I've just started using this to track my physical TBR list! I love the prompted things to write about and with the extra space, I've taken to making a small lino stamp to add for each book I read! Totally excited to fill this journal up!!
Reading Journal - Serpents & Swords
$59.99
For all the apps in the world, nothing rivals the simple magic of pen, paper, and a journal you can truly hold.
Track your Reading: Easily log and reflect on every book with quick reviews and in-depth longer reviews.
Organise Your TBR: Stay on top of your to-be-read list and keep track of recommendations all in one place.
Personalised Creativity: Enjoy blank and dotted pages for doodles, sketches, or notes, plus colour-in illustrations.
Reduce Digital Overload: A refreshing, screen-free way to document your reading journey and stay engaged.
For readers who don’t just read the book, but stay up until 2am inhaling chapters, spiral over fictional characters, and carry the emotional hangover long after the final page is turned.
Our Reading Journal is a guided book journal designed to help you track, review, and remember every story that leaves its mark. Filled with thoughtful prompts, reading trackers, review pages, favourite quotes, and space for notes, musings, and hot takes, it’s made for readers who want to savour every moment of their reading journey.
From unforgettable characters to books that altered your brain chemistry, this journal keeps your literary adventures alive far beyond the distractions, pings, and chaos of the digital world. Part reading tracker, part memory keeper, part emotional support object - because finishing the book shouldn’t have to be the end of the story.
Journal Features
Reading Journal Vs. Reading Companion
The Reading Journal is your fully stacked (pun intended) go to journal, brimming with prompts, stats, and space to savour every detail. The Reading Companion is its laid back counterpart that's perfect for more casual readers, or acts as a seamless extension to your Reading Journal if you require more space.
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Shipping and Returns
All of your orders are packed with love and care by the Quirky Team and are shipped from Quirky HQ in Adelaide, South Australia.
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This journal isn’t just a place for your words, it’s a safe haven for your thoughts, opinions, and reflections.
With every pen stroke, you’re crafting your own narrative, weaving tales that echo through time.
Uncover the magic of storytelling with the Reading Journal. A trusty companion on your journey through literature and beyond.
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Quick Reviews
Full Reviews
Full Reviews
Bookshelf: Illustrated & blank
TBR List (372 Spaces)
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 147 reviews.
Literally stunning and amazing quality on the cover and paper 😍😍
I have one for myself and got this one for my daughter. We are reading the same books and this journal is something we can share our reading thoughts and experiences in together . Absolutely love it thank you. ☺️
I LOVE it. It’s gorgeous! It’s amazing quality I love all the areas to write and the book shelves. I like the full review section even though I’m not much or a journaling type the headings help to prompt me what to fill out. Even the quick review section is just a nice way to track what you’ve read. The paper quality is great. Nice, smooth and thick. My pens don’t bleed through. The journal is so awesome I want to buy more regular ones. I love it so much she’s SO pretty!!!
Started reading last year during my 10 year anniversary/belated honeymoon. I’d not read for pleasure since I was a teenager. This was the splurge I didn’t know I needed- the paper is lovely, and there is just something about doing things by hand that feels more grounding than keeping track on a digital spreadsheet or app. I might go through it faster than I think and can’t wait to get ££ to get little kindle swag.
Adoro este diario tan hermoso, las paginas son divinas, cada apartado es hermoso y los detalles de la portada son hermosos
This book is so gorgeous and fiery! It's inspired me to go back to more fiction reading and finish up the many to be read books I researched before bringing back home and pressies from others as well haha! I read typically nonfiction so would love a scientific / more grounded earthy theme to come out eventually from you guys 👀🧐 could be an Alchemy styled thing too :p Have to say though... I am in love with nearly everything here!!! (The super girly ones aren't my cup of tea but the rest so are!!) I bought the other books and noticed it's just this one that has the blemishbon the side ? A crease I clicked on the other reviews photos most have it but some don't ! Wish I never noticed as it's bugging me now rip.
I love this so much! I have wanted one for years and finally ordered it. I really like the set up for book reviews and other things I didn't know I needed. A beautiful book!
So much to do. Elegant style. And perfect for a thorough collection of reviews and other reading related records.
I love love love this reading journal! The quality is amazing and the prompts are great, highly recommend!
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Love the reading journal! It keeps me accountable and writing my own reviews is a great reminder so I can determine what I'd like to read next.
I bought this for myself (fighting my disappointment over the green one being out of stock) and would have bought a second for my daughter, but I know she wants the dark green one too. It’s great! I’ve started using it for my new year book challenge, and also for sorting out my office - yes, the books have taken over my office and using this to list my TBRs. My family now have access to my wish list, so no more asking what I want for my birthday etc etc… I can honestly say I recommend this reading journal to every book dragon (‘cause we’re not worms, are we?), and I wish I’d found this wonderful company years ago! Now, if I plead hard enough, will you source a dark green journal please? The upcoming Sage looks nice, but it’s not green enough 😢
Absolutely fantastic journal!! 😍😍😍 Amazing quality from A to Z! I'm in love !!
Wonderful! It's so much fun to write in it :)
I saw a post on Instagram and was immediately sold. The design and photos already showed the quality of the products. Once I placed my order (and paid the customs fees 🥲), I was able to enjoy this superb book, which will allow me to summarize my reading for 2026 (at least!).
I really love this reading journal. As someone who mostly keeps everything electronic, I have the goal of going back to my roots and keeping things on pen and paper. This reading journal was thoughtfully put together for both function and design. Unfortunately my journal does have a slight blemish on the gold foiled edges but have decided to live with it as shipping to the USA is crazy (for obvious unfortunate reasons). Overall, super great journal and definitely recommend.
Absolutely obsessed! I wanted a reading journal for years and I'm so happy I took the leap and got this one. Bring on 2026, I have a journal to fill!!
Absolutely love this journal. I was previously using a blank journal and adding a few bullet points to each book. I now put 3 books into the full review section, and it really does help you digest what you've just read. The sections/prompts are helpful and inspiring. I wish there was a section to rate authors and narrators. There are quite a few sections that I will never touch, particularly the reading tracker (way too tedious to track time spent reading each day) and the favorite quotes (each full review already has a section for that). I don't know why there is a TBR and wishlist, they are the same thing to me. But there is also a few blank pages in the back to whatever you like. I will absolutely buy another when I run out of room in this one.
These are so beautiful!! They are excellent quality, thick paper and wonderful ways to track your reading inside, and they were packed so well there wasn't a scuff mark in sight when they arrived! I'll definitely order again!
Such a beautiful journal! I’m so excited to finally have this in my hands and fill it. The pages have greate quality and so much space for ideas and self expression. I love it!
This is my first reading journal (I track on The StoryGraph though, which has helped), and I'm a bit obsessed, even if I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with it in every instance. I know I'm excited to fill it out though! In fact, I'm so excited about filling it out that it's actually driven me to reading more! (Fun fact, Auspost accidentally sent it to Alice Springs on the way to my NSW address, so it's particularly well travelled too lol)
Awesome quality. Love the detail. Going to be lots of fun to keep track. 😁
Absolutely Gorgeous colours! And great quality. The pictures online do not do it justice!
this is the most gorgeous book journal i have ever seen. there is so much thought put behind it and you can tell this was designed by someone who loves to read!
I love the different cover designs! So excited to be writing in these. I do miss the bigger Final Review and Notes sections for my bigger book reads. Especially the mysteries! I like to jot a lot down about the characters so I can try to figure it out myself. Luckily I have the older journals and will put those in there. Can’t wait to read small books for the Reading Companion!!
I’m old fashioned, I love to communicate through the written word, and this gorgeous journal allows me to do so using my favourite ink pens. So good I’ve bought them for friends and family.
Love the products. Only complaint is the shipping to the US.
Very beautiful book reading journal! Perfect anniversary gift for my wife.
I saw your ad in Facebook and decided to check it out. Your reading journal is a perfext addition to my shelves and will be an immense help to keep track of my many many many many to-read books. I also got the matching pen and book sleeve and they are all gorgeous! The motif is exactly what i hoped and fits my personal (goth) style perfectly! Absolutely worth what I paid for them! 🖤
My first reading journal and I love it! It has many different sections that are very useful for tracking and reviewing books. The design is beautiful and the paper is nice and thick. It fits right in with my books on the shelf. I just started filling it out with books I have already read this year and I'm exited to use it! I think this will last me at least 2 years of not 3. Very happy with the product :)
Amazing! Everything did not disappoint!
Gorgeously perfect! Great quality and the prompts and templates are perfect to a newbie in the book journalling world! Couldn't be happier!
Love it!!
I bought this as a gift for my friend who loves reading, and when it arrived I was blown away by how beautiful the journal was! My friend loved it too! I would definitely purchase again, the company is lovely and delivery was so quick to the UK! Thank you!
So beautiful!
I bought it as a gift for a friend who loves to read. She feel in love with it immediately and she told it was the most beautiful reading journal she has ever seen!
I have bought this for my daughter’s birthday which is in a couple of weeks
Love this so much. I have started putting in my tbr and am really excited to start adding my reviews. I also love the library lending pages! So cute
Soo pretty! Amazing quality, so the “higher” price point is very reasonable. I honestly can’t believe how much comes in just one journal! Excited to start filling it up :)
Each journal features a stunning cover with intricate foil detailing that would make even the stars go blind. The magic-filled 120GSM pages invite you to explore and discover a new kind of reading experience.
Your Personal Bookshelf
Curate your literary lineup with a dedicated TBR list and customizable bookshelf
Savour Every Story
Engage with every story through dedicated sections for short and long reviews, complete with guided prompts to capture your thoughts.
The Devils in the Data
Celebrate your reading milestones with a three-year undated tracker, book awards, and reading stats.
Which Reading Journal is right for you?
*Please check individual listings for small variations.
Reading Companion Sage
$49.00
Reading Journal - Sage
$59.99
Reading Companion Sage
$49.00
Reading Journal - Sage
$59.99
Full Reviews
35 spaces
60 spaces
Quick Reviews
217 spaces
248 spaces
TBR List
620 spaces
279 spaces
Wishlist
372 spaces
372 spaces
Bookshelf
Illustrated
Illustrated & Blank
Reading Tracker
1 year
3 years
Reading Challenges
-
Blank
Book Recs
-
-
Library Card
-
Included
Book Awards
-
3 years
Reading Stats
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3 years
Upcoming Releases
-
-
Blank Space
Dotted & Blank
Dotted & Blank
Customisable Contents
Included
Included
Colour-in Illustrations
Included
Included
For book lovers, journal keepers, and storytellers at heart.
Lush stationery, made to be adored.
The Quirky Cup Collective is where bookish indulgence meets everyday delight. Our stationery transforms the ordinary into something worth savoring, designed for those who find magic between the lines and inspiration in the margins.
We don’t just make journals and book accessories, we create companions for your stories. Every piece is crafted with intention, designed to inspire, and made to last. Whether you're chronicling your latest literary obsession or plotting your next creative masterpiece, your pages deserve the best.
Because here, it’s not just about putting pen to paper, it’s about celebrating the magic in the margins.
