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 soonWar has come to New Prentisstown. An army of Spackle is marching on the city from one direction and the forces of the Answer from the other, and Todd has freed Mayor Prentiss in the hope that he can defend it. Viola is trying to warn the arriving settlers, and both of them have to decide what they are willing to do to stop the fighting.
Rating coming soonMartin the Warrior is helping to build Redwall Abbey when a travelling hedgehog sings a song that names his father, Luke, whom he has not seen since he was a child. Martin sets out for the northern shore to find out what became of him, and what waits for him there is the record of a long pursuit across the sea.
Rating coming soonPaddy Clarke is ten years old and lives in Barrytown, in north Dublin, at the end of the 1960s. He spends his days roaming the streets with his friends, tormenting his younger brother Sinbad and getting into trouble at school, while at home his parents' marriage comes slowly apart and he has no way of naming what is happening to his family.
Rating coming soonThree women of the same family live centuries apart. In 1619 Altha is on trial for witchcraft after a local man dies. In 1942 Violet would rather study insects and climb trees than become a young lady. In 2019 Kate leaves London for a cottage in Cumbria that a great-aunt has left her, and finds that the house has secrets of its own.
Rating coming soonIn the Queendom of Sol, programmable matter called wellstone can imitate almost any substance, and a crystal made of miniature black holes called collapsium can send matter and information across the solar system instantly. Bruno de Towaji invented collapsium and dreams of an instrument that could reach the edges of spacetime, while his rival Marlon Sykes is building a ring of it around the sun.
Rating coming soonIn a parallel world the Neanderthals became the dominant human species, and their civilisation is as advanced as ours with a different history, a different society and a different philosophy. A physicist named Ponter Boddit steps through the barrier between the two worlds by accident and arrives in ours, while his colleagues at home are left with a missing body and a murder charge.
Rating coming soonCrispin Salvador, the most controversial writer in Philippine literature, is found dead in the Hudson River in the middle of winter. His final manuscript has disappeared with him, and his student and friend Miguel travels to Manila to find out what happened to both, piecing the old man's life together from his novels, his interviews and his enemies.
Rating coming soonMichael Terny has been at seven schools in four years and knows what to expect at each of them, because he is the fat kid and there is always somebody willing to make his life difficult. He is also a lucid dreamer, able to recognise that he is asleep and arrange what happens next, and the dream world is the one place where he is safe and in charge.
Rating coming soonJane is twelve and lives by the sea with her mother and her younger brothers and sisters. She wants the summer to be an adventure, and it obliges: a ride in a hot-air balloon, a string of men who might be her father, and a friendship with a preacher who claims to see the future.
Rating coming soonJack and Grace have the marriage everyone admires: he is wealthy and handsome, she is charming and elegant, and they are never apart. Grace never answers the telephone, she does not meet friends for coffee, she does not work, and there are bars on one of the bedroom windows. Their neighbours like them, and nobody has asked what happens once the dinner party ends.
Rating coming soonLydia Smith is a licensed para-archaeologist in the Dead City of Old Cadence, working part-time in a cheap museum of ancient horrors after an incident in an alien tomb left her career in trouble. Then she finds a body in one of the sarcophagus exhibits, and her new client turns out to be one of the most dangerous men in the city.
Rating coming soonJulia and Victor became the most famous astronauts alive on their mission to Mars. Decades later the Consortium sends them to Pluto, where a starship under the brilliant and arrogant Captain Shanna Axelrod has found intelligent creatures living in a methane sea at three hundred degrees below zero. The two crews have to work together.
Rating coming soonKathy Hunt travels to Castlemoor after her brother dies suddenly, intending to finish the book he was writing about the old rites once performed on the moors nearby. His manuscript has disappeared, and the people around her seem to be afraid of something. The man who says he loves her warns her that the danger is real.
Rating coming soonCale Valens is one of the oldest vampires in the Argeneau family, and he has given up on finding a life mate. His relatives have not given up on him, and the plan they settle on involves a small lie: Alexandra Willan's restaurant opens in two weeks and her chef has just walked out, and the man they send her as a replacement is handsome, convincing and quite unable to cook.
Rating coming soonJeanne Louise Argeneau leaves work one evening and wakes up tied to a bed by a mortal man. Paul Jones needs a vampire and has decided that only she will do, and while she is more interested than she is annoyed, the immortal world's version of law enforcement is looking for both of them, which leaves very little time.
Rating coming soonLou Crushek is a police detective who prefers his own company and does not like surprises, so he takes it badly when somebody starts killing the criminals he has been working to put away. The killer turns out to be a shape-shifting tiger named Marcella Malone, who is hunting the man responsible for endangering her whole species.
Rating coming soonRhys Trahaearn freed England from Horde control and became a national hero, and he has since built a trading empire on his name and on the fear of it. When a body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, the detective who comes to investigate is a woman he decides he wants, and the case she is working on threatens everyone in the country.
Rating coming soonThe slayers of the Lessening Society have more money, more weapons and more power than they have had in years, and the Brotherhood is preparing for a full attack. One of their number, Rhage, is fighting a battle inside himself: he cannot control the panic that has taken hold of him, and after a serious injury he has to work out what he actually wants.
Rating coming soonLuc Boudreau is a Green Beret who had planned to spend his leave doing something other than teaching wilderness survival to a congressman's daughter. Then he meets Claire Cook, and the assignment becomes considerably more interesting to him. He is supposed to be her instructor, and both of them are supposed to be sensible about it.
Rating coming soonElizabeth Thatcher is a young woman from the east who accepts a teaching post in a small western Canadian town, hoping for something more interesting than a quiet life at home. What she finds is a place with a great deal to learn and a population with its own opinions about a teacher, and among the people she meets is a member of the North-West Mounted Police.
Rating coming soonThe warrior Clans are about to be attacked by an army that has been gathering in the Dark Forest for a long time, and the fourth cat named in an old prophecy has still not appeared. Three young warriors prepare to lead their Clanmates into the battle, and the fate of every clan depends on whether the fourth arrives in time.
Rating coming soonEvan died in the Fear Street woods a year ago, and since then Ellen has moved away and the group of friends has fallen apart. Meg Dalton decides to bring them back together with a surprise party for Ellen, and then the threatening telephone calls begin, followed by acts of vandalism and violence, all of them insisting that the party has to be cancelled.
Rating coming soonRipley Todd is a deputy on Three Sisters Island, content with her job and not much interested in changing anything, except that she has inherited powers she cannot control and will not talk about. Then a researcher arrives to investigate the island's reputation for witchcraft, and he takes an interest in her that she has no intention of encouraging.
Rating coming soonIn modern Moscow there are the Others, people with supernatural powers who have taken sides in a very old conflict between the Light and the Dark. A truce has held the balance between them for a thousand years, but a prophecy says that one Other will arrive who can tip it, and when a boy with unusual abilities appears the two sides begin to compete for him.
Rating coming soonTony Miglione is thirteen and lives in Jersey City with his family until his father sells an invention and makes them rich, at which point they move to a prosperous town on Long Island. Everything about the new life is difficult: his mother's ambitions, his grandmother's unhappiness, and the stomach pains that arrive when he cannot say what is wrong.
Rating coming soonAugustus Melmotte arrives in London with a foreign accent and an enormous fortune, and London society decides to take him at his own valuation. He buys a seat in Parliament, entertains an emperor and arranges marriages for his daughter among families who need money more than they will admit. The question the novel keeps asking is how much of what he claims to own actually exists.
Rating coming soonThe teenage son of the professional golfer Linda Coldren and her husband Jack is kidnapped in the middle of the U.S. Open, while Jack is unexpectedly leading the tournament. Sports agent Myron Bolitar is asked to get the boy back, and his search takes him through the houses of the Philadelphia suburbs and back to an Open that Jack Coldren should have won twenty-three years earlier.
Rating coming soonNew York in 2001, in the months before the attack on the World Trade Center. Maxine Tarnow, a former fraud examiner, is asked to look into the finances of a computer security company run by a billionaire, and finds figures that do not add up, payments going to a website that no longer exists, and men following her who do not want to be noticed.
Rating coming soonA doctor tells Lord Peter Wimsey about an elderly patient of his, a woman dying of cancer who died suddenly and without any immediate cause, and who had refused to make a will because she believed her great-niece would inherit everything anyway. There is no evidence that a crime took place, but Wimsey cannot leave the story alone.
Rating coming soonAt a shooting lodge in Yorkshire, the fiance of Lord Peter Wimsey's sister is found shot dead outside the conservatory at three in the morning, and the family's elder brother, the Duke of Denver, is found kneeling beside the body. The bullet came from the Duke's revolver and he had quarrelled with the dead man that evening, and he refuses to explain himself.
Rating coming soonLord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go straight from the wedding reception to Talboys, a farmhouse in Hertfordshire that he has bought her as a present. The plan is to spend the honeymoon away from his habit of solving crimes and hers of writing about them, and the plan survives until the former owner of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps.
Rating coming soonMarion Sharpe and her mother live quietly at The Franchise, a shabby country house, until a young woman named Betty Kane accuses them of having kidnapped her and held her in an attic room. The story sounds absurd to the local solicitor who takes the case, and then the girl describes the house, the room, the kitchen and the old trunks in a way that cannot easily be dismissed.
Rating coming soonThe snow is thick, the telephone line is down and nobody is leaving Warbeck Hall, where a party has gathered for Christmas: a socialist cabinet minister, a historian from central Europe, a butler and his daughter, and an elderly viscount who is gravely ill. As the bells ring in Christmas Day, one of them is murdered inside the house, and the household is cut off from every kind of help.
Rating coming soonClara Morrow's first solo exhibition has opened in Montreal, and the party afterwards is held at her home in the village of Three Pines. The next morning a woman in evening dress is found dead in the garden, and nobody can say whether she was at either celebration. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team take the case.
Rating coming soonErica Falck returns to her home town of Fjällbacka after her parents die, and finds her childhood friend Alex dead in a bath with her wrists cut, in a house where the heating had failed. The police treat it as a suicide. Erica, who wants to write about Alex, is not so sure, and neither is the detective investigating it.
Rating coming soonHarry Arno is a Miami bookmaker who has been skimming from his boss for years and wants to retire to Italy with his girlfriend. The Justice Department decides to leak word of the skimming in the hope that Harry will ask for witness protection, and Harry, who knows what is coming, leaves the country instead. A U.S. Marshal in a cowboy hat is sent after him.
Rating coming soonDarashikoh Shezad is a banker in Lahore with a temper. An outburst gets him dismissed, his income disappears, and the distance between him and the wealthy friends he grew up with becomes visible to him for the first time. His best friend's wife, Mumtaz, becomes his lover, and he begins a descent into drugs and crime.
Rating coming soonArthur Less is a novelist of middling success in San Francisco, about to turn fifty, and he has just received an invitation to the wedding of a former lover. Rather than attend, he accepts every literary invitation he has spent years declining and leaves the country, which means travelling around the world in the company of his own habits and his unfinished manuscript.
Rating coming soonJaffy Brown is running through the back streets of east London when he comes face to face with a tiger that has escaped from a menagerie. Charles Jamrach takes him out of its jaws and gives him a job. Some years later Jaffy, now sixteen, is sent to the other side of the world on a whaling ship to catch something for the collection.
Rating coming soonLarry Darrell comes back from the First World War a different man. He had been a pilot, and a friend died beside him, and the experience has taken away his interest in the life of comfortable Chicago that his fiancee and his friends expect him to settle into. He goes looking instead for an answer to a question he cannot state plainly.
Rating coming soonJohn Ridd is the son of a respectable farming family on Exmoor, and his father was murdered by the Doones, a clan of outlaws who were once noble and now rule a valley of their own. John grows up intending to be a farmer rather than a revenger, and then he meets Lorna Doone by accident and falls in love with her, which puts him on the wrong side of the clan that killed his father.
Rating coming soonThe four Clans of warrior cats have reached the lake that is to be their new home, and now they have to divide it up, learn its dangers and find a place where they can speak with StarClan. More than one cat has plans of their own for the new territory, and the threats inside the Clans begin to look worse than the ones in the forest.
Rating coming soonPeter Grant is a police constable and an apprentice magician, working out of a unit in London that deals with the cases nobody else can put a name to. A road accident in Crawley turns up human blood in the car, and enquiries from that lead to a shallow grave, another body and a suspect with an education in magic that he was never supposed to have.
Rating coming soonIn 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh police is called out to a robbery at a company that has just been floated on the London stock exchange. The crime took place inside a multiplayer online world, the value stolen was in virtual property, and the suspects appear to include the avatars of the players who were in the room at the time.
Rating coming soonJohn Merlyn is a writer who spends too much time at the tables in Las Vegas and in the company of people who make their living in Hollywood and in publishing. He and his brother Artie live by a code of their own in a country where, in the circles they move through, the law and organised crime are often the same trade.
Rating coming soonGriffin Bing finds a vintage 1920 Babe Ruth baseball card in an abandoned house and takes it to a dealer, who buys it from him for a hundred and twenty dollars and sells it on for a great deal more. Griffin's response is not to complain to anyone but to assemble a team and get the card back out of the dealer's shop.
Rating coming soonSalamanca Hiddle's mother has left home, and Sal sets off on a long car journey with her grandparents, retracing the route her mother took towards Idaho. As they travel she tells them the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left and whose family coped in its own way, and the two stories begin to run alongside each other.
Rating coming soonLarry, Daisy, Fatty, Pip, Bets and the dog Buster are at a gymkhana when a house nearby is robbed, and the burglar leaves no sign of how he got in or out. What he does leave is a set of enormous footprints, a glove print, a curious criss-cross mark on the ground and two torn scraps of paper, and the Five Find-Outers have holidays and a mystery at the same time.
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.
