Top items I would very much enjoy receiving as birthday or Christmas gifts:
Snakes and Arrows Live (CD) by Rush
"My Ox Is Broken!": Detours, Roadblocks, Fast Forwards and Other Great Moments from TV's The Amazing Race by Adam-Troy Castro
Circumnavigating the Globe by Arthur E. Perkins Jr.
Old New Thing by Raymond Chen
Where the Hell is Matt: Dancing Badly Around the World by Matt Harding
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson