Tayyejane

31, 🏳️‍🌈, She/Her, Agressively Millenial. Reader of almost anything. Epic Fantasy/Dystopia/Cozy Fantasy. Hoping to read more Classics, Epic Series & Books not originally published in English.

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The Blood Trials (The Blood Gift Duology, #1)

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)

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Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Games & Trials 🏅🎯🏁

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Competitions for power, notoriety, love, or maybe even your life.

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Games & Trials

Silver: Finished 10 Main Quest books.

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Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)

Jordan Ifueko

Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai, who has always wanted to belong somewhere. But The Lady has other ideas, including a magical wish that Tarisai is compelled to obey: Kill the Crown Prince once she gains his trust. Tarisai won’t stand by and become someone’s pawn—but is she strong enough to choose a different path for herself?

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Chain-Gang All-Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America's increasingly dominant private prison industry. It's the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games, but CAPE's corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar's path have devastating consequences. Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system's unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life"Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know." By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD--a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo's parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she'd moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don't move on from trauma--but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body--and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

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Tayyejane

Book annotations?

For 2026 I am determined to slow down and read more mindfully. As a part of this I would like to start annotating some of my books... but outside of my (admittedly English Lit) degree I have never done it before. Do any of you annotate for fun? Any tips and tricks gratefully appreciated!

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Book annotations?

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Tayyejane's 2026 Reading Challenge

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ochoheido

Striving to read more library books in 2026

I'd like to be a bit more conservative with my book-buying in 2026 so I'm striving to read more than 50% library books of my total reading this year.

For some context, from my complete Finished library here on PB, 44% were borrowed and I spent money on 50% (this is possible because if I didn't remember if I bought or borrowed it, I didn't mark it. Also, I both bought and borrowed some books, either at different times, or different formats at the same time).

In 2025, only 14% were borrowed. I want to support my public library and my wallet. I'm also considering keeping track of how much money I save this year by reading library books. I'm a little scared to see what that dollar amount could be when I think of my 2025 reading, but excited to see how much I can save going forward!

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Tara_The_Reader

Favourite books of the year!⭐️📖

Hi everyone! Now that we are close to the new year, I want to know your favourite books of the year! So I know it is a hard question, and I struggled a lot😅 I personally couldn’t choose one, so I split them up in the genres I read the most.

Here is my list!

Fantasy: 🧚‍♀️The cruel prince🧚‍♀️ Romace: 🩷Binding 13🩷 Thriller: 🩸As good as dead🩸

Last thing I want to say is just that I wish you all a happy new year!🎆✨

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emilyspages

Daily/Weekly Reading Goal for 2026

hi everyone!! i’ve been thinking the past few days about what books i want to read in 2026, and my overall reading goal. i was wondering, for those of you who read a lot (for context, i only read 21 books this year, way fewer than many of you) do you try to read a certain amount every day/week?

i’m wondering if having a weekly reading goal for myself might help with keeping it up. say, having a goal of reading at least 4 days a week, with one of those days being a reading session that’s longer than 45 minutes or so. just curious if any of you have structured yourself in a way like this to avoid falling behind but also not getting burnt out!! thank you so much in advance 🫶🫶

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Brandon Sanderson Universes 🗡️⚡️🌌

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Step into the Cosmere... Listed in the order that Brandon Sanderson recommends to new readers of his work in 2024.

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Supporting* Women's Wrongs 🔪💄🚬

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Whether you love to hate or hate to love 'em, these literary bad girls are anything but well-behaved. *Disclaimer: we do not literally support the illegal and oft cruel behavior of these protagonists (usually); we support the authors bold enough to write them (always).

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

Shannon Chakraborty

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend. Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

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A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Sangu Mandanna

An enchanting novel about a witch who has a second chance to get her magical powers—and her life—back on track, from the national bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches . Sera Swan was once one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her magical Guild. Now she ( slightly reluctantly and just a bit grumpily) helps Aunt Jasmine run an inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guests' shenanigans, tries to keep the talking fox in check, and longs for the magical future she lost. When she learns about an old spellbook that holds the secret to restoring her power, she turns to Luke Larsen, a gorgeous historian who might just be able to help her unlock the book’s mysteries. Luke, who has his own reasons for staying at the inn, never planned on getting involved in the madcap goings-on around him and certainly had no intention of letting certain grumpy innkeepers past his icy walls, so no one is more surprised than he is when he not only agrees to help, but also finds himself thawing . Running an inn, reclaiming lost magic, and staying one step ahead of the watchful Guild is a lot for anyone, but Sera is about to discover that she doesn’t have to do it alone... and that the weird, wonderful family she’s made might be the best magic of all.

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Found Family in Fantasy 🏡⚔️🫶🏽

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Outcasts, rebels, and misfits unite in magical worlds. Here, strangers become chosen family, facing every challenge together and proving that home is found, not given.

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Silver: Finished 10 Main Quest books.

Tayyejane completed their yearly reading goal of 102 books!

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