They're easy to wrap. They're the gift that you can open up again and again. But are you having trouble finding a book for that special someone this holiday season?
Fear not!
Sarah Nelson, books editor at O, The Oprah magazine, highlighted on "The Early Show" books that are sure to delight the reader and the non-reader on your list.
Holiday Gift Guide
FOR THE FOODIE ON YOUR LIST - All books priced between $5.95-$40. You don't have to be a chef to appreciate a good cookbook. This section is for anyone who loves food, talking about it, preparing it, eating it!
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FOR THE BOOKWORM ON YOUR LIST - all books priced between $25 and $30. If the person on your list loves to curl up with a good book that's all the buzz, look no further. A selection for non-fiction and fiction lovers alike.
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The third book in this series will be published next year.
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"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women From 1960 to the Present" by Gail Collins (Little, Brown) - Whether or not you lived through the "revolution," you know someone who did. Collins of the New York Times starts her tome in the year 1960 (when most American women had to get their husbands' permission to apply for a credit card) and ends with Hillary Clinton's historic presidential campaign, $27.99.
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For more of Nelson's picks, go to Page 2.
FOR THE HIP, YOUNG READER ON YOUR LIST - all books priced between $12.95-$25 For our children's book holiday round up check out our Saturday Show page. This section focuses on "Young Adult" readers, although the twenty-something on your list will love these cool picks as well.
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FOR THE PERSON ON YOUR LIST YOU WANT TO IMPRESS: STAND OUT "COFFEE TABLE" BOOKS - all books priced between $25-$60. Perfect picks for your holiday host this year, and a safe bet for the kindle/nook/sony enthusiast on your list. This category has it all: FASHION with our First Lady, FAME with Michael, birds and national parks for the NATURE LOVER, and a beautiful new edition of the classic "The Little Prince" - a pop-up version - for the child in all of us.
**Sarah's gold star goes to: "The Original Of Laura" by Vladimir Nabokov, assembled by his son Dmitri Nabokov (Knopf).
Unfinished novel from the author of Lolita, compiled by this son, Dmitri. There are also a lot of great traditional coffee table art books we could mention, and I can if you want, but this is particularly cool because it has notecards and jottings in the book (the note cards actually come out, are freestanding) with the author's thoughts. $35.
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STOCKING STUFFERS FOR THE NON-READER - all books priced between $5-$20... An impressive range of gift ideas: from eco-journals and vintage notebooks to postcards, bad poetry, word games, vegetables behaving badly, notes from jilted lovers, and texts from Obama (not really).
"Obama's Blackberry," Kasper Hauser (Little, Brown) - imaginative parody of our 44th president's emails and text messages.
"Dear Old Love," compiled by Andy Selsberg (Workman) - Anonymous notes to former crushes, sweethearts, husbands, wives and ones that got away.
"Twimericks," Lou Brooks/ (Workman) - limericks meet tongue-twisters in this energetic little tome.
"'B' Is For Bad Poetry," Pamela August Russell (Sterling) - Wouldn't know a good poem if it bit you? This little collection will make you an expert in the bad.
"Someecards" flipbook of 45 postcards for expressing your most irreverent Christmas wishes -- if you have any! If not, there's a companion postcard flipbook: "45 Cards For All Occasions, From Extremely Important To Utterly Important" (Sterling).
"Bent Objects," Terry Border (Running Press) - A photo essay of the "secret life of everyday objects."
Harlequin's 60th anniversary "Perfect Pocket Journals" with fabulous vintage cover art (Harlequin).
Ecosystem Journals (Sterling) - A "greener" and more colorful version of the traditional black moleskin.