The first week of October is upon us, so is Buy a Friend A Book Week. The only goal of BAFAB is to suprise your friends, for no reason whatsoever, with the best gift a person can give — a book. BAFAB is celebrated the first weeks of January, April, July, and October annually. Although, as BAFAB explains, it’s okay to cheat and BAFAB any time you want. The website even provides a little printable note to tuck inside your package explaining why you sent it:
“It’s Buy a Friend a Book Week and I’ve selected you as the recipient of a book. Know that this gift is given for no good reason. If it’s your birthday, I don’t want to hear about it. Anniversary? Not a chance. This is a no-strings-attached present given just because.”
BAFAB is young. It was born in July 2005. The site creator, Debra Hamel, is also an author and blogger and mom. Debra has included Amazon Affiliate links to purchase books via BAFAB. She wants you to know that these are affiliate links. Now I want you to know that you should USE them. The website is a gem and the author should certainly get a kickback from your purchases.

Make sure to check out the BAFAB blog. Links are posted there daily including some contests and kick ass reviews.

I can think of few things more exciting the BAFAB. While I wish I had thought of this awesome website, I won’t hold it against Debra for being a genius first. So take a few minutes this week to buy a book for a friend. If you don’t have loads of cash to squander on loved ones (who does?), then dig into you collection — yes, I know it hurts — and pick one of your favorites or just a title you think they’d enjoy.
Grab a tag like this for your website, profile, or blog:

Now go and BAFAB!