The Readeat.com bookstore has launched the My Book Dreams book wish service, which is rapidly gaining popularity among Ukrainian book lovers. It is also used not only for personal purposes but also as a tool for charity book collections.
Books are traditionally considered to be one of the most relevant gifts, both for holidays and for no particular reason. But it can be difficult to choose a book that the other person will definitely like and that they don’t already have in their own collection. Just as it is difficult to hint to your friends about the bookish desires that you yourself would like to receive as a gift.
The new My Book Dreams service, launched in 2025 on the Readeat bookstore website, makes this task as easy as possible. Here’s how it works:
- The user creates their own book wish list (wishlist) on Readeat.com and specifies the data to be sent.
- They post a link to this list on social media or send it to their friends in messengers.
- Friends and relatives buy books from the list in a few steps, and Readeat.com sends them directly to the recipient. As a result, book dreams come true, and book lovers get exactly the books they wanted.
The trend of making book dreams come true has been actively picked up by Readeat.com’s subscribers in Threads and Telegram: readers give wishes to strangers and share in the comments how pleasant it is to make and receive such unexpected gifts.
So far, more than 16,000 book wish lists have been created, with more than 265,000 books added to them.
The initiative was supported by publishers on their social networks, with Vydavnytstvo RM, ArtHuss, Fabula, Readberry, Lab, Ranok, A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ha, Borodatyi Tamarin, Artbooks, and BookChef among the first to join.
The books that are currently most often given as gifts in the My Book Dreams service:
- “The Handmaiden by Frieda McFadden (Vivat)
- “The Hunger Games. Book 1” by Suzanne Collins (BookChef)
- “My Murderous Vacation by Tessa Bailey (Vivat)
- “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reed (ARTBOOKS)
- “The Hunger Games. Catching Fire. Book 3” by Suzanne Collins (BookChef)
- “The Hunger Games. Book 2: Catching Fire”, Suzanne Collins (BookChef)
- “The Secret of the Maid, Frieda McFadden (Vivat)
- “The Maid is Watching” by Frieda McFadden (Vivat)
- “A Study in Drowning, by Ava Reed (Vivat)
- “Ask Miechka, by Yevhenia Kuznetsova (Old Lion Publishing House)
The books that are currently most often added to wish lists in the My Book Dreams service:
- “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” by Holly Jackson (Readberry)
- “Five will survive” by Holly Jackson (Readberry)
- “And the Ice Will Melt. Book 1” by Hannah Grace (Vivat)
- “Poppy War. Book 1” by Rebecca Kwan (GEOGRAPH)
- “Powerless by Lauren Roberts (Readberry)
- “I See You Are Interested in Darkness by Illarion Pavliuk (Old Lion Publishing House)
- “Once a Heartbreaker by Stephanie Garber (Vivat)
- “Heartless” by Marissa Mayer (Readberry)
- “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reed (ARTBOOKS)
- “Small Print by Lauren Usher (Vivat)
Top publishers by the number of books you want:
- Vivat
- “Family Leisure Club”
- Publishing house “RM”
- BookChef
- Readberry
- “ARTBOOKS”
- “Staryi Lev Publishing House”
- “GEORGE”
- “A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga”
- “Laboratory”
In addition, the new service has been used for massive good deeds. For example, Readeat.com, together with the SavED Foundation, launched the School Book Dreams charity initiative for school libraries in Chernihiv that suffered during the war. You can join in here.
“School book dreams must come true! On the occasion of the Book Giving Day, we at Readeat, together with the SavED Foundation, launched the School Book Dreams charity initiative. Thanks to it, 10 libraries in Chernihiv region will receive new books.
Each of us has the power to change the future of children through books. It is also an incredible feeling when you know that somewhere in Chernihiv or Nizhyn, a little reader has received a dream book thanks to you,” said Dmytro Feliksov, founder of the Readeat bookstore chain.
For reference:
Readeat is a chain of bookstores in Kyiv and an online book service that offers more than 30,000 books. Readeat’s mission is to make all Ukrainians fall in love with reading: from the youngest to the oldest. To make a book in your hands a part of the image of a modern person, one of the main brands of our country.
