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The Great Book of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-10)

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Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Path of the Diamond (8-Bit Warrior, #4)

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

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Black Wave (City Lights/Sister Spit)

Michelle Tea

[*Read by the author - Michelle Tea]In pre-apocalyptic 1990s Los Angeles, Michelle, a queer artist and writer, must make the most of the time she has left before the world ends.Desperate to quell her addiction to drugs, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south for LA. But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird.While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a sprawling and meta-textual exploration to complement her promises of maturity and responsibility. But as she tries to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive vice, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she'll have to compromise her artistic process if she's going to properly ride out doomsday.

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Binti (Binti, #1)

Nnedi Okorafor

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself -- but first she has to make it there, alive.

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Jun 30, 2026

When All Is Said

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 4.0

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Very engaging story about a man recounting his life, through toasts to the people he loves most. The story is actually quite heartbreaking, so get ready for emotions. The audiobook was well-done. I believed it could have actually been the man in the story talking to me.

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When All Is Said

Anne Griffin

A tale of a single night. The story of a lifetime. If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said and done? This is the story of Maurice Hannigan, who, over the course of a Saturday night in June, orders five different drinks at the Rainford House Hotel. With each he toasts a person vital to him: his doomed older brother, his troubled sister-in-law, his daughter of fifteen minutes, his son far off in America, and his late, lamented wife. And through these people, the ones who left him behind, he tells the story of his own life, with all its regrets and feuds, loves and triumphs. Beautifully written, powerfully felt, When All Is Said promises to be the next great Irish novel.

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Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty, #4)

Ken Liu

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty. Ukyu-Gondé. Stalked by foes and dogged by betrayal, Princess Théra is pursued across a continent vaster than she could ever have imagined, to the hidden valleys of the World's Edge Mountains, into the barrows and subterranean halls of the City of Ghosts, across the ice floes of the far north. She breached the Wall of Storms intent on taking war to the Lyucu homelands, but how do you conquer the unconquerable? Dara. Empress Jia, Prince Phyro and Pékyu Tanvanaki find themselves bound to paths they never would have chosen. Amid atrocity and subterfuge, they will discover that the Courage of Brutes is no substitute for the Grace of Kings, and that little separates the Grace of Kings from the Madness of Tyrants. On both sides of the Wall of Storms, defeat's bitter tears mix with the fruits of knowledge new and ancient as two empires bound by blood and bone, by writ and iron, by time and custom, face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. The teeth, as they say, are on the board.

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angelcookie completed their yearly reading goal of 24 books!

angelcookie's 2026 Reading Challenge

25 of 24 read

Warrior of the Shards (The Shards of Magic)

Princess of Blood (The Shards of Magic, #2)

Servant of Earth (The Shards of Magic, #1)

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The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

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Jun 29, 2026

The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5

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The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty, #3)

Ken Liu

With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the “magnificent fantasy epic” (NPR). Princess Théra, once known as Empress Üna of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gondé to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Théra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable? In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pékyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power? Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age. Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.

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Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Crafting Alliances (8-Bit Warrior, #3)

TruthDino

Jun 29, 2026

Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Crafting Alliances (8-Bit Warrior, #3)

4.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 4.0

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Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior: Crafting Alliances (8-Bit Warrior, #3)

Cube Kid

Book 3 of the international best-selling 8-Bit Warrior series that takes readers inside the journal of Runt, a young Minecraft villager who dares to dream of becoming a Minecraft warrior! Competition stiffens in book three of the 8-Bit Diary series, as Runt’s training is intensifying! After the recent mob attacks, the entire village decides to prepare for the next offensive. Fortifying the defenses, tracking down a spy, searching for new alliances . . . But Herobrine isn’t having any of it . . . Can Runt increase his efforts to be one of the five best students in school and finally become the warrior of his dreams? With the help of his friends—Breeze, Max, Emerald, and Stump—Runt will face a peril greater than anything he has ever known. With fun text changes, full-color illustrations throughout, and shorter text blocks to reward readers balanced with longer text blocks to challenge readers, this book will get Minecraft fans off the screen and into reading!

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Farmers and Climate Change: Agricultural Adaptation in an Age of Rural Polarization (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Margiana Petersen-Rockney

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GinaLollobrigida completed their yearly reading goal of 40 books!

GinaLollobrigida's 2026 Reading Challenge

40 of 40 read

Intuitive Eating for Life: How Mindfulness Can Deepen and Sustain Your Intuitive Eating Practice

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Butter

Asako Yuzuki

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story, and translated by Polly Barton. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Centre convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation’s imagination but Kajii refuses to speak with the press, entertaining no visitors. That is, until journalist Rika Machida writes a letter asking for her recipe for beef stew and Kajii can’t resist writing back. Rika, the only woman in her news office, works late each night, rarely cooking more than ramen. As the visits unfold between her and the steely Kajii, they are closer to a masterclass in food than journalistic research. Rika hopes this gastronomic exchange will help her soften Kajii but it seems that she might be the one changing. With each meal she eats, something is awakening in her body, might she and Kaji have more in common than she once thought? Inspired by the real case of the convicted con woman and serial killer, "The Konkatsu Killer", Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan

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jenniferPagebound

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New App Version + Product Updates (6/25/2026)

The new app version, 1.1.92, is available on iOS and Android! This includes a host of bug fixes and improvements, which I will list for curious minds at the end of the post, but we have 4 major new product updates:

Audiobook rating: For any book for which you marked the format as "audiobook" or "tandem", there is a new Audiobook sub-rating, which also appears on the Book page. This is your rating for the audiobook experience, and can help you decide which books to read on audio! As we gather more audiobook rating data, we can do interesting things like suggest top audiobooks.

Add a book to the Pagebound database: The process for adding a new book to the PB database has changed due to some unexpected restrictions from Goodreads. We used to be able to add books simply by dropping in the book's Goodreads URL, but now we have a manual entry form. We always intended to have a manual entry option, as often Goodreads data isn't great and we now have the flexibility to add books that are not on Goodreads. When adding a new book, please take care to read the instructions!! This is very important to keep the integrity of our database.

Genre Tags: With this new "add book" process, we have also introduced a Tag system for books. Right now, we are collecting Main Type (fiction, non fiction), Book type (novella, novel, essay collection, etc), Audience (adult, ya, etc) and Main Genre (Fantasy, Biography, etc). These tags are already available on the book page, however we only have data for newly added books at the moment! We will be collecting this data and adding more robust tags for subgenre and themes in the coming weeks. Really excited about this!! We can do a lot of cool things once we have genre data, like show pages dedicated to each subgenre and have genre stats.

Librarian Program: With the new manual book entry system and our new ability to tag genres (and soon: series!!), we are rolling out a Librarian Program. Librarians will verify user-entered book data, help us collect genre and series data for existing books, clean up existing book entries, and help deduping efforts (where we have more than 1 listing for a single book). Soon, we will have a way for users to flag missing or incorrect book info, which Librarians will also respond to. This is a volunteer program and an integral part of building Pagebound -- if you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you can check out the application here!

Thank you for you patience and understanding as we roll out these new processes!

As for additional updates in this release:

new image system that delivers & loads book cover images quicker
more reliable comment posting / liking / upvoting when internet connection is weak on app
new sorting options for follower/following lists
Discuss page shows a review feed instead of the All Book Posts feed
you can use markdown in List descriptions
quite a few other small quality of life improvements, check out the Roadmap "released" section if you're curious!

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer + Lucy 💜💙

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

TruthDino

Jun 25, 2026

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

4.5

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: Plot: Audiobook: 4.0

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I'll be honest, the author lost me at about chapter 4. Unless you are a theoretical physicist, I don't think you are meant to understand this book. That being said, it is very interesting and I'm glad I read it. If only for the exercise in focus and mental visualization that you don't get with every book.

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Sean Carroll

As you read these words, copies of you are being created. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20th century physics. Already hailed as a masterpiece, Something Deeply Hidden shows for the first time that facing up to the essential puzzle of quantum mechanics utterly transforms how we think about space and time. His reconciling of quantum mechanics with Einstein’s theory of relativity changes, well, everything. Most physicists haven’t even recognized the uncomfortable truth: physics has been in crisis since 1927. Quantum mechanics has always had obvious gaps—which have come to be simply ignored. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage students from working on the "dead end" of quantum foundations. Putting his professional reputation on the line with this audacious yet entirely reasonable book, Carroll says that the crisis can now come to an end. We just have to accept that there is more than one of us in the universe. There are many, many Sean Carrolls. Many of every one of us. Copies of you are generated thousands of times per second. The "many worlds theory" of quantum behavior says that every time there is a quantum event, a world splits off with everything in it the same, except in that other world the quantum event didn't happen. Step by step in Carroll's uniquely lucid way, he tackles the major objections to this otherworldly revelation until his case is inescapably established. Rarely does a book so fully reorganize how we think about our place in the universe. We are on the threshold of a new understanding—of where we are in the cosmos, and what we are made of.

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Jun 25, 2026

Constance (Constance, #1)

3.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 2.5Characters: 3.0Plot: 2.5

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I'm conflicted on this book. On the one hand, it's a fun sci-fi thriller that is paced pretty well. On the other hand, there are plot elements and characters that feel so cliched and superficial, they are truly cringeworthy. I'm kinda interested in the sequel, but it also feels like it might be a waste of time. I just don't know.

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Constance (Constance, #1)

Matthew FitzSimmons

A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series. In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying. After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent memories are missing. Her original, she’s told, is dead. If that’s true, what does that make her? The secrets of Con’s disorienting new life are buried deep. So are those of how and why she died. To uncover the truth, Con is retracing the last days she can recall, crossing paths with a detective who’s just as curious. On the run, she needs someone she can trust. Because only one thing has become clear: Con is being marked for murder—all over again.

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