Norton Gifts Complete Your List

3 min readDec 1, 2022

Whether your bookish loved ones prefer novels or nonfiction, W. W. Norton has the perfect gifts to complete your list this holiday season.

Fiction

Dinosaurs (Lydia Millet)

One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022
A Publishers Weekly Best Novel of 2022
One of the Chicago Public Library’s Best Books of 2022

A stunning new novel from the author of A Children’s Bible, Dinosaurs is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Shehan Karunatilaka)

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war.

The Family Chao (Lan Samantha Chang)

Featured on Barack Obama’s 2022 Summer Reading List
An NPR and Vogue Best Book of the Year

An acclaimed storyteller returns with “a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery” that explores “family, betrayal, passion, race, culture and the American Dream” (Jean Kwok).

Nonfiction

Black Snow (James M. Scott)

“Black Snow brilliantly vivifies the horrific reality of the most destructive air attack in history, against Tokyo on the night of March 9–10, 1945. —Richard B. Frank

By Hands Now Known (Margaret A. Burnham)

A Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction
One of the Chicago Public Library’s Best of the Best Books of 2022

A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow–era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.

The Other Side of Prospect (Nicholas Dawidoff)

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.