Recent Book Hauls

So I wanted to talk about some of my recent book hauls! There's been sales and trips to thrift stores and I budgeted super well during the year so I was able to treat myself this summer!


From BookOutlet's recent sale, I bought:


Held Against You by Season Vining
The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Freakboy by Kristin Elizabeth Clark
Guardian by Alex London
Zodiac by Romina Russell
The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat
Iluminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman
The Body in the Woods by April Henry


From thrift stores I recently got:


Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren
Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
The Forsaken by Lisa M Stasse
Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Fateful by Claudia Gray
Reached by Ally Condie
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Something Strange and Deadly (ARC edition) by Susan Dennard
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice (writing as A.N Roquelaure



I know you're all like, Wren, you already have about a million books on your bookshelves that are unread. And yes, that is quite true. I open up about my book buying addiction in this post.


However, while I keep buying books, I don't think it's too much to worry about as long as I have enough room in my home and I regulate my spending. Essentially, most of my personal or non-essential spending is on books.... so what others would spend on makeup or video games or going to the movie theater, I spend on books. Considering it like that, I've come to realize that so long as I budget efficiently, I have nothing to worry about. And yeah I budgeted super well, as I mentioned. Plus all of these books were on sale in one way or another. So.....yeah.

Lots of these books have awesome covers. But I really like the cover of Zodiac! I can't stop looking at it.


I got lots of sequels that I've been wanting to read, so that's great too. And lots of books I've had on my to-read list for years have shown up in thrift stores, so that's awesome as well.



My question to all of you: what did you get in your latest books haul?