November 2021 book haul

Hello bookworms!! Welcome to the November 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.

November is definitely the worth month on record for 2021. I *may* have gone slightly overboard with black Friday sales. But honestly, I don’t regret it. Because despite the fact that I am (very quickly) running out of space for books, it’s alright. A large chunk of the books I bought this month were ebooks. So, I don’t need to find a home for them!! (Thank goodness…) I did have to stop myself from buying a physical copy of one when I saw it at a bookstore though…

In case you aren’t aware (which, fair, because I never made an announcement post, although I do mention this every month) 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 November!!

November 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

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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 November:

• 💟 = 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 December 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

All of which means, I got my October FairyLoot box in November (and I’m still fighting with AusPost over my September OwlCrate box). Plus I got three of my special edition books. Which gave me a grand total of:

• Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber
• Heartstopper Vol 1 by Alice Oseman
• When the Night Breaks by Janella Angeles
• The Scorpio Races 10th anniversary edition by Maggie Stiefvater

Unbelievably, this is only my second copy of The Scorpio Races, and although I love the blue cover and all the other fancy bits, in my head the original is still the best. However, the FairyLoot copy of Once Upon a Broken Heart is absolutely STUNNING.

FairyLoot are killing it lately with their editions. Almost all of them have had sprayed or stenciled edges, gorgeous naked hardcovers, double-sided dust jackets with beautiful art and end pages to die for. They are actual works of art, and if they do decide to go down the book-only option next year, then I’ll be more likely to get the book each month. I made sure to find a link with photos of all of the bits of the October book — so go check it out!!

So, here we are, all of the new books that I bought in November!! Which, was far more than I was intending to… So, before we get to the Kindle sales slip, I was already at 10 books. Some of them were preorders and just happened to be published in November. And some were me just buying. Regardless it means I went well over my book buying limit this month!! Can I blame the black Friday sales?? And Kindle??

My only saving grace here is that I have already read 6 of these, and was reading another at the start of December. So I’m not adding too many to my TBR… but I’m also not crossing off old TBR either…

Title	Author	Series	Year published + symbols	Cover
You Deserve Each Other	Sarah Hogle		2020 ⛱ ❤️ 🎮 👩‍🦳 🗒 📚 ✅
The Book Smugglers	Anna James	Pages & Co #4	2021 ⚔️ 🧸 📔
Terciel and Elinor	Garth Nix	The Old Kingdom #6	2021 ⚔️ 🧘‍♀️ 🗒 🐨
Aurora’s End	Amie Kaufman / Jay Kristoff	The Aurora Cycle #3	2021 🚀 🧠 ♿️ 🧘‍♀️ 🗒 🐨
Air Awakens	Elise Kova	Air Awakens #1	2015 ⚔️ 🧘‍♀️ 📔 📚
Fire Falling	Elise Kova	Air Awakens #2	2015 ⚔️ 🧘‍♀️ 📔 📚
Ilahara: The Last Myrassar	C. M. Karys	Ilahara #1	2021 ⚔️ 🧘‍♀️ 📔 ✅
Game On: Tempting Twenty-Eight	Janet Evanovich	Stephanie Plum #28	2021 🔍 🤡 👩‍🦳 🗒 ✅
Lore Olympus Volume 1	Rachel Smythe	Lore Olympus #1	2021 ⚔️ 🧠 🧘‍♀️ 🗒 💥 ✅
Two For Joy	Zoe Sugg / Amy McCulloch	The Magpie Society #2	2021 🔍 🤡 🎓 🧘‍♀️ 🗒
The Love Hypothesis	Ali Hazelwood		2021 ⛱ ❤️ 🍆 🎮 👩‍🦳 📱 ✅
The Ex Hex	Erin Sterling		2021 ❤️ 🍄 🍆 👩‍🦳 📱
Accidentally Engaged	Farah Heron		2021 ⛱ ❤️ 🖤 🗣 👩‍🦳 📱 ✅
Hana Khan Carries On	Uzma Jalaluddin		2021 ⛱ ❤️ 🖤 🗣 👩‍🦳 📱 🥰
Window Shopping	Tessa Bailey		2021 ⛱ ❤️ 👩‍🦳 📱 🥰
The Spanish Love Deception	Elena Armas		2021 ⛱ ❤️ 👩‍🦳 📱
The Afterlife of the Party	Marlene Perez	Afterlife #1	2021 🐺 🍄 🧘‍♀️ 📱

And once again, no review books in November!! *phew*

What was in your November 2021 book haul??