My favorite part of the holidays is giving someone a book. I’m that person who gives everyone on my list a wrapped book, then I joke that it’s a box of socks. My least favorite part of the holidays, however, is realizing months later that they still have not opened that book.

The secret to a happy pairing: being honest about who that person is, not who you want them to be. With this in mind, what follows are the best gift books of the season, paired to some very specific people.

For the Constant Reader

It’s hard to beat a Folio Society edition of a favorite book. They are to literature what the Criterion Collection is to movies, only much older, offering contemporary classics and established landmarks in keepsake editions ripe for posterity. The latest includes “The Binti Trilogy,” the

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