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If you're looking for some great book gifts, Read Street is here to help. For the rest of the week, we'll offer suggestions in all sorts of categories: biographies, sci-fi, children's and audiobooks.
But we'd also like to hear from you. Are you planning to give the gift of reading this year? Have you found a great book-related gadget? Let us know -- we'll choose some lucky commenters for our own holiday giveaway.
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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.
Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme. 
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I'm giving pretty much everyone I know a couple of books for Christmas. My current favorite author to share with people is Marcus Sakey (his latest, Good People, is also ridiculously cheap on Amazon right now). Another friend is getting Libba Bray's realms trilogy.
A couple of people are getting my Favorite Book Ever, Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind.
Posted by: Kelly | December 9, 2008 12:43 PM
Anne Rice's Jesus books
Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series
Ian McEwan's Atonement
Anything Hemingway...
Posted by: Erika Robuck | December 9, 2008 4:54 PM
I always give my (grown) son a book for Christmas. It's sort of our tradition. I usually give him Carl Hiaasen's latest, although that's not due out until late January this time. (Before Hiaasen it was John D. McDonald who up and died.) I got him Micheal Olesker's Tonight at Six since Son has made some snarky remarks about local news recently. Besides, I was in Greetings & Readings one day when Olesker was signing books. It was like a sign.
I sometimes give my (also grown) daughter books. She's not really A Reader but I'm sure that The Perfect Book could change all of that.
I get the grandkids books because I want them to be Readers.
Posted by: Eve | December 10, 2008 3:29 PM
I committed to buying books for the holidays (see www.buybooksfortheholidays.com).
Of all my purchases so far, one of my favorites is Julie Gabriel's *The Green Beauty Guide*. I purchased this, along with the ingredients to make her "Hand Rescue Cream" for my sister. I know she'll love it!
I've bought several of the Klutz craft book/kits for kids, a how-to-draw manga book with paper and colored pencils for my nephew, suduko and nice mechanical pencils for my father, etc.
It's fun to get creative with my gift list :)
Posted by: Dawn - She Is Too Fond Of Books | December 12, 2008 5:56 PM