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 soonAlex Rider is sent to a small island off the coast of Cuba to find out what a Russian general is doing at a decommissioned facility. The assignment is meant to be a rest after his last operation, and it turns into a countdown involving a nuclear weapon and a launch that has to be stopped.
Rating coming soonGen is a thief in the king's prison when the king's magus offers him a bargain: his freedom if he steals something that belongs to the gods. The journey to the temple takes him and the magus's party across the country, and Gen's account of it turns out to be less straightforward than it sounds.
Rating coming soonAmy and Dan Cahill discover at their grandmother's funeral that they belong to the most powerful family in history and are being offered a choice: take a million dollars each, or compete for thirty-nine clues. They choose the clues, and the hunt takes them to Paris and into the family's past.
Rating coming soonKimball O'Hara is an orphaned boy growing up on the streets of Lahore in British India, able to pass between communities and languages. He attaches himself to a Tibetan lama who is looking for a holy river, and then to the British secret service, and the novel follows both apprenticeships at once.
Rating coming soonDirk Pitt is called in when a colleague disappears while working on a case involving a stolen relic, and the investigation reaches back to a fleet of boats that landed on an island in an inland sea and to an Andean hoard of gold. Pitt and his team have to find the people dealing in the artifacts before the trail closes.
Rating coming soonA Second World War submarine carrying a biological weapon is still missing, and the plans that went with it surface decades later in the hands of people prepared to use them. Dirk Pitt and his grown children, now working alongside him, have to find the boat and stop the attack.
Rating coming soonMiles Cheshire has been looking for his twin brother for ten years, following the identities he leaves behind in different parts of the country. In a parallel thread a young man is told that the person he believed was his uncle is not a relative at all, and a third story follows people who make a living out of other people's names.
Rating coming soonAtlas has been condemned to hold up the world, and Heracles, on his way to another of his labours, offers to share the burden for a while. The novel retells the myth with both men describing what they are carrying, and turns it into a story about the difference between a load that is given and one that is chosen.
Rating coming soonFrancis Phelan returns to Albany in 1938 after years on the road, drinking and taking casual work, and the novel follows him through two days of Halloween as he visits the graves and the houses of the people he left behind. The dead he has known keep him company while he decides whether he can stay.
Rating coming soonIn 1987 Cora is trapped in an abusive marriage and has just given birth to a boy, and the novel follows what happens depending on the name she chooses for him. Three versions of the child's life unfold from that single decision, each with its own consequences for the family and for the people around it.
Rating coming soonRetta Winters is a writer and translator in her mid-forties whose eldest daughter has left home to sit on a street corner with a sign that reads Goodness. The novel follows Retta through a year of trying to understand the decision, and through the ordinary apparatus of her working life.
Rating coming soonAt a dinner party in Greenwich, a guest named Miles Garth goes upstairs, locks himself in a spare bedroom and does not come out. Over the months that follow, the household, the neighbours and the people who knew him have to decide what his refusal means, and the novel follows their reactions rather than his reasons.
Rating coming soonEbby Freeman was ten when she saw her brother Baz shot dead and a centuries-old jar shattered beside him, and the murder was never solved. Years later, when a new relationship brings her back into public attention, the case is reopened and the family has to live through it again in public.
Rating coming soonHuge ships appear over the cities of Earth, and the Overlords who command them begin a period of peaceful rule, ending war, poverty and cruelty within a generation. Humanity prospers under a system it did not choose, and the cost of the arrangement becomes clear only as the next generation grows up.
Rating coming soonJoanna Eberhart moves with her husband and children from New York to the town of Stepford, where the wives are devoted, cheerful and entirely occupied with their houses. Joanna, a photographer used to having a career and opinions, finds the difference hard to explain, and the explanation is worse than she imagines.
Rating coming soonHoward W. Campbell Jr, an American who grew up in Germany, became a famous playwright and then a broadcaster of Nazi propaganda. He is also, by his own account, an American agent, and the novel is his memoir, written in an Israeli prison while he waits to be tried for what he said on the radio.
Rating coming soonEustace Scrubb and Jill Pole are sent into Narnia by Aslan and given four signs to follow in a search for the prince who disappeared ten years earlier. They are joined by a gloomy marsh-wiggle named Puddleglum, and their journey takes them into the far north and then under the earth.
Rating coming soonTiffany Aching, a young witch on the Chalk, interrupts a dance of the seasons and attracts the attention of the Wintersmith, who decides to make her his summer. As the winter refuses to end she has to work out how to deal with a force that is courting her, while the Nac Mac Feegle keep watch.
Rating coming soonSimon Snow is in his final year at a magical school and is supposed to be the Chosen One who will defeat a creature called the Humdrum. His roommate and rival Baz has not returned for the year, and Simon spends the term looking for him while his magic fails and the war outside the school comes closer.
Rating coming soonKaz Brekker and his crew have pulled off the heist that was supposed to make them independent, and instead they have been betrayed and one of their number has been taken. The novel follows the gang's attempt to get her back and to take their revenge in a city where every deal has a second purpose.
Rating coming soonAlina Starkov is an orphan serving in the army of Ravka when her unit is attacked crossing the Fold, a strip of darkness full of monsters that divides the country. Something she has kept hidden saves the survivors, and the discovery takes her out of the ranks and into the world of the Grisha.
Rating coming soonJacob Portman and the peculiar children leave the island where they had been safe and travel towards wartime London to find help for Miss Peregrine, who is trapped in the form of a bird. The novel follows their journey through a country at war and through loops that are closing behind them.
Rating coming soonDuring the French and Indian War the daughters of a British commander are escorted through the wilderness towards a fort under siege, accompanied by an outlawed scout called Hawkeye and two Mohican men, Chingachgook and his son Uncas. The journey becomes a pursuit by enemy forces and by Huron warriors after a guide betrays the party.
Rating coming soonAlexandra Bergson inherits the family farm on the Nebraska Divide when her father dies, and makes it succeed while her brothers doubt her judgement. The novel follows the family for more than a decade, and then turns to the next generation and to the people Alexandra has loved, among them the man she has waited for since she was young.
Rating coming soonIn a Mexican state where the church has been suppressed, a whisky priest is the last of his kind still at large, moving between villages and avoiding the police. He is not a good man, and the novel follows his flight and the people who shelter or betray him as the pursuit closes in.
Rating coming soonThomas Sutpen arrives in a Mississippi town with a group of enslaved people and builds a plantation out of nothing, and the novel is the story of what he did and what it cost his family. Several narrators reconstruct it, among them his son, his friend and a student at Harvard who hears the story second-hand.
Rating coming soonA disease has killed most of the children in the United States and left the survivors with powers the government will not allow them to keep, for their own protection. Ruby Daly, who has been hiding what she can do, escapes and joins a group of runaways crossing a country that is hunting them.
Rating coming soonZoe Boutin Perry was adopted as a baby by two of the soldiers who saved her colony, and this novel tells the story of the attempt to found a new settlement from her point of view. The account runs alongside the events of the previous book, which Zoe narrates from her own position.
Rating coming soonRichard MacDuff, a programmer, discovers that his employer plans to sell a system that could rewrite history, and turns to Dirk Gently, a detective whose method is to follow whatever coincidence turns up. The investigation takes in a cat, a professor, a horse in a bathroom and the fate of the human race.
Rating coming soonLestat has risen from the earth and become a rock star, and his songs wake Akasha, the first vampire and queen of the damned. Her plans for the world involve the destruction of most of the men in it, and the older vampires have to decide whether to act against the being they came from.
Rating coming soonHarrowhark Nonagesimus is on a ship with the Emperor and a handful of survivors, and she has been made a Lyctor. She remembers none of the events that led there, and the novel moves between her present and a version of the past that keeps contradicting what she is told about it and that she cannot check.
Rating coming soonA Culture ship has been asked to carry a musician to a performance, and the musician and the ship's avatar become involved in an argument over whether a civilisation should be told the truth about its own founding. The novel moves between several ships and worlds as the departure approaches.
Rating coming soonCelaena Sardothien has won the contest to become the king's champion and is now required to carry out his orders while privately working against him. Her position becomes impossible when the next name on the list is someone she knows, and the novel follows her attempts to protect the people she cares about without being discovered.
Rating coming soonGeronimo Stilton, a mouse journalist, is pulled out of his office and into the Kingdom of Fantasy, where the queen has been kidnapped and the realm is in danger. He is given a quest and a set of companions, and the book follows him through the kingdom's regions as he tries to earn the title of knight.
Rating coming soonCassia lives in a Society that decides what everyone wears, eats and studies, and at seventeen she is matched with her best friend Xander, which is exactly what she wanted. Then a second face appears on the screen, and she has to work out what the mistake means for her and for the boy the Society did not choose.
Rating coming soonCress has spent seven years alone on a satellite, working as a programmer for the Lunar queen and watching the world through screens. When she is finally rescued by the crew she has been helping, the escape goes wrong, and the queen's plans are moving towards a wedding that will decide the fate of two worlds.
Rating coming soonIn a future where disease and death have been eliminated, the population is controlled by professional killers called scythes, who choose whom to end. Two teenagers are apprenticed to a scythe, and as they learn the work they have to decide what kind of people they are prepared to become.
Rating coming soonMelanie is ten and lives in a cell, collected each morning for lessons with a teacher she likes. She is one of a group of children studied by scientists at a military base, and the reason for the arrangement, and what Melanie actually is, becomes the novel's central question and changes what the reader thinks of everyone on the base.
Rating coming soonCal Thompson is nineteen and has been infected by a parasite that turns its carriers into cannibals and makes them sickened by everything they once loved. He is one of the rare people who stays himself, and he spends the novel tracking down the women he infected before he knew what he was carrying.
Rating coming soonJulia Lofting leaves her husband after the death of their daughter and buys a house in London where she hopes to start again. The house has a history, she begins to see a girl who is not there, and she sets out to find out what happened to the child who used to live in it.
Rating coming soonThe war against the Pannion Domin brings a coalition of armies, mages and undead into a campaign across a continent. The novel follows the soldiers and commanders on both sides of it, and the events of this book run alongside the second volume, filling in what was happening elsewhere at the same time and in the same war.
Rating coming soonThe Union is losing a war on two fronts. Crown Prince Ladisla rides north to push the Northmen out of Angland with the worst-armed, worst-led army in the world, while Superior Glokta is sent south to hold a city ringed by enemies and riddled with traitors, with allies he cannot trust and a predecessor who has vanished. Bayaz, the First of the Magi, leads a quarrelsome expedition east through the ruins of the past.
Rating coming soonThe three Baudelaire orphans are placed with their aunt Josephine, who lives in a house on a hill above Lake Lachrymose and is frightened of almost everything, from the stove to her own doormat. She is fearless only about grammar, and her library is full of books on it. At the grocery store the children meet a sailor calling himself Captain Sham, whom they recognise at once.
Rating coming soonSeparated from their friend Quigley by a waterfall in the Mortmain Mountains, the Baudelaire orphans come aboard a submarine called the Queequeg, whose captain is hunting a sugar bowl he refuses to describe. The trail leads into a grotto where a fungus grows that can kill anyone who breathes it, and the children have to judge how far the crew around them can be trusted.
Rating coming soonThe Baudelaire orphans travel to a hotel that is meant to be the last safe gathering place for the noble side of the organisation their parents served. Kit Snicket, who is pregnant, leaves the three of them there disguised as concierges with instructions to watch the guests and work out who is on which side, but the hotel is run by identical twins whose loyalties do not match.
Rating coming soonEmily, Navin and the resistance fighters they have joined leave on an airship to look for the lost city of Cielis, hoping to find the Guardian Council and the Stonekeepers who might be able to help them. Time is short, because the Elf King is hunting Emily as well, and the survival of their world depends on reaching the city first.
Rating coming soonLionkit, Hollykit and Jaykit belong to ThunderClan and are the grandchildren of its leader, Firestar. A prophecy given at the end of the previous arc says that three cats of his line will hold the power of the stars in their paws, and as the three are made apprentices the Clans begin to argue about which cats belong among them and which do not.
Rating coming soonMenolly, a young musician who keeps nine fire lizards of her own, arrives at the Harper Hall on Pern to begin training as a harper. She is the first girl ever apprenticed there, the Masters disagree about whether she should be taught at all, and the students she has to live with resent her for being different.
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.
