All I want for Christmas

Last week jpsorrow put together a suggested shopping list featuring recently released books from his friendslist, including handy shopping links.

I'm not nearly that ambitious, so instead I'll offer my annual suggestion. Books make great gifts (yes, this is a hint). Gift certificates to bookstores make even better gifts--I'll often give someone book one of a series along with a gift certificate so they can buy the rest of the series if they're hooked, or something entirely different if it's not to their liking.

So in honor of CyberMonday, here are links to SF&F friendly stores where you can do your holiday shopping.

Bakka Phoenix Books, Toronto, Ontario
Borderlands, San Francisco, California
Dreamhaven Books, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Flights of Fantasy, Albany area, New York
Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, California
Pages For All Ages, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Pandemonium Books & Games, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Toadstool, Keene, Milford and Peterborough, New Hampshire
Uncle Hugo's, Minneapolis, Minnesota
University Book Store, Seattle, WA
White Dwarf, Vancouver, British Columbia

Want to send a gift certificate to a local bookstore in another city? You can go to Booksense to find the nearest independent bookstore. Earlier this year I used this feature to find the Tattered Cover in Denver, so I could send my sister one of their gift certificates, thus neatly solving her complaint of having nothing to read :-)

And if all else fails, there are the usual suspects: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Borders.