Stacking the Shelves | August 2025

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality that highlights all the books you've recently added to your shelves. Here's all the books I hauled in August!

So August turned out to be my month of spending far too much money on books cause it was my most expensive month of the year so far for buying books, oops. Most of my physical books were second-hand though with a few special editions arriving too. 

• Castle in the Air & House of Many Ways by Dianna Wynne Jones (Fairyloot Editions)

• The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker

• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

• The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw (Evernight Edition)

• Friends Like These by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

• Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan 

• Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore

• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence 

I'm just going to hide in shame about how crazy I went with the Kindle deals this month...

Slow Horses (#5-8) by Mick Herron

With a Little Help From Their Friends by Stuart Maconie 

Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick 

Births, Deaths and Marriages by Laura Barnett

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth 

Room on the Sea by Andre Aciman 

Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister

On the Calculation of, Volume II by Solvej Balle

Hunger by Choi Jin-Young 

The Show Woman by Emma Cowing 

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

The Tarot Reader of Versailles by Anya Bergman 

Freakslaw by Jane Flett

Albion by Anna Hope 

Predatory Creatures by Amy Goldsmith 

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford

Heatwave by John L. Williams 

Butter by Asako Yuzuki 

Decoy by Robert Murphy 

O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker

How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

Morgan is my Name by Sophie Keetch 

Forever Forward by Ben Hunt 

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki by Baek Sehee

The Stand by Stephen King  

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzen

The Lady of the Lake by Jean Menzies

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Little Red Death by A.K. Benedict

The Space Between Worlds by Miciah Johnson 

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold

The Lottery & Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Summer of '79 by Elin Hilderbrand

Boys Don't Cry by Fiona Scarlett

My Name is Emilia Del Valle by Isabel Allende

Dream State by Erich Puchner

Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa

The Names by Florence Knapp

Sorrow Spring by Olivia Isaac-Henry

The Distant Echo by Val McDermid

The Man Made of Smoke by Alex North 

Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley

A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark

What have you hauled over the last month or even week? Leave a comment or leave a link to your own hauls down below. Happy Reading!