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 soonEmika Chen has survived the Warcross Championships, and she has learned what Hideo's new algorithm is actually for, which means she can no longer trust the person she once admired most. While she is deciding what to do about it, she is approached by the Blackcoats, a secret organisation with its own plan for the game and for the man who owns it.
Rating coming soonJack Reacher is passing through a small town in Wisconsin when he sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point, 2005, small enough to have belonged to a woman, with initials engraved inside. He decides to find out who she is, why she gave up something that took four years to earn, and to give it back to her.
Rating coming soonVirgil Flowers of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is taking part in a fishing tournament in the north of the state when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport, who wants him to look into a murder at a nearby resort. A woman has been shot while she was out in a kayak on the lake, and the guests at the resort are all women who came there to be left alone.
Rating coming soonAngela Wong disappeared when she was sixteen, and nobody suspected that her best friend Georgina Shaw knew anything about it. Fourteen years later Angela's remains are found in woods near Georgina's childhood home, and the detective on the case, an old friend of both women, learns who killed her and what Georgina's part in it was.
Rating coming soonChief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his wife return each July to a remote and luxurious manor house in the wilderness to spend their wedding anniversary, and this year they are there at the same time as the Finney family. Before the visit is over, one of the Finneys is dead and Gamache is working through a holiday.
Rating coming soonNobody is admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden in the Quebec wilderness, where two dozen cloistered monks grow vegetables, keep chickens and make chocolate. They have taken a vow of silence, and they have become famous anyway for the chant they sing, until their choir director is murdered and the door is opened to the police.
Rating coming soonTom Dunleavy is a lawyer in Montauk whose practice is so small that real estate closings barely cover his expenses. Then he is hired to defend a local man accused of a triple murder that has outraged the wealthy summer community, and he finds himself with the case of his life and a client who is either the perfect fall guy or the man who did it.
Rating coming soonThronos, prince of Skye Hall, loved Lanthe when they were children, before their families' war caught the two of them in the middle of it and left them enemies. Centuries later he is a warlord carrying a blood vendetta against her, and she is a sorceress trying to recover powers she has lost, and he is hunting her without knowing what reaching her will cost him.
Rating coming soonMurhder is the only male ever expelled from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and he has spent decades haunted by visions of a woman he could not save. He comes back to Caldwell to put right the wrong that ruined him. Dr Sarah Watkins, a researcher at a biomedical firm, is trying to understand the death of the man she was going to marry, and the answers are worse than she expected.
Rating coming soonAllie Chambers promised a dying friend that she would look after the woman's infant son, which turns out to involve more than ordinary childcare, because the baby is a vampire and he is growing hungrier. When an attempt to get blood from a bank goes badly wrong, Allie wakes up surrounded by police, doctors and a man named Magnus who is very hard to refuse.
Rating coming soonIris Scanlon runs the only daytime concierge service for vampires in Half-Moon Hollow, which means letting in plumbers and picking up chilled blood for clients who cannot go out in daylight. Her rules are strict and businesslike until she finds her newest client poisoned on his kitchen floor and has to decide how much of her ordinary life she is willing to disturb for him.
Rating coming soonKane was convicted of murdering his mate and sent to a prison camp, without ever being told the truth about the arrangement his family made for him. Centuries later he is badly burned while trying to save other prisoners, and the nurse who tends him, Nadya, has reasons of her own to understand what he is going through.
Rating coming soonMaggie Graham is the alpha of a werewolf pack living in a hidden valley near the small town of Grundy, Alaska. When a researcher arrives to investigate reports of lycanthropy in the area, her plan is to frighten him off, and the plan runs into difficulty because Nick Thatcher turns out to be considerably more attractive than she had allowed for.
Rating coming soonBalthazar is possessed by a demon and has been given the job of finding the Book of Spells, which he is pursuing in the middle of a city where a homicide detective is trying to account for a series of mutilated bodies. Detective Erika Saunders knows that something outside her experience is at work in Caldwell, and she has been dreaming about a man she cannot place.
Rating coming soonSyn has kept his work as a mercenary hidden from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and his latest assignment puts him in the path of an enemy of the vampire race and of a woman who does not know what she is. Jo Early is in danger of dying during a transition she was not expecting and cannot explain, and the man who appears out of the dark to help her is not reassuring.
Rating coming soonAngel Sullivan is thirteen and has spent her life being taunted at school and ignored at home. When her father loses his job, the family moves to a house in the small town of Roundtree, Massachusetts, and it is cheap because of what happened in it: a previous owner killed his wife and child there, and nobody has wanted the place since.
Rating coming soonJaime Vegas is a medium who can genuinely speak to the dead, unlike most of the spiritualists she works alongside, and she has spent her career hiding the fact. She joins a television production in which three mediums are shut in a house to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe, and discovers something in the garden that will not leave her alone until it has been heard.
Rating coming soonTheodosia Throckmorton is eleven and spends her time in the London museum where her parents work, removing curses from the Egyptian objects that come into the collection. When her mother sends a crate home from Egypt containing a statue with a dangerous curse on it, Theodosia finds herself hunted by two secret societies, one that wants the statue protected and one that wants to use it.
Rating coming soonIn 1940, with France defeated and an invasion of Britain expected, a British agent brings back intelligence showing that Hitler intends to support the invasion with occult means. The people who can answer that are the country's witches, and the officer who has to organise them is a practising occultist as well as an MI6 man.
Rating coming soonA demon wakes in the land of Corona, gathers goblins and giants to it, and begins to destroy the settlements on the frontier. Its first attacks leave two children from the same small village orphaned, and one of them, Elbryan, is taken in by elves and raised as a ranger while the other, his friend Pony, loses her past to what she has seen.
Rating coming soonRachel is a graduate student writing about the ways women have traditionally worked magic into sewing, quilting and other cloth work, and she has been hired to help with a collection of vintage clothing. The antique quilts she is given to examine are extraordinary, and one of them is more than she bargained for, because something has travelled inside it.
Rating coming soonMatt Ewing's business is failing and he would try almost anything to save it, including collecting lucky pennies, so when a beautiful woman appears out of the bottle he has been carrying around he assumes his luck has turned. Eden has been inside that bottle for two thousand years and is pleased to help, which is a problem, because her magic has gone rusty.
Rating coming soonA prominent businessman is found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed and strangled with cords of black velvet, and the manner of his death makes the case a talking point for the whole city. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is less interested in the scandal than in the fact that the physical evidence does not fit the story anybody is telling her.
Rating coming soonWalter Pettibone arrives home to a surprise party and a house full of friends, and a woman with red hair and green eyes hands him a glass of champagne. One sip and he is dead. Nobody at the party knows who she is, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas does: Julie Dockport, whose imprisonment was Dallas's doing nearly ten years earlier.
Rating coming soonDr Temperance Brennan is called to the Charlotte cold case unit by a homicide detective who works a long way from his own jurisdiction, and the reason is that two child murders thousands of miles apart appear to have been committed by the same person. The suspect is a woman Brennan tried and failed to catch years earlier in Canada.
Rating coming soonIn 1872 a refitted United States Navy tug sails for the North Pole in search of a route nobody has found. Off the coast of Greenland the ship is caught in the ice for months, and the expedition splits in two, with half the crew aboard the vessel and the rest stranded on an ice floe that begins to drift.
Rating coming soonA light aircraft bound for the Galapagos Islands ditches into the sea, and the zoologist on board, Daniel Kennedy, has to decide whether to save himself or the woman he is with. In a second story set in 1917, his great-grandfather Andrew is preparing to go over the top at Passchendaele and will be tested in the same way.
Rating coming soonIn 1869 three people are killed in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands, and a young man called Roderick Macrae is arrested for the murders. The memoir he writes in prison makes it clear that he did it, and the courts then have to decide why: what kind of man kills his neighbours, and whether the law should hold him responsible.
Rating coming soonTwo young actors are murdered on a remote island film set, and their bodies are arranged in an imitation of a massacre that took place there in the nineteenth century. Two years later the survivor of that night, Vanessa Loren, is drawn back to the Bahamas by a documentary about the region's stories, and the man making it has some experience of ghosts.
Rating coming soonEdge is the last of a band of immortals who have been hunted and killed one by one by Frank Stiles, a man determined to extract their secrets. Edge intends to make him pay, and to do it he needs to find the young woman said to be the Golden Child, whose existence he has only heard described in rumours.
Rating coming soonEvadne Gray is a fencer with no interest in society and no knowledge of diabolism when she is sent to London to chaperone her younger sister, who wants to be an art critic. Within a short time her sister falls in with the charismatic Lady Henrietta Wotton, and Evadne enrols in a fencing school whose master turns out to be engaged in a war with demons.
Rating coming soonAmi does not trust strangers and finds it hard to trust anyone at all, but she is neither a coward nor a liability in a fight. When she comes across a lone warrior taking on eight deranged vampires at once, she steps in and saves him, which turns out to have consequences she had not considered.
Rating coming soonValerian is an immortal enforcer who has just finished an assignment he would rather not think about, and what he wants is to play golf and be left alone. The owner of the course, Natalie, notices that her new customer always tees off at sunset, and she has a small daughter and no interest in complications.
Rating coming soonEmma Gavin writes bestselling novels about werewolves, and she does not believe in them. Then her books attract the attention of a wealthy and well-established pack in Manhattan, which has kept its existence secret for centuries and now wants to know how a writer with no connection to it has got so many of the details right.
Rating coming soonDee-Ann Smith is a former Marine and a member of a shifter protection group, and she does not hold back when she is following an instinct. She is trying to prove that somebody is having hybrids abducted for dogfights, a case that involves her own kind, and her wealthy and well-connected boss insists on helping her with it.
Rating coming soonAbigail Forsythe has had a difficult year, and the last thing she expects to find on a flight is a naked man locked in the cargo hold. She lets him out, and from that point on she is dependent on a stranger for survival, in a country she does not know, with people who took him looking for both of them.
Rating coming soonIn an unnamed Latin American city, the machines of Doctor Hoffman are changing reality: mirages, apparitions and impossible places crowd into the ordinary world, and the government is losing its grip on what its citizens can be persuaded is real. Desiderio, who works for a government minister, falls in love with Hoffman's daughter, and sets out to find the doctor.
Rating coming soonAn old stone prison, seen through the eyes of a man on death row who survives it by reading and by imagining the world around him in brighter colours than it has. Into this place comes an investigator whose job is to dig up the history of the men waiting to be executed, and she finds information that unsettles the distinctions she has relied on.
Rating coming soonVern Riley grows up inside the Blessed Gardens of Cain, a Black separatist community where she is made to marry its leader and where she comes to believe that the visions the members suffer are not religious at all. She leaves, has her children alone in the woods, and finds that her body is changing in ways she cannot explain.
Rating coming soonIn 1618, plague and the beginning of the Thirty Years' War have left the Holy Roman Empire frightened and suspicious. In the small town of Leonberg, an illiterate widow called Katharina Kepler, known for her herbal remedies, is accused of witchcraft by a neighbour, and the accusation grows until the whole community has an opinion about her. Her son Johannes, the imperial mathematician, has to leave his work and defend her.
Rating coming soonNimira dances for a living in a foreign city, having lost her mother and her father, and she does not hesitate when a mysterious magician offers her a place in his house and a performance to give. The performance is with an automaton that plays only when a silver key is turned, and the machine turns out not to be a machine.
Rating coming soonA train called the Lucky Day is carrying a small party of passengers through a country that is not quite the one they boarded in. The narrator and his partner are along for a holiday they did not plan in detail, and the journey they get is stranger than the one they thought they had booked.
Rating coming soonMax moves with his German parents to Alabama, where the heat, the food and the religion are all unfamiliar to him and where he is taken up by the school football team. He learns to catch a ball, to handle a gun and to keep his own secrets, and then he meets Pan, the boy the school calls its witch.
Rating coming soonMakeda and Abby were born conjoined, daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, and were separated by surgery when they were small. Abby has the family's magic and Makeda does not, and the two sisters, now adults, are growing apart, which is why Makeda decides to move out and try to live as an ordinary person.
Rating coming soonPerdita Lee looks like an ordinary schoolgirl in London and her mother Harriet looks like an ordinary working mother, which is not quite the case for either of them. Their family keeps a recipe for gingerbread that hardly anybody in London appreciates and that is very well known indeed in Harriet's home country, which most accounts say does not exist.
Rating coming soonAlexis Spencer is having the sort of year in which she loses her job and her relationship on the same day, and she blames the world for it, including the younger version of herself who should have tried harder. Then she finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and wakes up in the year 2002.
Rating coming soonLaila wants a child and has lost every pregnancy she has carried, so she goes to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family whose healing power comes from a caul that they keep and do not share. The deal she hopes for falls through, and the events that follow bring a baby into the family by another route.
Rating coming soonCapac Raimi arrives in the City with no memory of anything before he stepped off the train. He is quick and confident and intends to make his fortune there, and the City rewards that kind of ambition, being a place of assassins, blind priests and a kingpin who runs his business with puppets, all of it under the eye of a man known as the Cardinal.
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.
