I do love reading holiday books! In the last few years, I’ve usually started my holiday reading by the first of October. It’s a refreshing change from my Autumn focus on mysteries and  Halloweenish reading, and I find I enjoy it more and more each year. I decided to create this post to track the books I read for the upcoming winter holidays, and to list the holiday books I’ve read in the past few years. This will be an ever-growing list of the books I find each year to read during this season.

2021:

1. A Christmas Tragedy, by Baroness Orczy
2. Sherlock Holmes: The Affair of the Christmas Jewel, by Barry Roberts
3. This Year Will Be Different and Other Stories, by Maeve Binchy
4. A Highland Christmas, by M.C. Beaton
5. Sleeping Beauty: An Audible Original Drama, by Marty Ross
6. A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Christmas Mouse, by Miss Read
8. A Country Christmas, by Louisa May Alcott
9. Letters from Father Christmas, by J.R.R. Tolkien
10. The Christmas Mystery, by James Patterson with Richard DiLallo
11. The Legend of Old Befana, by Tomis DePaola
12. Cozy, by Jan Brett
13. A Boy Called Christmas, by Matt Haig
14. The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
15. The Holly-Tree Inn, by Charles Dickens
16. All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah, by Emily Jenkins
17. Home for Christmas, by Jan Brett

2020:

1. Hershel and the Hannukah Goblins, by Eric A. Kimmel
2. Chinese New Year: A Celebration for Everyone, by Jen Lee
3. Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story, by Angela Shelf Medearis
4. Christmas at the Cove, by Victoria Connelly
5. A Virgin River Christmas, by Robyn Carr
6. Ruth’s First Christmas Tree, by Elly Griffiths
7. Under the Christmas Tree, by Robyn Carr
8. Bring Me Home For Christmas, by Robyn Carr
9. The Golden Dreydl, by Ellen Kushner
10. Christmas at the Castle, by Victoria Connelly
11. Christmas at the Cottage, by Victoria Connelly
12. Diwali, Festival of Lights, by Rina Singh
13. A Parakeet Named Dreidel, by Isaac Bashevis Singer
14. Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik, by Scott Hilton Davis
15. Ho, Ho, Whoa! The Tale of Parkour Santa, by Kavae Loseby
16. A Week in Winter, by Maeve Binchy
17. My Kind of Christmas, by Robyn Carr

2019:

1. Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories, by L.M. Montgomery
2. The Spirit of Christmas, by Nancy Tillman
3. The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, by Agatha Christie
4. The Burglar’s Christmas, by Willa Cather
5. A Christmas by the Sea, by Melodie Carlson
6. Spirit of Steamboat, by Craig Johnson
7. Christmas at Thompson Hall, by Anthony Trollope
8. Christmas in Absaroka County, by Craig Johnson

2018:

1. A Literary Christmas: An Anthology, by Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Laurie Lee, Samuel Pepys
2. No Holly for Miss Quinn, by Miss Read
3. The Christmas Rose, by Victoria Connelly
4. The Christmas Mouse, by Miss Read
5. Village Christmas, by Miss Read

2017:

1. Christmas at the Inn, by Andrea Twombly
2. An English Christmas, by John Julius Norwich (editor)
3. Santa Claus in Oz, by L. Frank Baum
4. Christmas in Plains: Memories, by Jimmy Carter
5. The True Gift: A Christmas Story, by Patricia McLachlan
6. Christmas With the Book Lovers, by Victoria Connelly
7. A Highland Christmas, by M.C. Beaton

2016:

1. Celebrations at Thrush Green, by Miss Read
2. Enid Blyton’s Christmas Stories, by Enid Blyton
3. A Cornish Christmas, by Lily Graham
4. Christmas at the Cove, by Victoria Connelly
5. Christmas at the Castle, by Victoria Connelly
6. Christmas at the Cottage, by Victoria Connelly
7. Christmas Crumble, by M.C. Beaton

2015:

1. Aunt Sass: Christmas Stories, by P.L. Travers
2. In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1940 Christmas Eve Story by David McCullough
3. Holiday Tales: Christmas in the Adirondacks, by William Henry Harrison Murray

2014:

1. Christmas in Camelot, by Mary Pope Osborne
2. A Dog Named Christmas, by Greg Kincaid
3. Christmas Day in the Morning, by Pearl S. Buck
4. Christmas Eve, 1914, by Charles Olivier
5. Great Joy, by Kate DiCamillo
6. The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Andersen
7. A Little House Christmas Treasury: Festive Holiday Stories, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
8. The BIrds’ Christmas Carol, by Kate Douglas Wiggin
9. The Christmas Grandma Ran Away from Home, by Nancy Warren
10. Winter Solstice, Rosamunde Pilcher
11. On Christmas Day in the Morning, by Grace S. Richmond
12. The Gift of the Magi and other Christmas Stories, by O. Henry, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry Van Dyke, Leo Tolstoy
13. The Snow Child, by Freya Littledale

2013:

1. Christmas 1940, by Eleanor Roosevelt
2. A Week in Winter, by Maeve Binchy
3. A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote
4. An Early American Christmas, by Tomie dePaola
5. Four Friends at Christmas, by Tomie dePaola
6. A Christmas Sonata, by Gary Paulsen
7. Christmas Remembered, by Tomie dePaola
8. The Legend of Poinsettia, by Tomie dePaola
9. Tomie’s Little Christmas Pageant, by Tomie dePaola
10. Rumpole at Christmas, by John Mortimer
11. Favorite Stories of Christmas Past, by Clement C. Moore, Hans Christian Andersen, O. Henry, Louisa May Alcott
12. Tied Up in Tinsel, by Ngaio Marsh
13. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost
14. Skipping Christmas, by John Grisham
15. Shepherds Abiding, by Jan Karon
16. The Friendly Beasts: An Old English Christmas Carol, by Tomie dePaola
17. A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
18. A Redbird Christmas, by Fannie Flagg
19. The Christmas Letters, by Lee Smith

HAPPY HOLIDAY READING, MY FRIENDS!