Ask HN: What books have you given as a present in 2017?

The biography of Leonardo da Vinci, a beautiful and interesting book, https://www.amazon.com/Leonardo-Vinci-Walter-Isaacson/dp/150... - one to my collegue, one to my former colleague.

A stunningly beautiful edition of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick http://www.foliosociety.com/book/PKD/scanner-androids - to a friend of mine, a big PKD fun.

I love giving great books as a gift :)

The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Poetry-Donald-Trump/dp/17...

Artemis Fowl https://www.amazon.co.uk/Artemis-Fowl-Eoin-Colfer/dp/0141339...

Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a Fk https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thug-Kitchen-Eat-Like-Give/dp/07515...

The Idea in You: How to Find It, Build It, and Change Your Life https://www.amazon.co.uk/Idea-You-Find-Build-Change/dp/02419...

A Dash of Dragon - middle grade fantasy featuring strong female protagonists. Also just came on super sale on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Dash-Dragon-Heidi-Lang/dp/1481477935/...

The Illustrated versions of Harry Potter is such a beautiful book. It went on sale recently to $24. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/harry-potter-and-the-sorcer...

I have given the hard copy of Maker Education Revolution by Peter Dalmaris to my EdTech friends (https://selz.com/item/59a5d9f8cca91807c878d875).

I bought my wife pretty much every book written by Brandon Sanderson. (Mistborn, Stormlight Archives, etc).

I've also donated a couple of copies of Dune, Zelazny's Amber books, and The Martian over the course of the year to various local friends.

Hyperbole and a half by Allie Brosch

I am waiting for the republishing of Aurora Morales’ Medicine Stories so I can buy 10 and give them away. Incredibly potent, clear, and beautiful writing on healing ourselves from oppression of all kinds. True medicine.

Magic Realized and Other Poems on the Human Spirit, by Louis Alan Swartz https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072Q5V2MN

Traction, I always find it a good book to gift to friends that are trying to start businesses.

Flowers For Algernon - For my girlfriend.

Trafficked to Hell - For my Mother.

The art of glamour by Virginia Postrell.

To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

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