51 Gifts for Book Lovers

Looking to buy gifts for the book lover in your life? You’re in the right place. As a huge book nerd myself, who loves receiving presents (hint, hint!), I have taken the time to search the whole internet for the very best gifts for book lovers.  Book lovers can be very hard to buy a present for, as the obvious choice is books. This is problematic due to the immense amount of books the typical book worm will buy each month. Do they already have this one? Can I search their bookshelves without them noticing? What if they have a secret stash of books in a different place in the house (we all do!)? I’m here to help. There are lots of amazing creative gifts for book lovers. I may be wildly biased, but I am sure that this is the most exhaustive list of gifts for book lovers you’ll find. Before we begin, I must make clear the system I’ll use for cost. As things fluctuate in price; I’ll use the following system:

• Low = Under $/£/€ 20
• Medium = $/£/€ 20 – 50
• Expensive = $/£/€ 50 – 150
• Very Expensive = $/£/€ 150+

Enjoy these gifts for book lovers…

1. Homesick Scented Candle – with Book scent

Cost: Medium

You really can’t beat the smell of old books. Now, you can enjoy the scent without walking around with a book glued to your face – hooray! The book worm in your life will enjoy curling up to enjoy with a good book while this candle gently flickers and fill their nostrils with nostalgic delight.

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2. Book Page Holder

Cost: Low

If you’ve ever been trying to read a book whilst holding a cup of tea, then you will see this wonderful invention as a gamechanger for your reading and tea drinking habits. You can’t really put a price on being able to read a book with hand, but they have – and it’s worth every penny!

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3. LEGO – Harry Potter Hogwarts Express

Cost: Expensive

When was the last time you built a lego set? Whenever it was, it’s too long ago! LEGO can be extremely therapeutic, much like completing a jigsaw. For the Potter head in your life, they will thank you for this wonderful set of the Hogwarts Express. The set also comes with a Platform 9 and 3/4, as well as little lego people versions of Harry, Hermione, Ron and many more.

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4. Book Style iPhone Cover

Cost: Medium

Turn an iPhone it an old leather-bound book with this charming phone cover. We all spend far too much time on our phones and not enough time reading old classic books. With this cover, you’ll still be on your phone – but to the rest of the world, you’ll look incredibly wise as you pretend to flick through the pages of this tiny book.

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5. Jane Austen Coaster Set

Cost: Low

If you’re looking for gifts for book lovers who specifically are a fan of Jane Austen then nothing will please them more than resting a cup of their favourite hot beverage upon one of these brilliant coasters. More than just a novelty, these are genuinely beautiful in design – replicating the front cover of an old classic book.

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6. Bose Wireless Headphones

Cost: Expensive

With more and more book worms turning to audiobooks, these wireless headphones will make the perfect companion. Whether it’s on a run or maybe just walking the dog, listening to an audiobook on the go, without having to worry about wires is a real pleasure.

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7. Harry Potter Stud Earring Set

Cost: Low

If you have a wizard or witch in your family, then these earrings may just be the perfect gifts for book lovers. With a different pair for each day of the working week, they are sure to be a hit with work colleagues, clients and even your boss. Because really, who doesn’t love Harry Potter!?

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8. USB Rechargeable Clip Reading Light

Cost: Medium

If your partner is a book worm who likes to stay up late reading ‘just one more chapter’, when you’ve got to get up early the next day – then this one is for you! No more filling the room with light. With three brightness settings, this clip on reading light is the perfect gift for the book lovers in your life.

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9. Soft Pillow Lap Stand for e-Readers

Cost: Medium

Wherever you’re settling down to read your latest e-book, this comfy lap stand will enhance your experience. With multiple angles available, you can use this in the car, in the bed, at the desk and in a multitude of other places!

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10. Novelty Book Socks

Cost: Low

If the book lover in your life loves getting cozy and reading their favourite books, then these book socks are the perfect present. They double up perfectly if that person also has a penchant for felines. They are also available in a range of different styles if you’d prefer llamas, flamingos or space-sloths. Brilliant gifts for book lovers.

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11. Scratch Off Poster – Top 100 Books

Cost: Low

Us book lovers can be a little competitive when it comes to how many books we’ve read and more importantly – which books we’ve read! This great poster has a list of 100 classic books that you can scratch off as you read them. The end product is a brilliant poster with some awesome graphics to enjoy forever. It looks especially great in a neat frame.

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12. Personal Library Kit

Cost: Low

When you have a large book collection, you find that people start using it as their local library. This adorable little personal library kit will help you keep track of who has what. Or, it could just be a really good bit of fun as a gift for book lovers. A wonderful gift for book lovers who generously lend their books.

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13. A Kindle

Cost: Expensive

It’s an obvious choice, but if the person you’re buying for doesn’t have a Kindle – it may be time to get one for them. They are so useful for when you’re traveling, saving you from carrying lots of books with you. They’ve also come a long way in quality – the reader in your life will thank you!

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14. Finger Pointing Bookmark

Cost: Low

Help the book nerd in your life never lose their exact place in their book again. These bookmarks area great way to not just keep the page you were on, but also the exact line of the page. This could also be a great gift for the student in your life, this 16 piece set gives them plenty of scope to save particular excerpts from textbooks.

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15. Plant Pot Bookends

Cost: Low

Books keep falling off the shelf? Not enough oxygen in your house? Well, do I have the product for you! These plant pot bookends are a cool way to keep your books in one place whilst bringing a bit of lovely greenery to your home. Perfect gift for book loers with a green thumb.

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16. Famous Book Clutch Bags

Cost: Low

Does the book lover in your life love to flaunt their love affair with books? This range of literary book cover clutch bags offers a great way to show your taste in literature to the world! Whether it’s The Great Gatsby, Where The Wild Things Are or others – there are plenty of options.

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17. For The Love Of Books

Cost: Medium

Explore the significance of the home library, embellished with alluring photography and illustrations, in a keepsake worthy of any bibliophile’s collection. There’s likely nothing your fellow book lover enjoys more than arranging and organising their book collection. This book is the ultimate guide to designing and curating a home library.

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18. Scrabble Giant Deluxe Edition

Cost: Expensive

Those who love books, love scrabble – it’s just science. This special edition of the classic game is extremely luxurious and will offer the ultimate bragging rights on game night. It’s 50% larger than your average Scrabble set, with a raised ridge allowing letters to sit in nicely.

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19. Book Shaped Cake Tin

Cost: Low

Why just read books when you could eat books? This book shapes cake tin allows you to bake delicious book cakes that everyone will want to tuck into! Whether you want to try and bake a cake version of your favourite book, or you’re just baking for a book lover – this is the perfect cake tin.

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20. Bookcase Staircase Stickers

Cost: Medium

What would be better than stairs that look like they have books in them? Okay, maybe real books in your stairs, but second to that – these awesome stickers. This is a talking point for your home, whilst it’ll bring a smile to your book-loving face, every time you’re heading upstairs.

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21. Penguin Little Black Classics Box Set

Cost: Expensive

The book lover in your life will thank you for this truly special gift. It’s something they may never buy themselves, as it’s a little pricey – but it really is a special collection to own. It includes 80 books that range from fiction to essays, poetry to maxims – there’s a book for every moment!

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22. Book Fan

Cost: Low

Reading books can be tiring work (I know it’s not just me who gets sleepy after a couple of pages!), this fan will keep you reading at the perfect temperature for focus. The best bit? It’s made of an old book, giving it a special character.

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23. Ernest Hemingway T-Shirt

Cost: Medium

If you are friends with a fan of Ernest Hemingway, then they’d most likely love this t-shirt inspired by his book, The Old Man & The Sea. Santiago and Manolin are the two characters who spend the story on the sea, chasing the biggest catch of their lives. In fact, I like it so much – I may just buy it myself.

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24. Heroic Female Character Poster

Cost: Medium

The hand-drawn illustrations include characters from beloved books like To Kill a Mockingbird and The Fault in Our Stars, plus many new discoveries. It’s an engaging way to promote strong girl role models for readers age 13+. A story summary is provided for each book, along with the character’s and author’s name.

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25. Genius Writers Playing Cards

Cost: Low

The next time you sit down at the poker table or to play solitare, why not add a touch of class? Fifty–four writers from the last 100 years have been chosen from the following periods: Modern, Mid–Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George’s stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction ensure that even if you don’t win, you’re in good company.

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26. Cosy Book Lover’s Sweatshirt

Cost: Medium

Books are more enjoyable when you’re warm and cosy, and what better sweatshirt to wear than this one – celebrating the world’s three best things? Coffee, books and dogs. But of course, we know that books always come first!

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27. 1000 Books to Read

Cost: Low

Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more.

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28. Reading Rubber Duckies

Cost: Low

Reading a book in the bath can be risky business, but for the daredevil in your life – we’ve got the perfect gift. These adorable rubber duckies are all reading books, of varying genres. Perhaps they will help you keep your book out of the bubbles! A wonderful gift for book lovers who spend a little too long in the bath.

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29. Folding Book Lamp

Cost: Medium

Need a new desk lamp? Or perhaps a new lamp for the bedside table? These folding book lamps not only solve that problem, but they do it in style! With 8 different colours to choose from, it could also make the perfect night light for the book loving children in your life.

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30. Book Lovers’ Apron

Cost: Medium

Does the book worm in your life also love to bake at the weekends? If you’re nodding your head, then this could be the ideal gift, combining the magical world of books with the delicious world of home baking. After all, what goes better together than book and cake?!

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31. The Penguin Book Quiz

Cost: Low

Which Haruki Murakami novel shares its title with a Beatles song? In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what is Charlie’s surname? What is heavy-drinking Rachel Watson known as in the title of a 21st-century bestseller? Think your fellow book nerd could answer these and more? Put them to the test!

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32. Daily Shakespeare Book

Cost: Medium

Allie Esiri’s Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is a beautiful book featuring a perfect piece of topical Shakespeare for every day of the year. The daily Shakespeare might be a sonnet, a soliloquy, an extract from a narrative poem or play, or a quote. For the Shakespeare fan in your life – this book will be a heavenly gift!

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33. Tequila Mockingbird

Cost: Low

From barflies to book clubs, Tequila Mockingbird is the world’s bestselling cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Featuring 65 delicious drink recipes paired with wry commentary on history’s most beloved novels, Tequila Mockingbird also includes bar bites, drinking games, and whimsical illustrations throughout. The perfect gifts for book lovers who enjoy a tipple.

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34. Edgar Allan Poe Bobblehead

Cost: Medium

The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this iconic writer is often his spooky short story, “The Raven.” There aren’t many book nerds who don’t love Edgar Allan Poe’s work – so this limited edition black and white bobble head will make the perfect desk companion when they’re writing or reading.

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35. Laptop Stickers for Book Lovers

Cost: Low

Whilst we’d all love to spend all of our time sat in a comfy chair reading a brilliant book, occasionally we have to boot up the laptop to do work, or perhaps more likely – to buy more books. This stick will help you make all around you to know your true love is between the pages!

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36. Ember Temperature Mug

Cost: Expensive

If you’ve ever sat down with a fresh made cup of coffee to read a good book, then you’ll also know the pain of getting too engrossed in your book and the coffee going cold. Well, this will no longer be a problem with the brilliant Ember mug, which keeps your coffee at the perfect temperature. It even connects to your phone. Okay, I admit – I’m off to go buy this for myself now!

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37. Book Nerd Hoodie

Cost: Medium

Want to get cosy whilst reading your book? Or perhaps you just want to strut your stuff on the high street, making sure everyone knows how much you love books? If you have a proud book lover in your family or friend group – this may be just the hoodie for them!

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38. Special Edition LOTR Boxset

Cost: Expensive

If you’re buying a gift for a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s incredible series of stories, then this special edition of hardbacks is a perfect gift. It’s such a beautiful presentation of some of the greatest stories ever told. It’d no doubt have pride of place on the bookshelf.

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39. Typewriter Keyboard

Cost: Very Expensive

Whilst this might be an expensive gift, it is truly genius. Looking like a real typewriter keyboard, this wireless keyboard can connect to your laptop or tablet and you can pen your new novel in a way that even Ernest Hemingway would be proud!

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40. The Complete Shakespeare

Cost: Expensive

I know from the Shakespeare lovers in my life, that this complete works is an essential book to have on the shelf. However, it’s cost means it’s one that is perhaps one best given as a gift. This beautifully presented collection is a wonderful book to keep on the coffee table even!

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41. Jane Austen Puzzle

Cost: Medium

This 1000 piece puzzle which includes lots of classic covers of Jane Austen novels is an ideal present for the Jane Austen fan in your life. At 1000 pieces, it should keep them busy for a little while! Can you spot your favourite Austen novel on the puzzle?

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42. Alice in Wonderland Chess Set

Cost: Expensive

Whether you like chess or not, this is such a stunning chess set – that it would even make a wonderful ornament. With each piece perfectly encapsulating all of the amazing characters from Alice in Wonderland.

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43. Cast Iron Whale Bookend

Cost: Expensive

A beautiful way to store your books on the shelf, this hand-painted cast iron whale bookend would make an amazing gift. Perhaps it’ll be especially great for someone who has a special place for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

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44. Literary Postcards

Cost: Low

This beautiful set of literary postcards showcases bold graphic interpretations of 50 of the greatest literary quotes of all time. From Virginia Wolf to Oscar Wilde, from Brontë to Poe to Austen, each piece will spark your imagination and kindle your creative spirit.

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45. Personalised Library Book Embosser

Cost: Medium

Find that you’re lending out books more than you’re getting them back? This brilliant personal embosser will allow you to emboss your books, stating it’s from your personal library – helping you to get it back! Or, don’t lend your books out and just enjoy embossing every book on the shelf!

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46. Bath Tray for Books

Cost: Medium

To me, this is basically magic. Having somewhere to store my book, phone and a cup of tea whilst I soak in the bath is worthy of the Nobel prize in my mind. The size fits most bathtubs, but do be sure to measure the bath beforehand. Might be tricky if it’s your friend’s bath!

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47. Ladder Bookcase

Cost: Expensive

If there’s one thing us book nerds love more than reading books, it’s organising and displaying our books on the bookcase, and then re-organising it again moments later. This bookcase is a great way to show off your collection in the middle of your home!

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48. Library Card Mug

Cost: Low

Now you can enjoy your morning cup of coffee out of a library card themed mug. This should make a great gift, especially for those friends who perhaps needs a little hint to return those books you let them borrow all those years ago!

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49. Bedside End Table

Cost: Expensive

This beautiful end table would look great next to your bed, the only thing that’d make it better is if it were covered in books. There’s nothing worse than being in bed without having a stack of books next to you – so this would make a great gift.

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50. Library Card Pouch

Cost: Low

This literary card pouch is the perfect place to keep stationary, make-up, coins or anything else you can think of. You can never have too many little pouches for keeping your things, and now you can do it in book style!

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51. Alexa Echo Dot

Cost: Expensive

The Alexa is obviously a great tool to have in the house. But did you know that at any point you can just ask it to launch Audible and read you whatever book you’re currently listening to. Having audio books that accesible at all times is truly something special.

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I hope you have enjoyed this collection of gifts for book lovers.