Hey, so I made a post about using my local library in 2018 and how I managed to save £317 so I wanted to do this for each year as I love my library service (I think I’m the number 1 fan judging by how much I talk about it on here).
I read a lot of books during 2019 and managed to exceed my Goodreads goal of 70 books by reading 78. Of these 78 books, I borrowed 37 from the library and now that I’ve gone through this list of titles and counted up all the pennies that I would have spent on these books using the paperback prices (*unless a new release in which case I used the hardcover price) on Amazon which leads me to the tidy sum of money spent on being a nerd in 2019.
Here’s a rundown on the savings:
On Balance – Sinead Morrissey – £7.69
An Amorous Discourse In The Suburbs of Hell – Deborah Levy – £7.99
You Do You – Sarah Knight – £6.73
Hinch Yourself Happy – Mrs Hinch – £6.49
Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez – £7.99
Postmortem – Patricia Cornwell – £7.37
Codename Villanelle – Luke Jennings – £6.99
The Five – Hallie Rubenhold – £12.99
Dark Matter – Blake Crouch – £7.37
Weight – Jeanette Winterson – £3.20
The Leper House – Andrew Taylor – £0.99
The Binding – Bridget Collins – £16.99
Why We Sleep – Matthew Walker – £5.99
Fox 8 – George Sanders – £7.99
The Meg – Steve Alten – £7.54
Develop Your Assertiveness – The Sunday Times – £13.55
The Killing Lessons – Saul Black – £8.19
Cut To The Bone – Alex Caan – £7.99
Penhallow – Georgette Heyer – £7.89
A Manual for Heartbreak – Cathy Rentzenbrink – £6.49
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls – Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo – £18.05
The Life Plan – Shannah Kennedy – £11.99
The Vampyre – John Polidori – £5.59
Crazy Rich Asians – Kevin Kwan – £5.72
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen – £5.39
The President Is Missing – James Patterson and Bill Clinton – £4.50
We’ll All Be Murdered In Our Beds – Duncan Campbell – £10.44
Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert – £7.38
Mean Girls – Nicol Ostow – £7.40
Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay – £6.95
Give Me Your Hand – Megan Abbot – £6.49
Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton – £7.37
The Corset – Laura Purcell – £6.55
Melmoth – Sarah Perry – £7.31
Good Muslim Boy – Osamah Sami – £6.02
The Little Snake – AL Kennedy – £5.94
Final Girls – Riley Sager – £7.15
This gives me a total of £288.66 of savings in 2019! Not as much as in 2018 but this was a really good reading year for me compared to 2020 which isn’t much of a surprise because of how 2020 treated us all.
Books For Becca 
I love when people use resources that Libraries have to offer. 🙂
The Library I work at started putting how much money you saved by using the Library at the bottom of every receipt. It has a total for that day and then a year total.
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That’s so cool! It took me longer than I’d like to admit to actually add up all those prices lol 🙂
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I’m sure it took you awhile. I applaud you for doing this because a lot of people don’t know that the Library could save them money. ☺️
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