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30+ Books You Would Recommend to Your Dad

This giveaway is sponsored by Chronicle Books. Dads are diverse. Celebrate all their quirks with just the right book this Father’s Day. With books about explorers, history, and geography (Explorers’ Sketchbooks and Atlas of Countries That Don’t Exist), an encyclopedic tome on surfing (A Brief History of Surfing), an intricately illustrated activity book (From Here to There: A Book of Mazes to Wander and Explore), a hilarious homage to the original Star Trek series with an unexpected twist (Star Trek Cats), and a handsome volume that celebrates all they do (The Greatness of Dads), Chronicle Books has you (and your dad) covered.
No two dads are the same but, chances are, there’s a book out there for every one. Maybe it’s fact, maybe fiction–we asked you to tell us what book you would recommend to your dad, and you responded. Here are 35 of your picks! The Walk by Richard Paul Evans Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Zero K by Don DeLillo I Must Say by Martin Short Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Salt by Mark Kurlansky 1493 by Charles Mann The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury Polska by Laura Edwards The Eight by Katherine Neville Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas The World’s Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch Bear Town by Frederick Backman Cimmaron Rose by James Lee Burke The Likeness by Tana French The Princess Bride by William Goldman We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt March by John Lewis Anything by Candice Millard Teammate by David Ross The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance Big Russ and Me by Tim Russert A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge Make Me by Lee Child Grunt by Mary Roach The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan Save Save Save