Tome Haven

A reading list that keeps to itself.

Tome Haven is a private library for the books you mean to get to. Your hoard, your notes, your pace - a sanctuary for your tomes and your book dragon.

Free for your first hundred books. No card, no invitations to send, nobody added to anything. As long as you have an account, free, monthly, or forever tier, your books are yours.

Organize every tome.

Shelves you invent yourself

winter readingborrowed from Dad

No fixed categories to squeeze a book into. One book can sit on as many shelves as you like.

Tag by mood, theme, or topic

Mark the pacing, the feeling, the tropes, or the reading challenge. Tags connect books across every shelf.

Filter and find in seconds

Narrow by status, format, rating, genre, or shelf, search your notes and tags, then sort the results the way you want.

In a series? Keep the story together.

See the books in reading order, spot the ones already in your library, and add the next installment without another search. Give the whole series a shelf of its own, too.

In this series

Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · First three books

  1. A Wizard of Earthsea cover

    Book 1

    A Wizard of Earthsea

    In library · Finished

  2. The Tombs of Atuan cover

    Book 2

    The Tombs of Atuan

    In library · Reading

  3. The Farthest Shore cover

    Book 3

    The Farthest Shore

    Not in library

Shelves you invent yourself.

No fixed categories, no genre dropdown, no shelf anyone else would have thought of. You name them, and a book can sit on as many as it likes.

Rename a shelf and every book follows. Delete one and the books stay exactly where they were — only the grouping goes.

One book, three shelves

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Sitting on

winter readingborrowed from Dadbooks Priya was right about

Other shelves in this library

half-finishedtoo heavy for the bathabandoned, maybe unfairlyread before the film

Less app. More reading.

Most reading apps eventually ask you to perform your reading for strangers. Tome Haven never will. Here's the full list of what we left out, and intend to keep leaving out.

  • A feed
  • Followers
  • Yearly challenges
  • Reading streaks
  • Recommended for you
  • Badges
  • Ads for other books
  • Public profiles

If you abandon a book on page 40 and never speak of it again, Tome Haven has no opinion about that. Neither does anyone else, because nobody's looking.

Every book has a reason.

Every book keeps a small private note: where you heard about it, who pressed it into your hands, what mood it's for. Six months later, when you're standing in front of your library with no idea why that one is on it, the note is right there.

Search runs across your notes too, so "the one Priya mentioned" is a real thing you can look up. Statuses, tags, formats and progress keep the rest in order.

  • Piranesifrom Priya, for a rainy week
  • The Dispossessedstalled on p. 112, will return
  • Braiding Sweetgrassread slowly, one essay a night
  • A Wizard of EarthseaDad's copy — give it back
  • The Overstorybought 2021, still hopeful

Book dragon approved.

A hundred books cost nothing. After that, thirteen dollars a year — a dollar for each lunar cycle — or thirty-nine once and never again. Your library exports as CSV or JSON whenever you like, whatever you pay.

The small library

Free

One hundred books, and every part of Tome Haven. No card, ever.

  • Up to 100 books
  • Shelves, tags, notes and comments
  • Reading history and progress
  • Export any time
Start your library

A year of candlelight

$13 a year

One dollar for each lunar cycle. An unlimited library, renewed yearly.

  • Unlimited books
  • Everything in the small library
  • Cancel whenever you like
  • Your books stay yours either way

Forever

$39 once

Paid once, an unlimited library. No renewal, no reminders.

  • Unlimited books
  • Everything in the small library
  • One payment, no renewal
  • Yours forever

Every plan starts free. You only pay when your library outgrows a hundred books.