Christmas books

Seasonal December literature

Books intended for the holiday gift market, typically published in autumn with broad appeal—coffee table books, celebrity memoirs, illustrated editions, and heartwarming fiction.

The term also covers books with Christmas themes or settings: She curled up with a stack of Christmas books.

Publishers have long treated the Christmas season as their most important sales period.

Related

Charles Dickens · stories · fireplace · hot cocoa · cozy · by the fire · illustrated · read aloud · children · festive · winter · gifts · gift giving · stocking stuffers · traditions · Nutcracker · classics · reading

Categories
Opposites
seasonal/holiday timing

Christmas bookssummer reading

Warm-weather literary assignments

summer blockbusters

thematic content

Christmas booksdystopian fiction

Stories depicting terrible futures

true crime · tragedy · war novels

reading context/purpose

Christmas booksrequired reading

Assigned essential literature

textbooks · reference books

Family

Christmas, books, Christ, book, Christmases, booked, booking, bookish, booklet

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G