Last Minute Father's Day Gifts!!
Better late than never. SAVE THIS LIST FOR BIRTHDAYS, TOO!
Okay, yes, it’s tomorrow. But there’s STILL TIME to delight your dad, husband, brother, uncle, or friend with a great new book. Also, I just spent the past two hours making all these visuals and copying and pasting all the links so make it worth my time (hahaha).
Browse through my categories below, then run to your local indie and buy some — or email your special guy the audiobook! Then, forward him this email tomorrow and be like, “Happy Father’s Day! You have to listen to these podcasts!”
Enjoy the day, everyone!
Highly Giftable
Liz Climo, You’re Dad: A Little Book for Fathers
Brad Montague, Becoming Better Grown-Ups: Rediscovering What Matters and Remembering How to Fly
Todd Parr, The Family Book
Life Advice for Every Dad
Craig Kessler, The Dad Advice Project: Words of Wisdom from Guys Who Love Being Dads
Neil Pasricha, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
Richie Jackson, Gay Like Me: A Father Writes to His Son
Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Alain de Botton, The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Adam Gopnik, The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery
Matt Gutman, No Time to Panic: How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks
True Stories
Rodrigo Garcia, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha
Nicholas Kristof, Chasing Hope: A Reporter’s Life
Luke Russert, Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself
Andrew McCarthy, Walking With Sam: A Father, A Son, And Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
Jonathan Conyers, I Wasn’t Supposed to Be Here: Finding My Voice, Finding My People, Finding My Way
Isaac Fitzgerald, Dirtbag, Massachusetts
For the History Buff
Brad Meltzer, The Lincoln Conspiracy
Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway
J. R. Moerhringer, Sutton
No podcast. More info here.
Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Graham Moore, The Wealth of Shadows
Podcast soon. Watch his live event at Zibby’s Bookshop with my brother Teddy Schwarzman! More info here.
Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice
Let’s Be Friends
Bruce Feiler, The Council of Dads: My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me
Billy Baker, We Need to Hang Out: A Memoir of Making Friends
Reading
David Damrosch, Around the World in 80 Books
Money Matters
Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street
Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money
Pure Fiction
Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning
Jonathan Galassi, School Days
William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember
T.J. Newman, Drowning
Kevin Kwan, Lies and Weddings
Kevin Wilson, Now is Not The Time to Panic
Steven Rowley, The Guncle Abroad.
Bradley Tusk, Obvious in Hindsight
Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights
Kwame Alexander, The Crossover series.
Anthony Doerr, All the Light You Cannot See
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True.
Georgia Hunter, We Were the Lucky Ones.
Podcast coming soon. More info here.
Don’t Make Me Laugh
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
John Kenney, Love Poems (for People with Children)
Jason Gay, Little Victories: Perfect Rules for Imperfect Living
Grief and Loss
Daniel Black, Don’t Cry For Me
Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works
Jason Rosenthal, My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
Steve Leder, For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story
Science, Environment, and the World
Neil de Grasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
James Patterson and Michael Creighton, Eruption: A Novel
Podcast soon. More info here.
(None of Your) Business
Felix Gillette & John Koplin, It’s Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution and Future of HBO
James Rhee, Red Helicopter: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Lilttle Math)
James B. Stewart, Disneywar
Alan Patricof, No Red Lights
Stephen A. Schwarzman, What it Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Podcast here. More info here. Note: this is my dad!!! :-)
For the Dad Who Loves….
Music:
Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Golf:
Rick Reillly, So Help Me Golf
Tennis:
Andre Agassi, Open: A Memoir
Basketball:
Lebron by Jeff Benedict.
No podcast. More info here.
Running:
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
No podcast. More info here.
That’s it! Better late than never. Enjoy! And share this list with a dad you love!
Thanks!
What a great list-thanks!