The Gilmore Book Club Gift Guide 2025
The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide: Unforgettable Presents for Every Gilmore on Your List
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Are you on the hunt for the perfect holiday gifts for your loved ones? Look no further! The Gilmore Book Club’s comprehensive gift guide has everything you need to make this holiday season truly special, and truly Gilmore! From unique and thoughtful presents for book lovers to exciting gifts for Gilmore Girls fans to pop culture gifts that will delight everyone, we've got you covered.
In our ultimate holiday gift guide, you'll discover a curated selection of Gilmore Book Club hand-picked items that are sure to delight even the most discerning recipients like Richard and Emily Gilmore. Featuring a wide range of items across various price points, our holiday gift guide provides options for every budget. More gifts will be added each week, so make sure to check back often!
Most of the items on this list are made by independent artists and small businesses. Many of these have offered their support for the release of my book Meet Me at Luke’s: Lessons in Life and Love from Gilmore Girls, so please help me thank them by shopping from their stores this season.
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Digital Gift Ideas
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Finding the perfect gift for a friend can be a fun and exciting task. Whether you've known them for years or they're a new addition to your circle, here are some gift ideas that are sure to make them smile.
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Remember, the best gifts for friends are often the ones that show how well you know them and how much you value their friendship. Take the time to think about their interests and choose a gift that reflects their personality.
The Ultimate Book List of Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
Some I think the Gilmore girls would like to read, some I’d like to read, and some that are currently trending. There’s a book for everyone on your list. Hover your mouse over each book for a quick summary. Each book is from Bookshop.org, which gives money to small bookstores so your purchase helps small, local businesses! If you’d like to purchase from Amazon, scroll down to the button below this section.
Fiction Books
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Nestled amongst the comforting shelves of her beloved Bay Books, newly single Lily Appleton finds the peace and quiet she needs. But with Christmas just around the corner, Lily has to find an extra pair of hands to help her share the bookish magic.
After selling his business, Lars Jóhannsson is feeling like a character in a book awaiting his next plot twist! A job at Bay Books would give him the space he needs to contemplate his next move. He has fond memories of the bookshop on Castle Street, but returning there would mean confronting a painful past he's been avoiding. It would also mean working with Lily and he's fairly sure he's the one person she'd never want to see again.
When Lily spots Lars's job application, she's torn. Lars could be the perfect fit for Bay Books, but the boy she thought she knew rejected her friendship many years ago and the hurt still lingers. With time ticking, Lily has no option but to take a chance on Lars, hoping his unexpected application turns out to be for the best.
Working together, Lily discovers a vulnerability that Lars has kept hidden away, along with a few surprising secrets. As the Christmas season sprinkles its magic, Lily discovers the warmth of renewed friendship and the joy of heartwarming traditions from Lars's Icelandic roots.
And perhaps, surrounded by the quiet magic of the season and the soft glow of festive lights, there's the possibility of finding a love as enchanting as the Northern Lights on a winter's night.
Our narrator understands good love stories--their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.
In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, the vulnerable days of Jordan's youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving love story that celebrates literature, forgiveness, and the transformative bonds that shape our lives. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.
In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.
Later, as the country reconstructs in the postwar boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie—but nothing stays buried forever in a small town. Against the backdrop of some of the most transformative decades in modern America, the consequences of that long-ago encounter ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to reexamine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.
Sweeping yet intimate, rich with piercing observation and the warmth that comes from profound understanding of the human spirit, Buckeye captures the universal longing for love and for goodness.
Non-Fiction
A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.
In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cynthia Erivo draws from her singular experience to show us how to embrace being “too much” and to live up to the fullest iteration of ourselves.
It is never too late to build the life you’re seeking.
Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing those same lyrics would change her life. Now she has performed those songs on the world stage, showing us there is always time to keep discovering ourselves. And to illustrate that it’s often the parts of ourselves we are told to bury that make us shine.
In a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia reflects on the ways she has grown as an actor and human and the practices she’s learned over years of performing and reminds us all we are capable of so much more than we think.
We all have hopes and dreams that we want to bring across the finish line. We all falter and take missteps. In this book, Cynthia draws from her experiences running marathons, both real and metaphorical, onstage and onscreen, to show how each challenge can help us. She urges readers to lean into the wisdom of their bodies, to understand and strive for a physical and mentaal balance. Because when we chase our deepest desires, each small step leads us closer to where we want to go.
From the beloved New Yorker writer Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book and hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post, Joyride is a masterful memoir of finding her creative calling and purpose that invites us to approach life with wonder, curiosity, and an irrepressible sense of delight.
“The story of my life is the story of my stories,” writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our time. Joyride is a magic carpet ride through Orlean’s life and career, where every day is an opportunity for discovery and every moment holds the potential for wonder. Throughout her storied career, her curiosity draws her to explore the most ordinary and extraordinary of places, from going deep inside the head of a regular ten-year-old boy for a legendary profile (“The American Man Age Ten”) to reporting on a woman who owns twenty-seven tigers, from capturing the routine magic of Saturday night to climbing Mt. Fuji.
Pop Culture
From music and movies to relationships, Gilmore Girls taught us all so much throughout the years. Now, take a walk down Stars Hollow's memory lane and reflect on the show's profound impact with author Kristine Eckart, founder of the Gilmore Book Club, in this beautifully illustrated guide to the beloved show.
In Meet Me at Luke's, you can expect to find a treasure trove of insights, anecdotes, and life lessons drawn from the show's rich tapestry of relationships, small-town charm, and the enduring bond between a mother and daughter. With a warm stroll through the characters' lives and loves, the book explores how their world can enrich our own.
Kelly Bishop's long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey's mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
In September 1994, six friends sat down in their favorite coffee shop and began bantering about sex, relationships, jobs, and just about everything else. A quarter of a century later, new fans are still finding their way into the lives of Rachel, Ross, Joey, Chandler, Monica, and Phoebe, and thanks to the show's immensely talented creators, its intimate understanding of its youthful audience, and its reign during network television's last moment of dominance, Friends has become the most influential and beloved show of its era. Friends has never gone on a break, and this is the story of how it all happened.
Noted pop culture historian Saul Austerlitz utilizes exclusive interviews with creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman, executive producer Kevin Bright, director James Burrows, and many other producers, writers, and cast members to tell the story of Friends' creation, its remarkable decade-long run, and its astonishing Netflix-fueled afterlife. Readers will go behind the scenes to hear from the people who were present as the show was developed and cast, written and filmed. There will be talk of trivia contests, prom videos, trips to London, Super Bowls, lesbian weddings, wildly popular hairstyles, superstar cameos, mad dashes to the airport, and million-dollar contracts. They'll also discover surprising details--that Monica and Joey were the show's original romantic couple, how Danielle Steel probably saved Jennifer Aniston's career, and why Friends is still so popular that if it was a new show, its over-the-air broadcast reruns would be the ninth-highest-rated program on TV.
The show that defined the 1990s has a legacy that has endured beyond anyone's wildest expectations. And in this hilarious, informative, and entertaining book, readers will now understand why.
Kristine’s Picks
From TikTok star and the author of I Didn’t Know I Needed This Eli Rallo, a reflection on the anxiety of transitioning into adulthood, navigating the quarter-life crisis, and realizing you’re actually not alone.
Does anyone else feel like they’re the only one having a quarter-life crisis? As a senior in college, Eli Rallo expected her post-grad years to be filled with certainty, that she would finally feel that she was the “adult” she had long dreamed she’d be, with a cool job, an amazing apartment, fabulous friends, and lots of fun and flirty date nights. Instead she was met with crippling social anxiety, no idea what direction her career was taking, an inability to stop comparing herself to her peers’ picture-perfect lives on social media, and a looming sense that she may never feel certain—about her dating life, friendships, career, or even herself.
A mother’s valiant efforts to bring her family the joy of Christmas go haywire when she finds herself haunted by the angry ghost of Charles Dickens.
This sparkling, cozy novel is perfect for readers of Emma Straub’s This Time Tomorrow and anyone who looks forward to watching It’s a Wonderful Life each December!
The Night Library is no ordinary library.
Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections - the books of deceased famous writers:
the books they wrote;
the books that inspired them;
the books they loved.
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager quickly bring reality crashing down around her. She is on the verge of quitting when she receives a message from somebody anonymous, inviting her to apply for a job at '"The Night Library." The hours are from seven o'clock to midnight. The library exclusively stores books by deceased authors, and none of them can be checked out - instead, they're put on public display to be revered and celebrated by the library's visitors, making it akin to a book museum.
There, Otoha meets the other staff, a group of likeminded literary misfits, including a legendary chef who prepares incredible meals for the library's employees at the end of each day. Night after night, she bonds with her colleagues over meals in the café, each of which are inspired by the literature on the shelves.
But as strange occurrences start happening around the library that may bring the threat of its closure, Otaha and her friends fear that the peace they have found there will forever be lost to them. Will their faith in the value of books strong enough to save it? And what will remain if it isn't?
Remember, book lovers are always on the lookout for their next great read. Consider their favorite genres and authors when choosing a gift, and find something that complements their reading habits.
Indie Books Spotlight
Small town romances and a little bit of magic!
Olive Bowman has a penchant for discovering old stories as long as they aren't her own. When a position opens in a place where fall leaves decorate the ground with whimsy and a witchy past lurks around every corner, she can't say no to the job opportunity or the chance to live close to her best friend. There's only one problem-since her first day of work, the town's favorite tattoo artist won't leave her alone.
Sam O'Reilly is a Mage Hollow local. He loves his hometown and is proud to own a small business. But the one thing he's never really understood is the magic. Everyone is obsessed with it, but nothing even remotely enchanting has ever happened to Sam-until he's flashed by the new-to-town debutant that insists on driving him crazy with her accent and attitude.
In an attempt to show her friends she's finally opening up, Olive agrees to lock lips with someone at the infamous Hollow Hearts Festival kissing booth. But when a certain tattoo artist interrupts her plans, she's had enough. Feeling desperate, Olive turns to a tarot reader for insight. But the woman with an air of enchantment doesn't predict her future, she alters it by forcing Olive to wear her heart on her sleeve in more ways than one.
In Mage Hollow, a single sip from a cauldron can change everything. And for one believer, and one non-believer, it just might.
Maple Leaves & Lattes is a cozy small-town romance perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, and Gilmore Girls.
The adventures in small-town Birch Lake continue with this charming autumn romance, filled with cozy coffee shops, bookstore dreams, and an ex who just won't stay in the past.
Jules Dubois has always been a go for it person. So when the chance arises to save Birch Lake's one and only coffee shop, she jumps at the opportunity and doesn't look back. With the aroma of fresh coffee and books surrounding her, Jules is totally ready to embrace her new, cozy, small-town life.
What Jules did not plan for was her ex-boyfriend moving in next door, threatening her sanity with his undeniable good looks and irritating charm.
Jax MacIntyre came to Birch Lake to leave the past behind and start fresh. Instead, he finds himself face to face with the woman who once shattered his heart, a blow he's never fully recovered from. The smart thing would be to keep his distance, a sentiment that Jules strongly shares.
But when a fateful autumn storm—and a reluctant truce—begin to blur her carefully drawn lines, Jules has to scramble to remember all of the reasons why Jax was a bad idea in the first place.
And Jax? He's already begun to accept the fact that some sparks never truly go out.
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Nothing screams 𝗕𝗔𝗚𝗚𝗔𝗚𝗘, quite like a woman and her toddler on the run from murderous drug dealers. But, when Stella and her daughter, Charlie, find themselves in the small town of Firefly Cove, the last thing they expect is to meet a man and his family willing to carry all of that baggage for them.
When Stella’s past catches up with them, will the love and life she’s created be enough? Or will she lose herself and the thing that is most important to her: 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗜𝗘
The Tides of Darkness is a dark urban fantasy series meant for adult readers who enjoy sweary, snarky heroines, slow-burn, open-door romance, murder, mystery, and monsters. If you love steamy supernatural thrillers that you can really sink your claws into, the journey into Darkness begins here!
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Stocking Stuffers and Small Gift Ideas
Stocking stuffers and small gifts are a fun and festive way to surprise your loved ones during the holiday season. Here are some ideas that are sure to bring a smile to their faces:
Remember, it's the thought that counts, not the price tag. Budget-friendly gifts can be just as thoughtful and meaningful as more expensive options.
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Gift Ideas for Friends
Finding the perfect gift can sometimes be a challenge, but with a little thought and consideration, you can find something that truly shows how much you care. Here are some tips to help you choose the perfect gift for your loved ones:
1. Consider their interests and hobbies: Think about what the person enjoys doing in their free time. Are they a Lorelai, Rory, Lane, or Sookie? By considering their hobbies and interests, you can find a gift that aligns perfectly with their passions.
2. Personalize it: Adding a personal touch to a gift can make it even more special. Consider engraving their initials on a piece of jewelry, or customizing an item with their name or a meaningful quote. Personalization shows that you put thought and effort into finding a unique gift just for them.
3. Think about their needs: Is there something the person needs but hasn't had the chance to buy for themselves? Practical gifts can be just as thoughtful as sentimental ones. Consider items like a new kitchen gadget for the home cook or a cozy blanket for someone who loves to curl up with a good book.
Remember, the most important thing is to choose a gift that comes from the heart. As long as you put thought and consideration into your selection, your loved ones are sure to appreciate the gesture.
