![]() In her reading journal, Bogel lists the titles, authors, and formats of the books she has read, along with details of where she got each one. Lacey also uses Leuchtturm notebooks and says an especially thoughtful gift would be to get one embossed with a friend’s favorite literary quote. She calls the Lamy Safari pen “a nice introductory fountain pen,” and she personally uses dotted notebooks from Leuchtturm 1917. “I find that so many readers are also stationery junkies,” says Bogel, so she often gifts a pen and notebook for logging books or general writing. To figure out the best gifts, we spoke to book lovers - writers, editors, publishing people, a professor, and other avid readers - to track down the best gifts for bookworms that aren’t books. Luckily, you can avoid that mess by giving a book-adjacent gift instead, be it shelves for keeping their tomes in order or an especially nice-looking bookplate. Personally, I send out a list of titles I’m thinking of purchasing for myself to my circle of friends, but that can be time-consuming (there has to be a Google doc where people can anonymously cross things off because, well, the element of surprise) and is more didactic than thoughtful or spontaneous. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailersīook-loving friends seem easy to shop for - just buy them a book, right? But if you stop to think about it, do you have any idea exactly which book? Do you know what they’ve already read? Do you know the celebrated authors they secretly hate and the unheard-of ones they love? It’s also likely that everyone knows they like books, so you’ll be joining a long list of people who attempt to gift them a novel or two. ![]()
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