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 soonFlora is a young woman of mixed parentage who belongs fully to neither of the worlds she moves between. The story follows her from a remote village in western China to Shanghai and then to England, where her history is as much a problem as an opportunity. She grows up being told what she is by people who have decided in advance.
Rating coming soonJamie Canning and Ryan Wesley were roommates at hockey camp until Ryan cut him off without explanation four years ago, after something happened between them on the last night. Their college teams are now meeting at a national championship, which gives Ryan the chance to explain himself, and the championship turns out not to be the last time the two of them have to deal with each other.
Rating coming soonDylan Warren and Jenna Scott were best friends as children and then something went wrong between them. Their mothers, who have decided that the two families should spend Christmas together, pair them up on a project to give a Christmas to a family that has lost everything. Dylan and Jenna have been avoiding each other for years.
Rating coming soonMaureen Harris works as a secretary and has been given a job that requires her to get close to a new mechanic at the company, because somebody has been tampering with its aircraft designs. She is very shy, and the man she is investigating turns out to be more than she bargained for.
Rating coming soonKim Lyttleton decides that the only way to stop her foster sister ruining her life is to kidnap the married man the girl intends to run away with. She takes the wrong man, and the person she has abducted is a Greek called Damon Souris, who offers her a choice between the police and marriage.
Rating coming soonWinslow Covington has just become chief of police in the small Montana town of Quincy and is trying to prove she was not given the job because her grandfather is the mayor. On her first night there she slept with Griffin Eden, of the town's founding family, and then a woman is found dead on Eden land.
Rating coming soonGaron Grier is an FBI agent from San Antonio who has bought a ranch in Jacobsville hoping to repair his relationship with his family. Grace Carver has lived in the town all her life and never married. The case that brings them together is the hunt for an escaped child predator.
Rating coming soonOn the day her husband is buried, a woman receives a letter from a state penitentiary containing one sentence, signed by a man she has never met. She writes back to ask what he is waiting for, and the answer is her. The letters continue for months and then they stop.
Rating coming soonKennedy is the only woman on the medical staff of a professional baseball team and is trying to keep her reputation intact for one more season. A night in Las Vegas leaves her with a ring on her hand and a husband she barely knows, and the two of them have to pretend it was planned.
Rating coming soonStacy Thompson plans other people's weddings for a living and has seen enough of them to be wary of one of her own. When she meets Max Edwards the attraction is immediate, and both of them then have to deal with the fears and the things they have not said to each other.
Rating coming soonHazel finds a coded message hidden inside a book in the shop where she works, and then more of them. Following the trail of clues needs a second person, and the one who volunteers is Noah, a fisherman who has been coming into the bookstore for months for reasons he has not mentioned.
Rating coming soonDelia Rae Ivers left the small town of Serendipity ten years ago for medical school, ending her relationship with Zach Bowden and not telling him that she was pregnant. Her mother's illness brings her back to the town, and to the man she left behind. The son she has been raising knows very little about his father.
Rating coming soonDante Maroni is the heir to a criminal outfit and has been trained for the position since he was a child. While working undercover inside the syndicate responsible for a series of missing children, he finds something that changes what he thought he knew, and the game he sets in motion pulls in Amara.
Rating coming soonRandi McCafferty is keeping the identity of her son's father to herself, and she has her reasons. Her brothers, who are used to managing her life, hire an investigator named Kurt Striker to protect her, and Kurt concludes that the only way to deal with the danger is to bring the secret into the open.
Rating coming soonTristan Caine has spent his adult life keeping a promise, and he broke it on a rainy night for Morana Vitalio, whose safety he considers his own business. She is in enemy territory with both her freedom and her survival at stake, and the two of them join forces to find out what happened to a group of missing girls.
Rating coming soonTess Meredith and Raven Following grew up sharing the Montana plains, and the hardships that fell on the Sioux drove Raven away from his people and from her. He has rebuilt his life in Chicago as a different man, and then Tess arrives there, having become a suffragette. She is there to fight for the causes she believes in, not to find him.
Rating coming soonCarol has spent five years fighting alone for Teri, and the offer of marriage comes as a shock. The man making it is Rudolph Falcone, a barone used to being obeyed, and Carol cannot work out whether he wants a wife or a way of settling an old score with her. She has learned to distrust help that arrives without a reason.
Rating coming soonRyan Price plays professional hockey as an enforcer and struggles with anxiety when he is off the ice. He has just been traded to Toronto and is starting over in the city's LGBTQ Village, where he runs into a man he knew in high school and has not forgotten. Fabian loathes the sport Ryan plays for a living.
Rating coming soonA nurse has married a violent man and is living with the consequences of it. She also develops feelings for an inmate at the prison where she works, who is the only person who notices the marks on her, and when she finds out what he is in prison for and tries to get away, he comes after her. What she knows about him is not the whole of it.
Rating coming soonCaryn married a man she had barely met because an inheritance required it, and then did not see him again until she had no home and no job left. She goes to Australia to the cattle station that made the marriage necessary, and finds that her husband has told nobody he is married. His reasons for keeping it quiet are his own, and he does not share them with her.
Rating coming soonKemp Irvine blames an unknown woman for the death of his cousin Philip, which is also the event that brought him an inheritance he never wanted. The woman he is looking for is Valentine, who knows exactly who he is, and who wants a little more time with him before he finds out. She was involved in what happened to Philip, and she has been carrying it since.
Rating coming soonLacey Seldon has left her job as a librarian and gone to an island in Puget Sound to start a different kind of life. Holt Randolph is not the sort of man she has known before, and he tells her that he is not willing to be given only half of her attention. He wants all of it, and he says so before she has decided anything.
Rating coming soonLogan Warren has taken over his mother's wedding cake business to keep it going, which requires him to deal with brides, icing and customers, none of which he has any talent for. Caroline Scott, a family friend, offers to help, and the two of them have almost nothing in common except a refusal to marry. The shop will close if he does not learn the trade quickly.
Rating coming soonRuby has been a Dumas for a year and still cannot quite believe the New Orleans mansion she lives in or the father she has only recently met. Her stepmother despises where she came from, her twin sister answers every attempt at friendship with hostility, and boarding school turns out not to be the escape she hoped for.
Rating coming soonAdam has just moved to a small town he thinks is called Springville, until a girl named Sally tells him that its real name is Spooksville and that the stories about it are true. She and a boy called Watch take him looking for the Secret Path, which leads to other versions of the town.
Rating coming soonKate Welles wants the leading part in her school's Christmas play and has to work alongside Courtney, who keeps getting in the way, because otherwise neither of them will be allowed to take part. Their teacher then decides that rehearsals need a special location, and picks a house with a history. Kate would normally avoid a building of that kind.
Rating coming soonA tenth-century Arab diplomat, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, is sent north and falls in with a company of Vikings, who take him with them to a settlement that is being attacked by something nobody can describe. The account of the journey is presented as his manuscript, and the second half of the book retells the story of Beowulf.
Rating coming soonThe novel covers a single day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, and follows three people through it: Stephen Dedalus, a young man with literary ambitions, Leopold Bloom, who sells advertising space, and Bloom's wife Molly. Almost nothing of consequence happens, and everything is in it. Much of the book is spent inside the heads of the three of them.
Rating coming soonHadassah is a young Jewish believer whose family is killed when Jerusalem falls to the Romans in AD 70, and who is then taken to Rome and sold. She is bought by a wealthy family to serve their daughter Julia, a wilful girl with no interest in restraint, and has to keep her own faith hidden in order to survive.
Rating coming soonLuke Garner is the third child of a farming family, which makes him illegal. In a country where the government has taken drastic measures over population, families are allowed only two children, and Luke has lived his whole life as a shadow child, kept out of sight. When new houses are built on part of the farm he loses what little freedom he had, and then he finds another hidden child living next door.
Rating coming soonA starship carrying the descendants of people who left Earth generations ago is closing on the world that is meant to become their new home. The voyage has lasted longer than anyone planned for, the ship is ageing around them, and the settlement plan turns out to rest on assumptions that the travellers can no longer make. The story is told largely in the voice of the ship itself.
Rating coming soonElijah Baley is a New York police detective in a future city buried under steel and roofed against the outside, where most people live in enormous communal blocks and housing is rationed down to the last square metre. A Spacer has been murdered, and the Spacers will only accept the arrest if the investigation is carried out alongside a robot partner.
Rating coming soonJean le Flambeur is a thief imprisoned in a prison of his own psychology, where he has to outwit copies of himself to survive. He is broken out by a warrior from a society that hides its thoughts, who wants a particular artefact stolen and has arranged for Jean to be in her debt. The theft takes the pair to a moving city on Mars.
Rating coming soonPrincess Winter of Luna is admired across the court for her grace and kindness even though her face is scarred. Her stepmother, Queen Levana, rules by controlling what her subjects are allowed to see and think, and Winter's refusal to use that same power on anyone keeps her in danger. She is also in love with her childhood friend Jacin, a palace guard.
Rating coming soonCharlie McGee is a child with the ability to start fires with her mind, and a secret government agency wants her badly enough to hunt her across the country. Her father Andy has a milder version of the same gift and has spent years keeping her hidden, but a laboratory called The Shop knows the family exists and is prepared to take the girl by force.
Rating coming soonAt the end of the Second World War, Europe is full of soldiers, spies, engineers and profiteers, and the German V-2 rocket programme is being dismantled by whoever can reach the paperwork first. Several of them are looking for a device that seems to connect the rockets to a pattern in the lives of the people around them.
Rating coming soonSix million years ago a woman named Abigail Gentian split herself into a thousand male and female copies, called shatterlings, and sent them out to watch civilisations rise and fall. Once every two hundred thousand years the shatterlings meet to trade memories of what they have seen. This time nobody arrives, and the line is being murdered.
Rating coming soonHumanity has handed its government to an artificial intelligence that runs the world so well that nobody dies of accident, illness or want. The one thing the Thunderhead cannot control is the scythedom, the order of human beings who decide who has to die. A year after going missing, Rowan has become a vigilante killing people he considers disgraces to that order.
Rating coming soonCenturies after the last people left Earth, the ships of the Exodus Fleet are still flying, kept alive by the descendants of the crews who built them. Humanity has been accepted into the wider galactic community, and many of the fleet's young people are leaving for alien cities, which leaves the people who stay wondering what their way of life is still for.
Rating coming soonIt is the morning of the fiftieth Hunger Games, a Quarter Quell, and the districts of Panem are waiting to learn who will be taken from them this time. In District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think about his chances. He cares about getting through the day and about the girl he loves, and then his name is called.
Rating coming soonTodd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown, a settlement where a germ has left every man able to hear the thoughts of every other man and nobody able to keep anything to himself. A month before the birthday that would make him a man, he has to run, taking a dog with him and meeting something he has never encountered before: a person whose thoughts he cannot hear at all.
Rating coming soonSolaria is a Spacer world where nobody touches anybody and conversation happens through holograms, with robots doing all the work and the settlers living alone on enormous estates. It is also the setting for the first murder in two hundred years, and the Solarians want the case cleared up without the disturbance of an Earthman living among them.
Rating coming soonFireheart is deputy of ThunderClan, carrying the clan's decisions while its leader is unwell. A rival leader across the forest has grown more powerful and more willing to use that power, and something has come into the woods that is killing prey and leaving the remains where no clan would put them.
Rating coming soonChasm City was a utopia built under a dome on a planet human beings should not have been able to settle, and its wealth came from somewhere else entirely. A virus that infects machinery as readily as flesh has left the city half ruined, its buildings and its people altered, and its survivors living inside what remains.
Rating coming soonThe crew of the Rocinante has time on its hands while the ship sits in dock, and each of them goes off to deal with something personal. Meanwhile a radical faction has been stealing stealth technology from Martian shipyards, which turns out to be the first sign of a plan aimed at the whole of humanity.
Rating coming soonAugust Landry moves to New York expecting to be proved right about the world, and instead falls for a woman she keeps meeting on the subway. Jane is a punk from the 1970s who has been displaced in time and cannot leave the train, and August decides to find out why.
Rating coming soonAn exiled Chiss warrior is found on an unnamed world at the edge of the Outer Rim and offered a place in the Imperial navy by Emperor Palpatine. Thrawn is not interested in rank for its own sake, and the Empire is not sure what it has taken on or how far the officer's loyalty will stretch.
Rating coming soonTakeshi Kovacs comes home to the planet where he was born, in a body that is not his own, with a religious movement hunting him after a series of attacks. Harlan's World is also where the politics of his earlier life are waiting to be settled, along with everyone who knew him before he left it.
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.
