25 gifts to surprise and delight your favorite book lover. This is basically my Christmas wish list.
1. I read past my bedtime pillow cover. ($35)
2. A Novel Journal: Pride and Prejudice. The lines of this adorable journal is actually text.
4. Library socks from Out of Print. ($10)
5. The collected works of Jane Austen, in clothbound hardcover from Penguin Classics. ($107)
6. What Would Kathleen Kelly Do? tote (priceless) Now I’m just taunting you, because it’s all. sold. out. (Sob.) Runner up: this Shop Around the Corner tote is still in stock ($14.95)
7. Book darts. ($10) These have my heart, forever and ever. I bought some more for myself this year for Will to put in my stocking. Or buy these special custom Modern Mrs Darcy or What Should I Read Next book darts.
8. Star Wars Little Golden Book box set. ($17) These will be under our tree.
9. Reading is sexy small bumper sticker. ($1)Â Mine lives in my office.
10. Kate Spade Bella Bookshelf pencil pouch. ($30) My mom surprised me with this last Christmas and I love it. To go above and beyond: fill it with fabulous pens and the holy grail of pencil sharpeners.
11. Goodnight Mr. Darcy. ($12)Â Goodnight Moon gets a makeover.
12. Louisa May Alcott quote mug. “She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain.” Yep.
13. Strong Coffee Long Books pencil pouch from Lucy Jane. ($23)
14. Through the Wardrobe book lovers’ soy candle from Frostbeard. ($18) This soy candle smells of Aspen winter, applewood, and spruce tree. If Narnia isn’t your scene, try one of the numerous bookish scents: Gatsby’s Mansion, Sherlock’s Study, Pemberley Gardens, the Shire, or Reading at the Café.
15. A reading journal. Try my favorite $6 off-the-shelf journal, or customize your own using this free download.
16. BookBook tech case. ($35-$80) Available for iPad, iPhone, and Macbook. My husband loves his BookBook iPad cover.
17. Eat Sleep Read print. ($5)Â This instant digital download makes a perfect last minute gift.
18. Aqua Notes waterproof notepad. ($7) For capturing all those great ideas you have in the shower.
19. Jane Austen bandages. ($7) Also available: Shakespeare and Edgar Allen Poe.
20. Personal library kit. ($13) Old-fashioned library circulation methods for your home library.
21. Literary matchbooks. ($2-3 each). Check your local indie bookstore for a treasure trove of great stocking stuffers like these. 2
22. Library card note cards. ($8) I’d dearly love to jot all my notes on these beauties.
23. I saw her in the library print. ($36) Does the remind you of a book lover in your life? This print is for her.
24. A year of good reading. (approx $225) Available from British bookseller Foxed Books. “First they’ll receive an invitation to come and join us for tea and cake at the bookshop (or by way of Skype if it’s more convenient) so that they can tell us about the kind of books they enjoy and find most interesting. Based on this we’ll put together a selection of titles carefully tailored to their own personal tastes and send them a paperback book a month throughout the year. This gift can also be tailored to children of any age.” SWOON.
25. Young readers’ book of the month club. ( $98 for 6 months; $198 for 12) Readers will receive one fantastic book in the mail each month. Available for three different age groups. I’m drooling.
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These are such good ideas — I would like one of each for myself 🙂 Excited to shop this list for others though too — thanks for sharing!!
Great list! I just ordered the Star Wars books, a Harry Potter matchbook, and the “saw her in library” print! Great stocking ideas!!
Oh these are all fabulous! I don’t have #10, but I have the same Kate Spade print on a large tumbler with straw and lid. We stumbled across in in a local gift shop and my dear mom bought it for me.
I will add one more – https://www.etsy.com/shop/BookScentsCandles
This Etsy shop does book themed candles too. I am particularly fond of her candles because she has Outlander themed ones (I have “Claire”).
Those candles are fantastic.
So many cute ideas! My son is definitely getting that Star Wars set.
What a fabulous list! The Jane Austen bandaids are too much!
Can we be friends? And I’ll buy some of these for you abs you buy them for me and all will be right with the world?
No, seriously though, I wrote a FB post the other night asking my talk girlfriends where they get their shirts so they don’t have short-sleeve-itis, and wanted to tag you! I kept thinking “Modern Mrs Darcy will have a great answer”
I appreciate that. 🙂
GAH!!!!
You totally just saved the day for me, Anne! The Star Wars golden books are exactly just the very thing!!
Thank you!!
Hurray!
Do you have a good book light recommendation? Thanks for these!
My kids all have ultra thin book lights from Mighty Brite, but I couldn’t find them online when I just did a search. I do like the brand and it has a good reputation.
Just ordered several pairs of those socks. They might end up in MY stocking too!
Anne, I have no words… a truly extraordinary gift list! Easily the best I’ve seen this year! Tons of ideas I’d be proud to actually use and give. Love this!!!
My mom made me my own Library Kit when I was about 8. It was a cardboard “school box” with a date stamp, ink pad, papers, and pencils. It was the Best Present Ever!
That is fantastic!
This is the best gift guide I’ve seen so far. Thank you!!!
Those socks!! I’m sending that link to my mom right now because they are absolutely perfect!
I saw that Kate Spade pencil case in B&N the other day and drooled over it but I didn’t buy it. I might just go back and gift it to myself.
Fabulous! My daughter is an avid reader and you just solved a Christmas dilemnma. Also, I’m definitely ordering the print for her bedroom when we move back to the States next year. This has been the most helpful list ever! Thank you!!
I’m so glad!
What a great list! I am definitely adding the library kit to my wish list and that journal with Jane Austin’s words as lines is genious.
Such great finds and ideas! And I am thrilled that you listed the Star Wars set; my oldest recently became obsessed with it and this will PERFECT! Already clicked through to buy! (And quite a few might have been added to my list as well 🙂
I love all your book lover recommendations! You find some really great things. 🙂 I came across this etsy store and thought of you and wondered if anyone has ever sent it your way. Book covers as phone and tablet covers! (Plus I think she has some other things, too.) So cute! https://www.etsy.com/shop/chicklitdesigns?ref=l2-shopheader-name
Thanks for your blog. 🙂
Got me some Book Darts! Well…got them for my Wife and Daughters Stocking, My Daughter is a Liberal Arts major at Sac State and these will come in handy for her school and pleasure reading.
…I might be stealing a few to use myself.