If you’re frantically shopping for a final bookish gift or stocking stuffer, rejoice! Your book lover or word nerd will love any of the following twelve, budget-friendly items. (Each costs under $50.) Check this list once, maybe twice, when wanting to fill stockings with delightful treasures and hearts with mirth.
1. Alice in Wonderland Page Clips (Bookmarks)
These page clips improve upon the standard bookmark. Plus, they’re adorable. What’s not to love?
2. First Lines Literature Coffee Mug
This coffee mug will likely become your writer’s or reader’s favorite. The mug features first lines from a number of works, making for an engaging morning cup of coffee.
3. Haikubes
Even if the recipient of Haikubes isn’t a poet, he or she will still enjoy the gift. The game is like an enhanced magnetic poetry.
4. Harry Potter Book Ornament
For the Harry Potter fan in your life, give a bookish ornament. The ornament includes the complete series and can be given as a spiral, mixed, or straight stack.
5. Just One More Chapter T-Shirt
You know the type: they enter the kitchen with bleary eyes and yawns. Yes, they’ve stayed awake until two in the morning reading a book. Commemorate their dedication with this bookish shirt.
6. Library Card Socks
Get nostalgic with these library card socks. The socks come in gray, yellow, or blue.
7. Librocubicularist Candle
Librocubicularist, noun. A person who reads books in bed. Cherish your person with an appropriate candle.
8. Punderdome Card Game
If you or someone you know appreciates words or bad jokes, give the gift of Punderdome. It’s certain to incite laughter.
9. Shakespearean Hand Painted Silk Scarf
Champion Shakespeare with a hand-painted silk scarf. The one pictured here pulls from Macbeth. Complement the scarf with Write Right’s Shakespearean coloring book.
10. The Elements of Style Book Pin
Know someone who’s the queen or king of grammar? Acknowledge their reign with a Strunk and White pin. For the woman in your life who breathes books, consider purchasing a book necklace like this To Kill a Mockingbird one.
11. Tolkien Art Print
Tolkien offers a number of quotes that deserve a place on the wall. The print pictured here, in addition to coming in a stocking-stuffer size, features a lovely quote and atmospheric forest.
12. Where’s Waldo? Magnets
Magnetic poetry received a mention earlier. Give something besides the usual with this set of four Where’s Waldo? magnets.
With this list of twelve bookish stocking stuffers, you should be set for this Christmas, if not the next two or three. Merry Christmas!
Image: Marco Verch (Creative Commons)