This looks like another one of those stacks where there’s a whole HELL (literally) of a lot more pretty creepy than there is purely pretty. Although The Fox Hunt and Year of the Mer manage to be both at the same time.  Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep and especially Wife Shaped Bodies are just plain creepy.

The one TRULY pretty cover, IMHO, is Sing the Night, although I love the beautiful blue of The Sixth Nik. And I’m finding the cover of The Republic of Memory to be pretty darn interesting and I hope the book will be the same when I get to it.

The two I’m most looking forward to catching the ’round tuit’ for are Someone Your Own Age and The Tailor – for entirely different reasons.

What are you looking forward to – or shuddering at – in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
The Angel at the Gates by Karen Lord
The Children by Melissa Albert
Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay
The Fox Hunt by Caitlin Breeze
I Am Agatha by Nancy Foley
The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara
The Left and the Lucky by Willy Vlautin
Marion by Leah Rowan
Murder Most Delicious by Danielle Postel-Vinay
Not With a Bang by Temi Oh
Puck by Samantha Allen
The Republic of Memory (Song of the Safina #1) by Mahmud El Sayed
Sing the Night (Opera Magique #1) by Megan Jauregui Eccles
The Sixth Nik by Daniel Kraus
Someone Your Own Age by Alex Neve
Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
The Tailor (DS George Cross #8) by Tim Sullivan
The Traveler by Joseph Eckert
Wife Shaped Bodies by Laura Cranehill
Year of the Mer by L.D. Lewis

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

I keep missing the pretty in these stacks. Have book covers just gotten less pretty, or have I just been making less pretty choices? It’s a puzzlement.

The one pretty – or at least almost pretty – cover is Entwined. There’s something about the cover of Broken Truths that I find esthetically pleasing – and intriguing – but I wouldn’t call it pretty. I just like the art deco style of the thing.

The books I’m looking the most forward to reading are Murder at the Spirit Lounge and The Silver Hand. They’re both second books in series where I really loved the first book, so I have high hopes for them. OTOH the book I’m the most curious about is Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel. The “new Poirot” series has been a mixed bag so I’m really curious to see how the “new Marple” series turns out.

I’m in the middle of Out of Her League right now, and so far it’s been terrific. If it sticks the dismount it will be one of next week’s favorites. I can tell.

What about you? What can you tell us about what’s in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
Aicha by Soraya Bouazzaoui
Broken Truths by Alessandro Robecchi, translated by Gregory Conti
City on Fire by Simon Elegant
Entwined (Entwined Duology #1) by H.M. Long
The Fortune Flip by Lauren Kung Jessen
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste
Haven by Ani Katz
Hocus Pocus by Brinda Charry
The Mulai by Munir Hachemi
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (New Miss Marple Mysteries #1) by Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie
Murder at the Spirit Lounge (Nora Breen Investigates #2) by Jess Kidd
Never and Always (Langston Hotels #3) by Anna Hackett
Out of Her League by Avi Rani
Perfect Life by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores
Precious Children by Mary G. Thompson
Scion by James Islington
The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager
She Fell Away (Lake Harlowe #1) by Lenore Nash
The Silent Appeal (Appeal #2) by Janice Hallett
The Silver Hand (Tides of Magic #2) by Shawn Carpenter
This Will Be Interesting by E.B. Asher
Two Kinds of Stranger (Eddie Flynn #9) by Steve Cavanagh
The Windsor Affair by Melanie Benjamin

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

There’s SOME pretty in this stack. Dawn of the Firebird, Even After This, The Moonshine Women and Songbird of the Sorrows.  Although, if you look Even After This up in Amazon it has SO MUCH SUBTITLE that it makes me wonder if they’re bragging, complaining or just plain trying too hard. The cover picture’s still pretty, though.

The cover of Happy Ending looks like it would fit right in with Emily Henry’s books. Whether that’s truth or fiction, well, the proof will be in the reading. Eventually.

And INHO the cover of Voidverse is just boring. The book may be fascinating, but that cover isn’t selling it. OTOH, I imagine – I hope – that Darling Daffodils Farm lives up to that VERY evocative cover.

What’s in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
The Complex by Karan Mahajan
Darling Daffodils Farm (Hope Harbor #1) by Brittanee Nicole
Dawn of the Firebird by Sarah Mughal Rana
Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
Even After This (Shelter and Sky #1) by Deborah Clack
Fever Dream (Emerald Lake #1) by Elsie Silver
The Happiness Collector by Crystal King
Happy Ending by Chloe Liese
Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang
The Library of Fates by Margot Harrison
Meet Me in Paris by Kristin Harmel
The Moonshine Women by Michelle Collins Anderson
No Matter What (Dial Delights) by Cara Bastone
Shadows on Sidewalks by James Grady
Songbird of the Sorrows (Myths of the Empyrieos #2) by Braidee Otto
The Tuxedo Society by Paul Rudnick
Under Water by Tara Menon
Voidverse by Damien Ober
Whidbey by T. Kira Madden

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

At least a couple of these are pretty.  Specifically, The Debtor’s Game, If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, and Love Galaxy. Strange Animals is certainly interesting – it also sounds interesting – but not quite pretty.

The book I’m most curious about is Murder on the Champs-Élysées, after yesterday’s In the Spirit of French Murder. It’s kind of a prequel to that whole An American in Paris series, featuring some of the older characters when they were in their prime solving murders. The book I’m most looking forward to is the one I’ve already started, Darksight Dare by Lois McMaster Bujold. I didn’t even know it was coming until it magically appeared as I was putting this post together yesterday, but I’m certainly glad it did!

What’s looking good to you on YOUR shelf this week?

For Review:
All Hail Chaos (Time of Iron #2) by Sarah Rees Brennan
And the Crowd Went Wild (Chicago Stars #11) by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu
The Debtor’s Game by Isabelle Mongeau
Double Happiness by Heather Eng
Dungeons and Danger (Ravensea Castle #2) by Elizabeth Penney
The Final Problem by Arturo Perez-Reverte, translated by Frances Riddle
Go Gentle by Maria Semple
Her Last Breath by Taylor Adams
If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light by Kim Choyeop, translated by Anton Hur
The Keeper (Cal Hooper #1) by Tana French
The Killing Spell by Shay Kauwe
Love Galaxy (Imperial Broadcasts #1) by Sierra Branham
Mistakes Were Made (Story Lake #2) by Lucy Score
A Murder in Hollywood by Michael Crichton
My Dear You by Rachel Khong
Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer
Strange Animals by Jarod K. Anderson
Worse Than a Lie (Beau Lee Cooper #1) by Ben Crump

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Darksight Dare (Penric and Desdemona #16) by Lois McMaster Bujold
Murder on the Champs-Élysées (Belle-Époque #1) by Colleen Cambridge

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

You know what? This bunch of covers isn’t really pretty at all. That’s kind of weird, actually. They’re just not. Some are pretty interesting, but not really pretty. Very weird. Also a lot of red. A lot of literally bloody red.

OTOH, there are three in this stack I definitely picked up for their titles. Specifically The Dragon Has Some Complaints, First Mage on the Moon and Jenny Will Eat You Now. Because they all invoked a “wait, really, WHAT?” reaction and now I need to know exactly what. Because curiosity and books go together like PB&J.

What about  you? What looks interesting in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
All the Hidden Places by Cadwell Turnbull
The Bloody Brick Road (Forbidden Tales) by Maude Royer
The Demon Star by Jesse Aragon
The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell
First Chance by Kasey Lansdale
First Mage on the Moon by Cameron Johnston
How the Story Goes by Andrew Forrester
How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates by Shailee Thompson
Jenny Will Eat You Now by Gillian Daniels
Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson
Love and Other Brain Experiments by Hannah Brohm
Love & Other Monsters by Emily Franklin
Our Cut of Salt by Deena Helm
Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth
So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
Something of a Calling by Zoje Stage
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu
Views by Marc-Uwe Kling
We Call Them Witches by India-Rose Bower
The Winter Witch by Jennifer Chevalier
The Wish by Heather Morris

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

This one is big even for one of my stacks, but it’s because there’s a pile in the middle of the pile. I decided to read the Perveen Mistry historical mystery series, which means I needed to get them all first – because I’m a terrible completist – and the local library was happy to oblige.

Certainly the 700th Stacking the Shelves post here at Reading Reality deserved to have something special in it. 700 represents a TON of books – possibly literally – and an awful lot of Saturdays. I had to check, and if my math is correct, it equals over THIRTEEN YEARS’ worth of Saturdays and Stacks. I’m a bit stunned over here.

Meanwhile, aren’t the covers of Cello’s Gate, A Fortune of Sand and Love and Other Enchantments absolutely gorgeous?

What’s happening in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
Abby Offsides by Anna McCallie
Aphrodite in Pieces by Lauren J.A. Bear
The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly
Before I Knew I Loved You (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #6) by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Cello’s Gate (Sky Pirates of Imperia #1) by Maurice Africh
Daughter of the Wind (Riders of Earth and Sky #1) by Nora Carmody
For Better or Murder (Holy Terrors #4) by Simon R Green
A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys
The Great Game by Arvind Ethan David
Love and Other Enchantments by Masha Zur-Glozman
Matcha on Monday by Michiko Aoyama
Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling
Six Savage Thrones (Queens of Elben #2) by Holly Race
Spellstruck by Martha Waters
Tropesick by Lauren Okie
The Truth About Ruby Cooper by Liz Nugent
The Vampyre Client (Irregular Detective #4) by Jeri Westerson

Borrowed from the Library:
The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry #3) by Sujata Massey
The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry #4) by Sujata Massey
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry #2) by Sujata Massey
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry #5) by Sujata Massey
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry #1) by Sujata Massey

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

Welcome to another interesting stack of “how the shelf stacks”. (And hopefully a stack where the linky works because last week’s didn’t.)

We’re back home. The flooring is just about done although Tuna’s high anxiety hasn’t come down yet and he hasn’t come up from the basement except for  stealth reconnaissance runs late at night. Just wait until you see tomorrow’s picture!

I do have some pretty covers, and some interesting covers, and some pretty interesting covers this time around. IMNSHO the prettiest covers are Lady Tremaine, Where the False Gods Dwell and surprisingly, The Girls Before. I think I just love that shade of blue because the image IN the blue is a bit creepy in a ‘someone is out to get me and this is where they’re waiting’ kind of way. Of course I love the cover of The Sisters of Book Row because books. Lots of books.

The book I picked up for the title is How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle. The one I’m most curious about because I want to see how they manage it is The House of Boleyn. And the book I’m outright most looking forward to is Unpredictable Magic. I never got into the author’s Jane Yellowrock series, but I love her Junkyard Cats so I’m hoping that this one is going to work for me. We’ll see.

We’ll also see what you have to say about YOUR stack this week. Anything that you’re particularly looking forward to reading?

For Review:
Annie Knows Everything by Rachel Wood
Blood Relay by Devon Mihesuah
The Determined by Rachel Rueckert
Frida’s Cook by Florencia Etcheves, translated by Beth Fowler
The Girls Before by Kate Alice Marshall
The House of Boleyn by Tracy Borman
How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle by Alissa DeRogatis
The Insomniacs by Allison Winn Scotch
It Girl by Allison Pataki
Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser
The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown
Marc (Hunter Squad #3) by Anna Hackett
Molka by Monkia Kim
The Open Era by Edward Schmit
Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves
Ruby Falls by Gin Phillips
The Sisters of Book Row by Shelley Noble
Unpredictable Magic by Faith Hunter
Where the False Gods Dwell by Denny S. Bryce
Where the Girls Were by Kate Schatz
Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

I’ve tried to keep the truly creepy covers out of this week’s stack. I’m afraid – I’m very afraid – that I didn’t quite succeed.

But I do have plenty of interesting books – and even a few pretty ones to share!

My favorites this week are The Bureau of Unknown Fates, The Hired Man and The Stars Look Like Home. Bureau has a look I just really like, while both Hired Man and Stars are simply pretty – although I’m a bit worried about the dog on the cover of Stars. An Infinite Love Story‘s cover somehow manages to be both beautiful and bland at the same time and I’m not sure at all how that works.

The one I picked up for the title IS one of the creepy books, although it’s cover merely hints at the creepy parts. It’s The House Built on Alligator Bones, because seriously that title is an attention grabber. The book I’m most curious about is The Very Definition of Love, and the book I’m most looking forward to (re)reading is Anna Hackett’s re-release of In the Devil’s Nebula.

What about you? What’s caught your attention in YOUR stack this week?

For Review:
The Book of Forbidden Words by Louise Fein
The Bureau of Unknown Fates by Gaëlle Nohant
The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes
Chasing the Clouds Away by Debbie Macomber
Dollface by Lindy Ryan
The Fourth Princess by Janie Chang
Helpless by Jessica Knoll
The Hired Man by Sandra Dallas
Hot Girl Murder Club by Ashley Winstead
The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Huneycutt
In Stormy Weather by Chelsea Curto
In the Devil’s Nebula (Phoenix Adventures #2) by Anna Hackett
An Infinite Love Story by Chanel Cleeton
Inharmonious by Tammye Huf
The Johnson Four by Christina Hammonds Reed
The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, translated by Robin Myers
Robbie McNeil’s Hit List by Brianna Heath
The Stars Look Like Home by TJ Klune
The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit
The Wandering Queen by Claire Heywood
We Who Have No Gods (Acheron Order #1) by Liza Anderson

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the official launch page

Please link your STS post in the linky below:

Powered by Linky Tools

Click here to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list…