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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In 1900 a twelve-year-old girl is sent by boat to be married to a widower she has never met, and arrives at a family estate in Kerala where the household keeps a water tree, a family record marked with the names of the drowned. In every generation at least one member of the family dies in water, and the novel follows the girl who becomes Big Ammachi.
Lucy Carlyle has left Lockwood & Co., and Anthony Lockwood has to ask her to come back when a crime forces his hand. The two of them, and the agency's small team, follow the case into the upper reaches of London society, where the people who employ them have reasons of their own for wanting the truth kept quiet.
John Peerybingle is a slow but honest carrier, and he lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny, Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, and then a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging in the house.
Sugar works in a Victorian London brothel and has a plan for getting out of it, and William Rackham is the heir to a perfume business who decides that he wants her. He installs her in his house, where she is drawn into the running of the business, the unhappiness of his wife and the household's arrangements. The novel moves between its characters and follows Sugar's own writing as well as the family's fortunes, taking in the smells, streets and commerce of the 1870s.
Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where an unknown fate is waiting for them. The army is tormented by questions and stands on the edge of mutiny, and Adjunct Tavore will not relent: one final act remains to her, if she can hold the soldiers together and if the alliances she has forged can survive what is coming. Awaiting her and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity.
Poppy has the love she never expected and a great deal of unfinished business: Casteel's brother to free and her own to find. She also has a birthright she never asked for. The blood in her veins makes her the rightful ruler of Atlantia, which means a crown or a refusal, and neither option is quiet. Rival powers would rather she never took either, and older forces are moving back into play behind the courts. The third Blood and Ash novel pushes Poppy and Casteel past the borders they know, into the question of who has been running this conflict from the start and what it will cost to end it.
Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her sisters were taken to live in the High Court of Faerie. Ten years later she wants to belong there, despite being mortal and surrounded by fae who would rather she did not exist at all. Prince Cardan, the youngest and least pleasant of the High King's sons, takes every opportunity to make that clear. To win a place at court Jude has to defy him, and in doing so finds out how much of Faerie's scheming she is naturally good at. The first Folk of the Air novel is a mortal girl working out exactly how much damage she is prepared to do.
Oedipa Maas is named as the executor of the estate of a former lover, a wealthy California man, and what she finds while sorting out his affairs is a possible centuries-old feud between two mail companies, and a conspiracy she cannot prove. She cannot tell whether any of it is real, and neither can the reader.
The Crystal Cave is a fantasy novel by Mary Stewart and the first of five she wrote about King Arthur and his world. It is told by Merlin himself, from his childhood until he is a young man, and it follows him across Wales, Brittany, England and Ireland as he looks for a place to belong.
Alvin Miller, a seventh son of a seventh son, is staying at a boarding house where mixed-blood children are cared for when he uses his knack to clear the mosquitoes and the disease out of a well. A young woman the people call Dead Mary asks him to heal her mother, who has yellow fever, and the cure spreads through Nueva Barcelona and heads off a war over slavery.
In Icewind Dale, where the Ten Towns survive on the edge of the tundra, a barbarian named Wulfgar is defeated and indentured to a dwarf for five years. A crystal shard found in the mountains gives a wizard's apprentice the power he has always wanted, and the dark elf ranger Drizzt Do'Urden is drawn into the defence of the towns.
Cormoran Strike lost a leg in Afghanistan and now works as a private investigator, which is going badly: one client, unpaid bills and a bed in his own office. Then the brother of a dead supermodel arrives with a case. Lula Landry fell to her death months ago and the police called it suicide, and her brother wants to know whether that is true.
Evalle has two days to keep a promise that gives an entire race its freedom, and demonic Svart Trolls have just invaded Atlanta. To stop the gang wars they are leading she has to ask for help from Isak Nyght, a Black Ops specialist who recently had her in his sights, and in doing so she exposes a secret that endangers everything she cares about.
In 1888 Will Henry is twelve years old and apprenticed to Dr. Pellinore Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts real monsters and studies them afterwards. The new quarry is the Wendigo, a creature that starves as it eats, and the hunt takes the pair into country where the monster is not the only danger.
Someone tries to run Leonidas Witherall over on a snowy day in Dalton, and he is saved by a brassy young woman named Margie and her boyfriend Cuff. Then he escapes them, is struck by a second car, and wakes up in the home of a former pupil who is sitting in the same room with a knife in him.
A curator at the Louvre is found dead inside the museum with his body arranged as a message, and the police call in Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor who works on symbols and who happened to be in Paris for a lecture. He is joined by Sophie Neveu, a cryptologist with the police who recognises the message as being intended for her. The trail runs from the museum into a set of codes left by a painter, and into a dispute between two organisations that have been keeping a secret for centuries. Langdon is wanted for the murder.
Snowfall is queen of the IceWings while still young, and she has a plan for keeping her tribe safe: nobody comes in and nobody leaves. Then a storm drives a crowd of unfamiliar dragons onto her shore asking for somewhere to stay, and the newcomers are in no state to be sent away again, so she has to work out what her rules are worth.
An American veteran of the Second World War goes back to Germany after the fighting to find the woman he left there, and stays. What he finds is a country in ruins where the currency everybody deals in is not money but American cigarettes. He stays there far longer than he meant to.
The first alien fleet is four centuries away, and the beings inside it have an advantage that no defence can answer: particles that watch and report everything humanity does, so that no plan can be kept secret. The Wallfacer Project gives four men enormous resources and one instruction, which is to devise a strategy hidden through misdirection.
Thad Beaumont is a novelist and recovering alcoholic whose own books, cerebral literary fiction, have not sold well. Under the pen name George Stark he writes successful crime novels about a psychopathic killer. When his authorship of the Stark books becomes public, he and his wife stage a mock burial for the alter ego, and the figure they bury does not stay in the ground. The dead author behaves exactly as Thad wrote him, which leaves Thad responsible for acts he did not commit and cannot explain to anyone.
Apollo, now mortal and working for a teenager, is ordered west by his enemy Nero, and the instruction is aimed at stopping him from reaching the next oracle. He and Meg travel to Indianapolis, where they find the second of the oracles, the people running the city's supernatural business, and the allies who are left to them.
The dragonets are on their way to the NightWings, and Starflight, who belongs to that tribe, knows the visit will not go well. His duty is to persuade the others to support Blister as queen, though he has started to suspect his own tribe is keeping something from him.
Roland's group remains intact but scattered across different places and times. Susannah has been carried from the Dixie Pig to a chamber in Thunderclap; Jake and Father Callahan have entered a restaurant on Lexington and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, not knowing how many enemies are waiting; Roland and Eddie are in Maine in 1977, looking for where the walk-ins have been seen. They want to get back to each other.
Aeriel is kidnapped by the Darkangel and carried up into his dozens of black wings to his distant keep, where she is to serve his brides: thirteen pitiful creatures who were each beautiful once, before he drained away their souls. Aeriel would free them, but she is one of his captives herself.
Luke Tanner's parting words on their first evening together sounded more like a threat than a promise to Amy Warren. Four years after tragedy ended her marriage she is still hurting, and still terrified of loving anyone again. As a partner in a tour company that organises trips through the South African countryside, she is forced to work with him.
Tigerstar's ambition has brought the forest to the edge of disaster, and ThunderClan is facing the worst moment in its history. Firestar, now the leader, has to work out what a prophecy from StarClan means before the Clans are destroyed by the fight that is coming. The four Clans of wild cats share the forest, and this volume brings their long argument to its crisis.
A disease has killed most of the children in the United States and left the survivors with powers the government will not allow them to keep, for their own protection. Ruby Daly, who has been hiding what she can do, escapes and joins a group of runaways crossing a country that is hunting them.
Hazel and her brother Ben live in a town where the folk of the forest are part of ordinary life, and where a horned boy has been asleep in a glass coffin in the woods for as long as anyone can remember. Hazel grew up believing that she and her brother were destined to be heroes. Then the coffin is broken open, and Hazel has a good reason to think she is the one who did it.
Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is in hospital with a broken leg, and an actress friend brings him pictures of historical figures to occupy him. One of them is a portrait of Richard III, and Grant cannot square the face with the monstrous uncle of the history books. The case he takes up is five hundred years old, and he has nothing to do but think about it.
In 1963 a secret French organisation hires an Englishman to shoot President de Gaulle. The man is unknown to every intelligence service in Europe and good enough at the work that the police hunting him have almost nothing to go on. The book follows both sides in step, from the planning and the false identities to the morning itself.
Bill Masen wakes in hospital with his eyes bandaged to find that almost everyone who watched a spectacular meteor shower has been blinded, and that society has stopped. The triffids, walking plants that have been farmed for their oil, are now free to move and kill, and he has to decide what kind of life is possible.
Tyrel Sackett is eighteen when he has to leave Tennessee, having killed a man who was trying to kill his brother. Orrin catches up with him, and the two of them head west to New Mexico, where land grants are being voided by fraud and where a man with a gun and a willingness to use it is not automatically welcome.
On the night of the new moon the demons rise in force, and what they are looking for is two men, either of whom might turn out to be the Deliverer of prophecy. The scattered remains of humanity are waiting to see which of them it is. The two of them have been waiting for this night as well.
A disease has killed or changed everyone over the age of fourteen, and the children left behind are trying to stay alive in a London where the grown-ups they knew have become something else. A group travelling across the city towards a promised shelter has to work out who to trust among the survivors they meet on the way.
Delia's new house was not built as a house. It used to be the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females, an asylum that local people nicknamed Hysteria Hall, and its rooms and records still belong to the institution. Many of the young women held there were neither insane nor dangerous.
A small group of teenagers is hiding in the bush while an unnamed foreign power occupies their part of Australia. They have already lost two of their number and do not know what has become of either of them, and in this second summer of the war they decide that they have to find out, which means going back into the town they escaped from.
Rosamond Treverton believes she is the daughter of the mistress of Porthgenna Tower, and twenty years after that woman's death the truth about her parentage is still hidden, written down by a servant and left in an unused room. A blind girl, a lost letter and a house with one door that is never opened carry the secret until somebody finds it.
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma of nearly five years and finds that touching people gives him visions of their past and their future. Some of what he learns is ordinary and some of it is not, and one of the futures he sees belongs to a politician whose ambitions would be catastrophic.
Thomas and the other survivors are told that the trials are finished and that their memories will be restored so they can help find a cure for the virus that has emptied the world. None of them trusts the organisation that has been running the tests, and Thomas has to decide what to do about what he remembers.
Seven students from a university mystery club take a boat to a deserted island and stay in the strange decagonal house that stands on it. The island was where a mass murder took place months earlier, and nobody has ever explained it. Then the students start dying one by one, and whoever is doing it is on the island with them.
Lady Emmalene Eberhart was eager to be a good wife, and when her husband died she was still a virgin. Her dowry and her hand then become part of a struggle over feudal power, and she is promised to Amaury de Aneford, a landless knight whose sword has preserved the King's crown. On the wedding day a rival knight is already riding towards the bridal chamber.
At a hotel in Chicago, Beth Cappadora leaves her three-year-old son Ben with his older brother for a few minutes while she checks in for her school reunion. When she turns round he is gone. The disappearance breaks the family apart, and nine years later a boy knocks on her door and asks whether she wants her lawn mowed.
Natty Bumppo, called Deerslayer, is a young frontiersman on Otsego Lake in upstate New York in the 1740s, before the wars that will make his name. He is travelling to meet a friend of his father's when he falls in with two men who are much less particular than he is. One of them, Harry March, wants to take scalps, and Deerslayer will not.
In the twenty-fourth century telepathy is an established profession and the police number Espers among their officers, which is supposed to make murder impossible. Ben Reich runs a business empire that reaches across the solar system and has decided that a rival must die. Everything then depends on whether a determined man can plan a killing that no mind in the room will read.
A demon wakes in the land of Corona, gathers goblins and giants to it, and begins to destroy the settlements on the frontier. Its first attacks leave two children from the same small village orphaned, and one of them, Elbryan, is taken in by elves and raised as a ranger while the other, his friend Pony, loses her past to what she has seen.
The demon dactyl has been destroyed, but the kingdom of Honce-the-Bear is not at peace: goblins and powries are moving deeper into settled land and a captive centaur is held at the monastery of St.-Mere-Abelle. Elbryan and Pony, who have known each other since childhood, set out to rescue him. Meanwhile the head of the church begins a private revenge.
The sun is going down on humanity and the night belongs to the demons, and the population that is left has to hide behind symbols of power it no longer entirely understands. This is the second book of the series in which that situation is being changed. The demons come up as the sun goes down.
In 1634 the investigator Samuel Pipps is put aboard a ship at Batavia to be taken back to Amsterdam, where he is to be tried and probably executed for a crime he may or may not have committed. His bodyguard Arent Hayes goes with him, determined to clear him, and the voyage begins badly. What follows happens almost entirely aboard that one ship.
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.
