Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! And audiobooks. Don’t forget audiobooks!
In other words, if you can read it or if it can be read to you – no matter how you got it – it belongs in Stacking the Shelves.
The Stacking the Shelves meme was originally hosted at Team Tynga’s Reviews. It is currently hosted by Reading Reality.
Happy Saturday to you all! A very busy week adding books to my stack. I had three holds waiting at the library when I got there and then I have added one ARC and one ALC to my Netgalley account. I am very excited to read all of these.
I was super glad that they were able to get me another copy of the nonfiction book that went missing last week. Actually, funny story, when I arrived at the library to pick up my books there were actually two copies of it waiting for me. They found the lost copy and then also sent a replacement. Took a few minutes to get that all sorted, but I’m glad I finally have a copy of it.
Library books I have added to my bedside stack
Better in Black is a collection of short stories set in the Shadowhunter world. These are all romances and covers many of the couples from the whole series. So looking forward to reading most of these.
The Man on the Endless Stair is a mystery thriller that sounded very intriguing. Can’t remember how I heard about it, but it sounds really good.
A World Without Summer is the nonfiction book that disappeared off the holds shelf last week. I really appreciate that they were able to get a copy to me so quickly.
ARCs I’ve added to my Netgalley account
Startup Hell by Caitlin Rozakis
A hilarious contemporary fantasy about a junior sales witch stuck in corporate hell, who has to evade devilish pacts and her kickass, world-saving, demon-slaying mum to save a (surprisingly hot) demon, and work out how to hit her quarterly target.
Morgan Blackwater’s mother is a kickass, world-saving, demon-slaying Shadow Council wizard. As for Morgan? Morgan’s a junior salesperson at a tech startup that can’t even decide what its product is. But with magic dyslexia and a disinclination to kick ass, Morgan is doing her best carving out a niche for herself in the mundane world.
Leaving work late one night, she discovers her boss dead from the effort of summoning a demon to trade his soul in order to make his quarterly target. The disturbingly-attractive demon, Lucareoth (Luke for short), is trapped here until he finds someone to sell their soul. While trying to sneak Luke out of the building, Morgan runs into her infamous mother. Apparently, someone has been summoning demons and she’s here to get to the bottom of it.
Trying to protect Luke from her mother, Morgan gets sucked into the Infernal Plane and discovers hell really is a corporate nightmare. She only gets back home with a promise to deliver a human soul of her own. While her coworkers are really annoying, she’s not willing to sacrifice their souls. The company’s tech bro CEO, though, is another story.
I loved this author’s other two books, so I am sure this one will be good as well. It sounds hilarious and I am really looking forward to starting this one. It comes out in April
Audiobooks
Last One Out by Jane Harper
Read by Angeline Armstrong
Carralon Ridge, a once vibrant village in rural New South Wales, has become a shell of itself, its houses and buildings bought up and left to rot by the mining company operating at its borders. A decade into its slow death, surrounded by industrial noise and swathed in thick layers of dust, the skeletal town is all but abandoned, with just a handful of residents clinging onto what remains.
After years of scorning those who left the Ridge behind as it fell into ruin, Ro never imagined she’d become one of them. But everything changed when she lost her son. Five years ago, Sam vanished while visiting during a break from college, leaving behind a rental car with his belongings inside. Sam had loved Carralon Ridge, and had been working on an oral history of the town to preserve its legacy before it vanished altogether. It wasn’t long after his disappearance that the rest of the family began to crumble away too.
But when Ro returns to Carralon Ridge to be with her husband and daughter on the anniversary of Sam’s disappearance, she begins to suspect that something important was overlooked in his case. Because while nothing can stop Carralon Ridge from dying, someone seems to want to make sure that its secrets die with it.
This is another favorite author whose books I have always liked. I hope to read this one soon. The book and audiobook are being released in April 2026.
That is it for this week Stacking the Shelves post. It is a good week for books and I am so looking forward to snuggling up with these books soon. Until next time…
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I’m glad that the library were able to find your non fiction book (as well as find you another one.). It certainly sounds an interesting read. I have Last One Out on my NetGalley shelf too. I should really read all of my march releases first but I think it might jump the queue 😃
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I plan on listening to Last One Out as soon as I’m done with my current audiobook.
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I hope it’s as good as all of her previous books
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