Great Book/eBook Sale Alert

Found a good source of cheap books? We want to know!

My favorite site is Bookoutlet.com.

While I vowed to curb my book purchasing, I simply had to add 30 more at the end of the year. Some titles were a mere $1.99 each!

Verso Books, "the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world", is offering its e-books at 90% off from now until January 1st:

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1802-all-ebooks-are-90-off-until-jan-1st

ETA: I purchased 21 e-books for less than $45!

Is this just for eBook sources?

If not, I highly recommend bookfinder.com. If a book is out there, it's probably on this site.

>4 fuzzi: I think it's for both e and paper books.

Paper books -- I like www.betterworldbooks.com. They are having a salenow through Jan. 5 at 11 a.m.
20% off 4+ used books, 40% off 8+ used books, items from their bargain bin that ship from their warehouse. Their regular prices are good to begin with.

They have e-books now, too, but I never tried them and they are not in the special sale.

>3 kidzdoc: Darryl, thanks so much for that link! I bought five, for just £8.90 :-)

>6 susanj67: You're welcome, Susan! I came away with 22 books after a relatively quick perusal of the Verso Books site, so I may return there later this week and look at the online catalog in more detail.

>2 Whisper1: The Boxing Day sale at bookoutlet was irresistible. After just telling myself "no more Books" I went ahead and got a little crazy there. Not 30 books crazy, I think I went 24 books crazy.

On Amazon US, 7 books in the Best American series are on sale today for $1.99. Here is the link.

>9 sturlington: - Shannon - Thanks for the head's up. I got the Best Short Stories and Best Essays.

I don't know how long it will last, but A.L. Kennedy's The Blue Book from the 2012 Orange long list is a Kindle $1.99 deal. It doesn't look like it will be for everybody; it may even not be for me.

UK Kindle (I wrongly posted this in 2014)

Kindle UK monthly deals

Oxford World's Classics edition of War and Peace £1.29
Lynne Reid Banks, Dark Quartet about the Brontes (including Branwell presumably) 99p
Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements 99p

I have it already but Peter May's Entry Island is currently on offer at 99p - this isn't a monthly deal so might not last so long

US Kindle from Lesmel

$1.99 AMZ K US:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The Last Policeman
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
A Morbid Taste for Bones 1st Brother Cadfael.

Found the following Kindle books for 99¢ each on Amazon.ca today (96¢ on Amazon.com)

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
McTeague by Frank Norris
Dubliners by James Joyce
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
The American by Henry James
Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and The River; You Can't go Home Again Three Thomas Wolfe Masterpieces. ($1.99)

In fact, doing a search in the Kindle Store with the search term "HarperPerennial Classics" will land you with dozens of pages of classics priced 99¢ or 96¢ each depending on whether you're in Canada or the US.

>12 elkiedee: Thanks for adding those! :)

>13 Smiler69: What an interesting tip. thanks.

Snagged Dominion by C.J. Sansom on Amazon US for Kindle for $2.99 today. It had been $14, I think, so this is a good bargain.

>16 sturlington: Thanks for the heads up about the C.J. Sansom books, I picked up three.

5 Regency Romances by Georgette Heyer on sale on US Amazon for Kindle today--$1.99 each.

>18 sturlington: a few more details:
For 1.99USD & 1.99CDN Georgette Heyer:
The Grand Sophy
The Toll-Gate
The Corinthian
Pistols for Two
April Lady

The above and some others are £2.62 at amazon.co.uk. Doesn't seem like nearly the bargain to me.

UK Kindle - Philip Kerr's January Window is 39p

The ebook of Canada by Richard Ford is $1.99 today.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006FO3ERQ/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=bookperk-20

The Wolf’s Tooth by Cristina Eisenberg, FREE:

http://www.amazon.com/Wolfs-Tooth-Keystone-Predators-Biodiversity-ebook/dp/B005C...

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is 2.99 on Amazon US.

$1.99 for Patricia McKillip's book of short stories, Wonders of the Invisible World, at Amazon for Kindle

Free at Feedbooks.com, Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

For those within an easy day's drive of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, this free book warehouse is open every Saturday and Sunday of the year:
The Book Thing of Baltimore
Needless to say, at these prices (everything's FREE), I visit this venue often. :D

P.S. This is also a good place to donate unwanted books.

>25 SqueakyChu: Oh. my. goodness. Just over an hour from home, how did I not know about this? Will have to check it out sometime. Thanks!

>26 lauralkeet: You're welcome. I practically live there! ;)

>25 SqueakyChu: and >26 lauralkeet: - The Book Thing is awesome! When I lived in DC, my friend and I would go about once a quarter. And two years ago, after my sister-in-law's wedding in DC, I insisted on an overnight stay in Baltimore so I could go there...

I want a "The Book Thing" in my part of the world!

There's one in Sacramento and a new one in - Oakland, I think, East Bay somewhere anyway. I want to go...and I don't, the last thing I need is more books...

Verso Books is offering a free "sampler" of extracts from four of their "second-wave feminist" texts: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1821-feminist-radical-thinkers-a-sampler This is for all formats. You can even mail the Kindle one to your Kindle!

Rick Steves' Europe Through The Back Door for 2015 is $2.99 at Amazon as one of their Daily Deals. Seriously thinking of getting it, just in case I manage to figure out a way to afford to do any traveling this year. http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_170810_131725270_pe_row1_b3/?ASIN=B00N...

Sarah Waters' latest, The Paying Guests is currently $4.20 for Kindle (US).

Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth is today's daily deal (£0.99) on Amazon UK.

>34 souloftherose: Excellent, I've been eyeing it up for ages and not taking the plunge. Yay!

>35 lunacat: Me too!

>36 souloftherose: Hurray! Who knew dithering would sometimes pay off ;)

That's made my morning, thanks Heather for calling it to our attention!

Big day today for the US Kindle people! I haven't read them, but the Miss Buncle books have gotten some love here on LT and the first two are on sale today for $1.99 each.

Also, the first book in a series that Mary (Storeetler) and I have been warbling about is on special as well for $1.99, The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin. Since I sent my copy to Richard, I may very well go ahead and put this on my Kindle.

>38 ronincats: I loved the first Miss Buncle book, have not yet read the second. :)

NARNIA ALERT!!

The Wisdom of Narnia is USD $.99 today:

http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Narnia-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B008LUYS68/?_bbid=78972&...

Amazon UK: Georgina Ferry's biography of Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel Prize winning chemist, peace campaigner, tutor to Mrs Thatcher, and grandmother to 3 of my cousins (my aunt was married to her son), is £1.79 on Kindle today, don't know how long for.

In the Amazon UK monthly kindle deals:

The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Once and Future King by T. H. White

I already had The Thorn Birds in both Kindle and paperback (VMC) versions and actually, 3 of the others, but I bought 4 of those anyway. I will clear out the paperbacks for the TH White and Elizabeth Strout when I come across them.

If you've read and loved Pink Rabbit, it was the subject of the most recent Radio 4 Bookclub programme, which you can download as a podcast. If you've not, time to catch up.

>43 elkiedee: I was traumatised by Pink Rabbit when I read it as a child, so won't be picking that one up! I think I was too young for it as the loss of the soft toy devastated me. :(

I think Anna (or Judith Kerr) got over losing her rabbit.

Several of the Booker longlist have just come down to £1.99, including

History of the Rain
Us
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
How to be Both.

Also some other quite recent literary books at £1.99

Elizabeth is Missing
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Children Act
H is for Hawk
The Book of Strange New Things
The Unexpected Professor
An Everywhere
Bark
Lila
Everything I Never Told You

Historical crime

Lamentation

A children's book for £2.99 which I thought was great, and a very respectful and plausible sequel

Five Children on the Western Front

And more £1.99 bargains:

The Paying Guests (grrr, but at least I read this one after paying so much more!)
Her
The Bone Clocks
J (one I don't think I want to buy, but other people might)
All the Light We Cannot See
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Nora Webster
Not That Sort of Girl
The Wake
The Zone of Interest
Please Mr Postman
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

And another one, very excited about this after hearing him on the radio, and Darryl's recommendation - another Indian-American doctor turned brilliant writer:

Being Mortal £1.99 (and it only came out in October).

Also, Caroline Moorehead, Village of Secrets

For those of you on iBooks, there are some interesting books on sale for reasonable prices including A Natural History of Dragons and Medicus, both for $3.00. Some others too ...

Kindle all Things Bright and Beautiful USD2.99, natural History of Dragons USD1.99, Cider With Rosie USD1.99, the Children USD1.99.

Kindle deal alert for the US: Both of Tan Twan Eng's books The Gift of Rain and The Garden of Evening Mists are $1.99 each, today only.

Kindle UK: 20 Paddington Bear books at 99p each. It looks as if some are the illustrated chapter books and some are picture books (not so great on Kindle though I suppose they'd be better on a tablet - but I do still believe that picture books are best in print).

>51 Chatterbox: - I was very excited to see that and went to get them, only to discover I already owned both. Thank God Amazon tells me when I've already ordered a Kindle book!

I ran right over to Ammy and bought The Gift of Rain which I very much want to read. Thank you!

Oh MY! All you Gail Carriger fans! The three books of her Finishing School series that are out are ALL on sale for the Kindle at $1.99 each, a real bargain!!

Sula by Toni Morrison is also available for $1.99 on Kindle (US).

>55 ronincats: ooh. I only owned the 3rd. Thanks for the tip!

Kindle UK: Laura Lippman's Baltimore Blues is FREE (grrr, I paid £1.99 just a few weeks ago, though I got many others in the series for a bit less - I have print copies but I plan to give away those as I kindle them.

The Crossover 1.99USD amazon

Clockwork by Philip Pullman is the Audible Deal of the Day. It's a novella and just 1h30, and having just finished listening to it, I highly recommend it. Definitely worth it at just 99¢!

Kindle UK - Alan Garner's The Lad of the Gad and A Bag of Moonshine are 99p each (hat tip to the Amazon forum for the heads-up)

Today, A True Novel, a Japanese retelling of Wuthering Heights by Minae Mizumura for $2.99 is the US Kindle deal. It's huge, but I thought it was worth a look.

There's a scifi, fantasy and horror "pay-what-you-want" bundle from Humble Bundle. Includes Jacaranda: A Novella of the Clockwork Century by Cherie Priest, Inside Job by Connie Willis, and The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart, as well as works by Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Caitlin R. Kieman and Jack Vance, among others.

Yeah, and what gripes me is the new Tim Powers novella that I paid big bucks for is on it! I'll probably buy the collection anyhow, just to have the great Barry Hughart trio (even though I have them in paper and wouldn't dream of getting rid of them) and I don't have that Willis either.

UK Kindle In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower is £1.19. It's a novel about a young Australian woman - from what I've heard on the radio (it's currently Book at Bedtime) she sounds like the sort of writer Virago Modern Classics might have published. Text Publishing has reissued her first 4 novels, and published this one which she wrote and then put away in 1971, last year.

The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman is a Kindle Daily Deal in the UK for 99p.

>66 lunacat: aarrgh, in the UK...

UK: One of today's Kindle Daily Deals is Complications by Atul Gawande, £1.59

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit is available for 99p on Amazon UK at the moment.

UK Kindle Kazuo Ishiguro's books are £2.13 each, except Never Let Me Go at £1.19 and his newest book which isn't on offer at all.

Also Tana French's first in series In the Woods is 99p

>63 Storeetllr: So, I went ahead and got the following eBooks for $15:



Not sure how much longer this "sale" is going to go on for.

Lynn Knight, Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue is on offer for £1.19 - it's a family memoir by a former Virago editor, and I really enjoyed reading it a few years ago.

The University of Chicago's free ebook for this month ~ Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontë’s Grave ~ sounds really interesting! According to a blurb by Shelf Awareness for Readers on the UC website:

"“Wryly funny, deeply thoughtful musings on literary pilgrimage—why readers visit writers’ houses, and what, if anything, we gain by it.… Part travel memoir, part literary inquiry, with a large dose of history and frequent dashes of dry humor, this book will appeal to bookworms, Anglophiles and anyone who loves to visit historical sites but rolls their eyes at the overpriced rubbish in the gift shop.”

Here's the link.

>73 Storeetllr: Yep, I already snagged that one. It looks really good!

>73 Storeetllr: Thanks for the link, that looks good fun!

UK Kindle: The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor, published summer 2014 is £2.99, as is The American Boy. His previous novel The Scent of Death is £1.49.

>72 elkiedee: Thanks for this - I remember it being published and then promptly forgot it again - have snapped up a copy.

I also seem to have acquired copies of The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (I have a pb copy but it's getting tatty) and Enid Blyton:-) They're both in this month's UK kindle offers - £1.49 and £1.19 respectively.

Just got The Shining for Kindle for $1.99 (Amazon US).

UK Kindle freebie: Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis and Mayhem in Moscow - I heard something on the radio, can't remember what, that prompted me to add this to my wishlist, and I think it was about £6 before.

NYRB Winter Sale: http://www.nybooks.com/books/wintersale/

Station Eleven is $2.99 on Kindle (US). It was recently nominated for the 2015 Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction.

Ooooh, thanks, Laura!

I had eReaderIQ tracking it -- and pounced on it!

My eReaderIQ alert was slower than yours! just got it...

A Man Called Ove is $1.99 on Kindle's U.S. Daily Deal today.

Susan Howatch's Cornish family saga Penmarric is £1.99 - I loved this so much when I was about 16 or so....

Alan Garner's fantasy classic The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is 99p

Polly Shulman's The Grimm Legacy is 99p - fun fantasy set in a library of things for older children/young teenagers and adults who like reading kids' books - I have to review the second book in a loose series, I probably won't get round to a proper review of this one as I bought it on a previous offer so no obligation, but it's definitely recommended.

I, Claudius and Claudius the God are on the Kindle U.S. Daily Deal today for $1.99 each.

The new Humble Bundle collection is of Post-Apocalyptic books. See all the offerings here:
www.humblebundle.com/books
While I already have some of them (Gather Darkness, Wool, Parable of the Sower, and Damnation Alley), I still think I might get this collection.

The Cider House Rules is $1.99 for Kindle & Nook in the US

Oh look, a new source of books to stalk: http://booksalefinder.com/

>90 lesmel: aarrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>90 lesmel:, >91 fuzzi: Joining you in the aarrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and raising you a couple of !!

>91 fuzzi: Heh. I love how the "big sales" get listed no matter the state. Suuuuure, just torture me with the sales I can't go to.

The Bees by Laline Paull is currently $1.99 on Kindle (US).

University of Chicago Press free ebook for April: Hybrid: The History and Science of Plant Breeding

>95 lesmel: Annoyingly, it seems to only come in PDF - I much prefer epub. Looks like an interesting book, though (I got it anyway, of course).

>94 katiekrug: Thanks, Katie!

>94 katiekrug: and >97 kidzdoc: Bought with "one click". They make it so easy!

Kent Haruf's wonderful Plainsong is $1.99 on Kindle and Nook today.

>99 Copperskye:: I'm not in the US and bought it here, I think for a similar bargain price - and it was one of the best books I read last year. So don't miss a chance to buy it (and read it!)

Amazon UK Kindle: one of today's daily deals is Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia by Peter Pomerantsev, at £1.19

UK Kindle offers: monthly reads are up - goodies include

Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows £2.59
several Sebastian Barry books including his most recent The Temporary Gentleman £2.59
Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front £1.69 - revisits the E Nesbit classic, Charlotte (charl08) and I both loved it
Patrick Gale, A Perfectly Good Man £1.99
Joseph Kanon, Istanbul Passage £1.99

>102 elkiedee: Thanks for the tip. I've downloaded Five Children on the Western Front.

Also amongst the monthly deals are:

The City & The City by China Mieville £0.99
Old Man's War by John Scalzi £0.99
Deerskin by Robin McKinley £1.89
Philomena by Martin Sixsmith £0.99
The Giver by Lois Lowry £1.99
The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson £0.99
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson £1.49

There's also an Easter sale on kindle books on Amazon UK which includes The Lodger by Louise Treger for £0.99.

New Humble Bundle for books -- Sci-Fi this cycle (ends April 15). Includes:

The Dark Lady by Resnick
The Golden Queen by Farland
Lifeline by Anderson and Beason

Fantastic historical fiction - Dreamland by Kevin Baker - is $1.99 on Kindle (US). Don't know for how long...

>105 katiekrug: Your touchstone goes to the wrong book.

Thanks! Fixed.

And Kevin Baker's Paradise Alley is $0.99 on Amazon, too.

>108 Copperskye: - I didn't realize it was still on sale, Joanne! I grabbed that one a bit ago even though I already had a paperback edition of it. Haven't read it yet. It's about NY during the Civil War, if I remember correctly. Both books are part of a trilogy dealing with historical NYC. The third is Striver's Row which I think is set in Harlem in the first half of the 20th c.

Anyway, I can only vouch for the first one!

>109 katiekrug: I've owned Dreamland for years and now I have Paradise Alley. I wonder what the odds are for me to ever get to either one? :)

Joanne, I think you'd really like Dreamland. It's not short but it reads quickly!

>111 katiekrug: I'll keep it in mind - thanks Katie!

Ship Breaker and Drowned Cities by Bacigalupi - each $2.99 AMZ US.

>113 lesmel: Thanks for the tip!

Btw, the deal is valid on Amazon.ca also.

Am not sure why the George R.R. Martin 4-book bundle on AMZ US is $21.99 when the FIVE-book bundle is $19.99...but they are both there. eReaderIQ recommends waiting for the 5-book set to go back to $9.99 before you buy it.

I see that kind of thing on Amazon a lot for books and even more for DVD box sets. I assume not many people still buy the 4 volume one and it's not being promoted or having the price varied. Not in the US or interested in George R R Martin but even $19.99 seems like quite a good deal for those who want those books.

Today's US Kindle Daily Deal is The Translator by Nina Schuyler. I've never heard of her, but the premise looks interesting, and the review of caffeinatedlife, whose reviews I've read before, looks encouraging.

The Hum and the Shiver is $2.99 on Kindle US today.

Amazon has the Louise Penny books for Kindle US at $2.99 today!

Do *NOT* miss this event!

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Gaithersburg Book Festival
Saturday, May 16th, 2015
10am-6pm
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Come celebrate books and authors!
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This is Gaithersburg's answer to the National Book Festival. It was set up like the "old" National Book Festival (i.e. outside in tents). At first, it was just local authors, but now it seems to be attracting some more known authors. It keeps growing from year to year. The festival is free - with free parking.

Last year they had a shuttle bus from the Shady Grove Metro. Check the link to see if they have it this year again.

My BookCrossing group will be there giving away hundreds of FREE (the price is right), gently-used books to fairgoers. If you get there, look for me and come over to say "Hi!". I'll be wearing a badge that says "SqueakyChu". :D

>120 SqueakyChu: sometimes LT needs a Like button. Sometimes (not often) I wish I wasn't on the left coast. Sounds like a great thing. Have fun.

>121 RBeffa:

It's always fun. I'm very much looking forward to it.

Verso Books has 50% off its books about walking until Friday 1 May http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/982-verso-s-guide-to-political-walking-50-off-un...

Not fiction/for reading, but free and interesting (to some) - one free technical book a day for the next couple weeks. Today's is how to develop apps for Kinect.

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Don’t Look, Don’t Touch, Don’t Eat is U of Chicago Press' May free book.

Kindle books. Fingers crossed - it looks as if at least some books and offers are going through again from Amazon UK to Amazon.com.

I've just bought Gunpowder Gardens which is currently 99p/$1.55 and finding it very enjoyable.

If you are a Garth Nix fan, Sabriel is $1.99US at AMZ Kindle.

For anyone reading their way through the Poldark series, book 3, Jeremy Poldark is currently £1.89 from Amazon.uk.

>128 CDVicarage: Thanks for that! It's on special on the US and Canadian Amazon sites as well!

Lost World @ Kindle US for $3.99

The Sisters Brothers is $1.99 for Kindle US.

Verso Books has 90% off all their ebooks until midnight EST on Thursday. They have multiple formats. http://www.versobooks.com/

The Magicians for $2.99 Kindle US

Donna Tartt's The Little Friend & Robert MacFarlane's The Wild Places are UK Kindle daily deals today.

Alice Walker's The Color Purple is $0.09 Kindle US. Nine cents? That's an odd price point; but OKAY!

Why $.09? Perhaps an error we can take advantage of.....

Beggars in Spain is free from Phoenix Pick for (the little that is left of) June

Doña Barbara is the free ebook from U of Chicago press in July.

I think Amazon UK must be having a Kindle summer sale though I've not seen any such announcement yet, and the monthly bargains are better than normal this month too. The many offers include:

Small Wars by Sadie Jones £1.99
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld £1.99
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky £1.99
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans £1.99
Anita and Me by Meera Syal £1.99
and lots of others.

The Graveyard Book is on sale at Amazon, Kobo, and Google - maybe Apple too - for 1.99 in the US.

Thanks to the Millions I just downloaded the e-book Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, a collection of essays in which the author "takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women." Amazon US is selling it for $2.99.

Disclaimer by Renee Knight is currently $1.99 on Kindle (US). Not quite as good as Gone Girl, but in the same vein as GG and The Girl on the Train. A good buy at that price.

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy was put on my wishlist by a number of positive reviews here on LT. It's a Kindle daily special today for $1.99

>143 ronincats: Thanks Roni! I checked the UK Amazon and it's £3.99 here, which is considerably cheaper than the last time I looked, so I snapped it up.

>143 ronincats: Thanks Roni!

Amazon UK daily deal includes the first seven of Winston Graham's Poldark novels for £1.19.

So annoyed. Daily deals weren't shown yet when I went to bed last night, and I got quite exited when i saw these, only to find it had ended and then realise! it was 12:05 am! and for some reason most offers are repeated frequently, but the deal I missed when I was ill never was, and I suspect this one won't be either.

The wonderful and moving Breath Eyes Memory by Edwidge Danticat is on sale for Kindle (US) for $1.99.

The third book in Robin Stevens' Wells and Wong series, First Class Murder, is just out and has been reduced to £2.62/$4.08 - from £3.99 yesterday.

Kindle - Hilary Bradt's Connemara Mollie and Dingle Peggy* are currently £1.98/$3.08 each. IIRC, Mollie got a very positive review from Jane Badger - I'm looking forward to them.

*I've added them to LT so touchstones should activate tomorrow.

Dragon Seed By Pearl S. Buck -- $1.99 Kindle US

Joyland by Stephen King -- $2.99 on Kindle US today

Also, the first two volumes of Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors are $2.99 each at all the usual ebook outlets that I checked (Kindle US, Nook, Kobo). I've not read these but I just bought them. I like the premise and there are some authors included that I've been meaning to try but haven't gotten to, and others that I tried but didn't click.

UK kindle FREE - Europe's Tragedy: History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H Wilson, published by Penguin, an account of 17th century Europe.

The first book in the Poldark series is only $2.99 today, here: https://www.bookbub.com/books/ross-poldark-by-winston-graham?ebook_deal

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

All are $1.99 on Kindle (US).

>156 katiekrug: - Ack! I was forced to buy Station Eleven! Shame on me! Also saw that The Martian is only $1.99, too. Fortunately have sworn self to get 'real' copy of TM.

No shame, Charlotte!

Here are some more on sale:

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Some are $1.99 and some are $2.99 on Kindle (US).

There is a Nook sale here and Amazon Uk is price matching for Kindle users

http://www.nook.com/gb/search?scategory_id=10000013629

offers include Doris Lessing, The Sweetest Dream' and Larry's Party by Carol Shields, but there's quite a variety, mostly £1.99, some 99p and some £2.99

Sweetland by Michael Crummey (which several 75ers have loved) is currently $0.99 for Kindle (US).

I just put a copy of Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph on my Kindle. I think it's part of the September monthly sale, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, it is $2.99.

Barnes & Noble is offering a free e-book of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire today.

...which is the book the musical is based on.

I liked the book but loathed the musical.

Me too (well, not loathed exactly, just thought it was mediocre and was cross with them for one particular meaning changing plot alteration that felt like they were wimping out)

>164 amanda4242: I loved the musical and loathed the book. lol

>166 lesmel: That seems to be the common reaction, in my experience. Did you read the book or see the musical first? I'm curious because I've found that people generally prefer the version of Wicked they encountered first.

#167 I think you're right (I read it quite a while before the musical happened, having loved confessions of an ugly stepsister first).

>167 amanda4242: I read the book first. I wish I'd reviewed the book when I first read it b/c I have only a vague memory of loathing...not why. Then again, I gave it 3 stars...which is pretty much my default rating for 95ish% of what I've read.

The audiobook version of H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald is today's Audible Daily Deal at $3.95.

http://www.audible.com

Several Algonquin Press books are $1.99 on Amazon Kindle (US) today, including Water for Elephants and A Reliable Wife. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_al_bw_srch?node=133140011,!133141011,154606011&am...

Anna and her Daughters is 99p/$1.53 at Amazon at the moment.

Kindle UK - The Golden Age of Murder is down to £2.19. For me, this was a wee bit slow-paced, but well worth persevering with. The author is a huge fan of Golden Age crime fiction and the book is a good solid history of the early years of The Detection Club.

Invasion of the Tearling is $1.99 US Kindle today :)

Been meaning to post this for a few days...

Many of you know blackdogbooks and his reviews. He and a group of reviewers here on LT have put together a self-published collection of their reviews and are offering it online. Cost of the book is completely donated to a charity for Downs Syndrome kids. Here are the details:

A bunch of us LT'ers that I correspond with were inspired by the site and our own conversations to compile a book of our reviews - And we have self-published it. We're pretty excited about the project. All the proceeds will be donated to a charity for down syndrome. All of the reviews come from LT'ers like you and the range of books/literature is pretty wide, as is the style of reviews. I contributed several reviews/essays.

It feels weird telling you about this, because I've gotten those shameless author marketing PMs from guys trolling their wares - I hope you don't see this as something like that. We just wanted to let other LT'ers who love books and reviews to know about it and I thought I'd send this to you. I've posted the information about the book on my thread on the 75'er group but I thought I'd let you know about it directly and if you feel it appropriate you can repost somewhere else in the group that you think might reach more LT'ers like us who won't be offended by the suggestion. Again, only if you feel it appropriate.

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Anyway, here are some links to get to the book:

The RunningGirlPress web site: http://runninggirlpress.com/ - has ordering links in it, and pages about the book.

and here are direct links:
https://www.createspace.com/5760004 - to order the paperback book
https://www.createspace.com/Special/Help/Order/BookShippingRates.jsp - so you can look up the shipping rates for shipping through CreateSpace

https://solla-carrock.selz.com/ for ordering an electronic book (ePub, kindle (mobi) or pdf)

We are also on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Fabulous-Opera-Tropic-Ideas/dp/098882924X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT....

And one of the book designers ever created calendars:

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/969428?__r=603760 square calendar (8 x 8)
http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/969442?__r=603760 standard calendar (8.25 x 10.75)

>174 drneutron: This strikes me as bizarre

I'm sorry this got flagged - I was hoping it would be of interest to the community. Mac's been a good reviewer over the years and I thought it would be useful for folks.

>176 drneutron: I didn't flag it. It just seemed contrary to the open spirit of places like LT (even if intended for a good cause).

I'm ok with the flagging - if the judgement of the community is that this crosses a line, I can accept that.

I'd always gotten the impression that those who were really active on LT could mention if they or another LT-er wrote something. (As opposed to the trolls who join just to peddle their wares.) Maybe all the direct links to buy it were a bit much. BTW, nowhere does it state the name of the book . . .

I am really surprised that anyone in the 75-ers would flag one of your posts within the 75 Challenge group threads, Jim! Also, this thread being for book sale notices, I'm not sure why it's objectionable to post it here, of all places.

I counter-flagged it, Jim, as I agree with you.

Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley's later retelling of Beauty and the Beast, is available on Kindle for $1.99 right now, as are Sunshine, The Hero and the Crown, and The Outlaws of Sherwood.

I am the one that brought it to the attention of the Spam Fighters group. See http://www.librarything.com/topic/193020#5297005 and forward for discussion about why the message was flagged.

>180 ronincats: How do you counter-flag?

>181 lesmel: Still agree with Jim.
>182 tymfos: Click on the blue "More" underneath the message, click on "Flag", and you then have the option to flag or counter-flag the message.

>183 ronincats: I did. Any other thread, maybe I could see someone throwing a flag. But this is the book sale thread . . .

This is the book sale thread, not the books for sale thread. I didn't think Jim quite crossed the line - he's not offering for sale his own book. so technically I'd think he was within the allowable postings, particularly if he mentioned it on his own thread ferinstance. Spreading it around tho is where one ventures into spammy promotion areas. my tuppence worth.

Big 'ol counter flag from me and I popped that puppy on my wishlist.

I want to make sure this doesn't become a divisive issue. Everybody here has good motives - me, the flaggers, the counter-flaggers, everyone. In hindsight, I should have summarized and then asked interested folks to contact me privately for more info.

By the way, I get why some folks think this is flaggable. It was borderline, and I sympathize with the desire to keep LT the community we love.

I saw all the new posts here and I thought there must be some really great books on sale but now I see just one book for sale. Works for me – looks great!

I see your flag and counter-flag it. Had it been someone not associated with the 75 group, maybe, considering the links. But probably not, seeing what the book is. But flagging Jim?? Please….

Well, I'm as susceptible to bad judgement as the next... :)

I can't believe this became such a big issue. The book is written by members of our community, it's for a good cause, this is a thread where we look for book sales, we've all seen spam and there was nothing spammy about Jim's (or Mac's) message. People WILL make a big fuss out of stuff just because they can. I for one am considering getting the book and glad Jim chose to post about it.

>179 tymfos:

I'd always gotten the impression that those who were really active on LT could mention if they or another LT-er wrote something.

That's what the Hobnob with Authors group is for. There is no exception to the TOS for "really active" (whatever that means) members.

By really active, I mean someone who didn't just throw up a profile with one or two books in order to paste spam all over the site -- those of us who really talk about books. And the TOS talk about SELF promotion, as I recall. We all write about books other people wrote. I'm not sure what the LT discussion would be otherwise.

eta to add Admittedly, I would have preferred to see not so many links. I don't buy things by clicking links, on discussion boards or in e-mails. It's an unsafe practice discouraged by Internet security experts.

Frankly, I mishandled it. It would have been better to put up a message summarizing the situation and refer people to private messaging for more info if they're interested.

>194 drneutron: Jim, I'll confess that seeing all those links, my first reaction was that someone had hijacked your account! Even after reading what was there I wouldn't touch a link but googled it instead.

What a lovely, healthy discussion. We do have our differences of opinion and that is why we love LT, I think.

Today on Amazon US, 40 Kindle books $3.99 or less. Includes Small Island, Black Water Rising, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, and more.

Thanks for mentioning Small Island, Laura. It is such a terrific read.

Ooh, I would recommend all those!

Black Swan Green, Number9Dream and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet are all available on UK Amazon Kindle for 99p today, along with a few John Grisham...

The Black Count is $1.99 on US Kindle

The Kindle version of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss, which won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, is on sale today for $1.99 from Amazon. I just purchased it, and I'll plan to read it for the Pulitzer Prize Challenge 2016.

Cheap Louis L'Amour, today!

http://www.amazon.com/Sackett-Sacketts-Book-Louis-LAmour-ebook/dp/B000FBJB0E?_bb...

Just thought I'd mention that the Audible Daily Deal today is The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury.

Lots of Kindle books on sale at Amazon US as part of 'holiday' deals. I picked up almost all of Laurie Colwin's books (highly recommended), a Montalbano and some other stuff.

University of Chicago Press offers a free e-book each month, and this month's offer, Duke Ellington's America, looked interesting to me.

>205 ffortsa: Oooh, Laurie Colwin! I love her writing. Thanks for the tip.

I saw a good Audible deal on Half-Resurrection Blues. I've heard good things about this urban fantasy series. And for 4 bucks you can't beat it:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QFKHOX0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&a...

World of Trouble (book 3 in Last Policeman trilogy) is $3.03 at Kindle US.

Finn is $1.99 today at Amazon US

$1.99 in Kindle US today:
A Burnable Book
An Expert in Murder

There are a _lot_ of romances, including a great many Georgette Heyers, going for $1.99 on Kindle. Ah, here's the blog about it - http://harlequinblog.com/2015/11/10000-titles-at-1-99-to-celebrate-10-years-of-h...

10,000 Harlequin books on sale until November 17. Have fun.

Oh, sorry - not Heyers, they're on sale separately. But still a lot of Harlequins.

The US Kindle version of My Struggle: Book One by Karl Ove Knausgaard is on sale today for $5.99.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BCFZLJ2/ref=nosim/themill0b2-20

The US Kindle version of Yotam Ottolenghi's cookbook Plenty is on sale for $7.28.

http://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Recipes-Londons-Ottolenghi-ebook/dp/B005CRY...

The US Kindle versions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel are on sale today for $4.99.

The Sixth Extinction is the Audible Daily Deal, for 3.95. Click on Daily Deal:

http://www.audible.com/ref=a_lib_mst_tnaft_1?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_r=0NS5MTKD4AVT64Z...

^I listened to this one on audio and highly recommend it.

The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is $1.99 on US Kindle today

Holiday deals for Kindle (at Amazon!) include Mary Doria Russell's Epitaph for $1.99 and a favorite of mine, Monastery by Eduardo Halfon for $2.99.

>218 LizzieD: A thousand thank yous for alerting me to the sale price of Epitaph, Peggy! It's also on sale at Kobo, and I snapped it right up. Wonderful early Christmas present to myself.

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews on sale at Kindle US for $1.99. Alas, I bought a pb copy just a few weeks ago.