Recs if you like Paradise Lost...
nice to meet you, I'm Death
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)
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harrowings of hell
katabasis (n.) โdescentโ; often referring to a descent into the underworld, or the realm of the dead.
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books that share hyper-specific titles with kpop
A list of books that share more specific titles with kpop songs. Kpop songs named after books count. See comments for kpop song and book title match-ups. Always open to suggestions!
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Read Like an English Major
Books for those who want to be well-read without the debt (created by someone with said debt)
Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! โบ๏ธ 3/17/2026
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One Book Many Quests
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?
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Two and Through
Duologies. Duologies! A list full of duologies. This has a collection of titles I'm interested in and some recommended to me. To save you the trouble, I made sure to put both books in a duology in this list. Enjoy! ๐
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gimme them LONG classics, i wanna carry a BRICK
size matters for this list, all these classics are more than 400 pages long. they are THICK. suggestions welcome, i am a very generous interpreter of the term "classic" normally but i'm starting with the golden oldies
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HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Covers Edition)
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 I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.
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PhDโs Guide to Pre-1900 British Lit
Your pre-1900 British & Irish lit starter pack from a bonafide English PhD
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The Good Place
Books from NBC's The Good Place.
"What matters isn't if people are good or bad. What matters is if they're trying to be better today than they were yesterday."
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Angels & Demons
Did you watch Supernatural and have a crush on (both versions of) Ruby? Maybe you had a crush on Crowley? Maybe even a crush on Castiel? Then you are in luck because this list is for you!!! Angels and demons abound in these books, some more biblically accurate than others.
Disclaimer: This list is not related to The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
open to suggestions!!
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Tiny Fables
All fiction books that appear in the Tiny Bookshop catalogue! Would sort them by genre as I read along.
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Standard Ebooks Offerings!
I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but I talk about Standard Ebooks a TON. I wanted to make a list of some of the most popular offerings they have available to read. Their full library of over 1300 books is 100% FREE and from the US Public Domain. From Kobo to Kindle, they have a format that'll work for however you want to read, even PDFs! Save a few bucks (or library holds) here: https://standardebooks.org/
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Gotta Catch them All! Pokemon to Book Matches
This is a list of books representing every pokemon in HeartGold and SoulSilver (So Johto+Kanto regions). For my sanity, this is one book per evo line. The list with match-ups is in the commentsโ๐ป๐
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Books in Buffy
Books shown or referenced in the tv show Buffy The Vampire Slayer - not including thematic references only direct references or books shown on screen.
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The Western Literary Canon
When you loved the books assigned in English class.
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Mocked with Death: The Tragedy of Overliving
Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death and lengthened out To deathless pain? (Paradise Lost 10.773-775)
Derived from Emily Wilson's exploration of tragedy that is concerned with living rather than dying.
โLives do not always end at the expected time. People go on living even after the moment when they or others feel they should have died. Each of these writers presents a character who experiences an intolerable sense of suffering and loss, and feels that he has lived too long, but, nevertheless, decides to resist suicide.โ
Including works where even if suicide is not a concept a character dwells upon, there is a sense of confusion or intense weariness at the continuation of life past a cataclysmic, life-altering event and that moment defines every choice for the rest of their life.
Includes some of her discussed works as well as works that I think fit this concept. Please recommend any books you think will work!
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Paradise What?
Books of any genre that have a title structured 'Paradise ______'
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![Paradise Regained [with Biographical Introduction]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1677799752i/8115407.jpg)
Epic poetry: A Selection
Famous epic poems from a range of different countries
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horrific villains in fiction
inspired by me watching youtube videos about literary analysis of villains, here is a list full of books in which i believe their villains to be absolutely ghastly and horrifying; bloody and abusive, terrorizing and killing. if you have any to recommend, please put them in the comments! i'd love to make this list large!
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