A Book For Everyone on Your Holiday Shopping List

This thoughtful novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is a deceptively short read about mothers, daughters, and memories of the past. My Name Is Lucy Barton ($18) is a story you'll want to discuss over and over with your mom.

Inspired by conversations with his own grandfather, Michael Chabon created Moonglow ($18), which is part memoir, part novel, and complete love story to family.

When Charlie becomes a widower at just 33 years old, he learns what it truly means to be a dad. The young dads on your list will appreciate the funny and insightful This Was Not the Plan ($18).

Who could resist a modern retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, especially when, as in Eligible ($20), it comes equipped with reality TV dating, CrossFit, and timeless family drama?!

Sexy, scandalous, and downright unputdownable, Maestra ($19) is the perfect gift for any Fifty Shades of Grey fan on your list.

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The Year We Turned Forty ($11) asks the question, what if you had the chance to go back and relive the most important year of your life? You'll discuss this one with your bestie for hours.

This twisty psychological thriller will keep your brother up late at night. The Passenger ($17) is impossible to put down as you ask yourself: Did she really do it? And who is she, anyway?

Your grandmother will love June ($18), a story of a granddaughter searching for the truth about her grandmother's past, infused with tons of Old Hollywood charm.

Rich and Pretty ($17) is the story of two recent college grads, best friends since childhood, stumbling through relationships and careers.

You think your wedding planning is crazy? Check out The Wedding Sisters ($11), where the mother of three daughters finds herself planning weddings for all three of her daughters, all at the same time.

Your friend will fall under the spell of The Velvet Hours ($16), the story of a Paris apartment that was abandoned for years with all of its treasures and secrets kept intact.

Cruel Beautiful World ($21) is a story of love and obsession, told against the backdrop of the Manson murders and the Vietnam War.

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Eleanor Flood promises herself: Today Will Be Different ($17). But then today happens, and nothing will ever be the same for Eleanor or her family.

The story of two best friends in a car accident, only one of whom walks away. Faithful ($17) asks the question: how can we forgive ourselves after the unthinkable happens?

On the surface, The Sun Is Also a Star ($12) is a love story about two people whose paths cross one day. But it's so much more than that, asking questions about fate and destiny and how our lives touch each other.