I have a £25/€25/$40 Amazon gift certificate to give away to one lucky reader of my blog courtesy of My Voucher Codes UK. Don’t worry if you don’t live in the UK, the competition is open to everyone, wherever you happen to live in the world. All you have to do to have a chance of winning is post a comment below answering the following question:
If you were to win to the gift certificate, what book would you buy?
Entries are limited to one per person and I’ll select the winner at random. The winner will receive the gift voucher by email. The competition closes at 11am GMT on 4th November 2009. Good luck!
Oooh! I would buy two books which have gone onto my wishlist since I started my bookbuying ban – they are the Legend of a suicide which you reviewed yesterday, and Familiar Passions which I want to read for my Virago Venture but which isn’t in the library. If there was any money left then I might buy a Persephone book…
Hi! I think The Periodic Table by Primo Levi. I’m from Italy, but I haven’t read it yet…Thanks for this contest
I think I’d have to go for The Original Of Laura, however incomplete it may be… Or, I could hold out for The Pale King, but I can’t imagine hanging onto a voucher for that long!
Wow! Great giveaway.
I would purchase Nine Lives by William Dalrymple which was recently released here.
What a question! I would have to go for one of the new Persephones – To Bed With Grand Music. I probably would have broken my book buying restrictions and bought a copy if the post office wasn’t still striking.
Great question! I would get Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett and probably The Help by Kathryn Stockett as well because I’ve heard good things about it.
I’d probably buy The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell – I love his Alfred the Great series and neither of my libraries have purchased it yet! With the rest, I suspect I’d acquire Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger and/or more Sookie Stackhouse books! Great giveaway, thank you very much for entering me. =)
Today I would buy one of Louise Erdrich’s novels, but tomorrow my answer may be different
Oo, difficult question! I think I’d get Joan Wyndham’s Love Lessons, which I crave, and probably another volume of Rumi’s poetry as I am loving him to pieces these past few months. What a great giveaway!
I’d pre-order Karen Chance’s Midnight’s Daughter which is out in January.
I would buy Metropolis by Thea von Harbou. Of course, that would leave some money behind, but I”d probably just wander to the nearest shiny thing at that point…
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Like JoAnn, my answer *today* would probably be The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (after reading Steph’s review), To Bed With Grand Music by Marghanita Laski (one of the new Persephones) and possibly The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson.
Or, I may be tempted to put the giftcard towards The Complete Paris Review Interviews boxset.
I think I’d have to pick up the latest Man Booker winner, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Unless of course, something else caught my eye before I could get to it. Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!
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I think I would get We Need to Talk About Kevin, because I started reading it and want to finish it. Or I would buy a Sarah Waters book because I love everything she writes and need to own one of her books.
I would buy The Solitude of Prime Numbers. I’ve read some reviews of this book and I’m curious to read this book.
I think I would get ‘A Monster’s Notes’ by Laurie Scheck. It’s a sort of retelling of Frankenstein, which I love, but it’s only out in hardcover right now (too expensive!). Or, ‘Capote in Kansas’ and ‘In Cold Blood’ (we’re reading them for my book club).
Definitely Kristin Lavransdatter the Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Sigrid Undset. So many bloggers are participating in a read a long and I want to join in too!
Childhood favorites that I no longer have; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. I had a beautiful bound copy of these that I have lost and would like to get another. It was a birthday present when I was around eight or nine and I remember how thrilled I was because I checked the book out over and over from the school library. The version that has caught my eye that is illustrated is around $36.00 — so I have just been too cheap to buy it.
I’ve got so many on my wishlist, it would be very hard to decide. I think The Help by Kathryn Stockett
That’s the easiest question ever
I would like to buy this http://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Greatest-Gift-Generation-Another/dp/0810983591/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
(Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman)
I’ve been dreaming of owning this book since forever
The King’s Mistress by Emma Campion. Don’t know when it’s going to be available in the US.
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it’s difficult to choose, there are so many, I would say Friday’s Child by Georgette Heyer or Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker or really any book that I haven’t read
Great giveaway! I think I’d get Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en.
I would buy The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I just listened to the book on CD from the library and now I feel like I must own it! I would also buy a book for my daughter, Silly Billy, (again, a library book) and she loved it, so I feel like I should buy it for her.
Oooh! I would buy High Wages, the latest Dorothy Whipple published by Persephone, and the newly issued Shirley Jacksons. And if there was any left over, I’d order some more sensation novels!
Thank you for this chance, Jackie! I’d probably buy Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter and Running in the Family. Or Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man. And/or Leonard Woolf’s The Wise Virgins. Or..
Just found your blog today when looking at your reading list for 3-year olds. I’d buy the Way We Work by David Macaulay. I’ve wanted this for our reference library for a while but haven’t ponied up for the hardcover since our boy is still a little young to get a lot of use out of it. Thanks for the giveaway!
Awesome! I’ve been wanting to add “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith to my personal collection. And possibly also “Her Fearful Symmetry,” since the waiting list at the library is SO long and I’m excited to read that.
Oh what fun! I’d buy The Woman in Black by Susan Hill, since I never seem to be able to get my hands on it.
I would buy Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham, by Tolkien. My copy is falling apart from rereads and I can’t find a new one anywhere, but I bet Amazon has it!
I would buy The Knife of Never Letting Go and its sequel as it seems as though everyone who has read that book loves it.
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
I’d have to buy The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. For some time I refused to read them, thinking they were nothing like I would normally read. I finally caved thinking perhaps I’m missing something and they are much more. I flew through The Hunger Games (from the library) and want to read Catching Fire next. I know these are ones I would read over again and want to have my own copies.
I would probably buy Margaret Atwood’s new book, Year of the Flood, because I love her writing.
I would buy Carpentaria by Alexis Wright which has been on my wish list since March! No one in the US has heard of us thus no one is buying it, so they aren’t reading it to swap on any of the swap sites, so I am going to have to buy it. And if there is money left over, I would buy Big Sid’s Vincati: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Motorcycle of a Lifetime by Matthew Biberman.
Hi Rebecca,
How sweet! I hope you win! If you want a signing plate (fancy name the publisher uses for a sticker) with an inscription to you from yours truly, I’d be happy to supply you one.
best
Matthew Biberman,
author of Big Sid’s Vincati
Ooh, so hard to narrow it down! I think I would get The Magicians by Lev Grossman. If I had money left over (please let me have money left over!), I would get Libations by Deirdre Heekin. Both my husband and I would read both of these books, so it would be fun to discuss them together.
Hi jackie , think I d order a couple of nice archiepalgo books vols there so nice salt smugglers and another stu
Hi – I would buy “Ahab’s Wife” by Sena Jeter Naslund as I started it – then started The Echo in the Bone – and had to return Ahab’s Wife to the library before finishing. It’s really well-done.
-Beth
How exciting.. I would choose Kinshu: Autumn Brocade by Teri Miyamoto. I’d love to read it but it’s a bit hard to come by at a wallet friendly price!
Great giveaway. I would buy the Mapp and Lucia books.
Great giveaway. I’d get a paperback copy of Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger: it’s still only available in hardcover over here!
I would buy The Book Whisperer by Donnalynn Miller.
Marcel Proust’s Search for Lost Time: A Reader’s Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past (Vintage) and The White Garden by Stephanie Barron. Thanks for the great contest!
Great Giveaway; thanks. I’d buy 1001 Books to Read Before You Die.
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I would buy as many collections of Dostoyevsky short stories as I could afford from the £25 and hope to finally track down the story of his about the crocodile which first blew my mind when I was fourteen and which I have never found a copy of since despite thirty years of searching.
I would save it and buy Too Much Happiness, the book by Alice Munro that is coming out in November. She is my favorite short story writer and I am looking forward to a new collection.
Thanks for the drawing!
I would buy as many books as I could that are not available for sale in Hong Kong. Top of the list would be Daphne by Justine Picardie, I’d love to read that book but it is not available here.
Great prize Jackie, that is really a good gift idea for all of us avid readers.
Great giveaway!
I’d buy The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood.
Philippe Soupault’s Last Nights of Paris. I’ve been wanting to read that one forever!
I would buy White Trash in a Trailer Park since it’s been languishing unpurchased on my wish list for 7 years. Appalling, no? Then again if the gc is to amazon.uk, I’d probably want to look through the books on my list only available over there.
Ooo, what a great giveaway! I would start with Mouse Guard Winter – my kids loved the Mouse Guard Autumn graphic novel and have been wanting the sequel.
I’d save it for either the third in the Hunger Games books or the second in the Forest of Hands and Teeth series.
How amazingly generous of you! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would get The Weight of Heaven. That’s one that’s been on my wishlist for awhile. This is a wonderful giveaway.
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I have had my eye on The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters, so I would finally get that.
Was browsing Amazon on Sunday, and came across the Vintage Classics European Boxset, which has The Master & Margarita, If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Death In Venice & Other Stories, and The Leopard.
It looks like a good collection, so my heart’s set on that for the time-being.
Thanks for the giveaway,
I’m reading If On a Winter’s Night and would really like to read the Leopard. That’s a great set!
How generous of you – Thank you! I’d have to buy ‘The Quickening Maze’ to complete my booker shortlist set, and ‘Dancing Backwards’ by Sally Vickers.
What a nice giveaway!:) I never win, but I always try;) I would buy “Behind the stairs” by Amanda Vickery, a book on domestic life in georgian England, because I am fascinated by this subject, or maybe “Wolf Hall”, for obvious reasons;)
I’m thinking I Am Cat by Soseki (which I have yet to obtain for tanabata’s read-along), Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan (but I may wait for the Australian edition with book cover art by Shaun Tan), or Her Fearful Symmetry.
“Which book next?” is always a tough question
Wolf Hall and The Little Stranger are at the top of my list right now. Thank you so much for this great giveaway!
Oo… I would buy more Joyce Dennys books, I think.
What book would I buy? Wow that is a hard question. I’d love my own beautiful hardcover copy of The Iliad (since I have Really Old Classics on my mind right now). Which translator is the next question and that I struggle to decide!
can I change my mind? I keep seeing reviews of Kristin Landsvatter so maybe I’d go for that….of course, I suspect I’ll change my mind again in a few days.. LOL!
I would buy Howard’s End is on the Landing by Susan Hill as I have heard really mixed reviews so I would like to find out for myself plus I am a little bit in love with the beautiful front cover!
Ooh, that’s difficult! I think it would have to be Dan Brown’s new book – The Lost Symbol. I’m a very big Dan Brown fan and I’m sure this book will be just as amazing as the Da Vinci Code!
I’d buy both of Steig Larsson’s books and probably pre-order Douglas Preston’s new book.
Well how can I pass that giveaway up????? If I won, I would buy “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers for me and “Dinotrux” for my son!
I would probably buy Goldengrove by Francine Prose or Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick.
Thank you for a fantastic Giveaway, Jackie!
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I would pick Bed of Roses by Nora Roberts and use the difference to buy a crafty book. I can’t tell you which though because it would take me forever to pick out since there as SO MANY that I want!
Special prizes like this call for special books, don’t they? So I would let you treat me to a copy of Vienna 1900 and the Heroes of Modernism to match the Munich and Berlin volumes in the series already on my bookshelves.
I would buy Candida Höfer’s Libraries. It’s already $63!!
Beautiful library shots. Enough to drool over.
I would buy the Star Wars Visual Dictionary. It’s been on my WL for over 2 years!
I like to collect books about books, so I’d like to buy The Reader’s Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction by Joyce G. Sarick, 2009.
but I’d love to own the Laurie R. King collection of Mary Russell books, starting with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
i think after all the hype in teh paper this week, i would have to say that i would love to read andre agassi’s autobiography – sounds like it is a warts and all read!
mind there are quite a few november new releases that i have my eye on too – miranda dickinsons fairytale in new york looks like a good read
Hmm. I want “Fire” by Kristin Cashore. Then maybe another knitting book?
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises is on my wish list because I’m very interested in what changes can be made to help humanity and the earth we all inhabit.
I would buy Willoughby’s return by Jane Odiwe or Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
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I would get The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa De La Cruz!
I would buy the Hunger Game for a Christmas present for a relative.
Anne Rice has a new series. Charlie Huston’s latest Joe Pitt.
What a great idea for a give away ! First on my list would be Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld and then The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey and then…. oh don’t get me started
Fingers crossed for a win
Thanks for a great idea
I would get Ash by Malinda Lo, or Child of Fire by Harry Conolly.
What a generous Giveaway! I have been wanting to get a copy of A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenburg so I would pick this one.
Thanks!
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After procrastinating over it for some time I think I would buy The Music Room by William Fiennes The Fall by Simon Mawer (see, its always hard for me to tie it down to just one book!)
I would get My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
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Ooh! I wanna get my hands on Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, but it doesn’t come out till next year. Guess I will have to hold on the gift cert and wait
Gosh, there’s so many! Graceling, or Octavian Nothing Vol. 2, or the second of the Knife of Never Letting Go, or maybe Scott Westerfeld’s new one… maybe some more Wheel of Time books so I can get going on that…. or maybe a nice big fat classic of some kind!
i would love to buy ‘the pioneer woman cooks’ cookbook by Ree Drummond!
I would use it to surprise the next young adult patron who comes into the library and asks me to buy a book for the collection.
Wow, great contest! I’d buy Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott and Captivate by Carrie Jones.
I would buy eat, pray and love! Yep! I haven’t read that book, too expnesive…
Oooh. I’d probably buy the new Paul Auster and however many YA books off my wish list with the rest! How exciting.
If I were to win I would purchase the new Dorothy Whipple Persephone–High Wages.
I think I would get the Pretty Little Liars Box Set
My first thought was Albertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, but since that’s a bit pricey, the fallback would be Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and Stolen by Lucy Christopher.
What a great competition !
I would probably buy the latest in the Wheel of Time series from Robert Jordan/James Saunderson.
I think I’d get one (or more) of these books:
Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Another Faust by Daniel and Dina Nayeri
Kissed by an Angel by Elizabeth Chandle
Ha! I would definitely buy The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving by Hiroshi Nagashima! I would love to learn to make those edible decorations for in my bento. It is probably very easy if you know the trick!
Here’s the book on Amazon: take a look, it’s gorgeous!
Thanks for organizing this cool giveaway, I couldn’t resist joining
Hi, My choice would definately be Ian McEwan’s Saturday Night as it is the only one of his books that I haven’t yet read!
I’d pre-order the new Stephen King book, Under the Dome!
Great giveaway, cheers!
I would get Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore, Still Life by Louise Penny and A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin!
I’ve wanted Atul Gawande’s two books, Better and Complications, for a long time, and now Eva keeps talking about them and making me want them even more. So, I’d have to say, one or both of those!
Great giveaway!
Hi! Please enter me. I would buy Give Up the Ghost by Megan Crewe!!!!!!!
I’d buy Push by Sapphire and The Audacity to Win by David Plouffe. Or Maybe When Everything Changed by Gail Collins.
So weird – I could swear I had already replied to this. Did I not? I am fretting that I already did, and some strange power has made it invisible, and then if I comment again I’ll be a TERRIBLE CHEATER.
(I am not a cheater! If I already really did enter, which I swear I remember doing unless I am insane (possible), please unenter this entry.)
But I very desperately want to get a volume or two of L.M. Montgomery’s journals.
Oo, I did. Can you delete all this? I didn’t see the “older comments” option. Because I’m stupid. And apparently very changeable as I said something quite different earlier.
I would most likely buy Under the Dome by Stephen King. I can’t wait to read this book.
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Ah! So exciting! Alright… If I could buy one book (although, if I got more than 15, I’d be sure to find a way to buy a few)… I’d buy either “The Divine Comedy” by Dante or “Agnes Grey” by Anne Bronte. I’ve been interested in the latter for awhile, and the former has recently captured and refused to let go of my attention.
Thanks for the giveaway!
There are so many books I want. I’d love to get You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs though.
I’m just making the cut-off. My book to buy on Amazon is The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Thanks for offering the contest. Aloha from Rob
I’d buy Books! Duh! I’d pre-order Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith, which comes out later this month, then see what I have left over and buy more books–maybe some mass market paperbacks.
darn it…just realized that today IS the 4th.