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 soonTally Youngblood has been through the operation that turns sixteen-year-olds into Pretties, and she now spends her days at parties with a brain that has been arranged to keep her happy. Underneath that she keeps catching fragments of her old life in the Smoke, and somebody from it has come looking for her.
Rating coming soonIn a world where most people develop a superpower at the age of four, Izuku Midoriya has none. He wants to be a hero anyway, which means getting into a school that takes only the most powerful students, and an encounter with the greatest hero alive gives him a chance he had given up on.
Rating coming soonThirty-five girls entered the competition to marry Prince Maxon, and four are left at the palace. America Singer never expected to be one of them, or to have come so close to the crown, but the competition is nearly over and the threats outside the palace walls are getting worse. One of the four will be chosen.
Rating coming soonMenolly is the daughter of a fishing family on Pern, and she has a talent for music that her hold has no use for. When her father forbids her the training she wants, she leaves home, and the timing could not be worse: the deadly rain that falls from the sky, called Thread, has begun again.
Rating coming soonFive years after the destruction of the second Death Star, the New Republic is still putting itself together. In what remains of the Imperial fleet, the last of the Emperor's commanders has taken charge, and he has two discoveries that he believes can destroy everything the Rebellion built. The books introduce the commander who will become the Republic's most dangerous enemy.
Rating coming soonAfter a great battle the future of the Seven Kingdoms is unsettled again. Daenerys Targaryen rules a city in the east with her three dragons and has three times three thousand enemies, several of whom have gone looking for her. Tyrion Lannister is travelling towards her with a price on his head, and in the north Jon Snow has become the 998th Lord Commander of the Wall.
Rating coming soonCatherine is one of the most admired young women in Wonderland and the favourite of the unmarried King of Hearts, and neither of those is what she wants. She bakes, and her plan is to open a shop with her closest friend, though her mother has other ideas. Then she meets Jest, the court joker.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster is grieving and trying to hold her position together while the Neverseen keep winning. The only route left runs through a place called Nightfall, and Sophie and her friends make a bargain they know is dangerous in order to reach it, only to find that the trouble they are dealing with goes back much further than any of them thought.
Rating coming soonGarion grows up on a quiet farm with his Aunt Pol and does not believe in magic or in the prophecies the storytellers bring with them. He has been watched for years by a man without a shadow, and when the story begins he is taken from the farm by people he has known all his life and told almost nothing about where he is going.
Rating coming soonIn an alternate London where the British Empire runs on magic and magicians govern everybody else, a boy named Nathaniel is apprenticed to a mid-ranking magician. At ten he is humiliated in front of a gathering of his elders, and in response he summons a djinni called Bartimaeus and sends him to steal a powerful object from one of the most dangerous magicians in the city.
Rating coming soonThis collection holds twenty-two pieces: eighteen short stories, two novellas and two poems. Among them is The Mist, in which a supermarket becomes the last place available to the people trapped inside it when something from outside the world comes through, and the volume is framed by the author's own introduction and closing notes.
Rating coming soonKimberly Sawyer is a novelist living in the Napa Valley, and somebody has started leaving threats for her: a rose run through with a needle on her doorstep, and a hooded figure holding a dagger. She goes to Darius Cavenaugh's vineyard for protection, and then begins to wonder what her protector actually is.
Rating coming soonA man who describes himself as ruthless and without a conscience is handed a woman as part of a bargain. Olivia Bell was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now she belongs to him; the people who gave her up expected him to break her, and then they decide that they want her back.
Rating coming soonKate Logan proposed to Luke Rivers at somebody else's wedding, in the middle of being miserable about the man she thought she loved. Luke said yes, and now he refuses to take it back, even though Kate is certain he only agreed out of pity and that what she feels for him is friendship.
Rating coming soonLaura Vernon overhears Lady Margaret telling Bren Dewar that they do not want Laura falling in love with him, which is awkward, because she already has. Bren is a Border lord with a reputation, and Laura cannot work out why he pays her the attention he does or what Lady Margaret was warning him about.
Rating coming soonKatriane writes romance novels for a living and has never been in love herself. She spends a Christmas with Egan Winthrop, her roommate's brother, who ranches in Wyoming and has no interest in cities, and finds that the man she has been avoiding is harder to keep at a distance than she expected.
Rating coming soonColby Lane has left his years as a mercenary behind and taken a job running security for an oil company, and then a drug trafficker brings him back into the world he left. His ex-wife is part of the case, which he was not expecting, and so is the six-year-old daughter she has.
Rating coming soonGina Bennett has already survived one accident and does not want her publisher, Leo Sterne, going over the past with her. He believes she damaged his sister's marriage, which is bad enough, and what he actually wants is her help with his young deaf son, which is harder to refuse.
Rating coming soonSloan Fairchild runs an inn in a house that has been in her family, and she has decided that romance is not for her. Then her closest friend asks her to put up her fiance for a month, and Carter Madison walks into Fairchild House and changes what Sloan thinks she knows about herself.
Rating coming soonLynsey Thorpe asks, half as a joke at a friend's wedding party, who will be the prince to her Cinderella, and a stranger answers her seriously. It is only afterwards that she finds out he is Madoc Morgan, the brother of the bride and the man who has just taken over the company she works for.
Rating coming soonKate Svenson is a success at work and has been engaged three times without getting married, so she decides to approach the problem of finding a husband as a project. She goes to a resort full of exactly the kind of men she is looking for, and they keep going wrong in front of Jake Templeton.
Rating coming soonSerena MacGregor has been avoiding her family's expectations by working as a blackjack dealer on a cruise ship, and her father decides to do something about it. He arranges for Justin Blade, a gambler with Comanche ancestry, to be on the same ship and waits to see what happens. Neither of them knows that they were brought together on purpose.
Rating coming soonPhilippa Ingram is told that she may inherit a woollen mill in Cumbria, and takes the news calmly. What unsettles her is a Frenchman she meets while on holiday in Avignon, a man everyone describes as a heartbreaker, who turns out to have marriage on his mind. He is not the sort of man she imagined marrying, and the question of what he wants from her will not go away.
Rating coming soonSusan Blackstone has been a widow for five years when she sees a stranger across a room and then learns his name. He is Cord Blackstone, the family's black sheep, and he has come back to the company that bears his name for one reason, which is revenge. The business is why he returned, and Susan is the complication he did not plan for.
Rating coming soonBrenna Llewellyn has gone to a mountain cabin to get away from a crisis in her working life, and the man who finds her there takes her for a trespasser until he changes his mind. Ryder Sterne is a writer who lives at speed, and the two of them begin something that asks more of Brenna than she planned to give.
Rating coming soonA man who trusts nobody and organises his life around control buys a month with a woman he sees on a stage at an auction. Dahlia has never done anything like this before, and she lies to him about something, which he intends to make her answer for. The arrangement is meant to last four weeks, and neither of them expects it to become anything more than that.
Rating coming soonAelin Galathynius has a claim to a throne she does not yet hold, and the people loyal to her have been bought and lost as often as they have been won. Those with magic are now at odds with those without it, and the only route left to Aelin runs through a journey she may not survive. She is not the only person in the story making decisions about what to give up.
Rating coming soonFive dragonets were raised together beneath a mountain because a prophecy says they are the ones who will end the war between three queens. When they meet Queen Scarlet the encounter goes badly, and most of them are taken to the Sky Kingdom, which is the first time any of them has seen the world they were born to save.
Rating coming soonAn eight-year-old girl lives on a farm in the English countryside next door to the Gregg family, who spend their time hunting. She is angry about it, and when her anger gets the better of her she points her magic finger at them, and something happens to the Greggs that none of them expected.
Rating coming soonSeveral months after the events of the previous book, Feyre, Rhysand and their companions are still rebuilding the Night Court and the world around it. Winter Solstice is approaching, and Feyre is preparing for her first one as High Lady, which turns out to mean a great deal more than a celebration.
Rating coming soonFox and Knox begin with a box and a pair of socks, and the rhymes get harder from there. Chicks, bricks, blocks and clocks are added to the list, Knox complains about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters, and by the end the Fox is inside a bottle with a set of battling beetles.
Rating coming soonTaran works as Assistant Pig-Keeper at Caer Dallben and would rather be doing something heroic. His charge is Hen Wen, the only oracular pig in Prydain, and when she runs off he follows her, which takes him further from home than he has ever been and into the middle of a war. The series was inspired by Welsh mythology and by the castles and language of a country the author had seen during the war.
Rating coming soonSophie has settled into her new life among the lost cities and into living at Havenfield, where she spends time with rare creatures, including the first female Alicorn, which trusts her and nobody else. Her job is to help train it so that it can be shown to the people as a sign of hope.
Rating coming soonAn Englishman sets out on a series of voyages, is shipwrecked and ends up alone on an island off the coast of South America. He stays there for twenty-eight years, building what he can out of what the wreck gives him and meeting other people only rarely and late in the book.
Rating coming soonGlory is a RainWing and knows her tribe is not what the other dragons say it is, because she is not lazy herself. When the dragonets take shelter in the rain forest they find a tribe of RainWings who sleep all day and do not know that members of their own tribe have been going missing.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has changed the way the fight is being conducted and now has to decide when to move, who to believe and what to let go of. Her friends are scattered, the Black Swan wants her to work on their projects, and her instincts are pointing somewhere else entirely.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has decided to fight back. Her abilities are growing stronger, the group that was supposed to help her is not answering, and she wants to find the people who took her before they try again, but a single miscalculation leaves her world on the edge of a war. The book is the third of the series and the longest of the first three.
Rating coming soonWinter has spent his life being a disappointment to his royal IceWing family. When his sister Icicle runs away from Jade Mountain Academy after committing serious crimes, he decides that they both deserve another chance, and sets out to find her before she can do anything worse. The book follows the group on a journey that has more than one end in view.
Rating coming soonAlex and Conner Bailey have not been back to the Land of Stories since their first visit, and then the Enchantress takes their mother. To get her back, the twins have to find a way into the fairy-tale world themselves, against their grandmother's instructions. The world they remember as joyful is not the one they find on the other side.
Rating coming soonBlue Sargent comes from a family of clairvoyants, and the only ability she has is that other people's talents become stronger when she is near. She has been told all her life that she will cause her true love to die, and she has a rule about staying away from the boys of the local private school.
Rating coming soonA widow runs an elegant boutique and has arranged her life so that nothing in it can surprise her. Then a man steps into the shop who is exactly what she has been imagining in private, and she has to decide whether to keep hold of her past or take a risk on loving somebody again.
Rating coming soonMolly's grandfather wants her to bring her sons home to the ranch, and she is considering it when a stranger named Sam Dakota tells her that the old man is ill. She drives to Sweetgrass, Montana, with the children and arrives to find Sam already running the place, with nobody willing to explain him.
Rating coming soonOlivia Marshall loses her job and discovers that her boyfriend has been unfaithful, and then sets her apartment building on fire while burning his letters. She moves into her brother's flat and finds that his oldest friend Colin Beck lives there too, and then a wrong-number message turns into the best relationship she has.
Rating coming soonRebecca Cullen is twenty-four, holds down a job, raises two teenage brothers and looks after her grandfather on their Georgia farm. When her brother Clay is arrested on a drug charge she knows is wrong, the case is given to a district attorney with a reputation for prosecuting dealers without mercy. Rebecca has no money for a lawyer and nobody to turn to.
Rating coming soonA collection made up of the novella Paris for One and eight other stories. In the title piece, Nell is twenty-six, has never been abroad on a romantic weekend and is waiting in Paris for a boyfriend who does not arrive, which leaves her with a city, a hotel room and nobody to share either with.
Rating coming soonFlynn Rammage pursued Heather Devany eight months ago, while he was angry and newly separated, and then left her. He is back now asking for a second chance, and he has just been given custody of his young son, which makes Heather wonder what he is actually looking for. What she wants to know is whether he came back for her or for somebody to help with the child.
Rating coming soonBrenna Sloan values her independence above most things and does not find it easy to ask anybody for anything. Michael Donovan has spent his life taking what he wants, and what he wants when they meet is her. He talks her past her objections into a sudden marriage, and the two of them then have to learn to live with it.
Rating coming soonAt a masquerade ball Olivia Jeffries meets a stranger and acts on an attraction she would not have allowed herself in daylight. When she finds out who he is, the problem is not his character but his name: Reginald Westmoreland is the man her father has spent years hating.
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.
