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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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Michael Crichton · 1994

Tom Sanders is the head of advanced products manufacturing at DigiCom, a computer hardware company, and he expects to be promoted to run the advanced products division once DigiCom has completed its merger with a publishing house. The job goes instead to Meredith Johnson, an ex-girlfriend who has just moved to Seattle from the company's headquarters in California. That evening Meredith calls Tom into her office, ostensibly to talk about a CD-ROM drive, and what happens there changes the whole shape of the story.

Legal thrillerPsychological thriller

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Three to Get Deadly

Janet Evanovich · 1997

Moses Bedemier runs a sweet shop and ice-cream parlour in the Burg, and everyone in Trenton knows him as Uncle Mo. He is ticketed by a newly qualified policeman for carrying a concealed weapon and then fails to appear for his court date, so the bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is sent to bring him in. Nobody in the neighbourhood is willing to help her, because nobody believes that Uncle Mo could have done anything wrong.

Amateur sleuthCosy mystery

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Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett · 2003

A Johannes Vermeer painting, A Lady Writing, is stolen while it is on its way to the Art Institute of Chicago, and two eleven-year-olds in the Hyde Park neighbourhood of the city, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee, set out to find it. The thief places advertisements in the newspaper explaining that the painting will be returned if the public can work out which of the pictures attributed to Vermeer were really painted by him. The whole neighbourhood begins looking at paintings much more closely.

Young adult mysteryAmateur sleuth

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Who Could That Be at This Hour?

Lemony Snicket · 2012

Lemony Snicket is thirteen years old and about to begin his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson, the worst-ranked agent in the secretive organisation known as the V.F.D., in a town called Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Snicket has to escape the people currently pretending to be his parents, who have laced his tea with laudanum, and leave with Markson in a green roadster. Their first case in the mostly abandoned town concerns the theft of a statue.

Young adult mysteryAmateur sleuth

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Goldfinger

Ian Fleming · 1959

James Bond is put on the trail of Auric Goldfinger, a man whose business is gold and whose methods are as violent as they are clever, and MI6 also suspects him of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. What begins as an investigation into a smuggling operation becomes something considerably larger when Bond works out what Goldfinger plans to do to the gold reserves of the United States.

EspionageSpy thriller

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Moonraker

Ian Fleming · 1955

Hugo Drax came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon any human brain has devised, and the country is grateful to him. Bond first meets him over a game of bridge at his club, where Drax is suspected of cheating, and in the later part of the novel he is seconded to the industrialist's staff as the Moonraker, a prototype missile meant to defend Britain, is finished. Drax's past is not what it appears, and neither is the missile.

EspionageSpy thriller

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Diamonds Are Forever

Ian Fleming · 1956

Bond is sent to investigate a diamond-smuggling operation that runs from the mines of Sierra Leone through London to Las Vegas, and the route is guarded by people who are prepared to kill over it. He meets Tiffany Case, one of the members of the gang, and uses her to get inside the operation. Once he is in America the hunter becomes the hunted, and the help he needs comes from the last person he expected.

EspionageSpy thriller

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Simple Genius

David Baldacci · 2007

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are former Secret Service agents working as private investigators, and their lives have come apart. Maxwell is lying unconscious in a hospital bed after a night of suicidal violence, and King, short of money, is forced to take an assignment from an old girlfriend: a scientist has been murdered just inside the razor wire of a CIA training camp near Williamsburg, Virginia, and nobody wants the case solved quickly.

Conspiracy thrillerCrime thriller

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Tell No One

Harlan Coben · 2001

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered. He has relived that day every day since, working as a paediatrician in inner-city clinics. Then he receives an anonymous email telling him to log on to a website at a particular time, using a code only he and Elizabeth knew, and the screen shows him an image of his wife. While he tries to establish whether she is alive, the FBI is trying to pin her murder on him.

Psychological thrillerCrime thriller

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The Word Is Murder

Anthony Horowitz · 2017

A woman plans her own funeral in the morning and is found murdered six hours later. The ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne, who needs money after being dismissed from the Metropolitan Police, approaches the crime writer Anthony Horowitz with a proposal: Hawthorne will investigate, Horowitz will write a book about the case, and the two of them will split the proceeds. The only catch is that they also have to solve the crime.

Detective fictionAmateur sleuth

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B Is for Burglar

Sue Grafton · 1985

Beverly Danziger wants Kinsey Millhone to find her sister Elaine Boldt, and presents the job as a formality about a signature on some papers. Millhone takes it because work is slow and private investigators have bills to pay, and it looks routine until she learns that the wealthy widow was last seen leaving California for Florida and never arrived there. Then she is told to drop the case, and she finds out that days before Elaine went missing, her next-door neighbour and bridge partner was murdered.

Amateur sleuthDetective fiction

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D Is for Deadbeat

Sue Grafton · 1987

Alvin Limardo hires Kinsey Millhone for a job that looks straightforward, and then his cheque bounces. His real name turns out to be John Dagett, and he is an ex-convict, a liar, a chronic drunk, and dead, drowned in what the police have called an accident. Millhone is not convinced, and the more she looks into the man who hired her, the longer the list of people who had reason to dislike him becomes.

Amateur sleuthDetective fiction

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10th Anniversary

James Patterson · 2011

Detective Lindsay Boxer is called away from her wedding celebrations to a crime: a teenage girl has been left badly injured and her newborn baby is missing. There is no trace of whoever did it, and the victim appears to be keeping secrets of her own. At the same time the assistant district attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her career, against a woman accused of murdering her husband in front of their two young children.

Police proceduralLegal thriller

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The Switch

Sandra Brown · 2000

Identical twins Melina and Gillian Lloyd have not switched places since they were children, and Gillian refuses when Melina suggests that she take her place as a media escort to a NASA astronaut. The following morning Melina is told that her sister has been brutally murdered, and that the astronaut, though innocent, is the prime suspect. He and Melina set out to find the killer, whose plans require Gillian's replacement.

Psychological thrillerDomestic suspense

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The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage

Enid Blyton · 1943

A thatched cottage in Mr Hick's garden burns down, and the children who meet at the scene decide to work out who set the fire. They are Larry and Daisy Daykin, Pip and Bets Hilton, and a newcomer named Frederick Algernon Trotteville, soon nicknamed Fatty from his initials, and they call themselves the Five Find-Outers and Dog. Their suspects include an old tramp, a dismissed servant, a hostile colleague and the cook.

Young adult mysteryAmateur sleuth

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Pulp

Charles Bukowski · 1994

Nick Belane is a private detective in Los Angeles, and the cases that come to him include the search for a writer who is supposed to be dead and a woman convinced that she is being followed by somebody who claims to come from another planet. Belane works his way through the bars and the racetrack and the people who owe him money, in a story that sends up the private-eye genre it is written in. It was Bukowski's last completed novel.

HardboiledNoir

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Live and Let Die

Ian Fleming · 1954

Bond is sent after Mr Big, a criminal with links to the American underworld, to the world of voodoo and to SMERSH, the Soviet secret service, and his route into the case is Mr Big's smuggling of seventeenth-century gold coins out of the Caribbean. He meets Solitaire, a fortune teller who is both the prisoner and the instrument of the man he is hunting. The pursuit takes Bond through the jazz clubs of Harlem, into the Everglades and on to Jamaica.

EspionageSpy thriller

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Anya's Ghost

Vera Brosgol · 2011

Anya is a Russian emigre at a New England private school, embarrassed by her family and unhappy with her body and her social life. When she skips school and falls down a dry well in the woods, she finds a skeleton at the bottom and meets the ghost of Emily, a girl her own age who died ninety years earlier. Emily offers to be her friend and to help her, which is a good deal more than anyone else at school has done.

Ghost storyModern horror

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Full Tilt

Neal Shusterman · 2003

Blake has always been the cautious brother, and Quinn, two years younger, is the one who wants to ride the Kamikaze. At an amusement park one evening Blake wins a game of ball toss and is given a ticket to another park, one that is invitation-only and open through the night. He takes Quinn and two friends with him, and every ride there turns out to be a test that has to be survived before sunrise.

Psychological horrorModern horror

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Behind the Attic Wall

Sylvia Cassedy · 1983

Maggie is twelve and has been thrown out of more boarding schools and foster homes than she can count, for lying, stealing and disobedience. Her only living relatives are two great-aunts, who take her into a large stone house called Adelphi Hills that was once a boarding school and looks like a prison, planning to reform her with rigid rules about food and exercise. Alone in the empty rooms, she begins to hear whispering from behind a closet door.

Ghost storyModern horror

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Johnny and the Dead

Terry Pratchett · 1993

Johnny Maxwell is twelve and takes a shortcut home through the local cemetery, where he meets the spirit of Alderman Thomas Bowler and discovers that he can talk to the dead. The other occupants of the cemetery object to being called ghosts, and they have a problem: the council has sold their neglected graveyard to a developer. Johnny and his friends take on the job of stopping it.

Ghost storyCozy fantasy

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Abandon

Meg Cabot · 2011

Pierce tries to go back to the life she had before the accident and finds that she is never quite alone: somebody is always watching her. She moves to a new town and a new school in the hope of starting again, and he finds her there too. She knows that he is not a guardian angel and that the dark world he comes from is not heaven, and she cannot keep away from him, least of all when he appears exactly at the moment she needs him.

Occult and possessionModern horror

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The Hundred Secret Senses

Amy Tan · 1995

Olivia is Chinese-American, and her older half-sister Kwan was born in China and sent to live with the family when their father died. Olivia is embarrassed by Kwan, who does not speak English well and makes a fool of herself, and who believes that her yin eyes let her see the dead and talk with them at night. The novel follows the two sisters, the Chinese stories Kwan tells, and a journey back to China.

Family novelImmigrant fiction

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The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst · 2004

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill house of the Fedden family. Gerald Fedden is a Conservative Member of Parliament, his wife Rachel has money, and their son Toby was at Oxford with Nick. Over the boom years of the mid-1980s he becomes part of their world of parties and alliances, while the life he leads outside it is something the family accepts only by never mentioning it.

Literary fictionModern classics

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Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison · 1952

A young black man from the South narrates the story of his own invisibility, beginning with the college he is expelled from after he shows a white benefactor the reality of black life, and continuing in Harlem, where he becomes an orator for an organisation known as the Brotherhood. In his new position he is both praised and threatened, and he is carried into a movement whose logic he does not fully understand.

Modern classicsSocial realism

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The Hours

Michael Cunningham · 1998

The novel moves between three women in three different decades, each of them touched by Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. In 1923 in Richmond, Woolf is writing that novel while struggling with mental illness. In 1949 in Los Angeles, Laura Brown is reading it while she plans a birthday party for her husband, a veteran of the Second World War. In 1999 in New York, Clarissa Vaughan is preparing a party of her own, for a friend who is dying.

Literary fictionModern classics

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My Ántonia

Willa Cather · 1918

Jim Burden arrives in the fictional town of Black Hawk, Nebraska, on the same train as a family of Bohemian immigrants, the Shimerdas, having been sent to live with his grandparents after the deaths of his parents. He is ten years old, and the eldest daughter of the new family, Antonia Shimerda, is a child like him. The novel is his account of the years that follow and of what the two of them make of the country they have been brought to.

Modern classicsFamily novel

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The Chosen

Chaim Potok · 1967

In 1944 in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Reuven Malter plays a baseball game between his Modern Orthodox school and a team from a Hasidic yeshiva, and the opposing team turns out to be carried by a single player, Danny Saunders. When Danny's line drive breaks Reuven's glasses and drives a piece of glass into his eye, the accident begins a friendship between two boys whose Jewish communities hold to very different doctrines.

Coming-of-ageFamily novel

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Chain of Gold

Cassandra Clare · 2020

Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior with the blood of the angel Raziel, and when her father is accused of a crime she travels to London with her mother and brother to clear his name. There she finds her childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of parties and obligations, while hiding what she feels for James, who is sworn to marry somebody else. Then Shadowhunters begin to be killed in the city.

Young adult fantasyHistorical fantasy

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Fool Moon

Jim Butcher · 2001

Harry Dresden is the only wizard in Chicago with an advertisement in the Yellow Pages, and he spends a good deal of his time helping the police with the cases nobody else wants. In this second Dresden Files novel he is asked to consult on a homicide where the body has been savaged and the ground nearby is marked with wolf-shaped paw prints, and his inquiries put him in the way of werewolves of more than one kind.

Urban fantasyWitch and magic

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The White Rose

Glen Cook · 1985

Centuries ago the Dominator and his wife the Lady founded an empire famous for its evil, and they were overthrown by a rebellion led by the White Rose. They could not be killed, only imprisoned in the Barrowland, and in time the Lady escaped and rebuilt the empire, leaving her husband where he was. The Black Company, an elite mercenary unit, has spent years working for the Lady, and the third book of the series brings the first White Rose back into the story.

GrimdarkEpic fantasy

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Rule of Wolves

Leigh Bardugo · 2021

Fjerda's army is preparing to invade, and Nikolai Lantsov will need all of his ingenuity and charm, and the monster he keeps hidden, to win the fight. Zoya Nazyalensky has lost too much to war already: she watched her mentor die and her worst enemy come back, and she will not bury another friend. In Shu Han a blot of darkness resembling the Shadow Fold is spreading past the Unsea, and the final novel of the King of Scars duology follows the five people whose choices decide what happens.

Young adult fantasyEpic fantasy

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The Gilded Ones

Namina Forna · 2021

Deka is sixteen and lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will decide whether she can be accepted as a member of her village. She has always been different, because of an intuition she cannot explain, and she prays for red blood so that she will finally belong. On the day of the ceremony her blood runs gold, which is the colour of impurity, and she knows the consequence will be worse than death.

Young adult fantasyDark fantasy

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Laini Taylor · 2011

Karou is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, and the family she has is made up of chimaera, the creatures she draws in her sketchbook. They demand teeth in exchange for wishes, and they send her out to collect them without explaining what the teeth are used for, or why there are rules like no baby teeth and no rotting ones. On one of those errands she meets a seraph named Akiva, who finds something familiar in her.

Young adult fantasyUrban fantasy

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Toll the Hounds

Steven Erikson · 2008

It is said that Hood waits at the end of every plot, every scheme and every ambition, and in this eighth Malazan novel the Lord of Death is there at the beginning. Darujhistan swelters in the summer heat and seethes with rumours and whispers: strangers have arrived, a murderer is abroad, tyrannies that were thought finished are stirring, and assassins are at work. The book turns on the legacy of Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness and Lord of the Tiste Andii.

Epic fantasyGrimdark

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Shadows Linger

Glen Cook · 1984

The Black Company's latest employer is the Lady, who once helped her husband the Dominator build an empire of legendary evil and was imprisoned with him in the Barrowlands before a foolish wizard was tricked into setting her free. The company is ordered to march thousands of miles across her empire to the Barrowland. In the city it passes through, a small detachment of the company discovers that the mute girl it has rescued and sheltered is the White Rose, and decides to protect her from the mercenaries who are out to destroy her.

GrimdarkEpic fantasy

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Kraken

China Mieville · 2010

A forty-foot specimen of giant squid, preserved in formalin, disappears overnight from the Natural History Museum in London, and a murder victim is found folded into a glass bottle. A naive member of the museum staff, a secret squad of London constables and a number of other interested parties all want the squid back. China Mieville has described the book as a dark comedy about a squid-worshipping cult and the end of the world.

Urban fantasyDark fantasy

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The Wolf Gift

Anne Rice · 2012

Reuben Golding is a journalist on assignment for the San Francisco Observer, sent to write about a grand historic mansion on a bluff above the Pacific that its owner is being forced to sell. A chance encounter there changes him: he is attacked and becomes a werewolf. He spends the rest of the book keeping ahead of the authorities, the media and the DNA analysts who would like to know what he is.

Urban fantasyParanormal romance

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Lord Foul's Bane

Stephen R. Donaldson · 1977

Thomas Covenant is a writer whose life falls apart when he is diagnosed with leprosy; after six months of treatment he returns home to find that his wife has divorced him and his community has cast him out. Accosted by a beggar on a rare trip into town, he stumbles into the path of a police car and wakes in the Land, a fantasy world where he meets the evil Cavewight Drool Rockworm and Lord Foul the Despiser, who tells him to carry a warning to the Lords.

Epic fantasyClassic fantasy

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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · 2019

Galaxy Stern is the least likely member of Yale's freshman class: she dropped out of school early in Los Angeles and by the age of twenty was the sole survivor of a multiple homicide. In her hospital bed she is offered a second chance, a place at Yale, and she takes it. She can see ghosts, and she has been recruited into Lethe, the ninth house, to keep watch over the eight secret societies that practise dangerous occult magic.

Dark fantasyUrban fantasy

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The Executioner's Song

Norman Mailer · 1979

Gary Gilmore became famous in 1976 after he robbed two men in Utah and killed them, and after he was tried and convicted he insisted on being executed for it. He then had to fight a legal system that was prepared to keep him alive long after he had given up on the idea himself. The book follows the short and blighted life that led to the killings and what happened when he refused to let the case be appealed.

Biographical fictionCrime thriller

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The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory · 2005

Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who are both rulers and warriors, and at four years old she is betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales. In this version of her life the marriage becomes a real and loving partnership with plans to rule England together, and it ends after three months when Arthur dies of the sweating sickness. What follows is the rest of her career in England.

Tudor fictionBiographical fiction

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The Persian Boy

Mary Renault · 1972

Bagoas is a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated and sold as a slave to King Darius III, who makes him his favourite. When Alexander the Great overthrows Darius and takes the Persian Empire, Bagoas becomes his lover and most faithful servant. The novel is narrated by Bagoas and covers the last seven years of Alexander's life.

Ancient world fictionBiographical fiction

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All About H. Hatterr

G. V. Desani · 1948

H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang, raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is a search for enlightenment that takes him through seven Oriental cities, and it is told in a prose that leaps and puzzles and refuses to settle into standard English. Desani described his hero as a portrait of the common vulgar species, found everywhere in the East and the West.

Modern classicsExperimental fiction

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Mrs. Mike

Benedict Freedman · 1947

Katherine Mary O'Fallon is sixteen when she travels from Boston to Calgary in 1907 to visit her uncle and recover from pleurisy, and there she meets Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They marry and go north into the Canadian wilderness, where the two of them live among the hardships and the landscape of the early twentieth-century North. The novel is based on the stories of the real Katherine Mary O'Fallon Knox.

Historical romanceFrontier fiction

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The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry · 2008

Roseanne McNulty is approaching her hundredth birthday in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, where she has spent most of her adult life and which is about to be demolished. She begins to write the story of herself and of her parents in Sligo at the turn of the twentieth century, and hides it under a floorboard in her room. The hospital's chief psychiatrist, Dr Grene, is meanwhile trying to establish which of his patients can be released.

Literary historical fictionPost-war fiction

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Gould's Book of Fish

Richard Flanagan · 2001

William Buelow Gould is a convict in Van Diemen's Land, and his life is told here as a fictionalised account of the real convict artist of that name. The novel is built around twelve fish, each of which gives a chapter its heading: the pot-bellied seahorse, the kelpy, the porcupine fish, the stargazer, the leatherjacket, the serpent eel, the sawtooth shark, the striped cowfish, the crested weedfish, the freshwater crayfish, the silver dory and the weedy seadragon.

Australian historical fictionBiographical fiction

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Christ the Lord - Out of Egypt

Anne Rice · 2005

A baby is born to a humble Jewish family in first-century Israel with a great destiny ahead of him, and the novel follows him as a boy of seven or eight beginning to understand his own powers and the whispered mysteries surrounding his birth. The tyrannical rule of King Herod has driven the family out of the Holy Land to the relative safety of Alexandria, and the story begins with their return.

Ancient world fictionBiographical fiction

About the book library

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.

Primary genre

Romance

The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.

676 books Primary genre

Fantasy

Epic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.

685 books Primary genre

Sci-Fi

Generation ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.

536 books Primary genre

Horror

Haunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.

381 books Primary genre

Mystery & Thriller

Detectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.

599 books Primary genre

Historical Fiction

Cathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.

580 books Primary genre

Literary Fiction

Novels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.

575 books Primary genre

Adventure

Shipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.

324 books

One 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.

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Tags cut across the genres. 225 of the 3473 books carry one.

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Romantasy

Romance at the centre of the story, with a fantasy world carrying it.

70 books Tag

Contemporary Romance

Modern love stories: offices, small towns, sports teams, group chats and people who talk too much.

155 books

Romantasy 70 and Contemporary Romance 155. A tag landing works like a shelf: search, subgenre chips, primary-genre chips and sorting.