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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Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing, but being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years is not, and being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin a Spartan warrior's day. That is the situation Julian is in when he is summoned to fulfil Grace Alexander's fantasies.
Almanzo Wilder grows up on a farm in rural New York, and this book describes his childhood from the age of about eight: the work of the farm, his parents and his brothers and sisters, and the education a boy received in a place where the seasons decided what everybody did next. The family is prosperous by the standards of the time.
Robert A. Heinlein's Farmer in the Sky, published in 1950, is about a teenage boy whose family emigrates to Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter that is being made fit for farming. A shorter version had appeared in a boys' magazine the same year under the title Satellite Scout, which is how many of its first readers met the story.
Henry VIII was a charismatic and extravagant king obsessed with his own power and with getting a male heir, and the six women he married were bound for divorce, beheading or death. This novel tells the story of his court and of each of those queens in turn, from Katharine of Aragon to Kateryn Parr, with Henry's own account among them.
Melis Nemid runs a dive resort in the Caribbean and knows how dangerous the water can be, but she has never wanted anything to do with the treasure that is supposed to lie under it. Two men she has been close to have already been lost to the hunt, and now somebody is trying to pull her into it.
Fate of Worlds closes two of Larry Niven's story cycles at once. Decades after the previous Fleet of Worlds novel, the Ringworld has disappeared, and the Puppeteers find their fleet the target of rival war fleets. The exiled puppeteer leader known as the Hindmost has one chance to recover his position, if what he knows about the vanished Ringworld is worth anything to anyone.
Mark and Cara Burroughs' parents do not come home, do not call and leave no note. At first the children are not badly alarmed, because their parents have stayed out late before. Then other things begin going wrong: Mark's girlfriend breaks up with him and disappears, the police show no interest in finding the adults, and the cousin boarding with them seems to be watching.
Janie and her friends make bets about which of them will be the first to date Ross, the mysterious new boy in town. He is good looking, he is interesting, and nobody knows anything about where he came from. Then the murders begin, and the competition between the girls stops being a game and starts being a question about who is safe to be near.
Evan 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.
Helen Decatur has spent her working life reaching goals, and she has met every one of them: college, law school, her own practice, financial security and a reputation as one of the most respected divorce lawyers in South Carolina. The one thing she has decided she wants now is the thing she has left latest, and it is harder than the rest.
The Night Watch has two problems: murders that appear to have been committed by a golem, and the poisoning of the Patrician, which nobody can work out how anyone managed. Several of the city's golems have gone missing as well, and none of it fits together at all. Every answer the Watch finds leads to another question.
It is late summer in 1793 and Philadelphia is filling with mosquitoes and rumours of fever. The deaths begin near the docks, and then the serving girl at the coffeehouse where fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook works becomes one of them, and the wealthier families begin leaving the city while the people who cannot afford to go stay behind.
In Los Angeles in 1960 the child of one of America's richest men is kidnapped, and the novel follows the private detective searching for the child, a hit man in the days before the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and a modern journalist setting out to debunk the conspiracy theories of the era, until all three stories start to converge.
MacKayla Lane has been hunting her sister Alina's killer, and when she receives a torn page from Alina's journal and reads the desperate words on it, she knows the killer is close. What she is really after is the Sinsar Dubh, an ancient book of dark magic that corrupts anyone who touches it, and Dublin has become a dangerous place to be looking for it.
The winter of 1857 has left Abner Marsh with one working steamboat and a reputation he cannot afford. So when a soft-spoken stranger named Joshua York offers to pay for a boat finer and faster than anything on the Mississippi, Marsh takes the money. York asks only that his business on the river be nobody else's concern.
Tansy Adams runs the family bookshop she inherited from her father and has nothing to say when her stepfamily asks about her love life, so she invents a girlfriend based on the woman on a book jacket. The invention is harmless until the real Gemma van Dalen walks into the shop. Gemma needs a wife within the terms of an inheritance and offers to make the lie true.
The People's Republic of Haven's attack on Manticore has failed, and its leaders are fighting each other over what is left of their authority. Honor Harrington comes home a hero to find that her own country has a problem she cannot fight with a fleet: an old enemy has become a peer of the realm, and a political crisis has her at its centre.
An unnamed narrator who works out product recalls for a car company cannot sleep, and finds relief by turning up at support groups for conditions he does not have. Then he meets Tyler Durden, who has ideas about how a man should live, and the two of them start a fight club in the basement of a bar. What begins as an experiment has its own plans.
Leonidas Witherall is knocked unconscious in the lost-and-found department of a department store while retrieving his umbrella, and comes round in a wagon loaded with French bread. Called out later to help during a blackout, he returns home to find the store's owner dead in his study with a samurai sword in his chest, and the police treat him as the obvious suspect.
Ten years ago Quincy Carpenter went on holiday with five friends and was the only one to come out of Pinewood Cottage alive. The press grouped her with two other survivors of massacres, Lisa and Sam, and called them the final girls. Now Lisa is dead and Sam has arrived at Quincy's home, determined to make her remember that night.
Morris Bellamy is a devoted reader of the novelist John Rothstein, who created a famous character and then stopped publishing, and Morris is angry about what happened to the character and about the silence. He and two accomplices break into the writer's house, and what they take includes a set of notebooks that have never been seen and are worth far more than the cash.
Returning to Segundo, Colorado, was the last thing Tori Sandoval planned to do. She had overcome the odds facing a girl from a small coal-mining town to become a high-school principal in the city, but now her grandparents need her help. She cannot understand why the widower Steve Remington would move to a place like this with his children, and then he turns out to be her employee.
Sue Trinder has grown up in a London house run by a baby farmer and populated by petty thieves, and a well-dressed con man makes her an offer: if she takes a place as maid to Maud Lilly, a sheltered heiress in a country house, and helps him court her, the three of them will share Maud's inheritance. Sue agrees, then finds herself pitying and liking the woman she was sent to cheat. The novel is set in a Victorian England of asylums, doctors and property.
It is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family's mountain home in Paradise, and her parents can see that she is not the woman who left. She has come back without her husband and without her son, and with a story of loss she cannot bring herself to tell. As she resumes work as a healer among the sick, she begins to heal herself, and then the war calls her away.
Robyn Holland's family runs a sled dog kennel in Alaska, and the business is in financial trouble at the same time as dogs start going missing. She asks a veterinarian, Rick Baker, to help her, and their search runs alongside her work organising the Fire and Ice race. The race is the reason the losses matter so much to the family.
Fire in the Night is Stephen McGinty's account of the Piper Alpha disaster, published in 2008. The platform stood 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen and was, for a time, the largest single oil producer in the world; on 6 July 1988 it caught fire with 226 men aboard, and sixty-one of them came home.
Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war: she lost her parents and her home in an airstrike and now shares a hotel room with eight people, working several jobs to pay for water. The work she is best at is streaming a virtual reality war game. Then a chance meeting inside the game shows her where the real soldiers came from.
Miranda Ellis has been tormented since birth by a strange and powerful gift she has spent her whole life trying to control. One innocent but irreversible mistake has destroyed her family's fortune and forced her to marry London's most notorious nobleman, a man who hides his disfigured face behind masks and who stands accused of a series of gruesome murders.
Fourteen years ago a fire injured Shelby Beck and burned down Goose Harbor's only church, and she is now planning to rebuild both the building and her life. Her wounds have always kept her at a distance from men. When Joel Palermo returns to town as a fireman and is assigned to help her raise money for the new building, she is surprised by how easy it is to get close to her brother's old friend.
Vikings come from across the sea and take the Celtic noblewoman Brenna captive, and she swears that no barbarian will ever be her master. Garrick Haardrad, the son of the Viking chieftain, decides that he wants her for a wife, and he is a man who has never been refused anything he has asked for in his life.
Charlie McGee is a child with the ability to start fires with her mind, and a secret government agency wants her badly enough to hunt her across the country. Her father Andy has a milder version of the same gift and has spent years keeping her hidden, but a laboratory called The Shop knows the family exists and is prepared to take the girl by force.
The Arisians are ready to give the first Lens to a human being, and the honour goes to Virgil Samms, who will be known from then on as the First Lensman. The Lens is a symbol, an authority and a set of telepathic powers in one badge, and it can neither be forged nor worn by anyone it has not chosen. Samms has to earn it by building the Galactic Patrol, an incorruptible force strong enough to stand against the Eddorians, while assassins work against him at home.
Kif Kehlmann is a young and broke writer when the corporate criminal Siegfried Heidl telephones him in the middle of the night and offers him ten thousand dollars to ghost-write his memoir in six weeks. Heidl is about to stand trial for defrauding the banks of seven hundred million dollars, and as the deadline approaches Kehlmann begins to fear that the man is rewriting him.
Ten years after girls were first permitted to train for knighthood in Tortall, no girl has come forward. Keladry of Mindelan is the first, and the training master is openly against her, so she is placed on probation and told she will be sent home unless she proves herself in a year of hazing, drills and study.
Five brothers and sisters are digging in a gravel pit near the house they have moved to when they uncover something that has been asleep for a very long time. It is a sand-fairy who grants wishes and whose temper is not improved by being woken up, and the children get one wish each day, which lasts only until sunset and cannot be taken back.
There is a thief at Kirrin Cottage, and the Famous Five are sure they know who it is and quite unable to prove it. What they need is evidence, and what they find is an old map and a hiding place nobody has thought to look in, which is enough to take the investigation all the way to the person actually responsible.
Caroline Crale died in prison sixteen years ago after being convicted of poisoning her husband, the painter Amyas Crale. In her last letter from prison she said she was innocent. Her daughter Carla Lemarchant brings that letter to Poirot and asks him to look into the case, because the people who were at the house that day are still alive.
Framboise Simon comes back to Les Laveuses, the village on the Loire where she grew up, and opens a small restaurant there. Nobody recognises her as the daughter of the woman the village still blames for what happened during the German occupation, and she intends to keep it that way. In the scrapbook of recipes and notes her mother left her, she begins to find the record of one summer, and of a girl of nine who kept a secret from her family.
Julian, Dick and Anne arrive at Kirrin Cottage to spend the holidays with their cousin George, and their plans for the island are ruined when Aunt Fanny falls ill and has to go away to hospital. The temporary cook who comes to look after them is unfriendly to the children and actively unkind to George's dog.
Six high school seniors take a borrowed motorhome to South Carolina for spring break, and one of them is Red Kenny, who has had a bad year and would like one ordinary week. Somewhere in a desolate stretch of the state the vehicle stops, the mobile signal is gone, and it becomes clear that this was arranged. There is a shooter outside, and the group has to work out what is wanted.
After the scandal that followed her duel with Pavel Young, Captain Honor Harrington has withdrawn to the planet Grayson, where she holds the title of Steadholder and intends to do nothing more demanding than manage her land and recover from the death of the man she loved. The People's Republic of Haven is rising again from its defeat and looking at Grayson, and the young Grayson Space Navy needs her experience badly enough that refusing is not really an option.
Two days after the siblings Levi and Charlotte McAllister spread their mother Edith's ashes in Notley Fern Gorge, she returns to life, walks to their father Jack's house and sets herself alight on his front lawn. Charlotte becomes increasingly paranoid that the same thing will happen to her. The novel takes the form of a journey across the island, and the family at its centre keeps changing shape as it goes.
A square, who lives in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland and tries to convince its monarch that another dimension exists, which the monarch cannot see because everything he knows lies on a single line. The square is then visited by a sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who has to show him that world before he can conceive of it.
A girl wakes in a cave with burns, a head injury and no memory of anything, and finds that she can heal and that she is hungry in a way food will not fix. She looks about ten years old. She is in fact fifty-three, a member of a nocturnal species that lives on human blood, and the people who destroyed her family are still looking for her.
Kirsten is one of the best and brightest of the humans who have served the Citizens for generations, grateful to the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship and gave them a home world. When a chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core sends lethal radiation outward, the Citizens flee with their planets, and Kirsten's crew volunteers to scout the fleet's path and finds truths that shake the foundations of their worlds.
I. 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.
Dellarobia Turnbow is twenty-eight, married, poor and discontented, and one afternoon she sets off up the mountain to begin an affair. What she finds instead stops her in her tracks: an enormous population of butterflies, settling where they have no business being. The discovery changes her marriage and her village.
Flight or Fright is an anthology of horror stories about flying that Stephen King and Bev Vincent put together, published in 2018. Every story in it has to do with the fears and disasters of air travel, and the idea for the book came out of a conversation between King and some friends about how much he dislikes flying.
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.
