Top Ten Tuesday: REWIND Favourite Covers (of Books I Own!)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This week was a rewind TTT week so I went ahead and picked one of the themes I hadn't done previously and put a little spin on it. I decided to show off ten of my favourite covers of books that are already sitting on my shelf. This was a toughie as I have so many beautiful books so I might have cheated a little with a few...

Showcase Sunday #47: Christmas Haul!

It's Sunday and that means one thing; Showcase Sunday a fun weekly meme hosted by Vicky over @Books, Biscuits and Tea. It's a great way of showing off what we've bought, borrowed and received this week.

Christmas Presents:

 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Peter Boxall
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard
Dangerous Women - George R R Martin & Gardner Dozois
The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1 - Robert Kirkman
Special Edition Harry Potter Box Set - J K Rowling
Hogwarts Library (Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them, Quidditch Through the Ages and The Tales of Beedle the Bard) - J K Rowling
A Game of Thrones: Graphic Novel Volume 2 - George R R Martin
Batman Vol 1: The Court of Owls (Graphic Novel) - Scott Snyder
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Edition)

Bought: 

War of the Worlds - H G Wells
The Time Machine - H G Wells
Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
The Crown Tower - Michael J Sullivan
The Heir of Night - Helen Lowe
The Gathering of the Lost - Helen Lowe

Kindle Books:

 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Jude Dredd: The Complete Case Files Vol 1 - John Wagner and etc.
Dreamsongs Vol 1 - George R R Martin
Dreamsongs Vol 2 - George R R Martin
The Painted Man - Peter V Brett
Furies of Calderon - Jim Butcher
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson
The Crown of Embers - Rae Carson
The Bitter Kingdom - Rae Carson
Among Thieves: A Tale of the King - Douglas Hulick
Among the Nameless Stars - Diana Peterfreund
The Time Traveller's Almanac
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Before I fall - Lauren Oliver
The Rabbit Back Literature Society - Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Wishlist Wednesday #45

Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Dani over @Pen to Paper and is a great way of showing off the books that we are dying to get our hands on :)

For Darkness Shows the Stars -

Diana Peterfreund

 It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.

But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.

Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.

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 This sounds amazing. A futuristic, dystopian re-telling of Jane Austen's Persuasion? Yes please! This book sounds so good that I have to have it now! After reading These Broken Stars this year I'm really looking for more YA science fiction to read and this seems perfect. I love the Austen-esque spin on it too. The second in the series, more of a companion is, Across a Star-Swept Sea which is a futuristic re-telling of The Scarlet Pimpernel. This series sounds like something I would love so it is definitely on my wishlist for my next possible buys!