Little, Brown Holiday Gift Guide

This classic tale of the March girls celebrated its 150th-anniversary last year with this beautiful edition, featuring a new introduction by J. Courtney Sullivan. It's a perfect time to introduce it to new readers–the latest film adaptation hits theaters on Christmas Day.

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renée Ballard team up again for their second case. This time, they're going to tackle an unsolved murder that haunted Bosch's mentor, an LAPD detective, for decades. But the duo quickly uncovers some troubling issues with the investigation and begin to wonder if Bosch's mentor was actually interested in solving it—or covering it up.

Read the first five chapters of The Night Fire here.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel returned this year with a fascinating new book about how successful nations recovered from crises, including war and coups, through self-appraisal, acknowledging responsibility, and learning from other nations.

Malcolm Gladwell, the New York Times bestselling author of Outliers, explains how we react to strangers, and how our misunderstanding of body language and expressions leads to conflict and problems. Learn how the characters we know and love on television have been teaching us about moods incorrectly for all these years.

Related: Which Malcolm Gladwell Book Should You Read First?

Leave behind the cold winter with Elin Hilderbrand's Caribbean Winter in Paradise. Irene Steele is living a perfect life in Iowa City when she learns her husband has been killed in a helicopter crash on the island of St. John. As if that wasn't shocking enough, when Irene and her sons arrive on the island, they discover he had lived a secret life. But as they dig deeper into his deceit, they begin to fall for the island's charms.

Related: Explore Elin Hilderbrand's complete Paradise Series

Robert takes advice from the greatest Western philosophers and applies them to modern problems. Hear thoughts about bad birthday presents, social media, breakups, hangovers and more from such philosopher giants as Kant, Epicurus, and Nietzsche. It's a fun way to get acquainted with philosophy.

This newest David Sedaris book is also his funniest, which is saying a lot. Sedaris discusses aging, illness, fitness, loss and grief, siblings, and more. His candid thoughts on life as we get older are both moving and thoughtful and also laugh out loud funny.

Related: Which David Sedaris Books Should You Read First?

Pete Souza worked as a White House photographer since the 1970s and was the official Chief White House Photographer for Barack Obama's entire time in office. In this latest collection of photographs, Souza shares images of professionalism and humanity from Obama's presidency, juxtaposed with the chaos and ugliness of present-day politics.

Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddin, recounts his life before the Taliban and before his daughter was shot for attending school. He describes his childhood in Pakistan, and his peaceful times with his wife and children, and what it was like to return to the country six years after they had to flee following the attempt on his daughter's life. It's an inspirational book about a father's love and the power of faith, dreams, and perseverance.