Fireside Fiction:
Feel-Good Stories for the Holidays

The Gift
Cecelia Ahern

For One More Day
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

The Christmas Train
David Baldacci

The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
Dave Barry

Mr. Timothy
Louis Bayard

Andy Catlett: Early Travels
Wendell Berry

Nights of Rain and Stars
Maeve Binchy

The Solemn Lantern Maker
Merlinda Bobis

Lemon City
Elaine Meryl Brown

The Christmas Pony
Melody Carlson

The Giving Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel*
Jennifer Chiaverini

The Christmas Star
Ace Collins

Unwrapping Christmas
Lori Copeland

A Piggly Wiggly Christmas*
Robert Dalby

A Midnight Carol: A Novel of How Charles Dickens Saved Christmas
Patricia K. Davis

Charles’ Dickens A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens

Christmas on Nutcracker Court
Judy Duarte

A Winter Dream
Richard Paul Evans

A Week in December
Sebastian Faulks

A Lancaster County Christmas
Suzanne Woods Fisher

A Redbird Christmas
Fannie Flagg

The Christmas Pearl
Dorothea Benton Frank

Home for Christmas
Andrew M. Greeley

The Christmas Scrapbook: A Harmony Story*
Philip Gulley

Finding Father Christmas
Robin Jones Gunn

The Gift
Pete Hamill

The Complete Works of O. Henry (contains The Gift of the Magi)
O. Henry

Christmas Cake
J. Lynne Hinton

A Lone Star Christmas
William W. Johnstone

The Mitford Snowmen: A Christmas Story
Jan Karon

A Christmas Blizzard
Garrison Keillor

A Plain & Fancy Christmas
Cynthia Keller

A Christmas Home
Gregory D. Kincaid

Comfort and Joy
India Knight

The Rich Part of Life
Jim Kokoris

Wishin’ and Hopin’: A Christmas Story
Wally Lamb

An Angel at the Table: A Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy Christmas Story
Debbie Macomber

Little Ellie Claus
James Manos, Jr.

The Christmas Clock
Kat Martin

Angela and the Baby Jesus
Frank McCourt

How I Came to Sparkle Again
Kaya McLaren

Snow
Calvin Miller

The Angel of Bastogne
Gilbert Morris

Christmas Lights
Christine Pisera Naman

The Card
D. L Nelson

The Christmas Key
Kim O'Brien

A Midnight Miracle
Gary E. Parker

Strike the Harp!: American Christmas Stories
Owen Parry

The Christmas Wedding
James Patterson

The Christmas Cookie Club
Ann Pearlman

A Christmas Homecoming
Anne Perry

Winter Solstice
Rosamunde Pilcher

A Christmas Wish: A Linden Corners Novel
Joseph Pittman

O Little Town
Don Reid

The Forgotten Spirit: A Christmas Tale
Evie Rhodes

A Christmas Visitor
David Saperstein and George Samerjan

Finding Christmas: Stories of Startling Joy and Perfect Peace
James Calvin Schaap

The Judge Who Stole Christmas
Randy Singer

The Christmas Letters: A Novella
Lee Smith

The Winter Travelers: A Christmas Fable
 Don J. Snyder

Hot Flash Holidays
Nancy Thayer

Giovanni's Light: The Story of a Town Where Time Stopped for Christmas
Phyllis Theroux

The Walnut Tree
Charles Todd

Winter Birds
Jamie L. Turner

The Christmas Note
Donna VanLiere

Christmas on Mill Street
Joseph Walker

Remembering Christmas
Dan Walsh

The Winter Lodge
Susan Wiggs

A Franklin Manor Christmas
Paul Willcott

Christmas in Cornwall
Marcia Willett

*part of a series

updated mcs 12/12