Noosh

I read mostly fantasy and romance and love a good mystery. My top goal of the year is finishing 15 or more unread physical books I own.

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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)

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2026 reading goal protip 😌✨

Always set a way lower number of the amount of books that you normally read in a year. 🔸What is your favorite "method" for having a healthy reading goal?

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asyoulikeit

Chaotic audiobook habits?

What's the most fun/unorthodox place you've listened to a book... the movies, the gym, etc? I've tried a couple times to read via audio book and I just think my brain isn't wired to listen without seeing physical words on a page. I'm willing to make another attempt based on these answers lmao

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galfaro2000

• 2026 Reading Goal •

Have you set your reading goal for next year on Pagebound yet? If so, what is it? Any specific titles?

Mine is 24 (double my reading goal of 12 for 2025) and to read up on classics. There are two lists on this app created by lucyPagebound named Classic Literature from the United States and British & Irish Classic Literature that I believe are excellent starting points!

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Wombworm

Manga, Comics, do they count?

So, I just started reading The way of the househusband... (๑'ᵕ'๑)

I haven't read Manga in years! And for some reason, I just really wanted to start. Especially romance! I just love seeing crushes, and relationships, and love being shown through art. It's kind of special. But as I was reading I was kind of wondering if they 'count' or rather if other readers add them towards their reading goal or books read. I know the community can be very divided on topics like this. A lot of people have the opinion that audiobooks aren't reading or shouldn't count, still!

So I'm curious! Would you, or do you, count Comics, Manga, Graphic Novels, towards your reading goal? Also please recommend Manga and Graphic Novels if you can! ٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و♡

Noosh set their yearly reading goal to 45

Noosh's 2026 Reading Challenge

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The Tattoo Murder

Akimitsu Takagi

Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals her full-body snake tattoo to rapturous applause. Days later she is gone. A dismembered corpse is discovered in the locked bathroom of her home, but her much-coveted body art is nowhere to be found. Kinue’s horrified lover joins forces with the boy detective Kyosuke Kamizu to try to get to the bottom of the macabre crime, but similar deaths soon follow. Is someone being driven to murder by their lust for tattooed skin, and can they be stopped? Set in a seedy Tokyo of bomb sites, dive bars and Yakuza gangs, The Tattoo Murder is one of Japan’s most ingenious and legendary whodunits.

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The Black Swan Mystery (Inspector Onitsura, #1)

Tetsuya Ayukawa

Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently. Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer. But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?

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The Clock House Murders (House Murders, #4)

Yukito Ayatsuji

The remote Clock House is filled with priceless timepieces from across the world. It is alsorumoured to be haunted by the spirit of a dead girl. A team of ghosthunters visit the mansion to investigate, but their stay has barely begun when one of them is gruesomely murdered, and the survivors realize that they are trapped inside the house with a killer… As the murderer’s bloody spree continues, the team are picked off one by one. Can the brilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi crack the enigma of the Clock House before all those inside have been slain? And can you guess the solution before he does?

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The Noh Mask Murder

Akimitsu Takagi

A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this prizewinning classic Japanese mystery. This ingenously constructed masterpiece, written by one of Japan’s most celebrated crime writers and translated into English for the first time, is perfect for locked-room mystery fans who can’t resist a breathtaking conclusion. In the Chizurui family mansion, a haunting presence casts a shadow over its residents. By night, an eerie figure, clad in a sinister Hannya mask is seen roaming around the house. An amateur murder mystery writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is sent to investigate — but his investigation takes a harrowing turn as tragedy strikes the Chizurui family. Within the confines of a locked study, the head of the family is found dead, with only an ominous Hannya mask lying on the floor by his side and the lingering scent of jasmine in the air as clues to his mysterious murder. As Takagi delves deeper into the perplexing case, he discovers a tangled web of secrets and grudges. Can he discover the link between the family and the curse of the Hannya mask? Who was the person who called the undertaker and asked for three coffins on the night of the murder? And do those three coffins mean the curse of the Hannya mask is about to strike again? The Noh Mask Murder’s legendary ending offers locked-room mystery fans the perfect coda to an ingenously constructed mystery.

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thedimpledteacher

✨Unique✨ Places You’ve Read/Brought a Book

Now that Kindles/eReaders allow many of us to bring books just about anywhere, I’m curious to know what has been the most unique places you’ve read/brought a book? I like bringing my Kindle to hockey games to read during the 18 minute intermissions. 😆

Noosh is interested in reading...

The Friendship Fling

Georgia Stone

In this delightfully charming and heartfelt debut love story, two lonely and wildly different strangers embark on a short-term friendship over one London summer—only to discover they may be something more by the time the season ends. No one would ever call Ava Monroe a people person, which isn’t ideal for a barista in a busy London coffee shop. She’s sarcastic, blunt, and cynical, and her relationships are strictly no strings attached. With her best friend Josie soon leaving for a year, Ava knows she’ll be all alone unless she shakes up her routine. But she can’t risk bringing chance back into her carefully controlled life. Then insufferably cheerful, country-hopping, undeniably gorgeous Finn O’Callaghan rolls into her coffee shop with a horrifying proposal —a strictly friends-only summer fling. Finn needs a local to help him complete his London bucket list, and Ava needs to reassure Josie she won’t be on her own. And it’s only for a few months. To Ava’s surprise, their mismatched friendship of convenience becomes oddly tolerable, and as they work their way through Finn’s list and around the sun-drenched city, from rooftops and floating bars to nights at the museum, their adventures—and Finn’s company—start to feel . . . nice. Incredibly, terrifyingly, dangerously nice. Still, rules are rules—Ava has good reasons for them—and as the days get shorter, Finn’s departure gets closer. Because that’s the thing about it always ends. Right?

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Multilingual People: Bookish annoyances?

If you speak more than one language, have you encountered something in a book that has annoyed you?

It could be a missed translation, it could be something that is difficult to understand in a second language, anything...

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Lady_of_the_Library

Multilingual People: Bookish annoyances?

If you speak more than one language, have you encountered something in a book that has annoyed you?

It could be a missed translation, it could be something that is difficult to understand in a second language, anything...

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