2022 Holiday Gift Guide!

Hi Smooches! We’re doing our part for capitalism by giving you the best bookish, romance-inspired and Smooch-tailored gift guide we could come up with for the holidays. There are romance novels. There’s a cookbook. There’s tech. There’s tarot. There are craft projects. There is money flying out of your wallet and buying the love and devotion of the people around you! Let’s get into it!  (For some of the book recs, we’ve included the title and author but not a link. Anchor gets mad when we post too many links)  Meg’s recs  Korean American cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/korean-american-eric-kim/1140163742  Smut Peddlers Presents https://www.therippedbodicela.com/book/9781638991137  Lore Olympus  The Prince and the Dressmaker https://www.therippedbodicela.com/book/9781626723634  Book nooks https://bookriot.com/build-or-buy-these-book-nooks/ and https://www.etsy.com/jp/shop/MiniaturePopUpBook?page=1#items  Painted edge books https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShellBeeBooks?ref=shop_sugg  Mocktail recipe: 1 part Tazo skinny chai concentrate. 1 part cranberry sparkling water. Cranberry syrup to taste.  For aesthetic book friends  Book by Commodity perfume (Liz has the Expressive version) https://www.sephora.com/product/book-expressive-P395008?skuId=2616217  Embosser www.etsy.com/listing/1181475489  Blood splatter bookmark www.etsy.com/listing/912365678  www.etsy.com/listing/1180888534  For your writer friend  Scrivener www.literatureandlatte.com  Steel Series Apex 3 gaming keyboard or other cool keyboard https://www.target.com/p/steelseries-apex-3-tkl-wired-gaming-keyboard-for-pc/-/A-86543010  (Note that mine looks like the second photo, not the first, and doesn’t have a wrist rest)  Scribbles That Matter dot grid notebook https://scribblesthatmatter.com/ Beats Studio3 headphones https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MX422LL/A  Passion Planner https://passionplanner.com/collections/2023-weekly-planners  Giant water bottle with time stamps https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JDWFXF2/ref=twister_B09NMMCJHG?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1  Books for your friend interested in historicals Dreaming of You by Lisa Kleypas  A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera  Bombshell by Sarah Maclean  The Rakess by Scarlett Peckham  Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins  For your political friend (or a Stucky shipper)  Sierra Simone’s New Camelot trilogy starting by American Queen  For your friend who has a soft spot for Twilight  King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair  For your cynical friend  The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren  For your teenage niece  Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks  Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper @professor_crunk on Instagram  When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri  Misc.  The Wakanda Files  Golden Thread tarot from Labyrinthos  Weiser Tarot  Magickal Tarot deck by Robyn Valentine  Tarot No Questions Asked by Theresa Reed  Dopamine jar https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRQtsMHY/  Sexy advent calendar  Cult of the Lamb  Dagne Dover neoprene bag https://www.dagnedover.com/collections/neoprene