Monthly Kindle Book Budget: May

Quite a few free reads last month (some of which I would not have purchased, otherwise, although now and then one of the free reads is one I have on my Wish List). Several books have gone up in price since I purchased them and I've started noticing that some of the books purchased this year have disappeared from the Kindle store entirely (Summer's Path by Scott Blum and all of Boyd Morrison's books, for example).

May

The Night Gardener	George Pelecanos		$1.99
Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith #1: Precipice	JOHN JACKSON MILLER		$0.00
The Colorado Sequence	Stacey Cochran		$0.80
Like Warm Sun on Nekkid Bottoms	Chuck Austen		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold IX:. The Queen of the Abyss	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold VIII: The Silver Caduceus	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of GoldVII:. The Wisdom of Solomon	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold VI:. the Dragonslayer	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold V:. the Quinta Essentia	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold IV:. The Hesperian Dragon	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold III:. The Head of the Crow	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold II:. The King of Terrors	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Red Cross of Gold I:. The Knight of Death	Brendan Carroll		$1.59
The Grove	John Rector		$0.99
CLAWS	Stacey Cochran		$1.59
25 Language Phrasebook	MobileReference		$0.01
Irreconcilable Differences	James R. Strickland		$0.99
Looking Glass	James R. Strickland		$0.99
Migration of the Kamishi (The Feral World)	Gaddy Bergmann		$0.99
In Her Name: Empire	Michael R. Hicks		$1.59
Felonious Jazz	Bryan Gilmer		$1.99
Dragon Ring	Lettie Prell		$0.99
A Lifetime of Vengeance	P. J. Grondin		$0.99
The Network Imperative: Community or Contagion?	Yoram (Jerry) Wind, Paul R. Kleindorfer		$0.00
Master Of The Game	Sidney Sheldon		$0.99
Call Me (Joker's Wild Series)	Lena Matthews		$0.00
Living With Your Kids Is Murder	Mike Befeler		$3.99
The Merchant of Death	D.J. MacHale		$0.00
The Huntress	Shiloh Walker		$0.00
Crossroads: Navigating Your Calling and Career	Colin Creel		$0.00
Kiss of Midnight	Lara Adrian		$0.00
Once Bitten, Twice Shy	Jennifer Rardin		$0.00
Weapons of Choice (Axis of Time, Book 1)	John Birmingham		$0.00
Elric: The Stealer of Souls	Michael Moorcock		$0.00

For the month, that's 34 books, $34.79 in total, for $1.02 per book. Definitely within the monthly budget (but the TBR stack is getting quite high). Here's the break-down by month, for the year-to-date:

Month	No. Books	Total Cost	Per Book
January	59	$83.47	$1.41
February	43	$29.97	$0.70
March	32	$33.44	$1.05
April	22	$13.11	$0.60
May	34	$34.79	$1.02
Totals	190	$194.78	$1.03