Recs if you like Katabasis...

Standalone fantasy books that won't make you invest your life in a dozen installments

campuses, the occult, a bacchanalia or two. only true dark academia in this list 🍂🚬☕️

books in which Death, or a god of Death, or the Grim Reaper (or a Grim Reaper), is personified. This list will NOT include the works of Neil Gaiman (ew)

Keep tracking of PB lore one TBR train book at a time. List of books that have unexpectedly + delightfully affected our PB experience. (PB pyramid scheme name approved by our queen of clownery @ayzrules + the book that led the scheme by our pink queen @crybabybea)

For all the multitaskers on here (including myself): books featured on 2+ quests! Go get those badges everyone

I'm sure some of these are already on your TBR, so might as well add some more! Let me know if I am missing any of your favorites!

Book that have an element you’ll miss out on if you read as an audiobook, whether it’s fun formatting or illustrations

katabasis (n.) “descent”; often referring to a descent into the underworld, or the realm of the dead.

these books are based in hell 😈

taking any and all recommendations!

These audiobooks do accents so badly they'll give you second-hand embarrassment. Please let me know what books I should add to this list.

books that feature an animal (real & fantastical alike) as a side character, companion, or a pet!

A list for books based on the works of other writers (or: authors copying each other’s homework 🙂‍↕️). Suggestions welcome!

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

| 2026 | verity: october 2 sense & sensibility: october 16 sunrise on the reaping: november 20 dune messiah: december 18

| 2027 | children of blood & bone: january 15 the nightingale: february 12 beach read: may 7

| 2028 | cinder: november 3

All of the books seen on display in Episode 1 of The Vampire Lestat, "Detroit," during Lestat's trip to the independent bookstore in Montreal, encountering some snotty cashiers.

Eclectic choices of stories to forget life sucks.

I think Pagebound quests should be enjoyed at your own pace, reading whatever piques your interest. That being said, here's a list of books that are included in multiple quests. This list is a work in progress and suggestions are welcome :)

A masterlist of standalone adult fantasy novels (no novellas).

Always looking for recs!