High street stores will be slashing prices to shift stock on Boxing Day, so if you can wait that long to buy Russell Brand's My Booky Wook, Michael Palin's New Europe, or Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman's Long Way Down, you'll be able to get massive discounts.
I'm sure these bestsellers are all quite readable, up to a point, but I shall be on the hunt for something a tad more mysterious.
I noticed that Waterfield's, in the High Street in Oxford, was closed on Christmas Eve.
This shop has long been one of the household names in book dealing in Oxford and I shall return there in 2008 to check their ancient stock.
Over the Christmas break, I will be trawling a number of second-hand book emporiums, including Derbyshire's jewel-in-the-crown, Scarthin Books, which is situated in the little known backwater of Cromford.
On my list will be John Baxter's book about Paris. The collector's autobiography, A Pound of Paper, is one of my favourite reads, and contains a number of intriguing recommendations I intend to pursue.
One is Iain Sinclair's White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, a novel based on Sinclair's experiences as a runner for the legendary book dealer Martin Stone.
Another is Driff Field's 1991 guide to about 200 second-hand bookshops in the UK.
It would be interesting to see how many of them have now been forced to close because trade has shifted to the Internet.
I've just started reading Haruki Murakami's latest novel, After Dark, and four chapters in things are already starting to get a bit surreal.
Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was memorable, so I've got high hopes for this one. See you in 2008.