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245395 /m/01kjdf Underworld Don DeLillo 1997-10-03 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel opens on October 3, 1951, when a boy named Cotter Martin sneaks in to watch the New York Giants play the Brooklyn Dodgers at the Giants' home field Polo Grounds. (The prologue, Pafko at the Wall, was written on it... |
245885 /m/01kl5t The Difference Engine Bruce Sterling 1990-09 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/06www": "Steampunk"} The action of the story follows Sybil Gerard, a political courtesan and daughter of an ... |
246554 /m/01kp4b Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor Forever Amber tells the story of orphaned Amber St. Clare, who makes her way up through the ranks of 17th century English society by sleeping with and/or marrying successively richer and more important men, while keeping her love for the one man she could never have. Th... |
247964 /m/01kvv0 Ethan of Athos Lois McMaster Bujold {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} It tells the story of Dr. Ethan Urquhart, Chief of Biology at the Severin District Reproduction Centre on the planet of Athos, and his quest to Kline Station to find out what... |
248364 /m/01kxt8 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000-09-02 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel centres on the protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, who grow up well-off but motherless in a small town in Southern Ontario. As an old woman, Iris recalls the events and relationships of her childhood, youth and ... |
249452 /m/01l0sf Red Harvest Dashiell Hammett {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The Continental Op is called to Personville (known as "Poisonville" to the locals) by Donald Willsson, who is murdered before the Op has a chance to meet with him. Th... |
249745 /m/01l1vy The Jealous God John Braine Vincent Dungarvan is a history teacher at a Catholic school for boys. Whereas his two brothers Matthew and Paul have been married with children for many years, Vincent is still single and living at home with his widowed mother, who is also a teacher. At 30 he is still a v... |
249894 /m/01l2dh Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Spencer Johnson 1998 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Allegorically, Who Moved My Cheese? features four characters: two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry," and two littlepeople, miniature humans in essence, "Hem" and "Haw." They live... |
250448 /m/01l4tv The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel Odysseus (Ulysses) returns to Ithaca and decides to undertake new adventures after he quickly becomes unsatisfied with his quiet family life. First he travels to Sparta to save Helen, the wife of the king of Sparta Menelaus, whose abduction by Paris had led to the Troja... |
250478 /m/01l4_z Lord Edgware Dies Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Jane Wilkinson, an actress, is suspected of murdering her husband, the fourth Baron Edgware, so that she can marry the Duke of M... |
250486 /m/01l51f The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side Agatha Christie {"/m/0463v20": "Cozy", "/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} Marina Gregg is a famous, temperamental, much loved movie star who has come to settle down in the village of St. Mary Mead after the death of Colonel Bantry, who used to live at Gossington Hall wh... |
251099 /m/01l86k Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières 1993 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} *Dr. Iannis - The island's unofficial, unlicensed doctor, who spends much of his time writing about the history of Cephallonia. He is respected by the community, ... |
251355 /m/01l9hr The Hotel New Hampshire John Irving 1981 {"/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} This novel is the story of the Berrys, a quirky New Hampshire family composed of a married couple, Win and Mary, and their five children. The parents, both from the small town of Dairy, New Hampshire, fall in love while working at... |
252852 /m/01lhtw The Bridge Iain Banks 1986 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} "The road cleared the cutting through the hills. He could see South Queensferry, the marina at Port Edgar, the VAT 69 sign of the distillery there, the lights of Hewlett Packard’s factory; and the rail bridge, dark in the evening’s last sky-reflected li... |
253225 /m/01lks2 Dhalgren Samuel R. Delany 1975-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Beginning in a forest somewhere outside the city, the novel recounts the protagonist's meeting with a woman. After they make love, he tells her that he has "lost something"—he c... |
253233 /m/01lktc The Scar China Miéville 2002-06 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/06www": "Steampunk", "/m/06n94f": "New Weird"} The Scar opens with the journey of a small ship which has set out from the city New Crobuzon (the setting ... |
254464 /m/01lqzb Rhinoceros Eugène Ionesco The play starts in the town square of a small, unnamed French village. Two friends; the eloquent, intellectual but incredibly prideful Jean and the simplistic, shy, kind-hearted drunkard Berenger; meet up in a coffee house to talk about an unspecified urgent matter. Instead... |
254498 /m/01lr1g Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999-07-08 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book opens on the night before Harry's thirteenth birthday, when he receives gifts by owl post from his frien... |
254652 /m/01lrk5 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons 1932 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} Following the death of her parents, the book's heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed "of every art and grace save that of earning her own... |
255406 /m/01lvlp Hatter's Castle A. J. Cronin 1931 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel begins with some insight into the life of the Brodie household, where James Brodie seems to have everyone under his thumb. The main event that triggers the events in the novel is Mary Brodie's relationship with her first love, Dennis. E... |
255508 /m/01lv_3 Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon 1973 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/05wkc": "Postmodernism", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The plot of the novel is complex, containing over 400 characters and involving many different threads of narrative which intersect and ... |
255971 /m/01lyfq Death in Venice Thomas Mann 1912 {"/m/0cgx58": "Gay novel", "/m/0d6gr": "Reference", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0l67h": "Novella", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} The main character is Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author in his early fifties who has recently been ennobled in honor of his artistic... |
256075 /m/01lyzd Effi Briest Theodor Fontane 1894 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The young, immature and carefree Effi, still practically a child, but attracted by notions of social honour, consents to live in the small Baltic town of Kessin, where she ends up in the throes of an emotional crisis. Her hu... |
256424 /m/025scp3 Article 23 William R. Forstchen 1998-09 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Academy plebe Justin Bell is excited about his new career in space. Unfortunately several colonies are agitating for independence. On top of this ver... |
256471 /m/01m06z The Day of the Jackal Frederick Forsyth 1971-06-07 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The book begins with the historical, failed attempt on de Gaulle's life planned by Col. Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry in th... |
259128 /m/01m5g_ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000-07-08 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story begins in the 1940s in a small town called Little Hangleton, describing how the Riddle family was mysteriously killed at supper, and how their groundsman, Frank Bryce, was suspected of the crime... |
261876 /m/01mvwz A Presumption of Death Jill Paton Walsh 2002-11 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Harriet has evacuated her family to the Wimseys' country house, Talboys (in Hertfordshire), taking her two children, along with the three children of he... |
262637 /m/01mzn7 A Tenured Professor John Kenneth Galbraith 1990-11-12 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire"} The book chronicles the rise to fame of one Montgomery Marvin, a professor of economics who, as an academic teacher, keeps a low profile but who nevertheless is given tenure quite early in his career. While outwardly concerni... |
262839 /m/01m_rx Trumps of Doom Roger Zelazny 1985-05 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Merlin has spent the last several years on Earth learning computer science while building Ghostwheel, a trump- and pattern-based computer, elsewhere in Shadow. Having completed his project, he wishes to k... |
263009 /m/01n0jk Dream of the Red Chamber Tsao Hsueh-Chin {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of the two branches of the wealthy and aristocratic Jia (賈) clan — the Rongguo House (榮國府) and the Ningguo House (寧國府) — who reside in two large, adjacent family compounds in the capital. The... |
263527 /m/01n2g0 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevitch 1998 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} The book describes Gourevitch's travels in Rwanda after the conflict, in which he interviews survivors and gathers information. Gourevitch retells survivors' ... |
263797 /m/01n3gw Nice Work David Lodge 1988 {"/m/0blvpd": "Industrial novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/07z5s9": "Campus novel"} The book describes encounters between Robyn Penrose, a feminist university teacher specialising in the industrial novel and women's writing, and Vic Wilcox, the manager of an engineering fi... |
264104 /m/01n4n1 The Haunted Mask R. L. Stine 1993-09 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Carly Beth Caldwell is an 11-year-old girl who is a target for pranks and practical jokes, some of which are played by Chuck Greene and Steve Bosw... |
264813 /m/01n7nb The Little Engine That Could Watty Piper 1930 {"/m/016475": "Picture book", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} In the tale, a long train must be pulled over a high mountain. Larger engines, treated anthropomorphically, are asked to pull the train; for various reasons they refuse. The request is sent... |
265114 /m/01n8y8 Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs 1959 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Naked Lunch is a non-linear narrative that is difficult to describe in terms of plot. The following is a summary of some of the events in the book that could be considered the most relevant. The book begins... |
265667 /m/01nc0d Pattern Recognition William Gibson 2003-02-03 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Advertising consultant Cayce Pollard, who reacts to logos and advertising as if to an allergen, arrives in London in August 2002. She is working on a contract with the marketing firm Blue ... |
265899 /m/01nd14 Desperation {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} Desperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. Entragian uses various pretexts ... |
267083 /m/01nj56 A Gift Upon the Shore M. K. Wren {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} "Set in the near future, A Gift traces the first generations to survive nuclear war and its aftermath. Writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow scratch out a meager existence on a farm (called Amarna) on the ... |
267088 /m/01nj68 The Chrysalids John Wyndham 1955 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A few thousand years in the future, post-apocalypse rural Labrador has become a warmer and more hospitable place than it is at present. The inhabitants of Labrador have vague his... |
267785 /m/01nlf1 Who Goes There? John W. Campbell 1938-08 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} A group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica by the nearly-ended winter, discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed twenty million years before. They try to th... |
269878 /m/01ns5b Blood of Amber Roger Zelazny 1986 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Merlin escapes from the crystal cave, and decides to gain leverage over Luke by rescuing his mother from the Keep of the Four Worlds. He spars with the sorcerer who now controls the keep, and who seems to kn... |
269881 /m/01ns6g Sign of Chaos Roger Zelazny 1987-10 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Merlin realises that Wonderland, where he and Luke are trapped, is an LSD-induced hallucination made real by Luke's powers over shadow. As a Fire Angel (a vicious creature from Chaos) pursues them, he admi... |
269891 /m/01ns8c Porno Irvine Welsh 2002-08 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is divided into three sections, each of which comprises chapters with different narrators. Unlike Trainspotting which had more narrational diversity, Porno is reduced to just five narrators: Sick Boy, Renton, Spud, Begbi... |
269893 /m/01ns8r Prince of Chaos Roger Zelazny 1991-11 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Merlin returns to his birthplace in the Courts of Chaos in order to solve the existential riddle in which he is involved. He realizes he is but a pawn in the hands of the powerful and cynical superpowers... |
271158 /m/01nwnf The Love of the Last Tycoon F. Scott Fitzgerald 1941 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} According to Publishers Weekly's 1993 review of the edition reconstructed by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Love of the Last Tycoon is "[g]enerally considered a roman a clef", inspired by the... |
271163 /m/01nwph Save Me the Waltz Zelda Fitzgerald 1932 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Save Me the Waltz, according to its author, derives its title from a Victor record catalog, and it suggests the romantic glitter of the life which F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald lived and which Scott’s... |
271590 /m/01nxb_ It Stephen King 1986-09-15 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} In October 1957, an evil shape-shifting being, known only as "It", awakens in the town of Derry, Maine. Taking the form of a clown named Pennywise, It lives in the sewers under the town and comes up through places co... |
272241 /m/01nz2x The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Terry Pratchett 2001 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The Amazing Maurice is a sentient cat who leads his 'Educated Rodents', a group of sentient rats, as they go from town to town posing as a... |
272323 /m/01nz60 Permutation City Greg Egan 1994 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/07g8l": "Transhumanism"} The plot of Permutation City follows the lives of several people in a near future reality where the Earth is ravaged by the effects of climate change, the economy and cultur... |
272678 /m/01nzsp Quidditch Through the Ages J. K. Rowling {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} In 2001 Rowling penned two companion books to the Harry Potter series, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for British charity and off-shoot of Live Aid, Comic Relief with all of her roya... |
274197 /m/01p3kj Key of Solomon The Key of Solomon is divided into two books. It describes not the appearance or work of any spirit but only the necessary drawings to prepare each "experiment" or, in more modern language, magical operations. Unlike later grimoires such as the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (16th century)... |
275025 /m/01p6p7 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} An experienced witch named Miss Tick and her toad arrive on the chalk. She feels that something is not right, so she decides to find out what's going on. Her intuition... |
275376 /m/01p7_6 Strata Terry Pratchett 1981 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Kin Arad is a human planetary engineer working for the Company, a human organisation that "builds" habitable planets with techniques and ... |
275377 /m/01p7_l The Dark Side of the Sun Terry Pratchett 1976-01-26 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Dominickdaniel "Dom" Sabalos IV is the son of the inventor of probability math, a science able to predict anything apart from anything ... |
275384 /m/01p80f Soul Music Terry Pratchett 1994 {"/m/04rlf": "Music", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story follows the short-lived but glamorous musical career of "The Band with Rocks In", a group of musicians who become famous aft... |
275414 /m/01p82z Bluebeard Kurt Vonnegut 1987 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} At the opening of the book, the narrator, Rabo Karabekian, apologizes to the arriving guests: "I promised you an autobiography, but something went wrong in the kitchen..." He describes himself... |
275497 /m/01p8cw Tirant lo Blanc Tirant lo Blanch tells the story of a medieval knight Tirant from Brittany who has a series of adventures across Europe in his quest. He joins in knightly competitions in England and France until the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire asks him to help in the war against the Ottoman Tur... |
276145 /m/01pc0g Thunderball Ian Fleming 1961-03-27 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} Thunderball begins with a meeting between Bond and his superior, M, during which the agent is told that his latest physical assessment is poor because of excessive drinking and smoking (up to sixty cigarettes a day... |
276540 /m/01pdht The Devil's Disciple George Bernard Shaw 1901 The setting is in the Fall of 1777, during the Saratoga Campaign. Richard "Dick" Dudgeon is an outcast from his family in colonial Websterbridge, New Hampshire. He returns their hatred with scorn. After the death of his father, Dick returns to his childho... |
277696 /m/01pk4g The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0d6gr": "Reference", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The story starts in seventeenth century Boston in a Puritan settlement. A young woman, na... |
280291 /m/01pnl8 The G-String Murders Craig Rice 1941 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Gypsy Rose Lee narrates her way through a tale of a double murder, backstage at the "Old Opera" burlesque theatre on Forty-Second Street, New York. In a world populated by strippers, c... |
280714 /m/01pp1d Live from Death Row Mumia Abu-Jamal Told as anecdotes, most of Live from Death Row details the prison system; in an additional end section titled "Musings, memories, and prophecies", Abu-Jamal discusses past events in his life and he remembers some prominent blacks in America. He delves into the pur... |
284398 /m/01ptzf The Blue Lotus Hergé 1936 {"/m/01vnb": "Comic book"} In Cigars of the Pharaoh (Book 4), Tintin pursued an international group of drug distributors through the Middle East and India. He managed to capture most of the cartel members, but not the mysterious leader, who fell down a ravine in the mountains... |
286379 /m/01q1yz Mrs Craddock W. Somerset Maugham {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On her 21st birthday, when she comes into her deceased father's money, Bertha Ley announces, to the dismay of her former guardian, that she is going to marry 27 year-old Edward Craddock, her st... |
286833 /m/01q3x0 Hideous Kinky Esther Freud 1992-01-30 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} A young mother and her two daughters travel to Marrakech, Morocco, during the 1960s. The mother, Julia, is disenchanted by the dreary conventions of English life, hence the journey. They live... |
287085 /m/01q4zs Myra Breckinridge Gore Vidal 1968-02 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Myra Breckinridge is an attractive young woman with a mission. She is a film buff with a special interest in the Golden Age of Hollywood—in particular the 1940s—and the writings of real-life film critic Parker Tyler. She ... |
287393 /m/01q64j Operation Shylock: A Confession Philip Roth 1993 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel follows narrator "Philip Roth" on a journey to Israel, where he attends the trial of accused war criminal John Demjanjuk and becomes involved in an intelligence mission—the "Operation Shylock" of the title. |
287638 /m/01q6yf Virginia Ellen Glasgow 1913 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Born in 1864 to a clergyman and his dutiful wife, Virginia grows up as a Southern belle in the town of Dinwiddie, Virginia. Her education is strictly limited to the bare minimum, with anything that might disturb her quiet and comfortable existence vigo... |
288076 /m/01q905 You Only Live Twice Ian Fleming 1964-03-16 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy (see On Her Majesty's Secret Service), Bond begins to let his life slide, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes and turning up late for work. His superior in the Secret Servi... |
288153 /m/01q9dv The Stand Stephen King 1978 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0hc1z": "Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is divided into three parts, or books... |
288407 /m/01qbnq Henry IV, Part 1 William Shakespeare Henry Bolingbroke – now King Henry IV – is having an unquiet reign. His personal disquiet at the murder of his predecessor Richard II would be solved by a journey or crusade to the Holy Land to fight Muslims, but broils on his borders with Scotland and Wales prev... |
289586 /m/01qdlp The Man with the Golden Gun Ian Fleming 1965-04-01 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} A year after James Bond's final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a mission in Japan, a man claiming to be Bond appears in London and demands to meet the head of the Secret Service, M. Bond's identity is con... |
290207 /m/01qh59 Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Gary Wolf 1981 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Eddie Valiant is a hard-boiled private eye, and Roger Rabbit is a second-banana cartoon character. The rabbit hires Valiant to find out why his employers, the DeGreasy Brothers, the sleazy owners of ... |
290765 /m/025shx5 The Magic School Bus at the Waterworks Joanna Cole 1986 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/06mq7": "Science"} The book begins by introducing the character of Ms. Frizzle and describing her unusual teaching methods. Soon, she decides to take the class on a field trip to the waterworks, which th... |
290832 /m/025shxk The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System Joanna Cole 1990 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Ms. Frizzle's class is learning about the solar system and Arnold's unpleasant cousin Janet, who constantly raves about herself, has joined them. The Friz decides t... |
291324 /m/01qmhb The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen 1843-11-11 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} When the tale begins, a mother duck's eggs hatch. One of the little birds is perceived by the duck’s surroundings as a homely little creature and suffers much verbal and physical abuse fro... |
291978 /m/01qq4_ Walden Henry David Thoreau 1854 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03rllnc": "Inspirational", "/m/05h0n": "Nature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy"} Economy: In this first and longest chapter, Thoreau outlines his ... |
292192 /m/01qr1n Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Mil Millington 2002-10-03 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Pel lives with his German girlfriend Ursula and their two children, and works in the IT department of a university library (or "Learning Centre"). The story begins with Pel receiving an odd call from his boss,... |
292254 /m/01qrck Ring for Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse 1953-04-22 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} Unlike most Jeeves and Wooster stories, which only occasional refer to events in the real world, Ring for Jeeves is explicitly set in post-World War II England, where social changes have forced some of those who w... |
294171 /m/01q_5b Water Margin Shi Naian The opening episode in the novel is the release of the 108 spirits, imprisoned under an ancient stele-bearing tortoise., which includes the English translation of the relevant excerpt from the novel. The original text of the chapter can be seen e.g. at 水滸傳/第001回, starting from... |
295393 /m/01r53h The Lazarus Effect Bill Ransom 1983 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The Lazarus Effect continues the story of the planet Pandora that began in The Jesus Incident. The sentient kelp is almost extinct, Ship is gone, there is no more dry land, the majority of humanity ... |
296043 /m/01r812 Oblomov Ivan Goncharov 1859 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled "Oblomov's Dream. An Episode from an Unfinished Novel", later incorporated as "Oblomov's Dream" ("Son Oblomova") as Chapter 9 in the completed 1859 novel. The novel focuses on... |
296644 /m/01rbjg Diaspora Greg Egan 1998-07 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/07g8l": "Transhumanism", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Diaspora begins with a description of "orphanogenesis", the birthing of a ... |
296653 /m/01rbkm Schild's Ladder Greg Egan 2002 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Twenty-thousand years in the future, Cass, a humanoid physicist from Earth, travels to Mimosa orbital station and begins a series of experiments to test the extremities of the fictitious Sarumpaet rules,... |
296834 /m/01rc27 Murder on the Links Agatha Christie 1923 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Captain Hastings arrives in the flat that he now shares with Poirot in London, eager to tell the Belgian detective about a... |
297239 /m/02x_2n The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell {"/m/05qfh": "Psychology", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/037mh8": "Philosophy", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology"} Campbell explores the theory that important myths from around the world which have survived for thousands of years all share a fundamental structure, wh... |
297369 /m/01rft4 The Amethyst Ring Julián Estaban, who is impersonating the Mayan god Kukulcán, fights and escapes from a powerful gold hungry conquistador, Hernán Cortés. Kukulcán’s followers captured Rodrigo Perdoza, a bishop carrying a message to Cortés to detain Julián. Julián wants to be a priest and asks the ... |
297431 /m/01rg28 Seven Days in May Fletcher Knebel The story is set several years into the continued cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, not long after a stalemated conflict in Iran similar to the Korean War (the novel gives the date of May 1974, while the film shows a California license plate w... |
299323 /m/01rpw_ The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson 2002 {"/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel is set in various locations around the world, starting in 783 AH by the Islamic calendar (1405 AD by the Gregorian cal... |
299543 /m/01rqrz The Fourth Protocol Frederick Forsyth 1984-08 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} On New Year's Eve 1986, professional thief Jim Rawlings breaks into the apartment of a senior civil servant, and unintentionally discovers stolen top secret documents. Although one of th... |
300390 /m/01rtr8 Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code Eoin Colfer 2003-04-27 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Artemis Fowl II, the 13-year-old criminal mastermind, has created a supercomputer which he calls the "C Cube", from stolen fairy technology. It far surpasses any human technology made s... |
301064 /m/01rx7z The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen 1837-04-07 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/06ms6": "Sociology"} The Little Mermaid lives in an underwater kingdom with her father, the sea king; her grandmother and her five elder sisters, each born one year apart. When a merm... |
301587 /m/01rz2d The Gods Themselves Isaac Asimov 1972 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The main plotline is a project by aliens who inhabit a parallel universe (the para-Universe) with different physical laws from t... |
302301 /m/01s14k Charlotte's Web E. B. White 1952 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and Mr. Arable discovers one of them is a runt and decides to kill it. However, his eight-year-old daughter Fern begs hi... |
302997 /m/01s3z4 Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones 1986 {"/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature"} A young woman named Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three daughters living in the town of Market Chipping in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where many fairy-ta... |
303045 /m/01s445 Joy Marsha A. Hunt 1990-04-12 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first person narrator of the novel is Palatine Ross, a 70 year-old cleaning woman originally from New Orleans whose childhood is dominated by poverty and loss. One of six children whose father left the family never to be seen again, she experienc... |
303439 /m/01s5pg Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut 1973 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Kilgore Trout is a widely published, but otherwise unsung and virtually invisible writer who, by a fluke, is invited to deliver a keynote address at... |
303465 /m/01s5tc Mother Night Kurt Vonnegut 1961 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} During the Nazi build-up after Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Campbell decides to stay in Germany despite his parents' decision to leave. He continues to ... |
305084 /m/01sdhr Freedom Evolves Daniel Dennett 2003-02 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} As in Consciousness Explained, Dennett advertises the controversial nature of his views extensively in advance. He expects hostility from those who fear that a skeptical analysis of freedom will undermine people's belief in the reality... |
305160 /m/01sdtw Rainbow Six Tom Clancy 1998-08 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Central Intelligence Agency operatives John Clark and Domingo Chavez join Special Air Service (SAS) officer Alistair Stanley in forming an elite multinational counter-terrorist unit known as Rainbow, b... |
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