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2025 Valentine Hunt

It’s February 14th, and the Valentine’s Day Hunt has returned!

We've scattered a quiver of Cupid's arrows around the site. You’ll solve the clues below to find the arrows and gather them all together.

  • Decipher the clues below and visit the corresponding LibraryThing pages to find a arrow. Each clue points to a specific page right here on LibraryThing. Remember, they are not necessarily work pages!
  • If there's a arrow on a page, you’ll see a banner at the top of the page.
  • You have two weeks to find all the arrows (until 11:59pm EST, Friday February 28th).
  • Come brag about your quiver of arrows (and get hints) on Talk.

Win Prizes

  • Any member who finds at least two arrows will be awarded a arrow badge. Badge: ().
  • Members who find all 14 arrows will be entered into a drawing for some LibraryThing (or TinyCat) swag. We‘ll announce winners at the end of the hunt.


P.S. Thanks to conceptDawg for the swan illustration!

ConceptDawg has made all of our treasure hunt graphics in the last couple of years. We like them, and hope you do, too! He says that he is quite sorry that he hasn't had the time to make a new bird painting for recent hunts.

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Arrow 1

Irish myth plays out in the Gilded Age,

New York high society provides the stage,

For this glittering new fantasy romance,

Find it on our ER page, and take your chance. (Abigail)

/ner/detail/52415/The-Gods-Time-Forgot

Arrow 2

“Looking for love in all the wrong places”—have you felt that yourself?

Fear not, lonely heart, love is in reach—let’s check the library’s shelf;

“Can I have your number?” is common in dating;

This is the number for selections in mating. (Lauren)

/mds/306.82

Arrow 3

Queen of Heaven, goddess of war,

Of love and fertility, and so much more,

Many-named deity with her sacred dove,

She influenced many later goddesses of love. (Abigail)

/character/Inanna

Arrow 4

This beloved Londonite is back again,

Looking for love, as she hitherto has been,

She’s a widow in this third book,

Now out as a film—come take a look! (Abigail)

/work/13689955/t/Bridget-Jones-Mad-About-the-Boy

Arrow 5

She got her start on BookTok,

And Hollywood soon took stock.

The movie based on her book was a smash,

Though its lead actors did more than just clash. (Kate)

/author/hoovercolleen

Arrow 6

This sad story is world renowned,

A tragic tale of love newfound,

Destroyed by family and fate,

Star-crossed lovers undone by hate. (Abigail)

/work/2225/t/Romeo-and-Juliet

Arrow 7

The LibraryThing staff do like a list,

And back in 2014 we made this—

Favorite love stories from the world of letters,

Compiled for fun, can you do better? (Abigail)

/list/6988/all/Favorite-Literary-Love-Stories

Arrow 8

This paradise lies in the Indian ocean,

Twenty-six atolls—an archipelagic love potion,

With overwater villas bathed in sea breeze and sunlight.

It’s a romantic destination and a honeymooner's delight. (Abigail)

/place/Maldives

Arrow 9

Portmanteau word are lots of fun,

This one has only recently begun

To catch on in the wider book world—

Romance and fantasy in one enswirled. (Abigail)

/tag/romantasy

Arrow 10

North Carolina is the setting of many of his books.

Which is really quite specific,

To date he’s written twenty-three novels,

So this romance writer is quite prolific. (Kate)

/author/sparksnicholas

Arrow 11

Begun back in nineteen seventy-three,

This publishing series is a veritable sea,

Of melodramatic international romance,

Innocent young women and men in high finance. (Abigail)

/nseries/258044/Harlequin-Presents

Arrow 12

A book for coquettish culinarians

(Found in the 600s, for librarians)

An ode to an ingredient the authors consider eminent;

From white to milk to dark, and all quite decadent. (Lauren)

/work/8378360/t/Chocolate-Cooking-with-the-Worlds-Best-Ingredient

Arrow 13

The men in a family are gifted

With the ability to travel through time;

And Tim is determined to use this gift

To get what he finds most sublime;


His target is the love of Charlotte.

But through his time travels he learns

As the film goes on and errors are made,

That it’s actually Mary for who he yearns. (Kate)

/work/14853679/t/About-Time-[2013-film]

Arrow 14

A palindromic-titled picture book

About a bullock and a gazelle,

The former with an adoring outlook,

The latter not receiving it well-

The story is spun through correspondence:

At the end of the bovine’s letters, a KISS and a HUG you will find,

With the antelope’s bemoaning the romantic preponderance-

Although in the end, does she change her mind? (Lauren)

/work/18707507/t/XO-OX-A-Love-Story