What actually makes a good reader gift for your coworker?
Start by eliminating mismatches: choosing a random bestseller without knowing whether it matches their taste. Then narrow the list around reading comfort, beautiful editions, useful accessories and book-adjacent objects that support the habit. Because this is for your coworker, keep interests they openly talk about and gifts that stay comfortably within professional boundaries in mind and avoid anything too intimate, expensive or difficult to interpret in a workplace context. A small but precisely matched upgrade can be more memorable than a larger generic present.
The strongest gift ideas usually come from the person’s real habits: what they already use, what they talk about and what would make an existing interest better.