Rat’s Reading

I know I promised a Free Books roundup for yesterday, but I changed my mind. Just gonna stick to the midnight posting time and if I can’t get one out, it’ll just come the next day.

Free Books

If you live anywhere near Sacramento California, the Surplus Book Room is going out of business. The 25th and 26th they will be holding a sale and giveaway. I’m not sure how much will be given away, but it doesn’t hurt to check.

Book Contests and Giveaways

General Fiction

• John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row from Age 30 - A Year in Books, deadline 25 July
• Win D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover from Cassandra A., no specific deadline.
• An autographed copy of Matt de la Pena’s Ball Don’t Lie from Dime Magazine, no deadline specified.
• Marie Myung-Ok Lee’s Somebody’s Daughter at The Opinionated Parent, deadline 30 July.
• Kaya McLaren’s Church of the Dog at Puss Reboots, deadline 23 August.

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Etc.

• Tobias Buckell’s Sly Mongoose at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, no deadline specified.
• Steven Brust’s Jhegaala from Fantasy Book Spot, no deadline specified.
• Margaret Lucke’s House of Whispers from Fantasy and Sci-Fi Lovin’ Book Reviews, deadline 30 July
• Nancy Kress’ Dogs from Tachyon Publications for a photo of your dog, deadline 31 July.
• SFSignal has five copies of David Hughes’ The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, deadline 5 August.
• We Are Movie Geeks also has the David Hughes book, no deadline stated.
• One of three sets of Terry Brooks’ Genesis of Shannara series from Fantasy Book Critic, deadline 26 August

Chick-lit and Romance

• Lizzie T. Leaf’s Struck by Lightning from Armchair Heroines, deadline 25 July.
• One of Colleen Gleason’s Gardella Vampire Chronicles novels, from Vampire Wire, deadline 25 July.
• Jasmin Rosemberg’s How the Other Half Hamptons from A Book Blogger’s Diary, deadline 31 July.
• The following used vampire romance titles: Susan Sizemore’s Primal Series, Lynsay Sands’ Vampire Interrupted, and Michelle Hauf’s Kiss Me Deadly, deadline 31 July.
• A package of twelve romance novels from Dayana Knight, deadline 30 August.

Mystery

• An ARC of Brunonia Barry’s The Lace Reader at Boston Bibliophile, deadline 29 July.

Non-Fiction

• First person to name all 31 of Bobby Murcer’s broadcast partners wins a copy of Bobby Murcer’s Yankee for Life from Ken Davidoff at Newsday.
• Christy Matheson’s Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style from Design^Sprout, deadline 25 July.
• Scott and Nicholas Thompson’s The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Africa, the Asian Tigers and the Developing World from Blood and Milk, deadline 25 July.
• Win Alex Steffen’s Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century and Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature at Jetson Green, deadline 25 July.
• Lauren Rennells’ Vintage Hairstyling at Debutante Clothing, deadline 27 July.
• Aby Johnsons’s The Organized and Creative Scrapbooker at Org Junkie’s Product Reviews, deadline 28 July.

Cooking, Food and Beverage

• Susan Branch’s Christmas from the Heart of the Home at Life as Mom, deadline 25 July. Weird cause I came across another Susan Branch giveaway today as well, though it will be over by the time this hits the internet.
• Mark Ukra’s The Ultimate Tea Diet from A Wrestling Addicted Mommy, deadline 5 August.

Young Adult

• The first three commenters on avidbookreader.com’s not-yet-posted review of Patricia Briggs’ Cry Wolf will win a copy.
• Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables at Married to the Preacher, deadline 27 July.
• Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight at Altered Artists, deadline 2 August.

Christian

• M. E. Rossen’s Sandals in the Dust-Lives of the Apostles from the author, no deadline (be one of the first people to finish a scavenger hunt).
• Georgiana Daniels’ Table for One from A Little Bit of Sunlight, deadline 30 July.

ARCs and Review Copies

• Tee Morris is offering a PDF review copy of his upcoming novel The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant if you blog about it the week of the book’s release.

If you know of another book giveaway or other free book source, leave it in the comments and I’ll include it in the next installment.

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