Welcome to another installment of In My Mailbox, hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren. It’s a showcase of the books received for review, purchased, or picked up at the library during the week.

I’m still knee-deep in Cybils titles, but this week a few other titles made their way to my door.

For Review:

The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal: Looks like a nice change of pace from my other reading! A Fantasy and mystery about a girl who thinks she’s royalty but just may not.

Human .4 by Mike Lancaster: This sounds like an interesting readalike to M. T. Anderson’s Feed.

Bitter Melon by Cara Chow: I dig the premise here, about a Chinese-American girl pressured by her parents for perfection.

Prisoners in the Palace by Michaela MacCall: This is one of our Cybils titles. A historical fiction set in London that’s been compared to The Luxe.

Fall for Anything by Courtney Summers: I preordered this one after I finished the ARC, but I also received a finish copy this week from the publisher. So I guess that means I’ll be giving away a third copy of this title. You can enter here.

Leap by Jodi Lundgren: This one comes out in March, I believe, and it’s about a competitive dancer. Looks really good!

Joe Rat by Mark Barratt: An adventure set in historical London. This one might have the creepiest cover ever.

Virginia by Susan Hughes: Secrets, secret powers, and more. Another Cybils title.

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini: A debut supernatural romance, blurbed by Lauren Kate. My friend’s the editor of this one, so despite being a bit out of my normal reading tastes, I am VERY excited.

Bumped by Megan McCafferty: I dig the Jessica Darling series and am eager to see something different from McCafferty.

Alex Van Helsing: Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson: Second in the series. You can’t beat the tagline – “No sparkly vampires here!”

Scary School by Derek the Ghost: A middle grade novel with illustrations. A funny one!

This week, we had a meeting at our library system center, and there were some books available for us to take. I grabbed these two for post-Cybils reading.

One Day by David Nicholls: This one got a ton of summer buzz.

At Home by Bill Bryson: Bryson is the quintessential man of the midwest. Anything he writes (except his memoir) I have loved, and I suspect this won’t disappoint, either.

From the library:

Sugar and Ice by Kate Messner: I am really looking forward to this middle grade novel. When it came across my desk post-processing, I took it home immediately.

One Bloody Thing After Another by Joey Comeau: By the author of Bible Camp Bloodbath is an earlier bloody horror (and guaranteed laugh fest, at least for me). We all have our escapist reading. I don’t even pretend.

Folly by Marthe Jocelyn: Historical fiction in multiple voices and multiple time settings in London. Very Dickensian and I am very much not feeling it. Too confusing for me.