Top Ten Tuesday: Most Recent Books In My Possession

Hosted By: The Broke and The Bookish

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where we list our top ten according to a topic of the week. Check out future topics here. 

Top Ten Recent Books In My Possession

Bought

1. The King's Curse (The Cousins' War #6) by Philippa Gregory -- (finally!!)

2. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3. Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near

4. All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

5. The Disreputable History of Franklie Laudau-Banks by E. Lockhart

6. Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas

Gifts

7. Bloodlines (Bloodlines #1) by Richelle Mead

8. If I Stay by Gayle Forma

9. Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

10. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

What Were Your Latest Purchases?

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Stacking The Shelves: June + July Edition

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tyga's Reviews, but I've tweaked it a little to adapt to my own blog. The reason why I've changed it a little is because I usually do monthly hauls as opposed to weekly ones, so I figured I'd just change the name. So yes, without further ado, here are the books I bought in the months of June and July! 

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January Book Haul + Unboxing

So I did my first unboxing, and it was so exciting! I think I have at least 15+ books this month.



WATCH HERE!

Buy any book mentioned through the Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=0861

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December Haul

A total of how many books there was. I never know where to stop, seriously.

WATCH HERE!

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November Haul

This month I treated myself by ignoring any amount of self control I have and going absolutely bonkers. As you can see from the pictures, I bought a fair few books.

Click the link here to watch my November Haul!

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August Haul

I didn't buy much in terms of individual novels but I absolutely burnt a hole through my wallet this month.



I bought two series:

• A Song of Fire and Ice - George R. R Martin; yes, definitely jumping on the bandwagon with this but so far I'm at the first book so far.


• Uglies - Scott Westerfield; the earliest dystopian type novel I remember reading. It's definitely worth a read, especially if you think the recent dystopian novels are good i.e. Hunger Games and Divergent.

And the long awaited addition to Philippa Gregory's The Cousin's War series:

• The White Princess - Philippa Gregory; review here.

I am definitely being kept busy with Uni so far so I haven't invested time in reading. The one novel I really want to read next is Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper but I shall wait until I am financially able to buy it.

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July Haul

July was probably the month I went crazy with my purchases for this year. Blame it on All-Books-4-Less for having $3 sales!

I found myself reading a lot more young adult novels, gravitating towards romance/finding yourself novels including:

• Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher; I bought it even though I've read it before. I felt like it stuck more the second time, even though it felt like the protagonist acted more like an antagonist.


• How To Save A Life - Sara Zarr; review here.


• Night Road - Kristin Hannah; I've been meaning to review this so some quick thoughts: it's definitely emotionally impacting but the pace is a bit too hurried.


• Alice - Judith Hermann; a collection of short stories about Alice and the deaths she encounters in her life, which should be eye-opening and thought provoking but didn't really mean much to me.

I picked up a couple of thriller/crime novels as well:

• The Killer In My Eyes - Giorgio Faletti; review will be up soon!


• The Invisible Ones - Stef Peney; the blurb makes it seem promising but I haven't gotten around to reading it just yet.

And then there was the hybrid:

• Rosebush - Michele Jaffe; this was definitely my favourite out of everything I picked up. It was intriguing, engaging and I was pretty much hooked. 
  

I flew through a lot in July but with uni already starting I suppose I needed to read in advance. I'm not sure what I want to read this month so I'm going to ask for suggestions. Leave a comment below!

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