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 soonShane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been together for ten years and have told nobody: not their families, not their friends and not the league they both play in. Shane believes the secrecy is what keeps his career intact, and Ilya has run out of patience with it. The two of them play for different teams and have spent a decade in each other's company on and off the ice.
Rating coming soonJosh January is a private investigator with a case behind him that nearly killed him, and what he wants from Maggie Gladstone's bed and breakfast is a quiet place to recover and, ideally, an undemanding flirtation with the woman who runs it. Maggie has read a great many detective novels and expects a different sort of man.
Rating coming soonLydia Hoffman has opened a yarn shop in Seattle, which is the new life she wanted after her illness, and she teaches beginners on the side. Three women sign up for the first class, which is called How To Make a Baby Blanket, and each of them has a different reason for being there.
Rating coming soonShannon Raine is drawn to Garth Sheridan from the moment she meets him, and he seems to feel the same pull. What he will not do is let her any further into his life than that, and the novel follows her attempts to find out what he is keeping back. He lives nearby and works in an industry he will not discuss with her.
Rating coming soonSix years ago Shelby Jacobs ended her engagement to Justin Ballenger and gave him no explanation he was willing to accept. Her family is now in financial trouble, she is living on her own in Jacobsville, and the person she finds herself relying on is the rancher she walked away from.
Rating coming soonTwo people who grew up near each other have spent years in a conflict that ended with one of them in prison. He is out now and has spent the time inside planning what to do about the family that put him there, while she expects him to come after her and is not prepared for what he actually does.
Rating coming soonJudd Dunn is a Texas Ranger who put his neighbour's father in prison, and five years later he married the man's daughter in name only to keep the ranch they both own out of bankruptcy. He is now thinking about ending the arrangement, and somebody has worked out that the way to hurt him is through her.
Rating coming soonSuzanne turned down Ross Beckett's plan to go abroad with him because her mother needed her at home, and he left angry and did not come back for six years. He is now in a relationship with somebody else, and Suzanne is engaged to be married to a man called Miles Harringdon.
Rating coming soonRyan Shay has just been made captain of a professional basketball team, and the man who appointed him has already told him he is an unapproachable loner with no life outside the game. When his sister's best friend moves into his apartment, pretending to be a couple looks like an answer to that.
Rating coming soonTroy Barrett has been traded to the worst team in his league in the middle of a scandal and a breakup, and what he wants is to be left alone to play. The team's social media manager, Harris Drover, is not the kind of person who leaves anybody alone, and the club has decided that Troy's reputation needs work.
Rating coming soonLissa and Jarret have agreed to a marriage that lasts five years and no longer. He pays off her father's debts, she looks after his daughter Emma, and both of them stay out of each other's way. Then Emma disappears, and the arrangement they have both been keeping to stops being workable.
Rating coming soonDaine is thirteen and has lost her family to raiders, and after taking her revenge she leaves home looking for somewhere to live. Her way with horses gets her a position with the Queen's Riders of Tortall, where it becomes clear that her talent for animals is more than a knack. The animals listen to her words, which she has kept to herself because she is not sure how it would be received.
Rating coming soonFireheart is certain that something is being kept from him about the death of the old ThunderClan deputy Redtail, and the more he asks about it the more he finds that some cats would rather the question were never answered. In the middle of it, his best friend falls in love with a cat he is not allowed to love.
Rating coming soonIchabod Crane is a schoolmaster in a small Hudson Valley village, and he is superstitious to a degree his neighbours find entertaining. He is also in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer, and one night on the road home he meets a horseman with no head. The village has its legends, and he believes all of them.
Rating coming soonLondon is in the middle of an outbreak of ghosts that appear at night and attack anybody who touches them, and the only people who can see them are children. Lucy Carlyle joins a small agency run by a teenager, and the firm's next case involves a house with a staircase that screams.
Rating coming soonPeril was raised to serve Queen Scarlet, who used her lethal firescales to kill dragons in the SkyWing arena. She has since changed sides and is loyal to Clay, the only friend she has, and when Scarlet threatens the academy the dragonets attend, Peril sets out to find her old queen and stop her.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster has left the lost cities and joined the Black Swan with her closest friends, none of whom entirely trusts the organisation they are now working for. Their enemies have released a plague that threatens an entire species, and every choice they make from here costs something. Sophie has to work out whether the group she has joined is worth what she has given up for it.
Rating coming soonTigerclaw has been driven out of ThunderClan, but Fireheart cannot shake the sense that he is still out there in the forest waiting for a chance to strike. As the new deputy he has to hold the Clan together through a hot summer, with the leader still shattered and an apprentice carrying a secret.
Rating coming soonTigerstar's ambition has brought the forest to the edge of disaster, and ThunderClan is facing the worst moment in its history. Firestar, now the leader, has to work out what a prophecy from StarClan means before the Clans are destroyed by the fight that is coming. The four Clans of wild cats share the forest, and this volume brings their long argument to its crisis.
Rating coming soonChaol Westfall was captain of the Guard until the glass castle shattered, his men were killed and his body was broken. The only chance he has of recovering is with the healers of the Torre Cesme, and while he is there the war at home waits on whether he and Nesryn can persuade an empire to join it.
Rating coming soonSophie Foster is back in the lost cities, and they have changed while she was away: war is hanging over the place, the Neverseen are causing damage wherever they can, and the line between a friend and an enemy has become difficult to see. She is warned that the people closest to her will be the next to be hurt.
Rating coming soonOrlando begins as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England with money, position and a talent for poetry, and does not stop there: the book follows the same person across three centuries and a change of sex, through the households and literary circles of English history. It is written as though it were a biography, and it stays with one person rather than a family.
Rating coming soonFairyland is kept bright by seven sisters, the Rainbow Fairies, until Jack Frost sends them away and the colour starts to go out of the place. Rachel and Kirsty find Ruby the Red Fairy in the pot at the end of a rainbow and set out to help her find the other six.
Rating coming soonDarkstalker is half NightWing and half IceWing and hatches under three moons, which makes him the most powerful dragon his world has seen. He grows up between two tribes that do not trust each other, and the question the book asks is what can be done about him. It is set long before the war the other books describe.
Rating coming soonFour novellas in one volume, each labelled with a season. One concerns a man serving a long sentence for a crime he did not commit; one a schoolboy who finds out what the old man living near him did during the war; one follows four boys into the woods looking for a body; and one is a story told in a club.
Rating coming soonThe dragonets are on their way to the NightWings, and Starflight, who belongs to that tribe, knows the visit will not go well. His duty is to persuade the others to support Blister as queen, though he has started to suspect his own tribe is keeping something from him.
Rating coming soonApollo has been turned into a mortal teenager and is working his way through five dead oracles in the hope of getting back what he lost. His journey takes him to Camp Jupiter, where the Roman demigods are preparing for a last stand against three Roman emperors. The book is the fourth of the five volumes about his time on earth.
Rating coming soonThe war between the dragon tribes is finished, and the dragonets who ended it have a plan for keeping the peace: a school that will take dragonets from every tribe and teach them to live together. Moonwatcher is not sure how she feels about being sent there. The school is the new setting for the series and she is one of its first students.
Rating coming soonA young NightWing has produced what may be the first true prophecy in generations, and it is not encouraging: something is coming to shake the earth and scorch the ground, Jade Mountain will fall, and the lost city of night has to be found. Darkstalker's return is part of the question.
Rating coming soonTella has escaped her father and saved her sister from a marriage she did not want, but she is not free: she owes a criminal something nobody has ever managed to deliver, which is the true name of Caraval's master. To pay the debt she enters the competition again. The book is the second of the series and the competition is the same one her sister survived.
Rating coming soonKaye has grown up travelling with her mother's band and has never had a place to call home. She comes back to the New Jersey shore where she spent summers as a child, and finds that the faeries she used to play with are real, that one of them has a claim on her, and that she is not entirely human herself.
Rating coming soonJuliette believed she had beaten the Reestablishment and taken charge of her own life, and the fifth book of the series begins with her finding out how much of what she knew was arranged for her. She is left with the same choice as before, between being used as a weapon and fighting back.
Rating coming soonAlina and Mal have crossed the sea to get away from Ravka and are trying to live quietly in a country where nobody knows her, because Alina is the Sun Summoner and half the world is looking for her. The Darkling has not finished with either of them. It is the second book of the trilogy, and it moves between the sea and the capital Alina left behind.
Rating coming soonStephanie's uncle Gordon wrote horror fiction, and when he dies and leaves her his estate she discovers that what he wrote was not invented. Pursued by people who want a key he left behind, she is helped by Skulduggery Pleasant, who is a detective, a magician and, technically, dead. The book is the first of the series and brings the two of them together.
Rating coming soonMare Barrow was the lightning girl, and the third book of the Red Queen series begins with her a prisoner, her ability suppressed and her mistakes weighing on her. She is held by Maven Calore, who was once the boy she loved and is now the king. The book alternates between her captivity and the war being prepared outside the palace.
Rating coming soonSunny has always taken the prophecy about the five dragonets seriously, and if the tribes of Pyrrhia need her to end the war she is willing to try. Then news from Morrowseer shakes her confidence in the whole idea that their destiny was ever fixed. It is the fifth book of the sequence and the last of the first arc.
Rating coming soonNimona is a shapeshifter who presents herself to Lord Ballister Blackheart as a sidekick, and he is a disgraced knight with a grudge against the Institute that runs the kingdom. The two of them set out to ruin it, with very different ideas about what is allowed. The story concerns a villain, the institution that decides who the heroes are, and a shapeshifter who follows no rules at all.
Rating coming soonApollo is still serving his sentence as a mortal teenager called Lester, with a demigod daughter of Demeter assigned to keep him company, and he still has to restore five dark oracles before he can go home. The third of those requires finding a Roman emperor in a maze. Apollo has to go through the Labyrinth to reach him, and he has none of his old powers to help.
Rating coming soonSophie and Agatha were best friends, then enemies, and their story was supposed to be finished. In the third book of the series it is being rewritten, and with the two of them apart the forces of Evil have taken over while the forces of Good are in danger. The novel follows the two girls after they have separated, and asks what it would take for them to be friends again.
Rating coming soonThree children are on holiday in the West Country when they find a country estate that looks like a castle out of a fairy tale. In a maze in the rose garden they come across a sleeping princess, who is a girl playing a game, and a ring that makes whoever wears it invisible.
Rating coming soonA chameleon sits on a leaf, catches a fly and notices the animals at the zoo, each of which has something he does not. He wishes for the best feature of each of them, and gets what he asks for, until what is left of him is a mixture that cannot do anything a chameleon does.
Rating coming soonJude Duarte is the exiled mortal queen of Faerie, without power and without a place, after being betrayed by the king she had put on the throne. Her twin sister's trouble gives her a reason to go back into the realm she was pushed out of. She is a mortal in a court of faeries, and her position there has to be taken back rather than granted.
Rating coming soonThe narrator has just moved into a house with her brother and two of his friends, one of whom is Colin Fitzgerald, a hockey-playing student who has decided that she is flighty and superficial. She is not interested in chasing anybody, but the two of them are living under the same roof with an attraction neither will admit to.
Rating coming soonTexas Ranger Marc Brannon is back on duty and the case he is given puts him opposite Josette Langley, the junior investigator he once loved. Their relationship ended years earlier when she accused him of something that broke them apart, and now the person threatening her is a political figure with a great deal to hide.
Rating coming soonOlivia Lockheart is a judge in the small town of Cedar Cove, and she has just refused a young couple's divorce on the grounds that they have not tried hard enough to stay married. While the town argues about it, her daughter Justine is deciding whether to stop waiting for love, and her friend Grace is watching her marriage come apart.
Rating coming soonJacob Cade once threw Kate Walker off his ranch for misbehaving, which did not stop him wanting her. He is back in her life now and ready to act on it, but Kate has been in love with him since they were children, and how seriously she takes it is something she has never told him.
Rating coming soonEric Bennett has spent his career in goal and is now working out what to do with the rest of his life, beginning with the fact that he has never dated men. Kyle Swift has moved to New York with a broken heart and a rule about not getting attached, and then meets a hockey player fifteen years older than he is.
Rating coming soonRobyn Holland's family runs a sled dog kennel in Alaska, and the business is in financial trouble at the same time as dogs start going missing. She asks a veterinarian, Rick Baker, to help her, and their search runs alongside her work organising the Fire and Ice race. The race is the reason the losses matter so much to the family.
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.
