Find your next gaslit, haunted & wonderfully queer read.
39,739 books ranked by real readers, 41 trope guides, award winners, and 8,754 classics you can read free — plus tools and data for literary translators.
Start with a mood
Every genre page ranks books by how many readers shelved them.
Queer Romance & Fiction
Steampunk & Speculative
Gothic, Horror & Paranormal
Historical & Romance
Themes & Settings
Most-read M/M romance
See all →
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
They Both Die at the End
Adam Silvera
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
Heated Rivalry
Rachel Reid
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Black Ties and White Lies
Kat Singleton
Pick a trope
The story patterns readers search for — explained, with books.
Steampunk essentials
See all →
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
The Austere Academy
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
The Slippery Slope
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
The Hostile Hospital
Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist
The Difference Engine
William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
Free to read tonight
Public-domain classics on Project Gutenberg — many with free LibriVox audiobooks.
- FREE🎧
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
- FREE🎧
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
- FREE🎧
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
- FREE🎧
Dracula
Bram Stoker
- FREE🎧
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
- FREE🎧
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
- FREE🎧
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
- FREE🎧
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
- FREE🎧
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
- FREE🎧
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
- FREE
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
- FREE
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Gothic & haunted
See all →- FREE🎧
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
- FREE🎧
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
- FREE🎧
Dracula
Bram Stoker
- FREE🎧
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
- FREE🎧
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Shining
Stephen King
Award winners
All awards →Guides
All guides →What Is Steampunk? A Reader's Guide to the Genre
Where steampunk came from, its sub-genres (gaslamp, dieselpunk, silkpunk), the classics that inspired it, and the best…
ReadingSteampunk vs Gaslamp Fantasy vs Gothic: What's the Difference?
Three genres that share corsets and fog but not much else. How to tell steampunk, gaslamp fantasy and gothic fiction…
ReadingM/M Romance: A Beginner's Guide to the Genre
What M/M romance is, where it came from, the sub-genres and tropes readers love, heat levels, key terms, and where to…
ReadingParanormal Romance vs Urban Fantasy: How to Tell Them Apart
Vampires and werewolves appear in both — so what's the difference? A practical guide to paranormal romance and urban…
ReadingRomance Heat Levels Explained: From Sweet to Scorching
Closed door, fade to black, open door, explicit: what romance heat levels mean, how they're labelled, and how to find…
ReadingFree Gothic Classics to Read (and Hear) Today
The founding gothic novels and ghost stories — Otranto, Udolpho, Frankenstein, Carmilla, Dracula and more — free to…
Latest posts
- How to Build a Reading Slump Checklist for Better Habits
- Building a Checklist for Queer Fantasy Writing Standards
- Common Misconceptions About Epistolary Novels Explained
- Common Misconceptions About Urban Fantasy Explained
- Common Misconceptions About Enemies to Lovers Stories
- Common Misconceptions About Slow Burn Romance
- Questions to Ask When Organizing Your Ebook Library
- Finding Reliable Public Domain Gothic Fiction Online
- How to Research Novellas and Evaluate Their Unique Form
- Comparing Independent Bookshops by Business Model and Scale