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Tropes Index

  • Court politics (0)
  • Crime tropes (21)
    • Amateur detective (3)
    • Assassination (2)
    • Bribing the police (0)
    • Camping murder spree (2)
    • Cons and swindles (2)
    • Deadly game (2)
    • Dirty cop (0)
    • Final girl (2)
    • Framed for a crime (3)
    • Heist (2)
    • Hostage situation (1)
    • Inhuman killer (2)
    • Kidnapping (3)
    • Killer in plain sight (2)
    • Killing the Survivors (2)
    • Missing spouse (2)
    • Murdered in the forest (2)
    • Organized crime (1)
    • Rape (2)
    • Rogue detective (2)
    • Spree Killer (2)
    • Undercover (0)
  • General tropes (114)
    • Absent parent (0)
    • AI character (8)
      • Evil AI (2)
      • Snarky AI (8)
    • Alien invasion (0)
    • Alternate past (0)
    • Amnesia (4)
    • Android (2)
    • Anyone can die (4)
    • Apocalypse (2)
    • Applied phlebotinum (0)
    • Athletes are untouchable (2)
    • Baby acquisition (1)
      • Accidental baby acquisition (0)
      • Doorstop baby (1)
      • Surprise baby acquisition (1)
    • Back from the dead (0)
    • Back home from the big city (2)
    • Band of misfits (5)
    • Betrayal (7)
    • Black widow (0)
    • Body snatcher (0)
    • Brainwashed (0)
    • Breaking the fourth wall (1)
    • Cabin fever (0)
    • Character blog (4)
    • Childhood friends (2)
    • Chosen one (0)
    • Close-knit community protects their own (3)
    • Coming of age (7)
    • Coming out (6)
    • Complicated inheritance (6)
      • Forgotten heir (2)
    • Conspiracy (11)
    • Corporate overreach (8)
    • Creepy children (0)
    • Crush on teacher (3)
    • Depressing road trip (2)
    • Down the rabbit hole (0)
    • Dysfunctional family (14)
    • Dystopia (8)
    • Emotional healing (2)
    • Enemy mine (0)
    • Ensemble cast (12)
    • Epistolary (2)
    • Everyone is gay (6)
    • Fairytale retelling (2)
      • Beauty and the Beast retelling (2)
    • Family first (2)
    • Family of choice (0)
    • Faustian deal (2)
    • Fealty (6)
    • Femme fatale (0)
    • First contact (0)
    • Fish out of water (11)
    • Fluff (3)
    • Found family (25)
    • From New York to nowhere (0)
    • Frumpy to fabulous (2)
    • Galactic war (0)
    • Gateways and wormholes (2)
    • Generation ships (0)
    • Generational saga (0)
    • Get back to the future (0)
    • Ghost ship (2)
    • God is just a person (2)
    • Growing up (1)
    • Hot witch (2)
    • Implied Autism (1)
    • Interdimensional travel (2)
    • Last man standing (2)
    • Life swap (2)
    • Little old lady investigates (0)
    • Looking for a new Earth (0)
    • Loosely based on a true story (3)
    • Madcap adventures (2)
    • Magical mystery (2)
    • Magical realism (0)
    • Magical society (4)
    • Manipulative bastard (4)
      • Evil matriarch (2)
      • I'm the real victim here (2)
    • Miscommunication (4)
    • Multiverse (0)
    • Mystery plot (6)
    • Neighbors (2)
    • Overpowered main character (0)
    • Pandemic (2)
    • Pets as characters (2)
      • Dog characters (2)
    • Playing the long game (4)
    • Plot armor (2)
    • Politics (14)
    • Possession (2)
    • Post-apocalypse (0)
    • Priests are pedophiles (2)
    • Religious artifacts (2)
    • Resurrection (0)
    • Revenge (2)
      • A taste of their own medicine (2)
    • Road trip (8)
    • Roommates (0)
    • Science caused the apocalypse (2)
    • Science goes wrong (2)
    • Secret society (2)
    • Sibling rivalry (2)
    • Slice of life (5)
    • Space exploration (0)
    • Spaceship crew (4)
    • Sports teams (8)
    • Story-aware narrator (2)
    • Stranger than fiction (4)
    • Stripped powers (0)
    • Struggling single parent (0)
    • Survivor by coincidence (2)
    • Symbolic megafauna (0)
    • Terraforming (0)
    • The bad guys aren't human (2)
    • The dragons come back (0)
    • The grass is always greener (0)
      • Be careful what you wish for (0)
      • Celebrity is overrated (0)
    • The power was inside you all along (2)
    • The real monsters are the humans (2)
    • Time loop (0)
    • Time skip (3)
    • Tragic backstory (10)
    • Transactional relationship (2)
    • Transmigration (2)
    • Unreliable narrator (24)
    • Utopia (0)
    • Virtual reality (0)
    • Woman in a man's world (3)
  • Romance tropes (76)
    • Age Difference (3)
    • Arranged marriage (3)
    • Bed sharing (2)
      • Only one bed (2)
    • Best friend's brother (2)
    • Bonding over dogs (2)
    • Break up (1)
    • Bury your gays (2)
    • Celebrity relationships (6)
    • Courting (0)
    • Coworkers to lovers (4)
    • Enemies to lovers (15)
    • Fake relationship (5)
      • Fake dating (3)
      • Marriage of convenience (0)
    • Fear of commitment (2)
    • Feelings denial (2)
    • Feelings realization (5)
    • First love (1)
    • Forbidden love (1)
    • Friends to lovers (11)
    • Gay for you (4)
      • I'm not into labels (2)
      • Straight with an exception (2)
    • Grumpy/sunshine (10)
    • I don't need no man (2)
    • Interspecies romance (0)
    • Just friends (0)
    • Kissing to avoid suspicion (3)
    • Long distance relationship (6)
    • Love triangle (2)
    • Men loving men (27)
    • Nonbinary loving men (2)
    • Nonbinary loving women (0)
    • Opposites attract (4)
    • Pining (5)
    • Polyamory (2)
    • Prince(ss) and pauper (6)
    • Queer awakening (2)
    • Rekindled relationship (1)
    • Rivals to lovers (6)
    • Second chance romance (4)
    • Secret relationship (11)
    • Shitty exes (2)
    • Strangers to lovers (2)
    • Stuck together (2)
      • Accidental bonding (0)
      • Forced proximity (2)
    • Women loving women (16)
  • Secondhand embarrassment (0)
  • Secret backstory (2)
  • Secret identity (2)
  • Shoot first ask questions later (1)
  • Spies (2)
  • Stress baking (5)
  • Telepathic companion animals (2)
  • Transporting important cargo (2)
  • Travel (4)

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Note that we don't have dates for all the books in our database.

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Genres

Tropes

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Setting: Time Period

Setting: Location

Sex Ratings

Language Ratings

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Ending Type

Content Notes or Warnings

Appeal

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Publication Date

Note that we don't have dates for all the books in our database.

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”
  • right now, the checkbox options aren’t narrowed down as you search, but stay tuned! We’re working on it.

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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