hello party animals! i have been so overwhelmed and overjoyed by the love for this quest and i’m so grateful for all of you :))

for the fall we’ll put it to a vote, but since we’re getting a later start already i’ve gone ahead and picked out our summer book based on how much interest i’ve seen in the quest forum (shoutout @proudraindrop for proposing the idea!! love u my friend) and also based on length and accessibility!!!

our summer readalong book will be…

what we fed to the manticore by talia lakshmi kolluri!

it is approximately ~200 pages long and is comprised of a series of short stories all narrated by different animals! these stories reflect on war, genocide, grief, our changing climate, all through the eyes of animals. these aninals span the globe: we see through their eyes the genocide of palestinians, the pain of deforestation, the conflict between cities and the ecosystem. i am so excited to check this book out w you all!

the readalong will start now and go through the end of august / mid-september. after that, we’ll pick out a fall book!

i am working on trying to create a way for you all to find people to buddy read w as well! happy reading yayayayay!!

Hello everyone! I'm changing around the formatting of the quest forum and separating out a recommendations thread from the welcome post just to make it a bit easier for me to keep track of recommendations! Feel free to drop any recommendations for novels you think could belong in the Quest as a comment below!

In addition, in an effort to keep the Quest "fresher", additions will be mostly focused on newer releases, as in mostly novels that have only just come out in 2025-2026 and beyond. I may add some older novels if I come across them and determine they belong in the Quest enough to be added, but these will be few and far between.

If anyone is ever curious, I have a shelf to keep track of all the novels I'm currently considering to add to the quest labeled as Potential Adds to BH, which is public for anyone to look at! I will say as a disclaimer that novels on there are not guaranteed to be added, they’re just ones that are on my radar! I’m not going to explain all of my rationale for adding or not adding a novel, but I do want to be clear that I do my best to research before adding anything, and that may mean reading through recommendations I want to have a better understanding of (aka it may be awhile before a recommendation makes its way onto the Quest, if it does at all).

Thanks, and happy questing! 🍄🌹