Book Suggestions For Everyone on Your Christmas List

"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures..." 

- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

Mystery:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

-Robert Louis Stevenson

And Then There Were None

-Agatha Christie

Romance:

Persuasion

-Jane Austen

Anna Karenina

-Leo Tolstoy

History:

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

-Tom Standage

The Inklings

- Humphrey Carpenter

Adventure:

Life of Pi

-Yann Martel

Spiritual:

Surprised by Joy

- C.S. Lewis

Homilies on the First Epistle of John

-Augustine

Health:

In Defense of Food

- Michael Pollan

Science Fiction:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

-Jules Verne

Pre-School Children:

Creature
- Andrew Zuckerman
(Incredible photographs of animals in this book!)

The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse

-Thornton Burgess

Learning to Read

(1st-3rd read themselves):

Amelia Bedelia

- Peggy Parish

The Boxcar Children

- Gertrude Chandler Warner

Elementary:

Peter Pan (not Disney, but the ACTUAL book)

- J.M. Barrie

The Secret Garden

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White

Pre-Teen (9-12):

A Wrinkle in Time

- Madeleine L'Engle

Little Women

-Louisa May Alcott

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

(The second movie will be in theaters this Christmas!)

Teenager:

1984

- George Orwell

Dracula

-Bram Stoker

The Picture of Dorian Gray

- Oscar Wilde

What about the person on my list who hates reading??

Buy them the book of one of their favorites movies. They may really enjoy reading it!