Holiday Gift Guide: A Book for Every Bibliophile

It’s the holiday season once again, and whether you’re shopping for Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Christmas, WLT has a new book for every reader on your list. 

For the Beatnik

Diane di Prima, The Poetry Deal 

(City Lights)

For the Big Bang Addict 

Yannick Grannec,The Goddess of Small Victories, Willard Wood, tr. 

(Other Press)

For the Birder

Marjana Gaponenko, Who Is Martha?, Arabella Spencer, tr. 

(New Vessel Press)

For the Border Historian

Carmen Boullosa, Texas: The Great Theft, Samantha Schnee, tr. 

(Deep Vellum)

For the Cartoon Lover 

Liniers, Macanudo #2, Mara Lethem, tr. 

(Enchanted Lion Books)

For the Digital Obsessive

Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous 

(Verso)

For the Driver

Dmitry Samarov, Where To? A Hack Memoir 

(Curbside Splendor)

For the Existentialist 

Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands 

(Akashic Books)

Eduardo Halfon, Monastery, Lisa Dillman & Daniel Hahn, tr. 

(Bellevue Literary Press) 

For the Exiled 

Hassan Daoud, The Penguin’s Song 

(City Lights)

For the Fame-Obsessed 

Julie Maroh, Skandalon, David Homel, tr. 

(Arsenal Pulp Press)

For the Hard-Boiled

Tehran Noir, Salar Abdoh, ed. 

(Akashic Books)

Tel Aviv Noir, Etgar Keret & Assaf Gavron, eds. (Akashic Books)

or the Online Dater

Anya Ulinich, Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel 

(Penguin Books) 

For the Overly Analyzed 

Tamaz Chiladze, The Brueghel Moon, Maya Kiasashvili, tr. 

(Dalkey Archive Press)

For the Paranoid

Ken Babstock, On Malice 

(Coach House Books)

For the Self-Contained

Milena Michiko Flašar, I Called Him Necktie, Sheila Dickie, tr. 

(New Vessel Press)

For the Social Critic

Octave Mirbeau, 21 Days of a Neurasthenic, Justin Vicari, tr. 

(Dalkey Archive Press) 

For the Sustainability-Minded

Chris Turner, How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change (Biblioasis)

For the Translator

The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation, Esther Allen, Sean Cotter, & Russell Scott Valentino, eds. 

(Open Letter)

For the Truth-Teller 

Jericho Brown, The New Testament 

(Copper Canyon Press)

For the Workaday Weary

 Deborah Levy, An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell (And Other Stories)