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) ^[1]
• 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 ^[2]
• Maya Angelou, Amazing Peace ^{[2] [3]}
• L. Frank Baum, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Stick Man ^[2]
• Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box, The Light of Christmas ^{[2] [4]}
• 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 ^{[2] [5]}

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 ^{[1] [6]}
• David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice ^[1]
• J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters from Father Christmas ^[1]
• Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days ^{[1] [7]}

Nonfiction

• Francis Pharcellus Church, " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" (1897 newspaper editorial)

References

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)