The meme talks about how every Christmas Eve the people of Iceland give each other books and read by the Christmas tree while drinking hot chocolate. And every year, I see American bookworms talk ...

With its 380,000 inhabitants, Iceland has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. The literary tradition stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages.

In Iceland, the most popular Christmas gifts aren’t the latest iProducts or kitchen gadgets—they’re books. Each year, Iceland celebrates what’s known as Jólabókaflóðið: the annual ...

In Iceland, it’s a tradition — if a relatively new one — to give books as gifts to be opened on Christmas Eve. The practice is called jólabókaflóð (“Christmas book flood,” often ...