What is your favorite book that takes place during the Christmas holiday?

The 24 days before Christmas by Madeleine L’Engle and The Christmas pearl

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

Redbird Christmas

Polar Express (but NOT the movie) and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory.

David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice

I like reading Heidi at Christmas.

Can’t let a Christmas go by without the Christmas Carol and Gift of the Magi.

The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

Christmas Carol dickens cricket on the hearth dickens

The Christmas Day Kitten, by James Herriot. My kids loved it.

A Midnight Clear, by William Wharton

I loved this book when I was a kid. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds%27_Christmas_Carol

One of my favorites.

Little Women

Skipping Christmas, John Grisham

Red Bird Christmas

The Christmas Box

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Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishin’ and Hopin’—an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season. Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris’s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb’s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello—a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!

Review
“In the hands of Wally Lamb, what emerges isn’t an apology but a celebration of life…Felix makes a hilarious guide through a story that whirs right along.” (Washington Post)

“Lamb’s rich panoply of details…render this novel first-rate escapism just begging for a comforter and a cup of tea.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“Warmly, sweetly retro” (Kansas City Star)

“Lamb gets Felix’s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the ‘60’s” (St. Petersburg Times)

“Lamb’s vividly detailed portrait of the 1960’s and the inner workings of a Catholic schoolboy’s mind puts his first Christmas book on par with his previous three novels.” (Miami Herald)

“Lamb…proves he can be short, sweet and funny” (USA Today)

“Wishin’ and Hopin’ from Wally Lamb reminds us of what innocence was like.” (Body and Soul)

“Both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny…a cast of characters that are both uproarious and unforgettable…a poignant reminder that family and friends are the greatest gift of all.” (Hartford Books Examiner)

We might as well call Wally Lamb the man with the golden pen…[Wishin’ and Hopin’] will leave you laughing and thinking nostalgically about your own school days and holidays past” (BookPage)

“Lamb is a very good writer, and Wishin’ and Hopin’ is a charming read with a genuinely funny ending.” (Houston Chronicle)

From the Back Cover
With his latest story, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′, Wally Lamb takes a turn toward the lighthearted and laugh-provoking. In a vein similar to Jean Shepherd′s A Christmas Story and David Sedaris′s The Santaland Diaries, Lamb′s holiday tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicello–a distant cousin of the iconic Annette! Both poignant and hilarious, WISHIN′ AND HOPIN′ transports us back to October, November, and December of 1964, when LBJ and Lady Bird were in the White House, Meet the Beatles was on everyone′s turntables, and Christmas meant mistletoe, mangers, and midnight mass. Then it propels us from the past to the present so that we might measure what we′ve gained and what we′ve lost.

About the Author
Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: She’s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishin’ and Hopin’, and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and
selections of Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for seventeen years.

Krampus

The story of the Other Wiseman
https://www.amazon.com/story-other-Henry-illustrated-McCrea/dp/B007GADN0Q/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1535949002&sr=8-11&keywords=the+other+wise+man

Polar Express

Holidays on Ice.

A Christmas Carol

The Christmas Cookie Club

The beginning of Little Women.

Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory

A Childs Christmas in Wales

Gift of the Magi

I liked The Christmas Sweater

The Gift of the Magi