Please give me book recommendations

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I'm not sure if this would need to go in the request sections (and I apologise if this has been asked before), but as a Southern Hemisphere dweller, I'd love to request if we can have separate seasonal readalong quests. 😅

There's just something about reading a cozy, wintery book while I'm melting at 30 degrees (celcius), and sitting beside the pool, that doesn't quite sit right.

I have a major reader’s dilemma: Do you mark a book as "read" if you’ve totally forgotten the plot? 📖🤔

​Take Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, I know for a fact I read it. I still have my copy, I remember crying my eyes out, and I even took the book to the movie theater! But if you asked me for details now? Nothing.Nada. Zip. I only remember the movie! Does it still count as "read" if the memory has completely evaporated, or should it stay off the list until a reread?

​Also... why did it take me this long to realize that mangas are books too?! I’m currently on Volume 12 of A Sign of Affection, which means I could have been marking all those previous volumes as "read" this whole time! 🤣🌸 My reading goal for the year is about to get a massive boost...

​How do you guys handle this? Do you track books you've forgotten, and do you log every single manga volume? Let’s discuss! 🤧

Hi everyone! I had a small realization today: I don’t really read sci-fi… yet I clearly love it. I just have no idea where to begin. 🫠

It’s not that I dislike the genre. I think I’ve just been a little intimidated by it, especially the very alien/space-heavy side of sci-fi. I know the genre is so much more than that, but I’ve never intentionally explored it in books.

Maybe future me will be into aliens. Who knows. Maybe I’ll even read alien-monster romances. But current me? Not there yet.

That said… when I look at the stories I do love in other media, sci-fi is everywhere.

📺 Movies & Series I love:

1- Black Mirror. San Junipero (my favorite episode of all time), USS Callister, The Entire History of You, Fifteen Million Merits, Playtest, Nosedive, Men Against Fire, Black Museum, Striking Vipers, Joan Is Awful, Beyond the Sea, Bandersnatch, etc. 2- The Handmaid’s Tale. I haven’t finished it yet, but I really want to read the book! 3- American Horror Story. I have seen almost every season. Although I know it's mainly horror, some seasons lean more towards sci-fi+horror and I like them too! 4- Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro’s version). I'm obsessed and have been meaning to read the book for the longest time ever. 5- The Substance. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and was talking about the movie nonstop. 6- I Am Legend. It was a longtime fave growing up.

🎮 Games I love:

1- The Last of Us. Part II is my favorite game of all time. Ellie will forever be my fave lesbian crush. 🩷 2- Detroit: Become Human. Connor is such an icon, Markus is an inspiration and Kara is awesome. 3- Beyond: Two Souls. I loved it growing up. 4- Resident Evil. I enjoyed it less for the zombies, and more for the corporations, experiments, and moral decay.

So yeah...I do like sci-fi.

I think I’m especially drawn to character-driven stories that explore:

🤖 technology, ethics, AI 🧠 memory, identity, surveillance, power 👁️‍🗨️ dystopia / speculative fiction 🖋️ psychological or philosophical themes 🖤 horror-adjacent or deeply unsettling vibes

If this sounds like your kind of sci-fi, I’d love any recommendations on where to start. 🫶🏻 What would you suggest based on this?

Please help a sci-fi newbie out! Tysm ✨🩷

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