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arts the Also recommended: Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger, and Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls, by David Sedaris. Suki Anderson Art director Booked for the Holidays It's shopping season. For the bibliophile on your list, nothing can compete with a book, which says so much about both gift-buyer and gift-getter — not to mention what giftbuyer thinks of gift-getter. (Tere's a psychology paper in there somewhere.) Maybe the suggestions below can help. Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard It's as much the story of the deluded assassin, Charles Guiteau, as it is the story of his victim, President James Garfeld, as well as a vividly put-together chronology of the diseased medical thinking that went into trying to save Garfeld, who took 11 weeks to die. Amazing glimpse into an era of no presidential protection. Also recommended: A Magnifcent Catastrophe, by Edward J. Larson, and Two Centuries of Black Louisville, by Mervin Aubespin, Kenneth Clay and J. Blaine Hudson. Jack Welch Senior editor My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (volumes one and two) Yes, it's a nervy title. And it is my own struggle to persuade almost anyone I know to give themselves over to this Norwegian fellow who is about as far from Scandi-noir thrillerdom as it is possible to go. Never has the daily minutiae of life been made more compelling. Te best I can do is to swear that, though I am usually one to go for novellas or short stories, I am living for the four volumes to follow these frst two into English translation. All told, it will be more than 3,600 pages. Utterly addictive. Also recommended: Te Sound of Tings Falling, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez; Te Land of Decoration, by Grace McCleen; Forty-One False Starts, by Janet Malcolm. Mary Welp Food and wine editor 98 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.13 Te Complete Book of Baby Names (2009 edition), by Lesley Bolton In the grocery, even if the only thing I need is a box of Frosted Flakes, I'll stroll down every aisle to be sure I'm not missing out on something. Tat's why I've been reading Te Complete Book of Baby Names. I know the one Bri and I are looking for is hiding in the produce section. Te book includes lists of names inspired by bull riders, barfies, bodybuilders…. Tere is a celebrity section. (Sting named his daughter Fuchsia.) We've made it through the letter e. I wasn't kidding about produce: Celery "refers to the refreshing and healthy food." Also recommended: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain; Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter; Zone One, by Colson Whitehead. On my list for next year: Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age, by Mathew Klickstein; Te Son, by Philipp Meyer; And Sons, by David Gilbert; Mo' Meta Blues, by Questlove; TransAtlantic, by Colum McCann. Plus like 11 more. Josh Moss Managing editor Alexander Girard, by Todd Oldham and Kiera Cofee I did have a book "experience" this year that was quite memorable. I took a road trip to Nashville by myself. When you travel alone, you can really zip through your itinerary. I ended up at the library downtown, where I pulled out a very large book of the work of Alexander Girard. Girard was an architect and textile designer responsible for, among other projects, the interiors of the Mid-Century Modern Miller House in Columbus, Ind. He made fun fgures that look like bowling pins, along with countless textile designs. I smiled and laughed through every page. His work is so joyful and fun! Te Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates Tis sprawling, big brick of a novel set in 1905 contains nothing less than a demon lover, a trip to the underworld, Woodrow Wilson battling academic politics at Princeton, literary activism with Jack London and Upton Sinclair, and the powerful New England preacher whose dark secret started it all. A wild ride, but just the escape this past summer demanded. Also recommended: Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler; Arcadia, by Lauren Grof; Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter; Te People of Forever Are Not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu. Lynnell Edwards Contributing writer I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Toughts on Being a Woman, by Nora Ephron If you're like me and "only had time" to read one book this year, here's hoping you read something, anything, by Ephron. Tis was my no-excuses book for making it to the last page before distractions took over. Her dry-humored attack on everything from black-hole handbags to the overnight appearance of turkey neck? Slayed me. Also recommended: White Oleander, by Janet Fitch; Te Bonfre of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe; A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway. Mary Chellis Austin Associate editor/special publications Te Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle It tackles gluttony, health, metamorphosis. Plus, baby fngers love to plug the little worm holes in the one apple, two pears, three plums. . . . (I have this memorized.) Also recommended: Goodnight Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown; Here Comes the Garbage Barge!, by Jonah Winter; Te Baby Book, by Dr. William Sears. Anne Marshall Senior writer New mother