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Mood

The mood the book leaves you in.

  • The reading experience is propelled by journeys, exploration, and physical risk; excitement and forward momentum dominate over dread or introspection.
  • Joy and loss are deliberately mixed; the resolution grants characters something real while taking something else away, leaving warmth and sorrow together.
  • Grim events, cruelty, or despair dominate the atmosphere, and the book does not soften them with comfort or comic relief.
  • The atmosphere is quietly unsettling — wrongness, unease, and the uncanny pervade the book without necessarily escalating into overt horror.
  • The book is built to move the reader; character feeling is foregrounded and major scenes aim at a strong emotional response.
  • Humor is a primary aim and the prose plays for laughs — comic situations, wit, or dialogue produce sustained comedy, not occasional levity.
  • The book insists that things can improve; effort and decency are shown to matter, and the arc bends toward better outcomes even through hardship.
  • The overall register is cheerful and easygoing; stakes are kept gentle and the book avoids dwelling on pain or dread.
  • Withheld information drives the experience; the book sustains enigmas and secrets the reader wants resolved, whatever its genre.
  • The book is contemplative and inward-looking, giving more weight to thought, memory, and meaning than to external events.
  • Grief, loss, or melancholy set the dominant register, and the book lets sorrow stand rather than resolving it into comfort.
  • Sustained suspense is the point; the book keeps the reader braced for what happens next through danger, pressure, or impending revelation.
  • Playful invention and charm define the register — fanciful conceits, light absurdity, and a narration that delights in its own oddity.

About

What the story runs on.

  • Stories about minds with paranormal abilities — telepathy, telekinesis, precognition, empathy — and how societies handle those who have them.
  • Stories centered on vampires — blood-drinking undead — whether as predators, love interests, or protagonists.
  • Stories centered on werewolves and the curse or gift of transformation into a wolf.
  • Stories about beings who change form at will — skinwalkers, selkies, and other shape-changers beyond the werewolf.
  • Stories centered on witches and the practice of witchcraft — covens, hedge magic, familiars, and the witch's place in her community.
  • Stories in which demons or devils — infernal beings, their bargains, possessions, and hierarchies — drive the plot.
  • Stories driven by a curse laid on a person, family, or place, and the struggle to live under it or break it.
  • Stories of lovers kept apart by law, family, faith, or station, where the obstacle to love is the plot.
  • Romantic arcs that begin in genuine antagonism and turn, through conflict, into love.
  • Stories about who a character truly is — self-discovery, doubled lives, and the search for a self.
  • Stories driven by the pursuit of vengeance for a wrong, and what the pursuit costs the avenger.
  • Stories organized around investigating a killing — the case, the clues, and the pursuit of the killer, in any genre's clothing.

Shelf

Where it sits in the library.

    • Fiction built on magic or other supernatural elements that have no scientific explanation.
    • Secondary-world fantasy at large scale, where the fate of nations or the world turns on the protagonists' struggle.
    • Fantasy set in a recognizably modern city or contemporary world where the supernatural intrudes on everyday life.
    • Fantasy that blends in horror's atmosphere and imagery, keeping a fantastical frame around grim or frightening material.
    • Fantasy set in a real historical period or a close analogue of one, with magic woven into the era.
    • Fantasy in which protagonists cross from the ordinary world into another world through a portal or similar passage.
    • Fiction that retells or reworks a traditional fairy tale in a new form or setting.
    • Fantasy drawing directly on myths, legends, and folklore, retelling them or building on their figures and logic.
    • Fantasy of ghosts, vampires, shapeshifters, psychics, and similar phenomena, usually set in an otherwise ordinary world.
    • Fiction mixing science-fictional trappings with overtly magical or impossible elements in one setting.
    • Low-stakes fantasy emphasizing comfort, community, and everyday pleasures over conflict and peril.
    • Fiction that extrapolates from science and technology — future societies, space travel, or speculative inventions — within at least nominally natural laws.
    • Science fiction of interstellar scope — starships, galactic polities, and adventure across star systems.
    • Science fiction centered on armed forces and warfare, told largely from a military point of view.
    • Science fiction of networked, corporate-dominated near futures, pairing high technology with social decay.
    • Science fiction styled on nineteenth-century steam-powered technology, often in a Victorian or pseudo-Victorian setting.
    • Fiction depicting an oppressive or catastrophic society, presented as a warning.
    • Fiction set after civilization's collapse, following survivors in the ruins of the old world.
    • Fiction in which characters move between past and future, and the mechanics or consequences of that travel drive the plot.
    • Science fiction in which extraterrestrial forces attack or occupy Earth and humanity resists.
    • Fiction whose primary aim is to frighten or unsettle the reader through dread, menace, or the monstrous.
    • Horror of decaying houses, buried family secrets, and oppressive atmosphere in the Gothic literary tradition.
    • Horror centered on hauntings and the returning dead.
    • Horror located in the mind — paranoia, obsession, and unreliable perception rather than external monsters.
    • Horror built around the reanimated dead and survival amid their outbreaks.
    • Fiction organized around solving a crime or puzzle, typically following an investigator toward the identification of a culprit.
    • Crime fiction of moral ambiguity, fatalism, and hard-edged style, set among the corrupt and the doomed.
    • A mystery following the realistic routines of police work — forensics, interviews, and case-building.
    • A gentle mystery with an amateur sleuth, a small community, and violence kept off the page.
    • A mystery set in a past era, where the investigation works within that period's methods and society.
    • Fast-paced fiction driven by imminent danger, pursuit, or high-stakes conspiracy, built to sustain tension.
    • A thriller of espionage — agents, tradecraft, and intelligence services in conflict.
    • Fiction whose central plot is a romantic relationship and its development toward an emotionally satisfying resolution.
    • Romance in which one or both partners are supernatural beings, blending fantasy elements into the love story.
    • A fantasy-romance hybrid in which the romantic arc and the fantasy plot carry equal weight.
    • Romance set in a past era, with courtship shaped by the period's society and manners.
    • Romance set in the present day, without supernatural or historical elements.
    • Fiction set in a real past period, where the historical setting materially shapes characters and events.
      • General and literary fiction emphasizing prose style, character interiority, or formal ambition over genre plot conventions.
        • Fiction propelled by journeys, exploration, and physical peril, where action and survival carry the plot.
        • Fiction of the American frontier West — gunmen, ranchers, and lawmen, typically in the late nineteenth century.
        • Fiction written primarily to amuse, using comedic situations, wit, or parody as its organizing principle.
          • Fiction whose world runs on explicit game mechanics — levels, stats, and skills that characters can see and exploit.
            • Fiction about costumed or superpowered heroes and their conflicts with comparable villains.

            Practical

            How long a commitment, whether it stands alone, and whether it has finished.

            Tap a chip to ask for it · tap again to rule it out · once more to clear. Numbers show what would be left.

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