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
 * 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
 * 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)