A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · 1843 · Fiction
Full text · 5 chaptersNarrated in your voice
Public domain · added by Library
What it's about
Five staves, one night, and the story that invented Christmas as we keep it. It is much angrier than the adaptations: Dickens wrote it in six weeks to shame a country that was letting children die in its factories.
Reading plan
Pick a finish date and Genius lays out the days — the plan shows today's target and keeps you honest.
Read together
Start a circle and share the code — everyone sees everyone's honest place in the book. Accountability, not leaderboards.
Who it's for
- Anyone who watches a version of it every December - Readers with two hours and a cold evening - Anyone who wants the original's teeth
