About
This page records all (or almost all) of the books in my library. A book can be written by many authors (though most are written by only one) and a book can be in many categories (though most are in only one or two), which means that a given book may appear in more than one place. The number in parenthesis indicates how many books are in a category, etc.
The inspiration for this page comes mostly from Alex Holden's Book Catalogue (now only available from Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, unfortunately), which is wonderful, and which I hope I haven't emulated too badly.
Spoiler Warning
I try to keep my reviews and synopses as spoiler-free as I can, but inevitably some creep in! This is especially true for series, where to describe Book Two requires some recapping of events in Book One. In recapping I still try to avoid spoilers, but I don't guarantee it.
Currently Reading
Categories
There are 102 categories.
- Adventure (14)
- Alternate history (9)
- Anthology (250)
- Anthropology (8)
- Apocalyptic (2)
- Archaeology (1)
- Architecture (1)
- Art (3)
- Astrology (1)
- Astronomy (17)
- Autobiography (22)
- Bestiary (1)
- Bible (4)
- Biography (9)
- Biology (26)
- Chemistry (8)
- Children's (35)
- Classic (8)
- Comic (1)
- Computing (3)
- Crime (71)
- Cyberpunk (13)
- Dictionary (1)
- Drama (6)
- Drugs (3)
- Dystopian (4)
- Economics (3)
- Encyclopedia (2)
- Epic (2)
- Erotica (7)
- Essay (23)
- Fairy tale (14)
- Fantasy (142)
- Folklore (7)
- Gothic (16)
- Graphic novel (17)
- Historical (2)
- History (41)
- Holocaust (1)
- Horror (35)
- Humor (44)
- Journalism (1)
- Language (3)
- Law (1)
- Legal (14)
- Literature (1)
- Logic (3)
- Magic (1)
- Manga (30)
- Mathematics (14)
- Mecha (8)
- Media (1)
- Memoir (12)
- Miscellaneous (4)
- Music (3)
- Mystery (47)
- Mythology (2)
- Nanotechnology (1)
- Neurology (1)
- Nonsense (2)
- Novel (747)
- Novella (10)
- Occult (2)
- Omnibus (8)
- Parody (2)
- Pedagogy (1)
- Philosophy (25)
- Physics (12)
- Picaresque (2)
- Play (9)
- Poetry (51)
- Politics (10)
- Post-apocalyptic (2)
- Postmodern (1)
- Prophecy (1)
- Psychology (16)
- Puzzle (4)
- Quotation (2)
- Religion (41)
- Romance (25)
- Saga (5)
- Satire (11)
- Science (73)
- Science fiction (442)
- Self-help (3)
- Short stories (130)
- Skepticism (7)
- Sociology (2)
- Space opera (19)
- Statistics (2)
- Steampunk (2)
- Textbook (2)
- Theology (1)
- Thriller (54)
- Tragedy (2)
- Travel (5)
- True crime (1)
- Vampire (12)
- Warfare (5)
- Western (2)
- Writing (2)
- Youth (54)
Universes and Series
The list of series is split in two: Those that are part of a universe, and those that aren't.
Universes
There are 32 universes.
- Black Magician World
- 1. Black Magician Trilogy (2/3)
- CoDominium
- Falkenberg's Legion (1/4)
- Moties (2/3)
- Commonwealth
- 2. Void Trilogy (3/3)
- 3. Chronicle of the Fallers (1/2)
- Confederation
- Night's Dawn (3/3)
- Cosmere
- Mistborn (3/3)
- Culture
- Culture (9/10)
- Duniverse
- Dune (6/6)
- Schools of Dune (1/3)
- Enderverse
- Ender's Game (4/6)
- Ender's Shadow (4/4)
- Federated Sentient Planets
- Crystal Singer (1/3)
- Dragonriders of Pern (1/6)
- Planet Pirates (2/3)
- Ship Who... (1/12)
- Fleet
- 2. Battlestation (1/2)
- Foundation
- Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Robots and Aliens (2/6)
- 1. Robot (5/4)
- 2. Trantorian Empire (3/3)
- 3. Foundation (7/7)
- 4. Second Foundation (1/3)
- Gaean Reach
- Cadwal Chronicles (1/3)
- Hawkmoon
- 2. Chronicles of Castle Brass (1/3)
- His Dark Materials
- 1. His Dark Materials (2/3)
- 2. Book of Dust (1/2)
- Humanx Commonwealth
- Humanx Commonwealth (1/13)
- Icerigger (1/3)
- Lost Fleet
- 1. Lost Fleet (6/6)
- 2. Beyond the Frontier (2/5)
- Malazan
- 1. Malazan Book of the Fallen (1/10)
- Middle Earth
- 1. Hobbit (1/1)
- 2. Lord of the Rings (1/3)
- Petaybee
- Petaybee (1/3)
- Polity
- 2. Agent Cormac (2/5)
- Quantum Logic
- 2. Queen of Angels (3/4)
- Realms of the Elderlings
- Farseer Trilogy (1/3)
- Riftwar
- 1. Riftwar Saga (1/3)
- 3. Krondor's Sons (1/2)
- Shannara
- 2. Heritage of Shannara (1/4)
- 4. Voyage of the Jerle Shannara (1/3)
- StarCraft
- 3. StarCraft II (2/3)
- Tales of Known Space
- Ringworld (3/4)
- Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever
- 1. First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (3/3)
- 2. Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (3/3)
- Uplift
- 1. Uplift Saga (3/3)
- 2. Uplift Storm Trilogy (3/3)
- Vorkosigan
- Cordelia Vorkosigan (1/3)
- Miles Vorkosigan (5/13)
- Warded Man
- Demon Cycle (1/5)
- Wizarding World
- 1. Harry Potter (5/7)
Series
There are 184 series that aren't part of a universe.
- A Song of Ice and Fire (4/7)
- Academy / Priscilla (Hutch) Hutchins (1/8)
- Ajax (1/9)
- Amulet (1/8)
- Annika Bengtzon (2/11)
- Apprentice Adept (2/7)
- Arn Magnusson (3/5)
- Artemis Fowl (5/8)
- Asimov's Guide to Science (2/2)
- Aurora fantasi og science fiction (2)
- Avdeling Q (2/9)
- Balumnia (1/3)
- Barbarotti (1/4)
- Barsoom (1/11)
- Bartholomew Kettle (2/2)
- Before the Golden Age (3/3)
- Berserker (1/17)
- Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year (1/2)
- Best SF Stories from New Worlds (1/8)
- Bill Hodges (3/3)
- Binti (4/3)
- Bio of a Space Tyrant (2/6)
- Biomega (6/6)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson samlede verker (5/5)
- Black Lagoon (4/9)
- Bourne (1)
- Brion Brandd (1/2)
- Britta och Silver (1/14)
- Carl Hamilton (1)
- Cato Isaksen (2/10)
- Catteni Sequence (2/4)
- Cluster (2/5)
- Cosmic Trilogy (1/3)
- Courtney (1/19)
- Dancers at the End of Time (1/3)
- Dark Tower (2/7)
- Darwin (1/2)
- Deadpool MAX (1/3)
- Den vesle vampyren (6/19)
- Detektivbyrå nr. 2 (4/25)
- Dina (1/3)
- Discworld (3/41)
- Divergent (3/3)
- Divine Comedy (1/3)
- Dreamland (1/14)
- Early Asimov (3/3)
- Earthsea (1/5)
- Elling (4/4)
- Expanse (7/9)
- Expatria (1/2)
- Extraordinary Voyages (3/54)
- Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (1/7)
- Fantastic Voyage (2/2)
- Fifty Shades (3/3)
- First Trilogy (1/3)
- Fjällbacka (4/10)
- Flood/Ark (2/2)
- For begynnere (1)
- Forge of God (2/2)
- Full Metal Panic (8/8)
- Full Metal Panic Overload (2/2)
- Future History (2)
- Gap (3/5)
- Genesis Quest (1/2)
- Geodyssey (1/5)
- George Smiley (3/9)
- Gilgamesh (1)
- Gobi (4/5)
- Great SF Stories (1/25)
- Greg Mandel (3/3)
- H. C. Andersen: Eventyr og historier (6/6)
- H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus (3/3)
- Hainish Cycle (2)
- Halo (1/7)
- Halting State (1/2)
- Harper Connelly Mysteries (1/4)
- Harry Hole (11/12)
- Harvest of Stars (1/4)
- Heinlein juveniles (4/12)
- Helliconia (3/3)
- Hercule Poirot (4/39)
- Heritage (4/5)
- Hitchhiker's Guide (4/5)
- Homecoming (2/5)
- House of Night (1/12)
- Humanity's Fire (1/5)
- Inheritance Cycle (4/4)
- Inspector Lynley (1)
- Interdependency (1/3)
- Isaac Asimov Presents (1)
- Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy (2/12)
- Isaac Asimov's science fiction serie (8/12)
- Isaac's Universe (1/3)
- Jack Reacher (1/26)
- Jack Ryan (1/8)
- Kerrion Empire (1/3)
- Kingkiller Chronicle (1/3)
- Known Space (1)
- Krøniken om stjerneskipet Alexandria (4/4)
- Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (1/17)
- Languedoc (1/3)
- Lazarus Long (2)
- Lewis Trilogy (3/3)
- Long Earth (1/5)
- Lord of Light (1)
- Love Hina (1/14)
- Lucky Starr (1/6)
- M. Kanne & Søn (1/3)
- Magic Kingdom of Landover (1/6)
- Maurai (1)
- Me Before You (2/4)
- Miss Marple (2/17)
- Mission Earth (1/10)
- Mitt skattkammer (10/10)
- Modern Mysteries (1/2)
- Mordant's Need (1/2)
- Moth (1/4)
- Mrs. Pollifax (1/14)
- Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (10/175)
- Nevèrÿon (2/4)
- New Springtime (1/2)
- Nick Stone Missions (2/19)
- No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (15/21)
- Nsibidi Scripts (2/3)
- Old Man's War (6/6)
- Operation Otherworld (1/2)
- Orion's Children / Emma Merrigan (1/4)
- Pandora (3/4)
- Pendragon Cycle (1/5)
- Planetes (5/5)
- Prometheus Project (3/3)
- Psi-Tech (1/3)
- Psycho (1/3)
- Psychodrome (1/2)
- Rama (4/4)
- Ravneringene (1/3)
- Ready Player One (1/2)
- Remembrance of Earth's Past (3/3)
- Robert Langdon (4/5)
- Robopocalypse (1/2)
- Roboten Matilda (1/4)
- Sandman Library (4/12)
- Saxon Stories (4/13)
- Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (3/3)
- Scott Pilgrim (6/6)
- Seven Sisters (3/7)
- Shining (2/2)
- Silence Leigh (1/3)
- Skylark of Space (1/4)
- Snow Queen (1/3)
- Solaris Book of New Science Fiction (1/3)
- Songs of Earth and Power (2/2)
- Southern Vampire Mysteries (11/14)
- Space Odyssey (4/4)
- Sprawl Trilogy (1/3)
- Stardance (1/3)
- Starfarers (1/4)
- Svetz (1)
- Takeshi Kovacs (1/3)
- Teori om det eneste (2/2)
- Tom Clancy's Op-Center (4/20)
- Tom Clancy's Power Plays (1/8)
- Tora (2/3)
- Transcendental Studies (1/3)
- Tyrant (1/6)
- Universe (1/17)
- Uzumaki (3/3)
- VALIS (1/3)
- Varg Veum (5)
- Venus Prime (6/6)
- Vermilion Sands (1)
- Vår egen lille verden (3/3)
- W. Somerset Maugham Collected Short Stories (1)
- Walking Dead (1/32)
- Warlock of Gramayre (1/13)
- Way (3/3)
- Way of Spider (1/3)
- West of Eden (1/3)
- Wheel of Time (13/14)
- Who Fears Death (2/2)
- Witcher (1/6)
- Worthing Chronicle (1)
- Year's Best Science Fiction (1/35)
- Zones of Thought (2/3)
Publisher series
There are 46 publisher series.
- aktUell (1)
- Art of Mentoring (2/15)
- Bantam Classic (2)
- Bloomsbury Modern Classics (1)
- Bokklubben Nye Bøker (1)
- Bokklubbens lyrikkvenner (13)
- Cappelens utvalgte (3)
- DAW Book Collectors (1)
- Dover Books on Advanced Mathematics (1)
- Easy Reader (1)
- Enriched Classic (1)
- Evergreens (1)
- Fakkelbøkene (1/499)
- Fantasy Masterworks (1/50)
- Flamme (2)
- Fontene (1)
- Godbok (1)
- Gyldendal klassiker (1)
- Gyldendals skoleutgaver (1)
- Hele Rogaland leser (1)
- Kaliber (1)
- Lanternebøkene (7/499)
- Mayflower Science Fantasy (3)
- Mentor Books (1)
- Modern Library Classics (1)
- Nebula Award Stories (1/17)
- New Windmill (1)
- Om seg selv (1)
- Oxford Readers (1)
- PAN (1)
- Pax Bjørneboe-serien (4/12)
- Penguin Classics (3)
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (1)
- Penguin Main Series (3)
- Penguin Modern Classics (4)
- Penguin Orange Collection (1)
- SF Masterworks (15)
- Signet Classics (1)
- Spenningens Mestere (1)
- SV-bøgerne (1)
- The Facts (1)
- Ungdomsbokklubben (1)
- Vintage Contemporaries (1)
- Wonders of the World (6)
- Wordsworth Classics (5)
- Wordsworth Reference Series (1)
Special
- List all books (1268)
- List only books with a synopsis (159)
- List only books with a review (120)
- List only books with a synopsis or a review (168)
- List only books with both a synopsis and a review (117)
- List only books without a synopsis and a review (1106)
- List only books with a subtitle (242)
- List only books with an original title (141)
- List only books with an alternative title (22)
- List only books with a translated title (212)
- List only books with online versions (30)
Languages
Original Languages
- Arabic (2)
- Chinese (4)
- Danish (2)
- Dutch (1)
- English (31)
- French (11)
- German (10)
- Hebrew (2)
- Icelandic (2)
- Italian (5)
- Japanese (39)
- Korean (2)
- Latin (2)
- Norwegian (1)
- Polish (1)
- Portuguese (3)
- Russian (3)
- Serbian (2)
- Spanish (3)
- Swedish (13)
Authors
There are 2100 authors. See list of authors.
Publishers
There are 219 publishers. See list of publishers.
List of Books
There are 1268 books. See list of books.
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Full title | Displays the full title of a book. If it has a subtitle and/or extended title, this will also be displayed. |
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Original title | If the book is a translated version, the title in the original language will be displayed here. |
Alternative title | The alternative title. Common for older works. |
Translated title | If both the title and original title is in a non-English language, this gives the title in English. If there is no English title, I attempt a translation. |
Transliterated title | If the title is written in a non-Latin script (e.g. kanji or Cyrillic), this field will display the transliteration (link to Wikipedia). |
Author | This lists the author (or authors) of the book, including authors with "roles" (illustrator, editor, etc.). Also displays the pseudonym under which the book was written, if any. |
Language | Self-explanatory. |
Publisher | Self-explanatory. |
Categories | Most books are in more than one category. The category is sort of a mix between genre, theme, and subject matter. Think of it like tags (which it really is). |
Universe | Indicates the universe the book is set in, if any. |
Series | Indicates the series a book is in, if any. If the series is numbered, this will be indicated in parenthesis, like this: (n/m) where n is the book's position in the series and m is the total amount of books in the series. |
Publisher series | Indicates the publisher series the book is in, if any. |
Publication year | Self-explanatory. |
Original publication year | The year the book was originally published, even if by another publisher. |
ISBN | Gives the ISBN associated with the book. Not all the books have an ISBN, especially old books. |
Online version | Some books are only published online; in these cases, a link is provided. Some older books that are in the public domain are also linked to. |
Pages | Gives the number of pages. |
Synopsis | Gives an overview of the book. |
Review | Gives a review of the book. |
Images | Most books have scans from the front, back, and spine. For dust jackets, the flaps are also scanned. Click on an image for an enlarged version. All scans are at least 1000px high, more if it's a big book or the cover art is pretty. My policy is that all the text should be legible. I used to scan at 300 DPI, but now I always scan at 600 DPI; if you want the original scan for a book or a group of books, contact me. |
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