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 soonPollyanna Whittier is eleven and newly orphaned when she is sent to live with her aunt in the town of Beldingsville. Aunt Polly is wealthy, strict and has no idea what to do with a niece, while Pollyanna arrives with a game her father taught her: finding something to be glad about in whatever happens.
Rating coming soonAlex Rider is in hospital recovering from a bullet wound when four men break in to kidnap the son of a Russian billionaire. He stops them, and the boy's father, Nikolei Drevin, rewards him with two weeks at his side. Drevin is building a hotel in space called Ark Angel, and a group calling itself Force Three is determined to see the project destroyed.
Rating coming soonClayton Blaisdell Jr, known as Blaze, is a small-time con artist with a damaged head and a dead partner he still talks to. George Rackley planned their crimes while he was alive, and Blaze means to carry out the scheme the two of them worked up together: taking the baby son of a wealthy family and holding him until a ransom is paid.
Rating coming soonSnowfall is queen of the IceWings while still young, and she has a plan for keeping her tribe safe: nobody comes in and nobody leaves. Then a storm drives a crowd of unfamiliar dragons onto her shore asking for somewhere to stay, and the newcomers are in no state to be sent away again, so she has to work out what her rules are worth.
Rating coming soonJack Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas when a young woman named Carmen Greer offers him a lift. She wants something in return: her husband is about to leave prison, he has beaten her before, the local police cannot be trusted, and the ranch he is coming home to belongs to his family, which owns everything around it.
Rating coming soonAhsoka Tano left the Jedi Order before the Clone Wars ended, and the purge that followed left her with nothing to belong to. Living under an assumed name, she avoids the Force and the lightsabers she still carries, until the Empire's reach into a small community forces her to choose between staying hidden and helping the people she has come to know.
Rating coming soonThe four warrior Clans have shared the land around the lake as equals for many seasons. A prophecy says that three ThunderClan cats will hold the power of the stars in their paws, and two of them already know who they are, but the identity of the third is still hidden. Two young sisters are preparing to take their apprentice names.
Rating coming soonJack Reacher watches a man walk out of a New York building, cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car was carrying one million dollars in ransom money, and the man who paid it, Edward Lane, will find more where that came from to get his family back. Lane runs a soldiers-for-hire operation, and he means to have his wife and child returned whatever it costs him.
Rating coming soonA history teacher at a California high school cannot answer his students when they ask why ordinary Germans went along with the Nazi party, so he sets out to show them. The experiment he runs gives the class a slogan, a salute and a uniform way of behaving, and it does not stay inside his classroom.
Rating coming soonMinli lives in the Village of Fruitless Mountain, where the ground is too hard to farm and the families have very little. She loves the stories her father tells at the table, which her mother cannot stand, and she is always ready to go looking for something better. The mountain is not only a mountain: it is the broken heart of an immortal dragon.
Rating coming soonFirestar's three grandchildren now know about the prophecy that describes their future, and each of them wants something different from it. Lionpaw wants to be unbeatable in battle, Hollypaw wants to lead, and Jaypaw believes that only he can see what has happened and what is coming. Their strengths are tested when ThunderClan is attacked without warning.
Rating coming soonDirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency is called away from California to the North Atlantic, where a luxury yacht that vanished years earlier has been found frozen inside an iceberg. The yacht had been on its way to a secret meeting, and when Pitt tunnels into the ice he finds the crew dead at their posts and the cargo gone.
Rating coming soonThe volume holds six short stories and a novella called Bounty, and the people in them are all trying to get by in a world that has gone haywire around them. Their jobs, their families and the language of improvement they have been taught no longer match the reality they are living in.
Rating coming soonIn a small town in Georgia in the 1950s, a store owner named Paris Trout kills the younger sister of a man he has been doing business with and wounds the man's mother. The killing follows a car deal that went wrong, and the town has to decide what it is prepared to do about a man everybody knows.
Rating coming soonColin is eighteen and has just come out to himself when he meets Ray at a cruising ground near Dorking on the Sunday of his birthday. Ray is ten years older, wears leather and rides a motorbike, and what begins that day becomes a relationship lasting more than six years and built on Ray's control of a boy who has almost nothing of his own.
Rating coming soonBeth is married to Frank, a farmer, and the two of them have built a life on the understanding that the past stays where it is. Then Frank's brother shoots a dog that has been worrying the sheep, and the dog turns out to belong to Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager, who has come back to the village with his young son.
Rating coming soonThe stories here are set in Florida and around it, among storms, snakes and sinkholes that sit at the edge of ordinary life. The people in them include two sisters left to manage on their own, a man who grew up lonely, a couple who have not settled, a woman with nowhere to live, and a wife and mother who appears more than once.
Rating coming soonA Korean-American family in Virginia is thrown into confusion when the father and his younger son do not come back from a walk in a nearby park. The father's daughter Mia, who is twenty and has an explanation for everything, is not worried at first, and then her brother arrives home alone and covered in blood.
Rating coming soonElliott writes for television, has a boyfriend who adores him and presents a life that photographs well. Underneath it he is drinking more than he admits, paying for sex behind his boyfriend's back and struggling with what cerebral palsy means for how he is seen, and the novel follows his attempt to change all of it.
Rating coming soonSybil Van Antwerp writes letters. In the mornings she writes to her brother, to her closest friend, to a university president who has refused to let her sit in on a class, and to authors whose books she has just finished, and she also writes, over and over, a letter that she never sends. Then something arrives that makes her read it again.
Rating coming soonWalking home from a club at four in the morning, the narrator notices the date: it is the birthday of the man who was, more or less, their first love. Ten years earlier they and Thomas James spent the summer after graduation in each other's company, and what began then lasted across years and continents before it ended badly.
Rating coming soonMarguerite is the heir to a fortune until she is orphaned and her guardian takes charge of both her money and her life, spending the inheritance and taking her with him on an expedition to New France. On the voyage she and the guardian's servant fall in love, and when the affair is discovered the two of them are punished and left on a small island with no prospect of rescue.
Rating coming soonThe book moves between San Francisco in the years of the AIDS epidemic and Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, following a circle of friends and family through both. It is told in short fragments rather than a single storyline, and the people in it speak from the middle of events they are still trying to make sense of.
Rating coming soonIt is 1928, and Matilda Simpkin, once a militant in the suffrage campaign who was jailed five times, now lives on lectures and small routines. Finding an old wooden club in a cupboard brings the past back, and a meeting with an old comrade who has joined the Fascists convinces her that a new cause has arrived. She starts a club for girls.
Rating coming soonThese stories take place in schools, in sleepy seaside towns and in cities that have stopped behaving normally, and the bodies of the people in them keep changing shape. Teenagers develop appetites that will not be satisfied, a city loses the ability to sleep, and parts of one body are used to build a better one.
Rating coming soonFive young women work at a New York publishing house in the 1950s, sharing flats, salaries, ambitions and the men who come with the city. Caroline wants to move from the typing pool to an editor's desk, April arrives from the country and quickly learns to be what other people want, and Gregg is an actress who would rather be married.
Rating coming soonHai is nineteen and standing on a bridge over a river in East Gladness, Connecticut, in the rain, when an old woman calls out to him from the far bank. Grazina is a widow whose memory is failing, and she talks him back from the edge. He has nowhere else to go, and he becomes the person who looks after her.
Rating coming soonAiley Pearl Garfield grows up in a northern city and spends her summers in Chicasetta, Georgia, where her mother's family has lived since their ancestors were brought from Africa. Her grandmother expects her to become a doctor and Ailey wants to be a historian. The book moves between her own life and the generations before her, from slavery through the civil rights movement to the present.
Rating coming soonCory Brooks cannot stop thinking about Anna Corwin, the new girl at Shadyside High, who is pale, blond and beautiful and seems to want him as much as he wants her. He loses sleep and drops his friends. Then Anna disappears without explanation, and the only way to find her is to go to her house on Fear Street.
Rating coming soonEmily wants to like the stepsister who has just moved into her house, and it is not easy: Jessie takes over her room, borrows her clothes without asking and lies about all of it. Then Emily reads Jessie's diary and finds something worse than rudeness in it, and when she tries to warn her parents nobody believes her.
Rating coming soonGary Soneji, the killer Alex Cross put away, is out of prison, dying and determined to take his revenge before he goes. At the same time a second man is at work: Thomas Augustine Pierce has been hunting a killer he calls Mr Smith since his fiancee was murdered, and when Cross is attacked in his own home the two hunts begin to meet.
Rating coming soonShari Cooper wakes up dead. The last thing she remembers is falling from a balcony at a party her friends were giving, and her death has been recorded as a suicide, though Shari knows she did not jump. From where she is now she sets out to find out which of the people closest to her was responsible.
Rating coming soonThis edition collects twenty of Edith Nesbit's dark stories. They turn on love, on terror and on people enduring something by themselves, and among them are a man whose devotion to his dead wife is tangled up with something he cannot see properly, and a country superstition that turns out to be true.
Rating coming soonOkiku has been dead for centuries and spends her time hunting the living who murder the innocent and freeing the ghosts of their victims. Then she meets Tark, a quiet teenager covered in intricate tattoos, and instead of a killer she finds somebody who is being haunted by something that has attached itself to him.
Rating coming soonA disease called Wanderer's Folly has been spreading for two years, filling people's heads with delusions until the world begins to come apart. David Arlen thinks the worst has passed, and within the same day his wife is dead and he is driving a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter Ellie.
Rating coming soonBilly and Sheena spend their summers with their uncle, Dr Deep, on his boat, and they have learned to expect adventure every time. This trip turns into a treasure hunt, and what they find at the end of it is a sea captain who died two hundred years ago and has not stayed dead. Then the trail leads to HorrorLand.
Rating coming soonHeaven Leigh Casteel comes to live in her grandmother's house in Boston, where she expects friends, good schools, beautiful clothes and love, and a chance to make the family name respectable and to find her brothers and sisters. What she meets in that world instead is a set of secrets nobody wants remembered.
Rating coming soonBianca is taken from her home town and enrolled at Evernight Academy, a Gothic boarding school where the other students are sleek, clever and somehow too perfect for her to feel at home among them. Then she meets Lucas, who does not fit in either and who warns her to keep her distance.
Rating coming soonThe fourth Dollanganger novel follows Cathy from the age of fifty-two to her death a few years later. Fifteen years after the previous book, she and Chris travel to the home of their son Bart, which has been built as an exact copy of the family's old house, and there they meet a man who turns out to be one of their own.
Rating coming soonThis book gathers ten short horror stories for younger readers, published in 2001 by Parachute Press and Collins. Among them are a babysitter who enjoys playing cruel tricks, a boy who decides to lie down inside an ancient mummy case, and two friends who want to have the most frightening Halloween that anyone has ever managed.
Rating coming soonSeven friends did something terrible one night in the California desert, and somebody knows what it was. A chain letter signed by a figure calling themselves Your Caretaker reaches Alison first and then each of the others in turn, and what it asks for is not a favour: do as you are told, or pay for what you did.
Rating coming soonThis collection holds thirteen scary stories for younger readers, illustrated throughout. They include ghost stories, jump tales told for the shock at the end, dark fantasy and science fiction, and several of them draw on legends, folklore and cultural traditions while being set in places the reader will recognise.
Rating coming soonJack Harmon is already being picked on at school when he finds a mobile phone on the bus home. There is a voice on the other end of the line, and the voice wants Jack to do things for it. Jack does as he is told, and the people around him begin to think that he has lost his mind.
Rating coming soonEarth has been reduced by four waves of attack from beings who arrived without warning. After the first there was no power, after the second only the lucky escaped, and after the third and fourth the survivors learned a rule: trust nobody. Cassie is alone on a highway when she meets Evan Walker, who may be her only chance of reaching her brother.
Rating coming soonThe prison that holds the Dark One is weakening, and his immortal servants have been tightening their hold on the nations of men for a long time. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must strike first, but his own forces are divided by treachery and ambition, the Aes Sedai are fighting among themselves and he carries the madness that comes to men who use the One Power.
Rating coming soonJuliette has escaped to Omega Point, where the resistance keeps a refuge for people whose abilities make them dangerous to the government that wants to use them. She is free of the Reestablishment's plans for her, but Warner, the man who held her captive, has not finished with her, and she has to decide what she is willing to become in order to stay out of his reach.
Rating coming soonThe Malazan Empire has been weakened and stands on the edge of anarchy. In the Holy Desert of Raraku a seer named Sha'ik is gathering an army for the uprising that has been prophesied for years, and it is going to be larger and more savage than anything the empire has faced. Elsewhere Felisin, sold into slavery, dreams of the sister who put her there.
Rating coming soonThe first alien fleet is four centuries away, and the beings inside it have an advantage that no defence can answer: particles that watch and report everything humanity does, so that no plan can be kept secret. The Wallfacer Project gives four men enormous resources and one instruction, which is to devise a strategy hidden through misdirection.
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.
