What is your favorite holiday book?
DFazio6994@aol.com
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
msimon@nj.rr.com
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
ROSpring@comcast.net
My favorite holiday book is Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge. I love this book so much. I first started reading it in my childhood. I read it every single year at holiday time. I still like to read it even today at 68 years of age!
mcgillrmcgill@charter.net
How Far to Bethlehem? by Norah Lofts
Butterfly4Shelly@aol.com
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon is my favorite holiday book.
animvet@yahoo.com
My favorite holiday book is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
jalocke@comcast.net
My favorite book for the holidays that I never tire of reading isLittle Women, a classic tome by Louisa May Alcott.
AngelsLight52@aol.com
My favorite Christmas book is The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans.
dan.pope@comcast.net
The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
AUGER77777@aol.com
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
thenson@mit.midco.net
My favorite holiday book is A Christmas Dream by Janet Elaine Smith.
C14525@aol.com
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote is my favorite holiday story. Because I was raised in the rural South, reading this short work brings back such wonderful, though sometimes bittersweet, memories of being a child in a simpler time. Though Buddy and Aunt Sook struggle with the stern adults in their lives, they indulge in the simple pleasures of tramping the countryside, cooking, and using things of nature as decoration with the delight that only children seem to be able to feel. The book is alive with good smells and images of simple joy. I cry when I read it, but it makes me feel good anyway. No child raised on computers, video games, and television will ever have the wonderful memories I have of entertaining myself with nothing but a dog and my imagination, much in the way Buddy and Sook passed their days.
PDBlackCloudx2@aol.com
My all-time favorite Christmas story is The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans.
psalms84@yahoo.com
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry --- read it in junior high school and have loved it ever since.
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg --- love to listen to it on tape, especially the part about the hot chocolate --- YUM!
renaldo9@bellsouth.net
My favorite Christmas book is called Children of Christmas: Stories for the Season by Cynthia Rylant. This is a collection of six short stories. My favorite is called "Silver Packages." It is the story of a boy growing up in Appalachia and waiting on the Christmas train to bring him a doctor kit. He grows up and leaves the mountains only to return many years later. I read this book to my children every Christmas for years and now they take turns reading it to me on Christmas Eve. Some of the stories are real tear-jerkers though, so be prepared.
Renger@aol.com
Dickens's A Christmas Carol still tops the list --- my father read it every Christmas Eve from 1921 until the day he died, and our family does the same. A close second though is Truman Capote'sA Christmas Memory.
VeeWall@aol.com
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
MadTaz1@aol.com
My favorite holiday book is now Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. For years I really was uncomfortable during the holiday season, memories of so many Christmas pageants to sing in as a child have ruined Christmas carols for me. The stress of family gatherings was always a component also. This book addressed all those issues with its characters but somehow shows that the spirit glows through if we let it. I love the sentiment of this book.
Nono203@aol.com
I think The Polar Express is the best. I really enjoy it every year.
MAP5402@aol.com
Last year I read The Christmas Train by David Baldacci. I'm not usually a fan of his work but this book was really good. The story just kind of made me feel good when I finished it.
biscogrooves02@yahoo.com
Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
kcduez@chipsnet.com
My favorite holiday book is The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.
kaj525@sbcglobal.net
I really liked The Christmas Night Murder by Lee Harris. It is the start of a really great mystery series, all with holiday titles.
mtc350 @hotmail.com
I enjoyed John Grisham's Skipping Christmas, which we read for our December Book Club selection this year. My all-time favorite is probably the Christmas chapter of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie.
NGroves@aol.com
Every year I reread The Story of the Other Wise Man, a short novel by Henry Van Dyke. It's the story of a wise man who was delayed en route to Bethlehem when he stopped to help a stranger and spends his life searching for Jesus. He thinks his lifelong quest has been fruitless, but it becomes apparent that he has been following the right path all along in his service to others. A timeless and beautiful story.
sonia.chopra@worldnet.att.net
My favorite holiday book is Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
smaf@villa.edu
My holiday favorite is A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas.
Kec200@aol.com
My all-time favorite is The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg.
My most recent fav is The Christmas Train by David Baldacci.
jennifer_44@hotmail.com
My favorite holiday book is The Official Guide to Wine Snobberyby Leonard S. Bernstein. This book takes a light-hearted approach to wine drinking, and is the perfect gift for anyone with an interest in wine (snob or not!). It's especially appropriate for the holiday season, during which many a bottle of wine is consumed.
The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery arms the reader with valuable knowledge of wine etiquette, while identifying those senseless acts of snobbery that often lead to embarrassing situations. I myself have purchased a copy for everyone on my holiday list!
SecretSky@aol.com
The Polar Express!!!
jamille.krupa@ROCHE.COM
None other than A Christmas Carol by Dickens. It goes to prove that where there's life there's hope, and if you expect a miracle even a hardened heart can be soften.
roetzelroost@sbcglobal.net
The book I read each Christmas is probably childish to some but, it is so simple and such a sweet story I love it --- Miss Read's Christmas: The Christmas Mouse. If you haven't read it you should.
RVidimos@aol.com
The Midnight Express
Puzzler125@aol.com
Although I am 45 years old my favorite book is Moses the Kittenby James Herriot. It always makes me cry, but it has happy parts in it and, well, it's just one of those books where you still smile while you're crying.
bookldy@penn.com
My favorite holiday book is The Christmas Tree by Julie Salamon.
Lmcm2108@aol.com
My favorite holiday book is Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. Sometimes, skipping Christmas seems like a good idea but after reading this book, I don't think I'll do it!
ajpirie@btopenworld.com
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Gratitude90@aol.com
The Polar Bear Express
maestraw@msn.com
My favorite Christmas book is The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg. I was introduced to it by the woman who taught my husband kindergarten and also taught our son first grade. She included a note that said she was certain I could still hear the bell. I was so touched. Lovely reading for all ages. (I have a cassette of William Hurt reading it. It is moving!)
nmdicke2@datasync.com
Well, it's not really a book but every Christmas season I read "A Child's Christmas in Wales." This poem is best listened to, so I listen to Dylan Thomas read it! I've been listening to/reading it for 20 years I imagine, and I giggle and smile at the same places every year.
Amber52255@aol.com
My favorite holiday books have always been The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas by Madeleine L'Engle and A Full House by Madeleine L'Engle. However, Shepherds Abiding might now be my #1 favorite.
nhamilton@a2mich.com
One of my faves is Rest You Merry by Charlotte McLeod. This book introduced Peter Shandy, a professor and a small college in New York, and some of his colorful colleagues. The book starts off with something of a rant against the Christmas season "overdecoration" of peoples' houses, which is awfully funny and very satisfying for those of us who think it tends to get overdone.
stef11876@yahoo.com
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
lcrahal@shaw.ca
My favorite book is Skipping Christmas by John Grisham.
nbnelson@sunline.net
Visions of Sugar Plums
mtc350@hotmail.com
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham
Aharrim@aol.com
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
bcasto@wvmi.org
My favorite holiday book is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
marilyn.angello@us.mullermartini.com
The Christmas Day Kitten by James Herriot. A beautiful little story told with love. My children (when they were little) used to love that story over and over.
quiltin_maniac@yahoo.com
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote. (In the back of Breakfast at Tiffany's and other Stories). Sweet, short, and so poignant. Sad but a great holiday story. You really feel the thrill of the holiday with the young Truman Capote and his older relative. You also feel their indignity at being treated as insignificant by the other family members.
wmf38@rconnect.com
No favorite. I read every one I can find.
THOMASVID@aol.com
Even though I'm an adult, my favorite holiday book by far is The Polar Express.
Pkb78@aol.com
My favorite holiday book is The Christmas Letters by Lee Smith. I love all of her books. This book starts in the 1940s in the form of Christmas letters sent every year and goes up to the 1990s. It tells a story of the family through the years and includes recipes of the different decades, news about the war, all the gossip of the family. It's a great book! I highly recommend it.
Webgaw@aol.com
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans
