Christmas Eve 2024 reading and listening

We have plenty of literary material that captures the classic and cozy Christmas feeling below.

But not everyone is in search of that today, so here are the Guardian's picks for the best crime novels to read at Christmas.

For something more seasonal but still not saccharine, the Guardian also has the short story "Tuesday Morning, Kentish Town" by Kevin Barry.

Or for something a little more time-sensitive than timely, try Book Riot's shorter books to wrap up your 2024 year in reading.

And now for the warm-and-fuzzy Christmas content from the archives ... 

• Let’s not forget Charles Dickens’s other Christmas ghost stories! 

• Dolly Parton talks about her Christmas-themed children's book 

• Read a short story by Jonathan Escoffery

• David Sedaris reads as an elf and discusses playing an elf

• Read and listen to George Saunders's Christmas stories  

• Gretchen Rubin reads A Christmas Carol (staves 1 and 2)

• Gretchen Rubin reads A Christmas Carol (staves 3, 4, and 5)

• History podcast covers Washington Irving’s "American" Christmas

• A winter solstice recommendation: The Shortest Day

• Author Q&A: Don Kennedy 

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

• Quotes for Christmas Eve

• Christmas quotes — silly and snarky this time