Favorite holiday reads--lets make a list

[AAK]

I want a list of holiday books that people really love.

I will start:

Picture book:  The Polar Express

Chapter book for family:  The Best Christmas Pagent Ever

Chapter book for adults:  Can't say that any have struck me as that great. :(

Please join in and add--ALL WINTER HOLIDAYS OR SEASONAL READS--not just Christmas!

Amy

[ollyoxenfree]

A Christmas Carol - Dickens

The Dead - James Joyce (not exactly uplifting, but deeply touching) 

A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas 

The Christmas chapter in Anne of Green Gables when Matthew gives Anne a dress with puffed sleeves. 

Alistair Macleod has a beautiful Christmas short story, I can't recall the title, but it's in his compilation Island. I can't look it up because I loaned it to someone who never gave it back. I don't even blame them too much, because it's a wonderful book of short stories and I wouldn't want to give it back either.  ETA: Found it - http://www.amazon.com/Every-Thing-There-Season-Christmas/dp/077105565X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1289843317&sr=1-4

How the Grinch Stole Christmas 

The Night Before Christmas 

Jan Brett - DD loved Annie and the Wild Animals, but The Hat and The Mitten are charming and she has Christmas themed books as well. 

Robert Sabuda's Winter pop-up book 

Stranger in the Woods - the picture book by Carl Sams and Jean Stoick

[TEAK's Mom]

Truman Capote's  A Christmas Memory is a good read aloud.

[A&A]

mine are for adults:

Skipping Christmas by Grisham

The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans (very Christian-based)

[SparklingGemini]

I just finished these two. They were both short and sweet.  :)

A Simple Amish Christmas

The Paper Bag Christmas

I posted a bunch of children's Christmas stories in the other Christmas book thread but here they are again:

I just LOVE Christmas and winter books.  :)

We have a ton.  Many that you listed and some that I've forgotten but here's a good size list.  I've included Christmas, Winter, Nativity stories and some cheesier books as well.  My DD loves them all.

Lucy's Christmas

The Night Before Christmas: The Heirloom Edition

The Night Before Christmas: A Magical Cut-Paper Edition

Twelve Hidden Days of Christmas

Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas

Snow

Snow (Caldecott Honor Book)

Winter Days in the Big Woods (My First Little House Books)

Christmas in the Big Woods (Little House)

A Wish to Be A Christmas Tree

Auntie Claus

The Christmas Magic

The Story of Holly and Ivy

Winter's Gift

The True Gift: A Christmas Story

The Winter Book

Winter Is the Warmest Season

Who Is Coming to Our House? (Board Book)

Humphrey's First Christmas

Winter's Tale: An Original Pop-up Journey

Mortimer's Christmas Manger

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

A Christmas Memory