Gift list
This list is up to date following my 2013 birthday,
although arguably it no longer fits my lifestyle.
I don't expect to receive any gifts
just because it's a traditional occasion for giving them.
However, I know that some of my relatives delight in giving gifts,
so I'm providing this list as a public service.
(If you're giving me presents for my birthday or Christmas,
then you may want to coordinate with my mom.)
See also the charities below.
There are occasional links to the home page of an author or product,
(but that doesn't mean
that you should buy from Amazon.com
—for example—
just because the linked page is an Amazon partner).
The charity websites seem to be particularly poorly designed.
Besides what is on this list,
if you want to give me a gift
from an author or artist whose work you know that I like,
then that's fine;
if you're worried about redundancy,
then you can check
the list of stuff that I already have.
Charities
I don't need anything for my birthday,
but some people do —and for the rest of the year.
Through charity gifts,
your present to me (and your other friends and relatives)
can be a gift for those who really need it.
So when I say that I want world peace for my birthday, you can make a start!
Literature
Books
I have included parenthetical estimates of
the sections of the bookstore
where you are most likely to find these books.
- Berkeley
Breathed
(children's, picture books, comics):
- any children's book other than
Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
- See also under Comic strips
- Greg
Egan
(science fiction):
anything other than:
- The Clockwork Rocket
(book 1 of Orthogonal)
- Crystal Nights
- Incandescence
- Permutation City
- Quarantine
- Schild's Ladder
- Teranesia
- Zendegi
- Neil Gaiman
(fantasy, horror, graphic novels):
- any book other than:
- American Gods
- Anansi Boys
- Fragile Things
- Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett)
- The Graveyard Book
- Neverwhere
- The Sandman: Book of Dreams (editor)
- Smoke and Mirrors
- Stardust
- See also under Comic books
Comic books
It's better to get large collections than individual issues.
Nowadays, you can often find these in ordinary bookstores,
but it's also nice if you support
your local independent
comic book shops.
- Sergio Aragonés & Mark Evanier:
any Groo collection other than:
- The Groo Houndbook (volume ‘H’)
- The Groo Library (volume ‘L’)
- Hell on Earth
- The Hogs of Horder
- Neil
Gaiman:
- any comic book other than:
- Death: The High Cost of Living (volume 1)
- The Sandman
- See also under Books
- Los Bros Hernandez:
any
Love
& Rockets
collection
other than:
- Beyond Palomar (combination of books 10 and 12)
- Chester Square (book 13)
- The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.
- House of Raging Women (book 5)
- Love & Rockets X (book 10)
- Music for Mechanics (book 1)
- Perla la Loca (combination of books 11 and 13)
- Poison River (book 12)
- Tears from Heaven (book 4)
- Three Daughters (book 23)
- Wigwam Bam (book 11)
- Alan Moore: anything (preferably older stuff) other than:
- the DC Universe stories
- Tomorrow Stories: Book 1
- V for Vendetta
- Watchmen
- R. Sikoryak:
Masterpiece Comics
- Dave Sim: Cerebus:
any collection (preferably in order) other than:
- Cerebus (volume 1)
- Cerebus Zero (volume 0)
- Church and State I (volume 3)
- Church and State II (volume 4)
- Flight (volume 7)
- Guys (volume 11)
- High Society (volume 2)
- Jaka's Story (volume 5)
- Melmoth (volume 6)
- Reads (volume 9)
- Women (volume 8)
Comic strips
These days, you can buy individual prints of comic strips,
but it's still best to go for the collections.
- Christopher
Baldwin:
- Bruno: Gina (Book Ten)
- Little Dee: any volume
- Berkeley
Breathed:
- Rich
Burlew:
The Order of the Stick: any comic collection
- Walt Kelly:
The
Complete Pogo:
any volume other than:
- Bona Fide Balderdash (volume 2)
- Through the Wild Blue Wonder (volume 1)
- Stephen Notley: Bob the Angry Flower:
Dog Killer (volume 5)
- Charles Schultz:
Computer games
Music
- Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg:
Miss Saigon:
in Français
- Indigo Girls:
anything other than:
- 1200 Curfews
- All That We Let In
- Beauty Queen Sister
- Become You
- Come On Now Social
- Despite Our Differences
- Holly Happy Days
- Indigo Girls (self-titled album)
- Nomads Indians Saints
- Pickin' on the Indigo Girls
(tribute album by Dennis Caplinger)
- Retrospective
- Rites Of Passage
- Swamp Ophelia
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last edited on 2013 March 16.
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