Hello! It’s Tuesday again, and I hope you’re doing well. It’s another Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). Today’s topic is “Books I Borrowed/Bought Because…” and I’m going to do books I bought because they were on sale. I have trouble passing up $1.99/$2.99 books! I figure even if I’m only mildly interested in a book, it’s worth picking up at that price. So I’m going to go through my order history and share some of my bargains!
My favorite price for books? Free. That’s what Obsidian is going for, as of Monday (so it might still be free). There are always free books on Amazon, but they’re not always books I want to read. Anyway, I borrowed Obsidian from the library last year and I liked it, so I figured for free, I might as well get it.
Right before The Kingdom of Back came out, most of Marie Lu’s books went on sale. Don’t you already own them all? you might ask. Yes, but I didn’t own them all on the Kindle. Now I do. My family members tend to prefer Kindle books, plus you can search through them. So next time my family want to borrow my Marie Lu books, they can read them on the Kindle, instead of on my (now signed) first print hardcovers.
EreaderIQ is a great place to go to if you’re looking for cheap books. I track books that I’m interested in purchasing but don’t want to pay full price for and don’t have an urgent need to read right away. I was tracking The Bride Test for months. Although I saw the bargain first on Twitter, EreaderIQ did send me an alert to let me know this book went on sale. I’m tracking four other books at the moment. If they don’t go on sale by the time I want to read them, there’s always the library.
I wanted to read Romanov when it was still an ARC, but I didn’t get approved. However, I did see it on sale for $1.99 and I couldn’t pass it up at that price. I still haven’t read it yet, but I plan to at some point.
I tend to get a lot of books for $1.99. Sometimes I even forget that I’ve purchased them. One gem I’ve discovered while going through my orders to write this post today is Ruta Sepetys’s Salt to the Sea. I liked her book The Fountains of Silence, and when I saw this on sale, I couldn’t pass it up.
I keep saying that I need to read The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Myer. I’ve had the whole set for over a year–they were on sale for $2.99 each over Cyber Monday in 2018 (they also were on sale over Cyber Monday in 2019 too, but I had already purchased them). One of these days I really need to.
The Ten Thousand Doors of January was also another book that went on sale for $2.99 that I couldn’t pass up. Like many of the books on this list, I still haven’t had the chance to read it, but hopefully I’ll get to it at some point. At least Kindle books don’t take up a lot of space in your house.
A Curse So Dark and Lonely was another book I was able to find for $1.99. I really need to get to reading some of these books! Many of them look so good but I haven’t gotten around to reading them yet!
Sometimes I feel like a bad friend. My friend Katerina King’s book, Malediction, came out last fall, and I still haven’t read it yet. I want to! This book I also got on sale for $1.99.
Another book I got for $1.99 was A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas.
Sometimes I’m surprised at what books go on sale at such bargain rates. I certainly can’t afford every book I want at full price, so it’s nice that I can find these books at such low prices. It’s either that or the library, and sometimes it’s checked out.
What did you write about today? Next week, we’re going to talk about books I enjoyed but rarely talk about. So no books by my auto-buy authors next week!