What’s one book you DNFed OR wish you would have?! Gimme ALL the hot takes!!!

Well, i am sad. I am now experiencing post book depression, like when it is so good that you cannot fathom you have reached the end of the experience… it was such a lighthearted, sweet & cute read. A great book when you need a break from heavier storylines.

This is just me genuinely asking on what's your take, should we get a point when we add a book here? Me I don't mind nor care.

A friend of mine, (she doesn't use pagebound btw) jokingly pointed that I should get a point on the books I add here, to which I told her, the pointing system are just bonus rewards to encourage reading. She then said, that since I add books on the system, I'm in a way encouraging others to read said book. So, what do you guys think?

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So, my friends' kid brought home a list of the books (and movies?) they'll be studying in English class this term. This is what they have listed:

• Lord of the Flies: William Golding (novel)
• Cast Away: Robert Zemeckis (film)
• Macbeth: Shakespeare (drama)
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Ben Stiller (film)
• The Veldt: Ray Bradbury (short story)
• Harrison Bergeron: Kurt Vonnegut (short story)
• Robot Dreams: Isaac Asimov (short story)

If you read this list and thought "wow there's a shocking lack of female writers and even characters!", then we're on the same page. We're all mad about the same thing. I'm pretty sure they're all white Americans too (we're Canadian) 🙄 EDIT: skipped over Shakespeare, he's def not American lol same with William Golding, but British isn't better.

ANYWAYS, as we were raging about the horrible list, I thought of what I would include instead, to up the diversity by about 1000 times.

Here's the new list of most diverse books that I came up with (and this was just scrolling through my recently finished books) I was aiming for diversity plus good discussion points:

• What Moves the Dead + The Fall of the House of Usher: compare and contrast and all that (short novel & short story)
• The Empress of Salt & Fortune: feminist high fantasy short novel and the whole series is great (short novel)
• Open Throat - short story of a queer mountain lion debating if it should eat people or not (that's a VERY brief summary lol) (short novel)
• Long Way Down - an alternate to a play maybe? It's written in verse and about teenage gun violence (novel in verse)
• OR The Girl and the Goddess by Nikita Gill: a book of coming of age poetry exploring Hindu mythology (novel in verse)
• Princess Mononoke: Ghibli is great at writing strong female characters and the added environmentalism is a plus! (film)
• Greta Gerwig's Little Women: I know, this is a typical answer but I still think it's a great movie. (film)

What would you guys switch these out with?

this is the second time, the first being Fall 2026, that all four books in the seasonal readalong are all in one or more quests!

A Master of Djinn is in three quests!

• LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
• Queer Detectives on the Case!
• Mythological World Tour

Goddess of the River is in two...

• Asian-Inspired Fantasy
• Mythological World Tour

Razorblade Tears is in Thriller Starter Pack Vol II, and When We Lost Our Heads is in Supporting Women's Wrongs!

just thought the PB community would appreciate knowing this 🫶🏼🫶🏼 did any of these titles surprise you?