Greetings, Doomers! It’s that time of year again — time to start your holiday shopping!

My favorite gifts to give and receive are BOOKS, which is why my Holiday Gift Guides are always book-centric. Over the years, I’ve found that it’s great to bundle book gifts with related items, such as bookmarks, games, collectibles, and accessories. That’s why our holiday gift for books is now expanded to include other items that are also commonly found in bookstores, such as puzzles, games, tarot cards, coloring books, collectibles, and more. Therefore, for many of the listings, I also included links to related/similar items, some of which might be products released prior to 2024. These might be DVD/Blu-rays, action figures, housewares, and more.

So check out our expanded Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Books Edition for our favorite holiday gift picks for the readers in your life.

Red Side Story
Book 2: Shades of Grey
Hardcover | Kindle Edition | Audiobook
By Jasper Fforde
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date: May 7, 2024

Jasper Fforde‘s Red Side Story, the long-awaited sequel to Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, dives back into world of Chromatacia, where a person’s social status is based on their color perception. In this dystopian setting 500 years in the future, the Purples are the ruling class, while the Greys are peasants at the bottom, deprived of privilege and made to do the grunt work. The various shades of red, blue, and yellow are in the middle, with each group grasping for a bit of power.

A Haunting in the Arctic
Hardcover | Paperback | Kindle Edition | Audiobook
By C. J. Cooke
Publisher: Berkley
Paperback Release Date: February 27, 2024

The mysteries of a shipwreck off the coast of Iceland are at the center of A Haunting in the Arctic, the arctic exploration horror novel from author C. J. Cooke.

This atmospheric tale intertwines two major timelines, each dealing with the enigmatic Ormen, an arctic whaling ship that was refitted as a research vessel that eventually became shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland and now scheduled to be destroyed.

Wednesday: A Novelization of Season One
Hardcover | Kindle Edition | Audiobook
By Tehlor Kay Mejia
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date: September 3, 2024

Wednesday: A Novelization of Season One by Tehlor Kay Mejia offers a delightful retelling of the debut season of Wednesday, the 2022 Netflix streaming series directed by Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands) that’s based on characters created by Charles Addams (Addams Family).

Told from the title character’s point of view, the novelization follows the show’s plotlines while adding an extra layer of introspection into the goth-presenting, death-obsessed teen as she reluctantly begins her first semester at Nevermore Academy, her eighth school in five years. Not only does she have difficulty fitting in wherever she goes, she actually has no desire to fit in. This and her compulsion to right injustices and punish bullies are what often prompt her expulsions from said schools. This time around, her parents, Morticia and Gomez Addams, are hoping that their problem child will find comfort and camaraderie at their alma mater, a private boarding school for children with supernatural abilities or proclivities. Though Wednesday prefers a solitary life, the unique school will introduce her to other “Outsiders” (or “Outcasts” as they are referred to by the “Normies” in town), whether she likes it or not.

The Hitchcock Hotel
Hardcover | Kindle | Audiobook
By Stephanie Wrobel
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: September 24, 2024

An imitate reunion of former college friends at a secluded Hitchcock-themed hotel leads to a deadly weekend in The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel.

Alfred Smettle has been obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock films since childhood, when he used to watch them with his mom, who named him after the famed Master of Suspense. His encyclopedic knowledge of all things Hitch could be somewhat annoying and off-putting, but in college he managed to make friends with some likeminded classmates who regularly met for Film Club. That is, until something happened that alienated him from the group.