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Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 books I want more merch for

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Hello everyone! Today’s prompt is top 5 books I want more merch for. I love book merch! So, I was excited for this topic. I found this one super easy because you can never have too many bookish goodies. 🙂 The covers all link to the book’s Goodreads page, and I’ve included the official covers and synopsis when available. Top 5 Tuesday was created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, and is now being hosted at Meeghan Reads!

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

There is so much potential for cool merch with this series. I need a stuffed Mephi or, better yet, my own personalized ossalen sidekick. Replicas of the swords would be cool too, as would some items made of the bone shards. There’s so much possibility!


The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands.

Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.

Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright – and save her people.

The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic by F.T. Lukens

This book had so many magical creatures. It would be easy to turn some of them into merch. I’d love a shirt with Bridger’s face off with the unicorn. lol.


Desperate to pay for college, Bridger Whitt is willing to overlook the peculiarities of his new job—entering via the roof, the weird stacks of old books and even older scrolls, the seemingly incorporeal voices he hears from time to time—but it’s pretty hard to ignore being pulled under Lake Michigan by… mermaids? Worse yet, this happens in front of his new crush, Leo, the dreamy football star who just moved to town.

Fantastic.

When he discovers his eccentric employer Pavel Chudinov is an intermediary between the human world and its myths, Bridger is plunged into a world of pixies, werewolves, and Sasquatch. The realm of myths and magic is growing increasingly unstable, and it is up to Bridger to ascertain the cause of the chaos, eliminate the problem, and help his boss keep the real world from finding the world of myths.

Of Feathers and Thorns by Kit Vincent

I’ll be honest. I just want tons of merch with the color palette of the book cover. I bought this book solely because of the colors on the cover and would scoop up any merch with them too. It is just so eye-catching.

A stunning queer fantasy perfect for fans of Carry On and A Marvelous Light.

After manifesting thorned magic and nearly destroying his hometown, Kieren Belltower is summoned to join the Magic Service—an institution in charge of magical affairs—and start an apprenticeship with a high-ranking magician. But instead of the mage assigned to teach him, Kieren is greeted by his haughty and annoyingly handsome senior apprentice Esten, who clearly has more important things to do than chaperone some newbie. Their teacher has disappeared on a secret assignment, leaving Esten no instructions other than a warning not to trust a soul. But as Kieren’s unruly magic proves too dangerous to leave unattended, Esten has no choice but to involve him in the matter.

Together they retrace their teacher’s last known mission—an investigation into the illegal use of magic and its connection to the devastating phenomenon called sludge, which has plagued the country for weeks. But as Kieren and Esten grow closer, they uncover a plot that thrusts their lives into danger and threatens to shatter everything they know about magic and the world they were born into.

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

All of the magical items in this book would make great merch. There could be so many cool replicas.

Neither here nor there, but long ago…

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan’s oldest son to find the artifact. Aided by her bodyguard, who has secrets of his own, they must survive ghoul attacks, outwit a vengeful jinn queen, and confront a malicious killer from Loulie’s past. And, in a world where story is reality and illusion is truth, Loulie will discover that everything—her enemy, her magic, even her own past—is not what it seems, and she must decide who she will become in this new reality.

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief weaves the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince, and a dangerous quest across the desert to find a legendary, magical lamp.

Star Wars: The High Republic by Various

I think this one speaks for itself. Star Wars is a merchandising machine, and I’d love to see those efforts turned a little more towards the High Republic era. I’d love a Starlight Beacon or Jedi fighter LEGO set or some action figures of my favorite heroes from this time period.

So, there you have it. My top 5 books I want more merch for. What merch would you like to have? Let me know down in the comments!

12 thoughts on “Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 books I want more merch for”

  5. The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths sound like a fun book. I read The Stardust Thief and like it. It would be cool to have merch base on the book.

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