Holiday Books Gift Guide Don't know what to give the book lovers in your life? Let our holiday guide help you! The guide includes new and recent titles in mystery, fiction, nonfiction, sports, children's and more. You'll also find specialty categories - including quirky books, audio books, collections/anthologies and graphic novels - to make sure that no reader's tastes are overlooked this season. Plus: Our critics and reviewers offer their selection of new and old books as gift possibilities. And don't miss two personal essays by critics David L. Ulin and Mary McNamara on how giving books as gifts has affected their lives and their families. Season's readings! Browse these categories: Nonfiction Reviewers and Critics' picks Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Coffee-table Books Quirky and Unusual Collections Audio Books Graphic novels Sports Children and Young Adults

Fiction

Nonfiction

Fiction - What I Didn't See and Other Stories Fiction - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Fiction - The Invisible Bridge Fiction - Vida Stories Fiction - The Pregnant Widow Fiction - The Flowers of Edo Fiction - Valley Forge Fiction - The Passages of H.M. Fiction - The Brave Fiction - The Undivided Self, Selected Stories Fiction - The Marriage Artist Fiction - Take One Candle Light a Room Fiction - The True Memories of Little K Fiction - Work Song Fiction - Sunset Park

Fiction - Rescue Fiction - Fun With Problems Fiction - The Dinosaur Hunter Fiction - Of Love and Evil Fiction - Full Dark, No Stars Fiction - Crave Radiance Fiction - My Hollywood Fiction - Exley Fiction - Canti Fiction - Lord of Misrule Fiction - Eighteen Acres Fiction - Amy Clampitt, Selected Poems Fiction - I Still Dream About You Fiction - Eden Fiction - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey Printable version

Children and Young Adult

Washington, A Life The Match My Teenage Werewolf The Warmth of Other Sons The Lost Peace My Spiritual Journey Unbroken Steve McQueen Monk Eastman Three Armies on the Somme The Secret History of MI-6 Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1 They Call Me Baby Booey Robert Morris Mad as Hell Frank Profiles in Leadership Love Brought Me back The Sixties Present at the Creation Listen to This The Noel Coward Reader Possessed The Promise

Let's Take the Long Way Home Colossus A Journey Spoken From the Heart Cleopatra Life Just Kids Children of Fire Decision Points Hollywood Bob Dylan in America The Big Short Grant Wood A Ticket to the Circus Obama's Wars Fab A Renegade History of the United States My Nuclear Family Don't Sing at the Table Apollo's Angels Empire of Dreams Common As Air All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Teresa White House Diary Printable version

Mysteries and Thrillers

Velocity The Templar Salvation Spies of the Balkans Santa Fe Edge The Reversal The Prostitutes’ Ball Worth Dying For Our Kind of Traitor Moonlight Mile The Millennium Trilogy The Midnight Show Murders A Lily of the Field Kind of Blue The Killer of Little Shepherds Hypothermia

Hollywood Hills Hell’s Corner Hell Gate The Einstein Enigma The Damage Done The Confession Collusion Broken American Assassin Port Mortuary Edge Dead or Alive Printable version

Virals The Secret of Ka Sapphique Reckless Night Star Nightshade Mockingjay Lucy and the Green Man The Lovesick Skunk Jackie's Gift Guyku Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth

DC Super Heroes A Christmas Carol Bats at the Ballgame A Wish for Elves Alberic the Wise A Good Horse 12 Days of Christmas 10 Little Penguins Printable version

Graphic Novels

Neil Young's Greendale How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less The Exile The Alchemist The 14th Dalai Lama Richard Stark’s Parker

The Little Prince Forget Sorrow Dark Rain Dante's Divine Comedy Blackest Night X'ed Out Printable version

Collections Selected Stories Seven Mozart Librettos Preaching with Sacred Fire The New Yorker Stories Life Times Just Enough Jeeves The Cost of Living The Best American Noir of The Century The Anthology of Rap The Poets Laureate Anthology

Quirky Six Novels in Woodcuts Recipes Every Man Should Know It's a Book Glamour From the Ground Up Emily Dickinson's Homestead Tree of Codes Printable version Audio Hitch-22 The Elephant to Hollywood Life

Sports The Last Hero The Last Boy The Silent Season of a Hero PacMan Joe Louis Jerry West The Games That Changed the Game Willie Mays Printable version

Coffee Table The Art of Classic Rock Steichen in Color Simply Beautiful Listen Jazz The History of Surfing Five Decades, A Retrospective I Am Plastic, Too

 

Carolyn Kellogg The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Los Angeles Freedom Dracula The Oxford English Dictionary A Visit from the Goon Squad Printable version

Tim Rutten Stepping Stones New and Collected Poems The Invisible Bridge Counselor The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth True Compass Printable version

David Ulin Stop-Time Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slaughterhouse-Five The Jokers Freedom Comedy in a Minor Key About a Mountain The Catcher in the Rye Printable version

Susan Salter Reynolds The Wake of Forgiveness The Tree The Power of the Dog Me Talk Pretty One Day Light Years House of Light Five Skies Daybook We Took to the Woods Printable version

Sonja Bolle

Market Day! La Noche Buena Dash and Lilly's Book of Dares The Cardturner Printable version

The Boss Baby Bink and Gollie Shark vs. Train