Cozy fall and winter short stories
December 1, 2023 12:22 PM Subscribe
Piggy-backing on this question from earlier today, I'd like any recommendations for cozy fall/autumn/winter/Christmas/holiday short stories.
Luminary has the spooky angle covered in their question, which I'll be following. I'm looking for more cozy, happy or bittersweet, sit down and read with a warm cup of tea and cookie under a blanket type stories. Sad is ok too, but trying to avoid anything too negative, grim, or violent.
I'm particularly interested in short stories, but if you have any novel suggestions, I'm interested in those as well.
Luminary has the spooky angle covered in their question, which I'll be following. I'm looking for more cozy, happy or bittersweet, sit down and read with a warm cup of tea and cookie under a blanket type stories. Sad is ok too, but trying to avoid anything too negative, grim, or violent.
I'm particularly interested in short stories, but if you have any novel suggestions, I'm interested in those as well.
Best answer: L m montgomery's Christmas with anne
Smidgen press has also just published a volume but idk if the same stories are in it.
posted by brujita at 2:48 PM on December 1, 2023
Smidgen press has also just published a volume but idk if the same stories are in it.
posted by brujita at 2:48 PM on December 1, 2023
Best answer: A Winter Book 20 sh. stories by Tove Jansson [review]
posted by BobTheScientist at 2:52 PM on December 1, 2023
posted by BobTheScientist at 2:52 PM on December 1, 2023
Best answer: If you haven't read it in a long time, why not re-read the O Henry classic short story of this genre- The Gift of the Magi.
posted by ojocaliente at 3:20 PM on December 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by ojocaliente at 3:20 PM on December 1, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: For cozy Christmas short story collections, you might find this video by Miranda Mills helpful. Miranda’s whole channel is pretty much cozy, seasonal reading recommendations.
posted by bitbotbit at 3:53 PM on December 1, 2023
posted by bitbotbit at 3:53 PM on December 1, 2023
Best answer: "Home for Christmas" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman is a wonderful Christmas fantasy novelette. It's available in various anthologies, including the anthology Season of Wonder.
SF author Connie Willis writes Christmas stories; check them out in her collection called A Lot Like Christmas. I particularly recommend the first story, called "Miracle", but most all are good, though I would skip "In Coppelius's Toyshop".
posted by gudrun at 3:57 PM on December 1, 2023
SF author Connie Willis writes Christmas stories; check them out in her collection called A Lot Like Christmas. I particularly recommend the first story, called "Miracle", but most all are good, though I would skip "In Coppelius's Toyshop".
posted by gudrun at 3:57 PM on December 1, 2023
Best answer: There are a whole bunch of volumes of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories.
To me, these are mostly cozy, both because of settings and period and because some of them involve holiday gatherings and/or hanging out in country houses in the winter. I get that ghost stories might not mesh with some people's definition of "cozy," though!
posted by verbminx at 12:59 AM on December 2, 2023
To me, these are mostly cozy, both because of settings and period and because some of them involve holiday gatherings and/or hanging out in country houses in the winter. I get that ghost stories might not mesh with some people's definition of "cozy," though!
posted by verbminx at 12:59 AM on December 2, 2023
Best answer: Coming back to add "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote. (There is even a wonderful filmed version on youtube.)
posted by gudrun at 8:56 AM on December 2, 2023
posted by gudrun at 8:56 AM on December 2, 2023
Best answer: Miss Read's Christmas at Fairacre is a collection of short stories which I re-read every year to get me in the Christmas mood.
posted by car01 at 11:58 AM on December 2, 2023
posted by car01 at 11:58 AM on December 2, 2023
Best answer: I've just come across, but haven't read, The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories.
This blog, Coffee Cake and Books, has been listing Christmas books, mostly novels, for a few years.
Also, A Christmas Carol, if it's not too obvious? Novella length. I've been reading this every Christmas for the last few years and finding new things in it. Some spookiness but also some cosiness.
posted by paduasoy at 2:01 AM on December 3, 2023
This blog, Coffee Cake and Books, has been listing Christmas books, mostly novels, for a few years.
Also, A Christmas Carol, if it's not too obvious? Novella length. I've been reading this every Christmas for the last few years and finding new things in it. Some spookiness but also some cosiness.
posted by paduasoy at 2:01 AM on December 3, 2023
Response by poster: Thank you all! These all look pretty much like what I'm looking for.
posted by lharmon at 10:14 AM on December 4, 2023
posted by lharmon at 10:14 AM on December 4, 2023
Just come across this: Stories for Winter and Nights by the Fire, British Library Women Writers series. Looks like there was an earlier one too.
posted by paduasoy at 3:56 AM on December 7, 2023
posted by paduasoy at 3:56 AM on December 7, 2023
Best answer: Better link for the above: Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings.
posted by paduasoy at 4:26 AM on December 7, 2023
posted by paduasoy at 4:26 AM on December 7, 2023
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