Rat’s Reading

Book Giveaways and Contests

General Books — Packages of books that fit multiple categories, or I just don’t know where to put it.

• Your choice of books at Stone Soup, deadline this week.
• Elizabeth Jenkin’s Jane Austen: A Biography and your choice of a Jane Austen novel, both in audiobook format at My Home Sweet Home, deadline 1 August.

General Fiction

• Nicholas Sparks’ Nights in Rodanthe at We Are Movie Geeks, deadline inspecified, entry method unspecified, quantity unspecified. Not sure why I put it here with all that unspecified, but I’m feeling generous.
• Rebecca Ann Collins’ The Pemberley Chronicales and Women of Pemberley at My Home Sweet Home, deadline 1 August.
• Seth Greenland’s Shining Cities at Minds Alive On The Shelves, deadline 4 August.
• Robert J. Wiersema’s Before I Wake at Up For Grabs, deadline 10 August.
• Two winners pick from Jim Crace’s The Gift of Stones, Edith Wharton’s The Touchstone, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees and Patrick Süskind’s Perfume at Ready When You Are, C.B., deadline 15 August.

Romance and Chick-Lit

• Win an autographed Lisa Jackson romance from Lisa Jackson, deadline 31 July.
• Jennifer Coburn’s The Wife of Reilly, Tales from the Crib and Reinventing Mona at Mel, A Dramatic Mommy, deadline 1 August.

Young Adult

• Three signed copies of Megan Kelley Hall’s debut novel Sisters of Misery, deadline 8 August.
• About the zillionth copy of Kamilla Reid’s The Questory of Root Karbunkulus at Kathleen’s Book Reviews, deadline 15 August.

Non-Fiction

• Zanbaka’s Foundations (Bellydance for the Versatile Dancer, Volume I) at Belly Dance Forum, contest runs until a winner is found or the end of August. This one really caught my eye. I know Zanbaka personally (though I didn’t know she’d written a book) and have seen her perform. She’s an incredible dancer.
• Peter Trachtenberg’s The Book of Calamities at Babylune, deadline 1 August.
• Mark Jenkinson’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Photography Essentials at thursdaybram.com, deadline 1 August.
• Roy Porter’s London: A Social History at Soliloquies of Tash, deadline 1 August.
• Phyllis W. Curott’s Book of Shadows: A Modern Woman’s Journey into the Wisdom of Witchcraft and the Magic of the Goddess at Experiments in Living, deadline 1 August (I assume).
• Five autographed copies of Pete Lunn’s Basic Instincts: Human Nature and the New Economics at Subba Cultcha, deadline 12 August. Perhaps a U.K only competition.

Cookbooks, Etc.

• Rick Moonen and Roy Finamore’s Fish Without a Doubt at The Feisty Foodie, no deadline specified.
• Elinor Klivans’ The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook at Chocolate Bytes, deadline 31 July.
• Tammy L. Bicket and Dawn M. Brandon’s Hugs for Chocolate Lovers at JLOStalker, deadline 31 July.
• Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook at Thrifty Mommy, deadline 3 August.
• Country Bob Edson’s The Original Country Bob’s Cookbook at From Dates to Diapers, deadline 3 August.
• Karen Tack and Alan Richardson’s Hello, Cupcake! at Baking and Books, deadline 31 August.

Christian

• Douglas Brown’s Just Do It at One Day At a Time…, deadline 1 August.
• Everyone has a copy of William P. Young’s The Shack to give away, including Christy’s Book Blog, deadline 1 August.
• Frances Devine’s Miss Aggie’s Gone Missing from Reading, Writing, and the Stuff In Between, deadline 3 August.
• Three Christian wife’s books: Stormie Omartian’s Power of a Praying Wife, Martha Peace’s The Excellent Wife and Bill Potter’s Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife at Veiled Glory, deadline 5 August.
• M. L. Tyndall’s The Falcon and the Sparrow at Book Splurge, deadline 6 August.

If you know of other contests, giveaways or other sources of free books, leave a comment and I’ll include it in the next installment.

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