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 soonMr Ash is quiet, tall, unfailingly kind and the last survivor of an ancient species called the Taltos, living among humans as he always has and running a great corporate empire. He learns from an old friend that another Taltos has been seen in the Scottish glen where, long before the Romans came, he ruled his clan.
Rating coming soonUilleam MacRieve believed he had put the ghosts of his boyhood to rest, until a brutal torture revives them and destroys his Lykae instinct, leaving him craving death. Chloe Todd is a young human seized for an auction block and forced into a world of monsters, and when she is offered up to the immortals she becomes the person who pulls him back.
Rating coming soonSookie Stackhouse is at work at Merlotte's bar when it is firebombed, and because her employer Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion falls on the people who dislike shifters. Sookie suspects something else, and she is also caught up in a plot by her lover Eric and his vampire child Pam against the vampire who rules them.
Rating coming soonLizzy Tucker has inherited a historic house in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and taken a job as a pastry chef at a bakery in Salem, and she is looking forward to an ordinary life. Then two strangers appear in the shop, and both of them want the Stones of SALIGIA, seven stones that represent the seven deadly sins and grant enormous power.
Rating coming soonTommy Flood wakes up after the best night of his life to find that his girlfriend Jody is a vampire, and that she has made him one too. The two of them decide to work through it together, which means learning what he can do, finding someone to run errands in daylight, and dealing with everyone in San Francisco who wants them gone.
Rating coming soonSummer is over and Raven is not looking forward to going back to Dullsville High, where the school day means Trevor Mitchell and her nights with her immortal boyfriend Alexander come to an end. Then a letter arrives at Alexander's mansion announcing that his parents are coming to town, and almost nobody sees them except Raven.
Rating coming soonWith Alexander's parents back in Romania, Raven and her vampire boyfriend settle into their secret romance again. Then Sebastian, Alexander's best friend, arrives to stay at the mansion, and Raven sees a chance to learn about Alexander's past, including whether he will ever bite her and make their love immortal.
Rating coming soonRusty-James runs into an old friend, Steve Hays, at the beach, five years after they last saw each other. Steve is at college and Rusty has only recently come out of the reformatory, and when Steve recognises the scar on Rusty's side the two of them are pulled back into the story of the summer when Rusty was fourteen and lost his brother.
Rating coming soonA man answers an advertisement from a teacher looking for a pupil, and finds that the teacher is a gorilla named Ishmael who communicates by telepathy. What follows is a long conversation about the assumptions that drive modern civilisation, about the cultural myths those assumptions rest on, and about the consequences they have for the planet.
Rating coming soonMark and Bryon have lived as brothers since Mark's parents died when the two of them were children. As they turn sixteen their interests divide, girls and gangs and drugs take up more of their time, and the friendship that has held them together begins to come apart, until Bryon has to decide what he is going to do about Mark.
Rating coming soonOn New Year's Eve in 1982 Oona Lockhart is about to turn nineteen and has to choose between going to London to study economics and staying in Brooklyn for her music and her boyfriend. At midnight she faints and wakes up thirty-two years later, in her fifty-one-year-old body, and learns that she will live the rest of her life out of order.
Rating coming soonKate Drake, a bestselling novelist and one of seven sisters with unusual powers, comes home for her northern California town's Christmas pageant and decides to open a bookshop in a rundown historic mill. The former Army Ranger who is restoring the building is drawn to her, and then an earthquake cracks the mill's foundation and uncovers a burial crypt.
Rating coming soonA vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, and she has to warn the local authorities what they are dealing with. The situation turns out to be worse than she thought: ten police officers and an executioner have already been killed, and Anita travels to Nevada with three other federal marshals to work the case.
Rating coming soonNathan Byrn is running again, and the Alliance of Free Witches has been all but destroyed by the Council's Hunters. To save the rebellion the Alliance needs the missing half of an ancient amulet that makes its bearer invincible in battle, and its guardian, the reclusive witch Ledger, has her own reasons for not parting with it.
Rating coming soonThree sisters named Rowan, Kestrel and Jade move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Mary-Lynnette Carter in Briar Creek, Oregon, and the town has never seen anything like their supernatural grace. Mark becomes obsessed with Jade, and when the two of them follow the sisters into the woods one night they find out what the girls are running from.
Rating coming soonJean Honeychurch has been called Jinx since childhood, and misfortune does seem to follow her wherever she goes, including to New York City, where she has moved to escape a mess she caused at home. Her aunt and uncle take her in, her beautiful cousin Tory does not welcome her, and Tory is hiding something dangerous of her own.
Rating coming soonThe night creatures of Cincinnati dislike Rachel Morgan, a witch and bounty hunter whose new reputation for dark magic attracts the attention of humans and the undead alike. A mortal lover who left her has come back haunted by his past, and there are others who want what he is carrying badly enough to destroy the Hollows to get it.
Rating coming soonFather Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez is a Jesuit priest and a biologist, and he is one of four scientists sent to Lithia to decide whether the planet can safely be opened to human contact. The Lithians are intelligent, courteous and free of greed, envy and every other vice he knows. They also have no religion, and the perfect morality of a people who have never heard of God is a problem his faith cannot put down.
Rating coming soonIn the twenty-fourth century telepathy is an established profession and the police number Espers among their officers, which is supposed to make murder impossible. Ben Reich runs a business empire that reaches across the solar system and has decided that a rival must die. Everything then depends on whether a determined man can plan a killing that no mind in the room will read.
Rating coming soonMost of the survivors of Earth have gone to the worlds of the Vega Confederation, and the planet they left behind is a shrunken, half-ruined place with a thin population of people who chose to stay. Conrad Nomikos, an ageless Greek who keeps the old ruins and the old stories, is ordered to guide a Vega official around what is left of it, and neither of them is safe.
Rating coming soonA colony ship brought its passengers to a new world, and its crew used the technology they carried to make themselves immortal, powerful and, to the generations born planetside, divine. The former crew rule as the gods of the Hindu pantheon, complete with reincarnation by mind transfer and a caste system beneath them. Sam, who taught the colonists to think about their own condition, is not willing to leave it there.
Rating coming soonTiamat is an ocean world linked to the rest of the galaxy by a wormhole that closes for a century and a half at a time, and the gate is about to shut. The planet rules itself through a hereditary queen whose successor is chosen when she dies, and this time the choice has gone wrong in a way that matters to the Hegemony as much as to Tiamat.
Rating coming soonAn asteroid called Gateway was hollowed out long ago by an alien species that has since vanished, and it is full of small ships nobody knows how to fly. Humans have worked out how to make them go but not where they will go, how long the journey will take, or whether there is enough fuel to come back. Prospectors take the risk for the chance of a fortune.
Rating coming soonEnoch Wallace came home from the Civil War and was recruited by an alien he named Ulysses to keep a way station: a transfer point for travellers crossing the galaxy, installed inside his own house. He has not aged since, and after a hundred years of quiet the government has begun to notice that a veteran of Gettysburg is still alive and living alone on his family farm.
Rating coming soonTwo factions called the Spiders and the Snakes are fighting a war across all of history, recruiting their soldiers at the moment of death and sending them to change the outcomes of battles that other people have already fought. One of their rest stations, staffed by entertainers and medics drawn from many centuries, is the setting for a single night of that war.
Rating coming soonLorenzo Smythe is a bankrupt actor and a superb mimic, drinking away the last of his money when a spaceman buys him a drink and puts him on a ship to Mars. The job turns out to be impersonating a kidnapped politician whose treaty with the Martians depends on him, and the part becomes harder to leave the longer he plays it.
Rating coming soonGenerations after a nuclear war, healing is done by travelling practitioners who carry trained serpents with them, and the rarest of those animals is the dreamsnake, whose venom eases the dying. Snake, a young healer, loses her dreamsnake and has to cross a thinly populated continent to find another, through settlements that treat strangers in their own ways.
Rating coming soonIn March 1952 a meteorite strikes the east coast of the United States and kills most of the government, and the dust and warming that follow are calculated to make the Earth uninhabitable within decades. Elma York, a mathematician who flew as a WASP during the war, joins the international effort to put people into space, and finds that its doors are closed to women.
Rating coming soonOne October night the stars go out: a black membrane has been placed around the Earth, and time inside it now runs millions of times faster than time outside. Tyler Dupree and the Lawton twins, who watched it happen from a back yard, grow up in a world whose remaining decades are numbered, with Jason trying to understand the membrane and Diane trying to live inside it.
Rating coming soonReseune is a city-sized research centre whose product is people: azi, grown in tanks and trained by tape from birth to fill the roles Union needs. Its director, Ariane Emory, has dominated the politics of Cyteen for fifty years. When she is murdered, her rivals expect to be free of her, and instead her death turns Reseune into an experiment in remaking a human being.
Rating coming soonPollution, disease and war have left the world largely sterile, and one large and prosperous family retreats to a valley in Virginia to survive what is coming. When it becomes clear that no child born to them will be able to have children of his own, they turn to cloning, and the community that results is coherent, efficient and very different from the one that made it.
Rating coming soonMarra is the third daughter of a royal house, raised in a convent while her eldest sister was married to a prince and died, and her second sister was married to the same man in her place. When Marra learns what is happening to her sister, she leaves the convent, and the dust-wife who can help her sets three impossible tasks as the price of that help.
Rating coming soonJohn Drinkwater, an architect at the turn of the twentieth century, comes to believe that the world contains another world, and another inside that, all the way to the realm of the fairies his English wife can see and speak with. He builds a house called Edgewood, a composite of many styles, and the generations of his family live in it, close to a door that leads outward.
Rating coming soonMori Phelps is fifteen, Welsh, and newly sent to an English boarding school after a summer in which her twin sister was killed. She walks with a cane, she has a mother she does not trust, and the things she relies on are the science fiction novels she reads and the fairies she has known since she was a child in an industrial town in the valleys.
Rating coming soonDashti is a mucker from the steppes who takes a position as maid to Lady Saren just as Saren is walled up in a tower for refusing to marry the man her father chose for her. The two of them are shut in for seven years unless Saren gives way, and when Saren will not speak to the man she loves, Dashti is ordered to pretend to be her.
Rating coming soonThe Stillness is a supercontinent that suffers a catastrophic season every few centuries, and the last one may be the end of the world. Essun, an orogene able to move the earth, has found shelter but not her daughter, and what she is offered instead is a request from Alabaster Tenring, the man who broke the world, at a price that would settle the fate of everyone.
Rating coming soonThe Moon is coming back, and whether that means the end of humanity or something worse depends on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring and hopes to find her daughter and make a world in which orogene children can grow up safe. Nassun has seen what the world does and has drawn her own conclusions about it.
Rating coming soonNew York is a city that has become conscious, and its avatar has fallen into a coma and vanished. Five new avatars, one for each borough, are waking up instead: a graduate student who steps off a train without his memory, a gallery director in the Bronx, a politician in Brooklyn and others, and all of them have the same enemy.
Rating coming soonValentine Michael Smith is a human being, born on Mars after the first expedition failed and raised by Martians. He comes to Earth as a young man, the heir to a fortune and a legal curiosity, and understands almost nothing about the world he has been brought into, including its money, its churches and its manners.
Rating coming soonNed Henry is a historian at Oxford in the twenty-first century who does his research by travelling into the past, and he has been sent to the middle of the twentieth century far too many times. His assignment is to establish where an ugly ornament called the bishop's bird stump was during the Coventry Blitz, and he is too exhausted to be sure what he is doing.
Rating coming soonAt Oxford in the twenty-first century, history students do their fieldwork by travelling into the past as observers, and Kivrin Engle has prepared for years to visit the fourteenth century. Her tutors finally agree to send her, and then the drop does not go as planned and the team at home has problems of its own to deal with.
Rating coming soonCordelia Naismith has left her own advanced world to live on Barrayar as the wife of Aral Vorkosigan, a soldier and aristocrat whose planet runs on older technology and rougher politics. She is expecting their first child when the dying emperor manoeuvres her reluctant husband into serving as regent for his young grandson.
Rating coming soonIsta, the dowager royina of Chalion, was blamed by everyone including herself for the destruction her family suffered, and she has spent years being watched by guardians who believe she is not entirely sane. Restless and bored, she slips away on a pilgrimage with a small escort, and finds that a god has taken an interest in where she is going.
Rating coming soonMark has lived his short life as a copy of Miles Vorkosigan, made to be harvested for the benefit of someone else. He hijacks part of Miles's mercenary fleet and takes it to Jackson's Whole, where the clone creches that raised him are, meaning to destroy them. The raid goes wrong, and Miles has to go after his brother and his troops.
Rating coming soonMiles Vorkosigan has just graduated from the Imperial Academy and is posted to a winter infantry training base on an island in the far north, a test of whether he can be an ordinary officer. He finds the base commander giving orders he considers criminal, refuses to obey them, and is arrested for mutiny within weeks.
Rating coming soonEveryone who has ever lived wakes on the banks of a river that seems to have no end, naked, hairless and alive again, on a world nobody can name. Each of them finds a grailstone and a container that supplies food, and no explanation at all. Richard Francis Burton, the Victorian explorer, is among the resurrected, and he wants to know who is responsible.
Rating coming soonIn 2048 the Alliance fights a long series of wars against poorer nations using soldierboys, nearly indestructible robotic machines piloted by mechanics who are linked to them from a distance. Julian Class is a physicist working on a huge particle accelerator near Jupiter and a mechanic in his other life, and when he learns what the Jupiter Project could do he has to decide what to do about it.
Rating coming soonIn the twenty-second century an engineer named Vannevar Morgan proposes to build a tower from the equator to geostationary orbit, a structure 36,000 kilometres high that would carry payloads into space without rockets. Only two places on Earth can anchor it, and the better of them is a mountain occupied by a community of monks who want nothing to do with the project.
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.
