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 soonIn 1804 a Royal Navy captain takes a French frigate and finds a dragon's egg among the prizes. It hatches on his ship, and the creature that comes out of it decides that he is its handler, which ends his career at sea and puts him in the Aerial Corps instead. The two of them have to be trained in time for a war that is already underway.
Rating coming soonColin Singleton is a child prodigy who has dated nineteen girls called Katherine and has just been dumped by the nineteenth. Convinced that he is losing the thing that made him special, he lets his best friend talk him into a road trip that ends in a small Tennessee town, where he meets a girl with a different name.
Rating coming soonThe companions who freed the refugees of Pax Tharkas are sent to find them a permanent home, and the city they travel to is destroyed by dragons while they are standing in it. The party is split between two escapes, and each half has to work out what it is fighting for. The war for Krynn is going badly, and winter is closing in.
Rating coming soonFive friends meet again after years apart and find that the world they left has changed: dragons have come back, the gods have withdrawn and the armies of a Highlord are taking the continent apart. The companions are carrying something that the soldiers want, and they do not yet know what it is for or who they can take it to.
Rating coming soonThe war has moved to the sea. Tanis Half-Elven comes back to his friends after time spent in the company of the enemy and does not tell them everything that happened, and the companions take ship out of the port of Flotsam. Aboard is a helmsman with a history of his own, and behind them the Dragonarmies are recovering from their defeat at the High Clerist's Tower.
Rating coming soonCharlie Decker is a high school senior in a small Maine town who has been suspended once already and is called in to account for it. The meeting ends with him expelled and with a decision he makes in the corridor afterwards. By mid-morning he is back in his classroom with a pistol and a room full of students who cannot leave, while the police and the press gather outside.
Rating coming soonThree months after Peter and the Starcatchers, Peter and the other boys have settled on their island and the pirates marooned with them have built a fort. Then a scarred captain arrives in search of what he believes is hidden there, bringing with him an entity of shadow that can take hold of a person's mind. Far away, Peter's friend Molly is on her way home.
Rating coming soonPlateau is a colony built on a mesa that stands forty miles above a poisonous atmosphere, and everything on it is owned by the descendants of the crew who flew the settlers there. Colonists who break the law are executed and then cut up so their organs can be used to treat the Crew, and nobody else is treated at all. Into that arrangement comes a miner named Matthew Keller.
Rating coming soonAxl and Beatrice are an elderly couple in a Britain that has been at peace since Arthur's wars, and neither of them can hold on to a memory for long. They are certain they once had a son, and they decide to walk to the village where they believe he lives. On the road they fall in with a Saxon warrior and a wounded boy, and the errand turns out to be about more than the son.
Rating coming soonMiri has spent her whole life on Mount Eskel, in the quarry village where her family cuts the stone that the lowlanders buy from them. When the priests announce that the prince will marry a girl from the mountain, the village girls are sent to an academy the lowlanders have set up to make them fit to be royal, and the test turns out not to be only about manners.
Rating coming soonSkade is sent to inspect a Conjoiner ship that has come home after decades away and finds its founder, Galiana, aboard and no longer alone inside her own head. The agents that took the ship also killed its crew, and they are still with her. Ten years later, Nevil Clavain is trying to find out what became of her, and he is not the only one.
Rating coming soonA repressive interstellar state sends a warship to punish one of its colony worlds for an invasion that never happened. What did happen is that the Festival arrived and began paying the colonists for being entertaining, which has broken the colony's economy, its politics and the rules it was kept under. Two people on the flagship have reasons of their own for wanting the mission to fail.
Rating coming soonAerin is the only child of the king of Damar and the only person at court who looks like her mother, which is all the excuse the rumours need. She has not inherited the royal gift for magic, she is mocked for it and she is left to herself, so she teaches herself the things nobody else will. The princess the court did not want is the one who goes out to meet the dragons.
Rating coming soonWinter Santiaga is the teenage daughter of a Brooklyn drug kingpin, and she has grown up certain that she deserves the best of everything and that her father's power will always be standing behind her. Then he is arrested for drug trafficking and she is sent to a girls' home with nothing but the habits she learned from watching him.
Rating coming soonHenry Chinaski is a poet and writer who is beginning to be known, and this novel covers the women who move through that part of his life: the sculptor who comes back into it more than once, the people he drinks with, and the ones who leave him or are left. It is told by Chinaski from the middle of things, without much attempt to put them in order.
Rating coming soonJohn Perry and Jane Sagan are offered the leadership of a new colony called Roanoke, drawn from the first ten human worlds, and they accept and travel out with Zoë and her two alien protectors. When they arrive they are not at the planet they were assigned, and a soldier who rode out attached to the outside of their ship tells them there is no question of leaving.
Rating coming soonA reclusive station colony called Rotor has left the crowded Earth and taken up orbit around a newly discovered red dwarf, above a semi-habitable moon named for the red light that falls on it. Its people cannot agree on where to go next, and the moon's bacterial life turns out to be far more than bacteria. Behind them, Earth is perfecting a kind of flight that makes distance small.
Rating coming soonAgent Pendergast was buried alive behind a wall at the end of the previous book, and the brother who digs him out and nurses him back to health did not do it out of kindness. Pendergast's ward calls in Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta and shows him a letter Pendergast had written about Diogenes, with a single date in it: the twenty-eighth of January.
Rating coming soonEarth and the Colonial Union have parted ways, and neither is on good terms with the Conclave, the coalition of alien governments. The Union is running out of soldiers because no new recruits are coming from Earth, and something calling itself Equilibrium is attacking both sides. A lieutenant and a small group of diplomats have to find out who before the colonies become easy targets.
Rating coming soonA village sorcerer named Alder cannot sleep without being brought to the wall of stones at the border of the land of the dead, where the dead beg him to set them free. He is sent to find Ged, the former Archmage, who knows more about that country than anyone living. What Alder has been seeing turns out to concern the living too.
Rating coming soonDavid is ten years old, plays the violin and does not know his own surname. He has grown up in the mountains with his father, and when the man's health fails they come down into the valley. The night his father dies in a barn, David is found playing for him, and the boy who has never lived among other people has to begin.
Rating coming soonA killing staged as a message tells David Webb, who has spent years living as Jason Bourne, that his oldest enemy has come back. Carlos the Jackal is old, his reputation is fading, and before he dies he intends to do two things: kill Bourne and destroy the facility where he was trained. Bourne sends his family into hiding and starts hunting first.
Rating coming soonEva Tramell is twenty-four, has just finished her degree and is starting work in New York when she meets Gideon Cross, a billionaire about her own age who owns the building she has been hired into. Both of them recognise the other's damage faster than either would like, and what follows is immediate and hard to manage.
Rating coming soonA secret order in Ankh-Morpork means to replace the Patrician with a puppet king, and its method is to summon a dragon to terrify the city and then have the puppet appear to slay it. Standing in the way is the Night Watch, which nobody takes seriously, and its newest recruit: a human orphan raised by dwarves who has read the manuals.
Rating coming soonAn interstellar comet is found to be on a collision course with the Moon, and the early analysis says the impact will shatter it. The vice president of the United States happens to be on the Moon that week, opening the first moonbase, and the base is home to about a thousand people with very little time to leave.
Rating coming soonCaramon Majere and Tasslehoff Burrfoot come out of their journey through time two years later than they meant to, into a world where an hourglass constellation fills the sky and nothing is alive. Raistlin Majere is in the Abyss with Crysania, and there is very little left standing between him and what he set out to take.
Rating coming soonA group of hackers spend their time inside a full-immersion virtual world they call the Other Plane, breaking into computers for money or curiosity. None of them ever uses a real name there, because anyone who learns a warlock's true name can make him work for them or have him killed in the world outside. Then the government finds out who one of them is.
Rating coming soonThe Colonial Defense Forces learn from a captured alien scientist that one of their own consciousness-transfer specialists has turned against them and built an alliance of three species aimed at wiping out humanity. He had stored a copy of his mind on a computer before he vanished, so a soldier is built from his DNA to carry it.
Rating coming soonChristy Huddleson is nineteen and the daughter of a comfortable family in North Carolina when she hears a mission founder describe a mountain community that has no school. She volunteers to teach there, and in 1912 she arrives in the village of Cutter Gap in Tennessee, where the people she has come to help have their own ways of doing things.
Rating coming soonRaistlin Majere arrives at the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas to claim what belongs to the master of that tower, with his brother Caramon and the cleric Crysania beside him. Caramon set out to stop his brother's pursuit of godhood and now has to help him instead. The road they take leads back a hundred years, into the Dwarfgate Wars.
Rating coming soonMadhav Jha comes from a village in Bihar and gets into an English-medium college in New Delhi, where his accent and his background are on display every day. There he falls for a rich Delhi girl who will not let the relationship be acknowledged but is willing to be what she calls his half girlfriend, and the novel follows what that costs him.
Rating coming soonI. M. Fletcher is a journalist with two ex-wives and an alimony problem, working undercover on a beach for a story about where a drug dealer's supply comes from. While he is there a wealthy businessman mistakes him for a vagrant and asks him to murder him for money. Fletch starts looking into whether any of it is true.
Rating coming soonTy Ty Walden owns a farm in rural Georgia during the Depression and spends his days digging it over for gold, with his sons Buck and Shaw working beside him. The family is poor, the fields are going unplanted, and the acre he has promised to the church keeps moving so that he does not have to stop digging there.
Rating coming soonDalgard Nordis has gone out on his man-journey, three generations after his people reached the world of Astra, and his companion is a merperson named Sssuri. They are exploring the ruins of a city left by Those Others, the species that once enslaved Sssuri's people, and the journey is how Dalgard proves himself fit to sit on the Council of Free Men.
Rating coming soonRigg, Umbo and Param get through the wall and out of Ramfold, and keep going, through fold after fold and back into the past as well. What they are trying to piece together is the history of the world they live on, because the future they are trying to avoid is one in which an enemy arrives and destroys it.
Rating coming soonIn nineteenth-century London five orphaned boys are put aboard the decrepit ship Never Land and sent away. One of them, Peter, finds a locked trunk on board and the girl guarding it, Molly Aster, and learns that the chest holds a dust of extraordinary power that other people are hunting. A pirate called Black Stache is already after a ship carrying a decoy of it.
Rating coming soonDan Sylveste is an archaeologist on the planet Resurgam, digging up the remains of the Amarantin, a species whose world was destroyed when their own sun turned on them nearly a million years ago. Elsewhere in the same system, a vast ship called the Nostalgia for Infinity is looking for him, because its crew believe he is the only person who can help their captain.
Rating coming soonRagged Island, six miles off the coast of Maine, has a pit in it that has killed everyone who has ever gone down, and the eighteenth-century pirate Red Ned Ockham is supposed to have buried close to two billion dollars of treasure at the bottom of it. A team arrives with modern equipment to try the pit again, and one of them has been on the island before.
Rating coming soonGreat Kesh has gone to war against the western lands of the Kingdom of the Isles, palace coups have been attempted in Roldem and Rillanon, and the intelligence network that used to hold the west together has been taken apart piece by piece. Pug and the Conclave of Shadows suspect that somebody else is standing behind all of it.
Rating coming soonDrizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar are racing the assassin Artemis Entreri across the sea to Calimport, where their friend Regis is being held captive along with the panther Guenhwyvar and the gem that started all of it. The dwarf Bruenor is on his way there too, having survived something that everyone believed had killed him.
Rating coming soonIn a world where twelve dragons of good fortune supply energy to the earth, each of them is linked to a human Dragoneye. Eon has studied the art of dragon magic for four years in the hope of being chosen as an apprentice, and Eon is also a girl living as a boy in a place where girls are forbidden to hold the position at all.
Rating coming soonElizabeth has just moved into a large apartment building in a town where almost everyone else lives in a house, and she has made no friends at all by the time she meets Jennifer on the way back to school on Halloween. Jennifer, dressed as a Pilgrim, says she is a real witch, and after one Saturday meeting she takes Elizabeth on as her apprentice.
Rating coming soonHumans have been driven off the Earth by aliens known as the Invaders and have settled the Moon and the rest of the Solar System. The Moon is the most heavily populated world left, and it is run for everybody's convenience by the Central Computer, which is government, courts, information source and friend at once.
Rating coming soonJaxom is the young Lord of Ruatha Hold and also the rider of Ruth, an unusual white dragon, and the two roles do not sit together comfortably. He wants to fight Thread the way the other dragonriders do, and he has to deal with the group of riders out of Pern's past who are making trouble for the Weyrs.
Rating coming soonTwo hundred years after Blue Remembered Earth, humanity is sending hundreds of huge generation ships, carrying millions of people, towards planets outside the Solar System. The engines can get the ships up to speed, but there may not be enough fuel to slow them down again. One woman, cloned centuries earlier so that she could live three lives, is on all three of those paths at once.
Rating coming soonJamie Grimm is a middle-school boy in a wheelchair, living with his aunt's family after the car crash that killed his parents and his sister and left him paralysed. He wants to be treated like any other kid, and he is also a natural comedian. When he enters a local comedy contest, it takes him further than he expected it to.
Rating coming soonA demon sorcerer called Smada Rezhyk asks the sorceress Delivev Ormoru of Castle Spinweb to marry him and is refused, and he convinces himself that she is plotting to bring him down. He sends his most loyal demon servant, Gildrum, to Spinweb in the shape of a wounded knight, with orders to father a child on her.
Rating coming soonThe Chaos War begins because the Irda, an island people who hide themselves under an illusion, break open a magical object in the hope that it will protect them from invasion. Inside it is an entity called Chaos, long considered too dangerous to touch. Meanwhile a Nightlord returns a dead man's body to his parents.
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.
