hi boundlings!! 🫛🐝 there has been a similar post recently by @Allonsythornraxx, so pardon me if this sounds a bit repetitive! sooo, a few fellow PBs inspired me to make a bucket list of 100 books to read ✨sooner or later✨ (that's genuinely gonna be the name of my list lmao), so i wanted to ask for advice! the reason im making this post despite there being a similar one is that i didn't find many recs under it 🥹 so my question is, what's a book you think everyone MUST absolutely read once? it doesn't have to be a classic, but if it is id lean on the "digestible" ones more! and i can't read romantasy for the life of me (not straight at least) but other than that I'm open to pretty much any suggestion! i have a few in mind already, but I'd like to build this list based mainly on community recs 🫶🏻 hit me with your favourite book(s) or the book(s) that changed your life !! 🪻🔮

I love Rachel Gillig’s writing style, I’ve favoured her style ever since I read her first series, the shepherd king duology.

I have only read one chapter, yet I am already hooked into this book. I’m loving the world building, and the sort of gothic fantasy feel this book has.

just finished chapter 5 and i am distraught

If you could wave a magical wand right now and get any unpublished book into your hands right this second what would it be? This could be a planned but as-of-yet unpublished book or one that you wish an author might write! This is obviously not intended to pressure any authors since it is a magical hypothetical.

I'd like Naomi Novik to write an epic fantasy similar to Spinning Silver but loosely based on soviet Russia and centring feminist actors. (if I had a creative writing bone in my body that's the book I would write)

I've started using my shelves like I make playlists; one for every very specific mood.

That way every time I'm in a specific mood again, I have a list of possibilities to pick from without having to keep spending an hour+ hunting down the exact thing I'm looking for.

But that made me curious about how everyone else uses their shelves. Do you use it to organize your tbr? Or to organize the ones you've already read? Or do you do crazy things like me?

I have been going through a pretty hard time emotionally these past few weeks and have just not been ok but reading has helped so much, I can just immerse myself into an unreal world and just forget everything. And then I stop and it all comes crashing down again. I was just wondering if any of you have had any similar experiences or any books that have helped you? Not trying to trauma dump or anything just wanna hear what yall have to say. ~Annie