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Top Shelf: Gifts for Everyone on Your List

This Top Shelf is all about ideas for the particular types of readers on your gift list.

It is high time, given the holiday season almost upon us (aargh!), that we publish a new installment of Top Shelf, the series compiling great lists and posts on 49th Shelf. This one's all about ideas for the particular types of readers on your gift list.

Of course this can't be comprehensive, because it would take days to highlight the best lists on 49th Shelf in 2014. But here's our offer: if you're looking for another kind of book for a different kind of reader, tweet us @49thShelf and we'll help you find it!

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torontostarcookbook

For the chef, the 2014 Taste Canada shortlist, including books by Lynn Crawford, Nick Saul, Andrea Curtis, and Lucy Waverman.

 

oilman

For the science buff, nominees for the Lane Anderson Award (celebrating the best science writing in Canada today, both for adults and kids).

 

arthurerickson

For the urban planner and architecture student, a list of gorgeous books on iconic designers and gurus.

 

freedomclimbers

For the adventurer, books on mountaineers, heroes, and contested nature.

 

betweengods

For the non-fiction enthusiast, the 2014 BC National Award for Non-Fiction longlist and the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust finalists.

  

becominghuman

For those dreaming of a more peaceful world, books providing hope, inspiration, and ideas for changing our world for the better. 

 

dor

For parents and grandparents with small ones and/or slightly bigger ones, the 2014 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards

 

 

harvey

For teens into graphic novels, a comprehensive list by teacher-librarian Barbara McVeigh.

 

taleforthetimebeing

For lovers of fantasy, the 2014 Sunburst Award shortlist.

 

genderfailure

For those into LGBT fiction, Plenitude Magazine's amazingly big list. 

 

tangles

For those who enjoy delving into other people's lives, Alison Pick's list of memoirs.

 

girlcrazy

For a little sexy sexy.

 

justpretending

For a great Aboriginal reading list.

 

7waystoSunday

For supremely good books, our editor Kerry Clare's best of 2014 longlist (so far).

 

hooking

For great poetry, the 2014 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry shortlist; this year's judge was George Bowering.

 

thelasthockeygame

For the love of hockey.

 

novelists

For short story addicts, Vicki Ziegler's Crazy for CanLit short story collection.

 

And for everyone who loves the big lit awards, the 2014 Giller Prize longlist, The Governor General's Literary Award winners for 2014, and the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust finalists.