Eight notable Christmas novels

Skylar Miklus serves as Editorial Intern at Electric Literature and Poetry Editor at Barnstorm Journal. They obtained their B.A. in Philosophy from Dartmouth College and are pursuing their MFA in Poetry at the University of New Hampshire. Their writing has appeared in Rogue Agent Journal, Identity Theory, On the Seawall, and elsewhere. They live in Dover, NH, and are currently working on their first collection of poems.

At Electric Lit Miklus tagged eight top Christmas novels, including:

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

In 1920, Jack and Mabel move to Alaska to start a homestead farm and distract themselves from their childlessness. During the first snowfall, they build a girl out of snow; the next morning, they discover a real child running through the woods. The magic-soaked novel that follows kept me hooked the whole way through. Ivey’s writing is tender and gauzy, infused with affection for the natural world and the people who inhabit it.

Read about another entry on the list.

The Snow Child is among Joel H. Morris's seven novels featuring ghost children, Emily Burack's twenty-five of the best classic winter books, Idra Novey's top ten retold fairytales, Ashleigh Bell Pedersen's eight magical novels by women writers and M. A. Kuzniar's eight retellings with a bite of darkness.

--Marshal Zeringue