Alessio Workshop: 'Tis the Season to be Reading - Handout 6
1. ‘Tis the Season to be Reading
Classic Christmas
O. Henry The Gift of the Magi
Christmas Stories
Christmas Carol and Variations
Grisham, John. Skipping Christmas
Death by Dickens
Fabry, Chris and Chapman, Gary. A Marriage Carol
Gray, Sarah. A Vampire Christmas Carol
Highlands for the Holidays
Beaton, M.C. A Highland Christmas
Chapman, Janet Highlander for the Holidays
Blair, Sandy. A Highlander for Christmas
Crafty Chrstmas
Sefton, Maggie. Fleece Navidad
Jacobs, Kate. Knit the Season
Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber’s Christmas Cookbook
1225 Christmas Tree Lane
Angels at the Table
Southern + Elvis = Christmas
Andrews, Mary Kay. Blue Christmas
Webb, Peggy. Elvis and the Blue Christmas Corpse
Tugging at Heartstrings
Kleypas, Lisa. Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor
Ahern, Cecelia. The Gift
Heartwarming Holidays
Baldacci, David. The Christmas Train
Beck, Glenn. The Snow Angel
Pearlman, Ann. The Christmas Cookie Club
Inspirational
VanLiere, Donna. The Christmas Journey
Hinton, Lynne. Christmas Cake
Small Town Christmas
Gray, Shelley Shepard. Christmas in Sugarcreek
Woods, Sherryl. An O’Brien Family Christmas
Romance Cooks at Christmas
Plumley, Lisa. Together at Christmas
Crusie, Jennifer. Santa, Baby
Cowboys for Christmas
Brown, Carolyn. Mistletoe Cowboy
Thomas, Jodi. A Texas Christmas
Miller, Linda Lael. An Outlaw Christmas
Christmas Weddings
Mallery, Susan. A Christmas Bride
Kelly, Vanessa. The Mistletoe Bride
2. Regency Holidays
Kleypas, Lisa. A Wallflower Christmas
Burrowes, Grace. Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish
Burrowes, Grace. Lady Louisa’s Christmas Knight
Burrowes, Grace. Lady Jenny’s Christmas Portrait
Historical Romance Holidays
Putney, Mary Jo et al. Mischief and Mistletoe
Feather, Jane et al. Snowy Night with a Stranger
Sugar and Spice
Foster, Lori et al. I’m Your Santa
Kauffman, Donna. Merry Christmas, Baby
Creatures at Christmas
Roberts, Adam. I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas
Madison, Shawntelle. Kept.
Sparks, Kerrelyn. All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
Killer Christmas
Bowen, Rhys. The Twelve Clues of Christmas
Benison, C.C. Twelve Drummers Drumming, Eleven Pipers Piping
Charbonneau, Joelle. End Me a Tenor
Nesbo, Jo. The Redeemer
Edgy Christmas
Robb, J.D. Holiday in Death
Parker, Robert B. Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel
Patterson, James. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
Mystery Anthologies
Holmes for the Holidays
Hockensmith, Steve. Naughty: Nine Tales of Christmas Crime
Cooking, Christmas and Death?
Coyle, Cleo. Holiday Buzz
Hyzy, Julie. Hail to the Chef
Great Gingerbread!
Fluke, Joanne, Levine, Laura and Meier, Leslie. Gingerbread Cookie Murder
Washburn, Livia. The Gingerbread Bump-Off
Hanukkah
Page, Katherine Hall. The Body in the Sleigh (mostly Christmas, mention of Hanukkah)
Kahn, Sharon. Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Choir
Happiest Time of Year?
Worst Noel
Evanovich, Janet. Visions of Sugar Plums
Kwanzaa
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Naughty or Nice.
New Year’s
Chiaverini, Jennifer. The New Year’s Quilt
Harris, Lee. The New Year’s Eve Murder
3. Amy’s Favorite Kolackies
1 c. sugar
1 lb. butter or margarine, or ½ butter and ½ margarine
4 egg yolks
4 c. flour
Solo filling
Cream together butter and sugar; add egg yolks, one at a time, then add flour and mix well.
Refrigerate for 1 hour. Make balls the size of walnut or smaller. Place 1 ½ inches apart or in
mini muffin pan. Press thumb in center . Fill with any variety of filling. Bake at 400 degrees
for 15 minutes – beige in color. Cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. Makes many –
depending on size.