Are you currently not crying to the point of vomiting, but you want to be? Need to conduct a science experiment to find out if you are in fact the ugliest crier in all of Pagebound? Well, do I have the list for you! Brought to you by the fine, very sad, folks of Pagebound! These books have been frequently suggested or upvoted in PB club posts about sad books! Suggestions in any genre, and extra tissues, are welcome!

Books it seems everyone has read but me.

Books that would help educate children about various important history topics, social justice issues, and people different from themselves (ie disabled, queer, or neurodivergent people).

Recommendations are always welcome! Fiction and nonfiction are fine. I would prefer more modern book recommendations. I’d love if you could explain your reasoning for recommending a bit!

Disclaimer: I’ve not read the books or watched the shows, I just wanted to be able to see all the books lined out before I (eventually) read them. A Song of Ice and Fire plus the companion novels. All in chronological order according to the multiple articles and Wikipedia pages I read to figure all this out. Jennifer & Lucy please hear my pleas to make a Universe Quest out of this.

ASOIAF: Game of Thrones Clash of Kings Storm of Swords Feast for Crows Dance with Dragons

I love the pulsing page-flipping feeling of a good horror book but sometimes my little brain I need a break 😮‍💨 Here are some plot-driven reads that will hopefully keep you tensely flippin' pages while you wash away those mental images that haunt you at night.

Or maybe rather romanticizing Celtic Mythology creatures? 👀🤭 Puca rips off people's heads to use them as balls, or kidnaps children and eats them would be a gentle lover and a perfect father for your children 😍 Dullahan the messenger of death would love you fiercely, even with his grumpy demeanor 🥰 (Getting blinded on one eye after looking at him? Never heard of that..)

*definitely not (taylors version)

These are books I’ve read about nature and conservation and really enjoyed

updated weekly

I’m an audiobook lover, and I’m always looking for great audiobooks! Rather than just listing my favorites, I thought I’d make a list of audiobooks that have won Audie Awards from 2010-2026.

There are so many, so I stuck to specific categories. Not all categories are in all years, so there is some inconsistancy. I included the following categories:

• Audiobook of the year
• Autobiography/Memoir
• Erotica
• Spanish
• Fantasy
• Fiction
• History/Biography
• Humor
• Horror
• Literary Fiction
• Classics
• Middle Grade
• Mystery
• Nonfiction
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• Short Stories/Collections
• Thriller/Suspense
• YA/Teens
• Paranormal

There were a few winners that I didn't feel comfortable including, like books by Neil Gaiman or JD Vance, so I replaced those with runners-up.

If the same title won two awards in the same year, I used a runner-up for one of those categories.

This is a work in progress!

Happy listening!

updated weekly!

Fantasy shojosei manga/manhwa that change lives

Funny or darkly comic murder books featuring bungled plans, accidental deaths, bizarre families, amateur sleuths, incompetent criminals or people who are just having the worst day imaginable.

books I finished reading

aka mostly “literary thrillers” though that’s an annoying phrase…just thrillers that don’t sacrifice attention to prose for the sake of plot

For the stories where love has to stay hidden—whether because of forbidden feelings, impossible circumstances, or the world simply isn’t ready for them.

Cute books that are cozy reads