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Everything on the shelf, ranked by its readers.

No feed, no algorithm. What readers open, keep and build, since day one.

  • 114 stacks
  • 697 books
  • 27 moods

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Open Morally grey Unflinching

What I want to read and not leave for last

I want to read them

adenfus 16 books 6 views
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Most read · lately

The stacks readers keep opening.

One visit per reader a day, and recent ones weigh more than old ones. The number is all-time; the order is now.

  1. 01

    Twists that send you back to page one

    Drayfus 7 books Hand-picked
    111

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    +3 this week
  2. 02

    First contact with something we can't explain

    Drayfus 10 books Open
    81

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    +3 this week
  3. 03

    Non-fiction books that changed my life

    rubenfa 11 books Hand-picked
    71

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    +1 this week
  4. 04

    Understanding Science Fiction

    rubenfa 10 books Hand-picked
    52

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    +2 this week
  5. 05

    Women in their thirties figuring things out

    Drayfus 7 books Open
    67

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    +2 this week
  6. 06

    Sports books worth reading even if you hate sports

    Drayfus 9 books Hand-picked
    40

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    +4 this week
  7. 07

    Stories about time travel

    Drayfus 14 books Open
    55

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    +2 this week
  8. 08

    Standalone, non-tolkien fantasy books

    Drayfus 10 books Open
    61

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  9. 09

    Romance for people who don't read romance

    Drayfus 9 books Open
    48

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  10. 10

    Novels that break you on a long flight

    Drayfus 7 books Open
    35

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    +13 this week

Latest on the shelf

Just in, or just grown.

Stacks just published and stacks that have grown since, side by side. The badge only lasts the first month.

Updated 9 books
Cover of Robinson Crusoe Cover of Into the Wild Cover of Martian Cover of Hatchet Cover of Touching the Void

Books about being alone and surviving it

Solitude as something you can walk through and come out the other side. Stories of people far from everyone, finding out what's still there.

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Hopeful Bittersweet
2 days ago 11
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Cover of The Name of the Rose Cover of The Neverending Story Cover of Possession Cover of The Club Dumas Cover of Misery

Novels about books that take over a life

Someone opens a book and never quite closes it. The reading takes over the job, the sleep, everything that was there first.

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Wondrous Atmospheric
2 days ago 22
Open Vote
Updated 9 books
Cover of Klara and the Sun Cover of Never Let Me Go Cover of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Cover of Frankenstein Cover of Flowers for Algernon

Books that ask what makes us human

Philosophical fiction for the 2am question — what we owe each other, who we're becoming, and where the line between human and not-quite-human blurs.

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Morally grey Bittersweet
2 days ago 23
Open Vote
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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

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.

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Morally grey Cerebral
2 days ago 32
Open Vote
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Cover of Station Eleven Cover of Wanderers Cover of Severance Cover of The Stand Cover of Oryx and Crake

Pandemic novels where the world comes apart

A virus tears through the world and everything we built goes quiet. Fiction about the people caught in the middle of the end.

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Hopeful Bittersweet
2 days ago 13
Open Vote
Updated 8 books
Cover of The Count of Monte Cristo Cover of The Final Empire Cover of The lies of Locke Lamora Cover of 11/22/63 Cover of Foundation

Protagonists playing the long game

The hero doesn't punch their way out — they spend hundreds of pages quietly setting things up. Books where the payoff lands because you saw the patience that ma

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Epic Morally grey
2 days ago 32
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Books

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We don't know which are searched most: on purpose, we don't keep searches. These are the ones readers open, keep and stack.

Moods · by visits

Start from the feeling.

The ones readers open most, and below them every one we have. A mood is what a book leaves behind, not its genre.

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