Hi friends and happy Friday! One of the greatest features on PB, in my humble opinion, are all the cool niche lists that everyone is creating! I have saved so many and after some discussions in the club about how cool some badges for lists could be I decided to make a couple for fun!

Firstly, I made a Kingfisher badge for the Wonderful works of T. Kingfisher list by @endless_tbr_list as I’ve become a great fan of Kingfisher’s work and Kingfishers are just so pretty!

Then I made one for @The_bookishBug’s Marvellous Minibeasts lists! Check it out, insects are wonderful!

And thirdly, I made a badge for @notlizlemon’s nice to meet you, I’m Death list, as I’ve recently, gotten into discworld and Death personified is such a cool concept!

I just wanted to give some appreciation to all the list creators and hope it inspires more of you to create lists about any niche topics only you know about!🫶🏻

Here is the link where you can see all badges a bit more up close if you’d like!

Edit: It was brought to my attention that the links/embedded images are not accessible from the UK - so hopefully you can see them Here (I added them to a google doc) :)

I’ve always thought I was way too squeamish for horror but have now read a couple of books (Mexican Goth and The Book Eaters) which are classified as horror, but I love. Are these not actually horror (are they a subtype of horror?) I’m the type of person who can’t even hear a description of a horror movie without being scared (maybe it’s different for books though?) I don’t know! I’m questioning everything!

As a side note, I’m really interested in reading The Library at Hellebore and wonder if anyone thinks I could handle it given the two mentioned above!

I know StoryGraph exists, but I'd like to track more parameters (such as author by gender). I've used one last year, but wasn't too happy with it, so I'm wondering if anyone has recommendations for book tracking spreadsheet templates?

Just post any and all recommendations! I figured worst case this post would become a way to find spreadsheets for the whole community, so fire away!

I feel like I haven't had a "loyalty" to a single author for a very long time....mostly because there are so many greats out there existing and upcoming!

I will read anything by Laura Purcell because The Silent Companions had me freaked for weeks (didn't help I worked in an old prison museum at the time of reading).

I've read ONE T.Kingfisher but every single blurb of their other books has me immediately adding to cart. I feel like they're fast going to become a top fave!

Do you pick one and read through it until you get to gold? Do you hop around and try to get bronze in as many as possible? Or do you have some other method? Personally I am collecting bronzes :)