What book have you most often gifted or recommended?

1984

Not a book, but one year I bought a copy of the movie "Office Space" for everybody in my family for Xmas.

Not much of a history there, but it would have to be "The Little Prince".

Dictionary.. I've given it as a gift quite a few times..

I've probably recommended One Hundred Years of Solitude more than any other, but I don't think it's a recommendation often taken up.

the art of war ~ sun tzu

Anything by Toni Morrison

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. I love that book.
I always, always tell them to grab a physical copy though. It's not the same experience if you read it any other way.

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson.
Story of a robot apocalypse told from multiple perspectives from a little before the start until the very end.

I recommend Danielle Steel novels