Rat’s Reading

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!

Free E-Books

Erik Ryman’s Doggone is available for download in PDF format.

Project Gutenberg now has Ayn Rand’s Anthem.

Review Copies and ARCs

Author Peter Mansoor is looking for reviewers for his book Baghdad at Sunrise.

Book Giveaways and Contests

My method for compiling these lists of contests is fairly simple. I look on web forums where people post notices of their contests, I add in notices that bloggers send me via email, and I use some good Google searches. As I find links, I use an excellent Firefox extension called Read It Later to store them until later. In the evening before I post this, I quickly cycle through the list and cut and paste URLs.

You’ll notice that I end up reading most contest posts twice. Once when I find them before they go in the queue, and once when I pull it from the queue to put it into this roundup. Today, one of the contest posts embedded some obnoxious song that played automatically when I opened the page. I stored it for later, but dreaded coming to it the second time. I was all set to post the contest with a nasty-gram when I looked again at the contest. The deadline was 29 August! Meaning by the time this goes public it’s over. I didn’t have to post it! I don’t have to send traffic to an obnoxious person!

Now, I don’t have to post these links. I’m not going to have a blanket policy of not including contests for obnoxious bloggers (heaven knows I’m obnoxious myself!), but I will consider leaving them off on a case-by-case basis.

And seriously folks, embedding automatically playing music onto a web page is the 2000s equivalent of the blink tag. Don’t do it! See how obnoxious this is?

Uncategorized — multiple books in multiple categories, or a synopsis that leaves me confused

• Hachette enticed the souls from a number of bloggers who are hosting giveaways of five sets of ten Hachette books. I’m too lazy to list the deadlines for each, so click through quickly before they close. Listed in the order in which I stumbled on them.
  • Bookroomreivews
  • The Hidden Side of a Leaf
  • Bookshipper
  • Book-blog.com
  • Discovering Dad
  • Spike Books
  • Curious Villager
  • Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’?

General Fiction

• Ken Sweet’s Clean from POD People, deadline 31 August.
• Clyde Edgerton’s The Bible Salesman at OnceWritten.com, deadline 31 August.
• Three copies of Clyde Edgerton’s The Bible Salesman from The Compulsive Reader, deadline 1 September.
• Two copies of Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust from Bloody Hell, It’s a Book Barrage!, deadline 2 September.
• Douglas Arthur Brown’s Quintet at Posthumouser, deadline 10 September.
• An ARC of Maryann McFadden’s The Richest Season from J. Kaye’s Book Blog, deadline 13 September.
• Joe Kilgore’s The Blunder from Puss Reboots, deadline 29 September.

Poetry

• An autographed copy of Gillian Weggener’s The Opposite of Clairvoyance at carp(e) libris reviews, deadline 1 September.

Science Fiction, Fantasy

• 55 speculative fiction books from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. There’s a catch though. You pay the shipping. (Normally I don’t post contests like this, but it’s quite a large prize so I made an exception.)
• Three sets of Simon R. Green’s Nightside series in omnibus editions from Fantasy Book Critic, deadline 29 September.

Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers

• George Pellecanos The Turnaround at OnceWritten.com, deadline 31 August.
• An ARC of Peggy Ehrhart’s Sweet Man Is Gone at West of Mars — Win a Book!, deadline 3 September.
• Josh Bazell’s Beat the Reaper from Rhapsody in Books, deadline 3 September.
• An ARC of Brad Meltzer’s The Book of Lies at The Optimistic Bookfool, deadline 3 September.
• Signed copies of Chris Grabenstein’s Tilt A Whirl and Hell For The Holidays from Lesa’s Book Critiques, deadine 4 September.
• Eric Van Lustbader’s First Daughter at Minds Alive on the Shelves, deadline 5 September.
• Tess Gerritsen’s The Bone Garden, The Apprentice, and Vanish from Jenn’s Bookshelf, deadline 6 September.
• Derek Haas’ The Silver Bear at BCF Book Reviews, deadline 13 September. U.K. residents only.
• Lisa Jackson’s Left to Die from My Reading Nook, deadline 15 September.
• Twenty sets of Margaret Maron’s Death’s Half Acre and the entire Deborah Knott series back list from Hachette Book Group, deadline 30 September.

Historical Fiction

• David Boling’s Guernica at Books and Movies, deadline 5 September.
• K. A. Liedel’s Calbraith from OnceWritten.com, deadline 30 September.

Chick-Lit

• Jane Porter’s Odd Mom Out and Mrs. Perfect from The Rebel Housewife, deadline 5 September.

Romance, Paranormal Romance

• A signed copy of Sherry Thomas’ Delicious from Sophie Jordan, deadline 31 August (I assume).
• An autographed copy of Sophie Jordan’s Surrender to Me at Sherry Thomas, deadline 31 August.
• Gabriella Hewitt’s Heart of the Nile from Gabriella Hewitt, deadline 31 August (I assume).
• Leslie Kelly’s Overexposed and Kay Stockham’s His Son’s Teacher at WriteMinded, deadline 31 August.
• A signed edition of Chris Marie Green’s Night Rising from Blood of the Muse, deadline 20 September.
• Rowena Cherry’s Knight’s Fork at Goodreads, deadline 30 September.

Young Adult

• Ally Carter’s I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have To Kill You and Gordon Korman’s Born to Rock in audio book format from Karin’s Book Nook, deadline 4 September.
• An autographed copy of Daria Snadowsky’s Anatomy of a Boyfriend at On My Bookshelf…, deadline 7 September.
• An autographed copy of Susan McBride’s The Debs from Harmony Book Reviews, deadline 10 September.
• Lisa Schroeder’s I Heart You, You Haunt Me at What Vanessa Reads, deadline 30 September.

Non-Fiction

• Lorilee Craker’s A Is For Atticus at LI Kids, deadline 7 September.

Memoirs, Biographies

• Eleven copies of Amanda Foreman’s The Duchess from The Savvy Reader, deadline 19 September. Canadian residents only.

Humor, Comics

• Elizabeth Hilts’ Every Freaking! Day with Rachell Ray at Ashtyn’s Home Cookin’, deadline 8 September.
• Elizabeth Hilts’ Every Freaking! Day with Rachell Ray at Mothering Heights, deadline 9 September.

Music, Television, Movies, Entertainment

• Five copies of Faith Evans’ Keep the Faith at WriteBlack, no deadline.
• Faith Evans’ Keep the Faith from OnceWritten.com, deadline 31 August.
• Five copies of Faith Evans’ Keep the Faith from Literary Illusions Reviews, deadline 11 September.

Self-help, Personal Improvement, Inspirational

• Nancy Bruno’s Genuine Men at Thursaybram.com, deadline 1 September.
• Polly Young-Eisendrath’s The Self-Esteem Trap from LI Kids, deadline 5 September.
• Chicken Soup for the Soul from Renie Burghardt’s World, deadline 10 September.

Home, Garden, Crafts, Hobbies

• Two copies of Amy Butler’s Little Stitches for Little Ones at Not Martha, deadline 1 September.
• Diana McClun and Laura Nownes’ Q Is For Quilt at Quilting with Debi, deadline 1 September.
• Debra Lynn Dadd’s Really Green from Go Green With Celeste, deadline 10 September.

Food, Beverages, Cooking

• Sergio Esposito’s Passion on the Vine from Pour More, deadline 1 September.

Christian

• Donna VanLiere’s The Angels of Morgan Hill and Karen Quinn’s The Ivy Chronicles from A Chelsea Morning, deadline 31 August.
• Jay Gladwell’s What’s Wrong With Mormons? at OnceWritten.com, deadline 31 August.
• Five copies of Rebecca St. James’ Pure: A 90-Day Devotional for Mind, Body, and the Spirit from BeliefNet, deadline 3 September.
• Julie Lessman’s A Passion Redeemed at Camy’s Loft, deadline 4 September.
• Mark Holmes Original Innocence from BreeniBooks, deadline 14 September.
• Julie Lessman’s A Passion Redeemed at 4 the Love of Books, deadline 14 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.

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