Literary Gift Ideas from 52 Published Authors

As the recession-gripped holiday season approaches, your gifted books need to be carefully picked. To help you shop, W. W. Norton has built a Tumblr page where fifteen Norton authors talk about the books they will give to friends and family over the holidays.

Novelist Andre Dubus III has poetry on his mind, giving And Now A Story To Tell: Narratives in Verse by Dave Supple from Book Surge and Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry edited by Billy Collins from Random House as gifts this year.

Journalist Sarah Lyall will give The Forever War by Dexter Filkins from Knopf and Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace from Little Brown.

Last week, Penguin created the What To Give & What To Get guide that featured 37 big writers explaining which books they want for the holidays and which books they will give as gifts.

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