Gifts to Show Your Mom You Appreciate Her

For a story filled with time travel, love and humanity, you won’t want to miss Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility. This book spans 300 years and follows an exiled son of an earl, an author on a book tour trapped on earth during a pandemic, and Gaspery-Jacques Roberts alongside his childhood best friend who have seen the opportunity to do something great that would change the fabric of the timeline of the universe. 

The Candy House is Jennifer Egan’s incandescent “sibling novel” to Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad. Told in different interlocking narrative styles, this is an intellectually moving story of real human connection — and while you don’t need to have read A Visit From the Goon Squad before you read The Candy House, it’s a real treat to revisit Sasha and Bennie and the rest of the cast.

One Italian Summer is a moving exploration of the bonds between mother and daughter that laces together grief, love and food. Rebecca Serle delivers her signature time-warp tale and deftly immerses the reader into the lush landscape of the Amalfi Coast. Exploring both heartbreak and healing, this transcendent novel is the perfect mix of reflection, loss and the bonds that tie us together. 

All’s fair in love and chemistry. It’s 1960s California and there are certain things that women just don’t do. When scientist Elizabeth Zott finds herself the host of a television cooking show, she kicks off a revolution that does more than just challenge the status quo. You will fall in love with the cast of characters in this witty, funny debut novel that has already been picked up as an Apple TV+ series. 

Homesick candles have unique scents that suddenly transport you to a time, place, occasion, or person, and this Thank You, Mom candle is no exception. Show your mom you appreciate her for everything she does to make your life better in ways that only moms can! 

This five-year journal is a beautiful way for mothers to keep track of moments of their motherhood. With a wide range of questions both silly and serious, this journal is the perfect keepsake to see growth over time and to reflect on over the course of the years and see if the answers to these questions remain the same even through so much change!