmas - Margaret Wise Brown and Anne Mortimer

Miracle in the Wilderness - Paul Gallico

Snowflake - Paul Gallico

I Saw Three Ships - Elizabeth Goudge

The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas - Madeleine L'Engle

Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories - L. M. Montgomery

Angels books about Shirley, Goodness, Mercy - Debbie MacComber

A Star for Christmas - Trisha Romance

Letters from Father Christmas - J. R. R. Tolkien

Papa Panov's Special Day - based on a Tolstoy story

Christmas in My Heart: A Timeless Treasury of Heartwarming Stories - Compiled by Joe Wheeler