Want to gift books this holiday season? Here are 30 ideas for kids and adults

Juanita Giles' booklist

• "The Night is Deep and Wide" by Gillian Sze and Sue Todd
• "RAinbowZ" by Michael Arndt
• "Where’s Brian’s Bottom?" by Rob Jones
• "B is for Baby" by Atinuke, illustrated by Angela Brooksbank

• "A New Day" by Brad Meltzer, illustrated by Dan Santat
• "Way Past Jealous" by Hallee Adelman, illustrated by Karen Wall
• "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess" by Tom Gauld
• "What Happened to You" by James Catchpole, illustrated by Karen George

• "Cat Kid Comic Club" by Dav Pilkey
• "Egg Marks the Spot" by Amy Timberlake, illustrated by Jon Klassen
• "Sona Sharma, Very Best Big Sister?" by Chitra Soundar, illustrated by Jen Khatun
• "Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend" by Dawn Quigley, illustrated by Tara Audibert

• "Stuntboy, in the Meantime" by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Raul the Third
• "The Beatryce Prophecy" by Kate Dicamillo, illustrated by Sophie Blackall
• "Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom" by Sangu Mandanna
• "Bad Sister" by Charise Mericle Harper, illustrated by Rory Lucey
• "The Monsters of Rookhaven" by Padraig Kelly
• "Liars' Room" by Dan Poblocki

• "Huda F Are You?" by Huda Fahmy
• "Pony" by R.J. Palacio
• "Black Boy Joy" edited by Kwame Mbalia
• "The Genius Under the Table" by Eugene Yelchin

• "Passport" by Sophia Glock
• "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
• "You’d Be Home Now" by Kathleen Glasgow
• "Firekeeper's Daughter" by Angeline Boulley
• "House of Hollow" by Krystal Sutherland
• "Instructions for Dancing" by Nicola Yoon

Traci Thomas' booklist

• "Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty" by Patrick Radden Keefe
• "A Little Devil in America Notes in Praise of Black Performance" by Hanif Abdurraqib
• "Seek You: A Journal Through American Loneliness" by Kristen Radtke
• "Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons" by Colin Kaepernick
• "Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019" by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

• "Yolk" by Mary H.K. Choi
• "The Final Revival of Opal & Nev" by Dawnie Walton
• "Detransition, Baby" by Torrey Peters
• "Seven Days in June" by Tia Williams