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My Taste

The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

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Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities (Technographies)

The Wisdom of the Prophets (Fusus al-Hikam)

Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism

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Vampires Only

by Maryshelleysbestie

21 books

Vampire recommendations, some I liked and some I hated, but it's still going on the list!

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Lovely, Dark & Deep

Megan Stockton

Every year, Six Mile Island has a seasonal shutdown for serious weather. This year, the forecast is calling for the storm of a century, so most of the population has agreed to an evacuation in order to more safely ride out the storm on the mainland. When a child goes missing on the cusp of the oceanic storm, a select few inhabitants are left behind to perform a frantic search. Little do they know that the ocean is bringing more than a storm to Six Mile... An ancient species hungers from the sea.

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The Call of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.

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Heated Rivalry (Game Changers #2)

Rachel Reid

Nothing interferes with Shane Hollander’s game—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate. Pro hockey star Shane Hollander isn’t just crazy talented, he’s got a spotless reputation. Hockey is his life. Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that, especially the sexy Russian whose hard body keeps him awake at night. Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. They’ve made a career on their legendary rivalry, but when the skates come off, the heat between them is undeniable. When Ilya realizes he wants more than a few secret hookups, he knows he must walk away. The risk is too great. As their attraction intensifies, they struggle to keep their relationship out of the public eye. If the truth comes out, it could ruin them both. But when their need for each other rivals their ambition on the ice, secrecy is no longer an option…

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The Call of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft

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jenniferPagebound

Product Updates + New App Version [1/15/2026]

Many new updates, big and small, coming at you - Please update your apps to see them!

Summary of changes:

On the app, a new "Feed" tab has been added to book pages. You can see status and progress updates from everyone on the site, along with stats for TBR, Finished etc across the site
Giveaways will be available next week, planned launch is Jan 19th! Once giveaways are live, you can find them on the Discover page under Books
The Mardi Gras/Carnival Special Event readalong starts today! Check Discuss to see the selections, badge, and how to participate
Our very first Limited Time Quest launched today, in partnership with Simon Books. Check out Discover Quests, we're very excited about this one!
Lists have been converted from the upvote/downvote system to a pure "Like" system
On your custom shelves, you now have a "breakdown by status" section to see how many books in that shelf are in each reading status (bonus: cool way to do personal challenges)
You can see how many books you finished in Quests you have not yet joined
On the "currently reading" section of the homefeed, your books are now sorted by most recently updated

Why are we moving from upvotes/downvotes to likes for Lists? The upvote/downvote system was meant for community moderation, however now that we have PageboundGuides as moderators, we're asking the community to leave list moderation to the Guides. We want to make sure folks feel welcome to make lists - if someone makes a personal list, please do not corrective comment. The Guides will take care of it :)

How do Giveaways work? We've partnered with Publishers and Authors to giveaway books to the community. Once live, the Giveaway link will be on the Discover Books page. You can browse all the giveaways there, and enter by filling out a form with contact info (so we can send you the book if you win!). We know many folks are often disappointed when giveaways are only in the US and Canada - want to share with y'all that we do not have control over where giveaways are active. That is up to the publisher and author! As we grow, we hope more international publishers and authors know about Pagebound and want to partner with us.

How does the new Feed tab work on book pages? Since forum posts are meant for evergreen discussion, and folks comment on their status cards and progress update cards to share personal updates, we wanted to give everyone a way to share those personal updates beyond their immediate followers. We also wanted to give folks a way to see who is reading or wants to read a certain book, even if they are not following them yet. The Feed tab shows all status update and progress update cards, so you can more easily discover personal convos and reading buddies.

We'll be back soon with more updates!

Thanks everyone and happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy

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Mystical Dimensions of Islam

Annemarie Schimmel

Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel, an eminent scholar of Eastern religions, draws the reader into the mood, the vision, the way of the Sufi in a manner that adds an essential ingredient to her analysis of the history of Sufism. After exploring the origins of the mystical movement in the meditations of orthodox Muslims on the Koran and the prophetic tradition, the author then discusses the development of its different stages, including classical voluntarism and postclassical theosophical mystical trends. Particular emphasis is placed on spiritual education, the different ways of leading the mystic toward the existential realization of the profound mystery of the profession of faith that “there is no deity but God.” Sufi psychology and Sufi orders and fraternities are comprehensively explored. Through an examination of mystical anthropology, which culminates in the veneration of the prophet and the saints, the questions of free will and predestination, of good and evil, are implied. The main burden of the text, however, is Sufism as reflected in Islamic poetry, and Professor Schimmel examines the various aspects of mystical poetry in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sindhi, Panjabi, and Pashto. The author skillfully demonstrates how Sufi ideals permeated the whole fabric of Muslim life, providing the average Muslim—villager or intellectual—with the virtues of perfect trust in God and the loving surrender to God’s will. Professor Schimmel’s long acquaintance with Turkey, Iran, and the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent provides a unique emphasis to the study, and the author’s personal knowledge of Sufi practice in these regions lends a contemporary relevance to her work.

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making On the surface, a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence. In Code Dependent, Murgia shows how automated systems are reshaping our lives all over the world, from technology that marks children as future criminals, to an app that is helping to give diagnoses to a remote tribal community. AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships, to our kids’ education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights. By highlighting the voices of ordinary people in places far removed from the cozy enclave of Silicon Valley, Code Dependent explores the impact of a set of powerful, flawed, and often-exploitative technologies on individuals, communities, and our wider society. Murgia exposes how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will. The ways in which algorithms and their effects are governed over the coming years will profoundly impact us all. Yet we can’t agree on a common path forward. We cannot decide what preferences and morals we want to encode in these entities—or what controls we may want to impose on them. And thus, we are collectively relinquishing our moral authority to machines. In Code Dependent, Murgia not only sheds light on this chilling phenomenon, but also charts a path of resistance. AI is already changing what it means to be human, in ways large and small, and Murgia reveals what could happen if we fail to reclaim our humanity.

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Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities (Technographies)

Hannes Bajohr

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For all the hardcore book lovers out there:

Is your love 💕 for books something unexplainable and always, persistently there (despite some reading slumps) or is it something you had to grow 🌱 into over time?

For me, it's like reading is in my genes 🧬. I've loved it and can't imagine a future without it. For those who feel like they had to grow into their love for books, what caused that? A teacher 👩‍🏫, a friend 👯‍♀️, or an unexpected event👀?

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miauwing

adding books not on goodreads

hey, quick question: how does adding books that are on neither platform work? there's a chunk of my owned books that i can't add because of this

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

Madhumita Murgia

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