What do you get a reader when you don’t know what they’ve read? Things that aren’t books! And also books about books. Lean in.
For Their House
[1] Agate Bookend ($16) [2] Live Edge Wood Bookend ($17) [3] Library Card Mug ($12) [4] Mighty Bright Light ($12) [5] Wondershelf ($28) [6] Harry Potter Butterbeer Candle ($28) [7] Knock Knock Personal Library Kit ($15)
For Playing
[1] Magnetic Poetry Kit ($19) [2] Paper Cuts: A Party Game for the Rude and Well-Read ($15) [3] Scrabble ($16)
For Their Look
[1] Commodity Book (also a travel spray) [2] Banned Book Socks [3] Lithographs Tee ($34) [4] Read A Fucking Book Pin [5] Lesbian Book Pendant ($15) [6] Librarian pin ($7) [7] Library Book Necklace ($9)
For Their Mind
[1] The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap ($16) [2] Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers by Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan ($14) [3] How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard ($20) [4] Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed ($26) [5] Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950–1965 ($20) [6] Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian and Bisexual Literature from the 17th Century to the Present edited by Lillian Faderman (varies) [7] My Ideal Bookshelf by Thessaly La Force and Jane Mount ($16)
Are books about books the perfect kind of book? You decide. (They’re not but they’re fun.)
Forwarding this to my book club
Nothing says “I’m a giant nerd” quite like enthusiastically explaining your banned books socks to the person next to you.
Do highly recommend.
Great suggestions. Thanks!
The library card mug and banned books socks are blatant knock-offs of the ones sold by Out of Print, a company that funds literacy programs through their merch sales.
https://www.outofprintclothing.com/
(I have no affiliation with them, I’m just infuriated with uncommongoods for ripping them off.)