The Perfect Gifts for Book Lovers
Our Favorite Gift Books for Friends and Family
The Holiday Shop & Gift Guide is filled with great book recommendations for everyone on your shopping list. Satisfy the book lover in your life by choosing from a myriad of categories and subjects found in our collection of beautiful books for every occasion. Shop smart this season by placing your order now to ensure product availability and on-time delivery. Keep your holidays merry and bright, and enjoy some of our favorites as gifts for others as well as yourself.
Great Gifts of Literature
Give the gift of a good read from Dover’s vast selection of classic fiction and nonfiction literature, mysteries and thrillers, hilarious children’s storybooks, beautiful poetry and so much more! Read adaptations from books to film and streaming like the medieval tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or Nella Larsen’s Passing, shown on Netflix. Regarded as the key text of the Harlem Renaissance, The New Negro: An Interpretation is a landmark anthology of fiction, poetry, essays, drama, music, and illustration. Inspired by the Master of the Macabre H. P. Lovecraft, Wonder and Glory Forever spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors. Seekers of exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories in The Most Dangerous Game and Other Stories of Adventure. Follow a boy with a troublesome backside in three hilarious tales, I Need a New Butt!, I Broke My Butt!, My Butt is So NOISY!
Calla Editions™ — Books of Distinction for the Contemporary Bibliophile
Our line of Calla Editions™ are beautiful collectible hardcover re-creations of some of the rarest and most valuable books ever published and are the perfect holiday gifts for book lovers of all ages. Add a keepsake treasure to the family library with a rich collection of well-known fairy tales from The Big Book of Fairy Tales. Lovers of Dickens novels and Christmas stories will delight in the magnificent hardcover edition of A Christmas Carol, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Reproduced from the now extremely hard-to-find Parisian periodical La decoration artistique, and published during the decade before World War I, Art Nouveau Graphic Masterpieces offers designers, collectors, and Art Nouveau aficionados a dazzling collection of decorative full-color graphics. Journey to Chandara offers the perfect introduction to James Gurney’s magnificent and colorful fantasy world of Dinotopia books.
Great Gifts for Naturalists
Do you like it wild? The smell of fresh air and the sights and sounds of the great outdoors? Nature lovers of all kinds, from birders to botanists to hikers, will find nature classics, field guides and more on our site. Follow Enos A. Mills, the driving force behind the 1915 founding of Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park in Trailblazer: the Adventures of a Nature Guide. Canoeing in the Wilderness chronicles an 1857 two-week sojourn in the pristine woodlands of Maine by essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Bird lovers will enjoy John James Audubon’s historic volume of stunning works offering realistic portrayals of American birds in the Treasury of Audubon Birds. With over 120 color plates depicting state flowers, familiar grasses, and more, The Book of Wild Flowers will delight amateur and professional botanists, home gardeners, and flower painters. Professional and amateur enthusiasts alike will discover valuable information about fossils in The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life. Get away from it all with expert advice on everything you need for a successful expedition in How to Live in the Woods. See the forest and the trees and more of nature on our site.
Great Gifts for History Buffs
Significant stories of our country’s past make wonderful gifts for history buffs. Visit the American History and Americana category in our gift guide. You’ll find absorbing topics like the Daring Deeds of Pioneer Women and the grim realities and challenges they faced during the early American expansion and Western settlements. Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, an official NASA publication, offers a thrilling insider’s view of the 1969 moon landing space program. Drawing D-Day: An Artist’s Journey Through War offers an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind testimony in words and images by a soldier and artist who took part in one of the most famous military operations of World War II. Take a walk back into the age of catalogs with American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., and The 1945 Sears Christmas Book. Read about the march on Washington by 15,000 World War l veterans demanding payment from the Herbert Hoover administration of the bonus promised to them eight years earlier for their wartime service in The Bonus Army: An American Epic.
Great Gifts of Arts, Crafts, and Music
Research has shown that hobbies are great de-stressors, making you happier and relaxed. Dover has a fantastic selection of books about art instruction, cooking, crochet and knitting, music, and origami and paper crafts. Learn to paint and draw animals from award-winning artist Frederic Sweney’s The Art of Painting and Drawing Animals. Spread the dough around, following over 500 recipes in The Bread Book. Crochet cute kitchen décor ornaments with Adorable Fruits & Vegetables to Crochet. Music lovers will enjoy noted guitarist John Fahey’s textual and musicological examination of Delta Blues great Charlie Patton: Expanded Edition. Paper folders of all skill levels can create better models with fewer steps following the instructions of master origamist John Montroll Origami Fold-by-Fold.
Great Gifts for Relaxation: Coloring Books
A splendid gift for expressing creativity and relieving stress is coloring books. Children and adults can enter a world of artistic fulfillment, coloring designs that include architecture, botanicals, fashion, flowers, geometrics, holidays, nature, scenic landscapes, transportation, and other subjects. Enter the fantastic world of doodles with The Official Doodle Boy™ Coloring Book. Discover the tranquility of Japanese landscape and design with the Japanese Harmony Coloring Book: Anti-Stress Coloring Book. Get inspired by the Joys of Nature Coloring Book from the Creative Haven® Adult Coloring Books or color picturesque holiday scenes from Creative Haven® Cozy Christmas. Have yourself a meowy Christmas with 31 purrfectly playful holiday illustrations from the Creative Haven® Christmas Cats Coloring Book.
Great Gifts of Self-Help, Development, and Spiritual Renewal
Life can be challenging, not only for yourself but for your family and friends. Give an inspiring book that fosters a spirit of personal and professional growth and exploration from Ixia Press. Write Joy into your life with Happy: The Journal. Learn to thrive during your most challenging and darkest moments with Night Bloomers. Discover your superpower from Today’s Wonder Women. The Little Book of Tenderness offers inspirational quotes from luminaries such as Jane Austen and Pope Francis. Improve your life with The Power of Crystals. Visit our top gift picks of self-help for more of these tools to help strengthen your own personal development and/or share them as gifts with your circle of friends and family too!
You can shop the Holiday Shop & Gift Guide for seasonal books too! You’ll find a festive variety of books about Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and other seasonal titles. Don’t forget to stuff those stockings with Little Activity Books, Stickers, Notebooks, Temporary Tattoos, and more for just $2.50 or less! Start your holiday shopping now and Get FREE shipping every day for all U.S. orders when you spend $50 or more!
