I recently joined a Romance Reader’s group on Facebook and someone posted they bought themselves (or were gifted?) a book for each year for their recent birthday, prompting a LOT of readers to post their ages and the number of books they anticipate for their next birthday. I don’t have a lot of spare dollars to spend, and doubted my family would buy into this idea even if I helpfully provided a curated and prioritized list of what I’d like to add to my collection… but I did somehow manage to acquire a staggering number of items in celebration of my 48th birthday, thanks to advance reader’s editions, the Library’s book sale, Book Outlet, Thrift Books, Better World Books, Target, and Little Free Libraries around town.

Want to gift a book to me? I have a registry on Bookshop.org and my local affiliate is the Book Rack in Arlington MA.

Here’s the rundown:

1. 48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
3. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
4. The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
5. Book Lovers by Emily Henry
6. The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick
7. Egg: A Dozen Ovatures by Lizzie Stark
8. Eight Perfect Nights by Lia Louis
9. Everything, Everything by Nicola June
10. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
11. Float Plan by Trish Doller
12. The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
13. The Garden of Ruth by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
14. The Girl With Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts
15. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert
16. Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey
17. Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
18. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
19. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
20. Inside the Titanic: A Giant Cutaway Book by Hugh Brewster, illus. by Ken Marschall
21. It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey
22. Just Haven’t Met You Yet by Sophie Cousens
23. Kiss & Tell by Adib Khorram
24. Little Moments of Love by Catana Chetwynd
25. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
26. Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
27. Malkah’s Notebook: A Journey Into the Mystical Aleph-Bet by Mira Z. Almiras
28. Maine by Courtney Sullivan
29. The Marriage Game by Sara Desai
30. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
31. One Night on the Island by Josie Silver
32. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
33. Sadie on a Plate by Amanda Elliot
34. Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James
35. Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey
36. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
37. The Shortest Distance Between Love and Hate by Sandy Hall
38. The Singles Table by Sara Desai
39. Starring Sally J. Freidman as Herself by Judy Blume
40. Still Alice by Lisa Genova
41. The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
42. A Taxonomy of Love by Rachel Allen
43. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
44. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zavin
45. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
46. What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
47. What Is My Plant Telling Me?: An Illustrated Guide to Houseplants and How to Keep Them Alive by Emily L. Hay Hinsdale
48. You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld