What is the book you have given most as a gift, and why?
Recorded Katie Kitamura said elsewhere, not written here
The people I most often give books to are children, and the book I love giving is Rivka Galchen’s Rat Rule 79. Technically a book written for children, but a book that will delight readers of all ages.

Lit Hub Questionnaire, Literary Hub, 27 March 2025 source ↗

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Eric Garcia Novelist, screenwriter, and producer
Other than the Oh the Places You'll Go which seems to be a you-must-give-it-to-all-college grads, and How to Cook Everything, which I love giving to people moving out on their own the first time, I think I've probably gifted Geek Love more than anything else.
Recorded My Reading Life interview, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, 1 May 2021 source ↗
Mario Molina Atmospheric chemist; Nobel laureate in Chemistry, 1995
It was probably a series of biographies of scientists like Pasteur, or even earlier ones — Leeuwenhoek inventing the microscope and Madame Curie. I forget how many others, but it was really just, for me, a fascination to learn about these great heroes. At that time, of course, they were totally inaccessible, almost non-human, to me. It became very interesting to me.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 1996, 1996 source ↗
Shinya Yamanaka Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
A book also pushed me to become a medical doctor. I was deeply inspired by Torao Tokuda, a physician who founded a hospital group in the 1970s that tried to revolutionize the Japanese medical care system.
Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 2012 source ↗

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