26 - a book that's published in 2019

[Tropes_and_Taboo]

I read The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides for this prompt. released February 5th 2019

[Lizzy]

I read Courting Mr. Emerson.

[Kylie]

The Whisper Network - Chandler Baker

[Angela]

This has been a good year for new fantasy books, and my favorites by far have been The Priory of the Orange Tree and Holy Sister. For thriller fans, Recursion was also good.

[Ilham]

I am going to add Margaret Atwood’s, “The Testaments”
To this category

[Fannie]

I hate this category. No books that recent are available at my library most of the time or there is a long line of people ahead of me. Still don't know what to read and it's my last one for the challenge.

[Heather]

That's really frustrating, Fannie. Have you tried something published early in the year? The hold list for those books might have gone down by now. I found a listopia for Most Popular Books Published in 2019. There's an option to sort the list by month so you could start with books published in January and see what might be available at your library without too much of a wait.

Edit: Like most listopias, the list isn't perfect. Not all the books are actually published in 2019, so double check the publish date.

[Fannie]

Thank you! I'll have a look.

[Jackie]

The other thing I would suggest Fannie is putting yourself on multiple hold lists; and if you have the option of using an ereader putting in a hold for both the physical and digital copies. We've still got a couple months to go (thank goodness!) and sometimes I find that different hold lists will move more quickly than others.

[Johanne]

Fannie, does your library have a place for new releases? If not, ask your librarian for newer releases, that are not on hold-lists. There are a lot of releases that are not hyped books, maybe your librarian can recommend something?

[Drakeryn]

Alternately, if you have a good bookstore nearby, you could just go there and read something in-store.

[Katy]

Drakeryn wrote: "Alternately, if you have a good bookstore nearby, you could just go there and read something in-store."

Are you suggesting that someone go to a bookstore, take a book off the shelf, read the entire thing while in the store and then replace it on the shelf? It'd have to be a pretty short book. And that's not cool.

[Drakeryn]

Why is it not cool? Most bookstores have couches/chairs for people to sit and browse if they want. Also, you wouldn't have to read it all in one sitting - you could come back and read it over a few days - although a short book is probably still best.

[Katy]

Drakeryn wrote: "Why is it not cool? Most bookstores have couches/chairs for people to sit and browse if they want. Also, you wouldn't have to read it all in one sitting - you could come back and read it over a few..."

That's basically stealing. Bookstores aren't libraries. They are in business to make a profit and if you just go in and read their books, you are taking up space that would better be used for a paying customer. And turning their new book into a used book so that they may not even be able to sell it.

[Drakeryn]

Most bookstores I've visited are pretty spacious, so just one person reading is not going to squeeze out a paying customer. (But of course, be considerate. Don't block the aisles/shelves, and if the place is so small that you're inconveniencing others, it's not a good choice.)

Also, to be sure, be careful with the books. I don't dog-ear or crack the spines of my own books, and certainly wouldn't do so with a bookstore book.

As long as you're polite and unobtrusive and don't mess up the books, I don't see an issue. When I was a kid, my parents would sometimes bring me shopping at the mall, and while they were buying clothes or whatever, I'd hop over to the bookstore to read. It was no problem.

[Joana]

[Kim]

Lynette wrote: "LOVED this book!!
The Book Charmer"

This one is going to work for 2020, for the prompt to read "a book that has a book on the cover".

For this prompt, I just got A Warning, by Anonymous. If it hadn't gotten to me by the end of the year (I've been on the wait list forever! It was published on Nov. 19, 2019), I could have read it for the 2020 prompt to read "A book with only words on the cover, no images or graphics".