16 Holiday Reads for the Intellectually Curious

As the year winds down and the holiday season fills the air, there's no better time to dive into thought-provoking books that both spark the imagination and challenge the intellect. Look no further than our holiday reading guide!

In these turbulent and uncertain times, carving out a quiet moment with a meaningful book feels more important than ever. This year’s holiday reading guide features works that encourage reflection, offer fresh insights and invite a deeper, more inclusive understanding of the world around us. Great books don’t always resolve uncertainty, but they invite us to sit with it, learn from it, and grow.

We’re pleased to share with you 16 neatly packaged reading recommendations that reflect the best and brightest of what we publish at De Gruyter Brill. There’s something here for everyone: For the scientist, artist, and architect; for the music nerd and Marxologist; for the storyteller and future-shaper; or for anyone who loves a good read. Even better, some of our titles don’t even need to be unwrapped – they’re already open access.

To unlock your discount, head to the De Gruyter, Brill, and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht webshops and use the code DGBHOLIDAY at the checkout.

And don’t forget: All titles are 30% off during the De Gruyter Brill holiday sale. ‘Tis the season to get cozy with a holiday read for the intellectually curious!

DGB Holiday Sale graphic, reading "Happy Holidays" and featuring the De Gruyter Brill logo turned into a santa hat.

1. Practices of Futurecasting

2. Women of Chinese Modern Art

Winner of the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication.

3. Empathetic Storytelling, Voliumes I & II

4. The Icelandic Concrete Saga

5. Insects and Colors between Art and Natural History

6. Unleadership

Selen Kars-Ünlüoğlu, Carol Jarvis and Hugo Gaggiotti, the authors of Unleadership, were also featured in a blog post earlier this year. Read it here.

7. What is Edible?

8. Music and its Narrative Potential

9. Touch Nature

10. Queer Pop

11. Colonial Diplocmacy through Art

On the Brill Blog: Author Moya Tönnies on searching for Palestine’s “national dress,” a spectacular thob al-malak from Bethlehem given to Princess Mary in 1922

12. InformELLEs

13. Warum ist der Himmel blau? (“Why is the Sky Blue?”)

14. A Marxist Mosaic

15. In Search of Zär’a Ya‛ǝqob

Learn more about the enduring mysteries of Ethiopian philosophy in this blog post by Jonathan Egid, one of the book’s co-authors.

16. Fake News in Ancient Greece

To unlock your discount, head to the De Gruyter, Brill, and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht webshops and use the code DGBHOLIDAY at the checkout.

[Title image by Liudmila Chernetska/iStock/Getty Images Plus]

The Editors

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