It seems that holiday shopping starts earlier and earlier each year. Halloween was barely over and the Christmas decorations were being put out. So now it’s time for Books Are Great Gifts Guide. Books make great gifts: they always fit, are never the wrong color or size, and are so easy to wrap.
For your best friend who always reads the celebrity book club selections and loves great fiction, Megha Majumdar’s A Guardian and a Thief about an Indian woman who has her passport stolen just when she was to leave for America is an Oprah Book Club pick and has garnered much critical acclaim.
For your favorite neighbor who enjoys lighter fiction, Adriana Trigiani takes the reader from Lake Como, New Jersey to Lake Como, Italy in her novel The View From Lake Como. It’s got humor, heart, and no one writes a better family story than Trigiani.
Mysteries are always popular, and Richard Osman’s latest in his Thursday Murder Club series is The Impossible Fortune ,where our four residents of Cooper’s Chase retirement community come back together to solve the disappearance of a wedding guest. Fans of the Netflix movie will enjoy this one.
Fantasy books are hot now and no one is hotter than R.F. Kuang whose new novel Katabasis is perfect for fans of her previous works, Babel and The Poppy War.
You’ll impress your adult niece who grew up with the Harry Potter books when you give her SenLinYu’s Alchemised. It’s a Romantasy, a new genre that combines Romance with Fantasy and it’s on the top of the bestseller lists today.
For Romance readers who prefer a more traditional contemporary story, you can’t go wrong with anything by Emily Henry, including her latest Great Big Beautiful Life, about two writers who compete to write the biography of an heiress and daughter of a scandalous family.
For your father-in-law who loves to do Wordle every day, Puzzlemania! from the New York Times has Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Minis, and more in book form. It would be great for family activities after your Thanksgiving gathering this year as well.
For your uncle who watches CNBC in the morning, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 tackles the seminal year in American history when the stock market crashed and led to the Great Depression.
For your nephew who grew up loving the movies “Uncle Buck”, “Home Alone” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation”, Paul Myer’s biography “John Candy- A Life in Comedy” looks at the life of the comedic genius gone too soon.
For your aunt who cooks all the big family meals, there’s Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman Cooks The Essential Recipes featuring her best recipes from her long-running Food Network show.
Coffee table books are big this time of the year and there are several lovely ones available. Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s The Look is filled with photos and stories about all of the gorgeous gowns she wore to official White House functions.
National Geographic always has wonderful coffee table books, and this year they have three: Photographs features a collection of the iconic photos from years past, along with stories about some of their photographers.
The Traveler’s Atlas of the World divides the world into continents and has statistics, important information, fun facts, photos, and drawings of the different countries. It would be a great gift for the adventurer or armchair traveler on your gift list.
With air travel being as unpredictable as it is today, 100 Train Journeys of a Lifetime is another great gift for the traveler on your gift list. From the fanciest of trains to the less glamorous, from long journeys to day trips, this book has it all.
We can’t leave the kiddies out, they love books. Teens who loved Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games would be thrilled to get the newest in the serie, Sunrise on the Reaping.
Once they have finished the Harry Potter series, Sangu Mandanna’s Vanya and the Wild Hunt takes middle grade readers to a fantasy adventure inspired by Indian mythology and English folklore.
Two popular series for younger readers have new books- Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” has Party Pooper and Dav Pilkey’s “Dog Man” has Big Jim Believes. You can’t go wrong with these.
The littlest ones would love to find any of the newest books from Pete the Cat, Don’t Let the Pigeon, Llama Llama and The Little Blue Truck series.
Happy shopping!
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