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58888 /m/0g26y An Inspector Calls John Boynton Priestley At dinner at the Birlings' home in 1912, Arthur Birling, a wealthy mill owner and local politician, and his family are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, son of a competitor of Birling's. In attendance are Sybil Birling, Arthur's wi... |
58901 /m/0g2bw Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the far future, humanity has discovered interstellar travel and faster-than-light communication enabled by ansibles. In exploring the galaxy, they encountered an alien race kn... |
59375 /m/0g5k6 Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare The play begins shortly after the death of the Roman Emperor, with his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, squabbling over who will succeed him. Their conflict seems set to boil over into violence until a tribune, Marcus Andronicus, announces that the people's choi... |
59411 /m/0g5t6 Measure for Measure William Shakespeare 1861 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, makes it known that he intends to leave the city on a diplomatic mission. He leaves the government in the hands of a strict judge, Angelo. Claudio, a young nobleman, is betrothed/unofficially married to J... |
59692 /m/0g7tz Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said Philip K. Dick 1974 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in a dystopian future United States following a Second Civil War which led to the collapse of the... |
59782 /m/0g8ln Job: A Comedy of Justice Robert A. Heinlein 1984 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story examines religion through the eyes of Alex, a Christian political activist who is corrupted by Margrethe, a Danish Norse cruise ship hostess — and who... |
59784 /m/0g8m0 Farmer in the Sky Robert A. Heinlein 1950 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is set in a future, overcrowded Earth, where food is carefully rationed. Teenager William (Bill) Lermer lives with his widower father, Georg... |
59786 /m/0g8mt Friday Robert A. Heinlein 1982-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book's protagonist is Friday Baldwin, an artificial person both mentally and physically superior in many ways to an ordinary human, but she faces great pr... |
59804 /m/0g8rz Have Space Suit-Will Travel Robert A. Heinlein 1958 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Clifford "Kip" Russell, a bright high school senior with an eccentric father, enters an advertising jingle writing contest, hoping to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. He inst... |
59826 /m/0g8xg Requiem Robert A. Heinlein The story centers around Delos David Harriman, the lead character of "The Man Who Sold The Moon". Harriman, a tycoon and latter-day robber baron, had always dreamed of going to the Moon, and had spent much of his career and resources making space flight a practical commercia... |
59842 /m/0g8_z Red Planet Robert A. Heinlein 1949 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On Mars, Jim Marlowe and Frank Sutton travel to the Lowell Academy boarding school for the start of the academic year. Jim takes along his native, volleyball-sized pet, ... |
59844 /m/0g90b The Number of the Beast Robert A. Heinlein 1980-07-12 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} The book is a series of diary entries by each of the four main characters: Zebadiah John Carter, programmer Dejah Thoris "Deety" Burroughs Carter, her mathematics professor father Jacob Burroughs, and an off-campus soc... |
60128 /m/0gc8j Foundation's Edge Isaac Asimov 1982-06 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Five hundred years after the establishment of the Foundation, the Mayor of Terminus, Harla Branno, is basking in a political glow, her policies having been vindicated by the re... |
60129 /m/0gc8_ The Caves of Steel Isaac Asimov 1954-06 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book's central crime is a murder, which takes place before the novel opens. (This is... |
60130 /m/0gc9g Prelude to Foundation Isaac Asimov 1988-11 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story takes place on Trantor during the reign of Emperor Cleon I. It starts with Hari's presentation of a paper at a mathematics ... |
60131 /m/0gc9y Foundation and Earth Isaac Asimov 1986 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Councilman Golan Trevize, historian Janov Pelorat, and Blissenobiarella of the planet Gaia (all of whom were introduced in Foundation's Edge) set out on ... |
60139 /m/0gcf1 Time Enough for Love Robert A. Heinlein 1973-06 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book covers several periods from the life of Lazarus Long (birth name: Woodrow Wilson Smith), the oldest living human, now more than two thousand years old. The ... |
60145 /m/0gchb The Rolling Stones Robert A. Heinlein 1952 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Stones, a family of "Loonies" (residents of the Moon, known as "Luna" in Latin), purchase and rebuild a used spaceship, and go si... |
60146 /m/0gchp The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein 1957 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel opens in 1970 with Daniel Boone Davis, an engineer and inventor, well into a long drinking binge. He has lost his company, Hired Girl, Inc., to his partner Mi... |
60149 /m/0gcjx Farnham's Freehold Robert A. Heinlein 1964 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} Hugh Farnham, a middle-aged man, holds a bridge club party for his wife Grace (an alcoholic), son Duke (a law graduate), daughter Karen (a college student), and Barbara (Karen's sorority sister). During the bridge game, Duke bera... |
60161 /m/0gcm_ The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett 1930 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/03xj9g": "Hardboiled", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Sam Spade and Miles Archer are hired by a Miss Wonderly to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who has alleg... |
60171 /m/0gcqp The Treasure of the Sierra Madre B. Traven {"/m/0hfjk": "Western", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel"} Three down-and-out gringos meet by chance in a Mexican city and discuss how to overcome their financial distress. They then set out to discover gold in the remote Sierra Madre mount... |
60266 /m/0gd4j Funeral in Berlin Len Deighton 1964 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The protagonist, who is unnamed, travels to Berlin to arrange the defection of a Soviet scientist named Semitsa, this being brokered by Johnny Vulkan of the Berlin intelligence community. Despite his initial scepticis... |
60267 /m/0gd4w Billion-Dollar Brain Len Deighton 1966 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The unnamed protagonist travels to Helsinki to deliver a package after receiving instructions from a mysterious mechanically operated telephone message. On his arrival the protagonist... |
60269 /m/0gd5k Kim Rudyard Kipling 1901 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel"} Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother who have both died in poverty. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, ... |
60310 /m/0gdfn Whit Iain Banks 1995 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Isis, otherwise The Blessed Very Reverend Gaia-Marie Isis Saraswati Minerva Mirza Whit of Luskentyre, Beloved Elect of God III, is the 19-year-old granddaughter and designated spiritu... |
60364 /m/0gdq1 Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hh4w": "Comic science fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee a... |
60878 /m/0gjjf The Lion in Winter James Goldman Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England's castle in Chinon, Anjou, Angevin Empire, the play opens with the arrival of Henry's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has had imprisoned since 1173. The story concerns the gamesmanship between Henry, Eleanor, their th... |
60956 /m/0gk1s Native Son Richard Wright 1940 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Bigger Thomas wakes up in a dark, small room at the sound of the alarm clock. He lives in one room with his brother Buddy, his sister Vera, and their mother. Suddenly, a rat appears. The room turns into a maelstrom and after a v... |
61050 /m/0gknq East Lynne Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and refined young woman, leaves her hard-working but neglectful lawyer-husband and her infant children to elope with an aristocratic suitor. After he deserts her, and she bears their illegitimate child, Lady Isabel disguises herself and takes the position o... |
61069 /m/0gkw2 A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is divided into five books. In the first book, Rinaldi introduces Henry to Catherine Barkley; Henry attempts to seduce her, and their relationship begins. While on the Italian front, Henry is wounded in the k... |
61172 /m/0glpp Imitation of Life Fannie Hurst 1933 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is a look at early 20th-century American race relations. In Hurst's novel, Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousey, Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother passes away, leaving her to keep house for her father (Mr. Chipley) and Benjamin Pullman,... |
61179 /m/0glrw The Last Command Timothy Zahn {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book is set a month after Dark Force Rising. Now emboldened by his recent capture of the Katana fleet and staffing th... |
61181 /m/0glsq The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1903 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel"} The story is narrated by Overton, godfather to the central character. The novel takes its beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in order to trace Ernest's emergence from previous generations of the... |
61324 /m/0gmnj Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1921-06 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel begins with Virgil Adams confined to bed with an unnamed illness. There is tension between Virgil and his wife over how he should go about recovering, and she... |
61489 /m/0gnfq Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1862 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story starts in 1815 in Digne. The peasant Jean Valjean has just been released from imprisonment in the Bagne of Toulon after nineteen years (five for stealing bread for his starving sister and her family, and fourteen more... |
61506 /m/0gnkp Dodsworth Sinclair Lewis 1929 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Samual 'Sam' Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker... |
61528 /m/0gnsh Lost Horizon James Hilton 1933 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0277ppz": "Non-fiction novel", "/m/08g5mv": "Lost World", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is... |
61958 /m/0grxd The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1895 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} On a cold day the fictional 304th New York Regiment awaits battle beside a river. Eighteen-year-old Private Henry Fleming, remembering his romantic reasons for enlisting as well as his mother's resulting protests, wonders whether he wil... |
62113 /m/0gs_c Goodbye, Mr. Chips James Hilton {"/m/059r08": "Psychological novel"} The novel tells the story of a much-beloved schoolteacher and his long tenure at Brookfield, a fictional British boys' public boarding school (a private school in American terminology). Mr. Chipping conquers his inability to connect w... |
62120 /m/0gt2b Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 {"/m/0l67h": "Novella"} Two migrant field workers in California on their plantation during the Great Depression—George Milton, an intelligent but uneducated man, and Lennie Small, a man of large stature and great strength but limited mental abilities—are on their way ... |
62651 /m/0gxw1 All's Well That Ends Well William Shakespeare 1623 Helena, the orphan daughter of a famous physician, is the ward of the Countess of Rousillon, and hopelessly in love with the son of the Countess, Count Bertram, who has been sent to the court of the King of France. Despite her beauty and worth, Helena ... |
62654 /m/0gxwz The Taming of the Shrew William Shakespeare 1623 Prior to the first act, an induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a befuddled drunkard named Christopher Sly who is tricked into believing that he is a lord. In the play performed for Sly, the "Shrew" is Katherina Minola, the... |
62695 /m/0gy7g Our Town Thornton Wilder The Stage Manager guides the play, taking questions from the audience, describing the locations (as scenery is sparse) and making key observations about the world the play creates. The Stage Manager introduces the audience to the small town of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, ... |
63099 /m/0g_7x Ishmael Daniel Quinn 1992 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Ishmael begins with a newspaper ad: "Teacher seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person." The nameless narrator and protagonist begins his s... |
63110 /m/0g_b_ David Copperfield Charles Dickens 1850 {"/m/04fqp": "K\u00fcnstlerroman", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderston near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his... |
63335 /m/0h0nb Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke 1953 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/09vxq_p": "Catastrophic literature", "/m/07g8l": "Transhumanism"} The novel is divided into three parts, following a third-person omniscient narrative with no main character. In the late 20th ce... |
63425 /m/0h11p The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 1943 The reader is introduced to the narrator who, as a young boy, drew a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. However, he is discouraged from drawing when all adults who look at his picture see a hat, instead. The narrator attempts to explain what his first... |
63738 /m/0h31w Brigadoon Alan Jay Lerner ;Act I New Yorkers Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas have traveled to the Scottish Highlands on a game-hunting vacation, only to get lost their first night out. They begin to hear music ("Brigadoon") coming from a nearby village; strangely, the village isn't on their map of the... |
63750 /m/0h362 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien 1954-11-11 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} As Aragorn searches for Frodo, he suddenly hears Boromir's horn. He finds Boromir mortally wounded by arrows,... |
63751 /m/0h36k The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien 1955-10-20 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography"} Gandalf and Pippin arrive at Minas Tirith in the kingdom of Gondor, delivering the ne... |
63754 /m/0h37w Akallabêth Akallabêth (The Downfallen in Adûnaic; Quenya is Atalantë) is the story of the destruction of the Kingdom of Númenor, written by Elendil. After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age (which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion) the Edain, those Men who had aid... |
63985 /m/0h4g1 The Drawing of the Three Stephen King 1987-05 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/025txgl": "Western fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book begins less than seven hours after the end... |
63987 /m/0h4gh The Gunslinger Stephen King 1982-06-10 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/025txgl": "Western fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0hfjk": "Western", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} It tells the story of the gunslinge... |
63992 /m/0h4hb On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King 2000-10-03 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography"} The first section of On Writing is an Autobiography mainly about King’s early exposure to writing, and his childhood attempts at writing. King talks about his early attempts to get published, and his first novel Carri... |
63997 /m/0h4kb The Body Stephen King 1982 {"/m/0l67h": "Novella"} Vern Tessio informs his three friends that he has overheard his older brother Billy talking with his friend Charlie Hogan, about the location of the corpse of Ray Brower, a boy from Chamberlain, a town 40 miles or so east of Castle Rock, who has gone mi... |
64002 /m/0h4ld Wizard and Glass Stephen King 1997-11-04 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel begins where The Waste Lands ended. After Jake, Eddie, Susannah and Roland frui... |
64007 /m/0h4m_ The Waste Lands Stephen King 1991-08 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins five weeks after the end of The Drawing of the Three. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie have moved east from the shore ... |
64010 /m/0h4nt The Eyes of the Dragon Stephen King 1987-02-02 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Eyes of the Dragon takes place entirely within the realm of Delain (which itself is located within In-World from The Dark Tower seri... |
64019 /m/0h4s1 Riding the Bullet Stephen King Alan Parker is a student at the University of Maine who is trying to find himself. He gets a call from a neighbor in his hometown, Lewiston, telling him that his mother has been taken to the hospital after having a stroke. Lacking a functioning car, Parker decides to hit... |
64024 /m/0h4tj Dolores Claiborne Stephen King {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill ... |
64025 /m/0h4ty Gerald's Game Stephen King {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} The story begins with Jessie Burlingame and her husband Gerald in the bedroom of their secluded cabin in western Maine, where they have gone for an off-beat romantic weekend. Gerald, a success... |
64026 /m/0h4v9 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Novel Stephen King 1999-04-06 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is set in motion by a family hiking trip, during which Trisha's brother, Pete, and mother constantly squabble about the mother's divorce with her father, as well as other topics. Trisha falls back to avoid l... |
64029 /m/0h4wh The Green Mile Stephen King 1996-03 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} A first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home sharing his story with fellow resident Elaine Connelly i... |
64035 /m/0h4xv The Long Walk Stephen King {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} One hundred teenage boys participate in an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk", which is the "national sport". Each Walker must maintain a speed of at l... |
64199 /m/0h5l0 Solaris Stanisław Lem 1961 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/059r08": "Psychological novel"} Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life on a far-distant planet. Solaris, with whom Terran s... |
64594 /m/0h78p You Can't Take It with You Moss Hart At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before you realize that if they are mad, then the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. Tony, the attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice ... |
65169 /m/0hb7d Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare 1623 Mark Antony – one of the Triumvirs of Rome along with Octavian and Lepidus – has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra. He ignores Rome's domestic problems, including the fact that his third wife Fulvia rebelled aga... |
65379 /m/0hcby The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 1951-12 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The protagonist is Bill Masen, who has made his living working with "triffids"—tall plants capable of aggressive and seemingly intelligent behaviour. They are able to move about by "walking" on their roots, appear to communicate with e... |
65953 /m/0hgq8 Antigone Sophocles Before the beginning of the play, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has decided that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices will be in public shame. The rebel brother's body will not be ... |
66219 /m/0hj3z Love and Mr Lewisham H. G. Wells 1900 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} At the beginning of the novel, Mr. Lewisham is an 18-year-old teacher at a boys' school in Sussex, earning forty pounds a year. He meets and falls in love... |
66346 /m/0hjxw The Stardroppers John Brunner 1972 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} The Stardroppers is about an undercover United Nations agent investigating a new fad, "stardropping", whereby physics-violating equipment is used to listen to sounds believed to be alien or paranormal signals. Superficially a harmless bu... |
66627 /m/0hlg3 The Little Foxes Lillian Hellman The focus is on Southerner Regina Hubbard Giddens, who struggles for wealth and freedom within the confines of an early 20th century society where a father considered only sons as legal heirs. As a result, her avaricious brothers Benjamin and Oscar are independently we... |
67003 /m/0hngp Carrie Stephen King 1974-04-05 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The book uses false documents to frame the story of one of the worst disasters ... |
67013 /m/0hnj0 King John William Shakespeare 1623 King John receives an ambassador from France, who demands, on pain of war, that he renounce his throne in favour of his nephew, Arthur, whom the French King, Philip, believes to be the rightful heir to the throne. John adjudicates an inheritance dispute between Robert... |
67015 /m/0hnjc Love's Labour's Lost William Shakespeare The play opens with the King of Navarre and three noble companions, Berowne, Dumaine, and Longaville, taking an oath to devote themselves to three years of study, promising not to give in to the company of women – Berowne somewhat more hesitantly than the other... |
67317 /m/0hq4m Watership Down Richard Adams 1972-11 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction. When he and his brother Hazel fail to convince ... |
67838 /m/0hsz9 Harriet the Spy Louise Fitzhugh 1964 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring writer, who lives in New York City's Upper East Side. A precocious and enthusiastic girl, Harriet enjoys writing and aspires to be... |
68201 /m/0hvkr Richard II William Shakespeare Richard II is the main character of the play. The first Act begins with King Richard sitting majestically on his throne in full state. We learn that Henry Bolingbroke, Richard's cousin, is having a dispute with Thomas Mowbray, and they both want the king to act as judge.... |
68348 /m/0hwk2 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/03xj9g": "Hardboiled"} Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of wealthy, elderly General Sternwood. He wants Marlowe to deal with a blackmail attempt by a books... |
68851 /m/0hzkp The State of the Art Iain Banks 1991 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} * Road of Skulls * A Gift from the Culture * Odd Attachment * Descendant * Cleaning Up * Piece * The State of the Art At 100 pages long, the title novella makes up the bulk of the book. The novella c... |
68857 /m/0hznb The Player of Games Iain Banks 1988 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skilful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life. The Culture's Special Circumstances inquires a... |
68863 /m/0hzpk Excession Iain Banks 1996 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The Excession of the title is a perfect black-body sphere that appears mysteriously on the edge of Culture space, appears to be older than the Universe itself and resists the attempts of the Culture and technol... |
68870 /m/0hzrs Look to Windward Iain Banks 2000 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Despite the passage of time, Major Quilan still suffers grief and bereavement from the death of his wife, killed during the Chelgrian civil war that resulted from the Culture's interference. Quilan is of... |
68871 /m/0hzs4 Use of Weapons Iain Banks 1990-02-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The book is made up of two narrative streams, interwoven in alternating chapters. The numbers of the chapters indicate which stream they belong to: one stream is numbered forward in words (One, Two .... |
69111 /m/0j087 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Douglas Adams 1984 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/02yq81": "Comic novel", "/m/09kqc": "Humour", "/m/0hh4w": "Comic science fiction"} Arthur Dent has hitch-hiked through the galaxy and is dropped off on a... |
69485 /m/0j2th Choke Chuck Palahniuk 2001-05-22 {"/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Choke follows Victor Mancini and his friend Denny through a few months of their lives with frequent flashbacks to the days when Victor was a... |
69868 /m/0j58l A Friend of the Earth T. Coraghessan Boyle 2000-09 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} A Friend of the Earth is the story of Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, a U.S. citizen born in 1950, half Irish Catholic and half Jewish ("I'm a mess and I know it. Jewish guilt, Catholic guilt,... |
69919 /m/0j5mn In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust 1913 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel recounts the experiences of the Narrator while growing up, participating in society, falling in love, and learning about art. The Narrator begins by noting, “For a long time, I went to bed ... |
69931 /m/0j5ql Liza of Lambeth W. Somerset Maugham {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—around the time of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of 13 children, now living a... |
70070 /m/0j65x The Weirdstone of Brisingamen Alan Garner 1960 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The book's introduction concerns the origin of the Weirdstone. Following the defeat of Nastrond, it was decided to take steps to prevent what must otherwise be... |
70153 /m/0j6sy The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000-05 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is told by Nathan Zuckerman, a writer who lives quietly in New England, where Coleman Silk is his neighbor. Silk is a former classics professor and dean of faculty at nearby Athena College, a fictional institution... |
70206 /m/0j72r Picnic at Hanging Rock Joan Lindsay 1967 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} Picnic at Hanging Rock centers around a trip by a party of girls from Appleyard College, a fictitious upper class private boarding school, who travel to Hanging Rock in the Mount Macedon area, Victoria, for... |
70258 /m/0j78y I, the Jury Mickey Spillane 1947 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} New York City, summer 1944. Although she runs a successful private psychiatric clinic on New York's Park Avenue, Dr. Charlotte Manning — young, beautiful, blonde, ... |
70375 /m/0j7s8 Thinks ... David Lodge 2001 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} The novel is exclusively set at the (entirely fictitious [cf. "Author's Note"]) University of Gloucester, based loosely on the University of York thanks to the author's brief residence there. (Its Cognitive Science and Cre... |
70829 /m/0jb2_ The Adventures of Pinocchio Carlo Collodi 1883 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins in Tuscany. A carpenter has found a block of pinewood which he plans to carve into a leg for his ... |
70850 /m/0jb7s Smith of Wootton Major J. R. R. Tolkien {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella"} The village of Wootton Major was well-known around the countryside for its annual festivals, which were particularly famous for their culinary delights. The biggest festival of all was the Fea... |
71029 /m/0jc4c The Tie That Binds Kent Haruf In 1896, newlyweds Roy and Ada Goodnough leave Iowa and settle down in northeastern Colorado under the Homestead Act of 1862. The business of farming is a tough affair in those days, but Roy is a hard-working man who eventually succeeds in tilling the soil and breeding ca... |
71290 /m/0jd3p England, England Julian Barnes 1998 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} England, England is divided into three parts entitled "England", "England, England" and "Anglia". The first part focuses on the protagonist Martha Cochrane and her childhood memories. Growing up in the surrou... |
71416 /m/0jdh5 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 {"/m/0594kx": "Conspiracy fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/04chq5": "Planetary romance", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01smf2": "Military science fiction"} Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV of House Corrino has come to... |
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