Best Books for Gifting 2024

Find the best books to give as gifts on Barnes & Noble’s list of the Best Gifting Books of 2024. These excellent book selections include some of the best art and nature books of the year. Featuring art works from film, painting, drawing and breathtaking nature photography, these books will make great presents for anyone who appreciates aesthetics and visual splendor.

Browse the newest gifting favorites like Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures, the perfect book for people who love going on adventures or are simply fans of travel and design books, or The Work of Art, an engaging visual exploration of the steps artists take to create the stunning artwork we get the pleasure to experience.

Whether you’re searching for the best books for gifts for art, nature or just book lovers in your life, these are some of the best books we recommend. Looking for a truly unique gift? Pop-up engineer Gérard Lo Monaco enchants us again this year, this time with Pop-Up Surrealism, a whimsical art book that brings to life some of the most celebrated works in surrealist art featuring art from Salvador Dalí, Victor Brauner, Jean Arp, Man Ray, Joseph Cornell, Dora Maar, René Magritte and André Breton.

Other creative finds include The Mushroom Color Atlas, which takes us on a color-spectrum journey into all the marvelous pigments that can be created with the help of the fungi kingdom, and Radiant, a new look at the artwork of Keith Haring, the cultural icon and pioneer of the pop art movement. The boundary between art and nature becomes blurred in Tree, a stunning collection of images that feature trees in various forms of art from Roman stone mosaics to contemporary photographs that pay homage to trees.

If you’re interested in even more books that will make amazing gifts this year, check out our Holiday Gift Guide to find books in various genres or visit our Coffee Table & Decorative Books section for more cool gift books for 2024.