Speaking of which, in my home we always give and receive books during the holidays. If you also have voracious readers on your list, look over our recommendations of the best of BookLoons 2015 reading below (limited to 3 per genre). These are mainly hardcovers - find rave reads most likely published in paperback in 2015 in our Recommended Reads 2014.

Contemporary	Fantasy	Historical
The Fifth Gospel The Moment of Everything The Jesus Cow	The Autumn Republic The Providence of Fire Shadows of Self	The Dream Lover Five Night Stand The Muralist
Mystery	Mystery - Cozy	Mystery - Historical
Last Ragged Breath The Stranger You Are Dead	As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust A Ghostly Undertaking A Death in the Family	The Invention of Fire Jade Dragon Mountain Where Monsters Dwell
Mystery - Int'l	Mystery - Thriller	Romance
Cobra Five Little Black Lies	Badlands Cold Cold Heart Vanishing Games	The Exile Hover Lethal Consequences
SF	Non-Fiction
The 3rd Woman The Affinities Armada	A Buzz in the Meadow If the Oceans Were Ink Water to the Angels
YA Fiction	YA Fantasy/SF	YA Non-Fiction
Damage Done Say You Will A School for Unusual Girls	Firefight Regenesis The Scorpion Rules	Book: My Autobiography Speak a Word for Freedom Welcome to the Museum: Historium
Kids
No, Silly! Oh No, George! Princess Patty Meets Her Match
Find more book gift suggestions in our many previous Holiday Columns. And if we missed any of your own 2015 favorites, please write and tell us about them.
All of us at BookLoons wish you and yours the best of times, the happiest of holidays, and a joyous, healthy, prosperous and peaceful 2016!!