Culled from all of our Book issues, the all-time best books to give and who gives them. (The Tory Daily pick? Would you be surprised if we said Tory Burch In Color, above?)

A

A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss
— John Derian

A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe
— Duro Olowu

A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O’Brien
— Alex Kuczynski

A Wonderful Time by Slim Aarons
— Anna Dello Russo, Vogue Nippon

A. B. C. by Marlene Dietrich
— Lesley M. M. Blume

All the Clothes of a Woman by Hans-Peter Feldmann
— Leanne Shapton

American Freak Show by Willie Geist
— Willie Geist, MSNBC’s Morning Joe and NBC’s Today Show

The America’s Test Kitchen Family Cookbook
— Eleni Gianopulos, Eleni’s New York

An Eye for Design by Allegra Hicks
— Allegra Hicks

B

Billy Baldwin Decorates by Billy Baldwin
— Deborah Needleman, T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Blindness by José Saramago
— Mario Batali

C

Creature by Andrew Zuckerman
— Amy Astley, Teen Vogue

Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher
— Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker and Figment.com

Country by Jasper Conran
— Pilar Guzmán, Martha Stewart Living

Country Girl by Edna O’Brien
— Tina Brown, The Daily Beast

Cupcakes and Cashmere by Emily Schuman
— Emily Schuman, Cupcakes and Cashmere

D

Diana Vreeland: An Illustrated Biography by Eleanor Dwight
— Jason Wu

Dominion by Matthew Scully
— Kathy Freston

D.V. by Diana Vreeland
— Booth Moore, Los Angeles Times

F

Farm City by Novella Carpenter
— Sally Singer, Vogue

Finishing the Hat by Stephen Sondheim
— Frank Rich, New York Magazine

Fraud by David Rakoff
— Sloane Crosley

G

Ghost Light by Frank Rich
— Alex Witchel, New York Times

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
— Deborah Aaronson, Abrams

Goldwyn: A Biography by A. Scott Berg
— Jeff Klein, JK Hotel Group

H

Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
— Christy Turlington Burns, Every Mother Counts

Hamptons Gardens by Jack de Lashmet
— Aerin Lauder

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
— Karen Finerman, Metropolitan Capital Advisors

I

I Like You by Sandol Stoddard Warburg
— Bonnie Morrison

I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris
— Kaley Cuoco

Isabel Toledo by Valerie Steele and Patricia Mears
— Narciso Rodriguez

J

Jackie: A Life in Pictures by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac
— Michelle Adams

Jacques Garcia: Decorating in the French Style by Franck Ferrand
— Bronson van Wyck

Just Kids by Patti Smith
— Hanneli Mustaparta

L

La Technique by Jacques Pepin
— John DeLucie

Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein by Marguerite Duras
— Virginie Mouzat, Vanity Fair France

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
— Gabe Doppelt, The Daily Beast

Lift by Kelly Corrigan
— Kelly Corrigan

Love by Yves Saint Laurent
— Ana Maria Pimentel, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman

Lulu by Lulu de Kwiatkowski
— Lulu de Kwiatkowski

M

Maggie’s Harvest by Maggie Beer
— Samantha Marcus Yanks, Niche Media

Mirror of Venus by Wingate Paine
— Jennifer Livingston

Model Home by Eric Puchner
— Elin Hilderbrand

My First Loves by Ivan Klíma
— Margaret Betts

My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
— Ji Baek, Rescue Beauty Lounge

N

Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis
— Matt Tyrnauer, Vanity Fair

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen
— Mark Sarvas, The Elegant Variation

O

One Flight Up by Susan Fales-Hill
— Amy Fine Collins, Vanity Fair

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
— Nina García, Marie Claire

P

The Penguin Poets Series by Stephen Russ
— Jacob Weisberg, Slate Group

Photographs 1961-1967 by Dennis Hopper
— Emanuele Della Valle

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
— Roman Alonso, Commune

Polaroids, 1971-1986 by Andy Warhol
— Joe Zee, Elle

Poolside by Slim Aarons
— Kelley Lilien

S

Scavullo on Beauty by Francesco Scavullo
— Amanda Brooks

Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible Conversations by Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda
— Kate Foley, Opening Ceremony

Scruples by Judith Krantz
— Hillary Kerr, Who What Wear

Secrets of the Sommeliers by Rajat Parr, Jordan Mackay and Ed Anderson
— Jessica Rowe, The Aestate

Sometimes I Feel Like A Nut by Jill Kargman
— Jill Kargman

Spécialités de la Maison by American Friends of France
— Alexandra Kotur, Town & Country and Parasol

Style by Kate Spade
— Christene Barberich, Refinery29

T

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
— Cindi Leive, Glamour

The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook by Alice B. Toklas
— Kevin West, W Magazine and Saving the Season

The Beautiful Fall by Alicia Drake
— Doug Keeve

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
— Dree Hemingway

The Fear by Peter Godwin
— Joanna Coles, Cosmopolitan

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
— Lea Carpenter

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
— Nathan Turner

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
— Jennifer Egan

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
— Bette Franke

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
— Ann Brashares

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
— Shala Monroque

The Nine Rooms of Happiness by Lucy Danziger and Dr. Catherine Birndorf
— Lucy Danziger, Self

The Royal Portraits by Cecil Beaton
— Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune

The Secret History by Donna Tartt
— Cooper Ray, Social Primer

The Secret Language of Birthdays by Gary Goldschneider and Joost Elffers
— Jennifer Walsh, William Morris Agency

The Sharp Time by Mary O’Connell
— Laura Moriarty

The Time In Between by María Dueñas
— Elizabeth Chandler, Goodreads

The Unexpurgated Beaton by Cecil Beaton
— David Netto

The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places by Alexandra Kotur
— Fiona Kotur Marin

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
— Ariel Foxman, InStyle

Them by Francine du Plessix Gray
— Karla Martinez de Salas, W Magazine

Todd Eberle: Empire of Space by Todd Eberle
— Todd Eberle

Town/Country by Geoffrey Zakarian
— Geoffrey Zakarian

True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh
— Lauren Bush Lauren, FEED Projects

U

Undateable by Ellen Rakieten and Anne Coyle
— Adam Glassman, O, The Oprah Magazine

V

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People by Hamish Bowles and Calvin Klein
— Carolina Irving

W

Walter Albini and His Time by Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi
— Stefano Tonchi, W Magazine

World on Fire by Amanda Foreman
— Marina Rust

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