The next major app release (1.2.0) is now available on iOS and Android - this one comes with a ton of updates, so make sure your apps are updated to see the latest! Web users, the majority of these updates are already on web (with a few exceptions, addressed below):

Midnight Theme (aka dark mode): very excited to share our version of dark mode! You can choose your theme in Account & Settings -> Preferences. The Midnight theme incorporates accessibility principals (high contrast, sparse use of bright color, no pure blacks/pure whites) while maintaining Pagebound's unique visual identity. We know this is highly anticipated on web as well - we're working on it! Midnight will be available on web hopefully this fall, latest this winter.

Notifications Upgrade: Notifications are split into categories so you can reference what is most important to you. You can also sort/filter your notifications, and mark them read/unread one by one by clicking the blue dot (if the dot is gray, click it to mark the notification as unread).

Browse your library when adding books: When adding a book to a list, your plan, or a shelf, you now have the option to search from "All Books" or "My Books". Tapping "My Books" lets you browse your own library, and filter by status/shelf. This is helpful if you want to browse your tbr while adding books to your plan, for example.

Library Improvements: You can now search, sort, and filter your library with additional sort/filter options (such as average rating and owned/not owned) and view your library books in list view or book cover grid view

Improved Book Status Modal: The book status modal (ie the popup where you change a book's status and add to shelves) got a major quality of life update: you can edit read dates, format, and page length in the modal when a book is in "reading" or when you move a book to "finished", you can create a new shelf in the modal, and you can search your shelves

New Preferences & Account Management options: A new feed preference was added (toggle on/off seeing posts from people you follow when the book is not in your library) as well as library management tools (library export & mass editing/deleting library options)

Discover Quests & Discover Lists upgrade: Discover Quests got new categories and will show new quests in each category on every site/app visit. The Quest card and List card shown on discover got upgrades to show more relevant info & make them more browsable

Additional tiny upgrades: Pull down to refresh your profile, browsing past plans shows in descending month order, plan performance enhancements so loading and editing is snappier, UI cleanup, and various bug fixes.

Community Updates We announced the Fall Readalong book picks last week - if you missed the announcement, head to the Seasonal Readalong page to see the picks! The Fall Readalong starts September 1st.

We also have partnered with Simon Maverick to bring a Dark Romance limited time quest - we've gotten so many requests for a Dark Romance quest, so we're very excited to have this out!

This was a long one, thank you if you made it this far 🙏 Happy reading! Jennifer + Lucy

So I recently started reading Bright Dead Things,and I am having difficulty understanding everything the poet wants to portray 🥲,so is there a way I can understand it better or are there easier books that will be much easier to digest for someone who is reading poetry for the first time. Thank youu <3

While I do find some of the choices strange (mostly having the king being written in second person. I am sure there is a reason for that of which I am unaware), I do appreciate that this does not have the common fantasy issue of sounding too modern.

This quest is growing. I am excited to welcome all the new readers and all the suggestions they will bring with them to make this space unique. This is the perfect opportunity to make a dedicated post for everyone to suggest books they wish to see in this quest moving forward.

Who can make a book suggestion? Everyone can absolutely make as many suggestions as they think will fit the theme. If you have read a book you think fits, if you have been hearing about a book that you think will fit - yes drop it in. I will research every suggestion you make individually.Please include a very short description of the region your suggestion represents and why you recommend it to help me out.

What to look for before making a suggestion? a. Does the book in question belong to Fantasy/ Fantasy sub-genre? The quest aims to explore world cultures through the Fantasy genre. If the book you suggest has amazing mythological reference but is from a different genre it would not make the cut.

b. Is the book referencing/representing the myths and folklore of a region specifically? It is not enough if the book in question only represents the "people" of any region/country or includes certain ethnicities. It has to highlight the myths and folklore specifically. If the book has inspired you to research deeper into the culture it has drawn upon - that is a good sign for a recommendation here.

c. Is there any exception? Yes! The nature of myths and folklore is inherently transformative, and in places it becomes deeply intertwined with history and religion. This will reflect in the quest as well. Example: Consider Egypt, its ancient history hugs its mythology and religion quite tightly, in such cases to find individual representation becomes hard. For the sake of this quest however, we have to consider Egypt.

If it is not strictly High/Epic Fantasy but fantasy/speculative adjacent and it circles back to point (b) paragraph ii above, it might be considerable, this is a case mostly for Standalones (we cannot only have series here) or regions that are less written about in general.

I have included the recommendations I have received so far in the comments. Please upvote the favourites, and continue to suggest books as new comments. It is not guaranteed that the book you suggested WILL be included but I assure you that every suggestion will be fairly assessed and researched. Thank you ❤️

[Updated on 14.02.2026] Hello everyone! This is a quick update to let you know that at currently, we have 45 books in this quest, more or less encompassing Asian, African, Slavic, Indigenous myths and lore, with some Celtic, British, Turkic thrown in. As always I hope everyone will be making their way through the titles and sharing their thoughts. That said , we are in need of more book recommendations from middle-eastern nations including but not limited to Jewish myths . I am also looking to branch this into more niche regions so we will be moving away from broadly known places like China, Japan, India, Russia etc as of now and focus on lesser known countries within the diaspora. Moving forward we will only be adding books that are newer releases, considering 2025 onwards. So please drop in your recommendations for the latest releases in fantasy spiced with mythology and folklore that you have been eyeing or new release that you're excited about. Thank you . Happy reading!