Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Hardcover | Paperback Large Print | Kindle | Audiobook
By Grady Hendrix
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: January 14, 2025

After being secreted away at a home for wayward girls, a desperate pregnant teen turns to witchcraft for help unaware of its severe consequences in Grady Hendrix‘s captivating new body horror, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.

Neva Craven was an average 15-year-old girl living in the American South in 1970, socializing with friends in high school and landing the lead in the school play. She even had a boyfriend on Valentine’s Day for the first time. But when Neva learns she’s pregnant, her family sends her away to a secluded Maternity Home to finish out her pregnancy in secret. After giving birth, she’s expected to give her baby up for adoption, then return home to her old life as if nothing ever happened.

Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
Hardcover | Kindle | Audiobook
By Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release Date: January 7, 2025

An obsession with social media and far-right news programs sends an average American family into a downward spiral, causing mass hysteria and an epidemic of supernatural proportions in Clay McLeod Chapman‘s daring new social horror Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.

Hey there, folks! Welcome to another year of our Dungeons & Dragons Gift Guide!

But wait, it is not just any other year; this is D&D’s 50th Anniversary year! Half a century of what is arguably the greatest tabletop game ever. Holy moly, can you believe it has been that long? I mean, wow, just wow. It is difficult to admit, but I have been playing this game for four decades now and I am still just as excited about it now as I was then. As Wizards of the Coast grows the game, so does the demographic of who plays it and I love the fact that what used to make me seem so nerdy is now something that the public finds to be mainstream. And not only does this allow more people to access it, but it creates a demand for products we had no idea we wanted.

In this gift guide, you will see not just game books and reference materials, but also toys, figurines, and even recipe cards. The parenting book alone is a great gift year-round for folks with a new baby on the way. And let’s be honest, there was so much great stuff released this year that you will have no problem finding the perfect gift for that D&D player in your life during this gift-giving season. So with that, Happy Holidays from me and the rest of the Geeks of Doom crew!

Here’s the 2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Dungeons & Dragons Edition…

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.