Hello! It’s Tuesday again, and you know what that means! Another episode of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl)! Today we’re talking about “Books I’ve Read That I’d Like in My Personal Library”.
I’m in a fortunate position in that I currently get an allowance every month, and since I’m not really interested in much else, most of that money goes towards books. That wasn’t always the case, and since I have a limited amount of space to store books, I have to be careful about that too. Plus there’s collectible editions of some books that I’d kill to get my hands on.
After nearly a year of saying “I have to read something by Maggie Stiefvater someday” I finally read The Raven Boys. I ended up borrowing the first three books from the library. I loved these books, but don’t own them. The fourth book, The Raven King, was unavailable from the library, so it’s coming from Amazon on Thursday. But I don’t own the first three, and I can’t really justify buying the books when I might not read them again for a while.
The reason I don’t own the original edition of Life After Legend (the one that was given away as a free gift for pre-ordering Warcross) is because I can’t find it for sale. Anywhere. I periodically check eBay to see if anybody has it up for sale, but I can’t find it. I don’t blame people for not wanting to sell it though. I’ve read it (I bought the paperback edition of Warcross specifically for this) but I don’t own this collectible edition. I’ll keep looking. If you have one you’d like to get rid of, I’d happily buy it from you.
Another author I talked about reading for months was Leigh Bardugo. I actually own Shadow and Bone (I found it on sale on the Kindle for $1.99) but I don’t own the other two. This would be a nice series to own in hardback.
I read Summer Days and Summer Nights last July. There are so many sweet stories in here. I thought about purchasing a copy this summer, but then I realized that I probably wouldn’t end up reading it this summer, and I’ll be getting Veronica Roth’s story “Inertia” with her book The End and Other Beginnings in five weeks, so I decided to postpone the purchase. Maybe I’ll get a copy next year. Sure, I could just get it from the library again if I wanted to read it, but some books you just want to have on hand whenever you feel like reading it.
I listened to Fangirl on via audiobook (that I borrowed from the library) and I really loved it. I’d probably enjoy having a hardback copy of this book. It’s such a sweet story.
Enchantée was such a lovely book, but I don’t own a finished copy. A lot of times when I receive an ARC, I don’t buy the finished copy, but I occasionally do when it’s a book I really loved. Plus, the digital Enchantée ARC is pretty rough. Maybe I’ll get a gorgeous hardback to go with its sequel, Liberté (which comes out on July 14, 2020). I’d rather reread the first book in a pretty hardback than the rough ARC.
The Evertree is the only Marie Lu book or book containing a short story of hers that I don’t own in at least some form. I’ll probably buy this book at some point, but since it’s the seventh book in a middle grade series, I’m not really in a hurry. The reason I never reviewed this book on my blog is that I never read the six books that came before this one. Perhaps someday I’ll check the six books that came before this one out of the library (my boy is currently on this book of the series) and I’ll buy this one so I can complete my collection.
So the first seven books on my list are all sweet, maybe the world is in jeopardy but there’s still some levity to it, and then you get to this book: In the Garden of Beasts. This is a story about the early days of Hitler’s reign. One of these things is not like the other. Even the cover is pretty dark. I loved this book though, and wouldn’t mind reading it again.
Although I still haven’t read the third book in the Clash of Kingdoms series by Erin Summerill, I really loved Ever the Hunted and Ever the Brave. I read both of these books as library books.
Echoes is another book I own as an ARC, but I don’t have a finished copy. The sequel, Fissures, is supposed to come out in winter 2020. Maybe I’ll buy a finished copy around then. I’ll probably want to read it again, and I’d rather read a nice hardback then a rough ARC.
So those are the books that I’ve read but would like in my personal library. Which books would you like to own? Next week we’re going to talk about “Books I Enjoyed Which Were Outside My Comfort Zone”. I might end up tweaking that topic, because I’ll read just about anything.
Great list! I ended up DNFing The Raven Boys when I tried reading it a few years ago, but it’s a series I hear so many good things about I’m tempted to give it another try – glad to hear you’re enjoying it!
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If you try it again I hope you like it more than the first time. But 1-star reviews of my favorite books of all time tell me that not everybody is going to like all the books, so it’s okay if you don’t.
Great list! Fangirl is one of my all time favorites and I really enjoyed The Raven Boys series.
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Fangirl’s got the cutest cover and gets me every. damn. time.
It is a pretty cover.
I think it’s cool that you spend so much of your allowance on books. 🙂
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There’s not much else I want!
I have pretty much all of Erik Larson’s books. I’ve only read that one once, time for a reread!
I’d like to read some of his other books too, like the one set at the Chicago World’s Fair.
I have Fangirl in both hardback and ebook and I’ve still not read it. HOW?
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You need to! It’s so good!
Even if you hadn’t read Enchantée, I wouldn’t blame you for wanting to own that. The cover is so gorgeous. I can’t imagine what it looks like in person.
I wonder if it’s sparkly? I order most of my books online and I don’t always get to see them in person. I guess that’s the downside of ordering online (even though it’s so convenient) but you don’t get to see the beautiful covers that way.
I really want Life after Legend too! *cries* I can’t find it anywhere online and it wasn’t given with Warcross in my country so I’m very lost about what to do 🙁
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They didn’t put it in the paperback edition of the book? Because it wasn’t in the hardback edition. I wonder if you could get it from Book Depository? You’d want to make sure that you got the correct edition though. I’m not at home at the moment, but when I get home I can get you the ISBN if you’d like, so you can order the correct one. It’s a gorgeous story though; I’d hate for you not to even be able to read it.
I checked for you. The ISBN to the paperback Warcross with Life After Legend is 9780399547973. It’s available at book depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Warcross-Marie-Lu/9780399547973?ref=grid-view&qid=1566926539141&sr=1-8 in case you want to get it.
I didn’t realize that Life After Legend is in the paperback edition of Warcross. I’ll have to remember that!
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🙂 It was the best $10 for 22 pages I’ve ever spent! Since I already owned the hardback.
I love the Raven Boys series. In fact I think I wat to reread the books.
That’s kinda what kicked me in the butt to read them now. Other people are doing a reread while I’m reading it for the first time. Just in time to be ready for Call Down the Hawk which comes out in November.
Summer Days and Summer Nights was a lot of fun, I don’t own it in physical copy but it would be a neat one to have. Same with Fangirl.
Echoes was pretty awesome. Looking forward to the next one in that series.
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I’m so glad the publishers bought the second book! It’s not on Goodreads yet for some reason so I just have to not forget it.
I found a basically-new hardcover copy of Fangirl at a thrift store for $2 last year. And then I immediately had A Crisis about it because there’s a really cool deluxe edition with fanart, but now I’m attached to the green cover, and this is way too big a book to have in duplicates. Why I would remind you of this and make your decision harder, I don’t know…unless you wanted an opening to talk about the merits of each?
Hmmm… $2 is a really good price for a hardcover! It’s good to know that there are other editions out there. There are only a few books that I purposely go out and buy multiple editions of (Marie Lu haha) but if I’m only going to buy one copy of a book, then it’s good to know ahead of time what choices there are. Sometimes I pick the most economical choice though.
I love Erik Larson, his books are fantastic! Devil in the White City is my fave, but his Nazi one is good too. By far though I think the Lusitania one is even better, and I didn’t know that would be possible after Devil!
I’ll have to take a look at those someday!