Hello, book lovers! How are you doing today?
In this post, I’m going to be sharing with you the books that I bought in the month of November!
It is a KNOWN FACT that it is so hard for us book lovers to resist the strong urge to buy books.
True to form, although I tried to keep my book buying in check and stick to my budget, I ended up buying A LOT.
Enough of my yakking, let’s take a look at the books that I bought in November 🙂

Rather than enumerating the titles that I bought, let me show you what my Kindle app on PC looks like.

Yup. I downloaded all those 18 books. But these are all free. Thanks, Amazon! 😀
Now, let’s move on to physical books that I got.

Commonwealth had been on my radar for quite some time but Jay’s post gave me the final push – his post reminded me of this book which I had totally forgotten about and prompted me to buy it. (Yes, I blame you for that! – just saying)
Speaking of James, I also got a paperback copy of his debut novel, Watching Glass Shatter. Seriously, guys. This book is such a beauty!! Not only is the story gripping and captivating, the cover… it will definitely solicit oohs and aahs when you actually have it in your hands. Yes, I’m obsessed with it (#sorrynotsorry).

Every time I run into emotional, passionate book reviews where my fellow bloggers vehemently gush about the books they love, I always go like I have to read them. My most anticipated read here is November 9 by Colleen Hoover. I read her last book It Ends With Us last year and she literally broke my heart to bits. I think she has a way with writing compelling, effusive raw stories and I am really looking forward to picking that up!
(Oh, by the way, I DNF’d Coraline by Neil Gaiman… it just didn’t click with me.)

Since I still have quite a lot of backlog of holiday reads from last year, I managed to rein in buying them and cap the number at 4 books.
That said though, I’m meeting up with my bookish friend at Kinokuniya Bookstore in Fukuoka next Sunday (December 10th), I will be most likely to buy SOME… at least, I’ve already had my eye on A Christmas Carol Penguin English Library Edition and I’m determined to buy it if I can find it in stock. Isn’t this just pretty??? I gotta have this on my shelf… ❤


That’s it for today.
What books have you got lately?
Let me know in the comments and I’ll talk to you all again soon 🙂

This whole post is beautiful, from the arrangement of the photos to the words behind them. I love the Christmas covers. (And thank you so much for mentioning on me… I appreciate it.)
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Thanks, Jay and you’re very welcome! In fact, I really love and am obsessed with how beautiful the book is, so I had to mentioned that. 🙂
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hehe…. so kind! I am thinking about 180 Seconds now.
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Seriously??!! My goodness, are you, really?
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A few of my closer blogging friends have praised it. Seems worthy.
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Hope you like it, then! 😉
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Thx
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I hope you end up liking it!!
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Amazing job on getting so many free Amazon classics!! Also, your Christmas reads look so fluffy and cute!! ❤
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Great haul! Enjoy your reads!
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Thank you, Jasmine! I will!
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I just read November 9 and I loved it!! I hope you like it! And Christmas Carol is perfect for this season, so I hope you enjoy it if you try it out.
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Thank you! I enjoyed A Christmas Carol a lot! It was a beautiful story and now I think I have to own it lol
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You’re welcome!! That’s fantastic 😀
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Where do I start Noriko?! You’ve got some great selections there. I didn’t read Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas but I saw the movie and I cried my eyes out!! It was so good. Thanks for reminding me about It Ends With Us. I had that one on my radar but kind of forgot about it. Since you liked it I’m going to go back and check it out. Thanks for this great list. 😊
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You’re very welcome, Laurie! Wow, Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas is actually made into a movie? Didn’t know that! I will re-read it and then check out the movie!
Get prepared to have your heart ripped open, Laurie. It Ends With Us is really strong and compelling. It’s kind of haunting!
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I saw the movie before I knew the book even existed.
Thx for the advance warning about It Ends With Us. 😊
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Hahaha, you’re welcome! But I can tell you it’s so good!
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Recently I bought Grant, which is a biography on Ulysses S. Grant, SPQR, which is a history one Rome, and An Optimist’s Daughter, which was one of the books written by an author whose house I visited on my trip!
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The more I hear about your book choice, the more interesting it sounds, Annie!
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Haha, thank you so much!!
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I love the looks of your Christmas books!
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Yeeeess! They are beautiful, aren’t they? That is why I cannot resist buying them lol
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Great haul Noriko!! I still can’t wait to read your review on November 9. I really want to find some Christmas books but every time I try looking for them I can never find any.
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Haha, I will read it next weekend, so my review will mostly likely be up either on Sunday evening (my time) or later 🙂
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Oh beautiful haul. Looks like a busy month for you!
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So many Christmas-y coverssss!
I think I have one Christmas-themed novel on my e-TBR, but that’s it.
I need to focus on other books but.. Christmas-novels are so tempting, haha.
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Thanks, Kathy! Yes, I am kind of obsessed with such Christmas-y books 🙂 They are generally so pretty and tempting!
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True! And they just make you feel good and fuzzy andand.. *I need more*
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this is a great haul noriko! i love how the classics look like. the covers are beautiful! ❤
also, yes, the penguin english library edition of "a christmas carol" is really pretty. that one is missing in my collection, because i already own but. but i need to have it. right? 😀
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Yeah, aren’t they beautiful? I love this Amazon Classics edition. They are all free, but covers look decent!!
I just cannot help but loooove the penguin library edition of a christmas carol!! The snowflakes on the cover, the colors… it’s so perfect!!
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i love all PEL’s! i own 23 by now and they look sooooo goood! ❤ ❤
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I wonder how many I bought?? But I think I have at least 10 to 15??
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yay, that’s also a great collection! they are just so pretty!
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