• Romantic Comedy Book Recommendations For Gifts

    Christmas Shopaholic in a Mini Bookstore

    Here are my romantic comedy book recommendations and some of my favorite children’s books if you are looking for gifts for the holidays.

    Romantic Comedy Book Recommendations for Gifts

    All of these books made me laugh out loud. There are many light-hearted, feel-good moments, but they also touch on serious issues. (This is in addition to my recommendations in my earlier post.)

    Some Favorite Children’s Books

    • The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak
    • Corduroy by Don Freeman
    • Elephant and Piggy by Mo Willems (or anything by Mo Willems)
    • Hippos Go Berserk by Sandra Boynton (or anything by Sandra Boynton)
    • Is there a Dog in this Book? by Viviane Schwarz

    There are frankly so many children’s books that I love, but I like to give the above as gifts. I’ve read both The Book with No Pictures and Is There a Dog in this Book? to my son’s class, and the kids laugh and love them. For older elementary kids, I recommend Dog Man and anything by Rick Riordan.

    I love the dedication in Hippos Go Berserk: I didn’t invite them. Did you invite them? (For Mom and Dad, with love.)”

    Favorite Non-RomCom Book

    My favorite non-romcom book was Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. It does get very dark and I had to put it down a few times because I was like “noooo!” But it has a happy ending and I was strongly rooting for the character of Queenie. And the voice is very funny. (It is also quite explicit.)

    It won the British Book Awards, among others.

    What do you recommend?

    Do you have any recommendations? What romantic comedies have you read in the past year and loved? Why? What children’s books do you give as gifts?