5 great gift book ideas: something for everyone

From art history to the stars of sports, here are five gift books with wide appeal.

3. 'The Louvre: All the Paintings,' by Vincent Pomarède and Erich Lessing

Your Paris vacations are never long enough to allow you to see all that you'd like to see in the Louvre? Don't worry – here's a book that can help. The Louvre: All the Paintings (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 784 pp. $45 ) serves as a gorgeous catalog of every single painting found inside France's famous museum. The photos were taken by Erich Lessing and the text is by Vincent Pomarède, the general curator of the painting collection of the Louvre. Enjoying spending time with everything from the Rembrandts to the Goyas.

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