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🍋 also working on my night cheese🧀 36, she/her, USA 🙄, ADHD insane type (combination) *such* a goddamn millennial, feminist killjoy, eclectic reader, pro-tomato 🍅

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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)

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Taking Charge of Adult ADHD: Proven Strategies to Succeed at Work, at Home, and in Relationships

How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It)

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The Ballad of Perilous Graves

Alex Jennings

Music is magic in this novel set in a fantastical version of New Orleans where a battle for the city's soul brews between two young mages, a vengeful wraith, and one powerful song. Nola is a city full of wonders. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. To Perilous Graves, it’s simply home. In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent for magic, but he does know Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry realizes trouble is afoot. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. Nola’s time might be coming to an end.

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Strange Girls

Sarvat Hasin

From the prize-winning author of The Giant Dark comes a beautiful exploration of the ties that bind us and the scars they leave when they break. Aliyah and Ava arrive in England from opposite corners of the world with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited and Richard Curtis films. Instead, in the shadow of their historic, fairytale campus, they get the sense that they don't belong. The two form a Vita-and-Virginia-like bond, building a world full of stories that they write together. For a time, they are inseparable in their identity as 'strange girls'. When the end of university looms, they will have to return to the world where a devotion like this seems impossible to maintain. Years later, Aliyah has everything Ava wants - a room of her own and a publishing deal - and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of what she really meant to Aliyah. Was what they had - whatever you call it - real? And what will become of the stories they tell themselves about one another?

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Like This, But Funnier

Hallie Cantor

For fans of Dolly Alderton and HBO’s Hacks, a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny debut novel about faking it (and “making it”) as a writer in Hollywood. TV writer Caroline Neumann is thirty-four and mired in professional envy and self-hatred. Even Harry, her usually supportive therapist husband, thinks it’s time for her to press pause on her career ambitions and focus on getting pregnant, despite Caroline’s serious ambivalence about having children. When Caroline accidentally stumbles on Harry’s patient session notes and offhandedly mentions what she finds in a meeting with a producer, the momentum of Hollywood takes over. Before she knows it—and unbeknownst to Harry—Caroline finds herself pitching a TV show about the deepest, darkest secrets of her husband’s favorite patient, a woman known to Caroline only as the Teacher. Amid the indignities of the Hollywood development process, Caroline must balance her burning desire for professional validation against her own morality and the health of her marriage. And when Caroline forms a real-life relationship with Teacher herself, the lines between art and life begin to blur further, shaking up Caroline’s understanding of what it means to be the “likeable female protagonist” of her own life.

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The Plans I Have for You

Lai Sanders

Feminine rage, cancel culture, and suffocating societal pressure—a cutting and brazen thriller about two Asian American women on a quest for revenge after a public shaming pushes them to the limit, for fans of Yellowface and Counterfeit. When a conflict with a fellow passenger on the subway spirals into a humiliating breakdown, Shelley Hu’s life is over. The incident goes viral, costing Shelley her prestigious Manhattan law firm internship, her spot at Columbia Law, and her plan to build a better life for herself and her mother. Months later, Shelley is back in Kissimmee, Florida, working the night shift at a kitschy motel near Disney World—the very same job she held in high school. Shelley’s life is a black hole until, one night, the beautiful, enigmatic Sophia Moon checks in with her husband and young son. But Sophia’s appearance is far from random. It turns out that, once upon a time, Sophia suffered her own episode of public shaming. Since then, Sophia has rebuilt a new life, and she promises to help Shelley do the same. More importantly, Sophia vows to help Shelley enact revenge on the three people responsible for the worst day of her life with a precise set of plans. Shelley returns to New York with a new identity and plans that start off well. But when the situation soon spirals out of control, Shelley is forced to reckon with Sophia’s unspeakably dark side—though it may be too late.

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Family Drama

Rebecca Fallon

A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. It’s 1997, and snow is blanketing a New England beach. Two befuddled seven-year-olds watch as their mother’s body is tipped overboard a crumbling boat. A Viking funeral, followed by a raucous wake. A send-off fit for soap opera star Susan Bliss. Fifteen years earlier, Susan is a blazing, beautiful young woman, passionate about her art. It’s impossible not to fall in love with her, and so Alcott, a practical professor, does—hopelessly. And so begins the love story of Susan’s two-paneled life, an unconventional, jetlag-filled arrangement that takes her back and forth between her home in New England as a wife and mother to young twins, and the bright lights of soapy Los Angeles. In the present, Susan’s twins grow up in the shadow of her all-consuming absence. Sebastian, a sensitive artist, cleaves to her memory, fascinated with the artifacts of her starry past. Viola, resentful of her mother’s torn allegiances, distances herself from the memories of her. But when Viola runs into her mother’s old costar Orson Grey—now a renowned Hollywood star—she finds herself falling deeply in love with him and begins to put together the pieces of a mother she never really knew. Sharp, assured, and beautifully written, Family Drama is a story told in double-helix, with intertwined timelines that explore the different versions of ourselves we share with the world and with each other.

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Florence Adler Swims Forever

Rachel Beanland

Over the course of one summer that begins with a shocking tragedy, three generations of the Adler family grapple with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets. Every summer, Esther and Joseph Adler rent their house out to vacationers escaping to “America’s Playground” and move into the small apartment above their bakery. This is the apartment where they raised their two daughters, Fannie and Florence. Now Florence has returned from college, determined to spend the summer training to swim the English Channel, and Fannie, pregnant again after recently losing a baby, is on bedrest for the duration of her pregnancy. After Joseph insists they take in a mysterious young woman whom he recently helped emigrate from Nazi Germany, the apartment is bursting at the seams. When tragedy strikes, Esther makes the shocking decision to hide the truth—at least until Fannie’s baby is born—and pulls the family into an elaborate web of secret-keeping and lies, bringing long-buried tensions to the surface that reveal how quickly the act of protecting those we love can turn into betrayal after tragedy.

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Catching Up on the Pagebound Club Forum

So one of the first things I do on my phone is scroll through the forum to reach the last post I read the night before. Does anyone else do this? I feel like it’s still feasible now but might not be once this app gets more popular.

How invested are you in the Pagebound Club forum, is what I’m asking I guess? I also see people commenting on others’ book progress a lot plus their achievements in levels, badges, etc. Are they your friends or do you do this with random users? 👀

Honestly I love Pagebound so much I’m on it every other hour and checking all the updates I can. Perhaps not the healthiest thing but at least it’s not like the socmed apps with algorithms and other things to keep you trapped on the app. I get to discuss and find new books and find new book friends what’s the harm!

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Limited Time Quest (Jan-June 2026): seven stunning debuts from Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint* to start the year. Read along with us as we tackle one each month with the chance to win early Giveaway copies through the duration of the Quest! Check the pinned post in the forum to learn more about the selections.*in partnership with SimonBooks

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How DARE this author make people think you can get a windowless in-law unit in outer sunset for 900 a month? This is a little like Rachel from Friends being able to make rent on that gorgeous nyc apartment as a waitress

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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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