This post is inspired by Kerry at Pickle Me This, and by my own nosiness, because I want to know where your books come from too.

Join in! You can either list the last 30 books you read, as Kerry did, or calculate your stats for the whole year. I’ve done both.

The last thirty books:

1. What Is Going to Happen Next by Karen Hofmann: Received from publisher
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: Bought secondhand at Wee Book Inn
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson: Library
4. I Am A Truck by Michelle Winter: Bought directly from the publisher
5. 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster: Library
6. Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunnning: Bought from Kobo, full price
7. A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman: Bought from Chapters
8. My Name is Leon by Kit De Waal: Bought from Kobo, on sale
9. Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor: Library
10. Brother by David Chariandy: Bought from Chapters
11. The Dark and Other Love Stories by Deborah Willis: Library
12. Indigenous Writes by Chelsea Vowel: Library
13. Solar Bones by Mike McCormack: Bought from Book Depository
14. Serving Pleasure by Alisha Rai: Bought from Kobo, full price
15. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson: Bought from Kobo, on sale
16. History of Wolves by Emil Fridlund: Library
17. Flawless Consulting by Peter Block: Free from work
18. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: Received as a gift
19. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry: Library
20. Shadow of Doubt by Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon: Received as a gift
21. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: Library
22. Desperate Characters by Paula Fox: Bought from Amazon
23. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Won in a giveaway
24. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan: Bought from Kobo, full price
25. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid: Bought from Kobo, full price
26. House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson: Library
27. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler: Bought on Kobo, on sale
28. Son of France by Todd Babiak: Bought from Chapters
29. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid: Library
30. Tampa by Alissa Nutting: Bought on Kobo, on sale

And, of my 75 books read to date in 2017:

• 28 bought at full price
• 26 borrowed from the library
• 11 bought at significant discount (e.g. $1.99 ebooks, secondhand, or library sale)
• 3 received as gifts
• 3 part of training at work
• 3 from publishers
• 1 won in a giveaway

Or, put another way, I paid nothing for nearly half the books I’ve read this year. I paid full price for just over a third of them.

I thought I might be even heavier on library books, because I always have SO many checked out and on hold at any given time. Participating in After Canada Reads tipped me over the edge of half paid-for books (had to buy 5 full price books to mark up.)

So, I’m nosy: where do your books come from?