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FICTION FOR THE POLITICAL FICTION FAN
BEST GIFT FOR THE AVID READER
The Laughing Monsters
Lila
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Denis Johnson 50 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $25.00)
FOR THE DYSTOPIAN READER
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 70
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Marilynne Robinson 40 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $26.00)
FOR THE CRAZIES IN YOUR LIFE
The Emerald Light in the Air Donald Antrim 80
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BEST GIFT FOR THE ANGLOPHILE
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel 30
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FOR THE FAN OF DEBUT NOVELS
Wolf In White Van John Darnielle 60
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BEST GIFT FOR THAT 90’S GIRL
How To Build a Girl Caitlin Moran 29
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FOR THE MURAKAMI LOVER
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami 35
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NON-FICTION BEST GIFT FOR THAT KIND OF GIRL
Not That Kind of Girl
FOR THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE
What If?
Lena Dunham 40
Randall Munroe 60
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FOR THE GOOD FEMINIST
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay 39
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FOR THE HUMOR FAN
A Load of Hooey Bob Odenkirk 95
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BEST GIFT FOR A MANHATTANITE
This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Naomi Klein 95
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BEST GIFT FOR EXISTENTIALIST
The Meaning of Human Existence Edward O. Wilson 55
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BEST GIFT FOR THE NERD
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
BEST GIFT FOR THE HISTORIAN
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavor
Walter Isaacson 50
Martin Meredith 50
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BIOGRAPHIES BEST GIFT FOR THE NAYSAYER
Yes Please
Amy Poehler 95
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BEST GIFT FOR THE PLAYWRITE
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh John Lahr 95
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FOR THE MEMOIR LOVER
FOR THE POETIC MATHEMATICIAN
Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Ada’s Algorithm
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Charles M. Blow 30 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $27.00)
BEST GIFT FOR THE NARCISSIST
Watch Me
Anjelica Huston 19
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James Essinger 35 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $25.95)
FOR THE JAZZ ENTHUSIAST
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities Herbie Hancock 95
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BEST GIFT FOR FANS OF AWESOME
Choose Your Own Autobiography
I’ll Drink To That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
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BEST GIFT TO CELEBRATE WITH
Betty Halbreich 15 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $27.95)
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FOOD BEST GIFT FOR THE FOODIE
Plenty More
Yottam Ottolenghi 50
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BEST GIFT FOR THE SECRET CHEF
The Secret Recipes Dominique Ansel 50
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BEST GIFT FOR THE NYC FOODIE
Prune
Gabrielle Hamilton 50
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FOR THE CLASSY DRINKER
Death & Co.: Modern Classic Cocktails
David Kaplan & Nick Fauchald & Alex Day 95
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FOR THE FOUL-MOUTHED CHEF
BEST GIFT FOR THE SPICE LOVER
Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
Mexico: The Cookbook
Thug Kitchen 49
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Margarita Carrillo Arronte 95
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FOR THE COOKIE LOVER
Brooks Headley’s Fancy Desserts Brooks Headley 95
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FOR THE RESTAURANT GROUPIE
The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food Charles Phan 95
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ART BEST GIFT FOR THE PAINTER
FOR THE 3D ARTIST
Egon Schiele: Portraits
33 Artists in 3 Acts
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BEST GIFT FOR THE FASHIONISTA
Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography Charlotte Cotton & Martin Harrison, Editors 50
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Sarah Thornton 25 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $26.95)
BEST GIFT FOR THE ART NERD
Josef Albers: Minimum Means, Maximum Effect Josef Albers 50
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FOR THE MODERN PAINTER
The Image as Burden Marlene Dumas 50
FOR THE WORST DRESSER
Women in Clothes
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Sheila Heti & Heidi Julavits & Leanne Shapton 95
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FOR THE GLAMOROUS MINIMALIST
Halston: Inventing American Fashion Lesley Frowick 50
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FOR THE PSYCHEDELIC AUNT
Nick Cave: Epitome
Ryan Newbanks, Editor 50
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE COLOR PHOTOGRAPHER
Early Black and White
FOR THE LANDSCAPE LOVER
Woodlands
Saul Leiter 95
Bernard Fuchs 50
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FOR THE ARTISTIC SCRAPBOOKER
ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer Duane Michals 95
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BEST GIFT FOR THE ROMANTIC
Rome
Anders Petersen 95
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FOR THE URBAN EXPLORER
New York: Metaphysics of the Urban Landscape Gabriele Croppi 50
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BEST GIFT FOR YOUR DAD
In America
Robert Frank 50
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FOR THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER
Exiles
Josef Koudelka 50
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BEST GIFT FOR THE EYE-SPY
Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera Robert Shore, Editor 95
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COMICS FOR THE GRAPHIC NOVEL LOVER
Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 95
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FOR THE SCOTT PILGRIM FAN
Seconds
Bryan Lee O’Malley 50
$22
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FOR THE COMIC CONNOISSEUR
The Best American Comics 2014
Hip Hop Family Tree Box Set
$22
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Scott McCloud, Editor 50 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $25.00)
FOR THE RELUCTANT LEARNER
Ed Piskor 95
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FOR YOUR DEPRESSED FRIEND
Marx: An Illustrated Biography
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
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BEST GIFT FOR THE POP GODDESS
The Wicked + The Divine Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie 95
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BEST GIFT FOR THE BEAT BOXER
Roz Chast 20
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FOR THOSE STUDYING ABROAD
An Age of License Lucy Knisley 99
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CHILDREN FOR THE MINI PETA MEMBER
FOR THE TREASURE HUNTER
Animalium
Sam & Dave Dig a Hole
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BEST GIFT FOR THE OLYMPIAN
Mac Barnett & Jon Klassen 29 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $16.99)
BEST GIFT FOR THE WORD LOVER
The Blood of Olympus
The Book with No Pictures
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Rick Riordan 95 STRAND PRICE
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FOR THE FUTURE NOVELIST
Once upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for All the Letters Oliver Jeffers 29
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B.J. Novak 19 STRAND PRICE
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FOR YOUR FIRST FAMILY TRIP
The Long Haul (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 9) Jeff Kinney 55
$12
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FOR THAT GIRL YOU LOVE
Sisters
Little Elliot, Big City
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Raina Telgemeier 89 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $10.99)
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FOR THE PRESCHOOLER
Mike Curato 29 STRAND PRICE
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Y.A.
FOR THE VAMPIRE
I’ll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson 19
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BEST GIFT FOR MERMAIDS
Atlanta
Bernard Fuchs 95
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BEST GIFT FOR THE SORCERESS
Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen Garth Nix 95
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BEST GIFT FOR A CHILD’S LIBRARY
Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 29
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FOR THE LIL’ SYLVIA PLATH LOVER
Belzhar
BEST GIFT FOR THE IN-BETWEENER
Afterworlds
Meg Wolitzer 19
Scott Westerfeld 95
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BEST GIFT FOR THE OUTSIDER
Four: A Divergent Collection Veronica Roth 19
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FOR THE ADULT YA READER
We Were Liars
E. Lockhart 19
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THE WELL-BEHAVED CHILD
Orlando: A Biography
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Virginia Woolf 00
Frances Hodgson Burnett 00
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LIMITED SIGNED EDITION ISBN: 1499327374
THE PHOTOGRAPHY ENTHUSIAST
Saul Leiter Saul Leiter 00
$450
STRAND PRICE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISBN: 9111165669
THE CLASSICS COLLECTOR
The Iliad / The Odyssey Homer/Rieu 00
$200
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FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISBN: 9110996893
FOR THE VICTORIAN HEROINE
Life & Works of the Sisters Bronte
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HAWTHORNE EDITION, 1899 ISBN: 9111196432
THE ADVENTUROUS ONE
The Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 00
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FOR THE YANKEES FAN
The Closer: My Story
Unaccustomed Earth
$75
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Mariano Rivera 00 STRAND PRICE
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BOOK PLATE ISBN: 9111208708
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THE MODERN READER
Jhumpa Lahiri 00 STRAND PRICE FIRST EDITION ISBN: 9110884378
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SIGNED FOR THE FRANK BASCOMBE FAN
Let Me Be Frank With You Richard Ford 99
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FOR THE PLEASURE SEEKER
Beautiful You
Chuck Palahniuk 95
$25
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FOR ONE WHO HAS EVERYTHING
One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories B.J. Novak 95
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FOR THOSE STUCK IN A RUT
The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 00
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BEST GIFT FOR GRANDMA
The Children Act Ian McEwan 00
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FOR THE HISTORICAL FICTION BUFF
Perfidia
James Ellroy 95
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Prince Lestat Anne Rice 95
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The Bone Clocks
David Mitchell 00
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STAFF PICKS FOR YOUR MELANCHOLIC FRIEND
My Struggle: Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgaard 40
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BEST GIFT FOR THE BEACH BUM
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The first in an autobiographical fiction series is intensely honest, with points of dark humor and bleakness throughout. If you don’t shy away from melancholic storylines you must give this book a shot. Some call Knausgaard the modern day Proust.
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The Vacationers
Emma Straub 25
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BEST GIFT FOR THE LAND LOVER
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals Patricia Lockwood 95
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BEST GIFT FOR A HUGGER
Hug Machine
Scott Campbell 29
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The Vacationers by Emma Straub is the perfect book to tote along with you. Love, lies, deceit and humor combine for the perfect lighthearted read. Anyone who has ever been on vacation as an adult with their family can easily identify with the characters Emma Straub creates. Note: Book is best read with a glass of wine within reach.
Maud P.
Strand Bookseller
Patricia Lockwood’s poetry touches sometimes gropes - the heart. Think hallucinatory pastorals; think 3rd wave feminism filtered through tumblr; think the rug pulled out from under you and presented back as an Onion headline. It’s “crazygood” to quote myself.
Ben B.
Strand Bookseller
Scott Campbell’s The Hug Machine shows just how much good can come from efficient and gratuitous hugging.
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Brianne S.
Marketing Manager
Matthew Thomas’s We Are Not Ourselves is a novel filled with deeply moving characters. Keep the tissues close by while you flip through the pages of this masterful debut novel.
FOR THE BOOKCLUB LEADER
We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel Matthew Thomas 20
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FOR THE ONE WHO NEVER CALLS
Strand Bookseller
Catherine Lacey’s melancholic debut novel tells the story of a woman who leaves behind her listless life and marriage to explore a much less predictable foreign countryside. Elyria is bored with stability when she books a one-way ticket to New Zealand, where she drifts from town to town motivated by nothing but the vague idea of seeking out new experiences.
Constance F.
Main Floor Manager
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is an award winning coming of age story about love, identity, and family.
Nobody Is Ever Missing Catherine Lacey 60
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BEST GIFT FOR SECRET SEEKERS
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Saenz 95
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An often referenced volume in my home library. Koolhaas takes you on a ‘delirious’ trip through the urban space that is New York, along the way making connections between culture and architecture. Richly illustrated and hard to put down. There is much to absorb and play with within the pages of this great book!
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FOR THE SANE NEW YORKER
Delirious New York Rem Koolhaas 50
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