The next iteration of The Book Tagging Database Project is online!
Here you can find the beta version of a (hopefully) more user-friendly iteration of my database of books. This is meant to help people filter at a fairly tactical level to find new books to read and/or comp titles.
My ask to you: please tell me what works, what doesn't work, and what you'd like to see more of by replying to this post, sending me an ask, or DMing me. This is meant to be useful to people, so the more I know about what people want/need from it, the better I can make it.
Current status/functionality (as of September 27, 2025):
350 books
Primarily adult romance, with some fantasy, sci fi, and horror, as well as a small amount of YA
Current filter options are: genre/subgenre, series type, romantic relationship structure, queer, general setting, fantasy information, mythology/folklore, disability, relationship tropes, key plot points, story structure, female MC, target age, and comp eligibility
Filtering within a group is an OR filter (e.g., if you click on both fantasy and romance in the genre filter, you will get books that are fantasy and/or romance)
Filtering between groups is an AND filter (e.g., if you click on fantasy in the genre filter and demisexual in the queer filter, you will get fantasy books with a demisexual MC)
You can filter by author by clicking on their name under the book title
Book title links go to Goodreads (I don't currently have individual pages for books)
Hover text is a placeholder--please tell me what would be useful here!
The inclusion of a book isn't a recommendation to read it, though I do like many of the books included here
Future status/functionality goals (as of May 10, 2025):
Adding more books, especially fantasy and YA! I will update with new books in batches, but as of right now I need to add each book individually, so it's pretty time consuming
Additional filter options, including potentially character information, specific setting information, time period, and triggers
AND filter option within groups (e.g., if you click on both fantasy and romance in the genre filter, you will get books that are both fantasy and romance)
Tag exclusion filtering option
Nested/collapsible filtering to save space
A way to see book meta data/all tags for a book
A series database
Individual book pages
Similar books suggestions
Making sure it's accessible and is functional on mobile
Functionality that I don't plan to include:
Filtering by author information
Filtering by character race/ethnicity (I just don't have this info recorded for the vast majority of books, and it would be a huge level of effort to do it)
Direct user submissions/additions to the database (at some point I may set up a form so people can submit books that I could add manually)
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