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 soonBen Richards cannot afford medicine for his daughter, so he applies for the only work that pays enough: a game show in which a man is released into the country and hunted for a month. The longer he survives, the more money his family receives, and the audience watches every stage of it.
Rating coming soonBreq, who used to be a warship and is now a single body, has been given a station to look after and a fragile peace to keep. A search of the station's slums turns up someone who should not exist, and a messenger from the Presger empire arrives with questions nobody can answer.
Rating coming soonDays after the contest that made him the owner of the OASIS, Wade Watts finds a second challenge hidden in the archives of its founder. What is waiting there points towards technology that could change what the virtual world is for, and towards a rival who wants the same thing and has more money than he does.
Rating coming soonThomas and the other survivors are told that the trials are finished and that their memories will be restored so they can help find a cure for the virus that has emptied the world. None of them trusts the organisation that has been running the tests, and Thomas has to decide what to do about what he remembers.
Rating coming soonAfter a war over abortion, a compromise called the Bill of Life allows a child between thirteen and eighteen to be unwound, with every part of the body transplanted rather than the child being killed. Three young people run before their turn comes, and the novel follows them towards a harvest camp where the process is carried out.
Rating coming soonShevek is a physicist on Anarres, a world settled by anarchists who left the capitalist planet Urras generations earlier. He travels back to Urras to work on his theory, and finds that each society holds ideas about him that he cannot satisfy, and that his own has become something he no longer recognises.
Rating coming soonThe last book of the Expanse opens with the human worlds under attack by something from beyond the gates, and with the crew of the Rocinante scattered by the events of the previous volume. The question is no longer who wins the war but whether humanity can keep using the ring network at all.
Rating coming soonMemphis Ward arrives in the small town of Quincy, Montana, with her newborn daughter and very little else, on the worst week of her life. She takes a job as a housekeeper for Knox Eden, a chef who wants to be left alone in the house his family owns, and the two of them get in each other's way.
Rating coming soonMaya Killgore is twenty-three and has not worked out what she wants from her life when she meets Conor Harkness, a man twelve years older with a way of doing things that gets on her nerves. The novel follows the two of them through a summer in Italy and the problem of wanting something that looks like a mistake.
Rating coming soonSamantha Elliot's father controlled her life while he was alive, and his will goes on controlling it after his death: to inherit, she has to move to New York and find out what happened to the grandmother who vanished sixty years earlier. She has never made decisions for herself and now has to make a great many.
Rating coming soonSloane Hart is in her senior year of college in 2016 and has decided to keep things simple, which lasts until she meets Ethan Brady. The two of them settle into something that is not quite a relationship, and the novel follows the year that arrangement takes to fall apart and what Sloane does afterwards.
Rating coming soonThe Battle of Gettysburg is told over three days from the point of view of the officers who fought it, among them Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet for the South and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain for the North. The novel follows their decisions and the ground they have to take or hold, with the outcome of the war resting on them.
Rating coming soonIn an Indian city in 1975 and then during the Emergency of the mid-1980s, four people are thrown together: two tailors from a village, a young student, and a widow who takes them in as lodgers. The novel follows the arrangement they make, the pressures that force it apart, and how far the Emergency lets any of them go to protect themselves.
Rating coming soonWalter Moody arrives in Hokitika on the New Zealand goldfields in 1866 and walks into a meeting of twelve men who are trying to work out a series of crimes committed in the town. Each of them holds a piece of the story, and the novel assembles them into a structure that mirrors the heavens.
Rating coming soonJean Louise Finch, twenty-six and living in New York, returns to her home town of Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father Atticus and finds the place changed less than she has. What she discovers about the people she grew up with forces her to separate the father she loves from the man he actually is.
Rating coming soonDavid Balfour, seventeen and newly orphaned, is cheated of his inheritance by an uncle and sold to a ship's captain to be carried to America. He survives a wreck and a stay on a small island, joins the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart, and is hunted across the Highlands for a murder he did not commit.
Rating coming soonTim Meeker's older brother Sam joins the rebel army at the start of the American Revolution while the family's store and tavern in Redding, Connecticut, are caught between the two sides. Tim has to decide where he stands, and the war takes the family's trade, its neutrality and finally its members, leaving him to work out what the argument was worth.
Rating coming soonTravis Coates is fourteen and in charge of the family farm in Texas with his mother and small brother while his father is away driving cattle, when a stray dog comes to the house and steals meat. Travis wants the dog gone, but the animal turns out to be useful, and the two of them become partners in the work of the farm.
Rating coming soonDaniel bar Jamin saw his father crucified by Roman soldiers and has lived in the mountains with a band of rebels ever since, waiting for the chance to fight. When his sister is left alone and unwell he has to care for her, and the teacher he meets near Capernaum asks him to give up the hatred he has built his life on.
Rating coming soonCaddie Woodlawn is eleven and growing up in Wisconsin in the 1860s, running wild with her brothers while her mother wants her to become a lady. The family has settled near a Native American community, and the novel follows Caddie's adventures, the practical work of a frontier farm and the trouble her curiosity creates.
Rating coming soonIn a Japanese prison camp in Singapore during the Second World War, an American corporal called King has built a position for himself by trading with the guards and the other prisoners. Peter Marlowe, a captured RAF officer, is drawn into his operation, and the novel follows what survival costs in a place with no rules.
Rating coming soonIn 1915, after The Birth of a Nation casts its spell over the country, the Ku Klux Klan grows in number and something else comes with it: the Klansmen are not entirely human. Maryse Boudreaux hunts them with a sword, and she and her companions follow the trail back to the source of the power.
Rating coming soonTwin sisters Stella and Desiree Vignes run away from the small Louisiana town of Mallard as teenagers, and their lives separate completely. Desiree returns years later with a daughter, while Stella passes for white, marries and disappears into a life in California, and the novel follows the generation that comes after both of them.
Rating coming soonNan King works in her family's oyster house in Whitstable until she sees Kitty Butler perform as a male impersonator and follows her to London. Nan becomes part of the act, and then has to make her own way through the music halls, the streets and the households of 1890s London.
Rating coming soonJoey, a farm horse, is sold to the army in the First World War and taken to France, where he passes between owners on both sides of the front. His first owner's son, Albert, is too young to enlist, and the novel follows both of them towards the same war and the search for each other.
Rating coming soonSharon Rabbitte is twenty and pregnant, and she will not name the father. Her family in Barrytown reacts the way a large working-class household does, with argument, gossip and a certain amount of sympathy, and Sharon has to get through the pregnancy and the birth while the neighbourhood works out what it thinks of her, in a place where everyone knows everyone's business.
Rating coming soonSusan Barton is cast away on the island where Robinson Cruso and his mute servant Friday have been living, and after a year the three of them are rescued. What follows is Susan's attempt to have her account written down, and her discovery that the story belongs to whoever tells it, and that one of them cannot tell it at all.
Rating coming soonAdunni is fourteen and living in rural Nigeria when her father marries her to a man who wants a son, and then sends her into domestic service in Lagos. She still wants the education her mother told her about, and the novel follows her through a household where she has no rights and a city where she has no protection.
Rating coming soonDominic Salt and his three children are the caretakers of Shearwater, a small island near Antarctica that holds a seed vault and very little else. A woman named Rowan is shipwrecked on the shore during a storm, and the family has to decide what to do about her while the weather closes in and the island's purpose is called into question.
Rating coming soonAn expedition sent by a company hunting diamonds in the Congo finds its previous team dead, apparently killed by something in the forest. A primatologist and her gorilla join the second party, which has to cross a country in the middle of a war to reach a lost city and the source of the danger there.
Rating coming soonKira is orphaned and disabled in a village that has no place for her, and she is taken to live in the Council Edifice, where she is given the work of repairing a ceremonial robe. The task brings her comfort and standing, but the more she learns about the building and the people kept in it, the less comfortable her position becomes.
Rating coming soonBilly Halleck, a lawyer who is far overweight, is driving carelessly when he kills an old Romani woman, and the case against him is dismissed. Afterwards a man he meets at the courthouse touches his cheek and says one word, and Billy begins to lose weight no matter how much he eats.
Rating coming soonAnne Marie Roche is thirty-eight, widowed and childless, and owns a bookshop on Blossom Street in Seattle that she took on after her husband died. On Valentine's Day she and three other women each write a list of twenty wishes, and the lists begin to change what all four of them do with the year ahead.
Rating coming soonA doctor performs an operation on a young woman that opens her mind to what he calls the great god Pan, and the experiment leaves her ruined. Years later her son, and everyone who comes into contact with him, are changed by whatever entered the world through that operation, and the trail is followed by a man who was present at it.
Rating coming soonApollo, now mortal and working for a teenager, is ordered west by his enemy Nero, and the instruction is aimed at stopping him from reaching the next oracle. He and Meg travel to Indianapolis, where they find the second of the oracles, the people running the city's supernatural business, and the allies who are left to them.
Rating coming soonTen-year-old Winnie Foster runs away from her fenced garden and finds a spring in the wood, where she meets a boy named Jesse Tuck drinking from it. His family take her home to explain why nobody should ever drink from that spring, and the Tucks have to decide what to do about a child who now knows their secret.
Rating coming soonCelaena Sardothien has been separated from everyone she loves and returns to the empire to take her revenge, recover her kingdom and confront the shadows she has been avoiding. The novel follows her in the capital while her friends work elsewhere, and the pieces of the old court begin to come back together.
Rating coming soonTwo thirteen-year-old friends, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, see a carnival arrive in their town in October, run by a man named Dark and offering a carousel that can make its riders older or younger. The boys are drawn to it, and the attraction turns out to trade in the one thing everyone wants and nobody should have.
Rating coming soonDouglas Spaulding is twelve in the summer of 1928 in Green Town, Illinois, and the season is made of small ceremonies: picking dandelions for wine, a first pair of new sneakers, firecrackers and a friend who has just moved in. The novel follows him through the months as he works out, for the first time, that he is alive and will die.
Rating coming soonTwo princes, Peter and Thomas, are the sons of a king who is murdered by his own magician, Flagg, in a scheme that puts Thomas on the throne and Peter in a cell. The novel follows the brothers, the friends who try to save Peter, and the long plans of the magician who wants the kingdom for himself.
Rating coming soonZoey Redbird is sixteen when she is marked by a tracker and has to leave her family for the House of Night, a boarding school for fledgling vampires. She makes friends, acquires an unusually strong affinity for magic, and finds that the school has its own politics and that its leaders are watching her.
Rating coming soonJoseph Schwartz, a retired tailor in the twentieth century, is caught in an experiment and wakes in a future Earth that has been poisoned by radiation and is ruled from elsewhere in the galaxy. Taken for a harmless old man, he is drawn into a conspiracy that will decide whether the planet's population is ever free.
Rating coming soonThe battle for Camp Jupiter is over and New Rome is safe, but Apollo still has to face the last of the enemies he has been working towards, in a tower in New York. The novel is the final book of his time as a mortal, and it brings the series' threads together for one last fight.
Rating coming soonZelie Adebola's mother was a Reaper who could summon souls, until the king's soldiers took magic away from Orisha and killed the maji. Years later Zelie is given a chance to bring the magic back, and she has to make the journey with a princess and a young man who both have their own reasons for going.
Rating coming soonManfred, the lord of the castle of Otranto, is preparing his son for marriage when a gigantic helmet falls out of the sky and kills the groom. Determined to keep the castle in his own line, he sets out to marry the intended bride himself, and the household is overtaken by omens, apparitions and the return of the rightful heir.
Rating coming soonDr Elwin Ransom, a philologist on a walking holiday in the English countryside, is kidnapped by two men and carried in a spacecraft to Mars, which its inhabitants call Malacandra. He escapes into the planet's interior and is sheltered by three different species, and learns what their history has to do with the isolation of Earth.
Rating coming soonAlex Rider is on holiday in the south of France when a bomb destroys the house he is staying in, and the trail leads to Sir Damian Cray, a pop star and peace campaigner who is preparing a global charity concert. Alex is drawn into the investigation and finds that the campaign is not what it appears.
Rating coming soonAlex Rider goes to Italy to find Scorpia, the organisation he believes is connected to his father's death, and is offered a place inside it. The offer is more attractive than it should be, and the operation he is trained for puts him in the position of the assassin rather than the target.
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.
