Mother’s Day Gifts for Booklovers

If you have a mom who reads (and we mean really reads), Mother’s Day deserves something better than a bestseller pulled from an airport endcap. The list below draws from books Alta’s critics have championed and treasures that the Alta Store keeps in stock, including California Book Club selections, mother-daughter memoirs that refuse easy sentiment, a debut novel set inside a parallel-world earthquake, and a couple of literary keepsakes worth gifting with a really big bow. Each title links to the Alta review or the product itself. Argue with the choices. Add to them. Let us know your picks for an ideal book for mom! That, after all, is what readers are for.