I've been meaning to write this post for oh-so-long. I've just been putting it off and putting it off, and now, my unhauled books have kind of gotten out of control. I don't even think this is all of them, it's just the ones I remember getting rid of and/or remembered to take pics of. I also have another stack of books I'll be getting rid of soon as well, but I'm waiting on a few things to be delivered first. I'm replacing a couple of older books with newer editions, so I want to make sure I get my new copies before tossing the new ones. Ha ha. JK. I'd never toss them. They either went to someone via resale or to my local used bookstore.
First up, I sold my Arcane Society editions of Penn Cole's Kindred Saga books 1-2. I wasn't a huge fan of the design, so I was fairly certain I was going to sell anyway, but when Arcane said book three would be $75, shipping not included, I was 100% sure it was going bye-bye. I don't even know if I officially hauled these. I just took pics to post for resale, and that's it.
I took a couple of books to my used bookstore recently. Those included Teacher of the Year and Looking for Group. Ignore The Love Hypothesis in the middle. I apparently forgot to take a photo of just the two I got rid of, so you get the pic I took when I hauled them instead. I read Teacher of the Year, and it just didn't impress me enough to keep it. I tried to read Looking for Group and it was written almost entirely in gamer-code speak, so I DNF'ed like three pages in. It's a beautiful cover, and I typically like Alexis Hall's stories, but the writing style wasn't for me this time.
This is a giant list of books I mostly took to my local used bookstore. There's one in there I'll explain later on, though. I've read a majority of these. I just didn't feel the need to keep them and/or I have multiple copies. They include Heart of Defiance by Eva Chase, four books in the Pendragon series by D.J. MacHale, Goodess by Josephine Angelini, three books in the Titan series by JLA, a beat up copy of Lothaire by Kresley Cole, The Goddess Test series by Aimee Carter, A Touch of Poison by Clare Sager (damaged edition), The Bound Worlds by Megan E. O'Keefe, and The Emperor and the Endless Palace.
I got rid of my Barnes & Noble edition of The Knight and the Moth by Rachel L. Gillig. I just like the regular edition more. It's not as heavy, and the silver lettering is much prettier than the blue foiling for the B&N edition. My regular edition is also signed, so that's a plus. This edition is not.
Now this, is a fairly decent stack of FairyLoot editions I just did not want anymore. I got tired of having them in my house, since it didn't seem anyone was interested in purchasing them secondhand, so they went to my local used bookstore. They include Witches Steeped in Gold, Blood Scion, Forest of Souls, Lore of the Wilds, Nectar of the Wicked, and Spells for Forgetting.
I also got rid of a couple of K.A. Knight books. Fun fact: This is the second time I've unhauled a copy of Revolt. I got a free copy during the 2024 ApollyCon, and I did a major unhaul of books I didn't think I'd read. Well, I got another free copy in 2025's ApollyCon swag bag. I should have left the extra copy for someone to have at the event hotel, but I just convince myself I'll read it every time. But, I know myself. I won't. I also read Racing Hearts, and I didn't adore it enough to keep it. They're both signed copies, so I sold them.
And next, I have a few special editions I sold. The first is an international edition of A Fire in the Flesh that I accidentally ordered a duplicate copy of. I think it's the Dutch edition. The middle one is Exquisite Ruin, which is Owlcrate's first Romantasy book. I bought that thing in the subscription for like $45 and sold it for less than $20. Ugh. I'm pretty sure I'm canceling that sub after October's box. The picks just aren't worth it. I also sold my UK hardcover of Red Rising. I just didn't need it when it pretty much looks exactly like the regular hardcovers just with fancy foiling on the naked book. It's too expensive to get special editions that aren't really special.
No, I did not get rid of the Zodiac Academy book. But, I did get rid of Psycho Shifters and, like I talked about earlier, this is the only photo I have of it and I'm too lazy to crop Fated Throne out of the pic. But, anyway, I got rid of this book because, while I thought the first two in the trilogy were fun, book three was a disaster. So much so, that I didn't even want to keep the first book on my shelves anymore. I'm super glad I was smart enough not to preorder the sequels until I'd read the sequel books on KU.
Here we have the FairyLoot edition of Fourth Wing. I've had this since it released, and I never bought the sequels because I just didn't care. The covers are almost identical to the regular editions, so there was no need to purchase the others. Well, I ended up finally trading this book for an ARC I really wanted. At least my impulse purchase was useful in the end.
And lastly, I have something that doesn't really matter in the long run, so I don't know why I'm including it, but I am because I can. I bought a box set of the Legend series by Marie Lu to replace my old set. So, technically, I'm not really unhauling anything here, as I already hauled the replacements. But, oh well. I wanted to share, so I shared. XD
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