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168639 /m/016l3b Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 1993 {"/m/016chh": "Memoir"} In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting suicide. She denies that it was a suicide attempt to a psychiatrist, who suggests she take time to regroup in McLean, a pr... |
168676 /m/016l6w Small Gods Terry Pratchett 1992 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Great God Om tries to manifest himself once more in the world, as the time of his eighth prophet is nigh. He is surprised, however, when he finds himse... |
168693 /m/016l9s The Sum of Us David Stevens The plot revolves around the comfortable relationship between widower Harry and his gay son Jeff and their individual searches for the right mate. Harry unconditionally loves his Rugby-playing son, and even takes an active part in Jeff's search for Mr. Right. Harry reveal... |
168698 /m/016lbm Jingo Terry Pratchett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} With the opening of the novel, the island of Leshp, which had been submerged under the Circle Sea for centuries, rises to the surface. Its position, exactly halfway... |
168729 /m/016ljn The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford 1945 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The narrator is Fanny, whose mother (called "The Bolter" for her habit of serial monogamy) and father have left her to be brought up by her Aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in th... |
170003 /m/016swv Moonraker Ian Fleming 1955-04-05 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} British Secret Service agent James Bond is asked by his superior, M, to join him for the evening at M's club, Blades, where one of the members, the multi-millionaire businessman Sir Hugo Drax, is winning a lot of money playing bridge, seemin... |
171648 /m/0171h9 Sophie's Choice William Styron 1979 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Sophie's Choice is narrated by Stingo, a novelist who is recalling the summer when he began his first novel. As the story begins, in the early summer of 1947, Stingo (like Styron, a writer and Duke graduate) has been fired from his low-level re... |
172010 /m/0173pn Season of the Jew Maurice Shadbolt 1987-02-01 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In this story of New Zealand and Te Kooti's War during the year beginning November 10, 1868, the narrative coalesces around the development of its protagonist, George Fairweather, who in Shadbolt’s historical epilogue is described as ... |
173601 /m/017d_b The White Plague Frank Herbert 1982 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} When an IRA bomb goes off, the wife and children of molecular biologist John Roe O'Neill are killed on May 20, 1996. Driven halfway insane by loss, his mind fragments into sev... |
173974 /m/017gsf The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan 1678-02 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Christian, an everyman character, is the protagonist of the allegory, which centres itself in his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is to come": Heave... |
174237 /m/017jbn The Santaroga Barrier Frank Herbert 1968 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A psychologist, Gilbert Dasein, is hired by corporate interests to investigate a town in a valley where marketing seems totally ineffective: Outside businesses are allowe... |
174471 /m/017kkg Orlando Furioso Ludovico Ariosto 1516 The action of Orlando Furioso takes place against the background of the war between the Christian emperor Charlemagne and the Saracen King of Africa, Agramante, who has invaded Europe to avenge the death of his father Traiano. Agramante and his allies – who inclu... |
174523 /m/017kwb The Anatomy of Melancholy Robert Burton 1621 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy"} Burton defined his subject as follows: In attacking his stated subject, Burton drew from nearly every science of his day, including psychology and physiology, but also astronomy, meteorology, and theology, and even astrology and ... |
175416 /m/017q_l Piers Plowman William Langland The poem—part theological allegory, part social satire—concerns the narrator's intense quest for the true Christian life, from the perspective of mediæval Catholicism. This quest entails a series of dream-visions and an examination into the lives of three allegorical c... |
175547 /m/017rhx Red Storm Rising Tom Clancy 1986-08 {"/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Islamic terrorists from Azerbaijan destroy a Soviet oil-production facility at Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, crippling the USSR's oil production and threatening to wreck the nation's economy. Con... |
175562 /m/017rl6 The Joy of Work The first part of the book explains 'how to find happiness at the expense of your co-workers', including how to deal with superiors, meetings and co-workers and how to avoid work whilst having fun, an entire chapter is devoted to office pranks. The second part is an analysis of humo... |
175656 /m/017s4y Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence {"/m/02js9": "Erotica", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} The story concerns a young married woman, Constance (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class husband, Clifford Chatterley, has been paralyzed due to a war injury. In addition to Clifford's physical limitations, h... |
176363 /m/017xwx A Staircase in Surrey J. I. M. Stewart The narrator and central character is playwright Duncan Patullo. In The Gaudy he returns to his old college, after a long absence, and encounters a number of old friends, including Albert Talbert, his former tutor, Lord Marchpayne, a once-close friend with whom... |
176395 /m/017y0y The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel"} The majority of 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of highly sensitive and passionate temperament, and sent to his friend Wilhelm. In these l... |
176956 /m/017_sf The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1749-02-28 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel's events occupy eighteen books. Squire Allworthy and his sister Bridget are introduced in their wealthy estate in Somerset. Allworthy returns from London after an extended business tr... |
176961 /m/017_vh Richard III William Shakespeare The play begins with Richard describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York. : Now is the winter of our discontent : Made glorious summer by this sun of York; : And all the clouds tha... |
177094 /m/01809g The Fall Albert Camus 1956 {"/m/02m4t": "Existentialism"} The novel opens with Clamence sitting in the bar, Mexico City, casually talking to a stranger — the reader, some would say — about the proper way to order a drink; for here, despite the cosmopolitan nature of Amsterdam, the bartender refuses to... |
177162 /m/0180q0 The Golden Hour Maiya Williams 2004 The Golden Hour tells the story of Rowan and Nina's adventures the summer after their mother's death. Thirteen-year-old Rowan's life is at an all-time low: his father has turned to drinking, the family business is becoming a financial disaster, they have had to mov... |
177375 /m/0181z3 The Man Who Fell to Earth Walter Tevis {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth seeking to construct a spaceship to ferry others from his home planet, Anthea, to Earth. Anthea is experiencing a terrible drought aft... |
178213 /m/0187rz The Quiet Earth Craig Harrison 1981 {"/m/0587vh": "Human extinction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} John Hobson, a geneticist involved in a project concerned with manipulating DNA, awakes in his hotel room in Thames, New Zealand after a nightmare of falling from a great height. His wristwatch has sto... |
178842 /m/018df2 The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster 1961 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Milo is a boy bored by the world around him; every activity seems a waste of time. He arrives home from school one day to find in his bedroo... |
179860 /m/018k2l The Hundred and One Dalmatians Dodie Smith 1956 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Pongo and Missis Pongo (or simply Missis) are a pair of Dalmatians who live with the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Dearly and their two nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler. Mr. Dearly is a "finan... |
180147 /m/018l57 A Philosophical Investigation Philip Kerr 1992 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} In a near-future, a British neuroscientist named Professor Burgess Phelan has discovered a portion of the brain, the VMN, that is typically twice the size in men... |
180333 /m/018m6f The Tortilla Curtain T. Coraghessan Boyle 1995 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Cándido Rincón (33) and América (his pregnant common law wife, 17) are two Mexicans who enter the United States illegally, dreaming of the good life in their own little house somewhere in California. Meanwhile,... |
180441 /m/018ms_ Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Love in a Cold Climate is a companion volume to The Pursuit of Love. The time frame of Love in a Cold Climate is the same as The Pursuit of Love, but the focus is on a different set of characters. Fanny remains the fictional narrator. In Th... |
180464 /m/018mwr The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 1943-12 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the spring of 1922, architecture student Howard Roark is expelled from the fictional Stanton Institute of Technology for refusing to adhere to the school's conventionalism in architecture. Despite an effort by some professors to defend Roark... |
181163 /m/018rh_ The Last Continent Terry Pratchett 1998 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story opens weeks after the events of Interesting Times, in which Rincewind is magically transported to the continent of Xxxx due to a miscalcu... |
181325 /m/018sb1 Laura Blundy Julie Myerson {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} After her mother has died in childbirth, Laura Blundy is brought up by her loving and caring father, a merchant and shopowner who also pays for her schooling. One day, on her way to her ailing aunt, she is given a lift... |
181622 /m/018tps Contact Carl Sagan 1985-09 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Eleanor "Ellie" Arroway is the director of "Project Argus," in which scores of radio telescopes in New Mexico have been dedicated to the search for... |
182128 /m/018wnw American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The central premise of the novel is that gods and mythological creatures exi... |
182433 /m/018x_s Stardust Neil Gaiman 1999-02-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Faerie Market is held every nine years on the other side of the wall dividing Faerie from our world and for which the nearby town ... |
182612 /m/018yts World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability Amy Chua 2002-12 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} In the Philippines, Chua explains, the Chinese Filipino is 1% of the population but controls 60% of the economy, with the result being envy and bitterness on the ... |
183363 /m/019171 The Sword in the Stone T. H. White 1939-01-01 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The premise is that Arthur's youth, not dealt with in Malory, was a time when he was tutored by Merlyn to prepare him for the use of po... |
184211 /m/019569 Children of the Mind Orson Scott Card 1996 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} At the start of Children of the Mind, Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, is using her newly discovered abilities to take the races of bugg... |
184501 /m/0196h5 Wonders of the Invisible World Cotton Mather Cotton Mather, narrator and preacher of the Second Church of Boston, begins with an explanation of the people of God and how they are living in the devil's territories. He discusses the devil's plan to overturn the plantation and churches with the help of... |
184843 /m/0197qv Henry VI, part 1 William Shakespeare The play begins with the funeral of Henry V, who has died unexpectedly in his prime. As his brothers, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, and his uncle, the Duke of Exeter, lament his passing and express doubt as to whether his son (the as yet uncrowned heir app... |
184847 /m/0197rj Henry VI, part 3 William Shakespeare The play begins immediately where 2 Henry VI left off; with the victorious Yorkists (York, Edward, Richard, Warwick, Montague [i.e. Salisbury] and Norfolk) pursuing Henry and Margaret from the battlefield in the wake of the First Battle of St Albans. Upon reachin... |
185289 /m/019b0h The Silver Chalice Thomas B. Costain 1952 {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The Silver Chalice takes place in Israel and other parts of the Roman Empire shortly after the death of Jesus. A young man, Basil, is adopted by a rich man, but loses his fortune when his father dies and his uncle defrauds him ... |
185614 /m/019cgt Thus Spoke Zarathustra Friedrich Nietzsche {"/m/017k4z": "Prose poetry", "/m/03rllnc": "Inspirational", "/m/05qgc": "Poetry", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy"} The book chronicles the fictitious travels and pedagogy of Zarathustra. The name of this character is taken from the ancient prophet usually known i... |
185865 /m/019dg_ Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy", "/m/07s2s": "Time travel"} Chaplain's Assistant Billy Pilgrim is a disoriented, fatalistic,... |
186258 /m/019g32 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951-07-16 {"/m/0hgws": "First-person narrative", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The majority of the novel takes place over two days in December 1949. Seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, the book's narrator and protagonis... |
186347 /m/019ggv Our American Cousin Tom Taylor In the drawing room at Trenchard Manor, the servants remark on their employer's poor financial circumstances. Florence Trenchard, an aristocratic young beauty, loves Lieutenant Harry Vernon of the Royal Navy, but she is unable to marry him until he progresses to a high... |
186397 /m/019gpb The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco 1980 {"/m/0py65": "Historical whodunnit", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his nov... |
187113 /m/019lbk The Member of the Wedding Carson McCullers 1946 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel takes place over a few days in late August. It tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams, who feels disconnected from the world; in her words, an "unjo... |
187607 /m/019nrb Rashomon Ryunosuke Akutagawa The story recounts the encounter between a servant and an old woman in the dilapidated Rashōmon, the southern gate of the then ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped. The man, a lowly servant recently fired, is contemplating whether to starve... |
187659 /m/019nzl Magnificent Obsession Lloyd C. Douglas 1929 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Robert Merrick is resuscitated by a rescue crew after a boating accident. The crew is unable to save the life of Dr. Phillips, a doctor renowned for his ability to help people, who wa... |
187861 /m/019px5 V. Thomas Pynchon 1963 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel alternates between episodes featuring Benny, Stencil and other members of the Whole Sick Crew (including Profane's sidekick Pig Bodine) in 1956 (with a few minor flashbacks), and a generat... |
188071 /m/019q_s Shogun: A Novel of Japan James Clavell 1975 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Japan in 1600 is a feudal country in a precarious peace. The heir to the Taiko is underage, too young to rule, and power rests in a council of five regents formed of the most powerful overlords of t... |
188341 /m/019s5h Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown 1947 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Goodnight Moon is classic children's literature in North America. The text is a rhyming poem, describing a bunny's bedtime ritual of saying "goodnight" to various objects in the bunny's bedroom: the re... |
188957 /m/019vt7 Eugene Onegin Aleksandr Pushkin {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/05qgc": "Poetry", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties and nothing more. One day he inherits a landed estate from his uncle. When he moves to the co... |
189018 /m/019w4d Elbow Room Daniel Dennett 1984 {"/m/037mh8": "Philosophy"} A major task taken on by Dennett in Elbow Room is to clearly describe just what people are as biological entities and why they find the issue of free will to be of significance. In discussing what people are and why free will matters to us, De... |
189288 /m/019x6x The Adventures of Captain Underpants Dav Pilkey 1997 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} The story begins with the school troublemakers, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, making a comic featuring a superhero they made-up, The Amazing Captain Underpants. A little later in the bo... |
189652 /m/019ypf The Rowan Anne McCaffrey 1990 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Rowan tells the life story of a young orphan, of Prime Talent, from the moment the child's community is wiped out in a mudslide to the time when she beco... |
189894 /m/019zsb Lysistrata Aristophanes LYSISTRATA: There are a lot of things about us women That sadden me, considering how men See us as rascals. CALONICE: As indeed we are! These lines, spoken by Lysistrata and her friend Calonice at the beginning of the play, set the scene for the action that follows. Women, as... |
190088 /m/019_ww Niourk {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} It presents an Earth where the oceans have gone dry and humans are hunter-gatherer bands. Haiti is the mountain range "Hait", and New York City becomes the ruins of "Niourk". The "black child" goes to Niourk where he wanders through the ruins and the still func... |
190089 /m/019_x7 Andromeda Ivan Yefremov {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} This is a classic communist utopia set in a distant future. Throughout the novel, the author's attention is focused on the social and cultural aspects of the society; there are several principal heroes (a historian, an archeologist, a starship c... |
190309 /m/01b0yz Ecotopia Ernest Callenbach {"/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction"} The book is set in 1999 (25 years in the future, as seen from 1974) and consists of the diary entries and re... |
190433 /m/01b1cf The Bad Seed William March 1954-04-08 {"/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Eight-year-old Rhoda is the only child of Kenneth and Christine Penmark. Kenneth Penmark goes away on business, leaving Christine and Rhoda at home. Christine begins to notice that Rhoda is acting strangely after one of ... |
191134 /m/01b42l The Turner Diaries William Luther Pierce 1978 The narrative starts with a foreword set in 2099, one hundred years after the events depicted in the book. The bulk of the book then quotes a recently discovered diary of a man named Earl Turner, an active member of the white Aryan revolutionary movement ... |
191173 /m/01b4c6 Life, the Universe and Everything Douglas Adams {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour", "/m/0hh4w": "Comic science fiction"} After being stranded on pre-historic Earth after the events in The Restaurant a... |
191680 /m/01b6fd Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson G. I. Gurdjieff 1950 Gurdjieff said that he had answered every question that could possibly arise in a person's mind In his introduction to the book Gurdjieff states the following: ::Friendly Advice ::[Written impromptu by the author on delivering this book, already ... |
191753 /m/01b6vv The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 1876 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0d6gr": "Reference", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman"} In the 1840s an imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River... |
191871 /m/01b7dc The Emperor's New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen A vain Emperor who cares for nothing hires two swindlers who promise him the finest, best suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "hopelessly stupid". The Emperor cannot see the clothing himself, but pretend... |
192303 /m/01b9ky The Library of Babel Jorge Luis Borges 1941 Borges's narrator describes how his universe consists of an enormous expanse of interlocking hexagonal rooms, each of which contains the bare necessities for human survival—and four walls of bookshelves. Though the order and content of the books is ra... |
193041 /m/01bdv_ Pebble in the Sky Isaac Asimov 1950 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} While walking down the street in Chicago, Joseph Schwartz, a retired tailor, is the unwitting victim of a nearby nuclear laboratory accident, by means of which he is instantan... |
193230 /m/01bfl4 Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Harriet Beecher Stowe 1856 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Dred is the story of Nina Gordon, an impetuous young heiress to a large southern plantation, whose land is rapidly becoming worthless. It is run competently by one of Nina's slaves, Harry, who endures a murderous r... |
193850 /m/01bj8f Raintree County Ross Lockridge, Jr. {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel, set in fictional Raintree County, Indiana, is essentially in two parts; before the Civil War and after. It spans the 19th century history of the United States, from the pre-Civil War westward expansion, to the debate over slavery,... |
193864 /m/01bjby Suddenly, Last Summer Tennessee Williams Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances on a trip to Europe. Sebastian's mother, Violet Venable, trying to cloud the truth about her son's homosexual... |
194869 /m/01bp1q The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is divided into three volumes. Part One (Chapters 1 to 15): Gilbert Markham narrates how a mysterious widow, Mrs. Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall, a nearby old mansion. A source of curiosity ... |
195945 /m/01bvdl A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller, Jr. 1960 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/07lw0y": "Post-holocaust", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A Canticle for Leibowitz opens 600 years after 2... |
196771 /m/01bz38 The Browning Version Terence Rattigan The play is about the last few days in the career of Andrew Crocker-Harris, an aging classics teacher at a British public school. The man's academic life is fading away following illness and he feels that he has become obsolete. It starts when Taplow, a pupil wh... |
196963 /m/01bz_c Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card 1999 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Bean, the main character, is a homeless child living in the hellish streets of Rotterdam in roughly 2170 after escaping as an infant from an illegal genetic engineering laboratory. Being hyper-inte... |
198011 /m/01c41w Cards on the Table Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} At an exhibition of snuff boxes, Hercule Poirot meets Mr. Shaitana, a mysterious foreign man who is consistently described as d... |
198494 /m/01c5tb The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1867 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first-person narrative is told from the point of view of Alexei Ivanovich, a tutor working for a Russian family living in a suite at a German hotel. The patriarch of the family, The General, is indebted to the Frenchman De Grieux and has mo... |
199491 /m/01cb4s The Crucible Arthur Miller Rev. Parris is praying over his daughter, Betty Parris, who lies as if unconscious in her bed. Conversations between Rev. Parris, his niece Abigail Williams and several other girls reveal that the girls, including Abigail and Betty, were engaged in heretical activities in ... |
199525 /m/01cbb_ The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} Esther Greenwood, a young woman from the suburbs of Boston, gains a summer internship at a prominent magazine... |
199550 /m/01cbj3 Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy 1895 The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the southern English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modeled on Oxford. In his spare time, while working in his aunt's bakery, he teaches himself Greek and Latin... |
199780 /m/04ynb4b Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 1935 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects o... |
199932 /m/01cd57 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/06n6p": "Social sciences", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/070l2": "Soft science fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0c082": "Utopian and dystopian fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia... |
200493 /m/01cgzc A Solitary Grief Bernice Rubens 1991-05-06 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel opens with psychiatrist Dr Alistair Crown's wife Virginia giving birth to the couple's first child. Crown, who is not present during birth, is informed immediately afterwards that their daughter Doris has Down's syndrome, a f... |
200701 /m/01chzs Xenocide Orson Scott Card 1991 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The plot alternates between characters on two planets: Path and Lusitania. Lusitania is an alien planet home to a curious species known as the piggies. Foll... |
201129 /m/01ckrb Sourcery Terry Pratchett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ipslore the Red is a wizard who is about to die. Death comes to usher Ipslore's soul into the next world as the story begins. Ipslore tells Death about his banis... |
201227 /m/01cl9w It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Senator Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, a charismatic and power-hungry politician, is elected President of the United States on a populist platform, promising to restore the country to prosperity and greatness, and ... |
201439 /m/01cm6l My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin {"/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The heroine, Sybylla Melvyn, is an imaginative, headstrong girl growing up in rural Australia in the 1890s. Drought and a series of po... |
201695 /m/01cnk9 The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare The play is nominally set circa 1400, during the same period as the Henry IV plays featuring Falstaff, but there is only one brief reference to this period, a line in which the character Fenton is said to have been one of Prince Hal's rowdy friends (he ... |
202147 /m/01cqlm Fanny Hill John Cleland {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book is written as a series of letters from Frances "Fanny" Hill to an unknown woman, with Fanny justifying her life-choices to this individual. At the beginning of her tale, Fanny Hill is a young girl with a rudimentary education living in a small ... |
202349 /m/01crb4 The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams 1980-01-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hh4w": "Comic science fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} The Restaurant at the End of the Universe begins just as The Hitchhiker's Guide to th... |
202383 /m/01crhg In the Penal Colony Franz Kafka 1919-10 The story focuses on the Explorer, who is encountering the brutal machine for the first time. Everything about the machine and its purpose is told to him by the Officer, while the Soldier and the Condemned (who is unaware that he has been sentenced to die) plac... |
203718 /m/01cxwf The Rebel Angels Robertson Davies 1981 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Rebel Angels follows several faculty and staff of the fictional College of St. John and Holy Ghost. It did not quite attain the popularity of the Deptford Trilogy, but it is gene... |
204232 /m/01c_bp Macrolife George Zebrowski 1979-05 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The novel is split into three main sections. (I) Sunspace: 2021 ... The Bulero family/corporation, inventors and marketers of Bulerite which is used to build the huge cities which house the Earth's (... |
204601 /m/01d12p Till We Have Faces C. S. Lewis 1956 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0fr3y1": "Parallel novel"} Part One: The story tells the Ancient Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, from the perspective of Orual, Psyche's older sister. It begins as the complaint ... |
204817 /m/01d23j Heidi Johanna Spyri 1880 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Adelheid (familiarly known as Heidi) is a girl who has been raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid. Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds... |
205004 /m/01d2rp That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis 1945 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Young academic Mark Studdock has just risen to the position of Senior Fellow in sociology at Bracton College in the Universi... |
205766 /m/01d5k8 The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene 1948 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Major Henry Scobie, a long-serving policeman in a British colony on the West Coast of Africa during World War II, is responsible for local and wartime security. His wife Louise, an unhappy, solitary ... |
205767 /m/01d5kn The Legacy of Heorot Steven Barnes 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Two hundred colonists arrive on Avalon to found a new community, having made the 100-year journey from Earth in suspended animation on the starship... |
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