It's not too late to add to the TBR of your besties with exceptional books for the extraordinary readers in your life with these five un-put-down-able selections from award-winning authors.
LOS ANGELES, CA, November 24, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Looking for a holiday gift for your bestie or the avid reader in your life? Books Illuminated recommends these un-put-down-able selections from its top writers, available where you buy books. Holiday shoppers can find exceptional books for the extraordinary readers in their lives.
DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story by Guillermo X. Márquez
From the writer of the incisive true-crime/horror sensation EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles comes the highly anticipated supernatural comedy novel, DISPOSSESSED: A Very L.A. Ghost Story. It's the tale of a boy and a girl… and a thing long dead. On a ragged lot, the grand, gray lady crouched, unsated; a predator, hungry for souls. Boundless in broken promise, the house opened wide its terrible maw and beckoned them in. Absolute evil meets amateur home renovation. In his electrifying and hilarious new book, author Márquez deep-dives into life, love, and loathing in Los Angeles, a place of unbounded promise rooted in unmitigated evil. DISPOSSESSED is the scariest, funniest holiday season your book-loving friends will ever spend between two covers.
EVIL'S EDEN: Only Murders in Los Angeles by Guillermo X. Márquez
The author digs into the seamy underbelly of some of the most notorious crimes in L.A. history. A nimble blend of chilling true crimes and a disturbing tale of a sinister fictional dynasty, EVIL'S EDEN dives into the sordid history of Los Angeles through the lens of some of its most infamous cases, offering new takes on motives, methods, cover-ups, and perpetrators. Márquez burrows through years of research and data to offer new solutions to gruesome murders, including the Black Dahlia, Little Marion Parker, the Manson killing spree, the Night Stalker, and more.
BAMBOO: A Post-Apocalyptic Odyssey by Clark Hilton
In a near tomorrow, Gen, just 16, journeys from her lonely family farm in search of a gleaming utopia with hopes of young love, when she is thrust into a brutal, savage domain. A teen's impassioned quest for love in a world turned upside down, it's been called a "genre-melding, mind-bending journey through a brutal near future spiked with the anguished hope of new love." BAMBOO is told as the folklore of some distant civilization to pose a chilling question: "Are we destined for oblivion?"
2 Weeks 2 Utopia: Let's Mend the World in 14 Days! by Felicia Fairhope
In her debut non-fiction, Fairhope makes a bold statement: with a bit of effort from each of us, the damage to Earth's climate can be turned around in as little as two weeks. Heat waves, floods, fires, droughts, and storms herald the worst summer weather and extreme winters yet recorded. Earth's climate has changed the conversation from "what-if" to "what now." In this information-packed climate-action how-to, Fairhope reveals startling truths and practical steps to take right now to fight back against ecological catastrophe. 2 Weeks 2 Utopia will inspire sustainable habits that can save time, money, health, and the environment. The book features inspiring art, poetry, and room for jotting thoughts, along with an eco-puzzle to test the reader's new knowledge.
The Odd Ms. Bodkins and the Big Crunch by Brother Goose (2nd Edition)
Gizmos and gadgets and galaxies! Enter the magical world of three little boys and their ever-surprising, wand-waving nanny in this children's storybook classic. If you're fond of oddly odd nannies, if you favor even odder older nannies, or even if your nanny was your granny… you'll fall for the most uncanny nanny of them all, when the Odd Ms. Bodkins embarks on the biggest, crunchiest adventure in the cosmos: The Odd Ms. Bodkins and the Big Crunch! This is a fun book specially designed for parents to read with their children. Beautifully illustrated by a Disney-trained artist, this new edition is available in softcover and hardcover, with a bonus crossword for kids and parents to solve together.
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