I have two book giveaway contests running right now. You can win Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity and/or Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys. You know you want to enter these contests!
Book Giveaways and Contests
- Uncategorized — multiple books in multiple categories, or a synopsis that leaves me confused
- Linda Ballou’s Wai-nani High chiefess of Hawai’i: Her Epic Journey from Book Club Classics, ambiguous deadline.
- Author Kimberly Pauley has a whole slew of contests over the next few weeks promoting her book Sucks to Be Me.
- Richard Murphy’s Confessions of a Contractor and Christina Schwarz’ So Long at the Fair from Reader for Life, deadline 5 September.
- The Shady Glade will be giving away a number of collected books and ARCs, deadline 10 September.
- Win a full year of Bantam Discovery novels from Bantam Books, deadline 15 January 2009.
- General Fiction
- Angela Hunt’s The Face from Mindy Said, deadline 29 August.
- Jodi Picoult’s Songs of the Humpback Whale from Book Addiction, deadline 31 August.
- Elizabeth Brundage’s Somebody Else’s Daughter at Literarily, deadline 6 September.
- Five sets of Andrew Davidson’s The Gargoyle, Andrew Pyper’s The Killing Circle and Amanda Boyden’s Babylon Rolling from AOL Canada, deadline 28 September. Canada residents only.
- Chick-Lit
- Signed copies of Brenda Janowitz’ Jack with a Twist and Scot on the Rocks as well as four other books from Brenda Janowitz, deadline 9 September.
- Science Fiction, Fantasy
- Three sets of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law series, The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings at Fantasy Book Critic, deadline 23 September.
- Five copies of David Anthony Durham’s Acacia at Fantasy Book Critic, deadline 25 September.
- Sean Williams’ Star Wars: The Force Unleashed in audio format from Need Coffee, deadline 27 September.
- Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers
- Ten copies of Chelsea Cain’s Sweetheart in audio format from St. Martin’ Minotaur, deadline 2 September. ALso from the publisher is a contest for ten Heartsick/Sweetheart
combination galleys
, deadline 2 September. - An autographed copy of Susan Conant and Jessica Conant-Park’s Turn Up the Heat from Lori’s Reading Corner, deadline 4 September.
- James Scott Bell’s Try Dying and Try Darkness from Tara’s View of the World, deadline 8 September.
- Ten copies of Chelsea Cain’s Sweetheart in audio format from St. Martin’ Minotaur, deadline 2 September. ALso from the publisher is a contest for ten Heartsick/Sweetheart
- Historical Fiction
- Laurie Viera Rigler’s Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict at She Is Too Fond of Books, deadline 5 September.
- Two copies of Traci L. Slatton’s Immortal from Bookroomreviews, deadline 9 September.
- Romance, Paranormal Romance
- A signed copy of Carla Neggers’ Tempting Fate from Carla Neggers, deadline 31 August.
- Give yourself a pirate name at Emily Bryan’s Pirate Name contest and win a whole bunch of romance titles, deadline 1 September.
- 25 copies of the paranormal romance anthology First Blood from Meljean Brook, deadline 1 September.
- Kate Hoffman’s Wicked Ways from Shaunie’s Happy Place, deadline 13 September.
- JoAnn Ross’ Freefall at J. Jaye’s Book Blog, deadline 13 September.
- Young Adult
- Valerie Frankel’s Fringe Benefits at Innovative, deadline 28 August.
- Shelley Adina’s It’s All About Us and The Fruit of My Lipstick from Sparks of Lava, deadline 28 September.
- Memoirs, Biographies
- An ARC of Michael Greenberg’s Hurry Down Sunshine at BreeniBooks, deadline 7 September.
- Art, Photography
- Mike Perry’s Over and Over and Nicholas Blechman’s Forecast at A Little Hut, deadline 1 September.
- Home, Garden, Crafts, Hobbies
- Glenna Hailey’s Sugar Sack Quilts at Glenna’s Gabfest, deadline 7 September.
- Food, Beverages, Cooking
- Two copies of Janet and Greta Podleski’s Eat, Shrink & Be Merry! at My Wooden Spoon, deadline 7 September.
- Christian
- David Sills’ The Missionary Call from Said at Southern, no stated deadline.
- Rebecca Seitz’ Coming Unglued from Ausjenny, deadline 2 September.
- Cynthia Heald’s Becoming a Woman of Purpose from Striving Mom, deadline 3 September.
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.

One Comment
Hi King Rat!
One teeny correction. My PIRATE NAME CONTEST is open until Sept. 19th in honor of INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY! Thanks for posting it on your excellent site.
Aaarrrr,
Emily Bryan
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