BookWyrm.World

A world of books

Decentralized

Friendly

Anti-Corporate

A generic Bookworm instance for everyone to use.

Join other bookwyrms in recommending books to eachother & sharing your reading list and read list. Or, if you just want to have a place to manage the books you are reading, then this is also the place for you! Either way, everyone is welcome!

We are also a part of the Fedihosting Foundation together with other sites such as Mastodon.world, Lemmy.world and mstd.social

Need help? Contact the admins at info@bookwyrm.world or send a dm to @sigvie@bookwyrm.world here on the local instance!

Request an Invitation

We've decided to turn off open registrations due to spam accounts. This means that you'll have to ask us for an invite. You can do that by filling out the form below. When your request has been accepted, you'll receive an email from us. It can appear in your spam folder, so remember to check that in the next days. If you have any questions, then feel free to reach out to us via email: info@bookwyrm.world, or on Mastodon: @bookwyrmworld@mastodon.world

Recent Books

No rating

Laziness Does Not Exist

by Devon Price

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes. 60-hour work weeks. Side hustles.Like many …

Colson Whitehead: The Nickel Boys (Paperback, 2019, Knopf, RANDOM HOUSE US)

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD …