Vintage Book Finder is a book discovery tool with special emphasis on light women-aimed romantic fiction from the early- to mid-20th century. It’s easy to use and free. We started VBF as a way to catalog our own collections and decided to make it publicly available when we realized how little information there is out there about some of these titles/authors and how close they are to being lost.
Have you always wanted to read a book about a young woman who quits her job, opens a bakery, and falls for a wealthy pomologist? Does it drive you mad trying to remember the title of that one where the hero is a ghost? Is the enemies-to-lovers trope your jam? Are you studying changing cultural attitudes towards sexual harassment in the workplace, 1960s-1980s? Then VBF is for you!
Give it a try and drop us a line at [email protected] with any questions, suggestions, or recommendations for books we should add. Hope you enjoy Vintage Book Finder & maybe even stumble upon a new (old) fave.
Tips for using VBF:
- Any/All. This drop-down is available for relevant categories to give the option of greater search specificity. So, for instance, if you would like to find a book with a female main character who is a beautiful, courageous, Welsh widow, you would select “All” under Characteristics. If you would like to see every book in our database where the female main character is beautiful or courageous or Welsh or a widow, you would select “Any”.
- Flags. You might have a personal sensitivity to a particular difficult or disturbing theme and want to avoid it altogether in your reading. This is what the Flag section offers: a way to exclude books based on the problematic subject matter they contain. We might not flag minor insensitivities -- making allowances for the times -- but we will still try to identify these in the book’s Notes section so you can make your own judgement call.
- Recommend. Books we really enjoyed are tagged "recommended". Books we really didn't are tagged "not recommended". Most books are in between and untagged in this category.
