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My Sister, the Serial Killer

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Norse Mythology

by Neil Gaiman

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Vicious

by V.E. Schwab

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56 Days

Cover art for 56 Days
by Catherine Ryan Howard

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The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

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Sharp Objects

by Gillian Flynn

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

A Court of Thorns and Roses
by Sarah J. Maas

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A Court of Thorns and Roses

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Fairy tale retelling, Fantasy

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Beauty and the Beast retelling, Enemies to lovers, Feelings realization, Fish out of water, Forced proximity, Kidnapping

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Ageless or immortal characters, Artist, Fantasy species characters, Human characters, Huntress

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Fantastic world

Devil Take Me

by C.S. Poe, Ginn Hale, Jordan Castillo Price, Jordan L. Hawk, Rhys Ford, T.A. Moore, Tricia Kristufek

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Fantasy

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Faustian deal, Men loving men, Nonbinary loving men

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The Unbroken

by C.L. Clark, Rasha Zamamiri (Narrator)

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Magic of the Lost

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Fantasy

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Women loving women

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A Memory Called Empire

Cover art for A Memory Called Empire
by Amy Landon (Narrator), Arkady Martine

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Teixcalaan

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Science fiction and fantasy

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Conspiracy, Possession, Women loving women

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Outer space

Red Mars

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Carmilla

by Carmen Maria Machado (Contributor), J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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Vampire fiction

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Early adult characters

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Austria

Mass Effect: The Complete Comics

by Jeremy Barlow, John Jackson Miller, Mac Walters

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Science fiction

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Ensemble cast, Evil AI, Heist, Snarky AI, Spaceship crew

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Outer space

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson, Marin Ireland (Narrator)

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Contemporary fiction

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Tennessee

Satisfaction Guaranteed

by Karelia Stetz-Waters, Lori Prince (Narrator)

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Contemporary romance

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Opposites attract

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An Artist of the Floating World

Cover art for An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro

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World War II fiction

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Unreliable narrator

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Artist, Grandparent, Japanese main character, Parent, Widow(er)

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Japan

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

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Noir mystery

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Conspiracy

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San Francisco

The Space Between Worlds

by Micaiah Johnson

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The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

by Seth Dickinson

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The Masquerade

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The Monster Baru Cormorant

by Seth Dickinson

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The Masquerade

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Fantasy

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Deadly game, Fish out of water, Road trip, Unreliable narrator

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Femme fatale, Lesbian main character(s), Morally grey main character, Nonbinary main character(s)

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This is an academic research project on crowdsourced tagging and building a vocabulary for fiction.

How does this work?

  1. Add books to our database, if the book you want to tag isn’t already there. You can import your books from StoryGraph or Goodreads if you want to save time.
  2. Add tags to the books. Your tag set is your own, and you’ll be able to come back and edit it if you want. Other taggers can’t view your tag set or overwrite your tags.
  3. View the book, and use the tags to see what other books share your favorite tropes and characters!
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