Last-minute Christmas gift ideas for bookworms of all ages

Last-minute Christmas gift ideas for bookworms of all agesDo you need a last-minute gift for the bookworm in your life? We've got you covered with our Christmas gift recommendations!

by Carmen Coetsee

21-12-2022 14:04

in Books

Christmas Gifts recommendations for bookworms. Image via Unsplash.

Christmas is around the corner and even though some people finished their Christmas shopping early, most of us are scrambling around looking for the perfect gifts for our loved ones. If you have any bookworms in your life, you will know the struggle of trying to find them the perfect book.

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We have got you covered with our fail-safe book recommendation list for all ages. Whether you are looking for a book for a teenage bookworm or a budding baby bookworm, this list will have something for everyone.

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GIFT IDEAS FOR MYSTERY FANS 1. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club gang are sitting pretty at the top of both the hardback and paperback charts, congratulations @richardosman! #ThursdayMurderClub pic.twitter.com/C2VJigb8LA

Viking Books UK (@VikingBooksUK) December 13, 2022

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.

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Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. To make matters worse, a new nemesis pays Elizabeth a visit, presenting her with a deadly mission: kill or be killed.

2. The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith Just finished reading The Ink Black Heart' it was a great big thwack of a book & took me ages. Not her best crime novel could have done with some judicious cutting but it was otherwise a chilling & terrifying look at internet trolls. #inkblackheart #crimefiction pic.twitter.com/DvkPel01Bu

Dr Kate Forsyth (@KateForsyth) December 14, 2022

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.

When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity.

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Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits - and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways.

ROMANCE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOPELESS ROMANTICS 1. The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas morning besties, daily iced coffee & book pic v excited to read this one @elenaarmasbooks pic.twitter.com/453GzJrLmC

becca taylor's version (@elainereadz) September 30, 2022

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up novel, The American Roommate Experiment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn't told her family and now has terrible writer's block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily, she has her best friend Lina's spare key while she's out of town. But Rosie doesn't know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas.

Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He'll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. How could this go wrong?

2. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover Ever since the first book It Ends With Us took over TikTok, we've been manifesting that Colleen would do the honourable thing and write us another one Well, the power of manifestation came through and this month, the book was *finally* in our hands. https://t.co/YYU9QUAMMt

Zoella (@Zoella) December 11, 2022

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the gripping bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas's past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover.

READING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HISTORICAL FICTION FANS 1. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell You need a plan, she hears-or seems to hear-her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. To lose your temper is to lose the battle. -Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait #BookfaceFriday pic.twitter.com/MtxlnYAbp3

Barnes & Noble Morrow (@BNMorrowGA) December 16, 2022

The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici.

Full of the beauty and emotion with which she illuminated the Shakespearean canvas of Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell turns her talents to Renaissance Italy i

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