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Skipping Christmas (Special Edition)

With a New Afterword
By John Grisham
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this classic tale for modern times, beloved storyteller John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition—now featuring a deluxe updated cover and a new afterword by the author!... Read More
Format: Hardback
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this classic tale for modern times, beloved storyteller John Grisham offers a hilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of our holiday tradition—now featuring a deluxe updated cover and a new afterword by the author!

The inspiration for the film Christmas with the Kranks, starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they’ll skip the holiday altogether.

Theirs will be the only house on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t be hosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going to have a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’re setting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780385552158

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 November 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Doubleday & Co Inc.

Edition: Special edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 278g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

John Grisham is the author of more than fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. His recent books include Framed, Camino Ghosts and The Exchange: After the Firm.

Grisham is a two-time winner of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and was honored with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction.

When he’s not writing, Grisham serves on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and of Centurion Ministries, two national organizations dedicated to exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.

John lives on a farm in central Virginia.

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