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Personalized Book Picks for Everyone on Your List

LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE reader on your list? From thrillers to cookbooks and tech to good old-fashioned literary fiction, Newsweek has you covered with our book gift guide. Don’t wait to snap up your choices, though, with all those supply-chain issues, and the first night of Chanukah right on the heels of Thanksgiving this year—on November 28. When you’ve finished your shopping, pick something for yourself, too, and enjoy some quiet moments before what may be boisterous post-vaccine holiday get-togethers.

For your cousin who swears she’ll never leave New York City for anywhere else on Earth:

Letters of Note: New York City

Compiled by Shaun Usher

NOVEMBER | PENGUIN BOOKS | $15

This slim collection of letters pays tribute to the greatest city in the world (if we do say so ourselves). Andy Warhol’s landlord scratches out a note about the trash left behind after his “usually large parties,” while the notoriously elusive J.D. Salinger writes to the New York Post about one of its articles, among other delightful tidbits.

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