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Good Books Make Great Gifts

We've stocked this year's Holiday Books Store with a huge selection of new releases, category favorites, and gift ideas--all available at our everyday low prices (so you can bring home great gifts without breaking the bank).

›Shop and save all season long in our Holiday Books Store

The Books of the States: 50 States, 538 Books

If you'd rather think about a map that's not just colored red and blue, check out our Books of the States project on the Amazon books blog, Omnivoracious.com. Inspired by the new anthology, State by State, we and our guest contributors are choosing the best books from each state day by day through the fall. Our goal: choose as many books from each state as it has delegates in the electoral college. Crazy? We know. Fun? That too! Stop by and nominate your own favorites.

• Read our introduction
• Our interview with the editors of State by State
• Tony Horwitz on Virginia
• Randall Kenan on North Carolina
• Stewart O'Nan on Pennsylvania
• Jack Hitt on South Carolina

›See all our state posts so far

No Passport Required

In Spain: A Culinary Road Trip, the companion book to the popular PBS series, Mario Batali and Mark Bittman team up with Gwyneth Paltrow and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols to eat their way across Spain. Check out the recipe for one of the dishes they encountered on their journey, Hake with Clams and Parsley.