The Top Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

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The Top Ten Most Recent Additions to My Bookshelf

1. Touched With Fire: Morris B. Abram and the Battle Against Racial and Religious Discrimination by David E. Lowe

So excited to read this! The author is my former neighbor and good friend's dad, so I'm biased, but he gave an incredible, well-attended talk at Politics & Prose bookstore in D.C. and just won the National Jewish Book Award for Biography!

My parents made sure that I got much of my Hanukkah wishlist:

2. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

3. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

4. Nothing Fancy by Alison Roman

My parents actually found a signed copy of this at Barnes & Noble!

5. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman

My other latest additions were some thrift store finds:

6. Pretty in Plaid by Jen Lancaster

She always makes me laugh!

7. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Found this in the thrift store just in time for my reread--perfect since I already owned The Golden Compass and The Amber Spyglass.

And a few bought with an old B&N giftcard:

8. The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab

9. To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers

10. Several blank journals

Comments

Lydia said…

Touched With Fire sounds like an amazing read! I'm going to try to find a copy of it as well.

My TTT .

January 21, 2020 at 9:01 PM

Arya @ Arya's Fangirl Lexicon said…

I haven't heard of many of these books before but I have read Near Witch and it was really good! I haven't read a lot of V.E. Scwaabs books but I really like what I have read.
Looks like you have a lot of interesting things to read. Thanks again for stopping by!

January 22, 2020 at 1:15 AM

Judy Krueger said…

So many new additions! Happy reading.

February 2, 2020 at 1:25 PM

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