Howdy, well met, and good tidings to you, friend!

It can be a bit lonely in space, so we’re putting together a crew to venture into the farthest reaches of questdom. First series on our journey? James SA Corey’s The Expanse.

For those unfamiliar, this series is nine (9) books, which is par for the course in an “epically scoped” quest. However, this one is special because it’s actually intended to be read as three duologies and a final trilogy, so that’s what my hope is for our pacing.

We will be starting with Leviathan Wakes on April 1 and taking the month to read through and discuss! It’s about 600 pages (21 hours for our ear-readers) with plenty of thematic elements and characters to keep track of, so take your time. You’ll have a crew at your back to chat with!

Speaking of, in order to help us find each other a little better, if you make your own post, feel free to put OES🚀 in the header/title so we can easily see our buddy read friends. Make sure to follow standard Pagebound evergreen 🌲 etiquette by searching the forum and commenting on similar posts before making a new one.

We’ve got a great crew shaping up, and I’m looking forward to chatting with and getting to know you all as we progress! Godspeed, and good luck, spacer! 💕 🚀

Inspired by a recent post by @LemonLime, share with us the one book you have been meaning to read for a long a time AND let us other users convince you to read it. You see a book you love here? Tell the boundling why they HAVE to read it asap. Do it in words, in GIFS, in quotes, however you want!

Additionally: You can also share with us your no. 1 book you want to recommend to everyone + the reason, and someone might see it and FINALLY be convinced to read it. :)

My book that I have been meaning to read for so long is The Will of the Many

I need some murder mystery recommendation that are fun and easy to read!!I want to be able to read while in school but somethings thats not 100% cliche but also not a total "masterpiece"

hi everyone!! wanted to put this out there for people who might be interested. @pykora and i have planned to do a buddy read for Wild Seed in April this year! i know that there was interest from other users, so i wanted to put a post out for others to be aware and also as a reminder :)

i plan on reading through the series and this Quest following the curriculum by Dr Brianna Whiteside (more info here). there are other posts about it in this Quest forum, but essentially, Dr Brianna Whiteside theorizes that Octavia Butler wrote her books as an interconnected series rather than three separate series. the order would be the Patternist series -> Parable series -> Xenogenesis series

i don't have any planned dates for any of this, but want to prioritize it this year if anyone is interested!

for April, i thought it would be fun to have a buddy read for Wild Seed. i'm very not good with planning specific schedules or dates, so the buddy read will be open ended! start when you want, anytime in April, and finish as comes naturally to you. if there is interest to continue the series, we can plan that too :)

if you're unfamiliar with buddy reading on Pagebound, essentially it just means that we will be reading the book around the same time and informally keeping an eye out for each other's updates and posts. there is no official "buddy read" function on Pagebound, but it's a fun way to connect with people and enhance the reading experience

the buddy read is open to anyone interested! if you join in, leave a comment so we can check in on each other throughout the month!! excited to read with everyone 🩷🩷