Gifts for Those Who Love the Language of Literature

It seems perfectly penned prose pulls in dedicated readers like nothing else in the world. Satisfy the cravings of those on your list who covet the next great novel with one of these brilliantly written works.

The Night Strangers, by Chris Bohjalian
Nightwoods, by Charles Frazier
Everyone But You: Stories, by Sandra Novack
The Very Picture of You, by Isabel Wolff
The Tiger’s Wife, by Tea Obreht
1Q84, by Haruki Murakami
Aleph, by Paulo Coelho
There But for The, by Ali Smith
Last Man in Tower, by Aravind Adiga
Nanjing Requiem, by Ha Jin
A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje
The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer
Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
Zone One, by Colson Whitehead