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 soonOut on the Yorkshire Moors lives a family of book eaters, people who feed on books and keep everything they have read. Devon, a daughter of the clan, is raised on fairy tales and cautionary stories while her brothers are given tales of valour, and she has to decide how far she will go to feed her son, who was born hungry for human minds.
Rating coming soonBriseis can grow plants from seed to full bloom with a single touch, and her parents have spent years keeping her and her gift hidden. When an aunt she never met dies and leaves her a run-down estate in rural New York, the family goes there hoping the garden will teach Bri control, and finds a walled garden of deadly plants, a set of instructions and generations of family secrets.
Rating coming soonA woman with tangled hair and no memory of how she came to be there is locked in a hospital in the Old City, sure only of a tea party long ago, long ears and blood. A fire gives her a chance to escape, and she sets out to learn what was done to her years before, pursued by something powerful that left the hospital with her.
Rating coming soonPersephone was not carried off to the underworld: she jumped, refusing to be married to a god more in love with himself than with her. Now she has to talk the Underworld's arrogant ruler, Hades, into going along with a plan that will shake Mount Olympus, and to survive the politics of the gods who told the original lie about her.
Rating coming soonTea, a bone witch who can raise the dead and take life in return, has ended her exile and set her heart on revenge against the royals who took the person she loved. With the daeva, the terrible creatures she can command, she has what she needs to act, but other powers want her magic for themselves and war is gathering between the kingdoms.
Rating coming soonNemo's parents left their bodies behind to join the Bin, the virtual afterlife that holds twelve billion uploaded personalities in crime-free, disease-free societies. He has grown up on a nearly deserted Earth among the stragglers who refused it, and on a rare visit to his parents he meets Justine, a new arrival who dreams other people's dreams in the virtual night and has no body to go back to.
Rating coming soonIn a near future where life is ruled by what people buy, Zoe Zindleman, numerical ID 009-99-9999, starts work at AllMART, where a smile is part of the uniform. Her mother has moved away and the house is about to be foreclosed, so she has to choose between waiting to be stripped of everything and moving into the Warren, an abandoned shopping centre full of other children left behind.
Rating coming soonThree women come to a summerhouse in Maine where Madame Zoya grants her visitors their innermost wishes. Amy hides a loss behind a perfect marriage, Faith is a widow still grieving a man from long ago, and Zoe is an artist shunned by her town after a night she cannot remember. Zoya and her sister intend to send them back to eighteenth-century England, to alter Amy's ancestry.
Rating coming soonMerit is a graduate student in Chicago until a rogue vampire attacks her and only gets a sip before another vampire drives him off and saves her life by turning her. Her rescuer is the master of Cadogan House, and her new existence at a Hyde Park mansion full of vampires means serving a house whose lord expects her gratitude, while someone is still trying to kill her.
Rating coming soonLissianna Argeneau has spent centuries looking for the right man rather than a quick meal, and she has an awkward problem for a vampire: she faints at the sight of blood. Her family's solution is to leave an unconscious doctor named Gregory Hewitt tied to her bed as a present, and he comes round to find a stranger in the room with plans for the evening.
Rating coming soonStolen from her home as a child and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise has been rescued and is safe inside the Carpathian compound, but she has lived in fear so long that she does not know how to live without it. Ferro Arany, an ancient warrior whose senses have come alive, wants to convince her that they are partners rather than master and prisoner, while the vampire who held her captive wants her back.
Rating coming soonAiriana Ridell can read the patterns in the air around her, a gift that put her in a secret government programme as a child and made her a target after her mother was murdered. Kidnapped and held on a ship bound for dangerous seas, her only hope of rescue is Maxim Prakenskii, whose reasons for helping her he is not willing to explain.
Rating coming soonMack McKinley and his team of GhostWalkers treat urban warfare as a craft, and on the streets of San Francisco he comes face to face with Jaimie Fielding, a woman he was involved with years ago before she disappeared. She has come back as a spy with too many secrets, and a common enemy has brought the two of them together again on ground neither of them controls.
Rating coming soonThe palazzo of the Scarletti family carries strange carvings and gargoyles, and a worse reputation: every bride who enters it is said to leave in a casket. Nicoletta has no fear of curses or of marriage until she looks into the eyes of Don Scarletti, who as head of the family has the right to choose a wife from among his people.
Rating coming soonZoe Luce is an interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who specialises in helping divorced clients start again. She can sense the history hidden inside a house, and when she suspects one of her clients is keeping a dangerous secret she hires the private investigator Ethan Truax, whose work puts her carefully arranged new identity at risk.
Rating coming soonKif Kehlmann is a young and broke writer when the corporate criminal Siegfried Heidl telephones him in the middle of the night and offers him ten thousand dollars to ghost-write his memoir in six weeks. Heidl is about to stand trial for defrauding the banks of seven hundred million dollars, and as the deadline approaches Kehlmann begins to fear that the man is rewriting him.
Rating coming soonOn a rescue mission in the Indonesian jungle, Dr Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team are extracting the wounded from an outbreak of a virus released by a terrorist cell. When Draden is infected he sends the others away, intending to hunt down those responsible, and the woman tracking the virus decides to save his life without knowing what that will cost her.
Rating coming soonFlorian Herscht is a gentle giant in the small eastern German town of Kana, convinced after adult education classes in physics that the destruction of all physical matter is imminent. He writes one-sided letters to Chancellor Angela Merkel about it, works as a graffiti cleaner for the local neo-Nazi boss, and is dragged into the hunt for whoever is defacing the region's Bach monuments.
Rating coming soonCrisostomo Ibarra comes home to San Diego from Spain to mourn his father, and finds that the rich man was ill treated in his final years and in the trial that followed his death. He decides to carry on his father's plan of building a school, to marry his childhood sweetheart Maria Clara, and to hold his ground against the parish priest and the colonial government.
Rating coming soonAlan Duncan comes home to his parents' sheep station in Australia after the war, a lawyer who lost both feet in an air crash, and finds that the housekeeper has killed herself. Searching the house for the papers she hid, he discovers that she was not who the household believed her to be, and her letters and diaries lead him back to the war and to his own family.
Rating coming soonTwo Texas families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, have been feuding for generations. Owen Blackthorne is a loner who wants nothing from anyone until Bayleigh Creed turns up at his door asking for help in finding her missing brother, and the two of them ride into the wilderness of west Texas together as mortal enemies obliged to cooperate.
Rating coming soonJournalist John Easley goes north to Alaska to investigate the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, a story the American government has censored, leaving his wife Helen behind. His plane is shot down over Attu and he survives only to face the wind, the cold and starvation while evading the Japanese, as Helen at home has to work out who she is without him.
Rating coming soonA boy has fled his home in a drought-stricken country ruled by violence and is walking across an infinite, arid plain to escape the people pursuing him. One night he meets an old goatherd who lives simply and decently, and their paths become entwined as the boy decides whether to choose hope or the cycle of violence he has grown up in.
Rating coming soonIn Los Angeles in 1960 the child of one of America's richest men is kidnapped, and the novel follows the private detective searching for the child, a hit man in the days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a modern journalist setting out to debunk the conspiracy theories of the era, until all three stories start to converge.
Rating coming soonAvery Delacorte is a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked swim team when the flight she takes home for Thanksgiving makes a ditch landing in a mountain lake in the Colorado Rockies. One of five survivors, she is stranded in sub-zero temperatures with three small boys and her teammate Colin Shea, and the two of them have to rely on each other to stay alive.
Rating coming soonSix children are sent on a month-long voyage across the Pacific for reasons that have nothing to do with wanting to be there. Their differences stop mattering when a storm wrecks the boat and leaves them stranded in the middle of the ocean with no food, no water and almost no hope of being found.
Rating coming soonTwo children who hold a book of fairy tales are transported into the land the stories come from, where they find Red Riding Hood grown into a snippy warrior, the Frog Prince in hiding, and Snow White pregnant and ruling a troubled kingdom. To get home they have to travel between the territories to reach the Wishing Spell.
Rating coming soonMiranda leaves a French convent for the New World and an arranged marriage to a prosperous Texas rancher. On the journey she meets Derek Bragg, the fiancé's friend, a Texas Ranger whose blunt manner and frank comments about her beauty infuriate the shy young woman, and the two of them cross the wilderness together.
Rating coming soonSavannah Grant is chief ranger of the Ripple Creek werewolf reservation and has buried her heartbreak in the job since the affair that ended badly years ago. Now humans are being murdered on her land in a pattern that matches killings she saw a decade earlier, and the investigator who arrives to catch the killer is the man she lost.
Rating coming soonAngela Todd is a London seamstress who inherits a country cottage called Dower House and finds herself independent for the first time. From the day she arrives somebody wants her gone: there are cruel pranks, strange accidents and shrill threats, and two men take an interest in her, the schoolmaster Greg Ingram and Roderick Mellory.
Rating coming soonStephanie McGill was attacked and turned as a teenager, and her abilities are unlike those of any other immortal. Thirteen years later she has built a quiet life with the Argeneau family who took her in, until a new neighbour arrives: Thorne, the product of a genetic experiment, neither immortal nor mortal, looking for somewhere to hide.
Rating coming soonTwelve-year-old David is grieving for his mother in an attic bedroom when the books on his shelf begin to whisper to him in the dark. His family is coming apart around him, and his refuge in stories takes him into another world, a distorted version of his own ruled by a king who keeps his secrets in a book called The Book of Lost Things.
Rating coming soonRoxanne Sherwood flees a typhus epidemic in Boston and runs into a band of Indians, who take her captive. A white stranger claims her as his wife to protect her, and the band rules that she must live with him as a married couple, which leaves her torn between duty and desire and between the society she came from and the frontier that now holds her.
Rating coming soonGemma Grantham and Bette Dickens pool their savings for a luxurious holiday at the Hotel Splendide on the south coast of France. Gemma, escaping a dreary working life in the north of England, pretends to be an heiress, is taken up by Rudy Shore, a handsome fortune seeker, and the holiday brings a shipwreck off the Brittany coast before it brings true love.
Rating coming soonValerie Moyer does not believe in vampires until a fanged psychopath kidnaps her. She escapes her captor and wants nothing more to do with creatures of the night, and then finds herself under the protection of Anders, who expects her to accept two things at once: that he is immortal, and that she is the woman destined to be his life mate.
Rating coming soonA heart transplant gives television presenter Cat Delaney a second chance, and she leaves Hollywood for San Antonio, where she hosts a show for children with special needs and meets Alex Pierce, an ex-cop turned crime writer. Then other recipients of donor hearts begin dying in accidents, and a stalker starts following her.
Rating coming soonEvalle has two days to keep a promise that gives an entire race its freedom, and demonic Svart Trolls have just invaded Atlanta. To stop the gang wars they are leading she has to ask for help from Isak Nyght, a Black Ops specialist who recently had her in his sights, and in doing so she exposes a secret that endangers everything she cares about.
Rating coming soonThe Earl of Devenham returns after ten years to marry Mary Anstey as he promised, and finds that neither of them feels what they once did, though both keep up appearances for the family. Mary's younger sister Emily sees through the pretence and decides to prevent the wedding with a sleeping draught and a scheme to take her place.
Rating coming soonThe killer takes two victims at a time, leaving the first body to be found with all the clues needed to locate the second, who is dying slowly while the police work. They have never been in time. Now a heat wave has settled over the country and two girls have disappeared, and a rookie FBI agent believes the deadline can still be met.
Rating coming soonJuliet has devoted her life to the care of crippled and deprived children, and leaves London to work in the south of France. There she falls in love with Lucien de Maureville, a gentle man betrayed by a faithless wife, and has to weigh the promise she made never to love a married man against the love she now feels.
Rating coming soonSophie Chesterton knows the right people, goes to the right parties and wears the right clothes, and suspects that her friends are rather nasty and her life amounts to very little. After one shocking evening she falls from grace entirely, and has to work out whether a girl really needs diamonds to be happy.
Rating coming soonErin Kelley and Darcy Scott are best friends who come to New York after college to start their careers, Erin as a jewellery designer and Darcy as a decorator. On a whim Darcy talks Erin into helping a television producer research the people who place personal advertisements, and the seemingly harmless exercise ends when Erin disappears.
Rating coming soonColin McDowell is the leader of the Trevelyans in Scotland and has no wish to inherit his aunt's mansion in the San Juan islands off Washington. The journey becomes more interesting when he meets Luna Reynaud, the secretary his aunt hired before she died, and then he learns that she is half human.
Rating coming soonJillian Davis has decided to divorce her husband Brad after years of anger and heartbreak, and she wants to get away from the weekend party where they are celebrating with friends. Taking a shortcut home in a snowstorm puts them in the path of a small avalanche, and she ends up trapped with the man she was about to leave.
Rating coming soonClare meets Andi near Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin and there is an instant attraction between them. When he invites her to stay in his apartment she thinks she may have found a home at last, but as the days pass and the walls close in she begins to wonder whether it is really love that Andi is looking for.
Rating coming soonDavid James Forrester, a solicitor, sits in his car and records a statement: that he killed his wife, Elle, that evening at ten past six. As he thinks back over their relationship, passionate and intense from the start, Elle looks back over the same years from her side, and her account shows how wrong she was about the man she loved.
Rating coming soonKirsten has come from Sweden with her family to a prairie community in America, and the new school is an ordeal: she cannot follow the lessons and her teacher, Miss Winston, is strict and unsympathetic. Her one escape is a secret friendship with Singing Bird, an Indian girl, but when her friend suggests running away Kirsten has to decide where she belongs.
Rating coming soonCaroline Quiner is the girl who will one day be Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother, and she is watching the town of Brookfield in Wisconsin grow up around her as new buildings appear overnight and more families arrive. She marches in her first Independence Day parade, a circus comes to town, and then her family has the chance to move to another farm.
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.
