Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Christmas

From present ideas to party food, find all your Christmas inspiration here.

Christmas books for older teens/young adults

23 replies

secondhoneymoon · 11/10/2015 09:22

Doing Christmas Hampers for nieces & nephews this year rather than add to Christmas Day pile. Am looking for fictional book ideas please, preferably with some Christmas connection. Am ok for little ones, struggling with the older:
Males - 15 & 21
females - 18 & 22
Oh and might do same for older ladies, one in 60s and one in 70s so ideas for books for them welcome too please

OP posts:
TheHouseOnTheLane · 11/10/2015 14:37

www.amazon.com/Christmas-Ghost-Stories-Charles-Dickens/dp/1934619000

Charles Dickens Christmas Ghost Stories.

Marvelous!

secondhoneymoon · 11/10/2015 20:54

Thank you. Ghost stories would be good for one of them.
Ideas for the others welcome. Thanks

OP posts:
Lucked · 11/10/2015 21:03

Any of them into discworld?

hogfather

Bellemere · 11/10/2015 21:07

Cecelia Ahern has "The Gift" which is alright...

Senpai · 12/10/2015 06:33

The Christmas Box.
The House without a Christmas Tree
A Christmas Story - Jean Shepherd
A dog named Christmas

I know The Little Match Girl is illustrated like a child's book, but it's still a mature concept and a beautiful story.

emmaMBC · 12/10/2015 18:15

Intrigued by your Christmas hamper idea ... can I be nosy and ask what else you are putting in?

bobblypop · 12/10/2015 21:41

the thirteen days of Christmas is lovely. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0192729578?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00

bobblypop · 12/10/2015 21:43

this one is also quite a nice story , though with a slightly religious slant.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0753808668?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00

JasperDamerel · 12/10/2015 21:51

The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder (who wrote Sophie's World) is very nice for older teens. You can read it like an advent calendar, a chapter a day.
www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Mystery-Jostein-Gaarder/dp/0753808668/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

MadeMan · 12/10/2015 21:55

You're never too old for Mr Snow

MARGUERITE18 · 14/10/2015 15:01

debbie macomber christmas books for the girls?

secondhoneymoon · 15/10/2015 20:38

Thank you everyone

OP posts:
secondhoneymoon · 15/10/2015 21:18

EmmaMBC just noticed your question, sorry. Am still planning and open to ideas but was thinking Christmas PJs (having checked their parents don't do this already). A Christmas book, a Christmas DVD with popcorn. Christmas socks. For the older girls maybe some Christmassy smelling toiletries.

OP posts:
Chillywhippet · 15/10/2015 21:27

Let it snow - 3 holiday romances by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson
DD liked this at 18

secondhoneymoon · 15/10/2015 21:35

Thank you Chilly Whippet

OP posts:
EugenesAxe · 15/10/2015 21:46

I love the book Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh... you could say it links to the Christmas Lectures?!

Other books I liked at that age... mainly dystopian stuff. Or fantasy like LOTR. Bridget Jones or the sequel is a bit Christmassy. Or all the Adrian Moles - he covers Christmas in the diary and those are good books for young adults.

daisydalrymple · 17/10/2015 12:27

I think Tolkien's letters from Father Christmas is lovely at any age, but it depends on whether your young adults would appreciate it, or see it as being childish still.

DelphiniumBlue · 17/10/2015 12:32

What a lovely thread- place marking here for future reference!

secondhoneymoon · 22/10/2015 05:49

Thank you all, still looking for more suggestions please x

OP posts:
butterflymum · 22/10/2015 09:20

EugenesAxe, many thanks for Fermat's Last Theorem suggestion. Managed to get one at a great price from a seller on EBay (blacko55). Lots of sellers there had cheaper price for 'used' copies, but the one I got was 'new' and it arrived quickly. Hopefully eldest will enjoy it.

butterflymum · 22/10/2015 09:28

Not fictional as such, but last year I managed to pick up this at Poundland. Not sure if they have it again this year, but worth checking.

EugenesAxe · 24/10/2015 08:12

Welcome butterflymum - now I am nervous! I really hope he likes it; Dr (?) Singh is one of my heroes and I think he has a very accessible style, but it doesn't change the fact it's a book about maths.

He often does lectures and talks, sometimes with famous skeptics (unfortunately I am a Christian and a hypocrite for being there) that are good. If you fancied an intellectual bonding time with your DD/DS :)

thunderbird69 · 24/10/2015 17:37

How about Let it Snow 3 short stories including John Green, maybe for 18 year old

this one by John Grisham

New posts on this thread. Refresh page