No Atomic Habits. No Brené Brown (I have read six of them). No 7 Habits, no Daily Stoic, no Adam Grant. Not because they are bad books, but because your dad already owns them, has been gifted them, or has actively declined them at least once. The point of a no-generic-picks list is that the gift should read like a recommendation from someone who actually knows him.

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A choose-your-own-adventure book on reducing/removing plastics from your daily life with no shame and no guilt.

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A very hyped short story for a detailed and heavy topic.

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The rest of us have to keep racing along the hamster wheel of relevance.

There is no one predator from which to escape; there are many. We are in the business of running now. It is all so urgent. Every year, it seems we must run harder. There is no other solution. We can only run, and panic, and chatter out our fears to others, who will mirror them back to us.

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Our main character, Lara Barnes, is plagued by the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Todd Sutton, on their wedding day. His disappearance matched an identical disappearance from thirty years earlier on the same day in the same place.

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A non-fiction book where three unlikely parties converge for a true story that reads like the latest thriller novel. This absolutely a must-read.