I have been told by many people that I am difficult to shop for, since I am usually pleased with any gift I receive. This page is a compiled list of items I have my eye on, which would be excellent for any occasion. Specific brand names are listed only to give a sense of style that is preferred. Of course, as with anything, I am pleased with any gift I am lucky enough to receive, and time with family and friends always trump material goods.
Appliances
GE Profile 30 in. 5 Burner Element Smart Free-Standing Double Oven Electric Range in Fingerprint Resistant Stainless
Audiobooks
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shite
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
Artemis by Andy Weir
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by EB White
City of Glass by Paul Auster
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emma by Jane Austen
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Germinal by Emile Zola
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Neuromaner by William Gibson
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Possession by AS Byatt
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Color of Magic (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Little Princess by Antonie De Saint Exupery
The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Remains of the Day by Kazou Ishiquro
The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Stormlight Archive book series by Brandon Sanderson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Talisman by Stephen King
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Vorrh by Brian Catling
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Ulysses by James Joyce
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thacherary
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Additional Reading
Think and Grow Rich
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Definitive Book of Body Language
The 4-Hour Work Week
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Humans of New York: Stories – Brandon Stanton
The Greatest Salesman in the World
Dream Save Do: An Action Plan for Dreamers Like You
The 100 Dollar Startup
Start a Freedom Business
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Future
Breaking Night
The Power of Habit
The Great Divorce
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Bath & Body
Remington Balder Boss Cordless Head Shaver XR7120 - Waterproof Electric Razor for Bald Men with 5 Dual Track Heads, 360 Flexing Head & Pop-Up Trimmer
Remington Shortcut Pro Self-Haircut Kit, Waterproof Cordless Electric Razor for Head, Beard and Body with Curved Blade and 5-minute Quick Charge
Clothing
Shirts from Tommy Bahama
Shirts from UNTUCKit
A sweater more befitting for a distinguished 50-something male
Food
any 10+ year single malt scotch whiskey is appreciated
Any Webber grill accessories; just ask my family what I already have
Gaming
Any party games for Nintendo Switch
Cyberpunk 2077 game for PC
Enhance Collector's Edition Board Game Backpack
Enhance Tabletop Gamer Backpack
Ghost of Tsushima game for PC
Madden Football game for PC
Star Wars Outlaws game for PC
Super Mario Party Jamboree for Nintendo Switch
Targus Leather Pilot Case
Gift Cards
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, any steakhouse
Hardware
DeWalt Drive Socket Set
John Deere/Craftsman walk behind gas edger
Household
Humanscale FREEDOM HEADREST gaming chair
LEGO 31199 Marvel Studios Iron Man (up to 2 more/I already have one copy, but there are 3 different images and three copies make a mega-image.)
LEGO wall art or helmet collection
Secretlab TITAN 2020 gaming chair
UltraSabers Archon (Obi Wan Kenobi) lightsaber
A new slab for the back patio
Jewelry
Apple Watch Series 9
Tag Heuer men's wristwatch
Music
B-52s albums: B-52s
Bob Dylan albums: Blonde on Blonde, Shadows in the Night
Curtis Mayfield albums: Curtis/Live
Fabulous Thunderbirds albums: T-Bird Rhythm
Foo Fighters albums: Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac albums: Rumours
Floggin Molly albums: Drunken Lullabies
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie albums: It Might As Well Be Swing
Heart albums: Magazine; Dog and Butterfly; Bebe le Strange; Private Audition; Passionworks; Jupiters Darling; Red Velvet Car; Fanatic; Beautiful Broken
Hootie & the Blowfish albums: Cracked Rear View
Led Zeppelin albums: Led Zeppelin
Los Lobos albums: Colossal Head
Muddy Waters albums: The Best of Muddy Waters
Nirvana albums: Nevermind
NRBQ albums: At Yankee Stadium
Pink Floyd albums: Ummagumma; Meddle; Obscured By Clouds; Delicate Sound Of Thunder
Queen albums: A Night At The Opera
Simon & Garfunkel albums: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Soundgarden albums: Superunknown
Texas Tornados albums: Four Aces
The Beach Boys albums: Pet Sounds
The Beatles albums: Abbey Road
The Blazers albums: Just For You
The Killers albums: Hot Fuss
ZZ Top albums: Tejas; Tres Hombres; Eliminator
The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack
Technology
Black Diamond Storm 375 Headlamp
Corsair accessories to compliment current CoarseAir PC build
Logitech Litra Beam LX Premium Dual-Sided RGB LED Streaming Light With TrueSoft for Streaming and Broadcasting - Black
Raspberry Pi 3
Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit
Television
Battlestar Galactica (1978) + Galactic 1980 - seasons 1 on DVD
Heroes - seasons 1-4 on DVD
Knight Rider - seasons 1-4 on DVD
Theater
2 tickets to upcoming play or musical
Travel
2 roundtrip airplane tickets to anywhere outside of Texas
2 roundtrip railway tickets to anywhere outside of Texas
Any cruise liner trip for 2, but Disney Cruise Lines to Europe FTW
Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
Visit all 32 NFL stadiums, preferably with games being played live: Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Commanders
Visit all 50 state capitals: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
Various
Riddell NFL mini helmets using the most updated logos: Buffalo Bills, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Los Angeles Chargers, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Pittsburgh Steelers
BONUS: classic Houston Oilers