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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Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young and impatient member of a Texas family that has run guns for generations. Unfulfilled by his minor place in the business, he crosses into Mexico to work in security for a drug cartel run by the ruthless La Navaja, and falls for a woman called Miranda. By the time he learns who she belongs to, it is too late.
A widow is suing a tobacco company over the death of her husband from lung cancer, and the trial is being heard in a Mississippi town chosen because its juries are thought to be sympathetic. Before the jury has even been sworn in, both sides are spending enormous sums trying to control who ends up on it, and one of the jurors is not who he says he is.
Ben Richards cannot afford medicine for his daughter, so he applies for the only work that pays enough: a game show in which a man is released into the country and hunted for a month. The longer he survives, the more money his family receives, and the audience watches every stage of it.
Small Sam and the Kid have reached the Tower of London, where Jordan Hordern's crew offers food, walls and friendship, and Sam cannot settle. All he wants is his sister Ella, and despite everyone's objections he sets out west through the no-go zone with the Kid beside him, while a hunter called Shadowman tracks a man building an army.
Marisa was an orphan, and the wealthy Santangeli family raised her on one condition: that she marry their son. Lorenzo Santangeli is a billionaire and a well-known playboy, and he expects his innocent wife to be his on their wedding night. Marisa, who is twenty, runs instead, because she cannot face sharing a bed with a man who married her only to produce an heir.
The novel begins with two men falling out of a hijacked aircraft above the English Channel and surviving the fall. It was inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and its title refers to a group of Quranic verses about three pagan Meccan goddesses. Rushdie builds the story from contemporary events and figures and keeps the plane's survivors at the centre.
Tess Meredith and Raven Following grew up sharing the Montana plains, and the hardships that fell on the Sioux drove Raven away from his people and from her. He has rebuilt his life in Chicago as a different man, and then Tess arrives there, having become a suffragette. She is there to fight for the causes she believes in, not to find him.
Murhder is the only male ever expelled from the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and he has spent decades haunted by visions of a woman he could not save. He comes back to Caldwell to put right the wrong that ruined him. Dr Sarah Watkins, a researcher at a biomedical firm, is trying to understand the death of the man she was going to marry, and the answers are worse than she expected.
Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather met at catering college and have been friends ever since, and now they are going into business together under the name Scarlet Feather. Cathy is married to Neil Mitchell, whose mother has never accepted that her son married the daughter of the woman who used to clean her floors. Tom's girlfriend Marcella wants to be a model. The first year of the business is going to be difficult.
Hester Prynne conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and is punished by being made to wear a scarlet letter as a mark of adultery. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1642 and 1649, the novel follows her attempt to build a life of repentance and dignity in a community that has decided what she is, and follows the two men connected to her secret.
During the Reign of Terror a band of English gentlemen keeps smuggling French aristocrats out of the country before they reach the guillotine, and nobody knows who leads them, only that a small red flower is left behind each time. In London, Marguerite Blakeney is a celebrated French actress married to Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy man whose visible talents appear to be clothes and a good-natured drawl. French agents are hunting the person behind the flower, and Marguerite knows more about him than she would like.
The palazzo of the Scarletti family carries strange carvings and gargoyles, and a worse reputation: every bride who enters it is said to leave in a casket. Nicoletta has no fear of curses or of marriage until she looks into the eyes of Don Scarletti, who as head of the family has the right to choose a wife from among his people.
Every four years two children are taken from the village of Gavaldon and never seen again. Sophie, who is beautiful and desperate to be a princess, and Agatha, who is thought to be a witch, are taken together, and both are placed in a school where children are trained to become heroes or villains.
Sophie and Agatha were best friends, then enemies, and their story was supposed to be finished. In the third book of the series it is being rewritten, and with the two of them apart the forces of Evil have taken over while the forces of Good are in danger. The novel follows the two girls after they have separated, and asks what it would take for them to be friends again.
Thomas was sure that escaping from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the other Gladers, but the organisation that built it is not finished. Phase Two is the Scorch, and the Gladers have two weeks to cross the most burned-out section of the world, with the odds deliberately stacked against them and other survivors whose own survival depends on theirs failing.
London is in the middle of an outbreak of ghosts that appear at night and attack anybody who touches them, and the only people who can see them are children. Lucy Carlyle joins a small agency run by a teenager, and the firm's next case involves a house with a staircase that screams.
Percy Jackson is thirteen and finishing a quiet seventh-grade year when the trouble starts: the magic border that protects Camp Half-Blood has been poisoned, and monsters are getting through. Percy's friend Grover is being held prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus on an island somewhere in the Sea of Monsters, and the only cure for the camp's dying tree is the Golden Fleece, which is on the same island. Percy, Annabeth and Tyson, a homeless boy who turns out to be more than he seems, set out to sea to find both.
Humphrey Van Weyden is a literary critic whose ferry collides with another vessel in the fog, and he is picked out of the water by the crew of a sealing ship. The captain who rescues him, Wolf Larsen, is a man of enormous physical strength and no moral restraint whatsoever, and he has no intention of putting his guest ashore.
Charles Arrowby is a successful London theatre director who decides to leave the world behind and write his memoirs in a house beside the sea. There he thinks he sees a sea monster and then meets his first love, Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since they were young, and he becomes determined to have her.
Grave forces are converging to seize control of the Book of Thoth, an artifact whose pages hold the key to creating or unmaking the threads of existence itself. Max McDaniels and David Menlo are sent to protect it from the demon Astaroth, who has been imprisoned for centuries and is now free. Beyond the gates of their school, the world has already turned hostile.
Tommy Beresford and Prudence Cowley, known to everyone as Tuppence, are old friends, demobilised after the war and short of money. They decide to advertise themselves as Young Adventurers, willing to do anything and go anywhere, and their first client makes Tuppence an offer that is far more generous than the work. The name they overheard in passing, Jane Finn, turns out to matter.
Adolf Verloc runs a shop in Soho that sells photographs and other things the neighbours do not mention, and he is paid by an unnamed foreign embassy for information. His employers want a bombing in London that will be blamed on the anarchists, and they want it soon. Verloc is not a man who has ever been asked to do anything difficult.
Mary Lennox is a ten-year-old brought up in India by servants and parents who did not want her, and when a cholera outbreak kills everybody in the house she is sent to England to live with an uncle she has never met. Misselthwaite Manor is a large, cold house on the Yorkshire moors, and her uncle is away most of the time. Mary is unpleasant and lonely until she finds a walled garden that has been locked for ten years, and a boy who lives in the house and cannot walk. The garden and the boy are connected.
Richard Papen arrives at a small, expensive college in Vermont and talks his way into the Classics class: six students taught by one professor and almost nobody else. It is a closed world of Greek texts, and belonging to it costs a great deal. Richard tells the story years later and starts with the death, so the book is less about what happened than about how the group talked itself into it.
Lily Owens is fourteen, and her life has been shaped around a blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When her stand-in mother Rosaleen insults three of the town's most committed racists, Lily decides that the two of them should leave, and they travel to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town that holds the answer to her mother's past. There they are taken in by three beekeeping sisters.
Anthony Cade is a cheerful drifter who takes a messenger job from a friend in Africa, and it looks like easy money: deliver the memoirs of a dead European count to a publisher in London. The manuscript turns out to be worth killing for, because it contains letters that bear on the restoration of a monarchy, and other people want it very badly.
Platform 13 at King's Cross has been closed for years, and every attempt to change it fails for reasons nobody explains, because it hides a gump: an opening that appears once every nine years for nine days and leads to the Island, where magical and ordinary creatures live side by side. During the last opening the infant prince was stolen, and now a rescue party is being put together.
Roseanne McNulty is approaching her hundredth birthday in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital, where she has spent most of her adult life and which is about to be demolished. She begins to write the story of herself and of her parents in Sligo at the turn of the twentieth century, and hides it under a floorboard in her room. The hospital's chief psychiatrist, Dr Grene, is meanwhile trying to establish which of his patients can be released.
It is the very first adventure of the Secret Seven, and the club of child detectives is already on the trail of some peculiar clues. It is snowing, the seven are in disguise, and the lead takes them to a spooky old house and a mystery that has to be solved before the weather or the adults put a stop to it.
Diane Albret was rescued as a girl by Daniel St. John, and over the years she has come to see her guardian as the most dangerous and irresistible man she has ever met. She has grown from an orphaned schoolgirl into a determined young woman, and leaving the sheltered life he arranged for her brings the two of them into conflict.
Tony Webster is retired, divorced and on reasonable terms with his daughter, and he has spent decades not thinking about his school friends. Then a solicitor's letter arrives and the past requires his attention: a bequest from someone he barely knew, a diary he is not allowed to read, and a version of events he has been repeating for forty years without checking.
Oraya is human, the adopted daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, and tolerated rather than welcome in a world built to eat her. Her way out is the Kejari, a tournament run in the name of the goddess of death, where the prize is a favour from a god and the competition is the worst each vampire house can send. She has no chance of surviving it alone. Raihn is the one ally available to her, which raises a problem: he is a dangerous fighter, he is a direct threat to her father's throne, and he is the strongest rival in the field. The first Crowns of Nyaxia book is a contest where the only thing more dangerous than trusting the wrong person is wanting them to win.
Apophis, the serpent of chaos, is close to breaking free and swallowing the sun. Carter and Sadie Kane have to find a way to destroy him, which means executing the shadow of a god, and they have only a few months to work out how before the equinox and the end of the world they know.
At a party at Blackheath, the young woman of the house is shot dead as the fireworks go off. The day then repeats, and will keep repeating until Aiden Bishop, one of the guests, names her killer. Each time the morning comes round again he wakes inside a different person at the party, so every clue has to be gathered from inside somebody else's life.
Evelyn Hugo spent decades as one of Hollywood's most famous actresses and married seven times, and at seventy-nine she has decided to tell the truth about all of it, but only to a young magazine writer who has no idea why she was chosen. What follows is the story Evelyn gives her, told in the order of the marriages.
Alessandra has a plan. Win the Shadow King's attention, marry him, kill him, and keep the kingdom. Nobody knows how much power the newly crowned king really has, or whether the shadows that move around him are working for him or reporting on him, and Alessandra does not much care either way. What she did not plan for is the number of other people who want him dead, which turns keeping him alive into a problem she has to solve personally. The Shadows Between Us is a standalone with a heroine who is the most dangerous person in the room, a king who knows it, and two people who are better suited than either would admit.
Penelope Keeling is in her sixties, has just come out of hospital and is recovering at the house in Cornwall where she grew up. She is the daughter of a painter and his much younger French wife, and the novel moves between her present and the years of her marriage, the war and the raising of her three children.
Ayla and Jondalar, with their horses and the wolf, complete their journey across Europe and are greeted by the Zelandonii, Jondalar's own people, at the Ninth Cave. Ayla has to be accepted by a community that regards the Clan who raised her as animals, while her healing knowledge and her pregnancy shape how she is received.
Tiffany Aching is running her own steading and looking after the people of the Chalk when the question of who holds the ground comes up again. The Kelda of the Nac Mac Feegle has something worrying her, and there is work for a witch to do. It is the last of the books in the series.
Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, needs an heir, and an heir means a wife, so he sets about acquiring one. Alexandra Chambers, the youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved him since she was fifteen, but the sister everyone considers incomparable is the one he had in mind, and the two families have their own ideas about how it should end.
Jack Torrance takes a job as winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, a large empty place in the Colorado mountains that closes for the season, and moves in with his wife Wendy and their small son Danny. Danny has a gift the hotel badly wants. The Overlook has a long and violent history, and by the end of the winter it has started working on Jack.
Quoyle is thirty-six, a third-rate newspaperman in upstate New York, and his life comes apart when his wife dies in a car accident with another man. His aunt persuades him to take his two daughters to the ancestral family home on the coast of Newfoundland, where he finds work at a small local paper and begins to make a life out of the wreckage.
Lydia Hoffman has opened a yarn shop in Seattle, which is the new life she wanted after her illness, and she teaches beginners on the side. Three women sign up for the first class, which is called How To Make a Baby Blanket, and each of them has a different reason for being there.
The People's Republic of Haven is close to economic disaster, unable to keep paying for its welfare system and losing its grip on its own politics, and its leaders decide that a short war against Manticore will solve both problems at once. Honor Harrington returns to command of a brand-new battlecruiser after nearly a year recovering from her injuries, and the third Honor Harrington novel puts her in front of an overwhelmingly larger force as open warfare begins.
In the quiet Amish community of Hickory Hollow in Pennsylvania, cherished traditions and heartfelt beliefs have flourished while time has stood still. But a secret lies buried there that could shatter the tranquillity its inhabitants have grown to love. Hickory Hollow keeps the Old Order laws, and questions about the past are not welcome in it.
The novel describes the siege of a fictional Indian town, Krishnapur, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and it is told from the point of view of the British residents. As the siege tightens, the Europeans find themselves short of food and dignity, and the arrangement in which they govern an Asian population is turned upside down.
Lionkit, Hollykit and Jaykit belong to ThunderClan and are the grandchildren of its leader, Firestar. A prophecy given at the end of the previous arc says that three cats of his line will hold the power of the stars in their paws, and as the three are made apprentices the Clans begin to argue about which cats belong among them and which do not.
A young woman asks Sherlock Holmes for help because she has been receiving a pearl every year from an unknown source, and this year the sender has written to say he will visit her. The man who arrives is missing a leg and brings news of a fortune in treasure, a dead man in an empty house and a set of footprints that include a bare foot and a wooden leg. Holmes and Watson investigate the locked room, the Indian servants who are involved and the years-old betrayal that connects all of them.
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.
