Curious, how do you shelve? Alphabetically? By title or author? Read and unread together, or separated? Do you have a “Short List” section? Or do you prefer random? (Shudders)

Back when I had reals (they’ve almost all been replaced on digital now and donated to the library book sales), I could never decide and would change them all the time. It was 4 six foot shelves, so it was a lot.

wrapping up the end of '25, I will have read: 7 physical books, 9 ebooks, & 10 audiobooks !✨️

by '26, I do want to increase my physical books read consider majority on my tbr I own yet not read😅 but I am very pleased with my variety of formats !

what format did you find yourself reading the most with this year? anything y'all personally want to include more of in the upcoming year? (❁´◡`❁)

With the end of the year fast approaching, tell us about your reading goals for 2026! Got a certain number of books you want to read? New genres? Any books you’re excited for? What about new book resolutions? Please feel free to share them here! I’ll start: I want to read at least 20 books this year. I want to try reading longer books, which has always intimidated me (800-1000 pages). Maybe try my hand at science fiction (mostly I’m a fantasy and horror girly). And the book I’m most excited to get my hands on is The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow!

Do you like used books? I love ordering a used book and seeing all the notes in the margins and annotations etc. If I ever opened a bookstore, I would call it Annotations and have a whole section dedicated to used books 📚 But I know some people find it abhorrent and would never write in a book 😳

Do you track the short stories you read? I'm not talking about ones in an anthology but single ones. Specifically, I want to read Martha Well's short stories in the Murderbot Diaries, which have their own listings as books.

What I can't get over is that... they're not books? I generally don't track comics even though they do count; it's a personal preference. I'm just on the fence with the short stories because this is the first time I care about them so strongly. I need validation either way, pls and thx.

i had a really special moment and wanted to share :) this community helped me figure out my pronouns and feel brave enough to share them actively on my profile! so many of you gorgeous beautiful humans have the coolest bios that help me see and love you through your own eyes. and it made me feel like i want others to understand me through my own eyes too. and that now also includes my pronouns :)

i feel so grateful and happy to share that my pronouns are them/āme/ella, bringing together the three languages and cultures that are my homes: english, telugu, and spanish. i didn’t know i could have multicultural pronouns but i’m learning something new about myself through this community every day, because of each of u who made me feel welcome to be me! throughout this journey, i have kept thinking about the book genderqueer, and how author maia kobabe (e/em/eir) talks about how it feels to find the pronouns that feel like home. i feel at home now 🌻🌧️✨🤍

edit: love you all thank you for the kindness and warmth : ) i feel overwhelmed (in such a good way) with support and will take some time to respond individually but trust i have been rereading each and every single one of your words over and over with the biggest smile ever smilt 🫂🫂🫂

I've seen this trend almost everywhere on booksta, so I thought I'd share it! What are the books you'd reread, rewrite, or burn? Here are mine:

📚 Reread: • The Jasad Crown - I loved this so so much and I'd reread it a hundred times if I could! • Blood Over Bright Haven - this was absolute perfection if you ask me. The themes, the writing, the characters, they were all amazing and I don't want or need to change anything about it.

🖊️ Rewrite: • Three Holidays and a Wedding - I loved the concept but there were so many inconsistencies that pulled me out of the story 😭 I think if this had better writing, I would've loved it much more!

🔥 Burn: • Powerless - the whole series. Sorry to all the Powerless lovers, this just wasn't for me. This book was marketed as enemies-to-lovers, but it felt more like flirting-rivals-to-lovers ngl 😭 the writing also bothered me and the extensive use of "ocean blue eyes," but that's just my opinion tho!