I only give them if they seem like a good fit for the person. For example a friend of mine was struggling with an elderly relative with end stage COPD and her adult kids moving back to the nest while renovating a shed in the back yard to live in so I bought her Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. Or my step dad just fell off a ladder he had no business being on so I bought him Can't Wait to Get to Heaven by Fannie Flagg.