Hi all! I’m super into horror - I’ve been a bit disappointed with some of my reads lately - so I’m looking for some recs! The last ones I truly enjoyed are The Staircase in the Woods, Incidents Around the House, and The Troop.

anyone have a MASTERPIECE recommendation? just wanna get outta my reading slump tho

when i read this book i loved it but didn’t give it a super high rating at the time. honestly though i think i should have given this book a 5 star. no other book has stuck with me the way this one has. i think about this book alllll the time. definitely need to reread one day. whilst it’s a quiet book, and you don’t get a satisfying ending, or the answers to all your questions, i 150% recommend IWHNKM

I want to grow my tbr and find out what everyone has been enjoying lately! Mine was Mischief Acts by Zoe Gilbert.

Hi all! My goal for 2025 is to read more consistently, and I'm off to a good start so far! I recently found an insta reel where a guy (@stevenjreese) has devised a system to divide readers into different colours I'm mostly an orange and purple reader, and his analysis of the types of books I would like felt so accurate! It doesn't focus on genres, more ~ vibes ~ https://www.readyourcolor.com/ It was a really fun quiz, and he gives book recommendations at the end! I'm wondering if anyone else has taken the quiz - what colour(s) are you? And do you have any book recommendations that match the colours? Keen to spread my wings into other colours, but will also take recommendations in my colour zones ^_^

Sure, it's nice to find people with similar taste in books, and PageBound, due to the Favourits List on users' profiles, is amazing for that. But I fear I am a hater at heart, it's just so much fun. Also, I've found that most people (me included) find it easier to pinpoint what they dislike about a book. And sometime, things people hate about a book is exactly what I like. So I would love to hear your (preferably controversial) books you hate and why. I'll start (feel free to disagree and change my mind but please don't lynch me, though!) (Friendly reminder that you can hate a book but shouldn't shame people who enjoy them or the authors - except if it's people like J.K. Rowling, of course. Feel free to shame her) - One Dark Window because (to keep this spoiler free) the story more or less ends where it started. And it read like a first draft to me. But mostly because I wanted to bang my head against the wall because of how often I had to read how Ravyn's callused fingers caught on clothes/skin/hair. and, probably more controversially - A Little Life because (1) I'm sick of reading about tragic queer characters (2) I find it extremly over the top just how much trauma the MC went trough (3) I'm sick of books being praised as a literary masterpiece when they really are just traumatic (4) I habe a huge issue with the author's statement that she basically just tried to make her MC suffer as much as possible