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 soonBlaire Calloway has planned every part of her cupcake and cocktails shop launch down to the smallest detail. What she did not plan for is Ronan Knight and his old-school sports bar next door opening on the very same day, and she has not spent years working on buttercream and bourbon in order to have him ruin her chances.
Rating coming soonThe demon did not only want her body; he wanted her soul. That is the voice of the hunter telling the story, a magician and killer with an unblemished reputation whose rule is that one wrong move ends in death. Then he meets the one woman he was supposed to take, and does not take her.
Rating coming soonAfter years on the run, Juniper makes a bargain with a demon who has wanted all of her for a long time: she gives him her soul and he helps her claim the revenge she is owed. Blood will be spilled, and the monsters she has been running from will soon be the ones running.
Rating coming soonSebastian Griffin, the Duke of Melbourne, has raised his younger siblings, arranged their matches and kept everyone in line, and he has a reputation for propriety and a life without scandal. Then Josefina Katarina Embry arrives, and she is beautiful and claims to be the princess of a faraway country. Her account of herself is the one thing in London he cannot verify.
Rating coming soonLady Arianna has the Welsh gift of sight, and in a golden bowl she sees a knight with eyes the grey of the English sea who is about to run his sword through her heart. She trembles, but not with fear: what she feels is a desire that engulfs her whole soul.
Rating coming soonKate C. Leever is an editor at Roundhouse Publishing, and her first letter to a new author is meant to impress on him how much demand there is for vampire romances. His reply about attending a convention is one word long, but he is an author waiting to be broken out, and Kate is determined that he will meet his fans.
Rating coming soonOne minute Leigh is walking home in the early hours of the morning and the next a vampire is sinking his teeth into her neck. He turns out to be a rogue who was marked for termination, which does her very little good: the damage is already done, and she has become one of them.
Rating coming soonSamantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer who has taken a break in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meets her new neighbour and notices something strange and mysterious about his eyes, which seem to be fixed on her neck.
Rating coming soonRaven is love-struck and cannot work out what is keeping her nocturnal boyfriend from coming back to Dullsville, so there is only one thing to do and that is to go and find Alexander. On the way she cannot resist visiting the Coffin Club, the place where she feels most at home.
Rating coming soonElena Deveraux, a vampire hunter, wakes from a year-long coma to find that she has been changed into an angel with wings the colours of midnight and dawn, and that her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight. Her lover is the archangel Raphael, who is used to being in control of everything.
Rating coming soonRachel Morgan is a witch and an independent bounty hunter, and she spends her nights in downtown Cincinnati among the creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vampires and tangle with a demon or two, but a serial killer who feeds on the experts in the most dangerous kind of black magic is pressing the limits.
Rating coming soonAeriel is kidnapped by the Darkangel and carried up into his dozens of black wings to his distant keep, where she is to serve his brides: thirteen pitiful creatures who were each beautiful once, before he drained away their souls. Aeriel would free them, but she is one of his captives herself.
Rating coming soonToni Kenyon is young and pretty and passionately fond of everything life has to offer, and at this moment it seems to offer nothing but unhappiness. Her best friend Helena has become engaged to the most wonderful man Toni has ever met, and Toni knows that Helena is marrying him for his money.
Rating coming soonChristine reads the letter in disbelief, because she is being offered another chance: a return to the childhood home she left, to care for her brother's three orphaned children. Twenty years earlier she had run away with a married actor, and the village has not forgotten the scandal. She has been away all that time and has no idea what will be waiting for her.
Rating coming soonEver since an accident turned her into a knockout vampire, Elvi Black has been catching her sleep in a coffin, staying out of the sun and giving up garlic. She knows there is more to being undead than what she saw in Dracula, but she cannot ask her mortal friends about proper biting etiquette.
Rating coming soonEtienne Argeneau's three hundred years of bachelorhood are at an end, one way or another. He is allowed to turn only one human in his lifetime, and when the coroner Rachel Garrett saves his life he decides to save hers in return by making her immortal. Rachel had wanted nothing more than to get off the night shift in the morgue.
Rating coming soonDetective Lindsay Boxer has a baby daughter and a devoted husband, and her life has never been better. The members of the Women's Murder Club are celebrating the birthday of the medical examiner Claire Washburn when Lindsay is called to a crime scene where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse has so few living relatives that she really hated to lose one. What she never guessed was that the relative would be her cousin Hadley, who had been a consort of the Vampire Queen of New Orleans and was, technically speaking, already dead. As the unexpected heir, Sookie inherits whatever Hadley left behind, along with the people who want it kept quiet.
Rating coming soonSixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears that she is losing her mind, and she believes the baby will never stop crying. When her family decides to leave their small mountain cabin for the vast prairie, she hopes to leave behind her haunting memories of her mother giving birth to a terribly afflicted baby.
Rating coming soonFrank Morgan is a gunfighting legend, and he is about to come face to face with another kind of legend, one that stalks the woods of northern California. The loggers call it the Terror of the Redwoods: something that kills like an animal, growling, clawing and ripping. A local timber baron has put a bounty on the creature, and the woods are full of hunters who are bound to hurt somebody.
Rating coming soonSamuel is thirteen and spends his days in the forest, hunting food for his family on the frontier of a British colony. He is far from any town and from news of the war against the King that the American patriots have begun near Boston, and then the war arrives at his own door.
Rating coming soonVal Darrant was four years old on the snowy night his mother abandoned him, and instead of meeting a lonely death he met Will Reilly, a gentleman, a gambler and a worldly, self-taught scholar. For ten years each of them was all the family the other had. Those years take them from the boomtowns of the American West to the cities of Europe.
Rating coming soonKate Lundy owns the Tumbling B and Conn Dury is her foreman, and both of them told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are not allowed on the north side of town. The townspeople took the cowboys' money, but they thought them too coarse to be near their homes.
Rating coming soonJubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest he ventures into the endless grassy plains that the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He is looking for a Natchez exploration party and for its leader. That leader, Itchakomi, is the woman who will rule her people when their aging chief dies.
Rating coming soonGabrielle notices a sensual black-haired stranger watching her from across a crowded dance club, and nothing about that night or that man is what it seems. When she witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly, and she is thrust into a realm where vampires stalk the shadows.
Rating coming soonCaroline Thorpe was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy duke, and everyone knew it except her. She is summoned to the home of the Duke of Cley, where the household is a strange one and the house is not the happiest place to be, and her new sisters make their opinion of her plain.
Rating coming soonJim LaTour is not the marrying kind, and with a wild past behind him he plans to spend the rest of his days in peace, running his bar and enjoying the company of the local fancy ladies. He does not realise what he has been missing until a songbird threatens his independence and opens his heart.
Rating coming soonRaven's husband is a two-bit gambler, and when he orders her to entertain a handsome cowboy at dinner she does not dare refuse, even when she learns that he has promised the stranger a night in her bed for a thousand dollars. What follows changes what she is able to imagine for herself.
Rating coming soonAnnabelle Pace was Gregory Talbott's true love until she left him without any explanation. Now she is back in town, and he is determined to get answers out of her, if he can keep his hands off her long enough to ask the question. He has waited a long time for the chance to ask, and he does not intend to waste it.
Rating coming soonEleanor Transome finds her father's wealth a dubious blessing, because he is determined that she marry a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden is on the brink of ruin and cannot resist the lure of cash, so the match is made, with love not part of the bargain. Eleanor's father wants a title in the family, and Randolph needs the money that comes with her.
Rating coming soonInstead of the new life her family expected to forge out west, seventeen-year-old Angela is thrust into the role of caring for her three younger siblings after the death of their parents. With her older brother's help, and her trust in God, she is determined to raise the children as her mother would have wanted.
Rating coming soonWhen Nozomi Nagai pictured the ideal summer romance, a fake one was not what she had in mind. That was before she met Willow, who is gorgeous, glamorous and heartbroken, and who asks Nozomi to pose as her new girlfriend in order to make her ex jealous. Nozomi has no intention of staying in the role of a stand-in.
Rating coming soonCade Armanelli is an infamous hacker with billionaire status who operates better alone, and the narrator has earned the right to work alongside him whether he likes it or not. That is why she is on the first plane out to an undisclosed location for the company's cybersecurity team retreat.
Rating coming soonIona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance, and from her maternal grandmother she learned where to find both: County Mayo in Ireland. She arrives with nothing but her grandmother's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude and an innate talent with horses. Her grandmother told her that County Mayo was where she would find what she had been craving all her life.
Rating coming soonWhen five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws the archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical. While she oversees the dig she must make sense of the cloud of death and misfortune hanging over the project, and cope with her ex-husband Jake.
Rating coming soonIn a faraway kingdom a king has been betrayed, and the hurt and anger have made him vow never to be deceived again. His plan to protect himself endangers every young woman in the realm, unless one of them volunteers to marry him and surrender her life for it. The volunteer is the daughter of a storyteller, and telling stories is the only defence she has.
Rating coming soonIn the quiet Amish community of Hickory Hollow in Pennsylvania, cherished traditions and heartfelt beliefs have flourished while time has stood still. But a secret lies buried there that could shatter the tranquillity its inhabitants have grown to love. Hickory Hollow keeps the Old Order laws, and questions about the past are not welcome in it.
Rating coming soonHighland laird Drustan MacKeltar is trapped between centuries, having slept for nearly five hundred years in a cave under a powerful spell until an unlikely saviour wakes him. The woman who dresses and speaks like nobody he has ever known is from his distant future, where crumbled ruins are all that remain of his vanished world.
Rating coming soonLuke Garner is terrified. He is out of hiding for the first time in his life, and any minute one of his new classmates could discover his secret: he is a third child passing as the recently deceased Lee Grant. In a society where families may not have more than two children, being a third child means death.
Rating coming soonMichaela arrives at Fairfax College, the only all-female residential college on campus, as a scholarship student from interstate looking for a fresh start in Sydney. She is quickly struck by the long-standing private school cliques and social circles, and her new neighbour is twenty-year-old Eve, who has already taken a gap year. Fairfax is a college with its own rituals, and Michaela has to learn them without any guidance from home.
Rating coming soonTwo days after the siblings Levi and Charlotte McAllister spread their mother Edith's ashes in Notley Fern Gorge, she returns to life, walks to their father Jack's house and sets herself alight on his front lawn. Charlotte becomes increasingly paranoid that the same thing will happen to her. The novel takes the form of a journey across the island, and the family at its centre keeps changing shape as it goes.
Rating coming soonNora is a single mother living in bohemian share houses in Melbourne, and she narrates her increasingly tumultuous relationship with a heroin addict while raising her daughter at the same time. The two parts of her life pull against each other for the whole of the book. The novel is set in Melbourne in the 1970s and stays inside its narrator's own circle.
Rating coming soonHolland lives on a property in western New South Wales with his daughter Ellen, and over the years he plants hundreds of eucalyptus trees on the land until it becomes a kind of outdoor museum. When Ellen is nineteen he announces that she may marry only a man who can correctly name every gum tree on the property.
Rating coming soonA young Wiradjuri woman returns home to Australia from the United Kingdom for a funeral and discovers that her ancestral lands are threatened by mining. The novel is concerned with language, colonialism, environmental damage and the things that are passed down between generations. It is built around strands that meet in the same place, including a dictionary of the Wiradjuri language.
Rating coming soonOn her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham, whose household invites other artists to live and work at the family home in order to escape the conservatism of 1930s Australia. Lily becomes infatuated with the makeshift family. Lily is looking back from old age, so the reader knows from the start that the experiment did not last.
Rating coming soonTom Keely is alone, living at the top of the Mirador apartments, a highrise in Fremantle in Western Australia. He was once a high-powered environmental activist, and he is now divorced and destitute, which is where the novel finds him. Fremantle is the setting, and the apartment block he lives in gives the book its title.
Rating coming soonEster is a family therapist with an appointment book full of the anxieties of the middle class, and she spends her days helping other people find happiness while her own family relationships are tense and frayed. The novel takes place on one rainy day in Sydney. Hilary's decision is what the day turns on, and both of her daughters have to respond to it.
Rating coming soonIn the 1960s, in the Australian country town of Deane, Odette Brown cares for her granddaughter Sissy, who was conceived after Odette's daughter Lily was raped by a local white pastoralist. Lily has fled Deane for the city, and Odette has to keep Sissy out of the hands of the new local policeman. Deane is a small town, and the people in it have known Odette her whole life.
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.
