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FICTION FOR THE POLITICAL FICTION FAN

BEST GIFT FOR THE AVID READER

The Laughing Monsters

Lila

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$23

Denis Johnson 50 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $25.00)

FOR THE DYSTOPIAN READER

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer 70

$11

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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

$19

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BEST GIFT FOR THE ANGLOPHILE

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel 30

$24

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FOR THE FAN OF DEBUT NOVELS

Wolf In White Van John Darnielle 60

$21

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BEST GIFT FOR THAT 90’S GIRL

How To Build a Girl Caitlin Moran 29

$24

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FOR THE MURAKAMI LOVER

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Haruki Murakami 35

$23

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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

$14

$21

FOR THE HUMOR FAN

A Load of Hooey Bob Odenkirk 95

$17

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BEST GIFT FOR A MANHATTANITE

This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Naomi Klein 95

$26

BEST GIFT FOR EXISTENTIALIST

The Meaning of Human Existence Edward O. Wilson 55

$21

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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

$25

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BEST GIFT FOR THE PLAYWRITE

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh John Lahr 95

$35

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FOR THE MEMOIR LOVER

FOR THE POETIC MATHEMATICIAN

Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Ada’s Algorithm

$24

$23

Charles M. Blow 30 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $27.00)

BEST GIFT FOR THE NARCISSIST

Watch Me

Anjelica Huston 19

$25

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James Essinger 35 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $25.95)

FOR THE JAZZ ENTHUSIAST

Herbie Hancock: Possibilities Herbie Hancock 95

$26

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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

$23

$25

Neil Patrick Harris 40 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $26.00)

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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

$31

BEST GIFT FOR THE SECRET CHEF

The Secret Recipes Dominique Ansel 50

$31

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BEST GIFT FOR THE NYC FOODIE

Prune

Gabrielle Hamilton 50

$40

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FOR THE CLASSY DRINKER

Death & Co.: Modern Classic Cocktails

David Kaplan & Nick Fauchald & Alex Day 95

$35

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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

$22

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Margarita Carrillo Arronte 95

$44

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FOR THE COOKIE LOVER

Brooks Headley’s Fancy Desserts Brooks Headley 95

$26

FOR THE RESTAURANT GROUPIE

The Slanted Door: Modern Vietnamese Food Charles Phan 95

$35

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ART BEST GIFT FOR THE PAINTER

FOR THE 3D ARTIST

Egon Schiele: Portraits

33 Artists in 3 Acts

$58

$24

Alessandra Comini, Editor 50 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $65.00)

BEST GIFT FOR THE FASHIONISTA

Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography Charlotte Cotton & Martin Harrison, Editors 50

$76

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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

$58

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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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$26

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FOR THE GLAMOROUS MINIMALIST

Halston: Inventing American Fashion Lesley Frowick 50

$67

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FOR THE PSYCHEDELIC AUNT

Nick Cave: Epitome

Ryan Newbanks, Editor 50

$58

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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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$80

FOR THE ARTISTIC SCRAPBOOKER

ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer Duane Michals 95

$35

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$67

BEST GIFT FOR THE ROMANTIC

Rome

Anders Petersen 95

$44

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FOR THE URBAN EXPLORER

New York: Metaphysics of the Urban Landscape Gabriele Croppi 50

$40

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BEST GIFT FOR YOUR DAD

In America

Robert Frank 50

$49

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FOR THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER

Exiles

Josef Koudelka 50

$58

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BEST GIFT FOR THE EYE-SPY

Post-Photography: The Artist with a Camera Robert Shore, Editor 95

$35

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COMICS FOR THE GRAPHIC NOVEL LOVER

Saga Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples 95

$44

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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

$53

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?

$17

$25

Corrine Maier & Anne Simon 95 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $19.95)

BEST GIFT FOR THE POP GODDESS

The Wicked + The Divine Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie 95

$8

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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

$17

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CHILDREN FOR THE MINI PETA MEMBER

FOR THE TREASURE HUNTER

Animalium

Sam & Dave Dig a Hole

$31

$15

Jenny Broom & Katie Scott 50 STRAND PRICE (LIST PRICE: $35.00)

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

$17

$16

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

$24

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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

$9

$15

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

$16

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BEST GIFT FOR MERMAIDS

Atlanta

Bernard Fuchs 95

$16

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BEST GIFT FOR THE SORCERESS

Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen Garth Nix 95

$16

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BEST GIFT FOR A CHILD’S LIBRARY

Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 29

$15

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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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$16

BEST GIFT FOR THE OUTSIDER

Four: A Divergent Collection Veronica Roth 19

$16

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FOR THE ADULT YA READER

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart 19

$16

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THE WELL-BEHAVED CHILD

Orlando: A Biography

Little Lord Fauntleroy

$1500

$800

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

STRAND PRICE 2 VOLS, HALF MOROCCO ISBN: 9111046546

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED ISBN: 9110996893

FOR THE VICTORIAN HEROINE

Life & Works of the Sisters Bronte

$35000 STRAND PRICE

HAWTHORNE EDITION, 1899 ISBN: 9111196432

THE ADVENTUROUS ONE

The Voyage of the Liberdade Joshua Slocum 00

$150

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FOR THE YANKEES FAN

The Closer: My Story

Unaccustomed Earth

$75

$25

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

$27

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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

$24

FOR THOSE STUCK IN A RUT

The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 00

$28

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BEST GIFT FOR GRANDMA

The Children Act Ian McEwan 00

$25

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FOR THE HISTORICAL FICTION BUFF

Perfidia

James Ellroy 95

$28

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FOR THE “DAMNED”

Prince Lestat Anne Rice 95

$28

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FOR THE FANTASY LOVER

The Bone Clocks

David Mitchell 00

$30

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STAFF PICKS FOR YOUR MELANCHOLIC FRIEND

My Struggle: Book 1 Karl Ove Knausgaard 40

$14

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BEST GIFT FOR THE BEACH BUM

Jane K.

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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

$24

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BEST GIFT FOR THE LAND LOVER

Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals Patricia Lockwood 95

$17

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BEST GIFT FOR A HUGGER

Hug Machine

Scott Campbell 29

$15

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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.

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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

$25

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FOR THE ONE WHO NEVER CALLS

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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

$12

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BEST GIFT FOR SECRET SEEKERS

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Benjamin Alire Saenz 95

$8

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Miguel S.

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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

$31

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