Have a recommendation for this quest?? I wanna hear them all!! But please read this first!

As I mentioned in the Welcome & Introductions post - I'm keeping the specific criteria for this quest close to my chest until other similar quests drop and I don't want to potentially ruin the surprise! However, I will say this quest is multi-genre, so don't worry about trying to stay in a specific niche. If it feels like a fever dream (surreal, absurd, dreamlike), I would to know about it so I can consider it! Please be patient with me as I make my way through the recommendations!

You can suggest as many books as you like, but please submit one book per comment so other Boundlings can upvote the books they'd love to see on this quest tooo! Your comment should include the book title, author, and a link (or just the url) to the book's page on Pagebound so I know exactly which book to check out!

tl;dr My reading plans fell through because I missed the archive date for the eARC I wanted to read through NetGalley (boo me pls). I have more solid plans for June (aka only queer books) and I know I won’t be able to chase the sparkly for the spring readalong.

As a non-mood reader who is in no particular mood to read anything… what do I do? Any tips welcome! But please don’t suggest I read something completely new that isn’t already on my shelves. I really am too full up on books I might not have time to ever get to OTL

Thank you in advance because I’m absolutely lost and bored and understimulated rn.

hello everyone! i have a request that may be difficult to answer without spoiling the kind of book i'm looking for. i'm on a hunt for unreliable narrators where it's not immediately apparent the narrator is unreliable. when i think of an unreliable narrator, my mind goes toward someone who's an outcast, not really liked by the other characters or the reader, someone who's kind of weird (this is at least my experience with these characters), or maybe the book is just on the darker side. does anyone have a recommendation for a book where the main character was likable and even seemed sane for most of the book until there was a moment where it clicked like "oh, this person is actually a big fat liar"?

Close to just DNF this book. I tried to read this so bad, not having quotation marks is making it hard to follow. I know it’s the style. Ugh. Wanted to like and get excited of this book. It’s a little hard to follow and at this point of the book, im still not thrilled. Maybe because most of this is all told in stream of consciousness almost. 🥲

Hi all!

My partner and I currently live in upstate NY and so want to take her on a ✨day trip date✨ to New York City to do a bookstore tour!

If anyone has any recommendations of hidden gems or even just your favorite local bookstore I’d love to hear about them! Bonus if they have good food/coffee nearby. Any borough, preferably accessible via public transportation. I’m in the pre-planning stage so the more information I have the better.

Thanks! Bex ✨✨