I know it's only been 5 days but! Some exciting updates to share with everyone: Upcoming Readalongs The Fall Readalong starts on September 1st, and we've dropped the selections early so everyone has time to place library holds and make reading plans for the upcoming season! Head to the Discuss page to see a link to the selections (PS: we have our first horror pick) Keep an eye out in the Quest forums for Quest Readalong announcements - some of our Quest creators (Top Contributors) will be hosting readalongs in the fall as well, featuring a book from the Quest. You won't get a special badge for participating in these readalongs, but it will help towards earning the Quest badge of course :) Deleting Books and Reviews The long awaited quality of life update: you can now fully delete both reviews and books from your library 🥳 To delete a review: either click the three dots on the top right of the review card and select "delete", or if you're in your library, click on the review stars on a book card and hit "delete" in the edit modal. To delete a book from your library: click Delete on the bottom left of the book status modal NOTE: setting a book's status back to "none" is not the same as deleting! You can have books in a "none" status on your custom shelves still. To fully delete a book, you must click the delete button. Happy reading! Jennifer & Lucy 💙💜

So I feel really new in the reading department. It’s been years since I read a book until January this year. Now, I feel a little lost on what I like and what I don’t so I’ve been trying a little bit of different genre, it seems that I’m enjoying romance the most. Please leve me some recs of your favorite romance books, the ones you couldn’t stop reading and you would definitely reread! Tia 💜

What is your true "hidden-gem" book this year? Book/s that you stumbled upon (it could be your go-to genre or not) and randomly read, but surprisingly so good that it left a mark. And please tell me why 😆 (I'm going to use this discussion as a rec 🤭🤪)

Hello all! While the age old saying "Don't judge a book by its cover" is a good lesson to live by particularly in reference to people, I think we've all found ourselves buying a book or being offput by one based on the cover once or twice (or many times beyond that). I recently subscribed to a fantasy book subscription box and the covers are absolutely GORGEOUS. I'll be the first to admit that a pretty book has a way of enticing me, even if its just enticing me to read the back cover. So, I thought I'd pose this question to the masses of Pagebound and give myself an oppurtunity to not only get book recommendations (perhaps), but also look at some beautiful covers. So, what are some of your favorite books covers? They don't even have to be books you've read (or even liked), but a cover that captivated or stuck with you. I'd love to hear your top picks, and hopefully they'll inspire even more books on to my TBR. Some of my personal favorites: The "Emily Wilde" series by Heather Fawcett. I haven't read all three yet, but I'm obsessed with the covers. I don't typically buy hard cover copies of books, but the original US "Encyclopaedia of Faeries" cover was so beautiful to me. I haven't yet read "A Study in Drowning" by Ava Reid , but the cover of both the first and second book I love. Another book I haven't read, but love the cover, "Anatomy" by Dana Schwartz. It's simple but so effective! I'm eager to hear your favorites!

Hello everyone! I just finished reading beartown 2 and i cannot get over it (it was just too good). Because of that, i need some more sport-based books like Beartown or All For The Game series. Im looking for a book that is higly sport based, with lots of rivalry, stress, deep problems, interesting characters (with impressive backstories) and great writing. Any recommendations?

Not sure if this is the place for it but I'm so excited about the books I received for my birthday this year and really wanted to share my love for books with other people who love books, so here I am! And here you are! Any books you guys have read that I should bump to the top of my TBR?? • Human Acts - Han Kang (historical literary fiction, based on the Gwangju Uprising in South Korea) • Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson (literary fiction/romance, discussions of race and masculinity as I understand it) • A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami (magical realism, this was pitched to me as a weird dream which I looove) • My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (mystery/thriller with a dark comedic twist??) Three translated short story collections: • Night Train to the Stars - Kenji Miyazawa (japanese fairy-tale inspired) • Murder in the Age of Enlightenment - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (japanese classics) • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed - Mariana Enríquez (argentinian, horror) And a box set of the first three books in The Stormlight Archive series by Brandon Sanderson :) I'm planning on finishing Misborn era I & II before diving into Stormlight though Birthdays make me mushy so don't mind me but I'm so grateful for Pagebound for giving me a space to yap about books. I genuinely feel like this is the sort of space that's been missing in my life and I love interacting with all of you!!! Thank you :)) and I hope to yap about books for many many more years