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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The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers has spent centuries keeping magic working in England, and it has recently fallen into disgrace: it has named a freed slave with no familiar as its Sorcerer Royal, and the country's stores of magic are bleeding away. Zacharias Wythe sets out for the border of Fairyland to discover why, and meets an unusual companion on the way.
A 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.
Elisabeth was left at one of Austermeer's Great Libraries as a foundling and has grown up among the grimoires kept there, books that whisper on the shelves, rattle their chains and turn into monsters of ink and leather when something provokes them. She wants to train as a warden, one of the people who keep those books and the kingdom safe from each other. Everybody knows that sorcerers are evil, and that the libraries exist because of the things they made. Elisabeth's certainty holds right up until a volume is destroyed under circumstances that point at her, and the only person offering to help is a sorcerer. Sorcery of Thorns is a standalone about a girl who has learned a rule and then met the exception to it.
Vern Riley grows up inside the Blessed Gardens of Cain, a Black separatist community where she is made to marry its leader and where she comes to believe that the visions the members suffer are not religious at all. She leaves, has her children alone in the woods, and finds that her body is changing in ways she cannot explain.
Alexia Tarabotti has several social problems: she has no soul, she is a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead, and she has just been attacked by a vampire, which breaks every standard of etiquette. Then she kills the vampire by accident and Lord Maccon, a loud and untidy werewolf, is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.
A boy lives with his sharecropper family and their dog, Sounder. When his father is jailed for stealing a ham from the place where he works in order to feed them, the family loses what little security it had, and the boy goes out to make his own way by learning to read.
On the Discworld the eighth son of an eighth son is always a wizard, so when such a wizard has a son of his own the child is a sourcerer: a source of magic rather than a user of it. This one is a small boy, and the wizard Rincewind, lately fallen off the edge of the world, is one of the few people who could stop him.
In 2075 a teenager from Iowa applies to join the Interplanetary Patrol, sits through its physical, mental and ethics tests, and is accepted as a cadet. Training takes him to an orbiting school ship and then to a patrol vessel, where the search for a missing research ship in the asteroid belt turns up evidence of a civilisation that is no longer there.
A century after the Sentience Wars nearly ended intelligent life in the galaxy, the survivors settled on a way of celebrating their continued existence: an interspecies music contest called the Metagalactic Grand Prix. For a species to be admitted to galactic civilisation rather than declared non-sentient and destroyed, it has to take part, and it must not come last. Humanity's entry turns out to be Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes, a washed-up glam rock band with only two members still alive and able to perform.
A year after Rosemary Barton collapsed and died at dinner after drinking champagne laced with cyanide, the same six guests sit down at the same table, which has been laid for seven. A sprig of rosemary marks the empty place, and every person sitting there has a good reason to be afraid of what that first dinner set in motion.
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must put aside his fears in order to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers. The novel places a former commander in the position of explaining a dead people to the living rather than of fighting them.
Jessi St. James is studying archaeology and gets more than she bargained for when she finds a mirror with an imprisoned Celtic warrior inside it. Freeing him puts her in the way of a group of men who want the mirror and of an immortal who has spent thirteen hundred years waiting for his freedom. The two of them have to stay alive and work out what they are to each other.
One October night the stars go out: a black membrane has been placed around the Earth, and time inside it now runs millions of times faster than time outside. Tyler Dupree and the Lawton twins, who watched it happen from a back yard, grow up in a world whose remaining decades are numbered, with Jason trying to understand the membrane and Diane trying to live inside it.
On the princess's name-day the fairy Pernicia lays a curse on the baby: that she will prick her finger on a spindle and fall into a poisoned sleep. That same day a young fairy, Katriona, carries the child away and hides her in a village, where she grows up as an ordinary girl called Rosie with no idea who she is.
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father is a poor one: free with loans and reluctant to collect them, he has left the family close to poverty. She takes the work over, hardens her heart and gains a reputation for turning silver into gold. Then a boast reaches the cold creatures who haunt the wood, and they bring her silver they expect back as gold.
On the technological and decadent world of Proton, somebody is trying to destroy Stile, a serf who is also a master Gamesman. His only escape lies through a mysterious curtain revealed by a robot, and beyond it is Phaze, a world entirely ruled by magic, where his alternate self has already been murdered. The two worlds are linked closely enough that a death in one of them is not contained by it.
Two Secret Service agents whose careers ended in disgrace are the people the investigation falls to, and neither of them has any reason to trust the other. A series of assassinations and abductions appears to have nothing in common, and the answer is somewhere in the work that ruined both of them.
Three people are circling the same secret in contemporary America. Hollis Henry, a former musician now writing for a magazine that does not exist yet, is researching a story about locative art. Tito moves information for a family with unusual employers, and Milgrim is a translator held in place by a man who claims to have rescued him.
Adam has just moved to a small town he thinks is called Springville, until a girl named Sally tells him that its real name is Spooksville and that the stories about it are true. She and a boy called Watch take him looking for the Secret Path, which leads to other versions of the town.
Abby and Red Whitshank have lived for decades in the house Red's father built in Baltimore, and their four grown children gather on the porch to hear the story of how their parents met. Everyone there has heard it many times. As Abby and Red get older, the question of who will look after them, and who will get the house, begins to divide the family.
Charlotte and her family are going to France, and Stacey has agreed to look after their house and their dog while they are away. It should be simple work. Then Carrot starts growling at nothing, glasses of water appear that she did not pour, and she finds orange hair in a hairbrush that is not hers.
Stacy Thompson plans other people's weddings for a living and has seen enough of them to be wary of one of her own. When she meets Max Edwards the attraction is immediate, and both of them then have to deal with the fears and the things they have not said to each other.
Torrey Peters's Stag Dance, published in 2025, holds three short stories and a short novel. The four pieces have little in common beyond their interest in trans lives, and Peters wrote them in different genres to show how varied that material can be, setting one in an apocalyptic Seattle, one at a boarding school, one at a logging camp and one at a gathering in Las Vegas.
Victorian London has a murderer the newspapers have christened Jack the Ripper, and the police have nothing to show for their investigation. A well-off young woman, more interested in dead bodies and forensic work than in the marriage her family has in mind for her, decides that she is going to work out who he is, using the parts of London society that the police cannot enter.
The world of 2010 has too many people in it, and the institutions that are supposed to manage them are run by corporations. Norman House is a rising executive in one of the largest, using his background to build a career, and Donald Hogan is his roommate, working for an intelligence agency in ways he cannot discuss. Both are about to be sent a long way from New York.
Dalgard 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.
Ahsoka Tano left the Jedi Order before the Clone Wars ended, and the purge that followed left her with nothing to belong to. Living under an assumed name, she avoids the Force and the lightsabers she still carries, until the Empire's reach into a small community forces her to choose between staying hidden and helping the people she has come to know.
Twenty-five years after the defeat of the Empire, Leia Organa sits in a Senate that can barely pass a motion, split between planets that want their own authority and those who want a strong centre. When rumours of a new criminal power reach her, the investigation she opens will put the secret of her parentage in front of the whole galaxy.
Darth Bane is the last surviving Sith, and the rule he has laid down for the order's future is that there must never be more than two of them. Now he needs a student to carry the dark side forward, and a Jedi called Johun Othone, whose master died at Bane's hands, has made finding him a personal matter.
Darth Plagueis is a Sith Lord with a rare and dangerous command of the dark side: his studies have given him power over life and death itself. His apprentice is the man who will one day become the Emperor, and the two of them work patiently to bring the whole galaxy under the rule of the Sith.
On the planet Tython, long before the Jedi Order of the films existed, the Je'daii order was founded and its masters taught the mysteries of the Force. Lanoree Brock became one of its most capable students, while her brother, in whom the Force showed itself not at all, grew up despising everything the Je'daii stood for. When he goes beyond the order's reach, she is the one sent after him.
The Imperial prison barge Purge is carrying five hundred of the galaxy's most dangerous convicts when its engines fail somewhere remote and empty. The only hope for the people aboard is a Star Destroyer found drifting nearby and apparently abandoned, and the boarding party sent across to strip it for parts comes back with fewer than half its people.
The Empire stands close to collapse and has kept one plan back for the very end. A plot is set in motion that could destroy the New Republic in a bloodbath of civil war, and it is followed by news that changes every calculation: Grand Admiral Thrawn, the warlord long believed dead, may have come back to lead what is left.
Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi are a working pair, and the training between them runs both ways. Then an offer arrives that threatens to end the apprenticeship, and the two of them are sent to a planet where the politics are dangerous and the future is more uncertain than either of them can admit.
Before the Clone Wars break out, the Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth asks the Senate to back a voyage unlike any the Republic has attempted: six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights and fifty thousand settlers aboard one enormous vessel, sent past the edge of known space to find intelligent life and settle new worlds. The project is called Outbound Flight, and it carries the hopes of its passengers and the attention of people who would rather it never arrived.
Revan was a Jedi, and then he was something else: his memories were taken from him and he was made into a weapon for the Sith. He has come back to himself believing that he once found something that threatens the Republic, and he sets out to deal with it with no clear idea of what it was or who he can trust with the search.
An exiled Chiss warrior is found on an unnamed world at the edge of the Outer Rim and offered a place in the Imperial navy by Emperor Palpatine. Thrawn is not interested in rank for its own sake, and the Empire is not sure what it has taken on or how far the officer's loyalty will stretch.
Five years after the destruction of the second Death Star, the New Republic is still putting itself together. In what remains of the Imperial fleet, the last of the Emperor's commanders has taken charge, and he has two discoveries that he believes can destroy everything the Rebellion built. The books introduce the commander who will become the Republic's most dangerous enemy.
Two hundred years before the Empire, the Republic is expanding and the Jedi are building a beacon called Starlight to link the far parts of the galaxy. Then a cargo ship is destroyed in hyperspace while taking evasive action, and the wreckage begins dropping out of hyperspace across whole systems, killing thousands and leaving the Jedi to reach the survivors and work out who caused it.
Two hundred years before the fall of the Republic, the Jedi are at the height of their confidence and the Republic is expanding, and the raiders known as the Nihil have made it their business to stop them. Their leader is preparing the attack that gives this novel its name, and the Jedi who have to answer it are the ones who have been trained to believe they will prevail.
In the hamlet of Wall, named for the high stone wall that runs along its eastern edge, the young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to Victoria Forester. On a crisp October evening he makes her a promise, an impetuous vow that sends him through the only breach in the wall and into the land of Faerie beyond it, where the object of his quest is not what he expected.
The four Clans of warrior cats have reached the lake that is to be their new home, and now they have to divide it up, learn its dangers and find a place where they can speak with StarClan. More than one cat has plans of their own for the new territory, and the threats inside the Clans begin to look worse than the ones in the forest.
Max Jones works his family's farm in the Ozark Mountains until his stepmother's remarriage drives him away from home. With his late uncle's astrogation manuals in his bag he hitchhikes towards Earthport, hoping to be recognised as an astrogator's heir in a world where most trades are closed guilds and space travel belongs to the wealthy. He falls in with a hobo who can get him aboard a starship, but only under another man's name.
Set during an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids of Klendathu, the novel is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, a capsule trooper in the Mobile Infantry. It opens with him aboard a corvette preparing to raid a planet held by allies of the Arachnids, and then returns to his decision to enlist against his father's objections.
The Earthship Streaker is crewed by a hundred and fifty uplifted dolphins, a handful of humans and a chimpanzee, and it has just found a fleet of fifty thousand derelict ships that appear to belong to the first race in the galaxy. Every other species wants to know where they found it. The ship limps to a planet with a poisonous ocean and waits to be found.
Eco-terrorists are arranging a series of disasters dramatic enough to frighten the world into treating climate change as the emergency they believe it is. Their campaign is managed by a man who moves easily among environmental foundations and their donors, and the lawyer drawn into the trail has to work out who is staging the events and why the intelligence he is given keeps pointing in the wrong direction.
A famous actor dies on stage in Toronto during a performance of King Lear, and the flu pandemic that closes the world begins the same week. Twenty years later a travelling company walks the shore of Lake Michigan performing Shakespeare and classical music to the settlements, and one of its actors was a child in that production of Lear. The book circles round a handful of people connected to that night: a paramedic who was in the audience, a child actor who was given a comic book that night, and the artist who made it. The story moves between the night of the performance and the years after it.
A bureaucrat from the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, is sent to the planet Miranda to find a fugitive who holds forbidden technical knowledge. His quarry knows the world far better than he does, and the continent-inundating Jubilee tides are almost due, so the search is being run in a society that is already coming apart around it.
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.
