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

