Recs if you like Golden Son...

A list of books with corrupt, evil, or just downright bad governments! I'm not sure how I ended up reading so many of these types of books (prob my love for dystopia) but here I am haha. Most of these will prob include taking down said evil government. I will update this list as I read more books with bad govs.

If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!

just got a new knight! i sure hope his unwavering loyalty, mindless devotion, and tendency to kneel before me to kiss the palm of my hand before he commits atrocities in my name doesn't awaken anything in me

(recommendations for other knight books welcome in the comments, and note that i haven't personally read all the ones included here!)

Fantasy books with a metal in the title, including iron, gold, silver, steel, and brass. This curated list features epic fantasy, YA fantasy, and sci-fantasy books.

books that shayne topp from smosh has read in 2025 (ones that he talked about or posted on social media at the end of the year)

books about space and other planets

if you want to work on your HRCYED 3.0 Periodic Table prompt and the amazing quests on Pagebound then this list is for you (and inspired by my own status as a badge gremlin). all the books should be in at least one quest per July 31st 2026.🧚‍♀️

Elements represented are: Radium Iron Gold Silver

Fiction books with Canadian places in the title.

(Sometimes the book is completely irrelevant to the actual Canadian place, but I'm having fun ok)

Book ideas for the ‘Rainbow of Words’ - Books with colours in the title. I know that not all these colours are in the challenge but I’m down the rabbit hole now okay and I’m not leaving you can’t make me!!!

Includes: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Jade, Blue, Purple, Violet, Black, White, Brown, Gold, Silver, Rose & Pink

plus some french, spanish & german titles for colours too

the books shayne topp (from icarly) recommended from his 2025 reads on his instagram story!

The most comprehensive list of award winning sci-fi and fantasy novels. The books on this list have won either 1 or multiple awards out of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus Sci-Fi, Locus Fantasy, goodreads Choice Fantasy, or goodreads Science Fiction Awards.

Books that had me going WTF?! The whole time! Some of these are really insightful and deep pieces of literature. Some are AFTG and Twilight.

A list of complex protagonists and characters throughout series who you’ll either love and deeply understand, or hate and want to tear the book in half

• always taking recommendations -

introspective and creative fiction that changed how I look at my life and the human condition

Books that are paced relatively well and are action packed!! Page turners!

G&G June Challenge

going to war vicariously