3473 books across eight primary genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery and thrillers, historical fiction, literary fiction and adventure. Romantasy and contemporary romance are tags on top of those shelves rather than genres of their own. Every page gives you the author, the publication year, the series it belongs to and a short synopsis that stops before the plot turns.
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Rating coming soonIn four days Rena will marry Ford Harlow, and the thought of the ceremony fills her with excitement and dread at once. It is not an ordinary wedding. Their union is a deal: Ford wants her property, and Rena will do anything to keep it. If she is expecting a marriage of convenience in which they share a life but never a bed, she is in for a surprise, because Ford has been intrigued by his shy bride for a long time.
Rating coming soonBrianne Martin first sees Pierce Hutton in Paris, tall, handsome and utterly dangerous, and she pulls him back from despair without intending to. He is grateful for the rest of his life, but he draws the line at seducing a woman half his age. She falls in love with him anyway, and refuses to consider giving her innocence to anyone else, least of all the corrupt associate of her stepfather, who is obsessed with her and would stop at nothing to have her.
Rating coming soonLuke Tanner's parting words on their first evening together sounded more like a threat than a promise to Amy Warren. Four years after tragedy ended her marriage she is still hurting, and still terrified of loving anyone again. As a partner in a tour company that organises trips through the South African countryside, she is forced to work with him.
Rating coming soonPersepha cannot believe it when her beloved guardian dies suddenly. Perhaps it is the numbness of grief that makes her listen to Don Diablo Ezreldo Ruy, her guardian's friend, when he announces that he intends to marry her. She protests that she does not love him, and he assures her that love will come. All too soon she understands that what he actually wants from her is a child.
Rating coming soonMeeting Torr Latime is the last thing Abby Lyndon expected from a Japanese flower-arranging class, and he is dynamic, good-looking and better at arrangements than she is. He is also the distraction she needs, because someone is stalking her. Once Torr understands her situation he offers to protect her, taking her to his secluded cabin, where the atmosphere is intimate and safe and, it turns out, conducive to seduction.
Rating coming soonEthan MacCarrick was a handsome rake until a powerful nobleman had him brutally beaten and his face scarred for a crime he did not commit. Ruining the man financially and forcing him into exile did little to satisfy the anger. Ten years later Ethan meets a haughty, mysterious beauty who turns out to be his enemy's daughter, and he sees his chance: promise her marriage, seduce her, then cast her aside. Madeleine van Rowen has other reasons to keep her guard up.
Rating coming soonOrphaned at five and taken in by wealthy cousins, Ellen Kellaway has been raised as a companion to their daughter and never once allowed to forget that every advantage she has was owed to somebody's charity. Her life of deference changes completely when the son of a powerful London family asks to marry her, opening a world of wealth and position.
Rating coming soonOn the face of it Grace Wilde has everything: youth, beauty, wealth and a title. Everything that makes up the life of a society queen is hers, and happiness is the one thing missing. The social round was never her choice; she was coerced into a loveless and meaningless marriage with an uncaring, unfaithful man. Then, on an expedition into the Persian desert, she falls into the hands of Kharim Khan, who is unlike anyone she has met.
Rating coming soonHaving left Egypt with the Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is living in freedom at the foot of Mount Sinai. When the people build a golden idol in defiance of Yahweh, the chaos that follows gives her an unexpected chance to learn midwifery, and she discovers that her gifts show best when she is helping at a birth. Her mother wants her to keep to the family weaving trade, and Shira apprentices herself as a midwife anyway. Then a delivery goes badly wrong.
Rating coming soonEdwin Trequair professes to live by an Eastern saying: that a woman's mind is a jungle, and the one jungle in which a man should never lose himself. Yet he has asked Heron to marry him, and she has accepted, which neither of them can fully explain. He has money and the house that has meant everything to Heron all her life, the Glass Castle. What she feels for him is closer to fear and curiosity than affection.
Rating coming soonJeremy Adair North, Earl of Clume and known to his friends as Dare, is one of England's most notorious rakes, a pleasure-seeker whose habits are a way of burying the memory of the actress who broke his heart seven years earlier. When treachery threatens the Crown he decides to use his former beloved to help him expose a traitor.
Rating coming soonHarry Potter leaves Privet Drive for the last time, and the protective charm that has kept him safe is broken. The Dark Lord is spreading fear through everything he loves, and hiding is no longer possible. To stop Voldemort he must find the remaining Horcruxes and destroy them, which means facing his enemy in a final battle. The story is a hunt rather than a school year, and the friends are separated from almost every protection they have relied on.
Rating coming soonHarry returns for a fourth year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione, and the school is host to a tournament between three schools of magic in which one champion is chosen from each by the Goblet of Fire. Harry is not eligible and is not a fourth competitor, but his name comes out of the goblet, and he has to take part in a contest that is dangerous even for a wizard who entered willingly.
Rating coming soonAfter Dementors attack his cousin Dudley, Harry understands that he has become Voldemort's next target. Many in the wizarding world deny that the Dark Lord has returned, but Harry is not alone, and a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to organise against him. Meanwhile Voldemort's assaults on Harry's mind grow stronger, and he must let Professor Snape teach him to defend himself before his time runs out.
Rating coming soonOne summer night Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive to collect Harry Potter, and his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, though he will not say why. Rumour and suspicion spread through the wizarding world until it feels as if Hogwarts itself is under threat. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the Dark Mark, and he will need powerful magic and true friends as he investigates Voldemort's darkest secrets.
Rating coming soonDorothy and three companions, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, travel the Yellow Brick Road towards the Emerald City to ask an audience of the Great Oz, the mightiest wizard in the land and the only one who can send Dorothy home to Kansas. The road is long, the witch who rules much of the country is not friendly, and each of the travellers is missing something they believe the wizard can supply.
Rating coming soonHazel and the remaining crew of the Argo II face a choice. They can sail home with the Athena Parthenos and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter going to war, or they can continue the quest for the House of Hades, where they may be able to open the Doors of Death, rescue Percy and Annabeth from Tartarus and stop monsters being reborn. Either way they have to hurry, because Gaea has set the date of her rise to power.
Rating coming soonThe mists are killing people and lingering longer than they should. The Ashmounts are pouring more choking ash into the sky, burying the crops everyone needs to eat. Ruin, the creature Vin was tricked into freeing from a prison of a thousand years, is loose. Life under the Lord Ruler begins to look like paradise by comparison, and the heroes discover that what they thought was the danger was never the real one.
Rating coming soonAnnabeth is terrified. Just as she is about to be reunited with Percy after six months apart, it looks as though Camp Jupiter is preparing for war, and the Roman demigods have good reason to distrust the ship she arrives in. She also carries a gift from her mother that came with a command: follow the Mark of Athena and avenge her. An already heavy prophecy will send seven demigods to find and close the Doors of Death.
Rating coming soonMr Fox is clever and anthropomorphic, and he lives with his wife and four children. Every night he steals food from three cruel and brutish farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, until the farmers decide they have had enough of being outwitted and set out to capture and kill him. The foxes escape by digging deep, and the farmers settle in to wait outside the hole for them to come out.
Rating coming soonOf the five contenders for power in the Seven Kingdoms, one is dead, another is in disfavour, and the wars continue as violently as before while alliances are made and broken. Joffrey of House Lannister sits on the Iron Throne as the uneasy ruler, and his bitterest rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced. The third volume of the cycle continues the struggle across the realm.
Rating coming soonDigory and Polly discover Uncle Andrew's secret workshop and are tricked into touching magic rings that take them out of this world. The experiment succeeds, and the little girl vanishes before Digory's eyes. Neither child is prepared for what follows, because the rings lead to the gateway of the land of Narnia, and to the beginning of its history. Digory's attempt to undo what his uncle has done is what carries the two children from the workshop into the new world.
Rating coming soonRoland, the last gunslinger, walks a beach and finds three mysterious doorways. Each one opens into the life of a different person living in New York, and through them Roland draws the companions who will travel with him. Their company is the point of the exercise, because the quest he is on cannot be completed alone.
Rating coming soonRalph Roberts is a retired widower whose sleep is steadily shortening. The insomnia turns out to have a consequence: it lets him perceive auras and other things that are normally hidden, and it draws him into a conflict between the forces of the Purpose and the Random. The novel is set in Derry, Maine, and connects to King's other work. His sleeplessness is treated throughout as a medical problem before it becomes anything else, which is what gives the book its slow pressure.
Rating coming soonAfter escaping the wreckage of the insane mono Blaine and eluding the sorcerer Randall Flagg, Roland and his companions find themselves back on the beam. In the borderlands between Mid-World and End-World they are approached by frightened representatives of Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town that will be attacked within a month by the Wolves, masked riders who come out of Thunderclap once a generation and steal the town's children.
Rating coming soonA middle-aged Billy Colman rescues a Redbone Coonhound from a pack of neighbourhood dogs and takes it home to recover, and the incident returns him to the dogs he kept as a boy in the Ozarks. Decades earlier, at ten years old, he wanted two redbone coonhounds for hunting. He answered a magazine advertisement, worked odd jobs for two years to raise the fifty dollars, and walked twenty miles to collect them.
Rating coming soonA young English boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on the subject, set out to foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. The witches operate secretly in every country, and they are ruled by the vicious Grand High Witch, who has come to England to put the plan into effect. The book is set partly in Norway and partly in England.
Rating coming soonBuck, a mixed-breed dog, is taken from his home, where breakfast and comfort were a given, and finds himself facing the hardship of a sled dog's life instead. He passes into hands that drive him and the rest of the team on when conditions are too rough for any of them. He also fights the urge to run with the wolves that live around the route he is working.
Rating coming soonA little after midnight on 5 September, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to tell them both that they will die that day. The two are strangers, and for different reasons each wants to make a new friend on his End Day. An app called Last Friend exists for exactly that purpose, and through it the two of them meet and set out to live a lifetime in a single day.
Rating coming soonSixteen-year-old Simon Spier is not openly gay and prefers to keep his drama for the school musical. When an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of becoming public, and he finds himself being blackmailed: if he does not act as wingman for the class clown, Martin, his identity will become everyone's business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the boy he has been emailing, would be compromised too.
Rating coming soonMrs Frisby is a widowed mouse with four small children, and she has a problem that cannot wait: the family has to move to its summer quarters or face almost certain death, but her youngest son Timothy is ill with pneumonia and cannot be moved. She encounters the rats of NIMH, an extraordinary colony of highly intelligent creatures, who find a solution to her dilemma, and she in turn does them a great service.
Rating coming soonSam Gribley is twelve and dislikes living in his parents' cramped New York apartment with his eight brothers and sisters, so he runs away to his great-grandfather's abandoned farm in the Catskill Mountains to live in the wilderness. The novel opens in the middle of the story, with Sam sheltering in a treehouse during a blizzard, and then returns to explain how he came to be there and what he learned.
Rating coming soonJack Reacher is a drifter who has just got off a bus in Margrave, Georgia, and within an hour he is under arrest for murder. It is a poor welcome from the town, and all Reacher knows is that he did not kill anybody, at least not here and not recently. He does not stand a chance of convincing anyone of that in Margrave, which is exactly the position the novel leaves him in.
Rating coming soonJohn Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL known to readers of Tom Clancy's novels as the dark side of Jack Ryan, is a man who handles the secret operational work Ryan cannot be associated with. He has hunted warlords in Japan, drug lords in Colombia and nuclear terrorists in the United States, and he has ghosts of his own to settle.
Rating coming soonThe Jungle Book follows Mowgli, a man-cub raised by wolves in the jungle, along with a cast of animal characters that includes Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. Most of the stories are set in a dry forest in India, and one place named repeatedly is Seeonee. The theme running through the book is abandonment followed by fostering, in the life of Mowgli and in the parallel stories.
Rating coming soonAlex Rider is fourteen, and he is told that his uncle died in a car accident. He knows it is a lie, because of the bullet holes in his uncle's windscreen. Nothing prepares him for the next discovery, that the uncle he thought he knew was working for MI6, and that he is being recruited to find the killers and finish the mission. He is then caught in a game of cat and mouse.
Rating coming soonOnce, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane who was very pleased with himself and had good reason to be, since he was owned by a girl named Abilene who adored him completely. Then one day he was lost. The journey that follows takes him from the ocean floor to a fisherman's net, to the bedside of an ailing child and the streets of Memphis.
Rating coming soonRalph S. Mouse is a house mouse who can speak to humans, though typically only to children, and who lives with his family in a run-down hotel where he longs for excitement and independence. He goes on adventures riding a miniature motorcycle, which is how the first of the three books about him begins. The story came partly from the author's son, who played with toy vehicles while recovering from a fever.
Rating coming soonIn rural Mississippi in 1933, nine-year-old Cassie Logan lives with her three brothers on land the family owns, which is unusual for a Black family of the period, since most around them sharecropped. Cassie has grown up protected and strong and has not yet understood that a white person could force her to be untrue to herself. One turbulent year, with night riders and burnings, shows her why the land matters so much.
Rating coming soonDuring a family hiking trip, nine-year-old Trisha's mother and brother argue constantly about the divorce, and Trisha falls back to avoid listening. She wanders off the trail to find somewhere to relieve herself and cannot find her family again. Taking a shortcut to catch up, she slips and falls down a steep embankment and ends up hopelessly lost, heading deeper into the forest with only what she is carrying.
Rating coming soonSt Vladimir's Academy is a boarding school like no other, a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teenagers train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, bodyguard to her best friend Lissa, a Moroi vampire princess. The two have been on the run, and now they are being taken back to the place where they are most at risk.
Rating coming soonAn expedition through an unexplored region of Africa is led by Allan Quatermain, a hunting guide, and his party is searching for the missing brother of one of its members. The journey takes them into country that no European has mapped, towards a range of mountains and a legend of treasure, and it is among the first English adventure novels to use the African interior as its setting.
Rating coming soonEleven-year-old Claudia Kincaid runs away from her home in Greenwich, Connecticut, because she believes her parents do not appreciate her, and she takes refuge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with her younger brother Jamie. Once installed, Claudia sets out to keep their new home in order and to become a changed person, and a heroine to herself. The hiding place has to be financed, cleaned up after and kept secret from everyone working in the building.
Rating coming soonThe three unluckiest children in the world return for another unfortunate adventure. The Baudelaire children survived their first encounter with the scheming Count Olaf, but the Count does not give up easily, and the Baudelaire luck does not improve, whatever arrangements are made for their care. This volume puts them in a new guardian's house, where a room full of reptiles becomes the setting for the next catastrophe.
Rating coming soonHiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking hero who ever lived, though it was not always like that. At the beginning he was the most put-upon Viking imaginable: not loud enough to be heard at dinner with his father Stoick the Vast, not strong enough to beat his rival Snotlout at the school's main sport, and not stupid enough to avoid a cave full of dragons.
Rating coming soonWhen Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their comfortable life in London for a small cottage in the country. The house, called Three Chimneys, stands beside a railway line, which becomes a constant source of interest for all three of them. They make friends with the station master, Perks the porter and the Old Gentleman who waves from the train every day, but the question of where Father has gone remains.
Rating coming soonInvestigations into the accidental deaths of two of the world's most powerful men reveal a single link: both had sons attending Point Blanc Academy, an exclusive school for rebellious rich children run by a sinister man named Dr Grief and sited high on an isolated peak in the French Alps. Alex Rider is sent in as a pupil, with a false identity and a set of disguised gadgets, to establish what is really happening there.
Rating coming soonBella Swan has been pulled between her passion for the vampire Edward Cullen and her connection to the werewolf Jacob Black, and she has reached the point where the choice has to be made. She can join the world of the immortals or keep a fully human life. Now that she has decided, a chain of events begins that threatens far more than her own future.
The library is split into eight primary genres so you can find the kind of book you actually want: romance, where the relationship carries the story; fantasy, from epic quests to cosy shops; science fiction, from the classics to this year's awards; horror, from gothic novels to haunted houses; mystery and thrillers, from detectives and spies to domestic suspense; historical fiction, for stories built inside a past period; literary fiction, for books whose interest is in the writing and the people rather than in a plot engine; and adventure, for journeys, survival and treasure hunts. Each shelf page says what belongs on it.
Tags are a second, separate layer. Romantasy marks the books where romance and a fantasy world carry the story together, and contemporary romance marks the love stories set in the modern real world. Neither is a genre: a tagged book still lives on one or two of the eight shelves, and the tag is a way to narrow a shelf rather than a shelf of its own. Tags have landing pages too.
The title, the author and the publication year are checked against the publisher or a library record before a page goes up, and the cover is the one that record carries. Where no source states the first-publication date, the page says the year is the earliest edition we could confirm instead of claiming a date.
The synopsis on each page is written for this library. It tells you who the characters are and what they are up against, then stops. It is not a review, there are no scores anywhere on these shelves, and nothing here claims that we have read a book we have not written about yet.
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Eight primary genres, each with its own filters. Titles that genuinely belong to two genres are listed on both and keep one page.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
676 booksPrimary genreEpic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreHaunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.
381 booksPrimary genreDetectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.
599 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
324 booksOne page per book, shared between genres: 858 titles sit on more than one genre right now. Romance 676, Fantasy 685, Sci-Fi 536, Horror 381, Mystery & Thriller 599, Historical Fiction 580, Literary Fiction 575, Adventure 324.
Tags cut across the genres. 225 of the 3473 books carry one.
Romance at the centre of the story, with a fantasy world carrying it.
70 booksTagModern love stories: offices, small towns, sports teams, group chats and people who talk too much.
155 booksRomantasy 70 and Contemporary Romance 155. A tag landing works like a shelf: search, subgenre chips, primary-genre chips and sorting.
