There's a Book for That: Boxed Set Gifts!
Welcome December! The holidays are ramping up and the year is winding down. And the Penguin Hotline is open for gift ideas! What about a gift that comes already boxed? All the better! Here are some of our bestselling boxed sets for a variety of readers on your list: fans of bingeable t.v. series’, literary fiction lovers, beginning readers, and more.
A stunning collector’s edition box set celebrating the tenth anniversary of this incomparable, bestselling literary phenomenon, now divided into four smaller volumes and featuring original artwork by Neel Mukherjee. In Hanya Yanagihara’s profoundly moving novel, four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York in search of fame and fortune. Broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendships and ambition, over the decades their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. At the center of the group is withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a terrifyingly talented litigator scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma.
Holly Jackson’s #1 New York Times bestselling series has won the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a hit Netflix adaptation. This stunning boxed set includes special editions of the three addictive books in the series: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; and As Good as Dead. Featuring gorgeous, sprayed edges and exclusive content from the author!
Orwell’s timeless classics, now in a two-book trade paperback boxed set
1984: Written more than seventy-five years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while the year 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever.
Animal Farm: Set on a farm full of overworked and mistreated animals, George Orwell’s razor-edged allegory offers a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march from revolution against tyranny toward a totalitarianism just as terrible.
Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece classics have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
These deluxe editions feature new introductions by Roxane Gay, Kevin Young, and Brit Bennett. The stunningly designed slipcase with art by Baldwin’s friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney will make the perfect perennial gift and keepsake.
Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin’s first major work, based in part on his own childhood. With lyrical precision and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.
Giovanni’s Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. One of the first novels to openly explore the theme of homosexuality, it paved the way for generations of gay and lesbian novelists.
And If Beale Street Could Talk is a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime –a profoundly moving novel about love in the face of injustice that is as socially resonant today as it was when it was first published.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry comes a sparkling and stylish boxed set of the first three novels that started the phenomenon: Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Book Lovers. Showcasing Emily Henry’s trademark elevated romantic fiction, these three novels are filled to the brim with wit, banter, and joy, while also being relatable, genuinely funny, and cathartic, as Emily tackles themes that resonate deeply with her readers.
Explore the dark and mysterious world of Hawkins, Indiana, with this thrilling boxed set featuring three young adult novels based on Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things! Follow Eleven, Dustin, Max, Lucas, and their friends for mystery, suspense, and supernatural adventures in 1980s Hawkins.
FOR YOUNGER READERS
SEUSS’S CHRISTMAS 3-BOOK BOXED SET: I AM THE GRINCH, I AM CINDY-LOU WHO; I AM MAX. BASED ON HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMASMeet the characters from Dr. Seuss’s beloved Christmas classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, in this three-book collection perfect for holiday gifting! Get to know the Grinch, Max, and Cindy-Lou Who with this boxed set ideal for Christmas read-alouds! These sturdy board books feature simple rhyme and colorful illustrations to introduce Dr. Seuss’s holiday characters to babies and toddlers.
The bestselling nonfiction board book series is now available in a four-book space-themed boxed set—perfect for holiday gifts, birthdays, and baby showers. Attention all young astronauts! Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers will learn all about the solar system, planet Earth, and the rockets that blast off into orbit in this space-themed four-book boxed set. A sturdy box includes four durable board books: Solar System, Moon Landing, Planet Earth, and Rockets and Other Space Machines.
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