Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is Ten Recent Additions to My Bookshelf. Since I regularly talk about my digital books on my Sunday posts, I wanted to feature the physical books I’ve recently acquired. I don’t actually buy a lot of physical books – I mainly keep my reading on my Kindle and iPad. When I do buy physical books, there’s a good chance they’re coming from my local used bookstores. I love browsing their newest selections, and I’ve actually found some really awesome finds.
- Poster Girl by Veronica Roth (William Morrow) – Somehow I managed to find the Fairy Loot Edition at my local used bookstore! It has sprayed edges and a stamped signature! Super thrilled to have this and to read it in 2024.
- Gamora and Nebula: Sisters in Arms by MacKenzi Lee (Marvel Press) – I know nothing about this other than it’s a Gamora and Nebula YA novel. But it looks amazing!
- The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht (Tordotcom) – A really cool looking hardback horror(?) Tordotcom novella. Novellas are always welcome on my bookshelves.
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Louise Simonson (DC Comics) – A graphic novel adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s YA Wonder Woman novel.
- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress (Tachyon) – Nancy Kress wrote one of my all-time favorite novellas, Sea Change. The review I wrote for it was very early on the blog, but the book has remained on my favorites list. After the Fall won the 2012 Nebula and 2013 Locus Awards for Best Novella. The summary is a bit bonkers, but amazing – “The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.” SIGN ME UP.
- Clementine by Cherie Priest (Subterranean Press) – This is a steampunk alternate history novella set around the Civil War. Spies and Pinkerton agents. Sounds like a blast.
- The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi (Tor Books) – This one is SIGNED, guys!! Scalzi is one of my favorite authors, so I was thrilled to randomly find this one the shelf of the store one day. It’s Book 1 in a series and it seems like a hard sci-fi book, which it usually not my jam. BUT I will read this. It’s a Locus Award winner, a Hugo nominee, and a Goodreads Choice nominee.
- Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors 13 Stories (Penguin Group UK) – An anthology featuring many authors, including Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Patrick Ness, and many more!
- Yesterday’s Kin by Nancy Kress (Tachyon) – Oh, look! Another Nancy Kress novella! This one won the 2014 Nebula and 2015 Locus Awards for Best Novella. Aliens in New York. Deadly spores coming to kill both humans and aliens. Can they trust each other? Can they find a cure?
- Doctor Strange: The Fate of Dreams by Devin Grayson (Marvel Enterprises) – A Marvel prose novel similar to Loki: Journey Into Mystery, which I reviewed earlier this year. I really enjoyed the Marvel Comics prose format, so I wanted to pick more of these up. Doctor Strange seemed like a good place to start!
Thanks for stopping by my corner of the blogosphere! I hope this post encourages you to check out the used bookstores near you. You never know what you’ll find! Even if you have ZERO options near you, thriftbooks.com is an excellent resource. I used it all the time when I lived in a different area with no used bookstores near me. Happy (book) hunting!
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