Best Books to Gift 2025 - Adult Fiction

Books make the best gifts.

Updated November 25, 2025
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The tiger and the cosmonaut
Boudel Tan, Eddy
Ebook
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE A noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town. Casper Han grew up the dutiful...
PARIS EXPRESS: A NOVEL
DONOGHUE, EMMA, 1969-
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895...
PICK A COLOR: A NOVEL
THAMMAVONGSA, SOUVANKHAM, 1978-
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the...

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