If you’re shopping to a specific budget, we’ve come up with some literary gift bundles for literary types – handily sorted by price. (If you’re seeking gift ideas for $20 and under, you can find 20 of our top picks here.)

Gift ideas for $50, and under

• This month, you can purchase the first three books of Elena Ferrante’s astonishing Neapolitan Novels for the price of two. That includes My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name and Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay ($45.98 ). (Please note, this offer is only available in-store, not online.)
• If the person you’re buying for longs to visit Mars, then we recommend a pairing of Andy Weir’s page-turner The Martian with Chris Hadfield’s entertaining and informative An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth ($42.98).
• B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling are exes, best friends and longtime co-stars from The Office. If your own bestie likes books that make them laugh then Novak’s short-story collection, One More Thing together with Kaling’s memoir, Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? (and Other Concerns) is a sweet gift ($39.94).
• People who work with words will likely be delighted with the twin set of memoirs about publishing and language: My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff and Between You & Me by Mary Norris ($42.98).
• We love Australian fiction so much we have a prize dedicated to it! Our two winning titles – The Other Side of the World by Stephanie Bishop and Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey – are both highly recommended, amazing reads ($46.98 ).

Gift ideas for $75, and under

• The Short Blacks box set presents shots of amazing Australian non-fiction writing on topics as diverse as depression, alcoholism, Julian Assange and more ($69.99 ).
• If your giftee loves to spend time in the kitchen, either baking or brewing or more, we recommend a themed cookbook pack. For the pizza lover, try World’s Best Pizza with a Fixie Pizza Cutter ($69.95). Or for the coffee enthusiast, try How to Make Coffee: The Science Behind the Bean by Lani Kingston with one of our limited edition Keep Cups ($61.94).
• It’s possibly true that the Bill Murray fan in your life is in need of Robert Schnakenberg’s The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray. We recommending gifting it together with one of his films, such as Lost In Translation ($52.94), or the very excellent Thrill Murray colouring book ($66.94).
• Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt came under fire earlier this year when he called women “a distraction in the laboratory”. Show your support for more women in science by picking up a a couple of books from and about smart, interesting women in science. One combination might be Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss with Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ by Giulia Enders ($68.98).
• The new Melbourne edition of Monopoly includes exclusive Melbourne themed tokens such as a coffee cup and a miniature of beloved racehorse Phar Lap ($64.99).
• Pairing a book with an album is another sweet gift idea. One suggestion might be Lauren Groff’s richly-layered, dazzling Fates and Furies with the stirring sound of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart: Opera Arias and Overtures ($62.94). Or match Adele’s phenomenal album 25, which Rolling Stone called ‘the story of a young woman making her uneasy peace with adulthood’, together with Tegan Bennett Daylight’s stories of women coming-of-age in Six Bedrooms ($51.94).

Gift ideas for $100 and under

• For a bit of everything, you could purchase all three of Black Inc’s Best of Australian writing anthologies – for poetry, stories and essays ($84.97).
• To encourage your giftee in mind to sit down and relax, present them with a stunning coffee table book such as Organum by Peter Gilmore ($39.95 ) or Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden by Janet Hawley ($79.99), paired with a Mr Mo Mug ($18.95).
• While a smidge over budget, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes is a gorgeous book of images and advice for turning your house into a home ($104.99).
• Best books of the year lists are a great place to find inspiration for gift-giving – you can find ours right here – and if your giftee is a big reader, you may like to put together a summer reading gift pack from the list, safe in the knowledge that all titles have been highly recommended by other big readers. For example, a crime fiction reader may enjoy Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith, Kingdom of the Strong by Tony Cavanaugh and Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic ($86.97 ).
• For the organised person who always makes New Year resolutions… We recommend a bundle with Margaret Simons’s seasonal diary Six Square Metres, a Yarralin Creative 2016 Calendar and, of course, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: The Japanese Art by Marie Kondo ($89.98).

Luxury gifts for special occasions

If you’re looking for something extra special (and your budget is no limitation) you may like to browse our selection of gorgeous limited edition items.