Do any of you have favorite bookish podcasts? If so what are they? Some of mine include:

• Lit Society: Books and Drama (ended December 2025)
• Book Club for Masochists: a Readers' Advisory Podcast
• Reading Glasses
• What Should I Read Next

I listen to bookish podcasts either for recommendations for general interest in a new book or genre, to listen to reviews of books I have read (or will never read) or to know what's going on in the bookish space in general. I tend to rotate podcasts through different reading seasons based on how I'm feeling.

hi, guys! today i come to you with a request for a very specific sort of book rec: "pathetic wet blorbo going through the Horrors covered in blood and dirt, but the blorbo is a woman"

this comes from a discussion i've been having on my tumblr about how there's so little content/media about women being the chew toys experiencing horrors (and being a little hot about it). a lot of the times, in fandom and in canonical medias, this archetype falls to the men. i understand why - simply writing women as they are requires more work than writing men, but writing women going Through It requires even more work than just throwing a dude into a battlefield unprepared. it is a kind of difficulty that most creators don't want to contend with.

as a certified women lover, however, i like seeing a woman be covered in blood and be pathetic about it. so if you've got any book recs that fit this trope, send them my way. thank you in advance 💞

(an important rule: we can't have girlboss moments. no gaslight gatekeep girlboss, sorry)

So, today’s my 35th birthday (Yay) and I was thinking it would be super cool if there are birthday twins here on PB ☺️ but I also thought to make it more interesting if we could also share a book that was released in the same month and year we were born, just to spice things up. 🫢

Just for fun, because it’s very early in the morning and birthdays are super cool and books are even cooler! 😎 I’ll (obviously) go first:

🎉 04/24/1991 📖 “What do you love” by Valerie Sayers (I don’t know this book, but maybe I should read it 🫢)

Oh, it’s also cool if you don’t what to disclose your age 🙂‍↕️ I personally don’t mind, that’s why I’m posting it, but I understand there’s people who don’t feel comfortable doing so.

I hope everyone finds their birthday twin 👩🏻‍🐰‍👩🏼🧑🏻‍🐰‍🧑🏼👨🏻‍🐰‍👨🏼

Rank your top 5/10 (depending on how many you've read, or if you read less then 5 just tell your favourite so far) from 5th/10th place up. You can also do a top 3 or top 6 or anything between 1 and 10 depending on how many books you've read/how many books you really enjoyed so far. Only ONE book per rank on the scale. That is the hard part. Pick your favourite child.

I'll go first: 7th Tress of the emerald sea - Brandon Sanderson 6th Gallant - V E Schwab 5th A thousand perfect notes - C G Drews 4th Where the dark stands still - A B Poranek

3rd The decagon house murders - Yukito Atsuji

2nd Mistborn: The final empire - Brandon Sanderson

1st First love: essays on friendship - Lilly Dancyger

Loved all of these so much!

Hi all!! As someone who no longer has social media, my book recs rely on Pagebound mainly (not that I’m complaining - you guys find the best books!). I’d like to broaden my horizons by reading some book blogs to find some unique recommendations, only there’s so many and I’m not sure which ones to make a regular habit of reading!

So, I wanted to ask what your favourite book blogs/sites are! They can be as specific as you’d like (maybe they’re all horror recs etc), but I’m curious to see what options there are out there!!

Edit: Thank you everyone for all the recommendations, below I have compiled a list for ease of access! Happy Reading!!🥰✨

Websites: Book Notification - you can follow favourite authors and get notified via email when new books are released. LitHub - literary magazine with both book recs and more general cultural discussions! FantasticFiction - filled with Fiction recommendations, can also follow favourite authors and get notified via email when new books are released! Romance.io - filter romance books by trope, genre, spice level, setting etc!! Such a good site for specific romance recs!

Website Blogs: Pages of Emma - also on PB @PagesOfEmma The Marginalian Dinipandareads Kiera's Bookmark Pages Unbound The Wordy Habitat BiblioNerd Reflections

Substack Blogs: Jada De Luca - essays and reading lists Adam Walker - helpful basis for a personal literary curriculum, especially his post here Shannan Mann - reading lists, but focus on writing craft/publishing Alyssa Morris - focus on romance genre Holly Fairall - focus on fantasy genre fermata by Clare - has a community classic readalong as part of her 2026 curriculum, helpful guide for understanding classics!