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Christmas is coming! In the long tradition of this holiday season, gifts are exchanged with friends and family to share our generosity when we are able and to show our caring.
Some families share only handmade or home-cooked gifts. Some families recycle, upcycle or do a white elephant swap. Some draw names, so that each person is only responsible for gifting to one other person, thus preventing bankrupting entire generations; in other families, presents are only given to the children. Some families give only experiences, such as tickets to ballets or baseball games, and some give only consumables — anything from soup to nuts, as it were.
And librarians? Well, we give books. We really can’t help ourselves. It may even be in the fine print (yep, a librarian joke).
Best book lists are everywhere right now — all the major newspapers and media outlets have them. I invite and encourage you to look over the bounty that has been published in 2025. I’d like to offer you some books that might be meaningful to a particular someone on your list, books that have made a difference to me.
