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Readers stack the books that fit. You find your next one.

Small, hand-picked stacks grouped by what you feel like reading, not the genre. Search someone's, or make your own.

Some stacks are hand-picked by one reader. Others we build together. Add the books you think belong.

Some hand-picked book stacks

Cover of Station Eleven

Cover of Slow Horses

Cover of Normal People

Cover of Gentleman in Moscow

Cover of The Handmaid's Tale

Drayfus

Drayfus

Read it before it was prestige TV

The books behind the prestige TV everyone binged. Read them first, picture it yourself, then argue about what the show got wrong.

Atmospheric Melancholic

3 months ago 19

Hand-picked

Cover of Tuf Voyaging

Cover of True Grit

Cover of Boy's life

Cover of The Last Unicorn

Cover of I Who Have Never Known Men

Drayfus

Drayfus

Underrated novels nobody ever recommends

The ones you stumble on by accident on a library shelf and think about for years. Underrated books that never make the usual lists, and never leave you.

Raw Nostalgic

3 wks ago 8

Hand-picked

Cover of Boys in the Boat

Cover of Friday night lights

Cover of Open

Cover of Moneyball

Cover of The secret race

Drayfus

Drayfus

Sports books worth reading even if you hate sports

Stories where the final score is the least of it. The best sports writing is about everything the game drags in with it.

Cathartic Uplifting

2 months ago 35

Hand-picked

One reader built each one, choosing every book and its order.

Some open book stacks

Cover of Sabriel

Cover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Cover of Wind in the Willows

Cover of The hobbit, or, There and back again

Cover of Moominland midwinter

Drayfus

Drayfus

Cozy with a safe haven and a dark world outside

The lamp is lit, the door is bolted, and outside the cold is doing something. Comfort reads where the safest little room is the whole point.

Cozy Whimsical

3 months ago 21

Open Vote

Cover of Solaris

Cover of Kindred

Cover of Slaughterhouse 5

Cover of Klara and the Sun

Cover of Station Eleven

Drayfus

Drayfus

Science fiction with a soul

Not the gadgets, not the physics — the lonely, human heart beating under all that chrome. Speculative stories that use the future to ask how to be a person.

Melancholic Contemplative

3 months ago 1 38

Open Vote

Cover of Stoner

Cover of Our souls at night

Cover of Remains of the Day

Cover of Mezzanine

Cover of Mrs Dalloway : the Hours

Drayfus

Drayfus

Quiet novels where almost nothing happens

Quiet novels where almost nothing happens and you can't put them down. Slow, plotless, and somehow the ones that wreck you.

Quiet Meditative

3 months ago 6

Open Vote

Still being built. Add the books you think are missing.

Book stacks by mood

Cover of Fourth WIng

Cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses

Cover of The Cruel Prince

Cover of Serpent and Dove

Cover of Divine Rivals

Drayfus

Drayfus

Your first romantasy, if you keep putting it off

New to romantasy? Start here. Fae courts, dragons, and bad bargains, picked so you find out fast whether the genre is for you.

Atmospheric Romantic

1 month ago 8

Open Vote

Cover of Todo lo que queda

Cover of Orígenes

Cover of Enanas marrones

Cover of El ojo desnudo

Cover of Algo nuevo en los cielos

eContento

Popular Science

Science, not fiction

Lyrical Wondrous

5 days ago 7

Open Vote

Cover of House of Leaves

Cover of Dracula

Cover of Devolution

Cover of Episode Thirteen

Cover of The last days of Jack Sparks

Drayfus

Drayfus

Horror told through the files someone left behind

Journals, transcripts, a manuscript nobody was supposed to finish. Found footage horror, on paper, where the reader is the one who found it.

Claustrophobic Unsettling

2 days ago 1

Open Vote

Cover of Heartburn

Cover of Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia

Cover of Tiny Beautiful Things

Cover of The Course of Love

Cover of Normal People

Drayfus

Drayfus

Books to read after a breakup

For the strange, raw weeks when everything reminds you of someone. Books that sit with you in the mess, then quietly help you stand back up.

Cathartic Uplifting

2 months ago 13

Open Vote

Cover of The Silent Patient

Cover of Gone Girl

Cover of The girl on the train

Cover of Sharp Objects

Cover of Before I Go To Sleep

Drayfus

Drayfus

Psychological thrillers with a twist you never see coming

You start thinking you know who's lying. You end up doubting yourself. Suspense that keeps its final card until the last page.

Unsettling Mysterious

3 months ago 30

Open Vote

Cover of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Cover of The time traveler's wife

Cover of One Day

Cover of Normal People

Cover of The Rosie project

Drayfus

Drayfus

Romance for people who don't read romance

Romance with a second engine — a structure, a mystery, a voice — pulling you through the pages. For readers who bounce off the genre, not off love.

Melancholic Romantic

3 months ago 48

Open Vote

Cover of The Things We Never Say

Cover of Olive Kitteridge

Cover of Empire Falls

Cover of Gilead

Cover of We Need to Talk about Kevin

Drayfus

Drayfus

Novels about children who drifted away

You raised them and now you're a name they're polite to on the phone. Family novels about the distance that opens up and never quite closes.

Nostalgic Intimate

2 months ago 4

Open Vote

Cover of Hyperion

Cover of Player of Games

Cover of Closed and Common Orbit

Cover of The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Cover of Autonomous

Drayfus

Drayfus

Science fiction where AIs live among us as people

Artificial intelligence that already woke up and now has to share the world with the rest of us. Sci-fi about the awkward part that comes after.

Wry Atmospheric

3 wks ago 13

Open Vote

Cover of House of Leaves

Cover of S.

Cover of Pale Fire

Cover of The third policeman

Cover of Pedro Páramo

Drayfus

Drayfus

Experimental books that lose you on purpose

You spend more time rotating the book than reading it. Pages that fold back on themselves, footnotes that bite, and a void that grows as you go.

Hallucinatory Surreal

3 months ago 21

Open Vote

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