December Book Recommendations

GiftLit has the perfect gift for everyone on your holiday list this season, with gifts for children, for teens, for women, for men, for couples, and even for families. Choose from our collections selected by literary experts or use our customization features to build your own unique collection. Each subscription comes with personalized bookplates to make your gift extra special and best of all 10% of GiftLit’s profits go to organizations that promote literacy.

Read on to see our December recommendations and stay tuned for our picks for Best Books of the Year that are coming soon.


Holiday Book Recommendations

For Chanukah Ages 2 to 5
How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? by Jane Yolen





For Christmas Ages 2 to 5
The Christmas Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood





For Christmas Ages 5 to 8
The Santa Trap by Jonathan Emmett





December Book Recommendations

Children’s Book Recommendations

For Ages 2 to 5
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold

Part of our Great New Picture Books Age 2-5 collection.
See more recommendations for ages 2-5.


For Ages 5 to 8
Abe Lincoln's Dream by Lane Smith

Part of our Great New Picture Books Age 5-8 collection.
See more recommendations for ages 5-8.


For Ages 8 to 10
The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket by John Boyne

Part of our Favorites for Boys Age 8-10 collection.
See more recommendations for ages 8-10.


For Ages 10 to 12
Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green by Helen Phillips

Part of our Mysteries Age 10-12 collection.
See more recommendations for ages 10-12.


For Ages 12 to 14
Colin Fischer by Ashley Edward Miller

Part of our Favorites for Boys Age 12-14 collection.
See more recommendations for ages 12-14.


Teen Book Recommendations

For Teen Girls
What's Left of Me (Hybrid Chronicles #01) by Kat Zhang

Part of our Fiction for Teen Girls collection.
See more recommendations for teens.


For Teen Boys
Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal by Chris Colfer

Part of our Fiction for Teen Boys collection.
See more recommendations for teens.



Adult Book Recommendations

For Women
Astray by Emma Donoghue

Part of our Favorites for Women collection.
See more recommendations for women.


For Men
Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach

Part of our Fiction for Men collection.
See more recommendations for men.


For Fiction Fans
The Art Forger by Barbara Shapiro

Part of our Fiction for Women collection.
See more fiction recommendations.


For Nonfiction Fans
The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E Ricks

Part of our History collection.
See more nonfiction recommendations.


For Couples
Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust by Ina Garten

Part of our Cooking & Entertaining collection.
See more recommendations for couples.


For Mystery Fans
The Black Box by Michael Connelly

Part of our Mysteries & Thrillers collection.
See more mystery and thriller recommendations.


Family Book Recommendations

Family Read Alouds
Twelve Kinds of Ice by Ellen Bryan Obed

Part of our Read Aloud Ages 4-8 collection.
See more read aloud commendations for famiies.


Parent and Teen Reads
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman

Part of our Parent & Teen Hardcover Fiction collection.
See more recommendations for parent and teens.



We hope you share our love of literature and passion to inspire people of all ages to read and will consider GiftLit for your next gift purchase.

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