25. BWB Gift Certificate – get one here!

24. The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd23. The Ten Faces of Innovation by Thomas Kelley and Jonathan Littman

22. Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

21. Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning by Pauline Gibbons

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It can be so hard to shop for men. Big green egg smokers, hunting gear, fishing boats, top notch kitchen knives and antique convertibles would all win their hearts over, but they are far too expensive for most of us to buy. So I asked a typical guy’s guy with hundreds of books for his top 25 list to help you buy the perfect book for your beau. Here’s his list (in no absolute order):

1. Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
2. The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
3. Ship Of Gold In The Deep Blue Sea, Gary Kinder
4. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
5. Following the Equator, Mark Twain

 

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Better World Books is a great example of a social enterprise – with its mission of making a global difference through literacy, one of the most powerful tools for change and inclusion.  I am delighted to have the opportunity to post a guest blog to this community and share with you a book that has inspired me and my team in our work to support social enterprises “down under.”

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Thank goodness for Twilight.

I know people may roll their eyes at this statement. However, Twilight is what led me, along with many other fellow females, to the realization that fantasy and science fiction stories are fun to read. Since having this realization, I have enjoyed reading more than ever. Twilight led me to read Interview With a Vampire by Anne Rice, and after that, I started a journey by reading books like The Hunger Games, The Golden Compass and Brave New World, and I haven’t looked back!

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Calling all writers, here’s a chance to have a renowned writer or literary agent critique your work!

We are honored to carry many of the meaningful titles we stock at Better World Books and one of those that means the most to us is What You Wish For, a special book full of a collection of the world’s best-selling and honored writers for young adults and children. The authors share stories and poems that captivate, inspire, and offer hope about things we all wish for. Together with Darfur advocate and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow, who wrote the book’s moving Foreword, they contributed to this amazing collection for free so that the proceeds could be used to fund libraries in Darfuri refugee camps in Chad.

We’ve all heard of Toys for Tots, but what about those old textbooks that you don’t ever want to see again? Is there a way they, too, can help children in need worldwide learn to read?

This holiday season we’re giving you the chance to create abundance with your unwanted textbooks!

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Post by Yanna Constantinou, Better World Books’ Manager of UK AcquisitionsRoom to Read, our fantastic charity partner, which supports children to gain the lifelong gift of reading, has an amazing opportunity to leverage a £100,000 match fund and put 150,000 books in the hands of children in Asia and Africa: this week only, every online donation through The Big Give website will be matched pound for pound, effectively doubling your gift and its impact.  

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One of the coolest things about books is that they can make for a very thoughtful and personal gift. And when you get books from Better World Books, not only does the giftee feel special – but you save money, get free shipping, and we donate a book to someone in need. It’s a win, win, win!

We asked our bibliophile friends, fans and followers for their picks of the top 10 books to give as gifts. Here are their suggestions…

Dr Seuss’s Oh, The Places You’ll Go

Life is What You Make It by Peter Buffet

84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff

Animalia by Graeme Base

Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist

Enchantment by Orson Scott Card

Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Have you read any of the listed books? Will you give them as gifts to anyone this holiday season? What other books do you suggest? Thanks for sharing below!

Guest post by Hector Macdonald, Editor of Book Drum

Book Drum had modest beginnings, but our dreams have always been big.  As passionate paperback readers, we watched the arrival of ebooks with a certain amount of scepticism.  What, we wondered, was the point?  As some wit famously noted, a paperback can be dropped in a bath, never runs out of battery, and comes pre-loaded with a book of your choice.  Ebooks seemed to do nothing more than replicate the effect of a printed book on an expensive piece of gadgetry.But that scepticism didn’t mean we were luddites.  The three founders of Book Drum were all keen internet users, and we saw what mobile devices could do for books.  You read about Holden Caulfield hearing a jazz number… wouldn’t you like to listen to it too?  Captain Corelli turns up in Cephallonia… where is that, and what does it look like?  Those kite fights in Kabul… wouldn’t it be nice to see a video of the real thing?  All these extras were already available – if widely dispersed – on the Net.

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Guest post by Kristin Pedemonti, www.storytellerkp.com

Better World Books is a fantastic resource for programs all over the world including my volunteer project, Literacy Outreach Belize.Once upon a time in 2005, after a holiday to Belize and learning about their need for assistance in positively impacting literacy rates I was inspired! This former Children’s Librarian and now Professional Storyteller left her full time job, sold her house to the first person who saw the For Sale Sign and embarked on a journey to bring her passion for reading and storytelling to Belize. Since 2006, I have donated programs for 33,000 students and teacher training for over 600 teachers throughout the country.

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