The all-time best books to give and who gives them, compiled from Tory Daily’s past and present Book Issues.

A

A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss
— John Derian

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
— Duro Olowu

A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien
— Alex Kuczynski

A Wonderful Time by Slim Aarons
— Anna Dello Russo

A. B. C. by Marlene Dietrich
— Lesley M. M. Blume

All the Clothes of a Woman by Hans-Peter Feldmann
— Leanne Shapton

American Freak Show by Willie Geist
— Willie Geist

The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook
— Eleni Gianopulos, Eleni’s New York

An Eye for Design by Allegra Hicks
— Allegra Hicks

B

Billy Baldwin Decorates by Billy Baldwin
— Deborah Needleman

Blindness by José Saramago
— Mario Batali

Bluets by Maggie Nelson, The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
— Stephanie Danler

Beloved by Toni Morrison
— Lauren Groff

C

Creature by Andrew Zuckerman
— Amy Astley

Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
— Dana Goodyear

Country by Jasper Conran
— Pilar Guzmán

Country Girl by Edna O’Brien
— Tina Brown

Cupcakes and Cashmere by Emily Schuman
— Emily Schuman

D

Diana Vreeland: An Illustrated Biography by Eleanor Dwight
— Jason Wu

Dominion by Matthew Scully
— Kathy Freston

D.V. by Diana Vreeland
— Booth Moore

F

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
— Sally Singer

Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
— Frank Rich

Fraud by David Rakoff
— Sloane Crosley

G

Geography by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
— Joan Julien Buck

Ghost Light by Frank Rich
— Alex Witchel

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
— Deborah Aaronson

Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg
— Jeff Klein

H

Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
— Christy Turlington Burns

Hamptons Gardens by Jack de Lashmet
— Aerin Lauder

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
— Karen Finerman

I

I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
— Bonnie Morrison

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
— Kaley Cuoco

Isabel Toledo by Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears
— Narciso Rodriguez

J

Jackie: A Life in Pictures by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac
— Michelle Adams

Jacques Garcia: Decorating in the French Style by Franck Ferrand
— Bronson van Wyck

Just Kids by Patti Smith
— Hanneli Mustaparta

L

La Technique by Jacques Pepin
— John DeLucie

Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras
— Virginie Mouzat

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
— Gabe Doppelt

Lift by Kelly Corrigan
— Kelly Corrigan

Love by Yves Saint Laurent
— Ana Maria Pimentel

Lulu by Lulu de Kwiatkowski
— Lulu de Kwiatkowski

M

Maggie’s Harvest by Maggie Beer
— Samantha Marcus Yanks

Mirror of Venus by Wingate Paine
— Jennifer Livingston

Model Home by Eric Puchner
— Elin Hilderbrand

My First Loves by Ivan Klíma
— Margaret Betts

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
— Ji Baek

N

Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis
— Matt Tyrnauer

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
— Mark Sarvas

O

One Flight Up by Susan Fales-Hill
— Amy Fine Collins

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
— Nina García

P

The Penguin Poets Series by Stephen Russ
— Jacob Weisberg

Photographs 1961-1967 by Dennis Hopper
— Emanuele Della Valle

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
— Roman Alonso

Polaroids, 1971-1986 by Andy Warhol
— Joe Zee

Poolside by Slim Aarons
— Kelley Lilien

S

Scavullo on Beauty by Francesco Scavullo
— Amanda Brooks

Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda
— Kate Foley

Scruples by Judith Krantz
— Hillary Kerr

Secrets of the Sommeliers by Rajat Parr, Jordan Mackay and Ed Anderson
— Jessica Rowe

Sometimes I Feel Like A Nut by Jill Kargman
— Jill Kargman

Spécialités de la Maison by American Friends of France
— Alexandra Kotur

Style by Kate Spade
— Christene Barberich

T

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
— Cindi Leive

The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook by Alice B. Toklas
— Kevin West

The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake
— Doug Keeve

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
— Dree Hemingway

The Fear by Peter Godwin
— Joanna Coles

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
— Lea Carpenter

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
— Nathan Turner

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
— Jennifer Egan

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
— Bette Franke

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
— Ann Brashares

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
— Shala Monroque

The Nine Rooms of Happiness by Lucy Danziger and Dr. Catherine Birndorf
— Lucy Danziger

The Royal Portraits by Cecil Beaton
— Suzy Menkes

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
— Cooper Ray

The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers
— Jennifer Walsh

The Sharp Time by Mary O’Connell
— Laura Moriarty

The Time In Between by María Dueñas
— Elizabeth Chandler

The Unexpurgated Beaton by Cecil Beaton
— David Netto

The Weight of the World by Peter Handke
— Katie Kitamura

The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places by Alexandra Kotur
— Fiona Kotur Marin

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
— Ariel Foxman

Them by Francine du Plessix Gray
— Karla Martinez de Salas

Todd Eberle: Empire of Space by Todd Eberle
— Todd Eberle

Town/Country by Geoffrey Zakarian
— Geoffrey Zakarian

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh
— Lauren Bush Lauren

U

Undateable by Ellen Rakieten and Anne Coyle
— Adam Glassman

V

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People by Hamish Bowles and Calvin Klein
— Carolina Irving

W

Walter Albini and His Time by Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi
— Stefano Tonchi

We the Animals by Justin Torres
— Fatima Farheen Mirza

World on Fire by Amanda Foreman
— Marina Rust