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 soonSarah came from Maine to the prairie to marry Papa, and she has never stopped missing what she knew first. In a summer of drought, fires and thirsty coyotes she takes Anna and Caleb back east where they will be safe, leaving Papa behind with the farm he will not abandon. Anna wonders whether the family will ever be together again.
Rating coming soonThe Black Company has become the Lady's favoured soldiers, which is not a comfortable place to be. When the Company's historian and physician, Croaker, is asked to work with a powerful new member called Mischievous Rain to break a rebel army, he has excellent reasons to distrust the court of sorcerers paying them. The work takes the Company into country where nothing is quite what it appears and help is never free.
Rating coming soonThe Black Company has reached the end of a long campaign. Croaker is an annalist again rather than a captain, Sleepy leads the company, and no member has died in battle for four years. Then old adversaries set out to bring about the Year of the Skulls, and the company is pushed to the edge of destruction.
Rating coming soonThe Griffins and the Gallos have fought over Chicago's underworld for generations. When Aida Gallo crashes a Griffin party and sets the library alight, her father arranges a marriage with Callum Griffin to prevent a war. Callum intends to tame his bride, Aida begins by poisoning him, and neither of them expects the arrangement to outlast the paperwork.
Rating coming soonSummer, 1927. Bonnelyn Parker sings in church, works hard and plans to lift her family out of poverty, and when the money runs out she takes a night job at Dallas's newest speakeasy without telling anyone. The secret life brings her into the orbit of a convicted felon named Clyde Barrow, while her family believes she is simply working late.
Rating coming soonTomas de Torquemada and the Spanish knight Don Alvaro de Rafel have been friends for many years. When the king names Torquemada Grand Inquisitor of Spain and whispers begin about Alvaro's secret Jewish past, the friendship becomes the first casualty of the new office. Nothing in the novel is settled by argument, because the Inquisition has other methods.
Rating coming soonRachel Fleischer has good reasons not to be at her father's deathbed, and she nearly misses the funeral entirely. When a stranger there gives her an odd gift and an apology, she is drawn into the story of her father's war as a Jewish sergeant in charge of a platoon of Black soldiers, and the scandal that shaped his life.
Rating coming soonThe Indians called him Dark Eagle, his soldiers worshipped him as a hero and his enemies learned to respect him. Dark Eagle follows Benedict Arnold's rise in the Continental Army from 1775 to 1780, and the wounds, slights and money troubles that carried him towards the crime that replaced his name with the word traitor. The novel moves between both armies as his reputation corrodes.
Rating coming soonLady Genevieve will do anything to save Edenby Castle, including sharing a name and a bed with the enemy who has taken it. Lord Tristan is a nobleman and knight leading an invading army through England, and the woman who gives herself up to him is secretly plotting his destruction. Surrender, in this book, is only ever the beginning of another campaign.
Rating coming soonMaxim Seymour, Marquess of Bradbury, has been stripped of his title and lands and branded a traitor, and he wants revenge on the men responsible. His plan to take a hostage goes wrong, and he carries off Elise Radborne instead, an innocent who proves to be his equal in an argument. The Elizabethan court makes a dangerous place for two people with so much to hide.
Rating coming soonMatilda Weimar flees her lecherous uncle and takes refuge in the ancient Castle of Wolfenbach, where the abandoned chambers hold the horrifying mystery of the missing Countess. The castle is not a safe hiding place for long, because her uncle is still looking for her, and the novel was one of the horrid books named in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.
Rating coming soonBook the Eighth. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, accused of a murder they did not commit, escape into a van belonging to a group called Volunteers Fighting Disease and end up at Heimlich Hospital, a building that is only half finished. It has a Library of Records the children hope will explain their parents' secrets, and their enemy is already inside it.
Rating coming soonAlice has spent her childhood moving from place to place with her mother, staying one step ahead of the bad luck that follows them. Her grandmother wrote a scarce book of dark fairy tales that Alice has never read, and when her mother is taken, Alice and an obsessive fan of those stories go looking for the world they came from.
Rating coming soonIn a world where magic is sung, Cadence is a powerful mage forced by her queen to torture the disgraced nobility of her country. Her voice is both her prison and her weapon, and the arrival of a childhood friend tied to the underground rebellion leaves her choosing between obedience and turning on the crown.
Rating coming soonFelix is ten years old and hiding in occupied Poland when he and his friend Zelda escape from a train bound for the death camps. They are alone, and being Jewish and on the run is a matter of daily invention. A farmer named Genia takes them in, and she has her own reasons for hating Germans.
Rating coming soonJess is stranded in the woods with a dog, a few supplies and winter on the way. Her survival skills are limited, physical work is difficult for her, and nobody knows where she is. She was left there on purpose by the man who killed her father, and she intends to survive long enough to answer for it.
Rating coming soonMaddie's father is a Secret Service agent and Logan is the president's son, and they were best friends until the day her family disappeared to a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness with no phone and no internet. Six years later Logan turns up unannounced, and so do the armed men hunting him, which leaves the two of them alone in the frozen bush.
Rating coming soonA pulse of electromagnetic energy sweeps across the sky and kills most of the people on earth, and those who survive are changed. Alex, already living with an incurable brain tumour, finds her senses sharpened far beyond human range, and she takes up with a soldier back from Afghanistan and an angry eight-year-old girl who has lost her family.
Rating coming soonMiranda has just become the life of the party, and all she had to do was die. Elevated by the King of the Mantle of Dracul, she goes from high-school theatre hopeful to glamorous fiend in a single night. Her guardian angel, Zachary, has been demoted to human form as her personal assistant, and there is a gala to arrange.
Rating coming soonThe apocalypse has already happened, the world has burned, and something new has grown out of the destruction. Bec is back to face the Demonata, and after centuries of imprisonment she is more powerful than she has ever been, which is fortunate, because the demons are not standing alone any more and Lord Loss is no longer the greatest threat to humanity.
Rating coming soonElena and her friends are starting at the beautiful campus of Dalcrest College, and Stefan and Damon appear to have reached an understanding at last. Leaving Fell's Church does not mean leaving the past behind, however, and students soon begin to disappear from the campus. Elena uncovers a secret that suggests a tragedy ahead of them cannot be avoided.
Rating coming soonErin Wright and her best friend Marty love horror films, especially the Shocker on Shock Street series, where the Toadinator and Ape Face live. When they visit the new Shocker Studio theme park, their tram gets stuck in the Cave of the Living Creeps and the monsters they have watched all their lives start behaving like real ones.
Rating coming soonAbby and Peter are staying with their uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village, and their uncle knows a great deal about Egypt: his living room looks like an ancient tomb. Strange things happen in the house, and Slappy the dummy and other villains have been sighted in the HorrorLand theme park nearby.
Rating coming soonRobby Schwartz writes comic strips on his computer, and his favourite creation is Dr. Maniac, a wicked supervillain with a taste for drama and destruction. Then Dr. Maniac escapes the screen and starts walking around in the real world, while seven ordinary children are trapped inside the HorrorLand theme park and nobody knows how to reach them.
Rating coming soonCharles Dickens is not feeling the Christmas spirit. His latest book has been a flop, the critics have turned against him, and relatives on every side are asking him for money. When his publishers try to blackmail him into writing a Christmas book he refuses, and then meets a mysterious woman on one of his night walks.
Rating coming soonVictor Frankenstein is sixteen and his twin brother Konrad is dying in the family chateau in the republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, and the doctors can do nothing for him. In the family's secret library Victor finds an account of the Elixir of Life, and decides that he will make it himself, whatever the ingredients demand.
Rating coming soonKonrad Frankenstein is dead, and his father orders the destruction of the Dark Library that Victor once ransacked looking for a cure. Victor saves a book that promises more than conversation with the dead: a way into their realm. Soon he, Elizabeth and Henry are in the spirit world of the chateau.
Rating coming soonTom Ward is apprenticed to the Spook, and he is dismayed when his master announces that they will spend the winter on Anglezarke Moor. The moor is gloomy and forbidding, and the Spook has his reasons for choosing it. There are two dangerous witches to deal with and a dark mage who wants to raise something ancient.
Rating coming soonDelia's new house was not built as a house. It used to be the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females, an asylum that local people nicknamed Hysteria Hall, and its rooms and records still belong to the institution. Many of the young women held there were neither insane nor dangerous.
Rating coming soonIn 1888 Will Henry is twelve years old and apprenticed to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts real monsters and studies them afterwards. The new quarry is the Wendigo, a creature that starves as it eats, and the hunt takes the pair into country where the monster is not the only danger.
Rating coming soonIn rural Oregon in the 1920s, Hanalee Denney is sixteen, biracial and trying to find the truth about her father's death. The official account says a drunk driver hit him, and nobody in town wants to discuss it further. The Ku Klux Klan is active nearby, and a ghost has begun telling her a different story.
Rating coming soonSofia is new at school and anxious to fit in, so when a group of popular girls invites her into their circle she accepts. The group has decided that Brooklyn, a loner they believe to be evil, needs to be rescued from something inside her. Their remedy is an exorcism, and Sofia is expected to help.
Rating coming soonGrubbs Grady goes with his uncle to the set of a horror film being made in the middle of nowhere, which is not a holiday anybody involved would have chosen. Grubbs has fought the demon master Lord Loss once already, so he is alert to the possibility that the production is a way of summoning him again.
Rating coming soonHannah's best friend Lillian has been dead for months, and Lillian's ghost has not left her alone since. The town is filling up with paper hearts and messages, because it is nearly Valentine's Day. Young girls are also being murdered, and Hannah is the only person who can see the friend who follows her.
Rating coming soonSimon Dure is as cynical about love as Charity Emerson is innocent of it, and neither of them pretends that the engagement is anything other than a practical arrangement. Charity is confident she can meet his expectations of a wife, and he is amused enough to let her try. Then a murder makes their conspiracy far more dangerous.
Rating coming soonEvangeline Ames takes a country cottage to recover from a fright, and discovers that the garden attached to it is charged with paranormal energy. When an assassin comes for her, she is rescued by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who needs her professional skills as an investigator to establish what lies buried beneath his estate.
Rating coming soonRuby has spent years hiding what she can do, and the epidemic that killed so many American children has left the survivors divided into categories their government treats as threats. In the second Darkest Minds novel she joins the revolutionary Children's League, trading her cooperation for information about the disease that tore her life apart.
Rating coming soonHail Bristol has built a reputation across the galaxy as a gunrunner who is dangerous in a fight, which is everything except the one thing she was born to do. She is the last surviving heir of the Indranan Empire, and going home to take the throne turns out to be her riskiest move yet.
Rating coming soonIt is Natalie's first year of college, her first real time away from home, and she is not sure how to be an adult without anyone showing her the way. Nora is older, a little mysterious and entirely unknown to her. They are drawn to each other for different reasons, and both of them are carrying secrets.
Rating coming soonGeorg Christoph Lichtenberg was a mathematician, physicist and astronomer in eighteenth-century Gottingen and an aphorist and satirist on the side. This novel tells the story of his real relationship with Maria Stechard, the flower seller he met near his laboratory and called the model of beauty and sweetness, and of the household the two of them made together.
Rating coming soonSomebody tries to assassinate the American president, and the attempt fails before the trigger is pulled. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson, the covert intelligence team that handles the jobs nobody wants to sign, are sent to find out who was behind it and what they were trying to achieve, and the answer is a game with different rules.
Rating coming soonSusan has finally fallen in love. Drew is tall, handsome and hiding something, and soon after he arrives in her small town strange things begin to happen. First a girl is found dead on the beach, then another girl turns up completely drained of blood, and Susan has to work out how much Drew knows.
Rating coming soonMichael Monroe is learning a few new lessons this week. Never trust a teacher who believes in monsters. Do not think about entering her house. And stay well away from the giant egg in her attic, especially if it is about to hatch. Michael is not the sort of boy to take advice of that kind.
Rating coming soonRosie Carpe arrives in Guadeloupe with her five-year-old son, pregnant and looking for her brother Lazare, who has been missing for five years. The man who comes to meet her calls himself Lagrand and may or may not be the brother she remembers, and her parents have turned up on the island as well, behaving strangely.
Rating coming soonCharlotte and her family are going to France, and Stacey has agreed to look after their house and their dog while they are away. It should be simple work. Then Carrot starts growling at nothing, glasses of water appear that she did not pour, and she finds orange hair in a hairbrush that is not hers.
Rating coming soonWhen the entire Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the local museum, a fourth-grade sleuth-in-training named Alec Flint takes the case. He is joined by Gina, a new classmate who wants help with a disappearance of her own, since one of the teachers at their school has gone missing and nobody else seems to be looking for her.
Rating coming soonShe wakes in a ransacked cabin with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. Two men are arguing about whether to kill her, and one of them says to take her out back and finish her off. She runs, and the rest of the story is her attempt to find out who she is.
Rating coming soonCatherine Morland is seventeen and entering society for the first time, and she has read enough Gothic novels to see the world through their lens. Two plausible suitors appear, friendships form quickly, and a visit to an ancient abbey gives her imagination everything it needs. Not all of her suspicions turn out to be correct, and her education is both comic and uncomfortable.
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.
