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Icebreaker

by A.L. Graziadei

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Muse of Nightmares

by Laini Taylor

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Strange the Dreamer

by Laini Taylor

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High fantasy

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Adult characters, Ageless or immortal characters, Characters aged over 50, Characters in their late teens, Librarian, Magic user, Teen main character(s)

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Iron Age (Fantastical)

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City, Fantastic world, Unnamed

The Shadow of Kyoshi

by F.C. Yee, Michael Dante DiMartino

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The Rise of Kyoshi

by F.C. Yee, Michael Dante DiMartino

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In the Ravenous Dark

by A.M. Strickland, AdriAnne Strickland

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Cackle

Cover art for Cackle
by Rachel Harrison

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Contemporary fiction, Urban fantasy, Witchcraft fiction

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Fish out of water, Found family, Frumpy to fabulous, Hot witch, I don't need no man, The power was inside you all along, The real monsters are the humans, Unreliable narrator

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Ageless or immortal characters, Character(s) with anxiety, Character(s) with depression, Characters in their 30s, High school teacher, Morally grey main character, Teacher, White/European diasporic main character

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Information Age

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Upstate New York

Alice Isn’t Dead

Cover art for Alice Isn't Dead
by Joseph Fink

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Creature horror, Paranormal mystery, Science fiction

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Conspiracy, Depressing road trip, Inhuman killer, Missing spouse, Second chance romance, Stranger than fiction, The bad guys aren't human, Woman in a man's world, Women loving women

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African American main character(s), American main character, Character(s) with anxiety, Character(s) with depression, Characters in their 30s, Lesbian main character(s), Truck driver

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Information Age

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United States

Blue Noon

Cover art for Blue Noon
by Scott Westerfeld

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Threshold of the Year

by Kris Ripper

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Griffin and Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence

by Nick Bantock

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The Surgeon’s Mate

by Patrick O'Brian

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These Old Shades

by Georgette Heyer

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Bath Tangle

Cover art for Bath Tangle
by Georgette Heyer

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Regency romance

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Regency Era

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Bath

The Wonder Engine

by T. Kingfisher

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Clocktaur War

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Search Tips

  • use “quotation marks around a phrase” to search for an exact phrase
  • use – in front of a word or quoted phrase to exclude it from the search results, e.g. -“enemies to lovers”
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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.
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