Book Haul – March 2018

My March book haul was the biggest so far this year, mostly because the Canadian customs is annoyingly slow and inconsistent, so books I’d ordered months ago from the UK just now arrived.

• A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
  I confess I haven’t read The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet yet, but this was stupidly cheap on Book Depository. And one of my goals in the next couple of months is to read the first two books before the third one drops.
• Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton
  I’m a sucker for WW2 nonfiction and this caught my eye a year ago but I never got the chance to pick it up.
• The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
  This took nearly FOUR months to arrive. I’d given it up for dead, said my laments and prayers and got my refund, and then one day it appears out of nowhere in a packaging that looks like something that crawled out of a war zone. Anyway, I’ve been meaning to read Mary Renault for years now and I figured one of her standalones would be a good place to start.

• Imposter Syndrome (The Arcadia Project 3) by Mishell Baker
  Read it, loved it.
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne Valente I loved the first book so I’ll be slowly going through the rest of the series this year.
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
  My first Christopher Moore purchase and it certainly won’t be the last one.

• Jade City (The Green Bone Saga 1) by Fonda Lee
  Currently reading through this and absolutely loving it. Look out for a glowing review.

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
  This one’s a giveaway win. It’s been likened to Orange is the New Black, so colour me interested.
  

• Skullsworn by Brian Staveley
  I’ve never read Staveley but I sampled a bit of his writing from The Art of War anthology, and it turns out the style is kind of my jam, so I’ll be reading this once I finish the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy.
  
• The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne 2) by Brian Staveley
  For some reason I had the first and the third book of the trilogy but was missing the middle one, so I had to remedy that.

• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  I couldn’t wait until September for this one. It’s so, so good.
• Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb
  My current mission is to collect every english version of Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings books (which is my all-time favourite series), and I was lucky enough to find this near-pristine US hardback of Fool’s Errand.

And there you have it. Tell me if you see any of your favourites and any that you think I should read immediately!