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 soonThe gods have left Krynn and the dragons rule the continent, dividing the nations between them under a weak treaty about magic. Caramon Majere, on his deathbed, sends a Solamnic knight and a kender who has come back through the Device of Time Traveling to find the mage Dalamar, while a seventeen-year-old girl takes control of the Knights of Neraka.
Rating coming soonThe Good Magician Humfrey is accidentally doused with water from the Fountain of Youth and regresses to babyhood, and so does the dragon he was dealing with. At the same time, three-year-old Princess Ivy has wandered off into Xanth, and her mother Queen Irene has to find her. Ivy's talent, which nobody has recognised yet, is enhancement.
Rating coming soonThe dolphins the original colonists brought to Pern are still there in the Ninth Pass, and two young people are the ones who rediscover what they are. Readis, the son of the Paradise River Lord Holder, was saved as a boy by dolphins he calls shipfish; T'lion is a young dragonrider who had an encounter of his own.
Rating coming soonHumanity in the far future is divided into guilds, each with its own function, and some of them have been engineered for the work: the Fliers can fly, and the Watchers watch the sky for signs of invasion. One Watcher travels to the old city of Roum with a young Flier girl and a Changeling who belongs to no guild at all.
Rating coming soonPern looks like a paradise to the colonists who choose it, and they come hoping for a simpler, agrarian way of life away from the wars they have left behind. Not long after they land, a lethal spore called Thread begins falling from the sky, and the colony has very little time to work out how to live through it.
Rating coming soonIn 2079 an attempt to mine a nearby asteroid sends it towards the Earth instead, and the disasters are already under way when two people walk into a bar in Reno, Nevada. The demon they meet there tells them the Earth is one of thousands of universes, and that he can save it if they gather six pieces of a magic item for him.
Rating coming soonPeter Reidinger is the telepath and telekinetic first met in Pegasus in Flight, and his ability to draw on energy from outside himself could make him the most powerful psychic that human beings have produced. That possibility attracts enemies, and they are enemies of all Talents rather than of him alone.
Rating coming soonA human generation ship arrives at its destination star to make first contact with whatever is there and finds an industrial-age civilisation, the first alien species humanity has met. That changes what the ship's protocols say to do and divides the people aboard, while on the planet below nobody is expecting visitors.
Rating coming soonA husband and wife whose marriage is in trouble are stranded on a road in the middle of nowhere in Alabama, and they take shelter in what looks like a fine Victorian house. Inside, they find that it is occupied, and that whoever is there means the two of them to face something about themselves before either of them leaves.
Rating coming soonTwo years after Aurora Rising, citizens of the Glitter Band are dying in a manner nobody can explain: the neural implants in their heads overheat and destroy their brains, apparently at random. As the deaths become more frequent, two Prefects have nowhere obvious to start, and several habitats are deciding to leave.
Rating coming soonDrizzt Do'Urden has spent more than forty years in the Underdark and comes to the conclusion that neither he nor anyone near him will be safe while he stays there. He goes up to the surface, where what he is makes him an enemy before he has said anything, and where he finds what he actually is.
Rating coming soonCason Statler comes back to his home town of Camp Rapture, Texas, after being run out of Houston by a scandalous affair, and takes a reporting job at the local paper because there is nothing else to do. In the office he finds his predecessor's notes on an old murder case and decides that working it will keep him out of trouble.
Rating coming soonMarcel Mabout is ten years old and has been sent up to the summer pasture in the French mountains with the family's three cows, trusted with the family fortune for the very first time. He has also been given the family rule, which the whole village lives by: mind your own business.
Rating coming soonBelle Teal Harper is starting fifth grade, and she lives with her mother Adele and her grandmother Belle Teal Rhodes in a town where not everybody is kind. Her year includes a new classmate who is black, the friendship she tries to build for her, and a good deal that is harder than a fifth-grader should have to deal with.
Rating coming soonMoscow has survived a fire and a siege and lies under fresh snow, and Father Konstantin, the priest who has hated Vasya for years, turns the grief of the city into a mob by accusing her of burning it with witchcraft. She tries to slip out of the city to draw them away from her family and loses her horse to his knife on the way. What is left of her is dragged off, and the winter king who has been part of her life all along is waiting at the far end of it.
Rating coming soonAlthea Vestrit is serving aboard another liveship while her family's own ship has fallen into the hands of a pirate who intends to make himself king of the Pirate Isles, and her brother Wintrow is aboard it with him. In Bingtown the merchants are being squeezed by the Satrap's taxes and his Chalcedean soldiers, and more of the Old Traders are beginning to think about rebellion.
Rating coming soonMuch of Bingtown has been destroyed since the night the Satrap disappeared, and the factions inside it are fighting one another even while they hold off an invasion from Chalced. Ronica Vestrit has concluded that the town must change if it is to survive at all, and that it has to bring the Old Traders, the New Traders, the Three Ships folk and the freed tattooed slaves together into one people.
Rating coming soonMoreta is the senior Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr and her queen dragon Orlith is close to laying, and she is at the Gather at Ruatha Hold when a runner collapses in the middle of the races with liquid in its lungs. Nobody can say what the illness is, and a few days later it has become an epidemic spreading across the whole of Pern, with a quarantine ordered against it and the holds and weyrs shutting their doors.
Rating coming soonPrince Dutiful and Elliania are betrothed on the condition that he will kill the dragon Icefyre, and the two of them travel to the island where it lies with their households and their guards. They are met there by the Fool, whom Fitz left behind to keep him out of danger, and he means to save the dragon rather than kill it.
Rating coming soonElayne, Nynaeve and Aviendha use a ter'angreal called the Bowl of the Winds to undo the unnatural heat the Dark One has worked into the weather, and then have to escape a Seanchan invasion. In Andor one of their companions is murdered and the group works out that one of its own number belongs to the Black Ajah, while Perrin takes his people into Ghealdan.
Rating coming soonSeven years after the events of Dragonflight, the riders who came forward in time to help protect Pern are at odds with the riders who were already there. An argument between them ends with F'nor stabbed, and he is sent south to recover, where he falls in love and finds out what some of the Oldtimers have been doing.
Rating coming soonIt is the 2160s, and humanity has repaired the Earth's climate and colonised the inner Solar System. A surveillance system called the Mechanism means violent crime is almost unheard of, genetic engineering has stretched human lifespans, and Africa, China and India are among the leading powers. Two adult siblings set out to solve a mystery left by the head of their family.
Rating coming soonRobinton is born into a hall of harpers and is rejected by a father who is jealous of him, so most of his childhood is spent with his mother and with the musicians around him. He is writing successful songs while he is still very young, and he is elected Masterharper at a comparatively early age. When Lord Fax begins taking what he wants, Robinton is one of the people who sees it coming.
Rating coming soonRigg can see the path of any living being, however long ago it passed, and he has grown up hunting in the mountains with his father. When his father dies, his last instruction sends Rigg looking for a sister he had never been told that he had. Then a boy drowns at the falls near their home, Rigg is blamed for it, and the town turns on him.
Rating coming soonA thousand five hundred years after the Commonwealth barely survived a war against an alien species called the Prime, the galaxy is facing something larger. At its centre is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be entered or destroyed and has been expanding for millions of years, consuming everything in its path. Then an astrophysicist studying it begins to dream of people who live inside.
Rating coming soonDevlin O'Neill is a captain in the British Royal Navy with one thing on his mind: destroying the man who murdered his father. He has almost ruined the Earl of Eastleigh financially and is waiting to strike the final blow when the earl's niece arrives from America. Virginia Hughes has sailed to England alone to borrow money from her uncle, and gets kidnapped for her trouble.
Rating coming soonGeorgina Kincaid is a succubus who draws her power from other men's pleasure, and she is dating a mortal writer, Seth Mortensen. If she so much as kisses him she will drain his life out of him, which makes the relationship difficult to sustain. On top of that, a colleague at the bookshop where she works has started behaving strangely.
Rating coming soonWhen the United States secretary of state's plane goes down on her way to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA does not trust the Libyans to look for her and hires Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon instead. The aircraft is found, but the secretary of state has vanished, and Libya's foreign minister has plans for the conference that Cabrillo cannot allow.
Rating coming soonLaura Evans has settled into running the cafe in the General Store of the Vermont town of Silver Springs, a long way from the high-pressure restaurant career she left in Boston. When an apple farmer called Vernon Reed is found murdered in his garage with a cider-making hammer, the weapon turns up carrying the fingerprints of a young man she has befriended.
Rating coming soonTwo of the five hidden artifacts that open the great demon prison have been found, and the Society of the Evening Star is destroying one preserve after another as it hunts for the others. Reading Patton's Journal of Secrets, Kendra learns where the key to the vault holding a further artifact is kept, which sends the Knights of the Dawn into a dragon sanctuary called Wyrmroost.
Rating coming soonFelix Brewer meets Bernadette Gottschalk at a Valentine's dance in 1959 and charms her with promises he partly keeps, and the money from his businesses, which are not all legal, keeps her and their three daughters in luxury. On the Fourth of July in 1976, newly convicted and facing prison, he disappears. Ten years later to the day, his mistress disappears too.
Rating coming soonGenie Lo is an overachiever in a sleepy Bay Area suburb, working at volleyball, at her grades and at the question of how to get into Harvard. Then her home town comes under attack from demons straight out of Chinese folklore, and her priorities are rearranged. A new boy in her class, Quentin Sun, appoints himself her guide to fighting them.
Rating coming soonSara Winchester was a child bride, and she has grown up expecting the day her husband, Nathan, Marquess of St. James, will come back and claim her heart. She is innocent enough to dismiss the ancient feud between his family and hers, and she has no idea who he has been in the meantime: the pirate known as Pagan.
Rating coming soonThe six Zeroes have taken on bank robbers, drug dealers and mobsters with their abilities, and now they are trying to keep out of sight while they quietly get their new illegal nightclub off the ground. The quiet does not last: two strangers arrive in town with a very different kind of crowd-based chaos behind them, and something more dangerous and sinister still follows the strangers.
Rating coming soonKingdom Come is a decaying swamp town that draws in the lost and the damned, and Thomas has stayed there since his mother's disappearance and his father's suicide, caring for his three brothers, who are conjoined triplets with separate bodies and one shared brain. He also runs the Mill, the town's only industry. What he learns is that the carnival is coming.
Rating coming soonEddie Gato Wolfe is a young and impatient member of a Texas family that has run guns for generations. Unfulfilled by his minor place in the business, he crosses into Mexico to work in security for a drug cartel run by the ruthless La Navaja, and falls for a woman called Miranda. By the time he learns who she belongs to, it is too late.
Rating coming soonTwelve years ago Chester Morton walked out of his home town in upstate New York and was never heard from again. His mother has kept the search alive ever since, paying for a billboard overlooking the local college and hounding every agency that will listen, at real cost to her family. Now Chester's body has been found, hanging from that billboard.
Rating coming soonAbigail Lovett manages The Passage Inn, a small resort in the North Carolina mountain town of Cutter's Pass, which is known for hiking and rafting and for a history of unsolved disappearances. When a journalist staying at the inn to write about that history disappears himself, the town comes under scrutiny again and his brother arrives looking for answers.
Rating coming soonA consortium of Japanese shipping magnates asks Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon for help, because their fortunes are being threatened by pirates working the waters of Southeast Asia. Attacks of that kind normally fall on small ships and foreign yachts, but now giant commercial freighters are disappearing. What Cabrillo finds behind the piracy is worse than robbery.
Rating coming soonAn ancient Phoenician statue called the Navigator was stolen from the museum in Baghdad years ago, and there are men who will do anything to get hold of it. Their first victim is a corrupt antiquities dealer, and their second very nearly becomes a United Nations investigator, who is saved from drowning by Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala. Austin wants to know what makes the statue so valuable.
Rating coming soonMitchell's Inn is a lodge deep in the woods of the Catskills with spacious old rooms, wood-burning fireplaces and a well-stocked wine cellar, and a winter weekend there is meant to be a quiet, even romantic, escape. Then a blizzard takes out the electricity and all contact with the outside world. One guest dies in what looks like an accident, and a second death follows.
Rating coming soonThe second Mrs Botesdale is found dead at the foot of the basement stairs by the maid who has served the family for years, on the day she returns from visiting her master, a certified lunatic confined in a mental home. The death appears to have been an accident, but she was alone when she fell, so an inquest is inevitable and Inspector Arnold is brought in.
Rating coming soonCammie Morgan attends the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, which calls itself a school for geniuses and is in fact a school for spies: the physical education is advanced martial arts, the science lessons cover chemical warfare and the computer classes involve breaking CIA codes. Cammie speaks fourteen languages and can kill a man seven different ways. Then she meets an ordinary boy.
Rating coming soonGolgotha is a cattle town in Nevada in 1869, out beyond the Forty-Mile Desert, and it keeps more than its share of unnatural secrets: a sheriff who bears the mark of the noose, a half-human deputy, a mayor guarding mythical treasures and a banker's wife in a secret order of assassins. Now something far older than the town is stirring in the silver mine above it.
Rating coming soonThe pirate Pagan is despised by the ton, whose riches he plunders, and loved by the poor, whose plight his gifts relieve, and the Marquess of Cainewood has sworn to hunt him down in revenge for the death of his brother. Then a woman with red hair and green eyes arrives at his door, begging for protection from the men who want her dead.
Rating coming soonPepper Prescott was the middle child of siblings who were separated into foster homes around the country after their parents disappeared, and she has grown up independent and rebellious. Then she witnesses a shooting and goes on the run, and the only place she can think of is the remote mountain ranch where she once felt at home. Her old lover lives there now.
Rating coming soonElizabeth, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, does not remember a time when she was the favourite at court. When her father dies she is overshadowed by her brother, the boy king, and then imprisoned during the reign of her older half-sister Mary. Much of her young adulthood is spent as the forgotten daughter of the king and his hated second wife.
Rating coming soonAda's clubfoot has finally been operated on, and the operation settles one question for her: she is not what her mother told her she was, damaged and deranged as well as crippled. It leaves another question open, because if she is not her mother's daughter any more, what is she instead? The war is still going on all around her.
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.
