Holigay Gift Guide: You're Just Really Into Books

Holigay Gift Guide: You’re Just Really Into Books

Nov 21, 2017

What do you get a reader when you don’t know what they’ve read? Things that aren’t books! And also books about books. Lean in.

For Their House

Autostraddle Gift Guide Books — [1] Agate Bookend ($16) [2] Live Edge Wood Bookend ($17) [3] Library Card Mug ($12) [4] Mighty Bright Light ($12) [5] Wondershelf ($28) [6] Harry Potter Butterbeer Candle ($28) [7] Knock Knock Personal Library Kit ($15)

It’s not just about the books; it’s about everything around them.

For Playing

The problem slash greatest asset of reading is that it happens most effectively alone, and even though a good 90% of my end game in life involves sitting sideways and very silently on one end of a couch with a book while friends and loved ones and casual sexual partners sit very silently on other furniture nearby, sometimes you just want to talk to living breathing people you’re not making up in your head, you know? Anyway Scrabble is perfect. These other games look okay, too.

For Their Look

Autostraddle Gift Guide Books To Wear — [1] Commodity Book (also a travel spray) [2] Banned Book Socks [3] Lithographs Tee ($34) [4] Read A Fucking Book Pin [5] Lesbian Book Pendant ($15) [6] Librarian pin ($7) [7] Library Book Necklace ($9)

Literally reek of reading with book-scented perfume, exude bookishness with a subtly placed pin or necklace, or just wear the full text of your favourite classic novel on you at all times.

For Their Mind

Are books about books the perfect kind of book? You decide. (They’re not but they’re fun.)

Ryan Yates

Ryan Yates was the NSFW Editor (2013–2018) and Literary Editor for Autostraddle.com, with bylines in Nylon, Refinery29, The Toast, Bitch, The Daily Beast, Jezebel, and elsewhere. They live in Los Angeles and also on twitter and instagram.