Great gift ideas for the book enthusiast in your family!!!

Library Chat - November 2022

Best Books for Holiday Gift Giving!

 

Cindy’s Recommendations for Adults:

• Coffee Table Books:
  • Our America by Ken Burns
  • Inside Bridgerton by Shonda Rhymes and Betsy Beers
  • The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
  • Dinner in One by Melissa Clark
  • Number One is Walking by Steve Martin
• History/Memoir:
  • Inciting Joy and The Book of Delights, both by Ross Gay 
  • And There Was Light by Jon Meacham
  • The Revolutionary by Stacey Schiff
  • Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
• Fiction:
  • Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
  • The Passenger and Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
  • The Amgash quartet by Elizabeth Strout (My Name is Lucy Barton, Anything is Possible, Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea)
  • The Beartown trilogy by Fredrik Backman (Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners)'
  • The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, The Man who Died Twice and The Bullet that Missed)
  • Also mentioned: A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny

Sunnie’s Recommendations for Young People:

• Board books:
  • Moo Baa La La La by Sandra Boynton
  • Happy All-idays by Cindy Jin & Rob Sayegh
• Picture book: All That is You by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Graphic novel: Lumberjackula by Mat Heagerty
• Non-fiction:
  • Good night stories for Rebel Girls
  • An illustrated collection of Nordic Animal Tales by Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin
  • 5,000 Awesome Facts about Animals by National Geographic
• Middle Grade: The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
• Teen/Young Adult:
  • The Getaway by Lamar Giles
  • That’s Debatable by Jen Doll