Hi everyone, we're excited to share the 4 selections for the Spring Readalong, running March - May! We announce Readalong titles a month in advance to give everyone time to place library holds; head to the Seasonal Readalong page to see the Spring badge and the full selections (on the app: click Seasonal Readalong from the More menu. On desktop: click the purple "View Spring Picks" button underneath the "Winter 2026 Readalong" header).

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby: A mystery/thriller by the iconic S.A. Cosby, this story follows a Black and white father seeking vengeance for their two sons who were married and murdered in cold blood.

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark: A steampunk fantasy set in Cairo in 1912, we follow Agent Fatma as she investigates a murder in a secret brotherhood and an ancient magic unleashing danger on the city.

When We Lost Our Heads by Heather O'Neill: A sapphic literary fiction set in 19th century Montreal, this is a coming of age tale following Marie and Sadie as they navigate their intense & passionate relationship through Montreal's high society (and brothels)

Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel: From the author of Kaikeyi, this is a reimagining of the story of Hindu goddess Ganga who is cursed to become mortal until she fulfills the terms of her curse.

Excited to read with everyone in the coming months!

Happy reading, Jennifer & Lucy

I manually added a book to my TBR a day or two ago, then today I changed its status to "Reading" since I finished one of my books. But then it was marked as a re-read. I had to go in and delete the empty date. That fixed it, sure, but I went through to look at my other TBR and most don't have any dates but some have empty dates? Also for the books that do have empty dates in my TBR, there doesn't seem to be a way to delete those, so they'll also become re-reads when i finally read them. Which means I'll have to manually remove the empty date every time this happens. It's little things like this that build up into "this is too troublesome" and prevent me from keeping track of my books.

Why is PB adding empty dates to my TBR? Is it something I did when I added the book? I haven't imported any books from other websites, this was all manual entry. Is there a different way to mark a TBR as Reading that won't make it a 2nd read through? I'm willing to accept it's user error but I'd like to know what I did that caused it so I have a smoother time keeping track of my books. I appreciate any help or advice! I couldn't find anything when searching the form for this issue and my friend has also noticed dates on his TBR as well so I at least know it's not just a me-thing.

Did any Roman stories sneak into this quest? I think the vestal virgins concept would make an incredible retelling if anyone knows of a title.

Side note: it would be fun to read books solely from this quest for a month to start seeing crossovers of the characters / people / timelines.

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

I love planning my reads but I hate that I can't add them directly from my library and have to remember the book title.

I know you can go to the book page and add it but still i would love to be able to do directly in the "plan" section