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#top24of24

Here are my favourites of this year - probably quite similar to a lot of other Littens‘ lists! 🤪 There‘s a fair few from prize lists and, of course, many recommended (or even gifted) by Litsy friends.

I think the top 17/18 were easy but there were a few vying for those last few spots. Those that just missed out included Lula Dean, The Wedding People, Wolf at the Table, The Collected Regrets of Clover and Notes on an Execution.

This is my #top24of24! I was a bit stingier with the 5⭐️ this year, and only 8 received that (upper left quadrant plus Dead Bastards and Cue the Sun in bottom right). The rest are 4.75⭐️ and 4.5⭐️. Nine of these are nonfiction, which is about normal and pretty close to my reading NF/F split. Can‘t wait to see even more of these as the year winds up! 👏🏻📚

Just two weeks until the end of the year, it‘s time for our tradition to share our #Top24of24.

This is mine so far. And yes, if you look good it are actually 25 books 😉.

I‘ll tag a few people to get things started, please share your favorites and tag a few more 💝

100%!!!

Today is my birthday (61st it's hard to believe), so of course I had to go buy some books for my ever growing, slightly groaning TBR shelves. I liked Blake Crouch's Upgrade, and I already have Dark Matter, Stardust is the only book by Neil Gaiman that I haven't read (I tried watching the movie and stopped 30 minutes into it), and Dreadful just sounded like a fun book.
#nevertoomanybooks #neverenoughshelves

Despite what my girlfriend would say, going to the used bookstore and only purchasing 4 books shows an enormous amount of restraint on my part. I could have easily walked out with a dozen, but I have to wait until I purchase a new bookcase because I've about reached the limit with my current set up.
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@Eggs thanks for the tag💕 #WondrousWednesday
I organize by genre/subject(nonfiction and fiction blended together), by author within genre, in the order I read them or in series order; unless I have to stack them because of shelf size due to following the ceiling (which is a giant pain-the-ass for me). In that case, I find size order more appealing. My husband (the shelf builder) loves the mix of stacked & vertical books; I've made peace with it🤣

After MUCH trial and error, I‘m finally happy with my book storage arrangement. Once I stopped trying to keep read favorites separate from TBR, it became easier to let each shelf be its own little collection. These two are in the middle of a tall bookcase and are probably the most “camera ready” of the set.
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You know how you plan to buy one book and come out with many? I only wanted Titan's Day, then I saw the Palahniuk book and it sounded interesting, then the book by Jeff Vandermeer (who I've never read but wanted to try), then the new fantasy series by Van Loan sounded very intriguing, so I left with 5 instead of 1. But for only $6.69!! Who can blame me?!
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I forgot to post my #bookhaul from Friday's visit to the used book store. Good picks for under 20 bucks.
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So excited to support a brand new indie bookseller at their first pop-up shop today!

Got two books that were on my wishlist, two I didn't know I needed, and the cutest bookmark weeeee! 💞

And here are the keepers from the boxes in my previous post 📚😁

There are similar sized stacks of books that I already own, so lots of sharing for the Little Free Libraries around town!!!

Literally… I even had a book with me at my dad‘s funeral!

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#secrets #springskies @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Happy Independent Bookstore Day!!!

And two bookish t-shirts!!

My haul from the day!!

A bonus stop… subtext books!

A cute children‘s bookshop was next up!

I was most excited to go to this one… a brand new, romance only bookstore!!

Next up was a favorite from this summer… once upon a crime… a mystery only bookstore!

First stop was big hill books… so cute and they had 2 shop cats!!

Friday was turning out to be a crappy day, but when I got home I had #bookmail, and that made everything alright (at least until tomorrow).
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1. I don‘t withdraw, however I do take a break for a week or two.
2. Scott Reintgen
3. L.M. Montgomery

Thanks, @Eggs for always doing fun Wednesday Qs. #wondrouswednesday

The first book haul of 2024. I was especially happy to find Fuzzy Nation, the only book by Scalzi I haven't read, and Robots Versus Slime Monsters, a short story collection by A. Lee Martinez, another favorite author.
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Christmas book haul. This is in addition to having my NYRB book club membership renewed. I think everyone has finally given up on trying to find creative gifts to give me and just defaults to books or coffee (which is fine by me 😁).

Hit the Friends of the Library Fall sale

The shorter stack is for me; the rest are for my #LFL which is on schedule for a November 1 launch 😁

I got a good #bookhaul from the used bookstore. I've been wanting to try the Thursday Next series, so I was thrilled to see they had The Eyre Affair (and the rest if I want to continue the series). I remember Urshurak from when I was like 15, but it looked too much like a LOTR ripoff so I skipped it. I'll read anything by John Scalzi & Mike Resnick.
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After a quick trip to the used book store to drop off a load of books, I decided to treat myself. I was already getting the Star Wars book, but I'm excited to read the book about 80s action stars. The author wrote a very good book, Wild & Crazy Guys, about 80s comedy stars.
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What's the best way to deal with Litsy's current condition? Buy more books of course!! For those who can't see, I got The Cradle of Ice by James Rollins and Into The Light by David Weber & Chris Kennedy. The Rollins' book just came out earlier this year and I already found a copy in the bargain section of BAM! Score!!
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Yes!!!

Over the last week, I went a bit overboard on buying books. I went to 5 independent bookstores in both Dallas and Houston and attended a local library sale. When will I be able to read all these?! 😆
#bookhaul

I might have gotten a little carried away at today's bookstore visit, but it's been awhile since I splurged. 4 of these books were on my wishlist to read. The Dan Jones book I'd been eager to read after reading his excellent book on the Dark Ages, Powers and Thrones. The Lore book was just a whim, it sounded interesting.
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I love the library semi-annual sale 😁

Look at my lovely pile of books just waiting for me 🥰
I‘ve already started Pineapple Street - you‘re right @squirrelbrain it‘s not quite as good as I was expecting -

Picked up the February BookPage at the library the other day; needless to say my TBR shelf is gonna run out of room 🙇🏻‍♀️😁

I live an hour away from civilization and many, many hours from a B&N, so when my travel day fell on the 50% sale, it was meant to be. I found 2 of the 5 books I wanted (pictured) which brings me up to FIVE books for my THREE day trip. Lol, I probably won‘t even finish my current book but I live that ‘bring way too many books with me‘ lifestyle and I ain‘t quitting that anytime soon. 🙃📚📚🤓

Family book haul!
Love the book talks ❤️

Here‘s my lovely #BookHaul that I‘ve been slowly shipping to my parents. I honestly can‘t remember which books work for which challenges but I‘ll figure it all out in the coming days! I know I‘ve got a few from #TOB23 longlist and then #Booked2023 #ReadingTheAmericas23 and #52BookClub #MyFavoriteTimeOfTheYear #ChallengePlanning
Anyone see anything that‘s outstanding???

Nothing better, after a long day at work where everyone called off and I had to work alone, to come home to some book mail.
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Delightful kids book about the British library. I want to go there . Book is easy to read and very well illustrated. I love it. Was being discarded by our library .

It's been too long since I did a nice splurge at the bookstore.
I can never have too many Star Trek novels, and All of the Marvels is something I've been very eager to read. I read Bad Days in History a couple of years ago, I didn't know there was a sequel.

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Nothing nicer, after a hard day at work, to come home to a little bookmail. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in Ann Leckie's series. I'm a bit bummed about the James Blish book. Someone tried to remove the price sticker, and did a piss poor job of it. I'll have to try some glue gone to salvage the cover.

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Do I need more books? Nope. Did I get more anyway?
YEP. Happy birthday to me 😂😂😂 y‘all, whoever mentioned PangoBooks is my hero. I got all of these plus she threw in a free ARC - for $25.00!! And these are all like new condition. #bookhaul 😂🤷‍♀️

I don't know if it was the heat, but my phone connection has been down all day and I couldn't post on Litsy.
Anyway, I grabbed these books at Goodwill today when I ventured out into the heat. I'm kind of annoyed at Goodwill. For awhile they were putting price stickers on the spines or on the back cover, but now they've gone back to putting them on the front, and they're a bitch to get off without messing up the cover. 😡😡😡

It feels like forever since I made a trip to the used book store. Didn't find much of interest, I was trying to avoid books that were parts of series (gets harder and harder every day).

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Dollar Tree for the win!

Found these between two stores yesterday!

Come join us for round 15. I signed up for two groups Group B (BOTM backlog) and Group M (Cozy mystery). Still two slots available for each. And if you don‘t fancy those there‘s lots of variety or start your own group.

See @suvata for signup link.