look i know i'm ahead of the game, but i know there are also some fellow planners out there... i just love filling up the planning feature :)

any good winter/december/christmas must reads out there? i'm really not picky, just want something to cozy up to

hey y'all! weird question - do you guys read the spoiler-tagged posts for books if you know 100% you'll never read that book? either because you DNF'd it, or it's totally not your genre, or whatever your reason? sometimes i'm tempted to reveal a spoiler for a book i won't read but then i'm like...,,,, what if i somehow break a bunch of secret bookish laws by doing that and everyone finds out and hates me (very kidding)...,, but, i wanted to know what you all think of it? or what other times would you reveal a spoiler for a book that you haven't finished/read?

Anyone want to make their best guess on what the next season’s reads will be? I’m excited because I’ll have a little more time so I should be able to read all of them for the winter season

So this year I’ve been getting into romance books (just normal romance, not romantasy or books with romantic subplots), and I’ve only read a few so far but I keep seeing something consistent pop up. A lot of the romance books have a # next to it like “#2 in series”, but the books all have different people and stories for the most part. I read an Abby Jimenez book and it seemed like its own story and then I noticed it was #3 in the series. I looked it up and for that one specifically it says they’re stand alones but in the same universe and that there’s just Easter eggs from the previous books. I thought it was just specific to Abby Jimenez but a lot of the time I look into a book I’m interested in it’ll have a #.

Is this a common thing? Like having a romance series but it’s all different stories with Easter eggs? Or are some of them legit like a trilogy of the same romance?

I’ve never read an Ali Hazelwood but she even has books with series #s. I just barely read my first Emily Henry and I liked that hers are all standalone it seems.

For some reason it makes me less likely to want to read a # romance book since I’d rather just read a standalone romance story (unless it’s like romantasy or something like that where the romance isn’t the main plot) than commit to a series.

For the Abby Jimenez one I did notice when they introduced some new people it seemed a bit random but apparently they were from the previous books in the series. But I didn’t fully love “Just for the Summer” so I had no desire to read the predecessors.

Do you guys read all the ones in a series for romance books? Or just read them as standalone?

Looking for book recs! I love romantasy, romance, or historical fiction.

does anyone have any romance books that they ate up immediately??? i finished the books i had picked out for this week during my break 😭

Hi all! I am back again with another TikTok trend I’ve seen and it’s where they list 10 books they’d love to get to before the end of the year!

I don’t think I have 10 books that I absolutely need to read before the year is over but here are a few:

- The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (re-reads!) - Ninth House/Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (re-reads even though I already did a re-read of Ninth House earlier this year 😂) - East of Eden by John Steinbeck - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

So that’s 7 books for me! What about you guys? 🥰

Just picked up all 3 books from the library today! I'm so excited. I am going to start with Vampires of El Norte. Is anyone else participating?

So, I just watched a YouTube video about the ‘BookTok-ification’ of publishing. The video breaks down trends on BookTok and argues that modern publishing prioritizes virality over storytelling.

It suggests that publishing has become more about numbers and fast trends; almost like the ‘fast fashion’ of books, where authors are encouraged to release multiple books in a short amount of time. This often leads to similar-feeling books that can lack originality and quality.

Books are increasingly marketed through tropes (enemies to lovers, love triangles, fake dating, etc.) rather than through their actual stories. Causing lack of originality and many titles start to feel repetitive and less memorable.

There’s also the growing obsession with special editions and sprayed edges, sometimes the aesthetics seem more important than the books themselves. This trend can also drive overconsumption, with readers buying multiple versions of the same book just to have different special editions.

Since I’m not active on TikTok, I don’t see much of this first-hand. But being part of BookTube, Goodreads, and of course here on Pagebound, I can’t help but be a little influenced when picking my next read.

So, I’m curious: how do all my lovely fellow Pagebounders feel about this? Have you noticed or felt affected by any of it?

Feeling like I’m also starting a first ascent since there are no comments on this forum 🏔️

Hi!! As the title says I’m new to fantasy and would love some recommendations!! I need to start making my digital sticker packs for my 2026 journal and need some inspo. I cannot read romance for the life of me so any fantasy books with no romance would be great!!! (I understand that sometimes it’s hard to find books with zero romance, so I’m open to books where romance is a minor sub plot!!)