Great Reads – Books for All
“Read a great book just the other day — “The History of Glue” ——– I couldn’t put it down! ”
― Unknown
To pull together this book list, we scoured a year’s worth of reviews and best-of lists, polled our staff, and reached out to voracious readers and writers for their top picks. Spanning a variety of genres, from fiction to nonfiction to short stories and essays, these books look at life through a kaleidoscope of experience.
![Dealing with China 🇨🇳 Kindle Edition](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/01/SNAG-0000-6/206734738.jpg)
Dealing with China 🇨🇳 Kindle Edition
DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.
![The John Wayne Code 🤠 Wit, Wisdom and Timeless Advice](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/01/SNAG-0000-8/3560251640.jpg)
The John Wayne Code 🤠
This stunning, gift-worthy book makes the perfect companion for any John Wayne fan who wants to make their life a little more legendary.
![I Choose You (Every Day & Always) 💝 A Gift Book for your Partner](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/01/SNAG-0001-10/962672292.jpg)
A Gift Book for your Partner
Combines contemporary illustrations and thoughtful sentiments to honor the life you have built together and the commitment you make over and over again.
![Vintage Movie Stars - Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, & the Dark Hollywood Dream](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2018/10/SNAG-0000-2/2178284870.jpg)
Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, & the Dark Hollywood Dream
Sam Staggs's Close-Up On Sunset Boulevard tells the story of this extravagant work, from the writing, casting and filming to the disastrous previews that made Paramount consider shelving it.
![Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 Life Coach](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-05-14_50_36/3589438829.png)
Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 Life Coach
How the machinations that enabled Putin to undermine the USA could also help you take control of your mundane life.
![Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency 📚 Hardcover. Presidential gifts.](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/03/SNAG-0000-5/4231279598.jpg)
Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency
Biden nearly imploded before his run for the presidency after a relentless string of misfires left him freefalling in polls and nearly broke.
![National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America 🦉](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/08/SNAG-0001-5/1132382663.jpg)
National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America 🦉
With more than 2.75 million copies in print, this perennial bestseller is the most frequently updated of all North American bird field guides.
![Mother Goddam ⭐⭐ The Story of the Career of Bette Davis 📚](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/10/SNAG-0001/3489837148.jpg)
Mother Goddam ⭐⭐ Career of Bette Davis 📚
A sympathetic biography of the 10-time Academy Award nominated Hollywood legend, written by Stine with "running commentary" by Davis inserted throughout the text in red ink.
![Spetsnaz 🇷🇺 Russia’s Elite Special Forces](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/07/SNAG-0000-12/2921613082.jpg)
Spetsnaz 🇷🇺 Russia’s Elite Special Forces
Spetsnaz offers an absorbing guide to the world's most effective special force: Their missions, orders-of-battle, equipment & operational vocation.
![Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Volume 1: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2018/12/SNAG-0001-4/2096156961.jpg)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Irwin Allen’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Volume One documents the creation and production of the most challenging TV series up to its time.
![Good Moaning France 🇫🇷 Officer Crabtree's Fronch Phrose Berk](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/12/SNAG-0000-13/3422901882.jpg)
Good Moaning France 🇫🇷
Now you can 'spook Fronch' like the policeman in ’Allo ’Allo!
Based on a favourite character from the BBC TV sitcom.
![Yoga Dogs 🐶 Hardcover 📚 Yoga & Meditation](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/12/SNAG-0001-5/4056863171.jpg)
Yoga Dogs 🐶 Hardcover 📚
Relax, breathe in and hold it, stretch and stop that tail from wagging.
The hilarious collection of photographs captures a broad cross-section of loveable canines doing yoga.
![Machinima For Dummies 🎬](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/11/SNAG-0000-6/70550519.jpg)
Machinima For Dummies 🎬
Use this book to learn how you can, at little or no expense, make virtually any movie using Machinima.
![The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump 💐🦋🌷](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/10/SNAG-0000-1/1920549691.jpg)
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump 💐🦋🌷
What poetry lurks in Donald Trump? Discover the mercurial lyrical genius of Donald Trump today! It’s a new word order.
![Vintage Movie Stars - The Night of the Hunter 📚 A Thriller (Vintage Movie Classic) Paperback](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2018/10/SNAG-0000-3/1860845097.jpg)
The Night of the Hunter 📚 A Thriller (Vintage Movie Classic) Paperback
The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.
![The Classical Music Book 🎵 Big Ideas Simply Explained](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/01/SNAG-0000-1/805989316.jpg)
Classical Music Book 🎵 Big Ideas Explained
Where did the system of musical notation come from? How do composers construct symphonies? The Classical Music Book answers these questions and more.
![Bear Says Thanks 🐻 (Bear Books)](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/11/SNAG-0001-1/1593686951.jpg)
Bear Says Thanks 🐻 (Bear Books)
Karma Wilson's playful text and Jane Chapman's charming illustrations bring to life this celebration of family and friendship.
![Scottish Witchcraft 🧙 A Complete Guide to Spells, & Magickal Tools](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/11/SNAG-0000-4/1258735103.jpg)
Scottish Witchcraft 🧙 A Complete Guide
Discover the secrets to divination, scrying, faerie magic, and communicating with ancestors. Explore Scottish Witchcraft & magic rituals.
![The Video Editing Handbook 🎦 Kindle Edition](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/11/SNAG-0001-6/3190694053.jpg)
The Video Editing Handbook 🎦 Kindle Edition
The Video Editing Handbook is ideal for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS and will teach you the basics of easy, clean video editing
![Blank Comic Book 💥 Draw your own Comics!](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/04/SNAG-0004-2/2576443352.jpg)
Blank Comic Book 💥 Draw your own Comics!
This Blank Comic book has 120 pages of seven panel action layout templates. Good Quality white paper. Size 8.5 x11 (large). High quality Matte cover. Perfect for sketching and drawing Comic strips. Suitable for students, artists, teens, kids and adults.
![Ottolenghi Test Kitchen 👨🍳 Bold, Vegetable-forward Recipes](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/10/SNAG-0000-3/3746718152.jpg)
Ottolenghi 👨🍳 Vegetable-forward Recipes
Extra Good Things is all about the secret culinary weapons—condiments, sauces, dressings, and more—that can make a good meal spectacular.
![The World According to Mister Rogers 🧠 Important Things to Remember](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/01/SNAG-0001-7/3455508342.jpg)
Important Things to Remember
A timeless collection of wisdom on love, friendship, respect, individuality, and honesty from the beloved PBS series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
![Supreme Quotes and Inspired Musings from Ruth Bader Ginsburg](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/12/SNAG-0000-12/741132485.jpg)
Quotes from Ruth Bader Ginsburg
An inspired collection of some of the most empowering and impactful quotes from the powerhouse associate justice of the US Supreme Court.
![Persona 4 Volume 1 (Persona 4 Gn) 👧🏻 Illustrated Paperback](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/05/SNAG-0000-4/658682740.jpg)
Persona 4 Volume 1 👧🏻 Illustrated Paperback
Great read for new persona fans or diehard old ones. Has a lot of scenes that were not in the game or anime. Highly recommended!
![40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead 🏡](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/07/SNAG-0000-7/3559756119.jpg)
40 Projects - Building a Backyard Homestead 🏡
Building a chicken tractor, chicken coop, beehives, installing fences, self-watering garden beds, aquaponics, hydroponics, solar & wind powered systems & more...
![How the West Brought War to Ukraine 💥 NATO Expansion](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/09/SNAG-0001-1/1334987257.jpg)
How the West Brought War to Ukraine 💥
How the US-led West actively provoked conflict, subjecting its own citizens—and the rest of the world—to the risk of nuclear war.
![The Palestine Nakba 🇵🇸 Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/05/SNAG-0009/2023873733.jpg)
The Palestine Nakba 🇵🇸 Decolonising History
In 2019 Palestinians commemorated the 70th anniversary of The #Nakba - the most traumatic catastrophe that ever befell them... until now
![Ultimate Paper Airplanes for Kids 🧑✈️ The Best Guide to Paper Airplanes!](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/08/SNAG-0000-6/2532589357.jpg)
Ultimate Paper Airplanes for Kids
The ultimate collection of easy-to-fold, high-performance planes for kids who are fascinated by aviation, technology, or origami.
![The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History 🇺🇸](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/10/SNAG-0000-4/220169363.jpg)
Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is all you need for the truth about America—objective and unvarnished.
![Like a Lampshade In a Whorehouse 📚 My Life In Comedy by Phyllis Diller](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2018/12/SNAG-0001-8/1940389274.jpg)
📚 My Life In Comedy by Phyllis Diller
Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse is Phyllis Diller's own story about the struggle and the pain behind the comedy and the success.
![Excalibur Vol. 1 Omnibus (Excalibur Omnibus) 💥 Hardcover](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/03/SNAG-0000-4/347855886.jpg)
Excalibur Omnibus 💥 Hardcover
Chris Claremont and Alan Davis' 1980s classic EXCALIBUR gets the Omnibus treatment!
![Choose Your Own Apocalypse 💥 With Kim Jong-un & Friends](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/07/SNAG-0000-9/216291991.jpg)
Your Apocalypse 💥 Kim Jong-un & Friends
In this book, meet the leaders with the future of civilisation in their hands. YOUR wits and judgement will decide how we all inevitably die.
![Inspire Me! 📚 A father-daughter book of quotations to Motivate, Teach & Inspire](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/12/SNAG-0001-10/4210144958.jpg)
Inspire Me! 📚 Book of Quotations
Inspire Me! is a compilation of quotes from people both widely and never before published.
![All About All About Eve 📚The Complete Behind-the-Scenes Story](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/01/SNAG-0000-3/2269392414.jpg)
All About All About Eve 📚
Sam Staggs has written the definitive account of the making of this fascinating movie and its enormous influence on both film and popular culture.
![The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book 🌐 The Behind-the-Scenes Story of a Television Classic Paperback](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2020/07/SNAG-0000/1511232522.jpg)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Book 🌐 The Behind-the-Scenes Story of a Television Classic Paperback
Drawing on extensive interviews with the cast and crew of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Jon Heitland has assembled an incredibly comprehensive, fully illustrated account of the show's history.
![Goodnight, Sleepy Joe 📚 Paperback Presidential Gifts](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2021/03/SNAG-0000-7/1417042564.jpg)
Goodnight, Sleepy Joe 📚 Paperback
Goodnight, Sleepy Joe is a satirical story about Joe Biden and his plethora of gaffes during his run for the Presidency. Another of our Presidential gifts.
![Little Critter 🎃 Just a Special Thanksgiving](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/11/SNAG-0000-1/24165605.jpg)
Little Critter 🎃 Just a Special Thanksgiving
Little Critter is going to have a Thanksgiving he'll never forget! This 8x8 storybook is perfect for story time and includes a sheet of stickers!
![Memory Craft 🧠 Improve Your Memory](https://yourgiftlists.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2022/01/Untitled-2/3836362420.jpg)
Memory Craft 🧠 Improve Your Memory
Memory Craft introduces the best memory techniques humans have ever devised, from ancient times and the Middle Ages, to methods used by today's memory athletes.
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