A home is never complete when the coffee table is empty. Fill your coffee table with words and pictures to liven up your living room. Whether you’re reading, writing or skimming through, here are a few great books.
Journals:
These are the coffee table books that also contain memories. These journals are meant to be filled out daily.
- One Line A Day: This book has a spot for you to write one line a day. It’s a free write to express yourself.
- Wreck This Journal: This is one of the most popular journals around. There are actually different versions of this journal to help your creativity flow in the form of destruction.
- Q and A Five Year Journal: With this journal you answer one questions a day. Each question has a spot for five years. This book is a personal favorite of mine. It’s an awesome way to look back each year on how your responses change.
- Just Between Us: This journal is a different way to help better the mother daughter bond. In this journal you can write things like “A song about mom”.
- What I Love About You: This journal is pretty self-explanatory; just write what you love about someone by following the prompt. This journal comes in a few different versions: What I love about mom, dad and grandma.
Good Reads:
Here are a few different books to sit back a read or just decorate with.
- “Paddle Your Own Canoe”: This book by Nick Offerman is a guide to his life. A book written by the mustached grouch himself, could anything be better?
- “IT”: Alexis Chung has become the “It” girl of our generation. Read about and look through pictures of her life with this book.
- “Not that kind of girl”: Lenah Dunham writes a great book about her experiences and life choices. Her open book of essays fills your time with tons laughs.
- “Humans of New York”: Based on the popular Tumblr blog, this book take a quick look into the lives of strangers living in New York.
- “Men Explain Things To Me”: In this book written by Rebecca Slonit talks about the differences in the communication between men and women.
- “As If!: The Oral History Of Clueless”: Any fan of the 90s or of Cher Horowitz this is the book for you.
Pictures Only:
No reading just looking. Decorate with pages full of pictures.
- “The Wes Anderson Collection”: A beautiful collection of pictures from behind the scenes of Wes Anderson films along with artwork and ephemera.
- “Extraordinary Chickens”: This is a big book filled with photos of chickens. Enough said.
- “100 days, 100 beards”: This book is based on the popular Tumblr blog. This book contains 100 different beards taken on 100 different days.
- “1000 Tattoos”: Take a look through pictures and their outrageous body art.
- “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die”: This book is a complied list of different albums and a description of each one, production team and all.
- “Banksy In New York”: The works created by the mysterious Banksy put into a book.
Adult coloring Books:
- “ Color Your Own van Gough”
- “Splendid Cities: Color Your Way To Calm”
- “1990s Coloring Books”
- “Thrill Murray: Bill Murray Coloring Book”
- “Free To Be Crabby: A Maxine Coloring Book”
Don’t leave your table covered with only water rings. Take the chance to bring some life to your table.
