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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Sarek is a Star Trek novel by A. C. Crispin, published in 1994 and set shortly after the events of the film Star Trek VI. The Vulcan ambassador Sarek finds evidence of a plot against the Federation and has to work out who is behind it while grieving for his human wife, and the book is as much about that loss as about the conspiracy.
Dane Thorson finishes trade school and is assigned as apprentice cargo master on the Solar Queen, a free trader that hauls cargo between the planets and takes whatever contracts it can find. At the end of his first flight the captain gets the chance to bid on a newly opened world, and the crew puts everything they have into winning the contract for a planet called Limbo. The information that comes with the contract is not encouraging.
The SAS Survival Handbook is a guide to surviving in difficult circumstances by John Wiseman, published in 1986 and based on the training of the Special Air Service. It covers everything from accidents and escape procedures to living off the land in polar, tropical and desert climates, and it is illustrated throughout.
Sassinak is twelve when the raiders come to the newly settled world her family farms. That is the right age for what the slavers want: old enough to be useful and young enough to be broken. She watches her parents and both her siblings die, is taken off the planet, and spends years in a slave depot before she gets the chance to run.
Laurel Burke comes back to her father's Texas ranch after two years at a boarding school in the east, and the first person she sees at the station is the young rancher she has been thinking about for as long as she has been away. The two families have been feuding for years, and her father has no intention of allowing a match.
Henry Perowne is a successful London neurosurgeon, happily married and content with his life, and the novel follows him through a single Saturday in February 2003. A demonstration against the coming war in Iraq is filling the streets. On his way across the city he has an encounter with a violent and troubled man.
Humanity has been extinct for more than a century, and the Solar System has been left to the androids that humans built. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her line still running, and the market for the work she was designed to do disappeared with the people who paid for it. She takes a job carrying a package from Mercury to Mars, which is enough to put her in the path of some very powerful humanoids who want what is inside it.
Chaz Koto is a citizen of Xanadu, a near-future society reserved for the wealthiest men and women on Earth, and he carries the burden of a secret that the outside world would be shocked to hear. Lenore Myles travels to Xanadu as a student and becomes involved with Koto; when he unwittingly lends her his access codes she stumbles onto the truth behind the settlement's glittering facade, and a pursuit follows.
Kim believed the past was buried until she went to the wilds of Westmorland to help her cousin run a small hotel. If she had known Luke Savage would be one of the guests she would never have gone within a thousand miles of the place. Three years of effort went into rebuilding a life after her husband walked out, and she has no intention of letting him disturb it again, however much her cousin needs her.
Newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, twenty-two-year-old Jocelyn Fleming still aches with the pain of unexplored desire, and her restless heart leads her away from London society to the American West. There she meets Colt Thunder, a loner whose Cheyenne blood is said to burn hotter than the Arizona sun.
Marilla is a lieutenant's daughter, and the man she wants is the lieutenant's prisoner. The novel sets her against her family and her own circumstances as she follows the man the fort is holding, and it places her in the wilderness of Oklahoma, where she has to weigh love against disgrace. Her loyalty and her desire point in opposite directions for the length of the book.
After three London seasons looking for a husband, Daisy Bowman has been told by her father that she must find one now, and that if she cannot then she will marry the man he chooses: the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is appalled, and being a Bowman she refuses to admit defeat, deciding to marry anyone rather than Matthew. What she does not expect is that Matthew has charms of his own.
The haunted season has come to the Antler Wood, and no fox kit is safe in it. Mia and Uly, two foxes from different dens, are separated from their litters and have to find a den to call home, which means crossing field and forest past a zombie that hungers for their flesh, a witch who wants their skins and a ghost that hunts them through the snow.
Oskar Schindler is a member of the Nazi Party and a businessman in occupied Poland who, over the course of the war, ends up saving the lives of twelve hundred Jews. The novel was written by Thomas Keneally after a Holocaust survivor showed him his files on Schindler, and it mixes documented people and events with fictional dialogue.
Oskar Schindler was a German industrialist and war profiteer who, faced with the reality of the extermination camps, gambled his life and his fortune to save thirteen hundred Jewish people from the gas chambers. The novel is based on his true story, and on the testimony of the people he saved, and it sets out what it cost him to keep them alive through the war.
It is twenty-four hours since Max Ride and the other bird-kids escaped the New York Institute, and they are still running. There are six of them, 98 per cent human and 2 per cent bird, and they came away with information that might tell them where their parents are, if they can work out what the garbled words and numbers mean.
William Boot lives in genteel poverty in the country and writes nature notes for a national newspaper, the Daily Beast. When the paper's editors confuse him with a fashionable novelist who is a remote cousin of his, he is sent as a foreign correspondent to Ishmaelia, a fictional state in East Africa, to report on a crisis his proprietor is certain will be a very promising little war.
Alex Rider goes to Italy to find Scorpia, the organisation he believes is connected to his father's death, and is offered a place inside it. The offer is more attractive than it should be, and the operation he is trained for puts him in the position of the assassin rather than the target.
A small town in drought-stricken New South Wales is still living with the morning a priest killed five of his parishioners and was then shot himself. A journalist arrives to write about how the community is coping and finds that the accepted account does not fit the facts he can check. Every person he talks to has a reason to prefer the version they have agreed on.
In a future where disease and death have been eliminated, the population is controlled by professional killers called scythes, who choose whom to end. Two teenagers are apprenticed to a scythe, and as they learn the work they have to decide what kind of people they are prepared to become.
Freya is eighteen when she is taken captive in battle, and she is furious that her captor takes no account of her noble birth and treats her as he would any woman captured in a raid. Alaric, the prince who took her, has spent years planning to humiliate the daughter of a man he hates, and he intends to keep her as a slave in his own household. Neither of them plans for what develops between them.
One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not go home from school. She gets on a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomas, a boy she hardly knows, partly because he seems to represent everything missing from her life and partly because he may help her find a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have walked out of a Soviet circus touring Mexico.
The Ibis is an old schooner with a mixed crew and a hold full of opium, sailing the Indian Ocean in the years just before the Opium Wars. The passengers include a ruined raja, a village widow, an American of mixed parentage and an opium trader with a missionary streak, alongside sailors, stowaways and convicts. The novel moves from the poppy fields of the Ganges to the high seas and the back streets of China, and as their old ties fall away the people aboard begin to think of themselves as ship-brothers.
The warhammer Aegis-fang has ended up in the hands of the pirate captain Sheila Kree, and Wulfgar is following her. When Drizzt Do'Urden and his companions leave Mithral Hall in search of Wulfgar, they find themselves on the trail of the hammer as well, a path that will lead them to a reunion and to the last battle for the heart and soul of their friend.
Geralt of Rivia kills a monster that was made to slaughter people, and within days he is under arrest, his two witcher swords are gone and he has made a powerful enemy. Getting them back means dealing with a sorceress, the authorities and a great deal of rumour. The novel stands on its own in the middle of the Witcher series.
The Mule has taken the Foundation apart and is now looking for the other one. Hari Seldon established a second colony of scholars at the opposite end of the galaxy, and it has been hidden for centuries, which is the only reason the plan still has a chance: the Mule's search for it becomes the whole plot of the first half of the book. The second half moves the question forward by some years and puts a young woman and her father at the centre of a hunt run from the other direction, where the people doing the looking are being looked at in turn. The novel closes the trilogy.
Flynn Rammage pursued Heather Devany eight months ago, while he was angry and newly separated, and then left her. He is back now asking for a second chance, and he has just been given custody of his young son, which makes Heather wonder what he is actually looking for. What she wants to know is whether he came back for her or for somebody to help with the child.
On the eve of her graduation from an exclusive private school, the shy Semantha Heavenstone is caught up in scandal and betrayal, and she returns to the family's grand Kentucky mansion where memories of her mother and her older sister Cassie are still sharp. Wherever she goes, Semantha is haunted by her sister's voice.
Two 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.
Dawn has reached a music school in New York and is close to the singing career she has wanted, but she keeps thinking about Jimmy and the secrets they share. When a celebrated singer joins the faculty and takes an interest in her, she is drawn into a relationship that ends with his disappearance and leaves her exposed to her grandmother's schemes again.
The fourth Dollanganger novel follows Cathy from the age of fifty-two to her death a few years later. Fifteen years after the previous book, she and Chris travel to the home of their son Bart, which has been built as an exact copy of the family's old house, and there they meet a man who turns out to be one of their own.
Alyss is Queen of Wonderland, and the people who prefer chaos to peace are already trying to destroy what she has built. Between the demands of government and a Royal Bodyguard who follows her everywhere, she has very little privacy. Then a series of phantom sightings convinces everyone that her aunt Redd has returned.
Ten thousand years from now, human civilisation covers a great many worlds, and Alex Benedict makes his living buying and selling the objects it left behind. A woman brings him a cup covered in archaic symbols and asks what it is worth. The answer is that it came from the Seeker, one of the first faster-than-light ships, a colony vessel crewed by people who wanted a free world and never said where they found one.
Valerius was born the son of a Roman senator and has been bound to a goddess so that he can protect humanity from the vampires that haunt it; now he finds himself involved with one of the people he was bound to fight. Tabitha Devereaux is human, and has trained herself to fight vampires as capably as any immortal.
Self-Made Man is Norah Vincent's account of an experiment in which she spent eighteen months living as a man, under the name Ned, and reported on what she found. It was published in 2006, and it is a work of journalism about the parts of life that men and women do not usually see of each other.
When Mr Dashwood dies, the estate passes to his son by his first marriage, and his second wife and three daughters are left with very little to live on. Taken in by a distant relative, Elinor and Marianne must each find their way in a world where a woman's marriage is the only security available, and where feeling and prudence pull the two sisters in opposite directions.
Louise Le Blanc ran from her coven two years ago and survives in the city of Cesarine by stealing whatever she can and using no magic at all, because witches in Cesarine are hunted, feared and burned. Reid Diggory is a Chasseur sworn to the Church, and his life has been built on one rule: a witch does not get to live. Neither of them meant to meet. One badly chosen stunt leaves the two of them bound to each other in a marriage the Church cannot easily undo, in a city where Lou's real enemies are already looking for her. The first Serpent & Dove novel puts a witch and a witch hunter in the same house and lets the arithmetic do the rest.
Azriel is a spirit summoned out of the ancient world and bound to serve whoever holds him, and in present-day New York he watches a young woman be murdered. He decides to act for himself rather than for a master, and to explain what he has become he tells the story of the life he was taken from, beginning with his family in Babylon and the bargain that turned a merchant's son into a servant of the bones.
Eva Mercy writes best-selling erotica in Brooklyn, raises her daughter and is behind on everything. Shane Hall is a reclusive, prize-winning novelist who avoids attention, and he turns up in New York unexpectedly. They meet at a literary event and the room notices, because the city's Black literary scene knows both of them. Nobody there knows that Eva and Shane spent one week together as teenagers, twenty years earlier, or that they have been answering each other in their books ever since. The novel covers the seven days that follow.
Something shatters the Moon, and an astronomer works out what follows: the pieces will spread into a band, come down as a rain of fire, boil the oceans and leave the surface uninhabitable for thousands of years. There are two years to get as many people and as much of the human species as possible into orbit, aboard a structure that was never built to hold them.
The Dog Woman is a giant living in seventeenth-century London, wrapped in a skirt large enough to serve a ship as a sail and strong enough to throw an elephant. With her is Jordan, the boy she has raised, and together the two of them travel: across the seas after bananas and pineapples, and across time, past references to Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. Their journey is a search for the self.
Sexual Personae is Camille Paglia's long argument about sex and decadence in Western art and literature, which Yale University Press brought out in 1990 after seven New York publishers had turned it down. Her account of Western culture turns on the opposition she draws between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, with Apollo standing for order, culture and reason and Dionysus for chaos, nature and emotion, and she tests that idea against a long line of artists and writers, from the ancient world to Emily Dickinson and Oscar Wilde.
Alina Starkov is an orphan serving in the army of Ravka when her unit is attacked crossing the Fold, a strip of darkness full of monsters that divides the country. Something she has kept hidden saves the survivors, and the discovery takes her out of the ranks and into the world of the Grisha.
Jordan Buchanan goes to a wedding that joins two family dynasties, and a dishevelled professor turns up to warn that the MacKennas and the Buchanans have been feuding since Scotland and that a treasure was stolen. The wedding party treats him as a nuisance until somebody takes him seriously enough to hurt him. Jordan starts looking into the story.
After the defeat of the Dominator, the Black Company is down to seven men, and they march south in search of the place their annals say they belong. On the way they are hired again, this time by the crown prince of Taglios, whose commission is to stop the advance of the Shadowmasters before his city is swallowed like the ones behind them.
Rose Hathaway is in her final year at St. Vladimir's Academy, training to become a guardian to her best friend, the vampire princess Lissa. She is still not herself after the death of a friend on a training exercise, and she is seeing things that should not be there. Then the academy is attacked, and the person she loves is taken.
Diana Bishop is a historian from a family of witches, and Matthew Clairmont is a vampire who has been alive for centuries. They are looking for a manuscript whose contents could explain what they are. To find it they travel back to Elizabethan London, where Matthew's old acquaintances are waiting and where a woman who is not supposed to practise magic needs to be taught how.
Having left Egypt with the Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is living in freedom at the foot of Mount Sinai. When the people build a golden idol in defiance of Yahweh, the chaos that follows gives her an unexpected chance to learn midwifery, and she discovers that her gifts show best when she is helping at a birth. Her mother wants her to keep to the family weaving trade, and Shira apprentices herself as a midwife anyway. Then a delivery goes badly wrong.
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.
