10+ Father’s Day Gifts Books: Top Choices for Dad Who Loves to Read

Father's Day is quickly approaching, so now is the perfect time to plan your tribute to the father figures in your life. 

There is something for every kind of dad in our selection of the top Father's Day gifts books, including sports classics, legal thrillers, best-selling memoirs by well-known people, and a ton more.

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Father's Day gifts for book lovers

The Splendid and the Vile

The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake provides an intimate portrayal of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. It is an uplifting depiction of bravery and leadership under an unparalleled catastrophe.

The Ball in the Air: A Golfing Adventure

For a golf enthusiast, this is the perfect Father's Day gift book and Tom Brady recently praised Bamberger's book highly on Instagram. Although the author of this book is a professional sports reporter, it pays tribute to the average golfer.

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Author Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize winner, vividly captured the relationship between Vladimir and Vera Nabokov in the novel Vera. This biography is likely to give Adams's narrative a comparable level of humanity.

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama's journey into maturity, his desire for community and his role in it, his struggle to comprehend his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human existence are all beautifully and sensitively examined in Dreams from My Father.

Hair Love

It’s up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hairstyle in this celebration of self-assurance and the bond between dads and daughters, written by New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison and former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. Cherry.

Dad Is Fat

Another Father's Day book gift is the Dad Is Fat, which is a cry for assistance from a guy who has discovered he and his wife are outnumbered in their own house. It is explosively humorous, keenly observant, and heartfelt.

Billy Summers

The thrilling story of a skilled sniper hired for one last operation is told in Stephen King's best-selling book. He'll be turning the pages to see what happens next after the surprisingly emotional journey he discovers.

The Lincoln Lawyer

The charming defense lawyer Mickey Haller takes on a slam-dunk court case involving a Beverly Hills playboy in the best-selling legal thriller and new Netflix series. However, as it becomes a nightmare, he finds himself struggling for his life.

Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel

In Chain-Gang All-Stars, the newest book by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, prisoners are made to fight like gladiators and murder one another for sport as the public watches. It's a thought-provoking and enjoyable book that offers a not-so-unthinkable perspective on the future of private prisons.

Made for Me

From first words to first steps, the particular relationship between a father and his kid is highlighted in this charmingly drawn board book, which is full of loving drawings and phrases.

Project Hail Mary: A Novel

In this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly) new science fiction thriller from the blockbuster author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must prevent a global catastrophe. 

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Develop a wide range of hobbies and abilities while everyone else races to specialize—this is a compelling case for how to excel in any industry. It is one of the best Father's Day book gifts you may consider to give your Dad.

Recursion: A Novel

This is the most ambitious, perplexing, and captivating novel the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy has written to date. It is a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory.