A good Christmas Book

[wvjules]

I want a really good Christmas book (or two) to read. I don't want a fluffy romance. I want a good book that just happens to have something to do with Christmas. I've started a few of the romances but just can't get into them. A friend suggested "A Tree Grows in Brookly" but based on its description I'm not sure how Christmasy it is. Any suggestions?

 

[PigletsPal2]

I want a really good Christmas book (or two) to read. I don't want a fluffy romance. I want a good book that just happens to have something to do with Christmas. I've started a few of the romances but just can't get into them. A friend suggested "A Tree Grows in Brookly" but based on its description I'm not sure how Christmasy it is. Any suggestions?

If you enjoy mysteries, Anne Perry has written a series of Christmas novels. They're not bloody, gory stories but well-written interesting stories with richly-developed characters. They're set in Victorian England if that makes a difference. I think she's published about eight or nine of them; I get the newest one each year to open on Christmas eve.

Queen Colleen

 

[lovesmurfs]

I have a Christmas book basket -- we only put Christmas books in it, and store them with the decorations and pull them out every year. You'd think I could remember some of them!

One favorite is The Everything Christmas Book. My MIL gave it to me 20+ years ago -- there are a number of Christmas short-stories in it, as well as recipes, songs, facts, etc.

If you like the Mitford series, Jan Karon's Shepherds Abiding is good.

Charles Dickens wrote a number of other Christmas stories besides A Christmas Carol (and if you haven't read the original, I'd strongly recommend it -- the many movies don't give it justice). Old Christmas by Washington Irving is poignant as well.

We've got a whole mess of others in our basket - when I go home tonight, I'll look up some others.

 

[Karalea]

I really enjoyed The Christmas Train by David Baldacci.

 

[KimR]

I want a really good Christmas book (or two) to read. I don't want a fluffy romance. I want a good book that just happens to have something to do with Christmas. I've started a few of the romances but just can't get into them. A friend suggested "A Tree Grows in Brookly" but based on its description I'm not sure how Christmasy it is. Any suggestions?

Do you like mysteries? I recently finished 'Water Like a Stone' by Deborah Crombie. The plotline is more mystery than Christmas story, but it takes place In England during the holidays and has a strong Christmas theme.

 

[HM]

I just finished a Kindle book called Family Cursemas. (not sure if it's in print too)

 

[wvjules]

I have a Christmas book basket -- we only put Christmas books in it, and store them with the decorations and pull them out every year. You'd think I could remember some of them!

One favorite is The Everything Christmas Book. My MIL gave it to me 20+ years ago -- there are a number of Christmas short-stories in it, as well as recipes, songs, facts, etc.

If you like the Mitford series, Jan Karon's Shepherds Abiding is good.

Charles Dickens wrote a number of other Christmas stories besides A Christmas Carol (and if you haven't read the original, I'd strongly recommend it -- the many movies don't give it justice). Old Christmas by Washington Irving is poignant as well.

We've got a whole mess of others in our basket - when I go home tonight, I'll look up some others.

Winner! I had actually thought about one then dismissed it due to all the movies. But you've convinced me.

 

[Bren's Mom]

http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Box...1354811152&sr=1-8&keywords=richard+paul+evans

 

[amid chaos]

The Christmas Jar books. Kind of sappy, but a nice story that has turned into a real life christmas giving tradition for many.

 

[LJC1861]

Not sure if it is still in print or not, but "Christmas On Jane Street" tells the story of the Romp family from Vermont who sold ( and maybe still sell) Christmas trees on the corner of Jane St. and Hudson St. in Greenwich Village in NYC. Charming little book about a father lamenting over his daughter growing up and growing apart....as they live in a small camper on a corner in a bustling city.

They are an actual family and I bought my tree from them each year I lived in NYC.

Linda

P.S. You can find it on Amazon....

 

[Sandy51]

http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Pea...835165&sr=1-12&keywords=dorothea+benton+frank



I really like this one.


Sandy

 

[zoemurr]

of Santa Claus.

It's written by Santa and explains how he came into existence and has evolved through history. Tons of true info (interslaced w/some crazy fiction). Will make a believer out of anybody.

There are two other books in the series if you enjoy that one. I liked them all very much.

 

[traces7]

I just recently read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck, I really liked it.
It's kind of like It's A Wonderful Life, but about a teenage boy.

 

[tinkerbellandeeyor]

Skipping Christmas

 

[low-key]

these are surprisingly good

http://www.goodreads.com/series/65168-cape-light

 

[DisneyBill]

Skipping Christmas

Yes, that one. I read it every year. Even though I've seen the movie version numerous times. The book does a better job of drawing one into the story.

 

[kaligal]

"A Christmas Carol" by Dickens. Everyone should read this book, even if they've seen one or more of the ten thousand movies based on it.

Other than that, all I can think of is the Grinch.

Everyone recommends the "Skipping Christmas" book...I didn't like it. I didn't hat it, I just don't think it was all that good.

I don't know how anyone manages to become an adult without having read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", but I know it happens. I do not think of it as a Christmas book, but if you never read it, you might as well.

 

[maddiel]

The Time-Traveller's Wife has a lot of the action set at Christmas time.

Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter have a couple of books that are short mysteries set at Christmas.

And for a classic, what about Little Women?

M.