Sometimes it’s tough to find a gift. Fortunately, 2009 has yielded a slew of awesome holiday gift guides. Here’s a list of 23 that will surely help you to find some great gifts, some cheap gifts, and some great cheap gifts.

1. The North Face Holiday Gift Guide

If you’re looking for gifts for the outdoorsy type, The North Face helps you find that right gift by narrowing down your options by activity, apparel, gear, and price.

2. Sephora’s Best of Holiday 2009

Looking for gifts related to makeup, skincare, fragrance, bath and body, or hair? Maybe some natural and organic options? Sephora has plenty of great gift ideas, free shipping for orders over $50, and free samples. Still not sure? How about a gift card?

3. Barnes & Noble 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

People still read books. You can fly with them, you can ship them. If your giftee isn’t the literate type, how about DVDs, CDs, and other Home and Gift ideas that Barnes & Noble is serving up? You must be able to find something there … and once again, there’s always the Gift Card!

4. The Urban Outfitters Holiday Gift Guide

Browse by type. Shopping for a party girl? A do-it yourselfer? A romantic, humorist, or collector? How about a giver or a namedropper? You can find gifts for everyone here. Or, just shop for Cheap Thrills for him and her. Lotsa creative ideas to be found here.

5. Uncommon Goods Gift Finder and Holiday Gift Ideas

Unique gifts for him and her, sort through the Gift Finder by recipient, price, occasion, and department.

6. UGO Hardcore Holiday Gift Guide

For the person who seems to have everything. Rare and unique limited edition gifts. Separate browsing categories for Movies, TV, Games, Tech, Toys, Graphic Novels, and T-shirts. If you’re shopping for a geek in your life, this is one hot spot you’ll want to stop.

7. Crate & Barrel Gifts

Candles, household stuff under $25, plates, wine glasses, decorations — seems kinda hard to mess up with a gift from Crate & Barrel.

8. Change.org’s 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

Want to give the gift of positive social and environmental change? Change.org gives you a cornucopia of links and ways to do just that. Rock on.

9. 1UP’s 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

Gaming. Enough said. If you want to get your video game obsessed someone special something special, this is a top spot. Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PC, DS, PSP, iPhone, and general stocking stuffers … lots of gaming gift suggestions to be found.

10. CNET’s 2009 Ultimate Holiday Tech Guide

Another gift guide full of geektastic goods. Ecotech, luxuries, gifts for foodies, and bargain budget tech buys. Tons of fantastic tech gift ideas can be found here. If you’re atechie yourself, you can create a wish list and send it out to your non-tech savvy friends and family.

11. The New York Holiday Guide

Getting a gift for someone in the Big Apple? Know someone planning a trip? Find some great gift ideas only to be found and experienced in New York City.

12. Endgadget’s Holiday Gift Guide: Laptops

Laptops. What more needs to be said? Everyone likes laptops. Endgadget provides thorough reviews to help you find the right laptop for the right person.

13. Newsweek’s Tip Sheet Holiday Gift Guide

Yes, that Newsweek. Sit back and watch the image player deliver ideas for ‘designers, gearheads, foodies, dandies, fashionistas, yummy mummies, alternadads, cool kids, do-gooders,’ and of course, the obligatory great gifts under $25. Fantastic list. If you don’t get some ideas from this, you should give up and just retire from gift giving for the rest of forever.

14. Cool Hunting Gift Guide

The ‘exclusives’ and the ‘new and noteworthy.’ Plus some classics. Browse by category or price.

15. TreeHugger Holiday Slow Gift Guide

Bringing the idyllic holidays back by removing the stress, TreeHugger is losing the stress and helping you to find gifts based on thoughtfulness, longevity, and quality — not quantity. The Slow Gift Movement can now get its glacier on. Anytime now.

16. The Atlantic’s Holiday Gift Guide: Kitchen Edition

Nearly everyone knows someone who loves a new, novel, or simply good kitchen gift. Megan McArdle continues her kitchen edition tradition by giving a multitude of kitchen gift ideas, from cheap to expensive. She also offers a list of kitchen items that might seem like good ideas, but aren’t.

17. OK Magazine’s Holiday gift Guide – Ideal Buys for Guys

Some guys are hard to shop for, this guide will make it easier.

18. Gifts.com

With a name like Gifts.com, you’d expect them to know gifts. And they do. With multiple ways that guide you to find the right gift. Shop top gifts, personalized gifts, toys and games, or by occasion. You can also shop by personality type.

19. Wired’s GeekDad 2009 Holiday Gift Guides

What some might consider the complete guide to gifting geeks, in several installations. Books, Gadgets, Toys & Games, More books, Miscellaneous, and Green & Science.

20. The New York Times Gift Guides

If you haven’t found it yet, now you have. Books, Dining & Home, DVD & Video Games, Electronics, Music & Theater, PLUS Style & Travel. Epic lists, with everything from Graphic Novels, to Mail-Order Foods, to Golf, and even E-books.

21. Earth911.com’s 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

Gifts made from recycled materials and under fair trade practices. The stay green way to go about checking the names off your gift list.

22. RedEnvelope

Seems like there’s so many places to find unique and personalized gifts that it’s hardly unique. RedEnvelope offers harder to find items for him and her, jewelry, gifts for the home, plus gifts for babies and children. Shop by customer rating to find what gifts got the highest score.

23. The GauchoBlog

That’s correct, you’re already in the best place to find holiday gifts. Starting December 12, this Saturday, we’ll be blogging about the best ways to save on holiday gifts with the Gaucho 12 Days of Christmas Holiday Gift Guide. You’ll find a wide variety of different deals and gift ideas for all 12 days … that might just remind you a certain classic holiday song.