Buy A Friend A Book Week

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By A Friend A Book Week

This October 1st to 7th is Buy A Friend A Book Week. Apparently this runs every year with the simple, karmic goal of getting people to buy their friends a good book – those friends who deserve a good book.

It’s pretty random, but a great idea. Particularly if it’s a book you know your friend will benefit from. I’m curious to know which books ‘top the list’ or whether it’s generally just the most popular titles that get given.

I don’t often get given books on a whim [The Little Prince] but thoroughly enjoy the sentiment when I do. What would be your top book as a gift?

Good Karma, Good Books [BAFAB]

  • 2OM

    By or BUY?

  • http://www.lifehack.org/ Craig Childs

    bad typo. no more late night posting.
    thanks 2om.

  • sbenson

    How about, get your friend a library card week? You can then make it to the following week: Buy your friend a few beers week.

  • http://www.first-things-first.net Marsha

    I’d never heard of Buy a Friend a Book Week–what a terrific idea.

    The Little Prince is one of my favorite gift books, too. I also like The Man Who Planted Trees and The Phantom Tollbooth (which is deliciously clever and fun).

  • Aliza Garofalo

    The Phantom Tollbooth! Both my daughter and I will be reading that soon. Her school is doing that as their school play this year.
    I love reading books “with” my daughter, one of us first and then the other. Okay, so it only happened twice (and now will be 3 times, with Phantom Tollbooth), but it was a lot of FUN.

  • Marsha (a different one)

    The gift book I nominate is “Your Money or Your Life.”

  • http://hjornevik.blogspot.com Lars

    Hah, another great idea from the people behind “father’s day”, “mother’s day” etc…
    Wonder who those people are… Probably not anyone who could benefit from people buying gifts and stuff… ;)

    L

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