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The Eternal Audience of One
Rémy Ngamije
This coming-of-age tale follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda during the Civil War and make sense of his reality.
Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending.
One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek, Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, in South Africa, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. More than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university.
But a year is more than the sum of its parts, and en route to the future, the present must be lived through and even the past must be survived.
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Points & Product Updates + App Release [11/02/25]
The new app version is live on Android and iOS, please update your apps to see the Mute + Owned book options that went live on web this week! Reminder: you can mute books or mark them as "owned" in the book status modal, and you can manage your muted books under Account & Settings.
This update also includes some new features (all platforms):
- We have a new book status: Interested ! So many readers lament their huge TBRs and hesitate to add to that growing list. The Interested status is your answer; you can log a book you'd like to remember, or that piques your interest, without committing it to your TBR. When you mark a book as "Interested", it will create an activity item in your feed, but you will not see posts about it in your Main or My Books feeds. Anecdotally, I've been using a custom "interested" shelf for a while, and am excited to convert these to the Interested status (and also add books guilt-free to my library, like a Pagebound digital book haul 😏)
- on the top of the Discuss page, you'll see a scrollable list of books the people you follow are reading, along with their progress. You can click these books to go right to their progress update, see if they wrote a note, or write them a note! Think of this like a status update where you can chat more personally and keep tabs on a daily basis. This list is ordered by who most recently updated their progress.
- We linked the Merch Store in the footer on web, and in the More tab in the app
- Android users in the US can sign up for Pagebound Royalty right in the app! We would be so grateful if you considered supporting us through Royalty.
We also made some changes to points, outlined below with an explanation:
- You will no longer receive points for posts or comments in the Pagebound Club (this applies ONLY to Pagebound Club, NOT to book forums. You will continue to receive points for book forum posts and comments). While we love seeing the friendships and community built in the club, we've also seen some not so genuine behavior. This change is intended to encourage more respectful, authentic engagement and to stop rewarding less authentic posting/commenting.
- You will now receive 3 points for every day that you log reading progress, and you will receive 5 points instead of 1 point for finishing a book. We want folks to be rewarded for reading, and give lurkers a way to level up :) We hope this also encourages ppl to comment their personal updates on their reading progress activity items, rather than in the book forums, since you receive points for logging progress! (note: you receive 3 points for logging progress per day, not per book per day)
We'll be back soon with more updates!
Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy 💙💜
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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
Holly Jackson
For readers of Kara Thomas and Karen McManus, an addictive, twisty crime thriller with shades of Serial and Making a Murderer about a closed local murder case that doesn't add up, and a girl who's determined to find the real killer--but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
Everyone in Fairview knows the story.
Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.
But she can't shake the feeling that there was more to what happened that day. She knew Sal when she was a child, and he was always so kind to her. How could he possibly have been a killer?
Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail of dark secrets that might actually prove Sal innocent . . . and the line between past and present begins to blur. Someone in Fairview doesn't want Pip digging around for answers, and now her own life might be in danger.
This is the story of an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect.
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Cose che nessuno sa
Alessandro D'Avenia
Margherita ha quattordici anni e sta per varcare una soglia magica e spaventosa: l'inizio del liceo. I corridoi della nuova scuola sono pieni di fascino ma anche di minacce, nel primo intervallo dell'anno scolastico si stringono alleanze e si emettono sentenze capaci di segnare il futuro. Chiusa nella sua stanza, con il tepore del sole estivo ancora sulla pelle, Margherita si sente come ogni adolescente: un'equilibrista su un filo sospeso nel vuoto. Solo l'amore dei genitori, della straordinaria nonna Teresa, del fratellino le consentono di lanciarsi, di camminare su quel filo, di mostrarsi al mondo e provare a diventare grande con le sue forze. Ma un giorno Margherita ascolta un messaggio in segreteria telefonica. È suo padre: annuncia che non tornerà più a casa. Per Margherita si spalanca il vuoto sotto i piedi. Ancora non sa che sarà proprio attraversando questo doloroso smarrimento che a poco a poco si trasformerà in una donna, proprio come una splendida perla fiorisce nell'ostrica in seguito all'attacco di un predatore marino. Perché questo è il segreto del dolore: sa dove si nasconde la vita e se ne nutre per farle crescere le ali. Questa volta però la saggezza sorridente di nonna Teresa non basterà a Margherita, e sarà dal suo nuovo mondo, quello scolastico, che giungeranno nuove voci in grado di aiutarla: quella di Marta, la compagna di banco capace di contagiarla con il suo entusiasmo, quella profonda di Giulio, il ragazzo più misterioso della scuola, e anche quella di un professore, un giovane uomo alla ricerca di sé eppure capace di ascoltare le pulsazioni della vita nelle pagine dei libri. Proprio in un libro, l'Odissea, Margherita legge la storia di Telemaco e trova le energie per partire in un viaggio alla ricerca del padre che cambierà radicalmente il suo destino.
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Memphis
Tara M. Stringfellow
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.
Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
As she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is their enigmatic neighbor Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion, imagination, and relentless hope are, in fact, the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them persevered, made impossible choices, and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger—that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush.
Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
You can find the redesigned cover of this edition HERE.
At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
This best-selling Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1847 first edition of the novel. For the Fourth Edition, the editor has collated the 1847 text with several modern editions and has corrected a number of variants, including accidentals. The text is accompanied by entirely new explanatory annotations.
New to the fourth Edition are twelve of Emily Bronte's letters regarding the publication of the 1847 edition of Wuthering Heights as well as the evolution of the 1850 edition, prose and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and poetry selections by the author, four reviews of the novel, and Edward Chitham's insightful and informative chronology of the creative process behind the beloved work.
Five major critical interpretations of Wuthering Heights are included, three of them new to the Fourth Edition. A Stuart Daley considers the importance of chronology in the novel. J. Hillis Miller examines Wuthering Heights's problems of genre and critical reputation. Sandra M. Gilbert assesses the role of Victorian Christianity plays in the novel, while Martha Nussbaum traces the novel's romanticism. Finally, Lin Haire-Sargeant scrutinizes the role of Heathcliff in film adaptations of Wuthering Heights.
A Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
standing on the fringes of life...
offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see
what it looks like from the dance floor.
This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being A WALLFLOWER
This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that the perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite.
Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.
(back cover)
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The Hating Game
Sally Thorne
Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome;
2) A person’s undoing;
3) Joshua Templeman.Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman hate each other. Not dislike. Not begrudgingly tolerate. Hate. And they have no problem displaying their feelings through a series of ritualistic passive aggressive maneuvers as they sit across from each other, executive assistants to co-CEOs of a publishing company. Lucy can’t understand Joshua’s joyless, uptight, meticulous approach to his job. Joshua is clearly baffled by Lucy’s overly bright clothes, quirkiness, and Pollyanna attitude.
Now up for the same promotion, their battle of wills has come to a head and Lucy refuses to back down when their latest game could cost her her dream job…But the tension between Lucy and Joshua has also reached its boiling point, and Lucy is discovering that maybe she doesn’t hate Joshua. And maybe, he doesn’t hate her either. Or maybe this is just another game.
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Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)
Leigh Bardugo
▶ Alternative Cover Edition #1
Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.
Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.
Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha . . . and the secrets of her heart.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
Ransom Riggs
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow — impossible though it seems — they may still be alive.
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The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
Amanda Lovelace
"Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we're off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales."
A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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Lettere 1845-1886
Emily Dickinson
Accattivanti e tenere, sensuali e disperate, le lettere che Emily Dickinson, prima ragazza e poi donna, ci ha lasciato sono le tessere luminescenti e screziate con cui è possibile oggi tentare di ricostruire il mosaico della sua esistenza e della sua figura. Rappresentazione resa finora incerta da una sorta di vocazione alla solitudine, una specie di solipsismo congenito e apparente che fece di lei, negli anni in cui visse, a margine del Rinascimento americano, una figura di eccezionale, insospettata statura. Per diventare poi in pieno Novecento la figura simbolo della donna forte, colta, moderna e disperatamente sola. O volutamente tale. Eppure seducente, allusiva, maliziosa. Un viaggio nell’universo e nei sentimenti più reconditi della grande poetessa americana, nella cura della più importante studiosa italiana della sua poetica.
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Alternate cover edition of ISBN-13: 978-0141439471 / ISBN-10: 0141439475
'Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart ...'
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living with her lover Percy Shelley near Byron's villa on Lake Geneva. It would become the world's most famous work of horror fiction, and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.
Based on the third edition of 1831, this volume contains all the revisions Mary Shelley made to her story, as well as her 1831 introduction and Percy Bysshe Shelley's preface to the first edition. This revised edition includes as appendices a select collation of the texts of 1818 and 1831 together with 'A Fragment' by Lord Byron and Dr John Polidori's 'The Vampyre: A Tale'.
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Gli anni della polvere
Susanne Abel
Tom non ha mai avuto un buon rapporto con la madre. Ma, da quando Greta ha iniziato a mostrare chiari sintomi di demenza senile, ha messo da parte i risentimenti per prendersi cura di lei, sopportandone persino le dimenticanze più dolorose, come chiamare il defunto padre col nome sbagliato o chiedere notizie della «sorella» di Tom, che però è figlio unico. Tuttavia c'è qualcosa nel tono di Greta – una dolcezza così insolita per lei – che induce Tom a dubitare si tratti solo di deliri indotti dalla malattia. E i suoi sospetti si trasformano in certezza il giorno in cui, nascosti in un cassetto, trova la foto di un soldato afroamericano e una vecchia bambola. Inizia così per Tom un viaggio attraverso un passato che Greta non ha mai voluto condividere con nessuno: gli anni spensierati nella casa di famiglia nella Prussia orientale, all'epoca parte del Reich; poi la fuga a piedi verso ovest, cacciati dai sovietici alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale; i primi, durissimi mesi ad Heidelberg, a lottare contro la fame e il freddo, e infine l’incontro con Bob Cooper. Bob, che era stato il primo, travolgente amore di Greta, un lampo di felicità purissima spazzato via dai pregiudizi di un Paese in cui non c'era posto per chi aveva un diverso colore della pelle… Seguendo il filo della memoria, a poco a poco Tom ricostruisce la figura di una donna lontanissima dall'immagine che aveva di sua madre, una donna forte, appassionata e caparbia. E capisce che l'amore è l'unica cosa che rimane quando si ha dimenticato tutto, e sarà quell'amore, alla fine, a indicargli la via per ritrovare la sua famiglia perduta…
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Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
Get ready for the unmissable new thriller from the #1 internationally bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
******In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder. She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend.She only has seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish Jet is going to solve her own murder.
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New Feature: Choose your book edition (+ a note on language editions) [10/17/25]
Another quality of life update! You can now select which edition of a book you are reading, which will update the book info in your library. This is most relevant for changing which book cover shows up in your library, or changing the language edition. We get asked all the time about changing book covers, so I'm happy to report this is finally an option! The edition page will also show you additional data like publisher and page count.
This does require an app update if you are on the iOS/Android app.
We've been working with a few volunteer librarians to combine language editions on Pagebound and are making steady progress "deduping" popular authors. This is a necessary process to make sure we have one forum per book, and also ensures if you read a book in say Spanish, the English version is also marked "finished" and you get credit towards any Quests, Readalongs etc. Deduping will also make Search and navigating the author pages easier.
To change the language/edition of a book, click "View All Languages & Editions" on the book page (next to publish year above the book description). You'll see a list of all available editions, and can swap from that page. Your chosen edition will reflect in your Library.
Combining language editions is a monumental task, so we appreciate your patience as me, Lucy, and our volunteers work through it all!
Another fun update: we brought the "Featured Emoji" to the Discover Lists page!
We're still working on home feed updates and will be back soon with more updates :)
Happy Reading, Jennifer & Lucy
PS: if you're curious how deduping works: When language editions are combined, it just means that there is one Book/forum per listing, but the "deduped" editions are still available on the editions page. All reviews and forum posts that were on the deduped book will now show up on the main Book page.
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