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 soonAelin Galathynius has gone from slave to king's assassin to the queen of a kingdom that was once great, and the war that will decide what happens to her world has begun. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, she endures months of torture and holds on to the knowledge that yielding would doom the people she loves. With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra are the last line of defence for Terrasen.
Rating coming soonEight years after the Battle of the Serpent, Lady Nore of the Court of Teeth has taken back the Ice Needle Citadel, where she is using an ancient relic to make monsters of stick and snow that will carry out her revenge. Suren, the child queen of the Court of Teeth and the only person with power over her mother, has fled into the human world and lives wild in the woods, until the storm hag Bogdana hunts her through the night streets.
Rating coming soonThe ice is advancing, the Corridor is narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west, with the emperor's armies retreating everywhere. Nona Grey faces the final challenges she must overcome to become a full sister in the order of her choice, and it is beginning to look as though she and her friends will not have time to earn a nun's habit before the war arrives.
Rating coming soonIt is said that a god will return when the earth and sky converge under the black sun in the holy city of Tova. The winter solstice usually means celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, which the Sun Priest has declared an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile a ship sails from a distant city towards Tova carrying a single passenger: Serapio, a blind and scarred young man wrapped in prophecy.
Rating coming soonThe Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers has spent centuries keeping magic working in England, and it has recently fallen into disgrace: it has named a freed slave with no familiar as its Sorcerer Royal, and the country's stores of magic are bleeding away. Zacharias Wythe sets out for the border of Fairyland to discover why, and meets an unusual companion on the way.
Rating coming soonIndustry has come to Adua, and the world is full of new opportunities, but old scores run as deep as ever. On the borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock is trying to win a name for himself against the armies of Stour Nightfall while hoping for help from a crown whose heir, Prince Orso, specialises in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta, socialite and investor, plans to climb to the top of society by whatever means are necessary.
Rating coming soonSantiago is an ageing fisherman in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, and his luck has run out: he has gone a long time without a catch. He sets out alone once more and hooks a giant marlin that takes him far out to sea and into a struggle lasting for days. The story is also the story of a young boy, Manolin, who has been taught by the old man and cares about him.
Rating coming soonBrian Robeson is thirteen and his parents are divorced. He is flying north in a bush plane to spend the summer with his father when the pilot has a heart attack and the plane goes down, leaving Brian alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but the clothes he is wearing and a hatchet his mother gave him. He has to work out how to stay alive.
Rating coming soonThe narrator travels to Peru in search of an ancient manuscript that is said to hold a sequence of insights into the way human beings might live, and he is not the only person looking for it. The book presents itself as an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery, and it is written as a first-person account of a spiritual awakening in which the manuscript's insights are discovered one at a time.
Rating coming soonCharlotte Davis is seventeen and has already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime: her father and the river, her best friend, and any real support from her mother. She has learned how to forget, and she has learned to cut. The novel follows her as she is taken out of the life she has been surviving and begins the slow and uneven work of putting herself back together.
Rating coming soonThe nuclear submarine Starbuck sailed into the calm Pacific for sea trials, fully armed and with all hands aboard, and vanished: no wreckage, no signals and no survivors. Dirk Pitt, a maritime troubleshooter, finds the only clue in the shark-torn surf off Hawaii, in the form of the submarine's own log, which ends with a warning that searching for the crew can only end in vain. The trail leads towards a whirlpool in the deep.
Rating coming soonAlethea is desperate to leave home, where her mother, her sister and three young nieces are driving her to distraction, so the arrival of Trent de Havilland in her life is a relief. Then he suggests that she move in with him, which is more than she bargained for. She hardly knows him, and she is wary of a man who makes her feel the way he does. The arrangement is part of the deal if he is to help her sister.
Rating coming soonCharlotte Pringle would rather run her bookshop than look for a husband, but her parents are pressing her to agree to an advantageous match, and what she fears is being trapped in a marriage without affection. Richard Baxton has taken on the family business and the care of his niece Grace, who cannot walk. When Grace's love of books brings them to Charlotte's shop, Richard is drawn to her.
Rating coming soonRuth Kauffman is shy, and she is delighted when Charles Polk asks her out: he is handsome, hard-working and genuinely interested in her. There is one complication, which is that Charles and his parents are not Mennonite, though they are seriously considering joining her church in Sarasota and taking up a simple life. Some members of the congregation refuse to accept them, and then disaster strikes Charles's family.
Rating coming soonMaggie Turner takes her child to her godmother's ranch near Abilene, hoping to get away from her ex-husband's threats for a while. The plan would have worked if Gabe Coleman were not there: ten years on, he is as blunt, as rude and as unsettling as he was when she knew him before. She had thought her marriage cured her of wanting anybody, and Gabe's presence tests that.
Rating coming soonWhen Brent Akerman announces that he intends to close down his chain of fashion accessory shops, somebody has to ask him to reconsider, and Crystal is elected to do it. He is open to suggestions and does not soften his answers, and it becomes clear that he likes her, respects her work and wants to hire her for other projects. It is also clear that he would not mind mixing business with pleasure.
Rating coming soonAfter her husband's death, Kate Long moves with her young daughter to the Australian mountain town of Ferntree Heights and sets out to build a new life for the two of them. She is unsettled by Aaron Frazer, a successful entrepreneur and a man of faith, who takes a romantic interest in her. Kate wants the warmth he offers, and tells herself she does not deserve it.
Rating coming soonFourteen years ago a fire injured Shelby Beck and burned down Goose Harbor's only church, and she is now planning to rebuild both the building and her life. Her wounds have always kept her at a distance from men. When Joel Palermo returns to town as a fireman and is assigned to help her raise money for the new building, she is surprised by how easy it is to get close to her brother's old friend.
Rating coming soonTanner Bohlman works for the Forest Service and knows the dangers of Idaho's land and rivers, and he does not think it is any place for a woman like Zoe Lawton, even if she is a capable marine biologist. Zoe is new in town and could use a guide. When Tanner finds that her young son has never been fishing, he steps into the role of a father figure, and finds himself rethinking a vow never to love again.
Rating coming soonArianna Kent's last spoken words were heard by a 911 operator telling them that her parents were dead. She and her brother Simon are now in hiding, grieving and afraid of the killer who is still at large, and since her discovery of the murder Ari has been unable to speak. Mitch Ellis, a psychiatrist, is intrigued by her condition, and he has secrets of his own.
Rating coming soonLindsey's brother's wife has just given birth to twins, so she puts aside her memories of her father's death and gets on a plane to Germany. The man in the seat beside her, Cole Farrel, keeps her together during the flight, and he admires her for facing her fear of flying instead of avoiding it. What she cannot face is loving a man who, like her father, flies for a living.
Rating coming soonLucas is a playboy, a rebel and a rogue, and nobody denies him anything: women fall at his feet and into his bed at the click of his fingers, and his life is charmed, reckless and carefree. Grace Carter knows that working with a man as uncontrollable as Lucas could ruin her career, and she will not tolerate his behaviour, whatever the chemistry between them. Working with him, however, turns out to be thrilling.
Rating coming soonShe is beautiful, exasperating and, in the words of the story, a little hellcat with barnyard manners. Marshal Travis Kincaid has decided that if anybody is going to make a lady of her, it will be him, and he takes on the project even with outlaws overrunning his town. The novel is a western romance.
Rating coming soonBryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, and now that she has, all she wants is to get back to it: her family, her friends and her mate are all there. Stranded in a strange world, she needs every bit of her wit to find a way home, and she has no idea who she can trust. Meanwhile Hunt Athalar is back in the Asteri's dungeons, stripped of his freedom.
Rating coming soonThe Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. The series that began in 1990 with The Eye of the World reaches its conclusion here, with the final scenes that its readers had been waiting more than twenty years to see. The Last Battle is fought, and the prophecies and the wars of the thirteen preceding books arrive at the point they were made for.
Rating coming soonDeep below the University is a dark place that few people know about: a broken web of ancient passages and abandoned rooms. A young woman called Auri lives down there, settled in among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, and she is full of mysteries. The book is a short account of her life in that forgotten place, and the small adventure that belongs to her alone.
Rating coming soonEvery hundred years the island of Lightlark appears in order to host the Centennial, a deadly game that the rulers of the six realms are invited to play. It is their last chance to break the curses that have afflicted their realms for centuries, and each ruler has something to conceal: to destroy the curses, one ruler has to die. Isla Crown rules Wildling, a realm of temptresses cursed to kill anyone they fall in love with.
Rating coming soonChildren disappear under the right conditions: through the shadows under a bed, out of the back of a wardrobe, down a rabbit hole or into an old well, and they come out somewhere else. Magical lands have little use for used-up miracle children, though, and Nancy has come back. The children under Miss West's care understand what that is like, and each of them is looking for a way home.
Rating coming soonLady Mara of the Acoma clan has been named Servant of the Empire by Ichindar, Emperor of the Tsuranuanni, whom she raised from figurehead to true ruler, and for the first time in her life she feels safe from her enemies. Then an assassination attempt aimed at her kills her young son and heir instead. Convinced that her old enemy Jiro of the House Anasati is responsible, she prepares for war.
Rating coming soonNobody has tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost a year, and his life has finally begun to settle down; for once the future looks reasonably bright. But the past casts a long shadow, and an old bargain has left him in debt to Mab, the monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe and the Queen of Air and Darkness, who has come to call in her marker. It is a small favour he cannot refuse.
Rating coming soonDale Stewart was once a respected college professor and a novelist, and he has wrecked his career and his marriage. In the last hours of Halloween he returns to Elm Haven, the dying town where he grew up, hoping to find peace in isolation, and moves into a long-deserted farmhouse on its outskirts: the one-time home of a strange and brilliant friend who died in a grisly accident in the summer of 1960.
Rating coming soonRosalind Harper is forty-five, a widow with three grown sons whose second marriage was a disaster, and she has built her nursery business from nothing. She thought love was behind her, and then romance takes her by surprise. Harper House, the centuries-old mansion outside Memphis where a Harper has always lived, has its own history: for as long as anyone can remember, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked its halls, singing lullabies at night.
Rating coming soonLara Lington has always had an overactive imagination, and suddenly it seems to be working overtime, because normal professional women in their twenties do not get visited by ghosts. The spirit of her great-aunt Sadie appears with one request: Lara has to find a necklace that was in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, because Sadie cannot rest without it. The search leads to intrigue and to a new romance.
Rating coming soonAs the campaign for women's suffrage intensifies, Kathleen Bowen, known as Kat, is able to take part in it alongside her mother, her sister and many of the people close to her. The book is written as her diary, and it covers the winter of 1917, the picket lines outside the White House, the reactions they drew, and the argument over a federal amendment that would give women the vote.
Rating coming soonJames Goodenough brings his family to Ohio in 1838 to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp, having moved there from Connecticut, where the family had originally settled after leaving England. Swamp fever picks off their children one by one while they wrestle with survival. Fifteen years later the story continues with their youngest son Robert, who has been running west and has taken refuge among the redwoods of California.
Rating coming soonBorn without magic, Joram was one of the Dead and was denied the throne of Merilon, and for years he lived among outlaws and survived by his wits. Now he carries the Darksword, a weapon that absorbs magic, and he returns to the enchanted kingdom that was once his home to take revenge and claim his birthright. There he will test Bishop Vanya and the army of Duuk-tsarith.
Rating coming soonA single day in the torture chambers of the Abyss would be enough to break most people, and the barbarian Wulfgar spent years there. When he returns to his friends they find him a changed man, and not changed for the better. His road to redemption is one he has to travel on his own, even if it leads him to the bottle, and the penultimate chapter of the Legend of Drizzt follows him along it.
Rating coming soonGansey has spent years searching for a lost king, and one by one he has drawn other people into the hunt: Ronan, who steals things out of dreams; Adam, whose life is no longer his own; Noah, whose life is no longer a life; and Blue, who loves Gansey and is certain that she is destined to kill him. Now the endgame has begun, and dreams and nightmares are converging.
Rating coming soonSome believe that the Lady, newly risen from centuries of imprisonment, stands between humankind and evil; others believe that she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take her pay and do what they are told, burying their doubts along with their dead. Then comes a prophecy: the White Rose has been born again somewhere, to embody good once more, and the company is set to find her.
Rating coming soonAfter a hundred years of brutal war against the Syndics, the Alliance fleet is marooned deep inside enemy territory, weakened, demoralised and desperate to get home. Its fate falls to Captain Black Jack Geary, a man who was presumed dead and who emerges from a century of survival hibernation to find that his name has become a legend, and who is forced by a cruel turn of events into taking command of the fleet.
Rating coming soonOskar Schindler was a German industrialist and war profiteer who, faced with the reality of the extermination camps, gambled his life and his fortune to save thirteen hundred Jewish people from the gas chambers. The novel is based on his true story, and on the testimony of the people he saved, and it sets out what it cost him to keep them alive through the war.
Rating coming soonWill's brother Shawn is dead, shot on the street, and everybody in the building knows the rules that come afterwards: nobody cries, nobody tells, and somebody pays. Will takes the gun out of his brother's drawer, steps into the lift on the eighth floor and rides it down, meaning to keep the third rule. Seven floors is not a long way, but there is time in it for one more conversation with the people he has lost.
Rating coming soonBeka Cooper is sixteen, a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and her first posting is the Lower City. She can hear the voices of the dead riding on the wings of pigeons, which the rest of the Guard finds peculiar and the two worst men in the district should find alarming. With the force busy on another killer, Beka sets her mind on finding the one they call the Shadow Snake.
Rating coming soonBobby Pendragon is a fourteen-year-old boy with a family, a house and a dog, and no idea that any of that is about to become a set of stories he writes down for other people to read. His uncle Press arrives, tells him he is going to save the world, and takes him through a portal to Denduron, a territory of strange creatures, a magical tyrant and something worse stirring underneath it.
Rating coming soonLucy Savage's week begins with her husband failing to appear in divorce court and gets worse: a dye job leaves her hair green, somebody takes a shot at her, and she knocks down the policeman who comes to her rescue. Detective Zack Warren believes her husband is tangled up in an embezzlement scheme, and the attempts on her life decide the argument between them, so Zack moves into her house to keep her alive.
Rating coming soonIt is 1961 in a world where a meteorite strike pushed humanity off the Earth faster than history managed, and the International Aerospace Coalition has a colony on the Moon. Elma York, the Lady Astronaut, is flying shuttles on rotation and calculating orbits. The next target is Mars, and the crew list for the first exploratory mission contains no women, on the grounds that the journey is too dangerous for them.
Rating coming soonThe Intersolar Commonwealth is a star-spanning civilisation in the twenty-fourth century, wealthy, peaceful and confident, until a ship sent to investigate a disappearing star releases something predatory that turns on the people who let it out. The alien invaders can take on human form, and the war against them is being fought by corporations, colonies and soldiers who cannot agree on what is happening.
Rating coming soonBefore the Clone Wars break out, the Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth asks the Senate to back a voyage unlike any the Republic has attempted: six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights and fifty thousand settlers aboard one enormous vessel, sent past the edge of known space to find intelligent life and settle new worlds. The project is called Outbound Flight, and it carries the hopes of its passengers and the attention of people who would rather it never arrived.
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.
