It’s the holiday season! We pulled together a list of books that you might consider for your gift giving needs, including from authors who have talked at WalkBoston events. We encourage you to buy books from your local bookstore, or find a store near you via Bookshop. At the bottom, we’ve included a list of a few Massachusetts bookstores you might consider supporting in person or through their online ordering form.

Books (listed alphabetically by author first name)

• Angie Schmitt, “Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America” 
• Anthony Flint, “Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City”
• Ben Shattuck, “Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau” 
• Bob Sloane, “WalkBoston: Walking Tours of Boston’s Unique Neighborhoods”
• Chuck Marohn, “Confessions of a Recovering Engineer”
• Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow, “Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution”
• Jeff Speck, “Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time”
• Karilyn Crockett, “People Before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a new movement for city making” 
• Rebecca Solnit, “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”

Books for kids (or the young at heart) on your list

• D B Johnson, “Henry Hikes to Fitchburg”
• Dr Seuss, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!”
• Robert McCloskey, “Make Way for Ducklings” 
• For more options, check out this “Walking Books for Kids” list we put together a few years ago; some of the titles may be out of print or harder to find. (At this point, we’d discourage gifting And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street; in 2021, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced they have ceased publication of it since it portrays people in ways that are hurtful and wrong, including racist imagery.)

Bookstores (listed alphabetically)

• Brookline Booksmith (279 Harvard St, Brookline)
• Frugal BookStore (57 Warren St, Roxbury) 
• Jabberwocky Bookshop (50 Water St, Newburyport) 
• Odyssey Bookshop (9 College St, South Hadley)
• Porter Square Books (25 White St, Cambridge)
• Root & Press Cafe & Bookstore (623 Chandler St, Worcester)
• Roundabout Books (26 Kenwood St, Greenfield)
• Trident Booksellers & Cafe (338 Newbury St, Boston)
• The Cape and Islands Bookstore Trail (various locations)