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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Jacques Dubrinsky, the younger brother of the Carpathian leader, is tortured and buried alive by the same fanatics who attacked his family twenty-five years earlier. He survives with little memory of himself, of his people, or of anything except the faces of the men who hurt him. An American surgeon researching a rare blood disorder finds herself drawn towards the Carpathian mountains.
As a young girl, Destiny let a vampire into her home without understanding what he was; he slaughtered her family and kept her captive, forcing her to become like him. The vampire's blood still lives inside her and calls to others of his kind, which she uses as bait while she hunts vampires in Seattle, and all the while she believes herself to be evil in the same way her captor was.
The Indians called him Dark Eagle, his soldiers worshipped him as a hero and his enemies learned to respect him. Dark Eagle follows Benedict Arnold's rise in the Continental Army from 1775 to 1780, and the wounds, slights and money troubles that carried him towards the crime that replaced his name with the word traitor. The novel moves between both armies as his reputation corrodes.
Kris Laurensen has spent her life inside the silken prison of her family's enormous wealth, with decisions made for her by her stepmother and by Jared Chayse, the guardian who manages the family's interests. Now they have decided that she should marry Jared. The match would cement a financial empire, but Kris has feelings of her own that swing between attraction and resentment, and she wants freedom rather than a marriage to a man who might never love her.
Darius warns Tempest that there is always a price to pay when she accepts a position with his travelling troupe, and looking at the merciless line of his mouth and the emptiness in his black eyes she is afraid to ask what it is. She has always been different from other people.
Andre Boroi is a monk, a bounty hunter and a vampire slayer who has spent centuries holding out against the dark, and he is gravely wounded by the master vampire Costin Popescu. With his spilled blood marking a trail for Popescu and his hungry band of followers, his only chance is to disappear into the grey mist of the Carpathians, wait and hope.
Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything, including her own life, to protect her orphaned younger brother. When the two of them encounter unspeakable evil in the swirling mists of San Francisco, her only recourse is to call for help, and out of the darkness comes Aidan Savage, a golden being more powerful and more mysterious than any other creature of the night.
Jaxon Montgomery has been hunted for almost her whole life. Trained by the Special Forces and hardened by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an established reputation, and she meets her match when an enemy arranges for her to be murdered. With nowhere else to turn she goes to a stranger who looks more dangerous than anyone she has met.
Somebody tries to assassinate the American president, and the attempt fails before the trigger is pulled. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson, the covert intelligence team that handles the jobs nobody wants to sign, are sent to find out who was behind it and what they were trying to achieve, and the answer is a game with different rules.
Gabriel wakes deep within the ground, and the first sensation he feels is hunger, an overwhelming appetite for blood that demands to be satisfied. As he hunts the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice reaches him and soothes him, calming him and giving him the strength to control the craving.
In Caldwell, New York, a long war is being fought at night between vampires and the slayers who hunt them. Six vampire warriors, the Black Dagger Brotherhood, exist to defend their race, and their leader Wrath is the last purebred vampire alive. When one of his most trusted fighters is killed, Wrath is left with the man's half-breed daughter, who knows nothing about what she is.
Tatijana of the Dragonseekers spent centuries frozen in ice with her sister, trapped between life and death and speaking to nobody except the people who tormented her. She has now been freed by an unknown descendant and woken in human form, and she wants to see the modern world she has woken into. Fenris Dalka has come back to the Carpathian Mountains to be near his brother.
Savannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions, and there is one man who holds her in thrall: Gregori, the Dark One, whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality send shivers of danger and desire down her spine. In New Orleans the hour arrives for him to claim her, and he has told her in her mind that she was born to save his immortal soul.
Jason Dessen, a forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. He wakes to a man he has never met welcoming him back, in a life that is not his: his wife is not his wife, his son was never born, and he is not an ordinary professor.
Dayan is the lead guitarist of the Dark Troubadors, and his playing stills crowds, beckons them and tempts them, but the call he keeps making is to the woman he is meant to be with. Corrinne Wentworth is standing at the centre of a gathering storm, pursued by the same fanatics who have been hunting her for a long time.
Dominic of the Dragonseekers, one of the most powerful of the Carpathian lines, is desperate to reach the heart of the enemy camp and learn what they are planning. The only way in is to ingest the parasitic blood of a vampire, a mission from which he does not expect to return alive. What he learns is meant to be passed on to the leader of his people.
Libby Day was seven years old when she witnessed the murder of her mother and two sisters on the family farm in Kansas, and her older brother was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life. Twenty-four years later a group convinced of his innocence approaches her, and she begins to ask the questions she had never dared to ask, including whether the voice she heard that night was really his.
Manolito De La Cruz knows he is dangerously close to turning into a vampire when Prince Mikhail calls him back to the Carpathian homeland, and there he catches the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, a counsellor for battered women, and she knows the aggressive instincts of Carpathian males well enough not to want one bound to her for life.
Raven Whitney is a telepathic hunter of serial killers, and the work has left her unable to be close to anybody and has worn out her body. She goes somewhere far away to rest. In the Carpathian mountains, the leader of an ancient nocturnal race is waiting for the woman whose mind he can hear, and he has been waiting a long time.
Rafael De La Cruz has hunted vampires with his brothers for centuries, and each year his capacity to feel has weakened, until only his will keeps him from becoming what he hunts. Colby Jansen has spent five years protecting her younger half-siblings and keeping their ranch going, and now the De La Cruz family claims the children belong with their father's people. Colby intends to fight them.
Thronos, 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.
For a long time the vampire world has repeated a rumour about a dark slayer, a woman who travels with a pack of wolves and destroys any vampire who crosses her path. She is mysterious, elusive and apparently impossible to kill, and she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the undead. Her name is Ivory Malinov.
Stolen from her home as a child and tormented for centuries, Elisabeta Trigovise has been rescued and is safe inside the Carpathian compound, but she has lived in fear so long that she does not know how to live without it. Ferro Arany, an ancient warrior whose senses have come alive, wants to convince her that they are partners rather than master and prisoner, while the vampire who held her captive wants her back.
Byron, a Carpathian male and a hunter of vampires, follows the sound of compelling music to Italy, where he finds his lifemate: Antoinetta Scarletti, heiress to the Scarletti fortune and a concert pianist who holds her family together. Blinded in the explosion that killed her parents, she still expects to run the family shipping business, and she lives in the palazzo della morte, the palace of death, where somebody wants her dead.
A 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.
Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance, and from her maternal grandmother she learned where to find both: County Mayo in Ireland. She arrives with nothing but her grandmother's directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude and an innate talent with horses. Her grandmother told her that County Mayo was where she would find what she had been craving all her life.
Darker is an erotic romance by E. L. James, published in 2017 as the fifth book in the Fifty Shades series. Where the earlier novels were told by Anastasia Steele, this one retells the second of them from the point of view of Christian Grey, and it begins with him trying to win her back.
The Wild Pack's ruthless Alpha has agreed to let the Leashed Dogs join him, but not before he learns that Lucky has been spying on him, and Lucky is cast out. He tries to enjoy his freedom, but the world after the Big Growl is dangerous for a dog on his own. For the first time since the disaster, he wants company.
A young NightWing has produced what may be the first true prophecy in generations, and it is not encouraging: something is coming to shake the earth and scorch the ground, Jade Mountain will fall, and the lost city of night has to be found. Darkstalker's return is part of the question.
Darkstalker is half NightWing and half IceWing and hatches under three moons, which makes him the most powerful dragon his world has seen. He grows up between two tribes that do not trust each other, and the question the book asks is what can be done about him. It is set long before the war the other books describe.
Karou is a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague, and the family she has is made up of chimaera, the creatures she draws in her sketchbook. They demand teeth in exchange for wishes, and they send her out to collect them without explaining what the teeth are used for, or why there are rules like no baby teeth and no rotting ones. On one of those errands she meets a seraph named Akiva, who finds something familiar in her.
Ana Dakkar is in her first year at a school that trains marine scientists, naval officers and underwater explorers, and both her parents died on a research voyage for the same institution. On the day of her first trial at sea the school is attacked, and Ana and her classmates find out what the school's founder actually left them.
Three 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.
Sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner fears that she is losing her mind, and she believes the baby will never stop crying. When her family decides to leave their small mountain cabin for the vast prairie, she hopes to leave behind her haunting memories of her mother giving birth to a terribly afflicted baby.
After a hundred years of brutal war against the Syndics, the Alliance fleet is marooned deep inside enemy territory, weakened, demoralised and desperate to get home. Its fate falls to Captain Black Jack Geary, a man who was presumed dead and who emerges from a century of survival hibernation to find that his name has become a legend, and who is forced by a cruel turn of events into taking command of the fleet.
David Copperfield is born after his father's death and spends a happy early childhood with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty, before his mother remarries. Sent away to school and then to work in a London warehouse by his stepfather, he sets out to make his own life, helped by an eccentric great-aunt and a long series of friends.
Karou has learned that she is Madrigal, a chimaera killed for loving the seraph Akiva and resurrected in human form, and she has left Earth for the land of Eretz. There she takes up the work of her murdered adoptive father, using the art of resurrection to rebuild the chimaera army, while blaming Akiva for everything that has happened.
The vampires came out in public a few years ago, and now the werewolves and shape-shifters have decided to do the same. In Bon Temps, Louisiana, the announcement goes better than anyone expected, at least at first. Then the body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie Stackhouse works, and the town's new arrangements are tested.
Sookie Stackhouse notices her brother Jason's eyes beginning to change, which means he is about to become a were-panther for the first time. Then a sniper begins shooting at the local shape-changers, taking one victim at a time, and Jason's new companions start to wonder whether the newest member of their pack is the one holding the rifle.
Harry Dresden, Chicago's preeminent wizard, is coping with his new roommate, his vampire half-brother Thomas, when a bigger problem arrives. One of his vampire foes summons him and threatens his friend, the police lieutenant Karrin Murphy, unless he finds the Word of Kemmler. If he does not produce it within three days, his friend will be framed for a murder she did not commit.
Leonidas Witherall, the man who looks like Shakespeare and writes the adventures of Lieutenant Hazeltine, is finishing the latest instalment when his housekeeper interrupts with her opinion. Then two men deliver an unwanted deep freeze, followed by a woman in an evening gown who mistakes him for somebody else, and the deep freeze turns out to contain something it should not.
Sookie Stackhouse witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works, and because Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured the suspicion falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects something else and works with Sam to find the culprit and the motive. The answer is not the one the neighbours assume it is.
Sookie Stackhouse is recovering from the torture she was put through during the short war with the fairies, and from the deaths it cost her, and she is not in a forgiving mood. Her relationship with the vampire Eric Northman is the best thing in her life, and it has made him a problem for the new vampire king. Then Eric's maker arrives with a guest.
Ariadne Oliver is staging a murder hunt for a village fete at Nasse House in Devon when she becomes convinced that parts of her plan have been changed behind her back. She asks Hercule Poirot to come down, and by the end of the fete there is a real body to account for.
Sookie 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.
Driving home on New Year's Eve, the cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse finds a man running along the road with no clothes on and no idea who he is. She knows him, because the vampire Eric has been one of the most dangerous people in her life for years, and the person beside her in the car is frightened, polite and entirely unlike himself.
Rudy Waltz is twelve years old when he fires a rifle out of an upstairs window in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman walking past the hotel his father runs. Nothing is ever the same afterwards: the family business fades, his brother goes into television, and Rudy grows up thinking of himself as a neuter. He tells the story years later from Haiti, where he manages a hotel and waits for the past to catch up with him.
The Malazan Empire has been weakened and stands on the edge of anarchy. In the Holy Desert of Raraku a seer named Sha'ik is gathering an army for the uprising that has been prophesied for years, and it is going to be larger and more savage than anything the empire has faced. Elsewhere Felisin, sold into slavery, dreams of the sister who put her there.
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.
