Recs if you like Nothing to See Here...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

Book titles that illustrate things Pagebound users might do or say, or titles that might describe the app or its users. Recommendations are welcome (this is meant to be fun, please do not suggest titles that are rude or aggressive)!

This list is not a commentary on these books---the focus is purely on the titles!

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

lit fic featuring dysfunctional families

Books that inspired Wes Anderson movies or have that same feeling of whimsy, quirkiness and a bit of nostalgia 💛

Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025

2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers

*vibes may not be accurate

Weird Girl £it Fic

literary fiction/general fiction books with a speculative twist some lean more on the literary side, some more speculative. these books are more likely to be marketed as lit fic than speculative/sci-fi/fantasy.

Keeping up with the 700+ books featured on Overdue since 2013

describing these books is impossible without sounding like an absolute crazy person

Past and present winners and nominees of the Shirley Jackson Awards. Frightful reading!

Women protagonists in satirical contemporary fiction. Suggestions are welcome!

This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."

If you didn’t have mommy issues before, you will now.

Books featuring twins, identical or otherwise. Feel free to share recs to add to the list

These books are chosen for “Read with Jenna” by Jenna Bush Hager.

Latest book added: September 2026

Fiction books with explicit or implied themes of earth, water, air and fire