2nd Annual Happy Haul-idays from Chronicle Books

It's the 2nd Annual "Happy Haul-idays from Chronicle Books"! What's that mean to you? If you are a blogger, write a post listing $500 worth of books from Chronicle Books that you would like to win. If you are picked as their winning blogger, you get the list of books that you posted! Not only that, but you then get to choose a commenter on your blog post to win the same haul of books. AND you then get to choose a charity of your choice to win a third set of books as well! How awesome is that?

And to make it even better, you get to comment on any other blogger's post in hopes that you may win that way if THEY are the grand winner instead! It's a win-win-win, with multiple ways for you to win.

The charity I would choose, should I win, would be the Lee County Library System.

I think the library system is an important fixture in any town, even if I don't go very often (due to me being a bibliophile, who needs to OWN books! :) I never went to the public library as a kid, as my mother never had time to take me, but I wish I had. I did enjoy getting books from the school library though!

Here is my list of books I would like:

A Beautiful Bowl of Soup: The Best Vegetarian Recipes
By Paulette Mitchell   $19.95

Rice Pasta Couscous: The Heart of the Mediterranean Kitchen
By Jeff Koehler $29.95

Fresh from the Farmers' Market: Year-Round Recipes for the Pick of the Crop
By Janet Fletcher, Victoria Pearson, Alice Waters  $19.95

Simply Organic: A Cookbook for Sustainable, Seasonal, and Local Ingredients
By Jesse Ziff Cool, France Ruffenach  $24.95

Heirloom Beans: Great Recipes for Dips and Spreads, Soups and Stews, Salads and Salsas, and Much More from Rancho Gordo
By Steve Sando, Vanessa Barrington, Sara Remington $22.95

The Commonsense Kitchen: 500 Recipes Plus Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life
By Tom Hudgens $35

Fast, Fresh and Green: More Than 90 Delicious Recipes for Veggie Lovers
By Susie Middleton, Ben Fink $24.95

Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic: Cook Well—Eat Well—Live Well
By Anna Getty, Dan Goldberg, Ron Hamad $24.95

Michael Chiarello's Bottega
By Michael Chiarello, Frankie Frankeny $40

Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It
By Michael Ableman $35

Saveur The New Comfort Food: Home Cooking From Around the World
From the Editors of Saveur magazine   $35

Quick and Easy Mexican Cooking: More than 80 Everyday Recipes
By Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee,Photographs by Leigh Beisch,and Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee  $22.95

Ready, Set, Novel! A Workbook, Plan and Plot Your Upcoming Masterpiece
By Chris Baty, Lindsey Grant, and Tavia Stewart-Streit of National Novel Writing Month   $16.95

Okavango: Africa's Last Eden
$24.95

On This Earth: Photographs from East Africa
By Nick Brandt, Alice Sebold, Jane Goodall  $40

Chicken and Egg: A Memoir of Suburban Homesteading with 125 Recipes
By Janice Cole, Alex Farnum  $24.95

The Meaning of Trees: Botany • History • Healing • Love
By Fred Hageneder $19.95

From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting, and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love
By Jimmy Williams   $30

Does my list sound good to you, too? If so, comment below, and if I win, maybe you will, too! Go to the Chronicle Books website to sign up for your own chance to win your selection of books. Good luck to us all!