Gift list
This list is up to date following my 2024 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 off of this list for my birthday or Christmas,
then you should coordinate with Crystal.
(If you don't know who that is,
then don't get anything off of this list for my birthday or Christmas.)
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 Christmas,
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 Christmas, 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
- Flawed Dogs: the Shocking Raid on Westminster
- See also under Comic strips
- Ted Chiang (science fiction): anything other than:
- Exhalation
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Greg Egan
(science fiction):
anything other than:
- The Arrows of Time (book 3 of Orthogonal)
- Axiomatic
- The Best of Greg Egan
- The Clockwork Rocket (book 1 of Orthogonal)
- Crystal Nights
- Diaspora
- Dichronauts
- Distress
- The Eternal Flame (book 2 of Orthogonal)
- The Four Thousand, the Eight Hundred
- Incandescence
- Instantiation
- Luminous
- Oceanic
- Orthogonal
- Perihelion Summer
- Permutation City
- Quarantine
- Schild's Ladder
- Teranesia
- Zendegi
- Ursula K. Le Guin (science fiction, fantasy):
- Hainish Novels & Stories: volume 2
- anything else other than:
- Always Coming Home
- The Books of Earthsea
- Catwings
- Changing Planes
- City of Illusions
- The Dispossessed
- The Earthsea Trilogy
- The Farthest Shore
- Hainish Novels & Stories: volume 1
- The Lathe of Heaven
- Lavinia
- The Left Hand of Darkness
- No Time to Spare
- Orsinian Tales
- The Other Wind
- Planet of Exile
- Rocannon's World
- So Far So Good
- Tales from Earthsea
- Tao Te Ching (translation from Lao Tzu)
- Tehanu
- The Telling
- The Tombs of Atuan
- The Unreal and the Real
- The Wave in the Mind
- The Wind's Twelve Quarters
- A Wizard of Earthsea
- The Word for World is Forest
- Schmidt, Stanley:
Life
of Fred:
any math book (preferably in order)
other than:
- Apples
- Butterflies
- Cats
- Dogs
- Bill Watterson: The Mysteries
Comic books
It's better to get large collections than individual issues.
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
- Los Bros Hernandez:
the
Love
& Rockets Library:
any book
other than:
- Beyond Palomar
- The Girl from H.O.P.P.E.R.S.
- Perla la Loca
- Leslie Klinger:
- The Annotated Sandman (with Neil Gaiman et al)
- Watchmen: The Annotated Edition (with Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons)
- Alan Moore: anything (preferably older stuff) other than:
- the DC Universe stories
- The Killing Joke
- Tomorrow Stories: Book 1
- V for Vendetta
- Watchmen
- R. Sikoryak:
Masterpiece Comics
- Dave Sim & Gerhard: 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)
- Gene Luen Yang: Superman Smashes the Klan
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:
- Bloom County: The Complete Library
(but maybe wait for paperback):
any volume other than:
- volume 1 (1980–1982)
- volume 2 (1982–1984)
- volume 3 (1984–1986)
- volume 4 (1986–1987)
- See also under Books
- Rich
Burlew:
The Order of the Stick: any comic collection
(scratch and dent is fine)
- Walt Kelly: Pogo:
- The
Complete Pogo:
any volume other than:
- Bona Fide Balderdash (volume 2)
- Clean as a Weasel (volume 6)
- Evidence to the Contrary (volume 3)
- Out of this World at Home (volume 5)
- Pockets Full of Pie (volume 7)
- Through the Wild Blue Wonder (volume 1)
- Under the Bamboozle Bush (volume 4)
- The Complete Dell Comics:
any volume other than volume 3
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