The only Christmas book

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol just about at the time that the Victorians were inventing Christmas

Christmas has produced many classic movies, the watching of which have slowly become traditions — most recently, perhaps, Love Actually, the Richard Curtis paean to Yuletide soppiness that everyone publicly hates and privately watches whenever it’s on. There are even Christmas-themed episodes of television shows that have become indelibly associated with the season of late — The Simpsons and the American version of The Office produced a number of them. 

What is odd, however, is that there is only one Christmas book that has become a tradition: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the story of the redemption of a miserly financier