The big romance shelf: courts and dragons, small towns and offices, and every kind of love story in between, from the established names to books published this year. 676 books so far, across 159 series, plus 428 titles with no series listed. This is page 14 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonDee-Ann Smith is a former Marine and a member of a shifter protection group, and she does not hold back when she is following an instinct. She is trying to prove that somebody is having hybrids abducted for dogfights, a case that involves her own kind, and her wealthy and well-connected boss insists on helping her with it.
Rating coming soonAbigail Forsythe has had a difficult year, and the last thing she expects to find on a flight is a naked man locked in the cargo hold. She lets him out, and from that point on she is dependent on a stranger for survival, in a country she does not know, with people who took him looking for both of them.
Rating coming soonAlexis Spencer is having the sort of year in which she loses her job and her relationship on the same day, and she blames the world for it, including the younger version of herself who should have tried harder. Then she finds a bottle of vodka from her college days and wakes up in the year 2002.
Rating coming soonDon Tillman is a professor of genetics who has decided that the time has come to find a wife, and being a scientist he approaches the problem the way he approaches everything else: with a sixteen-page questionnaire designed to screen out drinkers, smokers and anyone who arrives late. Then he meets Rosie Jarman, who fails every item on the list.
Rating coming soonEliza Cantrell has agreed to marry a man she has never met and to help him run a general store, and she sets off a week earlier than planned. Robbers take her dowry on the way, and when she finally arrives the man she is supposed to marry is not in town, leaving her with no money, no wedding and nowhere to go.
Rating coming soonRider is a half-breed Shoshoni wanted for murder among his own people, and his only interest is in staying alive. When he sees Emma Trent refused passage on a wagon train bound for Oregon, he offers to guide the train on one condition: that she is allowed to come with it.
Rating coming soonPrudence Barnett is an overachiever with strong opinions about the people around her, and after a night out she wakes up able to make bad behaviour come back on the person who did it. The power works on almost everyone in her coastal town, with one stubborn exception: her lab partner, Quint Erickson.
Rating coming soonBeth Gallatin has wanted only one thing out of life: to settle in a single town, with one man, and raise a family there. Her father's restless wandering made that impossible while he lived, and now that he has died she means to claim the Montana frontier as her own home and to stay.
Rating coming soonRhine Fontaine has built a life for himself in a Nevada town on the strength of passing for white, and he has kept the arrangement going for years without much trouble. Then he rescues a young woman in the desert, and for the first time he finds himself wanting to step out from behind it.
Rating coming soonThe Duke of Kylemore decides to marry London's most celebrated courtesan, and then she disappears. He tracks her down under the name she has taken for herself and carries her off to a lodge in Scotland, where he means to have her on his own terms and she means to get away.
Rating coming soonTwo months after Elizabeth Holland comes home to Manhattan, society is waiting to see her take her place again, and she refuses. Her sister Diana is left to face the questions alone, while further uptown the city's most celebrated newly married couple have little but scorn for each other. The papers call Penelope's friend Carolina Broad an heiress, and her fortune is not what it appears to be.
Rating coming soonA Celtic warlord was murdered before he could marry the woman he loved, and he has been reborn again and again since, each time without any memory of the lives before. She has been waiting for him through all of it, and when they meet again he does not know her.
Rating coming soonBuried under the water, somewhere inside the Bermuda Triangle, there is a treasure worth killing for. Samantha Carlyle runs a dive resort on a small island and wants nothing to do with it, but unexplained events keep happening, her former lover arrives without warning, and somebody tries to take her. Two men she was close to are already gone.
Rating coming soonGareth St. Clair has been left an old family diary by a father who detests him and who is determined to ruin what should have been his inheritance. The diary may hold the secret of his past, but it is written in a language he cannot read, and the woman he asks to translate it is Hyacinth Bridgerton.
Rating coming soonSebastian Wroth was turned into a vampire against his will centuries ago, and he has been alone with his hatred of what he has become ever since. A woman comes to kill him, and what she does instead saves him, which is not what either of them had planned. Neither of them expected to meet somebody worth keeping.
Rating coming soonThe Jinx Inc. treasure-hunting company has a new job, which is to find the cave pearls that are supposed to exist in the lowest chamber of an ancient cave. Its leader, an ex-Navy SEAL named Caleb Peach, first has to persuade an archaeologist to come along, and she is not easy to pin down. The pearls are not the only thing hidden down there.
Rating coming soonIn the underworld of Melbourne there is a nightclub for every taste, and one of them has become an obsession for Riley Jenson, a rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf who works as a guardian. She is not there for pleasure but for a killer using the club as hunting ground. The club is the only way in.
Rating coming soonThree 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.
Rating coming soonNicole Phillips hires a housekeeper and gets a tall, dark and very good looking man named Jake Colson instead. He turns out to be indispensable in the kitchen and everywhere else, and he also turns out not to be mortal, which is a complication neither of them planned on. Nobody in the story is quite what they appear to be.
Rating coming soonBasha Argeneau would rather hide out in southern California than face the family she left behind, and she has been doing it successfully with a travelling carnival. Then an immortal in black arrives with orders to bring her back for questioning, and she has no intention of going. She can hear what he is thinking, and he knows it.
Rating coming soonCarolyn Connor has come to St Lucia to get away from a marriage she has just escaped, and she has made a vow not to think about men while she is there. Then she meets a woman who is famous in her family for arranging matches, and the holiday stops going according to plan.
Rating coming soonDante Notte has been run over by a motorhome, which is not how he expected to meet the woman he is supposed to spend the rest of his life with. He has a punctured lung, broken ribs, a brother to rescue and pursuers to keep away, and she is a stranger who has just become involved.
Rating coming soonA single mother takes her son into a shop called Dixie's Vampire Emporium to let him browse, and finds herself talking to the assistant, a man with a dark-eyed charm and an English accent that makes her heart skip. What she does not know is that he is not entirely a stranger.
Rating coming soonA captain in the Confederate cavalry is in the middle of a battle when the air around him turns to a strange mist, and he finds himself somewhere he does not recognise. A woman dressed in the clothes of a different century takes him prisoner, and neither of them knows how they came to be there.
Rating coming soonRiley Jenson works for an organisation created to police the supernatural races, and she trusts her superiors about as much as she trusts her enemies. Her latest job is to get inside the heavily guarded palace of a criminal who has been experimenting on the gene pool for decades. There is more than one kind of trap in the building.
Rating coming soonBerta grows up hearing everybody exclaim over her little sister Glenna, and somewhere along the way she decides that whatever Glenna is, she will not be. The two sisters become opposites, and the distance between them grows until it has to be faced. The novel is about what caused the rift and what it cost them both.
Rating coming soonRob Fleming is thirty-five, he owns a record shop in London, and he has just been left by his girlfriend Laura. What follows is his attempt to work out what went wrong, beginning with a list of the five most memorable break-ups of his life. Rob has some work to do on himself, and he knows it.
Rating coming soonNesta Archeron is proud, quick to anger and slow to forgive, and since the war she has been unable to find a way to live with what she has seen. The novel follows her rather than her sister Feyre, and it is her account of getting through it. She has been difficult to live with since the war.
Rating coming soonAnya had wanted to move to Britain and start again, and now that she is there she sits in a school where nobody understands her and thinks about the Polish summer skies she left behind. Then she meets a boy called Dan. He is not a good influence on her.
Rating coming soonLale Sokolov is a Slovak Jew deported to Auschwitz in 1942, and because he speaks several languages he is given work the guards want done: marking newly arrived prisoners with the numbers that stand in for their names. The position keeps him fed and keeps him watched, and it is while he is doing it that he meets a young woman called Gita. The novel follows the two of them through the camp.
Rating coming soonA band makes one enormous record and plays one last show, and then it stops. Years afterwards, the people who were in the room are asked to explain how it happened: the singer who joined the group, the songwriter who started it, the players, the producer and the people who loved them. They do not remember the same decade the same way.
Rating coming soonEvelyn 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.
Rating coming soonKya is six years old when her mother walks away from the shack in the North Carolina marsh where the family lives, and one by one the rest of them go too. She raises herself among the birds and the grasses, and grows up as the girl the nearest town calls the Marsh Girl. Years later, when a young man from that town is found dead, the two halves of her story meet.
Rating coming soonColin Singleton is a child prodigy who has dated nineteen girls called Katherine and has just been dumped by the nineteenth. Convinced that he is losing the thing that made him special, he lets his best friend talk him into a road trip that ends in a small Tennessee town, where he meets a girl with a different name.
Rating coming soonHenry Chinaski is a poet and writer who is beginning to be known, and this novel covers the women who move through that part of his life: the sculptor who comes back into it more than once, the people he drinks with, and the ones who leave him or are left. It is told by Chinaski from the middle of things, without much attempt to put them in order.
Rating coming soonEva Tramell is twenty-four, has just finished her degree and is starting work in New York when she meets Gideon Cross, a billionaire about her own age who owns the building she has been hired into. Both of them recognise the other's damage faster than either would like, and what follows is immediate and hard to manage.
Rating coming soonMadhav Jha comes from a village in Bihar and gets into an English-medium college in New Delhi, where his accent and his background are on display every day. There he falls for a rich Delhi girl who will not let the relationship be acknowledged but is willing to be what she calls his half girlfriend, and the novel follows what that costs him.
Rating coming soonAuburn Reed is twenty-one and has already lost everything important to her, and she has decided that there is no room in her life for mistakes. Then she walks into an art studio in Dallas looking for work, meets Owen Gentry, the artist who works there, and for once lets her heart make the decision. What she does not know is that he is keeping something from her.
Rating coming soonMarisa 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.
Rating coming soonVerity is a psychological thriller by the American writer Colleen Hoover, self-published in December 2018 and later reissued by Grand Central Publishing after it became a best-seller. Lowen Ashleigh, a writer who is struggling to make a living, is hired to finish a popular series for Verity Crawford, its author, who can no longer write, and the house she goes to stay in holds an unfinished manuscript that changes what the job means.
Rating coming soonGeorgette Heyer's Arabella, a Regency romance from 1949, belongs to the spring of 1817. Its heroine, a country vicar's beautiful daughter, goes up to London for a season in search of a good marriage, and when an accident strands her at the house of a man of enormous fortune, she claims to be an heiress in order to put him in his place.
Rating coming soonGeorgette Heyer's The Quiet Gentleman, a Regency novel from the beginning of 1951, belongs to the spring of 1816, the year after Waterloo. It tells what happens when the Seventh Earl of St Erth comes home from the wars to claim an inheritance that his stepmother and half-brother, who are living in the house, had hoped never to see him take up.
Rating coming soonAura is a short novel by the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, first published in 1962 and translated into English by Lysander Kemp three years later. It is told throughout in the second person, and it is usually read as an example of magic realism. A young historian answers an advertisement for a live-in assistant, takes a job in a dark house in Mexico City, and finds himself caught between the old widow who has hired him and her young niece, in a house where the two of them are not as separate as they first appear.
Rating coming soonGeorgette Heyer's Venetia is a Regency romance set in England in 1818. Its heroine has grown up in the country at her family's seat in Yorkshire, kept there by a reclusive and over-protective father, with no company but her bookish younger brother, until a rakish neighbour arrives to disturb the quiet. She and Lord Damerel become friends and then something more, and the second half of the book turns on the question of whether a man with his reputation can marry a woman with hers to protect.
Rating coming soonI Too Had a Love Story is Ravinder Singh's first novel, an autobiographical story about a young engineer in India who looks for a wife through a matrimonial website and falls in love with a woman he has not yet met. It came out in 2008 and stayed on best-seller lists in India for years afterwards.
Rating coming soonSally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You came out in September 2021. It follows Alice Kelleher, a novelist, and her oldest friend Eileen Lydon, an editor, through their work, their friendships and two new relationships, and it is told in alternating chapters and in the emails the two women write to each other.
Rating coming soonEverything I Know About Love is a memoir by the British journalist Dolly Alderton, published in 2018. It follows a young woman through her twenties, from school to shared houses and on through friendships, bad relationships, work and grief, and it mixes straight narrative with other material, among it lists, conversations in text messages and recipes.
Rating coming soonThe Longest Ride is a novel by Nicholas Sparks, published in 2013, and it tells two love stories that are some distance apart in time. An elderly widower is trapped in a wrecked car, remembering the life he had with his wife, while a college student falls for a cowboy whose work puts him in danger every time he rides.
Romance is a genre here, not a mood. A book belongs on this shelf when the relationship is the spine of the story rather than a subplot, and the reader is meant to care about whether it works out. Everything else, the setting and the era and the magic, sits underneath that.
That makes this the widest shelf in the library, because romance is written into every kind of world. Two flavours get their own tag rather than their own genre: romantasy, where the romance and a fantasy world carry the book together, and contemporary romance, where the love story happens in the modern real world. Fantasy romance without the world-building weight, historical romance and romantic comedy all belong here as well; the tag is a way to narrow the shelf, not a separate shelf.
Tags are cross-cutting markers, not genres. They have their own landing pages.
Epic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
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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.
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