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 soonJaxon Montgomery has been hunted for almost her whole life. Trained by the Special Forces and hardened by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an established reputation, and she meets her match when an enemy arranges for her to be murdered. With nowhere else to turn she goes to a stranger who looks more dangerous than anyone she has met.
Rating coming soonMikhail Dubrinsky, who has been Prince of the Carpathians for centuries, fears he cannot protect his people much longer from their greatest threat, which is extinction. Their enemies intend to bring it about by slaughtering Carpathian women, and with his own lifemate Raven and their daughter Savannah vulnerable, Mikhail's remaining hope is to bring his scattered people together.
Rating coming soonZev Hunter was an elite warrior, a dealer of death to rogue Lycans who preyed on human beings. He was a loner who never allowed himself personal attachments and was fierce at his work, and then he wakes in the darkness of the sacred cave of warriors to the voice of a woman who has haunted his fantasies for centuries and is soothing him back to consciousness.
Rating coming soonTatijana of the Dragonseekers spent centuries frozen in ice with her sister, trapped between life and death and speaking to nobody except the people who tormented her. She has now been freed by an unknown descendant and woken in human form, and she wants to see the modern world she has woken into. Fenris Dalka has come back to the Carpathian Mountains to be near his brother.
Rating coming soonAndre Boroi is a monk, a bounty hunter and a vampire slayer who has spent centuries holding out against the dark, and he is gravely wounded by the master vampire Costin Popescu. With his spilled blood marking a trail for Popescu and his hungry band of followers, his only chance is to disappear into the grey mist of the Carpathians, wait and hope.
Rating coming soonThe moment Charlotte Vintage walks into his club, Tariq Asenguard's blood is set on fire. The ancient Carpathian had given up hope of finding his lifemate, and now he will do anything to make her his own. What Tariq does not know is that Charlotte is using herself and her best friend as bait to draw out the killers who murdered her brother.
Rating coming soonJulian Savage is golden and powerful and tormented, a hunter who walks alone and has always kept himself far from his Carpathian kind, alien even to his twin. Then he hears Desari sing, and the emotions he had lost come back to him along with a hunger to possess her, which blinds him to the danger stalking him.
Rating coming soonSavannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions, and there is one man who holds her in thrall: Gregori, the Dark One, whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality send shivers of danger and desire down her spine. In New Orleans the hour arrives for him to claim her, and he has told her in her mind that she was born to save his immortal soul.
Rating coming soonByron, a Carpathian male and a hunter of vampires, follows the sound of compelling music to Italy, where he finds his lifemate: Antoinetta Scarletti, heiress to the Scarletti fortune and a concert pianist who holds her family together. Blinded in the explosion that killed her parents, she still expects to run the family shipping business, and she lives in the palazzo della morte, the palace of death, where somebody wants her dead.
Rating coming soonInez Urso is beginning to have her doubts about her business associate Thomas Argeneau, who reacts badly to sunlight, can see perfectly at night, has little appetite for food and has just tried to bite her neck. Inez is determined not to mix business with pleasure, but Thomas has other plans for the arrangement.
Rating coming soonAfter seven hundred years, Marguerite Argeneau finally has the start of a career: she is training to be a private investigator, and her first assignment is to find an immortal's mother. It seems straightforward until she wakes one evening to find herself at the wrong end of a sword, and it turns out that Julius Notte has decided to protect her.
Rating coming soonHawk is known throughout the kingdom as a predator of the battlefield and the boudoir, a laird no woman refuses and none of whom has ever stirred his heart. Then a vengeful fairy tumbles Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland, where she is too bold and too outspoken for the century she has landed in.
Rating coming soonGabrielle LaFarge had resigned herself to life as a nun in a French convent, but she is told that she is to marry Philippe St. Cyr, a wealthy plantation owner from the island of Martinique instead. She resents and fears this handsome, moody man whose icy surface hides depths of passion and violence, and although he awakens her to desire she is certain he is incapable of love.
Rating coming soonPhilippa de Beauchamp is as impulsive as she is beautiful, and when she hears that she is to be married to the repellent Baron de Bridgeport she flees her father's castle. Her daring escape in a wool wagon quickly becomes a misadventure, and it leaves her in the arms of Dienwald de Fortenberry, a rogue she has no intention of trusting.
Rating coming soonSir Arryn Graham has come to take revenge on Kinsey Darrow for his bloody deeds against the Highland rebels, and he intends to do it by claiming Darrow's bride, Kyra, as his own. In the tangle of her hair and the green of her eyes he finds a woman who is much more than a pawn.
Rating coming soonWolfe Lonetree is the bastard son of a viscount and a Cheyenne shaman's daughter, and he agrees to rescue the pampered Lady Jessica Charteris from an unwanted wedding on one condition: that she become his wife. Jessica tricked a handsome stranger into a marriage in name only in order to escape a union with a British lord.
Rating coming soonNewly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, twenty-two-year-old Jocelyn Fleming still aches with the pain of unexplored desire, and her restless heart leads her away from London society to the American West. There she meets Colt Thunder, a loner whose Cheyenne blood is said to burn hotter than the Arizona sun.
Rating coming soonThe haunted season has come to the Antler Wood, and no fox kit is safe in it. Mia and Uly, two foxes from different dens, are separated from their litters and have to find a den to call home, which means crossing field and forest past a zombie that hungers for their flesh, a witch who wants their skins and a ghost that hunts them through the snow.
Rating coming soonWhen the vuvv landed, it came as a surprise to Adam and the rest of the planet, though not necessarily an unwelcome one, since the aliens offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable. It turns out that it can be called an invasion after all: his parents' jobs have been replaced by alien technology, and there is no money for food or water.
Rating coming soonLanesha lives in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans with Mama Ya-Ya, the midwife who took her in at birth, and she has the second sight that Mama Ya-Ya recognises as the same gift she has herself. Mama Ya-Ya knows a hurricane is approaching before the radio and television say anything, and she is too old and has no car.
Rating coming soonTool is a half-man, half-beast creature designed for combat, and he is capable of far more than the people who made him ever intended. He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered augments and has emerged as the victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys, and he is being hunted by somebody who knows a secret about him.
Rating coming soonSix children are thrown together against their will on a small boat that is to make a month-long journey across the Pacific Ocean. They were sent for different reasons by different families, and none of them chose the trip. What begins as a voyage becomes something else when the boat is wrecked and they are left to survive.
Rating coming soonAt the edge of a strange lake that seems to stretch on forever, Lucky and his Pack are about to discover even more dangers than the ones they have already survived. With the Fierce Dogs on their trail and the Storm of Dogs looming on the horizon, every dog will have to fight for survival or be swept away.
Rating coming soonFor the first time in her memory, Storm has a place in a Pack, and the world that the Big Growl devastated is at peace. The peace does not hold: tensions are rising among the dogs of the Wild Pack, and the greatest danger they face may be coming from inside the group rather than from outside it.
Rating coming soonJerome Horwitz Elementary School is holding its Invention Convention, and George Beard and Harold Hutchins have been sent to study hall by their principal, Mr Krupp, after gluing everyone to their seats the previous year. Their attempt to sabotage the convention runs into Melvin Sneedly, who has built a photocopier that can turn a picture into a real being.
Rating coming soonOn a frigid autumn morning in 2006, an attack on a British scientific outpost in Antarctica announces the invasion of the seventh continent. Argentina, resurgent after the Falklands war, has launched an armed takeover of the Antarctic Peninsula to seize the last untapped pool of natural resources, and one United States Navy vessel is the only answer.
Rating coming soonThis is an extra instalment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, picking up from the cliffhanger that closed Legacy, with chapters alternating between Sophie's perspective and Keefe's. In the series numbering it sits between the eighth and ninth novels. It also includes a complete series guide with colour and black-and-white illustrations, and other bonus material for readers already following the series.
Rating coming soonFor the fugitive settlers of Jijo, the arrival of starships in the sky is the beginning of the end. The planet that once sheltered six bands of sapient beings now faces the threat of genocide, and the human settlers are among those who have to decide what to do about it. The ships are the first the planet has seen in a long time.
Rating coming soonThe brutal enemy that has pursued the fugitive settlers of Jijo for centuries has arrived, and both the human and the alien inhabitants brace for a final confrontation. Their only hope is the Earthship Streaker, crewed by uplifted dolphins and commanded by a human who has never held that responsibility before. The confrontation the Jijoans have been expecting for centuries is at hand.
Rating coming soonFor sixty thousand years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the moment when human mental development on Earth would be ready for the Intervention. As the twentieth century ends, operants across the planet begin to display phenomenal abilities: telepathy, mental shields and coercion by power of mind. By then their abilities are already changing the world they live in.
Rating coming soonIn the year 2051, Earth stands on the brink of acceptance as a full member of the Galactic Milieu, and the powerful Remillard family is leading humanity towards it. Somebody, or something, known only as Fury wants the Remillards out of the way, and it begins killing operants wherever it can reach them. The campaign is aimed at the strongest minds on the planet as well as at the family.
Rating coming soonIn a distant future, human beings are one of only three intelligent races known in the galaxy, and we have had star travel for only a few centuries. The second race, the Ildirans, are ruled by their Mage-Imperator, and the third, the Klikiss, appear to have vanished, leaving behind artefacts and technology that humans are beginning to use.
Rating coming soonOn the technological and decadent world of Proton, somebody is trying to destroy Stile, a serf who is also a master Gamesman. His only escape lies through a mysterious curtain revealed by a robot, and beyond it is Phaze, a world entirely ruled by magic, where his alternate self has already been murdered. The two worlds are linked closely enough that a death in one of them is not contained by it.
Rating coming soonA vigilante serial killer is loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have gone unpunished, and the number of victims keeps growing while many of the city's residents quietly approve. When a woman of great wealth and even greater connections disappears, two detectives are put on the case. The task force they belong to exists to take the cases the rest of the department cannot.
Rating coming soonCatherine Crawfield is half vampire and spends her nights hunting the undead, hoping that one of them will turn out to be her father, the man responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she is captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and forced into a partnership with him. Her mother's life was ruined by a vampire, and Cat has been trying to settle that account ever since.
Rating coming soonDayan is the lead guitarist of the Dark Troubadors, and his playing stills crowds, beckons them and tempts them, but the call he keeps making is to the woman he is meant to be with. Corrinne Wentworth is standing at the centre of a gathering storm, pursued by the same fanatics who have been hunting her for a long time.
Rating coming soonFor a long time the vampire world has repeated a rumour about a dark slayer, a woman who travels with a pack of wolves and destroys any vampire who crosses her path. She is mysterious, elusive and apparently impossible to kill, and she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the undead. Her name is Ivory Malinov.
Rating coming soonDominic of the Dragonseekers, one of the most powerful of the Carpathian lines, is desperate to reach the heart of the enemy camp and learn what they are planning. The only way in is to ingest the parasitic blood of a vampire, a mission from which he does not expect to return alive. What he learns is meant to be passed on to the leader of his people.
Rating coming soonGabriel wakes deep within the ground, and the first sensation he feels is hunger, an overwhelming appetite for blood that demands to be satisfied. As he hunts the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice reaches him and soothes him, calming him and giving him the strength to control the craving.
Rating coming soonAlexandria Houton would sacrifice anything, including her own life, to protect her orphaned younger brother. When the two of them encounter unspeakable evil in the swirling mists of San Francisco, her only recourse is to call for help, and out of the darkness comes Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful and more mysterious than any other creature of the night.
Rating coming soonDarius warns Tempest that there is always a price to pay when she accepts a position with his travelling troupe, and looking at the merciless line of his mouth and the emptiness in his black eyes she is afraid to ask what it is. She has always been different from other people.
Rating coming soonThe last thing Lev Prakenskii remembers is being lost in the currents of the ocean and pulled deeper into a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven, and then being saved by a stranger. He has no memory of who he is, or of why he seems to have the violent instincts of a trained killer.
Rating coming soonBeing trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing, but being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years is not, and being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin a Spartan warrior's day. That is the situation Julian is in when he is summoned to fulfil Grace Alexander's fantasies.
Rating coming soonThe vampire warriors of the Black Dagger Brotherhood defend their race against the people who hunt them, and one member's loyalty is about to be tested while his dangerous mixed blood is revealed. Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood, even though his sister is married to one of its members.
Rating coming soonButch O'Neal is a fighter by nature and a hard-living former homicide detective, and he is the only human ever to have been allowed into the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. He wants to go further still, into the vampire world and the turf war with the lessers, and he believes he has nothing left to lose.
Rating coming soonPhury has been fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and he has sacrificed himself for the good of the race by becoming the male responsible for keeping its bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen he is obliged to father the sons and daughters who will keep the traditions of the race alive.
Rating coming soonJamie and Siri are estranged sisters, both in the middle of a quarter-life crisis, and both watching the careers they had planned for drift out of reach. After thirteen years apart and on opposite coasts, they run into each other at a nature retreat, and they decide to swap lives and go home in each other's place.
Rating coming soonWhen Vivian Forest gets the chance to go along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a member of the royal family, she cannot refuse. She is looking forward to the holidays and the British sights, and what she does not expect is to be instantly attracted to a private secretary with a charming accent and an unyielding formality.
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.
