
December 2021 book haul
Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the December 2021 book haul!! A monthly post where I usually shame myself for never achieving my goal of buying less than I read, or sticking to my buying goal.
In case you aren’t aware (which, fair, because I never made an announcement post, although I do mention this every month — and I WILL be making a 2022 post for this) my goal for each month is to only purchase 7 books, split between purchased books and books from book boxes. So, 7 paid books in total. But also I need to read more books than I collect each month, including review books. So it’s kind of a 2-part goal. That I very rarely meet. But, rules are made to be broken!! When it comes to book hauling anyway…
So, let’s go see the books I hauled in December!!
December 2021 book haul
Book haul categories are as follows:
- subscription boxes
- book purchases (book mail, in-store and ebook*)
- review copies (book mail, digital and gifts)
* Not counting Kindle Unlimited
Emoji table code
SYMBOLS
Symbol |
Key |
Symbol |
Key |
Symbol |
Key |
⚔️ | fantasy | ⛱ | contemporary | 🚀 | sci-fi |
🏰 | historical fiction | ❤️ | romance | 🔍 | crime / mystery |
🤡 | thriller | 🎀 | classic | 🎓 | dark academia |
🐺 | paranormal | 🍄 | urban fantasy | 🍆 | smut |
🪴 | non-fiction | 🥸 | humour | 🎙 | biography / memoir |
🖤 | BIPOC author | 🗣 | own voices | 🏳️🌈 | queer rep |
🧠 | mental health rep | ♿️ | disability rep | 🐞 | body positivity |
🌑 | dark themes | 🎮 | nerd references | 🏈 | sports references |
🧸 | middle grade | 🧘♀️ | young adult | 👩🦳 | new adult / adult |
📔 | hardcover | 🗒 | paperback | 📱 | ebook |
💥 | graphic novel | 🎧 | audiobook | 🎁 | gift |
📚 | backlist title | ⏰ | ARC / review copy | 🐨 | Aussie author / #loveozya |
🖋 | signed / personalised copy | 🪆 | multiple copy | ✅ | read |
Emoji table for reference
Book boxes continue to be the bane of my existence… I subscribe to three monthly boxes: OwlCrate (which I sometimes skip and sometimes swap to OwlCrate Jr), FairyLoot and the book-only subscription for Illumicrate. I also subscribe to the quarterly book-only option for LitJoy. Plus I sometimes buy the special edition books they put out, but only if I loved the series, or I got the special edition of book 1 as part of the monthly box.
So, here is where I’m up to as at the end of December:
- 💟 = arrived in a previous month
- ✅ = arrived this month
- 🚚 = in transit
- ➡️ = skipped
- 🅿️ = parked (not out yet)
- ⏹ = did not switch to
- ❌ = confirmed that it was lost to the mail gremlins (but thankfully refunded)
I know January hasn’t happened yet, but I’ve started to forget which books I got and which ones I skipped, and I have to keep looking it up… So I’m adding it in early.
the books
FairyLoot |
OwlCrate |
OwlCrate Jr |
Illumicrate |
LitJoy |
|
September | 💟 | ✅ | ⏹ | 💟 | (next book November) |
October | 💟 | ➡️ | ⏹ | ➡️ | (next book November) |
November | ➡️ | ➡️ | ⏹ | ✅ | 🚚 |
December | ➡️ | ➡️ | ⏹ | ✅ | (next book February) |
Special Editions | 🅿️ The Righteous ✅ |
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January (for laters) |
🅿️ | ➡️ | ⏹ | ➡️ | (next book February) |
All of which means, I am caught up on Illumicrate (yay!), and my September OwlCrate finally arrived. Plus I got a special edition book. Which gave me a grand total of:
- Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone (✅)
- Little Thieves by Margaret Owen
- Girls of Fate and Fury by Natasha Ngan
- A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Considering I had 4 book box books arrive in December… this could have been awful. But I’m pleasantly surprised to say that it wasn’t!
I only bought 5 other books in December, however, one of them was a special edition of a book that I probably own too many copies of. So really it’s more like 4 books… 😆
Title |
Author |
Series |
Year published + symbols |
Cover |
Twice Shy | Sarah Hogle | 2021 ⛱ ❤️ 👩🦳 🗒 |
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The Priory of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon | 2019 ⚔️ 👩🦳 🗒 📚 |
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This Poison Heart | Kalynn Bayron | The Poison Heart #1 | 2021 ⚔️ 🖤 🗣 🧘♀️ 🗒 |
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If This Gets Out | Sophie Gonzales / Cale Dietrich | 2021 ⛱ ❤️ 🗣 🏳️🌈 🧘♀️ 🗒 🐨 |
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Carry On | Rainbow Rowell | Simon Snow #1 Waterstones Edition |
2015 🍄 🏳️🌈 🧠 🧘♀️ 📔 🖋 🪆 ✅ |
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And once again, no review books in December!! Fingers crossed I can retire this section in 2022, because I have not requested any books in months.
What was in your December 2021 book haul??


7 Comments
evelynreads1
I hope you will enjoy all of them!
meeghan
Thank you!! 🥰
dbsguidetothegalaxy
If This Gets Out is SO GOOD. I finished it on Jan 1st and it’s so cute!
meeghan
Ahhh, yay!! I’ve loved both of Sophie Gonzales’ other books, so I’m sure I’ll love this too!! 💕
dbsguidetothegalaxy
I still need to read her other books and Cale’s ones, but I really loved their joint book! Definitely tell me your thoughts when you’re reading the book!
meeghan
I will!! Also, I keep meaning to post a review for Perfect on Paper. But it’s amazing. 5 stars. I loved it.
dbsguidetothegalaxy
Good to know! Need to get to that! And also I really wanna read The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich!