I love book recommendations, and The Guardian has an interesting list. The paper asked 30 writers for a recommendation. It didn’t ask what’s cool and exciting. It asked what books the writers had given as gifts.
No one asked me, but if they had:
• Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These. The only recent work of fiction on this short list. It’s short, extraordinary and serious.
• Leo Tolstoy, Twenty-Three Tales. There’s a lot of Tolstoy in here, but there’s also a lot of Wittgenstein. This is one of the books Wittgenstein recommended to friends, and you can see something of his personality in a couple of these stories.
• Henry Beetle Hough, Country Editor. People have written a lot about what a responsible and ethical newspaper editor would look like without giving much thought to what a newspaper editor is. This is the best book I’ve seen on the subject.
• Source: ‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone; The Guardian, 13 Dec. 2025.
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