Elevate Your Christmas Gift Game with These Timeless Reads and New Books! I’m guessing some of these books are your favorites and they are perfect to share with family and friends on Christmas.
This holiday season, spread the joy of reading with the best books to gift for Christmas! Whether you’re participating in a gift exchange, a Secret Santa, or searching for the perfect present for your mother, wife, or friend, these beautiful and affordable books make excellent Christmas gifts.
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On my Christmas Gift Book List, I’ve handpicked the most meaningful stories. From timeless classics to the brand-new books that everyone wants these are the highest-rated and most cherished books of all time.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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About The Book: The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. A Pulitzer Prize winner and a classic this book is the perfect Christmas gift. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, “To Kill A Mockingbird” takes readers to the roots of human behavior.
My Review, 5 Stars
Dive deep into Harper Lee’s unforgettable “To Kill a Mockingbird.” This meaningful Christmas gift idea is not only a thought-provoking read but also a timeless reminder of the importance of compassion. I absolutely adore this book along with millions of others.
All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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About The Book: Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, lives are brought together.
My Review, 5 Stars
If you love World War ll stories and crave historical fiction this book is for you. This is by far my favorite book by this author. When I finished and put this book down I was speechless and I’ve never had a book hangover quite like this one.
I love that you get the story from two very different perspectives. This won the Pulitzer Prize for a reason. It is a must-read amongst book lovers and there is no better Christmas gift this year with the release of the new Netflix series based on the book.
The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
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About The Book: A brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope, and everyone is dying to read it.
This new book would look great tied with a bow under the Christmas tree.
Fourth Wing and Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
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About The Book: Follow twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail as she enters the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders.
The Fourth Wing / My Review, 3 Stars
“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson
This duo is hot right now and it would be an excellent Christmas gift for book lovers of fantasy and romance!
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
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About The Book: Written for J.R.R. Tolkien’s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when it was first published in 1937. Now recognized as a timeless classic. This is an introduction to the spectacular world of Middle-earth, the adventures of a reluctant hero, and a powerful and dangerous ring.
Finding Me by Viola Davis
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About The Book: Finding Me is a deep reflection, a promise, and a love letter of sorts to self. For anyone who needs reminding that a life worth living can only be born from radical honesty and the courage to shed facades and be . . . you.
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
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About The Book: Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.
Make a wish. . . .
My Review, 5 Stars
I wasn’t expecting something SO good. The perfect Christmas gift for book lovers and for lovers of fairytales and children’s stories. This book is filled with warmth.
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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About The Book: Scarlett O’Hara, the beautiful, spoiled daughter of a well-to-do Georgia plantation owner, must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman’s March to the Sea.
My Review, 4 Stars
A timeless classic. I just finished this novel in all of its glory today! It was very long and also it was very good. It took me over a month to read but I wouldn’t have trudged on if I were not enjoying myself!
This book is amazing because it is written from the perspective of slave owners. Written by a woman nonetheless. It does have a lot of dehumanizing racism if that is a trigger for you I would not recommend this book.
Gone With The Wind is really well written. This book is the ultimate Christmas gift for those who love historical fiction and classics.
Harry’s Trees by Jon Cohen
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About The Book: Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, intent on losing himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She, too, has lost someone—her father. And in the magical, willful world of her reckoning, Oriana believes that Harry is the key to finding her way back to him.
Harry’s Trees is an uplifting tale about love, loss, friendship, and redemption.
My Review, 5 Stars
This book is really special. It’s about grief and it is heartbreaking, warm, uplifting, and magical. It’s a modern-day fairytale for tree lovers. The perfect gift for the nature lover in your life.
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
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About The Book: A stunning and magisterial new epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala and following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret.
This book deserves a spot on your gift-giving guide! Just released this year.
Add one of these books to your homemade Christmas gift basket or buy a few for yourself! Don’t settle for ordinary gifts this Christmas. Give the gift of great stories and timeless classics that will be cherished for years to come.
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