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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Mona Mayfair, a young witch and heir to a New Orleans family, is dying at Blackwood Farm of an illness the doctors cannot name. She and the vampire Quinn Blackwood are in love. Lestat, who has decided that he wants to be good, arrives in the middle of it and is asked by the family's guardian spirit to do something he has no intention of doing.
The Dynize have unlocked the Landfall Godstone, an object that could put gods back into the world, and the three people who have been fighting them for two books are running out of options. A spy is sent back into the occupied capital to stop the stone being used. A general who has been relying on an ancient weapon has lost most of her people and her eyesight. A mercenary has twenty riders left and a fleet that has scattered in a storm.
Blood of the Fold is the third book of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, published in 1996. It takes up the story where Stone of Tears left it, with Richard Rahl deciding that the only way to stop the advance of the Imperial Order is to take power into his own hands.
William Laurence wakes on a shore in Japan with no memory of the years he has spent as an aviator, or of the dragon he serves. He is taken for a foreigner who has broken the rules about where Europeans may go, and the local magistrate keeps him in comfortable confinement at Nagasaki. Temeraire, meanwhile, is repairing the transport that has run aground on a reef, and has no idea where his captain is.
Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, and the magic is worked by the High Magistry. Sciona has been an orphan since she was four and has spent twenty years studying to be admitted to it, and she becomes the first woman ever to hold the rank of highmage. Her colleagues' welcome is to give her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.
Ten years ago a girl was orphaned when an Earth Master had her parents killed by the werewolves he had made, and she was saved by a Fire Master of the Woodsman's Lodge. Now another pack is ravaging Exmoor, and she has come to London to help deal with it. Both hunts lead to the same place.
Jerry Luna is fourteen and has stopped speaking since her mother disappeared, and she is sent to live with her great-great-aunt Constanza in New Mexico. In the basement she finds an old trunk, and the things inside carry her into the lives of her ancestors, first among the Jews of Spain before the Inquisition and later in Spanish America.
MacKayla Lane thought she and her sister were ordinary southern girls until she learned that they descend from a Celtic bloodline of sidhe-seers who can see the Fae. Her sister was found dead in a Dublin alley, and Mac has come to Ireland for answers and for revenge, which she now believes she has the power to take.
Jody wakes up in an alley under a dumpster with a badly burned arm and a pain in her neck, and she knows it is not going to be one of her better days. She feels awful, looks worse, her clothes are torn and her sense of smell has become as sharp as an animal's.
Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock are summoned back to Washington from a weekend away when a prominent judge is murdered in the Supreme Court's third-floor library, the night before the court is to hear arguments in a controversial death-penalty case. More killings follow, each one targeting another brilliant and successful figure in the capital.
Stile lives in two worlds at once. On Proton he is a serf who has to compete in the Great Games to prove he deserves to exist, and on Phaze, where only magic works, he is the Blue Adept learning sorcery. In both worlds somebody is trying to kill him, and he also has to win Lady Blue and find the ultimate weapon.
Mars has been made habitable, and the long work of terraforming has split its people between those who want the planet green and those who want the old desert back. Meanwhile Earth struggles with too many people and a collapsing ecology, its governments look to Mars for room, and the settlers have to decide what their world is for.
It is the 2160s, and humanity has repaired the Earth's climate and colonised the inner Solar System. A surveillance system called the Mechanism means violent crime is almost unheard of, genetic engineering has stretched human lifespans, and Africa, China and India are among the leading powers. Two adult siblings set out to solve a mystery left by the head of their family.
Lynette and Dana have loved each other since childhood. Scholarly and handsome, Dana believes he can shape Lynette, who has never challenged his authority or his commitment to what is right, into the perfect minister's wife. Then a sophisticated young woman from New York comes to visit his family, Dana grows critical of Lynette, and Lynette leaves on a family trip to Europe full of doubt.
Burt Stallings wants Mike Shayne to find his daughter, who walked out of the family home in the middle of the night, and he makes it sound less like a request than an order. Shayne has a problem before he starts: he has already found the heiress, and somebody had strangled her before he got to her.
Maura Isles comes back from a conference in Paris to find her luggage missing and her street taped off as a crime scene. In her own driveway is a car, and in the car is a woman who looks exactly like her and shares her birthday. Maura takes a tissue sample from the dead woman and one from herself, and asks a detective she knows to run the comparison.
Maren has never been able to accept affection: whenever anyone gets close enough, she is overwhelmed by the urge to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, she sets out across the country to find the father she has never met and whoever else may live the way she does, with no money and nobody to vouch for her.
Dr Temperance Brennan is called to the Charlotte cold case unit by a homicide detective who works a long way from his own jurisdiction, and the reason is that two child murders thousands of miles apart appear to have been committed by the same person. The suspect is a woman Brennan tried and failed to catch years earlier in Canada.
In an alternate version of the 1860s, Russian prospectors bring in an inventor called Leviticus Blue to build a machine that can mine through the ice of Alaska, and the machine instead tears a path through Seattle, collapses the city's foundations and releases a gas that turns people into the walking dead. Sixteen years later the survivors live behind a wall, and Blue's widow Briar keeps her head down and works in the factory. Her son, who was a baby when the disaster happened, decides to find out what his father was doing, and goes over the wall.
Nora Stephens is a literary agent in New York who has been told, in effect, that she is not the kind of woman a romance novel is written about. When her pregnant younger sister asks for a month in the small town where her favourite book is set, Nora goes along with it. The town keeps producing people she did not plan to see, among them Charlie Lastra, an editor she has already clashed with in the city, who turns out to be staying nearby. The holiday was meant to be for her sister.
Dashti is a mucker from the steppes who takes a position as maid to Lady Saren just as Saren is walled up in a tower for refusing to marry the man her father chose for her. The two of them are shut in for seven years unless Saren gives way, and when Saren will not speak to the man she loves, Dashti is ordered to pretend to be her.
A narrator named Bram Presser tries to find out what happened to his grandparents during the war, working from the small hoard of writing and correspondence they left behind. Jakub Rand and Dasa Roubickova were deported from Poland to Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz, and the closer he gets to the record the more the family stories and the documents refuse to agree.
Three wives of the immortal Armand Argeneau have died in ways that were neither natural nor timely, and a legend has grown up around him because of it. An enforcer is sent to find out whether he is a lover or a murderer, and she does not intend to be charmed. She does not put much faith in legends.
In 1855 Jane Peck sails from Philadelphia to Shoalwater Bay in Washington Territory to join William Baldt, the man who proposed to her. Her passage is on a ship called the Lady Luck and she is accompanied only by her Irish maid Mary, and the voyage costs her more than she expected. Nothing at Miss Hepplewhite's finishing school prepared her for the frontier.
A man who trusts nobody and organises his life around control buys a month with a woman he sees on a stage at an auction. Dahlia has never done anything like this before, and she lies to him about something, which he intends to make her answer for. The arrangement is meant to last four weeks, and neither of them expects it to become anything more than that.
Laura Morgan is the daughter of two people whose story the earlier books told, and she has grown up beautiful, confident and used to the effect she has on the men around her. The one she wants is Trent Challenger, a man with no interest in being managed, and the two of them are tied together by a promise made in the past.
Charlotte Pringle would rather run her bookshop than look for a husband, but her parents are pressing her to agree to an advantageous match, and what she fears is being trapped in a marriage without affection. Richard Baxton has taken on the family business and the care of his niece Grace, who cannot walk. When Grace's love of books brings them to Charlotte's shop, Richard is drawn to her.
Colin is eighteen and has just come out to himself when he meets Ray at a cruising ground near Dorking on the Sunday of his birthday. Ray is ten years older, wears leather and rides a motorbike, and what begins that day becomes a relationship lasting more than six years and built on Ray's control of a boy who has almost nothing of his own.
In the winter of 1953, twenty-year-old Boy Novak runs away from her father in New York and arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking for beauty and the opposite of the life she has left behind. She marries a local widower with a daughter called Snow and becomes a stepmother in a family with a secret.
Luc O'Donnell is the son of a famous musician who has never been part of his life, and a photograph in the tabloids has just made him a problem for the charity he works for. To repair his reputation, his colleagues decide he needs a respectable boyfriend, which is how he ends up with Oliver Blackwood, a barrister with no interest in being anyone's public relations. The arrangement has an end date, a wedding to get through and two entirely different sets of friends attached to it.
Max moves with his German parents to Alabama, where the heat, the food and the religion are all unfamiliar to him and where he is taken up by the school football team. He learns to catch a ball, to handle a gun and to keep his own secrets, and then he meets Pan, the boy the school calls its witch.
Children in the World State are grown in bottles, graded into castes before they are born, and conditioned from infancy to love the work they will do. Everyone is stable, employed and content, assisted by the holiday drug soma and by having no families, no deep attachments and no reason to want anything they cannot have. Bernard Marx is unhappy in ways his conditioning never planned for. Lenina Crowne takes her holidays in the usual way and starts to wonder about them anyway. Between them arrives a man raised outside the system on an old reservation, who has read the books the World State decided were dangerous and cannot understand how anyone lives like this.
Grace McCabe is a mystery novelist who goes to Washington to spend time with her sister Kathleen, and finds her working a telephone sex line in the evenings to pay for a custody lawyer. When Kathleen is killed in her apartment, the police settle on a suspect whom Grace does not believe. She starts asking questions of her own.
Sara Smolinsky is ten years old and lives with her parents and three older sisters in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the rent is almost always overdue. Her father studies the Torah and will not take a job to feed them, and her mother takes in boarders to keep the family in the room. Sara decides early that she will not live the way her sisters do.
Sloan Fairchild runs an inn in a house that has been in her family, and she has decided that romance is not for her. Then her closest friend asks her to put up her fiance for a month, and Carter Madison walks into Fairchild House and changes what Sloan thinks she knows about herself.
Kilgore Trout, an aging and widely published but mostly unknown science fiction writer, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The novel follows the events leading to the chance encounter between the two men, and it uses pictures drawn by the author alongside the text. The dealer's mistake is the book's subject rather than its joke.
Bella Swan has been pulled between her passion for the vampire Edward Cullen and her connection to the werewolf Jacob Black, and she has reached the point where the choice has to be made. She can join the world of the immortals or keep a fully human life. Now that she has decided, a chain of events begins that threatens far more than her own future.
Sophie Caco is twelve and has been brought up in a village near Port-au-Prince by her aunt, who tells her stories and teaches her what she knows. Then a letter comes from Sophie's mother, who left for New York years earlier and has sent for her. Sophie travels alone to a country she does not remember, and to a mother whose nightmares she will come to understand.
Brian Robeson survived alone in the northern wilderness, and now he is back in ordinary life, where high school makes no sense to him at all. He feels more isolated in a crowded corridor than he ever did in the woods. The only answer he can see is to go back to the country where he knew how to live.
Brian Robeson is thirteen and alone in the Canadian wilderness, living beside an L-shaped lake after the plane he was travelling in went down, and he has taught himself enough to last a summer there. In this telling the emergency transmitter in the wreck is never switched on, no rescue comes, and the season that follows is one he was not prepared for.
A young Irish woman called Brida has been interested in magic for as long as she can remember, and what she is looking for now is something the books she has read cannot give her. Her search brings her to two teachers, a wise man who lives in a forest and a woman who knows how to dance to the music of the world.
Misery Lark is the daughter of the most powerful Vampyre on the Southwest council and has spent years living quietly among humans, which is the closest thing to freedom she has had. Now the council needs a marriage to hold its peace with the Weres, and Misery is the daughter it can spare. Lowe Moreland, the Alpha she is handed to, does not trust her for a second and tracks every move she makes in his territory. He has good instincts, because Misery has reasons of her own for agreeing to any of this, and they have nothing to do with politics. A standalone paranormal romance about a marriage of convenience between two people who each came into it to get something back.
Rose Woodbine is the daughter of a wealthy Virginia planter, and she is taken to the court of Charles II, where she is married against her wishes to Lord Pierce Deforte. What she does not know is what he has become in the years since: banished from England, he lives as a pirate, hunting down the people who betrayed him, and she is among the names on his list.
Jenny Sullivan left Cole Randall at the altar, unsure whether she was marrying a man or uniting two cattle ranches, and went east for two years. Her father's death brings her back to the Lazy S for good, where Cole is running the ranch as executor of the estate. She intends to restore the family's spread, and her feelings have not stayed as businesslike as she intended.
Captain Charles Ryder's battalion is sent during the last years of the Second World War to a country house he knows well, and the sight of it takes him back over twenty years. He remembers being drawn into the Flyte family, wealthy English Catholics living in a palatial mansion, and his friendships with two of them, Lord Sebastian and Lady Julia.
The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who then dies trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. Jesse Aarons is an artistic boy from a poor family, and Leslie Burke is a tomboy from a wealthy one, and together they create a kingdom for themselves that only the two of them enter.
Bridget Jones is in her thirties, working in publishing in London and writing all of it down: the calories, the cigarettes, the units of alcohol and the resolutions she does not keep. Her year includes her mother's attempts to arrange her life, a difficult situation with a former boyfriend, and a new and infuriating man, Mark Darcy, who keeps turning up. The diary format keeps the reader inside her running commentary, from Christmas lunch at home to parties she would rather not be attending.
Thomas Cromwell is now the king's chief minister, and Henry VIII has tired of Anne Boleyn. The novel covers the months in which the second marriage is taken apart: the questions asked, the evidence gathered and the men Cromwell uses to gather it, while the court watches to see who rises next. It is the second of three novels following Cromwell, and it keeps to his view of the work in front of him and the household he comes home to.
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.
