24 new books comprise my primaveral book haul! I’ve divided the haul into ebooks and physical books, with gems from my favourite genres.
Overview
You might be asking yourself, what does primaveral mean? I’ve been putting this haul together for a while, and because I kept putting off posting it, the haul now includes new books from February and March. I didn’t want a boring title, “February and March Book Haul,” yet this time of March doesn’t really feel like Winter, nor is it quite Spring. Therefore, I started looking for ‘wintery’ words that could capture this feeling. Hence, primaveral: “of or relating to early spring,” which, I think, perfectly captures the odd limbo of this time in March as Spring official starts on March 20th!
To break down this haul, here are a few standouts:
Most Anticipated? Long Bright River by Liz Moore. I’m not normally a fan of thrillers but I love how this book centres character development and its pacing is dependent on the relationship between the FMC (the female main character) and her sister.
Longest Book? Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron at 496 pages
Shortest Book? Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates at 152 pages
After discussing the themes of this haul, I split the haul into two stacks: one for physical books and the other for my new ebooks. The haul comes to a total of 24 books!
Prevalent Themes
🖤 Quite a few books explore social justice, particularly anti-racism. I find most of the non-fiction books I gravitate towards nowadays are anti-racism and feminism books.
🖤 High fantasy – I’ve seriously missed reading fantasy novels! I am hoping to start a fantasy binge.
🖤 Thriller – This is a rare genre for me to dabble into but the few I’ve picked out have been calling my name. It helps that I’ve been binge-watching Criminal Minds and all the thrillers in this haul are character-driven.
🖤 Literary fiction
🖤 Character-driven
🖤 Mythology and retellings
🖤 Contemporary Romance
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All My Physical New Books
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
🏷 Letter from father to son about racism in the U.S. and world
🏷 Biography
🏷 Inspiring
🏷 Prose
Do Better by Rachel Ricketts
🏷 Antiracism
🏷 Aimed at white cis women
🏷 Spiritul activism
🏷 Canadian racial justice activist
We Free the Stars by Hafsah Faizal
🏷 YA High Fantasy
🏷 Enemies to Lovers
🏷 Slow Burn Romance
🏷 Save the World Plot
Latitudes of Longing by Shubhangi Swarup
🏷 Indian Literature
🏷 JCB Prize Nominee for Literature (2018)
🏷 Explores love and longing
🏷 Debut Novel
Midnight Library by Matt Haig
🏷 Mental Health
🏷 Sci-Fi Fantasy
🏷 Books About Books (Libraries)!
🏷 Character-driven
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
🏷 Mythology Retelling
🏷 Tragic Romance
🏷 mlm couple (Patroclus & Achilles)
🏷 All the Feels
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
🏷 Memoir
🏷 Social Justice
🏷 “From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.”
🏷 Explores the role of Evangelicalism in the perpetuation of racism and how Christianity can be anti-racist
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
🏷 Realistic Fiction
🏷 Explores a small-town and its future’s dependency on its junior ice hockey team
🏷 Sweden Literature
🏷 Dark Themes
So Many New eBooks
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
🏷 YA High Fantasy
🏷 Women empowerment
🏷 Explores racism, patriarchy and feminism
🏷 Action-driven Plot (Note: there’s a lot of violence)
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
🏷 Explores fatphobia
🏷 Bachelorette-style Romance
🏷 Themes of Self-Love and Advocacy!
🏷 Contemporary Romance
Ten Rules for Faking It by Sophie Sullivan
🏷 Office Romance
🏷 Bachelorette-style Romance
🏷 Social Anxiety Representation
🏷 Slow Burn Romance
White Feminism by Koa Beck
🏷 Nonfiction
🏷 Anti-Racist
🏷 Unpacks “how elitism and racial prejudice has driven the narrative of feminist discourse”
🏷 “challenges long-accepted conventions and completely upends the way we understand the struggle for women’s equality”
Rent a Boyfriend by Gloria Chao
🏷 Fake Dating Trope
🏷 College Romance
🏷 #OwnVoices
🏷 Taiwanese-American characters
🏷 Dual POV
The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed
🏷 YA Fiction
🏷 Coming of Age
🏷 Debut Novel
🏷 “Explores issues of race, class, and violence through the eyes of a wealthy black teenager whose family gets caught in the vortex of the 1992 Rodney King Riots.”
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
🏷 Fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore
🏷 Historical Fiction
🏷 Slow Burn Romance
🏷 Atmospheric
Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron
🏷 YA High Fantasy
🏷 Coming of Age
🏷 Witches and Magic
🏷 Friends to Lovers Romance
🏷 Dark Themes
Circe by Madeline Miller
🏷 Mythology Retelling
🏷 Witches & Magic
🏷 Literary Fantasy
🏷 Character-driven
Summary
Quite a few of these were purchased on sale which was the best luck. All these books have been on my want to read list for ages and I’m so excited to get into them. I am really happy that the books in this haul are from the genres I read the most: fantasy, YA fiction, romance and anti-racist nonfiction.
I started writing my primaveral Book Haul earlier on in the week but have only been able to post it now. As a result, I’ve already read a few of the books in this haul! Some of them I’ve reviewed on this blog (🤓) or Goodreads (📌), as you can see below:
📌 One To Watch by Kate Stayman-London
📌 Ten Rules for Faking It by Sophie Sullivan
To Look Forward To
I’m so excited about all these books in my primaveral book haul! I’ve already finished two of them and am currently working on a third from this haul!
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