The 2024 Avery Books Gift Guide
Welcome to our Avery Books holiday gift guide! This year's guides are filled with our picks for the person in your life who loves staying current with the latest greatest New York Times bestsellers, to your favorite chef, home baker, the boss, wellness guru, and even the spiritual. Jump to your preferred list or take a leisurely scroll on this page. Happy holidays from all of us at Avery Books!
Gift Guide: New York Times Bestsellers
Atomic Habits
Practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
Big Vegan Flavor
A groundbreaking and comprehensive “vegan flavor bible”—with 150 must-make recipes—from the wildly popular home cook and creator behind Rainbow Plant Life.
Good Energy
A bold new vision for optimizing our health now and in the future. Optimize your ability to live and stay well at every age.
The Korean Vegan Cookbook
The dazzling debut cookbook from Joanne Lee Molinaro, the home cook and spellbinding storyteller behind the online sensation @thekoreanvegan.
Love and Lemons Simple Feel Good Food
Love and Lemons is back with make-now and make-ahead vegetarian recipes—including 100+ tested vegan options—for every kind of cook.
The Menopause Brain
The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause successfully and come out the other side with an even better brain.
The Myth of Normal
A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
Scattered Minds
Renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté explodes the myth of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) as genetically based—and offers real hope and advice for children and adults.
Shabbat
Adeena Sussman, author of Sababa, returns with a collection of good-for-the-soul recipes that embody the spirit and pleasures of Shabbat.
Unwinding Anxiety
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits.
GIFT GUIDE: FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE & WELLNESS
The Anti-Viral Gut
A practical plan for strengthening the incredible antiviral defenses located in your gut and resolving symptoms—from a renowned gastroenterologist and the author of Gutbliss.
The End of Alzheimer's
A groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline.
Fiber Fueled
A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist.
Good Energy
A new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden. Optimize your ability to live well and stay well at every age.
The Menopause Brain
The New York Times bestselling author of The XX Brain shows women how to navigate menopause successfully and come out the other side with an even better brain.
Prescription for Nutritional Healing, Sixth Edition
The nation’s #1 bestselling guide to natural remedies, totally revised and updated. The source for accessible, evidence-based information, a guide for using natural nutritional remedies to achieve and maintain wellness.
The Wahls Protocol
Fully expanded with new information and updated research, a clear prescriptive guide about how to beat autoimmune conditions using functional medicine and nutrient-rich foods, from a doctor, researcher, and sufferer of progressive multiple sclerosis.
Gift Guide: Plant Powered Cooking
Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior
The original “Julia Child of plant-based cooking” teams up with her daughter to offer a multigenerational celebration of the power of a plant-based lifestyle—with 125 recipes.
Big Vegan Flavor
A groundbreaking and comprehensive “vegan flavor bible”—with 150 must-make recipes—from the wildly popular home cook and creator behind Rainbow Plant Life.
The Fiber Fueled Cookbook
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz offers a groundbreaking cookbook packed with delicious plant-based recipes, as well as a targeted plan for overcoming food sensitivities.
The First Mess Cookbook
The blogger behind the Saveur award-winning blog The First Mess shares more than 125 beautifully prepared seasonal whole-food recipes.
The Korean Vegan Cookbook
The dazzling debut cookbook from Joanne Lee Molinaro, the home cook and spellbinding storyteller behind the online sensation @thekoreanvegan.
Mississippi Vegan
Celebrate the gorgeous and delicious possibilities of plant-based Southern cuisine, with 125 plant-based recipes.
Gift Guide: For the Baker
A Slow Rise
The James Beard Award-winning visionary behind the iconic East coast bakery Bread Alone shares decades of wisdom and techniques for soul-fulfilling baking, with 60+ bread and pastry recipes.
Dappled
Fresh fruit-based desserts from beloved Los Angeles pastry chef and restaurateur Nicole Rucker.
Good & Sweet
Groundbreaking recipes for real desserts—sweetened entirely by fruit and other natural, unexpectedly sweet ingredients—from a pastry cook who’s worked at acclaimed restaurants in New York and France.
The Pain d'Avignon Baking Book
Five-star bread and pastry recipes, and a tale of adventure, from an iconic East Coast bakery.
Voilà Vegan
Plant-based sweets adored by even the most discerning pastry lovers, from an American pâtissière in Paris.
Gift Guide: Mental Health Books
Give Me Space but Don't Go Far
A tender, funny, illustrated memoir about anxiety and self-acceptance from the artist behind @haleydrewthis.
The Myth of Normal
A groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
Past Tense
A brave and captivating graphic memoir about the power of therapy to heal anxiety and generational trauma.
Practical Optimism
A practical program rooted in optimism to help you live fully and joyfully in an imperfect, turbulent world.
Unwinding Anxiety
A step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits.
Vulnerable Minds
A new, hopeful pathway to understanding children’s trauma and providing effective interventions to build healthier communities.
GIFT GUIDE: THE BOSS IN YOUR LIFE
Atomic Habits
Reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits.
Daring Greatly
From thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability.
Emotional Agility
The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year.
Financial Freedom
Money is unlimited. Time is not. Become financially independent as fast as possible.
It's Not About the Money
A new, holistic way to understand money and find your own path to financial freedom, from the wealth-building expert behind One Big Happy Life.
Lead to Win
The author of Expect To Win and Strategize To Win steps out with dynamic strategies for leaders of today and tomorrow.
Mind Magic
A deep exploration of the neuroscience behind manifestation, with a six-part plan for realizing your dreams, by Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. James Doty.
GIFT GUIDE: SPIRITUALITY
The Amen Effect
From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community based on one of her most impactful sermons.
The Beauty of What Remains
From the author of the bestselling More Beautiful Than Before comes an inspiring book about loss based on his most popular sermon.
The Book of Joy
Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama’s look back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?
For You When I Am Gone
From the bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains, a guide to writing a meaningful letter about your life.
How We Learn to Be Brave
An inspirational guide to the key junctures in life that, if navigated with faith and discernment, pave the way for us to become our most courageous selves, by the bishop of the famed Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C.
Into the Magic Shop
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart.
GIFT GUIDE: PARENTING
The Big Book of Pregnancy Nutrition
The only guide you need to nourishing yourself and your baby from the first through fourth trimesters, from the bestselling author of The Big Book of Organic Baby Food.
Color Taste Texture
An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes.
Feeding Littles and Beyond
An inspirational, accessible family cookbook that offers everything a parent needs to bring joy and love back into the kitchen, by the baby and toddler feeding experts behind Feeding Littles and the New York Times bestselling cookbook author of Inspiralized.
The Knowledge Gap
If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.
Reading for Our Lives
An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner.
Your Postpartum Body
A comprehensive, one-of-a-kind, evidence-based handbook to support postpartum healing and recovery.