Now here is a category that I know a lot about. Besides being a hipster, I mentioned before that I also worked in a bookstore. This gift idea is:
BOOOOOOOKS
Like I said in the last post hipsters love books, whether they like the idea of them, actually like to read them, or like telling their friends how lame they are for not reading enough, THEY LIKE BOOKS.
Now here are some suggestions for your hipsters:
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk. You may be familiar with Fight Club? He wrote it, this book is hipster 101, they will love it.
Anything by Jack Kerouac. He was the original hipster (also a great writer) you hipster will love and actually learn something from his books.
Anything by William Burroughs. He was also in the same time as Kerouac and they co-wrote And They Boiled the Hippos in Their Tanks. If that doesn't sound hipser-ish then I don't know what does..
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. This book is better than the movie, any good hipster should know why.
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Even if your hipster hasn't read this they will still probably tell you it is their favorite book. Funny how that works...
I Saw You...: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections. Your hipster doesn't know they want this but they really, really do. This book changed my life.
Anything by Arthur Nersesian. Not-so-well-known but dearly beloved in hipster circles.
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. This book is pretty new but super funny and strange.
Anything by Sylvia Plath. Not only was she a great novelist but a great poet as well. Her husband also sent her to a mental institution where she wrote the majority of her works. What more could you want..?
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Anything Where the Wild Things Are. Self-explanatory.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Any self-respecting idealist has read this. Your hipster included.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Watch the movie, then you will understand.
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes. " "
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis. See below.
Anything about or by a musician. As I said in my last post hipsters love anything music or music related. They also have this strange belief that they are all unique individuals thus they love reading about famous people who are like them. Famous or dead musicians and artists are seen as just above themselves (hipsters) on the 'Individuals' Hierarchy' and they strive to be like and know more about them than their friends.
Anything by Henry David Thoreau. Hipsters looooove philosophy and all that so they looooove Thoreau...ugh.
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut.
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I'm pretty sure that all the other hipsters who didn't say that Perks was their favorite book said that Catcher in the Rye was..
Note: Hipsters also love saying they have read and own the classics. So if your local Bookstore has a section marked Classics, that is always a good place to start. Also head to the Philosophy section they would love anything and I mean anything from there as well.
These are just SOME of the authors and titles that your hipster would like, I can't take the time out of my day to write down, remember, and look up ALL the titles that your hipster could possibly want. But I do hope this helps and as always feel free to comment with any questions you might have.
-S
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