What to give at Christmas? Give the gift of a great read with this pick of the best books that make for Christmas presents, as chosen by our editors, writers and contributors. Whether you’re looking for a stylish book for mum or something practical for dad, fiction for a friend or a literary adventure for children – find your festive inspiration here with our guide to the best books to buy as Christmas presents this year.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Both a thrilling story of escape and fortitude and a profoundly important contribution to Holocaust literature, Freedland’s expertly crafted account of two Jewish inmates who broke out of Auschwitz and alerted the world to the horrors practiced there is an instant classic of World War II writing.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Smart, funny, joyous and powerful, Garmus’ 60s set debut featuring an unconventional female scientist with a quiet game-plan to change the world has won the hearts and minds of our booksellers and is undoubtedly one of 2022’s most gloriously enjoyable debuts.
The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
Observer’s “Ten Debut Novelists of 2022”
BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Otherlands by Dr Thomas Halliday
A World in the Making
From Ice Age Alaska to the birthplace of humanity, palaeobiologist Halliday takes readers on a dazzling tour of deep time to view astounding ancient landscapes from all seven continents. This is the past as we’ve never seen it before.
A Sunday Times bestseller
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
A paean to many artists and various art forms often overlooked or dismissed, this exciting revisionist history of art turns the limelight on female creativity and how it has shaped and enriched our world.
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Babel by R.F. Kuang
One of the leading lights in the visceral grimdark fantasy genre, Kuang’s stunningly wrought novel is a compulsive dystopia about the power of language and the evils of authoritarianism, represented by the looming titular tower of translation.
#1 New York Times bestseller
#2 Sunday Times bestseller
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
O’Farrell paints as evocative a picture of Renaissance Italy as she did of Shakespearean England in the former Waterstones Book of the Year Hamnet, as Cosimo de’ Medici’s third daughter learns to navigate an opaque Florentine court and an enigmatic new husband.
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Hamnet
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell
In this passionately persuasive and sharply funny book bursting with breathtaking illustrations and exquisite text, Katherine Rundell highlights the extraordinary abilities and stories associated with a range of remarkable creatures in all too real danger of dying out.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Heartstopper Volume 1 by Alice Oseman
Now the basis of a hit Netflix show, Oseman’s pioneering queer graphic novel series has become a modern classic of YA literature and this first volume introduces the beautifully realised couple of Nick and Charlie and their journey towards love and self-discovery.
Million-copy bestseller
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
Thirteen-year-old Skandar Smith has only ever wanted to be a unicorn rider. To be one of the lucky few selected to hatch a unicorn. To bond with it for life, to train together and race for glory, to be a hero. Experience a magical world full of courageous heroes and warrior unicorns in the first instalment of Steadman’s exhilarating series, as young Skandar takes to the skies to battle a deadly enemy.
A major new hit fantasy series
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2022
Undoctored
The Story of a Medic Who Ran out of Patients
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, horrifying and humbling, the medic and author of the mega-selling This is Going to Hurt reflects on what happened after he left the NHS frontline in this characteristically sardonic and laugh-out-loud follow-up destined to become a modern classic.
#1 Sunday Times Bestseller
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