Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic was submitted by Alecia @ The Staircase Reader, and features books I loved so much that I had to buy a copy for my personal library. I chose to narrow the scope of the topic a little bit and only share books I’ve received for review over the years. Some of these were so amazing that I bought a physical copy and an audiobook copy!

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
After reading this, I had to have the hardback and I have since bought the audio and now there’s a new dramatized version with sound effects and I had to have that, too!

2. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

3. Eighty Days to Elsewhere by K.C. Dyer
Another one I adored and had to have the paperback and the audio!

4. Well Played by Jen DeLuca

5. The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss
This is one of my favorite Christmas books, and the audio is so so magical. I actually listened to the audio first and then bought the paperback for my collection.

6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
I received each book in this series for review as they were released (my name is even in some of them!) and I swear, I own them all in so many different formats that it’s not even funny. LOVE this series.

7. Wanderlove by Kirsten Hubbard
This book changed my life, and I had to have the finished hardback.

8. The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
My ARC didn’t even have a cover, so of course I had to get the hardback when it was all finished. This book is perfection.

9. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch
Sooooo many warm fuzzies for this book. And when I saw this pretty UK cover I knew it was meant to be a part of my library. And yes, I’ve seen the recently released movie and it was wonderful!

10. Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
This book is amazing and one of my favorite books to read during the spooky season, so I had to get in on audio even though my ARC sits prettily on my shelf!

Do you enjoy building your physical book collection as much as I do?
Do you collect the books you plan to re-read someday?

Today’s topic is a school freebie! I’m obsessed with school supplies. When the back-to-school sections start popping up at Target I get all excited. It’s so fun to walk down the rows and look at all the fun pens, notebooks, and art supplies. I want to buy it all! So I’m going to share with you book covers that feature school supplies. I’ve read a few of these books, but most of them are still on my TBR (I put asterisks by the ones I’ve read)! That’s part of the fun for me, and a cool way to feature new books rather than a handful of the same titles each week.

 

By Your Side by Kasie West*
A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody*
Geek Magnet by Kieran Scott
Neurotica by Eliza Gordon
Holly Freakin’ Hughes by Kelsey Kingsley
Paper Hearts by Ali Novak
Paper Towns by John Green
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

What topic did you choose for this week’s
school freebie prompt?

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is about completed series that I wish had more books. Turns out, this is a harder topic than I thought it would be! I haven’t finished many of the series I love, so I couldn’t come up with ten for this week. But that’s ok! I always say, make the topic work for you. :)

1. The Ravenels by Lisa Kleypas
I love the Ravenels family, and even though every family member got their own love story I miss them and want more!

2. Well Met by Jen DeLuca
I know #4 is coming out this December, but I’ve already read and loved it and I’m so sad to see the end of this series!

3. ExLibris Adventure by K.C. Dyer
ExLibris is a company that plans literary journeys for its clients. The first book is a journey along the same route as the one in Around the World In Eighty Days. The second one retraces Odysseus’s journey. I didn’t love the second book, but the first one is a favorite and I want more travel books like these!

4. Survival Instincts by Adriana Anders
I guess I don’t know if this series is officially over or not, but it kind of looks like it and I love romantic suspense and survival.

5. Spindle Cove by Tessa Dare
I LOVE Spindle Cove, and I love the ladies who live there and fall in love!

6. Castles Ever After by Tessa Dare
AHHH. I loved these!

7. Veronica Mars by Rob Thomas
These books were just as good as the show, and I’m sad only two were written!

8. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
I miss these characters!

Which completed series do you wish had more books?

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic gives me a chance to get excited about older books that aren’t popping up all over social media right now. You know how the same 10 or so titles show up in every bookstagram/BookTok post or book review for a few months and then all of a sudden those 10 titles change to 10 newer titles and we never heard about anything else? It gets kind of tiring, to be honest. So I thought it would be fun to flood our blogs and social media with discussion about books that used to get love but have been forgotten in favor of shiny new titles. I’d love to get some recs for hidden gems this week!

1. Beneath a Sapphire Sea by Jessica Bryan (published August 1, 1993)
This book is no longer in print. I bought a used copy myself because I’d read great things about it, and I LOVED it. If you can get your hands on the title it’ll be well worth the effort! Galen is a mer-man and his people are dying of a mysterious illness that apparently only Meredith can remedy. Galen knows this, but Meredith has no idea who she is or the knowledge she possesses. As Galen sets out to gain this knowledge, he falls in love with her and she with him. A lasting bond is formed between the two of them as they begin their journey together to save Galen’s people and learn the truth about Meredith.

2. Catherine and the Pirate by Karen Hawkins (published August 20, 2002)
This is part of the Avon True Romance Series for Teens that came out in the early 2000s and I gobbled these books up. I loved (and still love) this series, but this one is my favorite and is the book that made me fall in love with pirate romance!

3. Pretend You Don’t See Her by Mary Higgins Clark (published April 28, 1997)
I’ve loved Mary’s books since I was a teen, and this one was my first and remains my favorite to this day.

4. The Unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Louise Plummer (published March 1, 1995)
This is the cutest Christmas YA romance. It warmed my heart and has stayed with me for years!

5. Austenland by Shannon Hale (published May 29, 2007)
I loved this book at the time, but it’s really stuck with me because it’s the first book I ever reviewed online (and it was for The Broke & the Bookish)!

6. Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas (published February 28, 2006)
And so begins my love affair with Lord St. Vincent.

7. The Charm School by Susan Wiggs (published April 1, 1999)
Here’s another one of those pirate romances I loved! This was my first adult pirate romance. I met Susan Wiggs a few years ago and had her sign my copy. She looked at it fondly and said it had been so long since someone had told her this was their favorite book of hers. Apparently it was super popular among high school girls back in the day. I found it on my own, but what a coincidence!

8. An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn (published July 1, 2001)
This might be my favorite Bridgerton book, but don’t quote me on that!

9. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (published December 2, 2010)
This was my first contemporary YA and it set mw off on an amazing journey through the genre. I still have such warm fuzzy feeling for this book!

10. What I Did For a Duke by Julie Anne Long (published February 22, 2011)
One of the swooniest books I’ve read.

What are some of your favorite books from 10+ years ago?
Have you read and loved any of these?

Welcome to another TTT! This week’s topic is hilarious book titles, but I have been so busy dealing with life stuff that I didn’t have time to come up with my list today! I might come back and update this later, but I’m posting the Linky now so you can link up your posts!