Nine days til Rat’s Reading is three! Where’s my dancing ladies?
Free E-Books
- Until 18 AUgust, you can download a PDF of Katherine Neville’s The Eight, courtesy of Ballantine Books.
- Small Beer Press adds another title to their Creative Commons licensed collection: Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King and Other Stories.
Review Copies and ARCs
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Book Giveaways and Contests
- General Fiction
- Two copies of Traci L. Slatton’s Immortal at Books on the Brain, deadline 15 August.
- Stephanie Kuehnert’s I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone from Rock and Roll Mama, deadline 15 August.
- Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist at Vanilla Lavender, deadline 16 August.
- Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack at Reading Matters, deadline 16 August.
- Two copies of Anisha Lakhani’s Schooled at Planet Books, deadline 17 August.
- Joshua Henkin’s Matrimony from A Reader’s Journal, deadline 19 August.
- Meg Waite Clayton’s The Wednesday Sisters at Bookish Ruth, deadline 20 August.
- Another copy of Joshua Henkin’s Matrimony from The Inside Cover, deadline 26 August.
- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Etc.
- Three copies of Joe Abercrombie’s Last Argument of Kings from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist, deadline unspecified.
- Jocelynn Drake’s Nightwalker at Amberkatze’s Book Blog, deadline 17 August.
- 20 copies of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Paul of Dune from Tor Books, deadline 18 August.
- Richard Morgan’s The Steel Remains at The Book Swede, deadline 31 August.
- Mystery, Crime Fiction and Thrillers
- Fifty (or five, the page and rules are contradictory) ARC copies of Eric Van Lustbader’s First Daughter from Tor Books, deadline 18 August.
- An ARC of Lisa Jackson’s Left to Die from Wendy’s Minding Spot, deadline 25 August.
- Romance and Chick-Lit
- The Romance Studio has a Book a Day Giveaway. Romance novels only.
- Lauren Dane’s Cascadia Wolves: Fated from Lauren Dance, deadline 11 August (today) at noon.
- Fifteen copies of Kelley Armstrong’s The Summoning from vervegirl, deadline 11 August.
- Three copies of Kim Green’s Live a Little from the (Mis)Adventures of a Single City Chick, deadline 14 August.
- An ARC of Tatiana Boncompagni’s Gilding Lily at Bookshipper, deadline 15 August.
- Pick a book when you win from an extensive list courtesy of Melissa’s Diary, deadline 17 August.
- An ARC of Christina Schwarz’ So Long at the Fair from Book Zombie, deadline 20 August.
- Jenna Maclaine’s Wages of Sin from Anna’s Book Blog, deadline 31 August.
- Young Adult
- Susan McBride’s The Debs from Cheryl Rainfield, deadline 31 August.
- Art and Photography
- Taschen’s China: Portrait of a Country from Photoinduced.com, deadline 13 August.
- Money, Business, Careers
- Alan Corey’s A Million Bucks by 30 at Bank Bonuses, no deadline specified.
- Susan Blu’s Word of Mouth at Vox Daily, deadline 16 August.
- Wagner James Au’s The Making of Second Life at Tara’s View on Books, deadline 25 August.
- Sports and Recreation
- Five copies of Dean Karnazes’ 50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days at Run Bulldog Run, deadline 17 August.
- Education
- Two copies of The Giant Encyclopedia of Lesson Plans: for Ages 3 to 6 from Works in Progress, deadline 16 August.
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Judith O’Reilly’s Wife in the North from Life with our Lad, deadline 15 August.
- Inspirational and Self-help
- Barry K. Phillips’ Caught in the Headlights at JDP News, deadline 18 August.
- Nancy Bruno’s Genuine Men from Age 30 - A Year of Books, deadline 2 September.
- House, Home, Crafts, Gardening …
- Mindy Weiss’ (w00t!) The Wedding Book from Syracuse.com, deadline 12 August.
- Amy Dacyczyn’s The Complete Tightwad Gazette from Iowahippychicks Talking, deadline 17 August.
- Cooking, Food and Beverages
- Martha Greene’s Martha’s Family Cookery Book from Mountain Morning Homeschool, deadline 15 August.
- 25 copies of Jared Brown and Anistatia Miller’s Soul of Brasil from the Guardian, deadline 14 August. UK residents only.
- Christian
- Veiled Glory is giving away a four-pack of books of very dry reading, deadline 13 August.
- Chris Fabry’s Dogwood from Edgy Inspirational Author, deadline 15 August.
- Ten copies (to five winners) of Jeff Myers’ Handoff: The Only Way to Win the Race of Life from A Peek At My Books, deadline 15 August.
- Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase at The Low Down, deadline 15 August.
- Jewel D. Williams Fearfully and Wonderfully Made from Teen Lit Review, deadline 18 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. Also, be sure to check out my book reviews and other content.

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Hi! I am hosting the giveaway for the Martha’s Family Cookery Book listed on your site…just wanted to let you know that the deadline is Friday, August 15 @ midnight. Thanks for listing my giveaway…this is a great site!
Brandi
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