GOOD Books for the Ho-Ho-Holidays

Christmas revolves around family traditions of setting out cookies for Santa, opening one gift on Christmas Eve—or completely dreading the five hours you have to spend with your relatives. But if your holiday season is becoming more about stress

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
$3.95. Bantam Classics. 112 pages.

Everybody's seen the Muppet version or the Bill Murray version or the Jim Carrey version of Dickens' classic, but we're willing to be

Holidays on Ice
by David Sedaris
$10.00. Back Bay Books. 176 pages.

This collection of six holiday stories has all of the dark humor and brave storytelling that Sedaris fans love. In "SantaLand Diaries," Sedaris r

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
by Dr. Seuss
$15.00. Random House Books for Young Readers. 64 pages.

We all have a Grinch in the family when the holidays come around—the person that hates every gift they get, begrudgi

The Nightmare Before Christmas
by Tim Burton
$16.99. Disney Press. 48 pages.