Our 2017 Christmas gift guide for the passive aggressive

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been compiling a host of gift guides to help you with your Christmas shopping. Here are some suggestions for those of you who are feeling slightly passive aggressive this gift-giving season…


For the person you simply can’t stand…

Try… Prick by Gynelle Leon


For your forgetful partner…

Try… How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Toolkit by Dominic O'Brien


For your forbidding and prim relative…

Try… How to Swear by Stephen Wildish


For your younger sibling who is always borrowing money…

Try… The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape


For the guy who still talks about how Bernie would have won…

Try… What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton


For the friend who’s always picking up the latest diet fad…

Try… The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano


For the person who calls you ‘a crazy cat lady’ as ‘a joke’…

Try… Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me by Cynthia L. Copeland


For the shopaholic…

Try… Curing Affluenza by Richard Denniss


For the music snob who rolls their eyes at your Spotify playlist…

Try… Reputation by Taylor Swift


For the relative who posts memes on Facebook five times a day…

Try… The What Do You Meme? game


For the friend who makes their bald baby wear a pink headband…

Try… Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine


For the parents who still have their children’s baby teeth in a jar…

Try… The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson


For the relative who makes disparaging remarks about rom-coms and ‘chick flicks’…

Try… The Big Sick


For For anyone who thinks Chris Pratt is the best Chris…

Try… Chris Hemsworth by Alex Malley


For the person whose house is always a pigsty…

Try… Remodelista: The Organized Home by Julie Carlson & Margot Guralnick


For your friend who lets other people railroad over the top of them…

Try… You Do You by Sarah Knight


For the person you wish would move to another country (or, like, another planet)…

Try… The Vacation Guide to the Solar System by Olivia Koski & Jana Grcevich


For the sibling/housemate who’s always borrowing your clothes without asking…

Try… What’s Yours is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy by Tom Slee


For your friend who really needs to stop Facebook-stalking their ex…

Try… The Museum of Broken Relationships by Olinka Vistica & Drazen Grubisic

Cover image for Prick: Cacti and Succulents: Choosing, Styling, Caring

Prick: Cacti and Succulents: Choosing, Styling, Caring

Gynelle Leon

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