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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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There’s a little bit of everything in this stack!

The three prettiest covers also manage to be pretty different from each other. I’m looking at Murder on Charity Lane, Pretenders to the Throne of God (that whole series has gorgeous covers!), and Thistlemarsh. They’re all pretty, but they are definitely not pretty the same.

There are two books in this stack that I absolutely did pick for their titles. I couldn’t resist either The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives or Vile Lady Villains. Although I think there might be a question – at least based on the cover – whether or not those “Murderers’ Wives” ALSO qualify as Vile Lady Villains. I’m looking forward to finding out.

The book I’m most looking forward to is the next Hawthorne and Horowitz book, A Deadly Episode. Although I’ll probably wait until the audiobook is available to start it.

Last but not least, I’m in the middle of Propaganda Girls in audio right now. I went hunting for a book to qualify for the Goodreads ‘Her Story’ Achievement for Women’s History Month, and that one literally jumped out at me. I’m about halfway through and the audio is every bit as awesome as the women featured in the story.

For Review:
The Dead Can’t Make a Living (Taipei Night Market #5) by Ed Lin
A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne and Horowitz #6) by Anthony Horowitz (book + audio)
Every Version of You by Natalie Messier
Five by Ilona Bannister
Lidie by Jane Smiley
Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worley
The Midnight Train (Midnight World #2) by Matt Haig
Murder on Charity Lane (Marigold Cottages Mystery #2) by Jo Nichols
A Necromancer’s Guide to Arranged Marriages (Scandals of the Gifted #3) by Katy Nyquist
Null Entity (Volatile Memory #2) by Seth Haddon
Only One for the Orc (Claw Haven #3) by Isabelle Taylor
The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee
Season of the Serpent (Nameless Republic #3) by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The Secret Lives of Murderers’ Wives by Elizabeth Arnott
The Shippers by Katherine Center
Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan
Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou

Purchased from Amazon/Audible/Etc.:
Propaganda Girls by Lisa Rogak (book + audio)

Borrowed from the Library:
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham #2) by Benjamin Stevenson
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham #3) by Benjamin Stevenson
Pretenders to the Throne of God (Tyrant Philosophers #4) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

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This is an interesting stack – in a case where interesting isn’t even a euphemism for something else. It’s just interesting. It’s not particularly creepy, which is kind of a relief after last week’s Meat Bees. I’m still shuddering at THAT cover.

There’s also not a lot of truly ‘pretty’ in this stack, except for the very pretty Kin along with A Ghastly Catastrophe, which has a rather beautiful cover for such an ominous title.

The Bark Before the Dawn has a cute cover, an equally cute title, and looks like a delightful cozy mystery. (I’ve had two mysteries – or mystery-ish books this week with really great dogs so this one looks particularly appealing right now.)

The book I’m really, really curious about is Star Shipped, both because I enjoy the author but particularly because both the blurb and the cover are giving me vibes of very ‘old skool’ Star Trek fanfiction and I’m curious to see if the story goes where it looks like it’s going.

We’ll certainly see – about this whole lot of interesting covers – in the reading weeks ahead.

But what about your stack? What’s catching your eye or piquing your curiosity? Inquiring minds want to know!

For Review:
Accidentally Wedded to a Werewolf (Claw Haven #1) by Isabelle Taylor
Away to Me by Patricia B. McConnell
A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford
The Bark Before the Dawn (Magical Menagerie Mystery #4) by Sarah Fox
The Cure by Pedro Urvi
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4) by Benjamin Stevenson
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell #10) by Deanna Raybourn
The Halter by Darby McDevitt
Here Lie All the Boys Who Broke My Heart by Emma Simmerman
In Her Defense by Philippa Malicka
Killing Me Softly by Sandie Jones
Kin by Tayari Jones
The Midnight Carousel by Fiza Saeed McLynn
The Primrose Murder Society by Stacy Hackney
Royal Spin by Omid Scobie & Robin Benway
The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus
Star Shipped by Cat Sebastian
The Starter Ex by Mia Sosa
This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman
The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski
A Whiff of Murder (Sixth Sense #1) by Angela M. Sanders

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There’s way more ‘pretty creepy’ than there is pretty in this stack. The one seriously pretty cover is What We Are Seeking. Although Alibi by Accident, Lost in the Summer of ’69, The Paris Match and The Pie & Mash Detective Agency certainly have cute covered. (Ahem, so to speak, pun intended and all that.)

Creepy is creeping all over this stack, between Headlights, Meat Bees and Wretch. The cover of Meat Bees is particularly shudder inducing, isn’t it?

The books I’m most curious about in this stack are the aforementioned Lost in the Summer of ’69 and The Pie & Mash Detective Agency, while the book I’m most looking forward to is obviously Fury in Death. But I also have one in the stack that I’m looking both forward and back to, and that’s At Star’s End. I read it over a decade ago, when it first came out, and loved it. It’s a science fiction romance that I’ve repeatedly referred to over the years because it simply epitomized the genre. The author just got her rights back and is republishing the entire Phoenix Adventures series (YAY!) with new covers and some added – or added back – content. I’m definitely looking forward to rereading these long-standing favorites!

For Review:
Alibi by Accident (Verona Montero #1) by Kayleigh Suggett
American Fantasy by Emma Straub
Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
At Star’s End (Phoenix Adventures #1) by Anna Hackett
Fireflies in Winter by Eleanor Shearer
Fury in Death (In Death #63) by J.D. Robb
The Haul by Gary Phillips
Headlights by CJ Leede
How to Get Away with Murder by Rebecca Philipson
I’m Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home by Fergus Craig
Lost in the Summer of ’69 by Eliza Knight
The Man by Laura Sims
Meat Bees by Dane Erbach
Motor City Love Song (Dial Delights) by Lisa Peers
Nasty Little Secrets by Gabbie Hanks
The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn
The Pie & Mash Detective Agency by J.D. Brinkworth
Someone Else’s Husband by Kimberly McCreight
What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca
You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees

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