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Your Favorite Books to Read During the Holidays
Oh, the weather outside may be frightful, but your December reading should be delightful! This week we asked you on Facebook and Twitter: What's your favorite book to read during the holiday season? Today we've got your top answers. How many have you read?
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Did your favorite holiday read not make the list? Don't keep it to yourself—share it with us in the comments!
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HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! (The best thing since sliced bread)
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You forgot Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree! :D <3 that one.
"American St. Nick-A True Story"...one of Amazon's Top 100 Kindle downloads, Top 100 Christmas books and Top 100 WWII books. What are you waiting for??THIS soon-to-be holiday classic is THE holiday must read!www.americanstnick.com
American St. Nick: A True Story
Any Christmas book by Debbie Macomber.
I've only read 2-3: The Grinch, the Gift of the Magi, and A Christmas Carol- saw movies and tv shows based on the plot, but not read the book. & I only just saw/ heard of the Cajun Christmas yesterday via FB feed. lol.
Let it Snow, by john green, maureen johnson, and lauren myracle. <3 super cute story.
Love the Grinch, enjoy Dickens' Carol, but you forgot my favorite, a holiday staple:Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Literally a classic holiday tale! I make it a point to try and read it every year!
Please read A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg...so beautiful.
Well I love Dickens, but how about The Nutcracker? Something very magical about it that takes me back to being little, and enthralled by that story!
Nice list. I already had some of these added but discovered a few I've never heard of before. I read Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. I didn't like it much. It left much to be desired.
I really like the movie. =)
OOh, forgot to mention Letters from Father Christmas by Tolkien. Just fabulous.
I reread Harry Potter every December :)
Sarah wrote: "OOh, forgot to mention Letters from Father Christmas by Tolkien. Just fabulous."Still haven't read these... Will have to remedy that this year!
I'n going to be reading Tied Up In Tinsel as my holiday read.I read Dash & Lily's Book of Dares last year - it was Ok.
Aunt Dimity's Christmas, fourth volume in Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity series. I've reread it every year since it was published.
I re-read my favorite childhood book, The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame.My mother read this when I was young, and I read it to my children specially when the power went out during a snow storm!
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. They made it into a movie which you can watch on Youtube. Extremely funny movie/book with a true message of the holidays. The end always makes me cry.
I agree - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - is a must during the Christmas holidays. We should be rooted in the true meaning of Christmas. The act of giving, forgiving and love are indispensable during this annual holiday.Merry Christmas and may your holiday be truly joyful.
The Christmas Carol hands down. It's a great Christmas story and tale about redemption and second chances.
I always read A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth. I also read other Christmas related books, but A Christmas Carol is the only one I read annually.Merry Christmas everyone! And, as Tiny Tim said, God bless us, everyone!
I love going back to the classics during winter months, a lot ofJane Austin, Bronte sisters books.
I miss Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
read these two last christmas
as I am in the middle of reading
it will be this lot belownot sure what order
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The Night Before Christmas-perfect for children of all ages!!
I've never really payed attention to the books I read during the holidays. Basically, any book I need to get done, and whatever I get for X-mas and my b-day.
Sarah wrote: "OOh, forgot to mention Letters from Father Christmas by Tolkien. Just fabulous."Haven't read it yet.
The Shepard, the angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog by Dave Barry. Should be a must read for Baby Boomers!
"Rest Ye Merry" by Charlotte MacLeod and "Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas" by Stephanie Barron!
Donna wrote: "Please read A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg...so beautiful."I agree! I loved that one.
ɽɵɓɵɕɕα wrote: "I sort of wanna read Hogfather since i've never read any Terry Pratchett"Sir Terry is great! I prefer listening to his books to reading them, though... He has so many tongue-in-cheek bits that sound best enunciated!
Hogfather is brilliant! So glad that made the list!
Kate wrote: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. They made it into a movie which you can watch on Youtube. Extremely funny movie/book with a true message of the holidays. The end always makes me cry."Yes yes yes. Best christmas book ever.
I just finished Little Women for the first time, and agree that it's a good holiday read. I also like to re-read Harry Potter around Christmas time.
It's not explicitly a Christmas story, but "The Book of Dead Days" by Marcus Sedgwick is set between Christmas and New Year's Eve, and high school/early college me made it a little tradition to re-read it every year around that time. It's been a few years now since I've done it but it always comes to mind when the time rolls around.
made the list.And I love....
by Donna VanLiere
I think this is the edition I always read with my girls. After losing everything I no longer have it to go check. Extremely sentimental loss, but the memories of reading it together are priceless. I wish I could have foreseen that devastation to prevent it because for the first time ever, the lesson I'm supposed to learn from losing everything and everyone has eluded me for nearly seven years. And among the losses is was gem.....
, also part of the losses is probably where many of the answers are. Wish I had the angel to show me the would've, could've so I could see the will be. "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings". ~*Happy Holidays, Everyone*~
How in the world could I have forgotten....
.....In my last comment
Carmen wrote: "A Christmas memory!"yes!!
i may try little women over the holidays. i've been meaning to read it for years.
I have no idea why but I always restart the Harry Potter series in December and shoot right through them into January. It's probably because the first time I read them was around the holidays.
Mr. Ives' Christmas starts off as a sad tale of loss but ends up turning into a journey of faith and love of life. This is truly a beautiful story.And how could The Best Christmas Pageant Ever not make it on this list? I loved reading that as a child.
For me it's C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles Of Narnia
This was one of the first fantasy series I read as a child. It helped ignite my love of the genre - and it always reminds me of Christmas.
