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What Should I Read Next?
What should I read next? Pick the mood you are in and get a shortlist in one tap.
Pick a mood and a shortlist appears straight away: slow burn, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, found family, cosy, dual point of view or nothing explicit. One tap, no account.
One thing up front: this shelf is romance and science fiction romance only, so it is not for you if you want every book in print. Every heat rating names the author, publisher or listing it came from.
Sourced romance and sci fi romance books; we publish The Starfall Accord, marked Ours, and it appears only when it matches what you picked.
103 matches
A Groom of One's OwnClosed doorContemporary romance
Heat: stated as closed door in the publisher supplied description on the NetGalley catalogue listing.
Not stated on source page
New to this list.
According to the publisher supplied description, a hockey player facing deportation needs a wife within thirty days and hopes she will say yes.
Note: The source calls this a marriage of convenience; that has been mapped to the arranged marriage tag.
Emma S.
Clair is a distinct name from Emma St.
Clair, who also appears in this file.
- Arranged marriage
A Heart RevealedClosed doorHistorical romance
Heat: per a Kirkus review reproduced on the publisher's own book page, which states the story lacks steamy scenes.
Shadow Mountain
New to this list.
A celebrated Regency beauty who wants rank and money is exiled to Yorkshire and rethinks everything.
Note: Publication date of April 7, 2015 confirmed on the Amazon listing; the publisher page carries the Proper Romance category but no date.
- Opposites attract
A Noble MasqueradeHeat not statedHistorical romance
Heat: the only clean and wholesome wording found on the retailer page comes from a customer review, not from the publisher, so no heat level is recorded.
Bethany House Publishers
New to this list.
A Regency romance in the Hawthorne House series, published by Bethany House Publishers in September 2015.
Note: The quoted phrase is customer review text on the retailer page.
Publisher Bethany House Publishers and publication date of September 8, 2015 are stated in the product details on the same page.
If our own entry is the one that caught your eye, the honest way to test it is the sample, no email needed.
How the moods map onto the filters
Each mood sets a trope and a heat level for you.
Wreck me, slowly is a slow burn.
They should hate each other is enemies to lovers.
Nowhere to run is forced proximity.
Nothing explicit sets the heat filter to closed door only.
Nothing is hidden. Once a mood has run, the dropdowns underneath show exactly what it picked, and you can change any part of it by hand. the sci fi romance glossary defines every trope name on those controls.
Why a mood beats another list
Most book recommendation sites hand you a list ranked by popularity. That helps you discover an author, but not decide what to start tonight.
A mood filters on what you actually want from the next few evenings.
If what you want is a character you will still be thinking about in a fortnight, pick the slow burn.
If you want a crew rather than a couple, pick the found family.
If this shelf is the wrong shape
For the science fiction shelf on its own, with the human only and aliens filters attached, use a shelf built from the tropes you pick.
If the one thing that matters is that nothing explicit is on the page, every closed door shelf in one filter covers more genres than this shelf does.
And once you have chosen, work out the hours before you start turns the length into evenings at your own pace.
For read alike posts and trope breakdowns rather than a filter, there is the trope deep dives.
Every book on this shelf
- A Groom of One's Own by Emma S. Clair
- A Heart Revealed by Josi S. Kilpack
- A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter
- A Spy's Devotion by Melanie Dickerson
- A Treacherous Motion by Deborah Grace White
- Active Defense by Lynette Eason
- Adrift in Time by Jo-Anne Duffett
- All We Have Is Time by Amy Tordoff
- Alone by Ava Leigh Marchande
- An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
- An Unconventional Lady by Sarah E. Ladd
- Ashes on the Moor by Sarah M. Eden
- At Star's End by Anna Hackett
- Battleshipped by Savannah Scott
- Beauty and the Beast by K. M. Shea
- Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson
- Bright As Starlight by Annalise Whelan
- Broken Dove by Dani Francis
- Buried Mountain Justice by Jodie Bailey
- Caraval by Stephanie Garber
- Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline
- Coasting Into Love by Tomi Tabb
- Dance with Me on New Year's Eve by Alana Highbury
- Dangerous Arson Trail by Maggie K. Black
- Deceived by Irene Hannon
- Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
- Dragon's Vow by Destiny Shaw
- Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
- Entwined by Heather Dixon
- Even When It Wasn't You by Kayla Tirrell
- Final Curtain by Alison Stone
- Flight Risk by Cara Putman
- Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- Frederica by Georgette Heyer
- Hell's Heart by Alexis Hall
- Holiday Headaches by Lynne Hancock Pearson
- How to Not Fall for Your Best Friend by Meg Easton
- Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik
- I Punched an Alien and Now We're in Couples Therapy by Kimberly Lemming
- Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
- Matched by L.H. Whitlock
- Mind Reader by Mimika Cooney
- Missing in Texas by Virginia Vaughan
- Moss'd in Space by Rebecca Thorne
- New Leash on Life by Kathleen Y'Barbo
- Operation Starward by Ryder Tombs
- Pointe and Shoot by Alison Stone
- Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik
- Prowl by Colleen Coble
- Quicksilver by Callie Hart
- Resort to Love by Ellie Peat
- Resorting to Romance by Savannah Scott
- Riverbend Gap by Denise Hunter
- Roping Her Heart by CJ Hackland
- Royally Matched by Kate O'Keeffe
- Rules for Ruin by Mimi Matthews
- Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
- Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Space Deputy by Jenny Schwartz
- Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
- Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
- Tell Her No Lies by Kelly Irvin
- Tempests & Tea Leaves by Rachel Morgan
- Texas Christmas Cover-Up by Terri Reed
- The Alien Envoy by Stone Gray
- The Baker and the Innkeeper by Hattie Larkin
- The Beggar Prince by Kate Stradling
- The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews
- The Bird of Bedford Manor by Michelle Griep
- The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams
- The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
- The Cul-de-Sac War by Melissa Ferguson
- The Fake Out Flex by Ash Kelly
- The Fearless Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
- The Forever Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
- The Holiday Prize by Megan Reinking
- The Lady and the Highwayman by Sarah M. Eden
- The Last Hour of Gann by R. Lee Smith
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
- The Marriage Bargain by Moriah Blackwood
- The Midnight Prince by Angie Grigaliunas
- The Negotiator by Dee Henderson
- The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
- The Secret of Pembrooke Park by Julie Klassen
- The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent
- The Silent Prince by C. J. Brightley
- The Siren of Sussex by Mimi Matthews
- The Starfall Accord by Sera Voss (Ours)
- The Unlucky Prince by Deborah Grace White
- The Wicked Prince by Celeste Baxendell
- The Winter Prince by Constance Lopez
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Thorn by Intisar Khanani
- Ties of Deception by Alice Ivinya
- To Have and To Fold by Emma St. Clair
- Truffle Trouble by Amanda Flower
- Unsolved Montana Investigation by Jenna Night
- Vexing Valmir by Ruby Dixon
- What We Hide by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker
- Where He Belongs by Emily Vale
- Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
- Worlds Away by J.L. Hendricks
The other reader tools, all free
- every closed door shelf in one filter when the one thing that matters is that nothing explicit is on the page.
- a shelf built from the tropes you pick for the science fiction shelf, with the human only and aliens filters.
- work out the hours before you start once a book is chosen, for what it costs you in evenings.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of books does this recommend?
Romance and science fiction romance, and nothing else.
This is a small hand built shelf, not a search of every book in print.
If you want a thriller or a literary novel this is the wrong tool, and we would rather say so now.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
It is free and there is no account.
Nothing is stored anywhere except your own browser, and only when you tap save on a book.
Where do the heat levels come from?
Each book states its own source in its details panel, whether that is the author, the publisher, a retail listing, or our own estimate clearly labelled as one.
Where nothing states the heat level, the book says so rather than guessing.
Do you publish any of these books?
One. The Starfall Accord by Sera Voss is ours, and it is marked Ours wherever it appears.
It only shows up when it genuinely matches what you picked, on the same rules as every other book on the shelf.
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