2024 Book Gift List

30+ book gift ideas for the various people in your life including your self

If you’re reading this, we’re on the same page. Books are the best gifts. Thousand dollars or a thousand books? Easy choice. Books, books, and more books.

Non-Fiction

For the hip-hop lover: Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

For the person who loves language and hoops: There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

For the friend who appreciates language, but maybe not hoops: Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor

For the person who can’t understand why their family votes differently than them and wants a social psychologist’s take: Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind

For the lover and seeker of wisdom: James K.A. Smith’s How to Inhabit Time

For the burgeoning theologian: Beth Felker Jones’ Practicing Christian Doctrine or Lexham’s Essentials Series

For the Enneagram-obessesed or curious: IVP Enneagram Daily Reflection

For the little humans in your life: The Lord’s Prayer: For All God’s Children

For curious big and little humans: The Iguanodon’s Horn

For every human you know: Reading Black Books

For your friend who wants a fresh (medieval) look at Jesus and appreciates art: Grace Hamman’s Jesus Through Medieval Eyes

Fiction

For the man in your life who doesn’t like to read: Tana French’s Broken Harbor

For the person who enjoys mysteries but can’t stand bad prose: Tana French’s In the Woods

For your friend who loved Hulu’s Shogun and wants more from that era: Shusaku Endo’s The Samurai or James Clavell’s Tai-pan

For the friend who needs a good, irreverent laugh: Dog of the South or Black No More

For the friend who prides themselves on reading books that you can name-drop at gatherings to prove their literary bonafides: Geek Love, Infinite Jest, Elegant Complexity (this guide to IJ will help immensely), The Bluest Eye, or Brothers K

For the pre-teen girl who devours books: A Northern Light or Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

For your general YA book worm: Feed or Ender’s Game

For the (pre-)teen boy who’s reluctant to read: Hands or Walter Dean Myers’ Monster or Scorpions

For the wanna-be sleuth who’s got a sci-fi/fantasy streak: The City and the City

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