I want to know what are some books that have really stuck with you and become apart of your life! Personally Six of Crows and Heaven Officials Blessing have become books that I will take no criticism on and will cherish for the rest of my life are there any books you feel strongly about and have become your all time favourite book or books!

I love that I can try something new without spending money, and there are often really cool displays that introduce me to books I wouldn't have otherwise found! I also love that I can borrow books in multiple languages :) Big reminder to support your local public library! Pop in for a visit, sign up for a library card, borrow something, send a note thanking your librarians for their work—library funding is often based on usage, and there are so many ways to help show how valuable your library is to the community!

hello! i love seeing conversations around short story collections on pagebound, but i thought i’d ask if anyone had any favourite short stories that aren’t part of a (traditionally) published collection. there are so few places to talk about/recommend individual short stories, but so many stories out there that need to be discussed!

if you’re reading this and are unsure where to start with when it comes to short stories outside of collections, i recommend looking into literary magazines and anthologies both local to you and international! lots of universities have literary magazines attached to them as well. here in australia, i look at magazines like overland, kill your darlings, island, and more!

i love books where you realize you can just write about anything. like hell yeah bro excellent use of free will. does anyone have any fav reads that are like this?

edit: same goes for books with unique formats! i eat those up every time

I originally thought only of Paperback vs Hardcover, but if you have any insight on digital reading, please come with it! (I never have read a book digitally)

I personally collect books, and when i buy them i will go for the Hardcover version whenever possible.. however, I am now reading a Paperback, and tho it might be due to it being written by an author I am more familiar with than my last read- it feels much lighter.

(My last Hardcover was A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske, my current read (softcover) is 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King) the King book is feeling like a breeze in comparison to Marske's. Of course they have vividly different styles, but I also feel the entire mood/vibe is very different between picking up a Hardcover and a Pocket/soft.

For the life of me, I don't enjoy historical fictions or intergenerational dual timelines. I feel like there'd be great character studies, but I shrink away thinking they're either too prose heavy, too gritty, too confusing/abstract, or too boring.

What genre / theme can't you get into?

i’m a self-proclaimed new reader, and i was wondering how everyone else reads—in silence? with music?

i’ve been exploring different subgenres of fiction to see what sticks most, and i’ve been enjoying bathing myself with respective “ambience” videos on youtube.

music with lyrics more often than not interrupts my brain. i find silence peaceful, though it can be difficult to find those silent spaces outside of your own domain :’)

What’s your favorite fantasy series? What do you love most about it and would you recommend it to a friend?

On another post, we were discussing our least favourite genres and themes and romance came up really regularly. What's holding the genre back as a whole?

Personally, I think a big one is that there's not enough individual character building.

I think lately I discovered how I like to read multiple books at once and that is by reading a long book at home and a short book that I carry around, I have plenty of big books on my shelves but I realized I don't have many short books. So im in the search of some of them.

My requierements are:

• no more of 300/350 pages
• Character studies maybe, I don't want a really complex plot
• Fast paced or at least easy to follow as I will read this when im not home
• I don't have a preferred genre but my confort zone are fantasy, historical fiction or contemporary/classic narrative. (with a bit of romance but not the main genre)

Pagebound do your magic, I hope some of you get interesting recommendations

Hi folks !!! I was wondering if you had reading goals for 2026 that were not linked to the numbers of books you read? I see a bunch of people talking about following a course/ a specific theme, getting educated in niche subjects, is there a goal for you this year that you'd like to set? I'm curious !!!

This year I decided that I was going to keep reading the series I started in 2024 or 2025 and that I haven't continued since :) I feel like I tend to be attracted by novelty and fresh out of the press books and it's been a while since I took time to immerse myself in one universe.

I've spent my entire childhood reading mystery (especially murder mystery) books and detective stories (to the point I've basically read half of Agatha Christie's backlog before the age of 11) but I've barely read any in the last couple years and I really want to get back into it, so please recommend me your favs! Especially if they're written by queer and/or poc authors! Ya or adult both works, and fantasy mystery or mystery adventure are also welcome (I love Little Thieves and The Raven Scholar is on my priority tbr)! I'm currently reading Girls Who Play Dead so anything like it is also appreciated :)