Favorite Holiday themed Novels

[Gingerbug]

Let's start generating a list of holiday themed novels...any holiday. If you know the title and the author both please include them both!!! Thanks...

 

[MrsSoup]

Valentine's Murder by Leslie Meier
New Year's Eve Murder by Leslie Meier
Turkey Day Murder by Leslie Meier
St. Patrick's Day Murder by Leslie Meier
Star Spangled Murder by Leslie Meier
Christmas Cookie Murder by Leslie Meier
Trick or Treat Murder by Leslie Meier
Mistletoe Murder by Leslie Meier

Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin

The author Isis Crawford has several holiday themed mysteries. Joanne Fluke has a few as well.

 

[cmerth]

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

 

[HallmarkLady]

Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark have teamed up to write several Christmas mysteries.

Silent Night
All Through the Night
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Deck the Halls
The Santa Cruise

 

[snowangel00]

The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

The Christmas Pearl by Dorothea Benton Frank

The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini

On Strike for Christmas by Sheila Roberts

A Christmas Guest: A Novel by Anne Perry

 

[snowangel00]

Unwrapping Christmas by Lori Copeland

Christmas Wishes: Christmas Letters\Rainy Day Kisses by Debbie Macomber

A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film by Jean Shepherd

The Christmas Bus by Melody Carlson

The Christmas Shoes by Donna Vanliere

 

[snowangel00]

Letters From Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien

Christmas Angel by Jo Beverley

A Cup of Christmas Tea by Tom Hegg and Warren Hanson

The Christmas Thief: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark

The Christmas Candle by Max Lucado

 

[snowangel00]

Thanksgiving by Janet Evanovich

The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote

Holiday Blessings: Thanksgiving Prayer/The Risk of Loving/Home for the Holidays (Love Inspired Anthology) by Debbie Macomber, Jane Peart, and Irene Hannon

Thanksgiving Night by Richard Bausch

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Images) by Robert Grippo

 

[snowangel00]

Halloween: Customs, Recipes & Spells by Silver RavenWolf

Halloween: The Special Limited Edition by Nicholas Grabowsky

October Dreams:: A Celebration of Halloween by Various, Richard Chizmar, and Robert Morrish

Holidays Around The World: Celebrate Halloween: With Pumpkins, Costumes, and Candy (Holidays Around the World) by Deborah Heiligman

A Grown-up's Halloween: Fantasies and Fables for the Philosophically Fiendish by Yuri Rasovsky

 

[snowangel00]

Journey to Easter: Spiritual Reflections for the Lenten Season by Pope Benedict XVI

Suddenly One Morning: The Shopkeeper's Story: An Easter Narrative by Charles R. Swindoll

 

[Ahorsesoul]

Oh my goodness. I won't get anything done reading all these.

 

[Snowbelle27]

I may have to start a new section in my Christmas Notebook to keep a record of these.

:flower:

 

[AuntJamelle]

I'm so excited seeing all these books listed!!!

I just got done reading both The Christmas Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini and On Strike for Christmas by Sheila Roberts - I enjoyed both of them ALOT!!!

My top recommendation of things I haven't seen listed yet would be:

Louisa May Alcott's Christmas Treasury: The Complete Christmas Collection by Louisa May Alcott and Stephen W. Hines

I love all of the stories in that book. They are old-fashioned, and I cry at every one, but I still love them!

I also have enjoyed the following:

Chicken Soup for the Soul: A Christmas Treasury by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Matthew E. Adams

Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich

This Year Will Be Different and Other Stories: A Christmas Treasury by Maeve Binchy

I know I have other Christmas themed books or compilations of short stories at home, but I'll have to look at my bookshelves...

 

[starflake]

I loved Thomas Kinkade/Katherine Spencer's Cape Light series, which has several Christmas-specific books within it. Good clean, happy-ending reads.

 

[Twinkle]

I am reading "Plum Lucky"- Janet Evanovich (Saint Patricks Day)

 

[holly-ivy]

I'm an avid reader and a known Christmas lover in the family (aren't we all!) so often receive books as gifts. Some of them have been:

Granger, Ann - A Season For Murder
Livingston, Nancy - Quiet Murder
Roberts, Nora - The Gift
Wolzien, Valerie - Tis The Season To Be Murdered
Wolzien, Valerie - We Wish You A Merry Murder
Short stories anthology:
Mystery for Christmas, edited by Cynthia Manson
Murder for Christmas, edited by Thomas Godfrey
Murder for Christmas Volume II, edited by Thomas Godfrey

Need to look through my bookcases later. It's going to be a treasure hunt.

 

[santamama]

Hey, I went to my library yesterday and I did a search for Christmas books. Will post later...I'm reading Eve's Christmas by Janet Dailey

 

[Gingerbug]

I LOVE murder mysteries....but it makes me smile to see how many of the Christmas ones are murders....LOL

 

[AuntJamelle]

Why Gingerbug, you don't mean there is a connection in some people's minds between the Christmas season and wanting to murder someone(s) do you?

:rotflol:

 

[Christysue]

I love the Jeff Guinn books:

The Autobiography of Santa Claus
How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas
The Great Santa Search
Santa's North Pole Cook Book