Pick your next book by spice level, tropes and content warnings
Every book on Fiction Lists has one record with the same fields. The record gives the spice level from 0 to 5, the tropes, the content warnings, the age category, the series order and a verdict in our own words. You read it in a minute and decide.
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1 book record with a rating and a verdict, last updated 2026-09-07.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Standalone
- Spice
- 1 of 5
- Age
- Young adult
- Tropes
- War, Forbidden love
- Rating
- 4 / 5
How we rate
Spice is how much sex a book shows on the page and in how much detail. The scale has 6 levels.
- 0 None no sexual content
- 1 Closed door kissing only; scenes cut away (closed door)
- 2 Low detail one or two on-page scenes, low detail
- 3 Explicit several explicit scenes; the plot carries the book
- 4 Frequent explicit and frequent
- 5 Central to the plot explicit, frequent and central to the plot
The rating is our overall score for a book, from 1 to 5 in half steps. The verdict says in a few sentences what the book is and who it suits.
Tropes come from a fixed list of 36 tags. The same tag means the same thing on every record. The records are free to download as JSON or CSV.