book recommendations for every type of person (the ultimate book gift guide)

this is the ultimate bookish gift guide for every type of person in your life — I’ve got you covered this Christmas (and beyond)

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FAQs:
😭 what happened to your intro? it got copyrighted ://///
🤠 how old are you? 23!
📆 when is your birthday? 18th october 1998 (libra)
🎓 where did you go to university? i studied english at durham!
🔎 where do you live? paris, france
💼 what is your job? research assistant in the publishing industry
🎥 what do you film with? lumix gh5 + canon g7x
👾 what do you use to edit? final cut pro

timings:
0:00 intro
0:30 the environmental activist
0:46 the mum
1:04 the indie girlfriend
1:14 the music lover
1:40 the existentialist
2:00 the gossip lover
2:26 the twitter-thread reader
3:15 the WWII + space fanatic
3:42 the poet
3:48 the wannabe reader
4:10 the stationery collector
4:31 the detective
5:29 the bookish friend
5:54 the DNFer
6:30 the doomsday prepper
6:47 the book snob
7:08 the wannabe journalist
7:24 the sad and gay
7:48 the dystopia binge-reader
8:10 the taylor swiftie
8:48 the weirdo
8:57 the edgar-allan-hoe
9:11 the one you're trying to befriend
9:46 the critical thinker
10:17 the serial plot twist guesser
10:43 the maths nerd
11:11 the lover of korean culture
11:32 the bridgerton binger
11:49 the fisherman
12:10 the holidaymaker
12:40 the spiritual people
12:51 the artsy party girl
13:08 the sally rooney obsessed
13:40 the dad
13:58 the one who wants to be heartbroken
14:04 the sexual exploration
14:25 the psychological
14:47 the peaky blinders fan
15:03 the one who wants to read but doesn't have time
15:27 the men who only read non-fiction
15:55 the harry styles fanboy/girl
16:19 the dumped bestie
16:35 the tearjerker
17:03 the (accidental) pregnancy
17:14 the runner
17:29 the divorcee
17:39 the book collector
18:07 the mentally ill
18:25 the k-pop stan
18:40 the BTS army
18:59 the racial commentary
19:22 the university student
20:08 the mythology lover
20:29 the artist
20:40 the intersectional feminist
20:51 outro

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[dhianouioui]

let's be honest we all watching this to shop for ourselves

[nymphaea]

My to-read list has grown immensely since I found Jack's channel. I don't know where to start....

[nupzgotcaffeine]

Jack: *uploads the video*
Me: *opens notes app and is ready to increase my already little too long TBR*

[AB-kjyb]

It must take you AGES TO PUT IN THESE TITLES AND MAKE THESE VIDEOS I just am so appreciative of your hard work jack <333

[qwertato]

The Green Ideas Collection - Penguin
Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
Play It As It Lays - Joan Didion
Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid
No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Beekeeper of Aleppo - Christy Lefteri
And Then the End Will Come! - Brandon Andress
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
The Windrush Betrayal - Amelia Gentleman
A Single Man - Vintage Isherwood
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke - Eric LaRocca
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
Lonely Castle in the Mirror - Mizuki Tsujimura
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo
Emma - Jane Austen
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
Siddhartha - Hermann Hessean
Lost Girls and Love Hotels - Catherine Hanrahan
Exciting Times - Naoise Dolan
Luster - Raven Leilani
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
Call Me By Your Name - André Aciman
Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Vintage Carver
The Houseguest & Others Stories - Amparo Dávila
No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Misery - Stephen King
My Policeman - Bethan Roberts
Norwegian Wood - Murakami
Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
The Hungover Games - Sophie Heawood
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Murakami
Changes - Ama Ata Aidoo
84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
If I Had Your Face - Frances Cha
Demian - Hermann Hesse
The Unreal & The Real - Ursula K. Le Guin
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
Normal People - Sally Rooney
Loveless - Alice Oseman
The Uni-Verse - Jack Edwards
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint
Love in Colour - Bolu Babalola
Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadrine Evaristo

[Emily__]

Admittedly a lot of my recommendations have come from Jack but I laughed as *every single book* I’ve bought my mum for Xmas was mentioned 😂😂

[sarahfitzpatrick]

For coming of age, sapphic and weird, you could also try This Is How You Lose The Time War. A sapphic romance told through letters between two agents of warring time travel agencies. Super weird, super beautiful and romantic.

[sayu]

Me: how do people buy books for people? Like, how do I even know what they’d like?

Me seeing this video: I get it.

[valenciariley]

i just don't understand how can you remember so much info about all the books you've read, i get that you probably write some stuff down.. but still, you're really good

[silkederksen]

I love how you recommend such a diverse range of literature! Since I watch your videos I've come in contact with novels from many different cultures and the LGBTQ+ community. You shine the spotlight on literature that normaly wouldn't be recommended as often, but that really deserve the cloud. Keep up the good work Jack :)

[hollyrose]

petition for Jack to make an 'attempting to solve an Agatha Christie mystery' video:

[lostinwonderart]

For environmentalist, my favorite is The Story of Stuff. It’s seriously a life changing book. How many others saw that wood box and thought it was a Harry Potter item cause of initials on top? 🤣

[bijinaann]

Petition to have jack edwards as my secret because this guy does not DISAPPOINT.

[elle]

THIS VIDEO IS ACTUALLY SO PERFECT. more books to add to my buying list 😭

[usedtobehere]

also for someone who’s nosy — “That Time I Loved You” by Carrianne Leung! It follows the people in a neighborhood and kind of goes through their very personal lives vs the image other people in the neighborhood have of them. You can’t really hate any of the characters (except one or two) but each chapter leaves you wanting to know more about the person aHHHH

[PeachyKeeners]

your transition from study videos to being one of the best booktubers in the game will never not amaze me. AN ICON. this video was so fun to watch, thank you!!

[kathaSchmei]

Me taking notes for myself because I trust Jack's recommendations 👀

[mayapeters]

This is the most comprehensive and helpful reading guide I have ever seen. Thank you! Christmas and Reyes shopping is going to be so easy this year :)

[tamhawken]

Just want to say I really see and appreciate the diversity here. Jack, I think your recommendations and reading habits are the most diverse I see on YouTube. Thank you!

[luciedombrowski]

I just can't stop laughing at "we want them to cry, we don't want them to be traumatized"