18 books like Christmas Eve with Mr. Pickwick

What to read after Christmas Eve with Mr. Pickwick — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The rose and the ring William Makepeace Thackeray · 1854 · ★ 3.8 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The Rose and the Ring is one of those special literary treats which happen when a writer for adults turns his attention to the world of children. It's a classic fairy tale, told with Thackeray's customary insight into characters, an excellent story for reading aloud to children. Shares: English wit and humor, Christmas stories, Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like zombies! Michael P. Spradlin · 2009 · ★ 4.0 · 81p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Fresh brains roasting on an open fire . . .Outside the temperature's dropping. The snow is falling, blanketing the world in white. Sleigh bells are jingling. Soon it will be that most wondrous time of the year!That time of flesh-devouring zombie horror!Yes, Christmas is on its way-and all the little boys and ghouls are dreaming of stockings filled with candied eyes and bleeding body parts. You'd… Shares: Christmas, Humor

The lost word Henry van Dyke · 1898 · ★ 3.8 · 71p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A nice short story by Henry Van Dyke. Hermas wanders until he meets a priest in a glade who promises to allow him to enjoy life, and the story goes from there. There is an appearance of John Chrysostom, a well-known figure in the history of the Christian church. Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas

FURTHER UNDER THE DUVET Marian Keyes · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Slide Further Under the Duvet, get yourself comfortable and let Marian take you places you've never been before ...Places like the Irish air-guitar championships, a shopping trip to Bloomingdales with a difference and Cannes with a chronic case of Villa-itis. Along the way you'll encounter knicker-politics, fake tans, sticky-out ears and passionate love affairs both with make-up and Toblerones.… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Holidays on Ice David Sedaris · 1997 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Moderate A collection of Christmas stories. The story Dinah, the Christmas Whore, describes the reaction of a family when a daughter brings home a prostitute, while SantaLand Diaries is on a department store elf. Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas, Humor

Some notes on lifemanship, with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship Stephen Potter · 1950 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Lifemanship, we are assured, was devised in response to a huge public demand, somewhat unexpressed. The way of life adopted by Lifemen is as hard to define as the sound of one hand clapping, but this has not deterred the founder of the Lifemanship Association, Station Road, Yeovil (Somerset, England), from formulating a course of lectures on a vital issue of our times. // With the help of… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

The unadulterated cat Terry Pratchett · 1989 · ★ 3.8 · 141p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Terry Pratchett's funny and very British look at the relationship between humans and cats. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Anguished English Richard Lederer · 1987 · ★ 3.8 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up! Bloopers from foreign restaurants… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

One-Upmanship Stephen Potter · 1952 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where ones gain is the others loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc. The rivalry can be over attainment of any exclusive goal, including recognition. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1880 · ★ 3.8 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. The essays cover a range of topics from "On Being in Love" to "On Furnished Apartments" to "On Getting on in the World". Jerome established himself as one of England's favorite wits with his comic novel Three Men in a Boat. Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

In-laws and outlaws C. Northcote Parkinson · 1962 · ★ 3.7 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

And now all this Walter Carruthers Sellar · 1932 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 1066 and All That turns English history into a brilliantly unreliable "memorable history," where invasions, kings, saints, and schoolbook facts are reduced to jokes, slogans, and absurdly tidy "Good Things." From Caesar and the painted Ancient Britons through Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, and the legendary Alfred the Cake and King Arthur, the book mocks the way the past survives as fragments of… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

The counter-scuffle R. S. · 1626 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Demanding Shares: Humor, Social life and customs

Perfect Behavior Donald Ogden Stewart · 1922 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

Forms of the Novella David H. Richter · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 832p · ≈ 27h · Moderate Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas

Das NEINhorn Marc-Uwe Kling · 2019 · ★ 4.5 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Im Herzwald kommt ein kleines, schnickeldischnuckeliges Einhorn zur Welt. Aber obwohl alle ganz lilalieb zu ihm sind und es ständig mit gezuckertem Glücksklee füttern, benimmt sich das Tierchen ganz und gar nicht einhornmäßig. Es sagt einfach immer Nein, sodass seine Familie es bald nur noch NEINhorn nennt. Eines Tages bricht das NEINhorn aus seiner Zuckerwattewelt aus. Es trifft einen… Shares: Humor

Hercule Poirot's Christmas Agatha Christie · 1939 · ★ 4.0 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Challenging On the night before Christmas, cruel, tyrannical, filthy rich Simeon Lee is found in his locked bedroom with his throat cut. Now Hercule Poirot must put his deductive powers to the test to solve one of his most chilling cases - and to prevent a clever killer from spilling more blood. Also published as Hercule Poirot's Christmas and Murder for Christmas Shares: Christmas stories, Christmas

Stage-land Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1889 · 52p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of Stage Land. Dedicated to that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, the earnest student of drama. A series of short satirical essays on the conventions and cliches of theater. The stage hero heroine villain adventuress lawyer etc. I enjoyed this a lot particularly… Shares: English wit and humor, Humor

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