Amazon is hosting a massive Buy Two, Get One Free Sale this week as part of its Big Spring Sale. It’s a mix-and-match promotion that includes books, Blu-rays, toys, and more. We’ve already rounded up our favorite 4K Blu-ray deals included in the B2G1 free sale, so now it’s time to look at the notable book deals. Since there are thousands of book deals, we decided to focus on fantasy and science fiction novel box sets as well as collector’s edition books and recent releases. Below, you’ll find two large lists of our favorite deals, followed by breakouts of notable authors and franchises.
Amazon Big Spring Book Sale: Fantasy & Sci-Fi Novel Box Sets
Note: Italicized box sets denotes books and box sets that aren’t B2G1 free but were worth shouting out because they are featured in the Big Spring Sale. Many of the books that aren’t B2G1 free have additional coupon discounts instead.
More Novels (Deluxe Editions, Hardcovers, New Releases)
The Lord of the Rings Books & Box Sets
Lord of the Rings fans who don’t own the popular Tolkien Illustrated Editions can get all three of them for only $84 thanks to the B2G1 free promotion. Tolkien Illustrated Editions of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion carry $75 list prices, but you’ll pay $28 per book right now. The main reason why these versions have become so popular is that each one is illustrated by Tolkien himself. They are beautifully designed, too. All three feature Elvish script across the stained page edges, a ribbon bookmark, the unabridged original text in red and black, two removable maps, and a handsome dust jacket.
Tolkien Illustrated Editions:
2024 Lord of the Rings Collector’s Editions:
The History of Middle-earth Box Sets:
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Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn and Stormlight Archive Series
If you’ve thought about exploring Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe, box sets featuring the first three novels in The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn provide a lot of reading material for cheap. Unsure which one to start with? Mistborn is a fantasy series that’s a bit more grounded and offers a more focused, character-driven story arc. Stormlight is a sprawling high fantasy epic with many intertwining storylines and a staggering scope. The fifth book in The Stormlight Archive series, Wind and Truth, released in December. All five Stormlight Archive hardcovers are featured in the B2G1 free book sale–but you can get a better deal by buying the four-book hardcover box set for $70 and then buying Wind and Truth separately.
Various Stormlight and Mistborn paperback box sets are included in the promotion, as are Sanderson’s books for young readers. Here’s a quick rundown of the highlights, but we’d recommend reading our dedicated story on Brandon Sanderson book deals for more details.
B2G1 Free Stormlight Archive Hardcover Books:
B2G1 Free Mistborn Novel Box Sets
B2G1 Free Mistborn Trade Paperbacks:
- The Final Empire — $16.79 (
$22) - The Well of Ascension — $15 (
$22) - The Hero of Ages — $9.75 (
$22) | Not eligible - The Alloy of Law — $12.73 (
$22) - Shadows of Self — $13 (
$22) | Not eligible - The Bands of Mourning — $16 (
$22) - The Lost Metal — $15 (
$24)
Brandon Sanderson Books for YA Readers
Hugh Howey’s Silo & Pierce Brown’s Red Rising
Fans of Apple TV’s stellar dystopian sci-fi series who haven’t read Hugh Howey’s original novel series can get the box set edition of the Silo trilogy in Amazon’s B2G1 free sale. Existing fans and newcomers alike should also consider picking up Wool Collector’s Edition. This gorgeous hardcover edition of the first Silo novel released last fall and is available for only $25 (was $40). A Collector’s Edition of Shift, the second novel in series, is up for preorder for $40 at Amazon ahead of its September 16 release.
For a different kind of dystopian sci-fi experience, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series has become immensely popular over the past few years. Six Red Rising books have released since 2014, with the seventh, final book still to come. You can catch up by grabbing a box set of the first three Red Rising novels for $38 (was $54). The box set is eligible for Amazon’s B2G1 free sale, while several individual paperbacks and hardcovers have additional coupon discounts. You can snag the first book in the series for only $6.66.
Red Rising also has a prequel graphic novel series called Son of Ares. It’s out of print at the moment, but an omnibus edition with all three volumes is slated to release on July 8 in hardcover and paperback.
Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga
Dune fans can pick up stunning editions of Frank Herbert’s original trilogy in box set format for only $64. The Dune Saga 3-Book Deluxe Hardcover Box Set includes hardcovers of Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. Each book has stained edges, gorgeous foil-stamped cover art, fully illustrated endpapers, and posters inside the dust jackets. You could pair this premium set with the Deluxe Collector’s Editions of Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1, and Book 2: Muad’Dib. Several standard edition Dune graphic novels are also included in the promotion alongside several standard edition hardcovers.
Dune Novel Box Sets
B2G1 Free Dune Paperback Novels
Four of the six budget-friendly paperback editions of Frank Herbert’s original Dune novels are in the B2G1 free sale.
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$11) - — $6 (
$10) - — $5.82 (
$10) - — $9 (
$10) - — $6.49 (
$10) - — $8 (
$10)
Dune Graphic Novels
You could pair the novels with the Deluxe Collector’s Editions of Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1, and Book 2: Muad’Dib. All three standard hardcover editions of the graphic novel adaptation–a collector’s edition was never released for the third volume–are steeply discounted and B2G1 free.
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower & More Novel Box Sets
Though it’s not included in the B2G1 free promotion, the massive Dark Tower 8-Book Box Set is discounted to only $69 (was $161) at Amazon. This trade paperback collection collects all 4,700-plus pages in King’s incredible dark fantasy series. And just like with Dune, the official graphic novel adaptation is also on sale. All three of the premium hardcover omnibus editions are discounted by at least 40%, and two of them are included in the B2G1 free promotion.
Outside of the Dark Tower, you’ll find hardcover editions of several King novels and story collections in the B2G1 free sale, including It and The Shining.
For more deals on books by the modern master of horror fiction, check out our roundup of every Stephen King book eligible for B2G1 free.
Stephen King Hardcover Novels + Box Sets:
Stephen King Graphic Novels:
