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1. The Dogist Puppies knows what the people want: pages and pages of tiny baby doggies.
2. Salt Fat Acid Heat explains how these four elements are what make a dish taste good.
3. Random Illustrated Facts will arm your trivia fan with even more useless information. Even if they already know some of these tidbits, the illustrations make the information feel new again.
4. Tequila Mockingbird takes inspiration from literature to make punny and delicious cocktail recipes.
5. An illustrated copy of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone so they can relive the magic all over again.
6. Draw 500 Awesome Animals challenges your favorite fledgling artist to practice all the time. What could be better motivation than getting to doodle cute animals?
7. Shakespeare Insult Generator spruces up battles of wit that lately have felt as dull as a doornail.
8. The Joy of Cookies takes a bite out of boredom with a guide your little cookie fiend will love.
9. An illustrated version of The Hobbit is an even better feast for the eyes than any of the movies.
10. Escape might be the ultimate coffee table book, thanks to all its large, glossy images of exotic locales.
11. Cabin Porn offers up beautiful, rustic imaginary that would make even Ron Swanson swoon.
12. Of Cats and Men celebrates famous men of history and their furry feline friends.
13. Pixar: A Pop-Up Celebration is bursting full of eye-popping designs that literally jump off the page.
14. And! Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts offers a new way to explore the magical school we're all still waiting on acceptance letters from.
15. Women of the Galaxy is filled with illustrations and information about all the women featured in the Star Wars universe.
16. The Scale of Things puts hard-to-comprehend things into perspective.
17. The Designer's Cookbook is a Monica Geller-approved tome that aims to color-code food.
18. The Little Book of Hygge preaches about the wonders of simplistic but cozy living.
19. The Mermaid Handbook gives the reader everything they need to live like a mermaid.
20. The Beer Pantry will teach them the art of cooking with beer. What better gift than a ~hoppy~ stomach?
21. Epic Bike Rides of the World takes the reader around the world to all the best places to travel on two wheels. Have you ever seen a guidebook with such a lovely cover?
22. The Little Book of House Plants and Other Greenery will be a joy to any leaf-obsessed plant owner.
23. Bong Appétit teaches the reader how to cook with THC. That way they can get the munchies while eating — how efficient!
24. The Very Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes might be the ideal book to gift a new dad, or even an experienced one who could stand to brush up on his one-liners.
25. Die Hard Christmas will dismiss any argument your family members might make this Christmas about what holiday movie to watch.
26. The James Bond Archives: SPECTRE Edition looks behind the scenes of all their favorite iconic spy flicks.
27. Dinosaurium is pretty much a museum in book form that offers the readers tons of information and fantastic illustrations on those big ass lizards.
28. The editors of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019 read all the notable essays, short stories, comics, and other media tidbits of the year and picked the best ones, so your giftee won't feel any content FOMO.
29. I Think I Am in Friend-Love With You is the book version of a truly lovely comic about the feeling of really, really wanting to be someone's BFF.
30. AND! I Choose You (Every Day and Always) is illustrated by the same artist and is a great choice for someone you love romantically.
31. Leifer: The Golden Age of American Football chronicles five decades of football through the photographs of Neil Leifer.
32. Crafting With Cat Hair offers interesting uses for all that cat hair flying around. It turns out they can make fingers puppets, mittens, and purses with that stuff.
33. How to Code a Sandcastle familiarizes youngsters with the basics of coding by telling a relatable story about a young girl and her robot who are trying to build a sand castle.
34. Fox 8 is a charming short story about a fox who learns to speak, made even more charming by the cute illustrations that accompany it.
35. An Anthology of Intriguing Animals showcases over 100 different animals with a mix of illustrations and photographs.
36. Winnie-The-Pooh: Classic Gift Edition Book is just a really nice copy of the bear-y wonderful tale. If you know anyone who doesn't have this classic on their bookshelf, now is the time to fix that.
37. The Lego Architect recreates all of architecture's greatest hits from Art Deco to Modernism with Lego models.
38. What If This Were Enough? offers heartfelt and helpful essays that ask the reader to embrace the flawed and love who they are.
39. The Stranger: The Graphic Novel lets fans of French existentialist Camus experience one of his most famous stories in a new way.
40. Mythos is filled with all their favorite Greek myths, along with stunning illustrations and notes from the author. It's a quick-witted retelling so beginners and experts can both get something from it.
41. Nordic Tales is filled with fascinating folklore from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark.
42. Make Your Own Beauty Masks offers up a lot of recipes for relaxing masks and even comes with 10 patterned sheet masks.
43. Flailing at Life has a lenticular cover so it's just as fun to look at as it is to read.
44. The 50 States: Activity Book: Maps of the 50 States of the USA has state trivia, picture scrambles, maps, and stickers to make any road trip more enjoyable.
45. Grab Life by the Balls: And Other Life Lessons from The Good Advice Cupcake just wants your recipient to live life to the fullest. This book is (raspberry) jam-packed with lots of invaluable advice.
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