Christmas classics from our archives

The Fussy Librarian staffers are enjoying quality time with their loved ones today, but we would never want to leave you without reading material.

So please enjoy these past Christmas posts from our newswire, if you're in the spirit of this particular holiday ... and if you're not, feel free to browse our bargain-book library and free-ebook widget for whatever you're in the mood for!

Reading recommendations  

• Book: Taste your Christmas tree, instead of tossing it 

• You tell us: 2020's winter holiday reading 

• You tell us: The best holiday books

• Read and listen to George Saunders's Christmas stories  

For the littlest ones

• Christmas decorating mishap yields children's book 

• The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree owl has her own books  

The Dickens department 

• Celebrate 175 years of A Christmas Carol

• Charles Dickens and Christmas: It's actually complicated

• How Charles Dickens took A Christmas Carol on tour

• The pirates who stole A Christmas Carol

• Museum finds letter from Charles Dickens about his lost Christmas turkey

Seasonal sayings   

• The best way to spread Christmas cheer? Book quotes!

• Quotes for Christmas Eve

• Christmas quotes — silly and snarky this time 

Screens 

• The reason for a season of Pride and Prejudice reboots

• Reviews of the new, dark A Christmas Carol movie are mixed

• Ready for another Austen-inspired Christmas movie?  

From the authors' perspective 

• What should be under these writers' Christmas trees?

• Yule be humming Bing Crosby tunes after this author interview

• Christmas in July: What it's like to write winter novels year-round 

• Author Q&A: Don Kennedy

The darker side

• The cat who hopefully didn't come for Christmas 

• A Christmas Carol isn't the only Yuletide ghost story out there

And two previous roundups ... 

• Friday favorites: Beyond A Christmas Carol

• Literary love: Tales of generosity in the bookworm community