You are here

Home » Staff Recommendations
Back to top

Father's Day Gift Ideas

We've put together a list of books dads love, whether they're history buffs, outdoorsmen, total goofballs, or somewhere in between! 

If you'd like specific recommendations for the father figure in your life, try one of our Mystery Boxes or email hello[at]thenovelneighbor.com!

Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever Cover Image

Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever (Paperback)

By Nick de Semlyen
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984826664
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Broadway Books - May 26th, 2020
Tiny Houses, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts: And Whatever the Heck Else We Could Squeeze in Here Cover Image

Tiny Houses, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts: And Whatever the Heck Else We Could Squeeze in Here (Paperback)

By Derek Diedricksen
$18.95
ISBN: 9781493046508
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Lyons Press - January 12th, 2020
1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War Cover Image

1939: A People's History of the Coming of the Second World War (Hardcover)

By Frederick Taylor
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324006794
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 26th, 2020
Dad's Maybe Book Cover Image

Dad's Maybe Book (Paperback)

By Tim O'Brien
$16.99
ISBN: 9780358362784
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Mariner Books - May 12th, 2020
Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution Cover Image

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution (Hardcover)

By P. W. Singer, August Cole
$28.00
ISBN: 9781328637239
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 26th, 2020
52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders Cover Image

52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders (Paperback)

By "The King of Random" Thompson, Grant, Ted Slampyak (Illustrator)
$21.99
ISBN: 9781250184504
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: St. Martin's Griffin - March 10th, 2020
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between Cover Image

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between (Paperback)

By Thomas C. Foster
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062895813
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Harper Perennial - May 26th, 2020
Epic Bike Rides of the Americas Cover Image

Epic Bike Rides of the Americas (Hardcover)

By Lonely Planet
$35.00
ISBN: 9781788682572
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Lonely Planet - August 20th, 2019
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States Cover Image

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (Hardcover)

By Walter Johnson
$35.00
ISBN: 9780465064267
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Basic Books - April 14th, 2020
Lonely Planet's Wonders of the World Cover Image

Lonely Planet's Wonders of the World (Hardcover)

By Lonely Planet
$35.00
ISBN: 9781788682329
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Lonely Planet - October 15th, 2019
A Burning: A novel Cover Image

A Burning: A novel (Hardcover)

By Megha Majumdar
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525658696
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Knopf - June 2nd, 2020
How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines Cover Image

How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines (Hardcover)

By Theodore Gray, Nick Mann (Photographs by)
$29.99
ISBN: 9780316445436
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Black Dog & Leventhal - October 22nd, 2019
The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel Cover Image

The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Stefano Massini, Richard Dixon (Translated by)
$35.00
ISBN: 9780062940445
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: HarperVia - June 2nd, 2020
Under Par: Celebrating Life's Great Moments on and Off the Golf Course Cover Image

Under Par: Celebrating Life's Great Moments on and Off the Golf Course (Paperback)

By Phil Callaway
$14.99
ISBN: 9780736979221
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Harvest House Publishers - June 2nd, 2020
Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink Cover Image

Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink (Paperback)

By Kevin Cook
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250268372
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Holt Paperbacks - June 2nd, 2020
Humankind: A Hopeful History Cover Image

Humankind: A Hopeful History (Hardcover)

By Rutger Bregman, Erica Moore (Translated by), Elizabeth Manton (Translated by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9780316418539
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Little, Brown and Company - June 2nd, 2020