Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol: Written by Charles Dickens, this is regarded as one of the best Christmas books. The story is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening. 

The Chimes: Trotty Veck, a poor working man, loses his faith in human nature and comes to believe that he and his fellow poor are naturally ‘vicious’. Then he gets a nightmare vision of his loved ones’ future after his death.
The spirits or goblins in his local church bells show him how they might descend into vice and ruin, driven by poverty and want. They teach Trotty that nobody is born naturally wicked; any one of us may be forced into crime and degradation by circumstances.

The Cricket on the Hearth: John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. The life of the Peerybingles frequently intersects with that of Caleb Plummer, a poor toymaker employed by the miser Tackleton.

The Battle of Life: A love story’: This is a short novel by Charles Dickens and the fourth of his Christmas books. It is one of Dickens lesser known Christmas books and has never attained any high level of popularity. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one.

The Haunted Man: The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is the last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harkening back to the first of the series, ‘A Christmas Carol’.

The tale centers around a Professor Redlaw and those close to him.

John Grisham 

Skipping Christmas: The story focuses on how Luther Krank and his wife Nora tried to avoid doing the traditional Christmas frenzy. After calculating how much money they spent last Christmas, Luther decides to take a 10-day Caribbean Cruise with his wife this year instead of celebrating Christmas the usual way. Luther's view on Christmas, though, changes a lot throughout this novel. In the beginning he is looking forward to his cruise the Island Princess but in the end, he realises that the christmas spirit has caught up with him.

Dr Seuss

How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Grinch, a bitter, cave-dwelling creature with a heart ‘two sizes too small’, lives on a mountain just north of Whoville, home of the merry and warm-hearted Whos. Envious of the Whos' happiness during Christmas, he makes plans to descend on the town and, by means of burglary, deprive them of their Christmas presents and decorations and thus ‘prevent Christmas from coming’. However, he learns in the end that despite his success in stealing all the Christmas presents and decorations from the Whos, Christmas comes just the same and that it’s  not just about presents.

Agatha Christie

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding: Poirot is asked by a Mr Jesmond, who is acting as an intermediary to an eastern prince, to help the prince. The prince, who is due soon to be married to a cousin, brought several expensive jewels with him to London for resetting by Cartiers and one of them – a fabulous ruby – was stolen by the young woman who the prince was enjoying his final days of freedom with. If it cannot be retrieved a scandal will ensue.

The mystery is settled to be solved at an old English country house called Kings Lacey where Poirot is to join a family for their Christmas celebrations, supposedly to experience a typical English Christmas.