Contemporary — Polyamory / Why Choose: 24 trope pairings readers ask for, each with the counted reader asks in this lane naming both tropes together and the counted trope-tagged titles carrying both. 16 are open gaps. Free, no sign-up.
| Pairing readers ask for | Reader asks in this lane | Titles carrying both | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omegaverse + Pack Dynamics separately: 231 and 7 tagged titles | 167 | 0 | Never written together both tropes are published; no tagged title carries both |
| Found Family + Polyamory separately: 345 and 9 tagged titles | 318 | 2 | Open gap 159.0 asks per published title |
| Pack Dynamics + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 7 and 88 tagged titles | 172 | 1 | Open gap 172.0 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Pack Dynamics separately: 345 and 7 tagged titles | 210 | 3 | Open gap 70.0 asks per published title |
| Polyamory + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 9 and 88 tagged titles | 400 | 7 | Open gap 57.1 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Protective Heroes separately: 345 and 7 tagged titles | 221 | 4 | Open gap 55.3 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Omegaverse separately: 345 and 231 tagged titles | 296 | 6 | Open gap 49.3 asks per published title |
| Omegaverse + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 231 and 88 tagged titles | 454 | 12 | Open gap 37.8 asks per published title |
| Reverse Harem / Why Choose + Slow Burn separately: 88 and 296 tagged titles | 332 | 9 | Open gap 36.9 asks per published title |
| Protective Heroes + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 7 and 88 tagged titles | 257 | 7 | Open gap 36.7 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 345 and 88 tagged titles | 1,280 | 45 | Open gap 28.4 asks per published title |
| Paranormal Romance + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 109 and 88 tagged titles | 592 | 27 | Open gap 21.9 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Trauma Recovery separately: 345 and 17 tagged titles | 167 | 10 | Open gap 16.7 asks per published title |
| Fated Mates + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 215 and 88 tagged titles | 718 | 53 | Open gap 13.5 asks per published title |
| Fated Mates + Omegaverse separately: 215 and 231 tagged titles | 174 | 13 | Open gap 13.4 asks per published title |
| Dark Romance (as trope) + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 170 and 88 tagged titles | 474 | 42 | Open gap 11.3 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Paranormal Romance separately: 345 and 109 tagged titles | 338 | 36 | Thin on the shelf 9.4 asks per published title |
| Forced Proximity + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 758 and 88 tagged titles | 444 | 58 | Thin on the shelf 7.7 asks per published title |
| Fated Mates + Paranormal Romance separately: 215 and 109 tagged titles | 350 | 85 | Thin on the shelf 4.1 asks per published title |
| Dark Romance (as trope) + Found Family separately: 170 and 345 tagged titles | 172 | 50 | Thin on the shelf 3.4 asks per published title |
| Fated Mates + Found Family separately: 215 and 345 tagged titles | 298 | 91 | Thin on the shelf 3.3 asks per published title |
| Enemies to Lovers + Reverse Harem / Why Choose separately: 383 and 88 tagged titles | 166 | 56 | Well served 3.0 asks per published title |
| Found Family + Slow Burn separately: 345 and 296 tagged titles | 284 | 124 | Well served 2.3 asks per published title |
| Forced Proximity + Found Family separately: 758 and 345 tagged titles | 255 | 236 | Well served 1.1 asks per published title |
Reader asks is a counted number: parsed reader requests — from Goodreads and Amazon reviews and Q&A, Reddit and BookTok — in which a reader writing about this lane named both tropes in the same request. 1,972,935 reader signals sit behind it. Titles carrying both is counted the same way over published titles tagged trope by trope: 22,102 distinct titles, 163,929 trope tags. Neither number is modelled, sampled or estimated.
Two things to be straight about. The supply count is registry-wide, not lane-scoped — our demand data and our title tagging use different subgenre vocabularies, and rather than fake a join we count titles carrying both tropes anywhere in the tagged registry. And a pairing is only listed when both of its tropes carry at least five tagged titles on their own (the two figures are printed under each pairing), so a zero in the “carrying both” column means the pairing really is unwritten in what we have tagged, not that we simply never tagged the trope.
The verdict column is a rule, printed here so you can apply it yourself: ten or more asks per published title is an open gap; three to ten is thin on the shelf; below three is well served; and a pairing readers ask for that no tagged title in the lane carries at all is called out as such. Pairings with fewer than three asks are not listed — too few to mean anything.
What it is not. It is not a sales forecast and it is not advice to write anything. A gap can be a gap because readers ask and nobody delivers, or because the pairing does not work. That judgement is yours; the counting is ours. Counted 2026-08-26 and restated whenever the corpus is recounted — the raw JSON behind any lane is one query string away.
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