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305372 /m/01sfsw Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee 1989 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The main backdrop of Jasmine, which was based on an earlier short story in The Middleman and Other Stories, is the mixing of the East and West through the story telling of a seventeen-year-old Hindu woman who leaves India for ... |
305504 /m/01sgfy Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1874 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd. With the savings of a frugal life, and a loan, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live wit... |
306191 /m/01sk1g Vineland Thomas Pynchon 1990 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is set in California, United States, in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's re-election. After a scene in which ex-hippie Zoyd Wheeler dives through a window, something he is required ... |
306344 /m/01skl3 Hallowe'en Party Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction"} The story starts out inside Rowena Drake's house, which is called "Apple Trees". There, Ariadne Oliver and others are preparing a Hallowe'en party for children. Those in charge of the party are Judith Butler, Mrs. Oliver's friend; Leopold... |
306530 /m/01slgk Empire of the Sun J. G. Ballard 1984-09-13 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/098tmk": "War novel"} The novel recounts the story of a young British boy, Jaime Graham, who lives with his parents in Shanghai. After the Pearl Harbor atta... |
306554 /m/01sll5 Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Al Franken 2003 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/09kqc": "Humour"} Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them largely targets prominent Republicans and conservatives, highlighting what Franken asserts are documentable lies in their claims. A significant portion of the boo... |
307403 /m/01sqcx Maurice E. M. Forster {"/m/0cgx58": "Gay novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} We first encounter Maurice Hall (pronounced "Morris") aged fourteen having a discussion about sex and women with his prep-school teacher, Ben Ducie, which takes place just before he progresses to his public school. This sets the ... |
308435 /m/01svsq The Ice Storm Rick Moody 1994 {"/m/07s9rl0": "Drama", "/m/0q9mp": "Tragicomedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel takes place over Thanksgiving weekend 1973, during a dangerous ice storm and centers on two neighboring families, the Hoods and the Williamses, and the difficulties they have dealing with ... |
308659 /m/01swpk Three Comrades Erich Maria Remarque 1937 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The city, which is never referred to by name (however, it is likely Berlin), is crowded by a growing number of jobless and marked by increasing violence between left and right. The novel starts out in the seedy mi... |
308766 /m/01sx2s Pericles, Prince of Tyre William Shakespeare 1609 John Gower introduces each act with a prologue. The play opens in the court of Antiochus, king of Antioch, who has offered the hand of his beautiful daughter to any man who answers his riddle; but those who fail shall die. <poem> I am no viper, yet I ... |
309081 /m/01sycb The Forever War Joe Haldeman 1974 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they a... |
309323 /m/01szfq Bambi, A Life in the Woods Felix Salten 1923 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Bambi is a roe deer fawn born in a thicket to a young doe in late spring one year. Over the course of the summer, his mother teaches him about the various inhabitants of the forest and the ways de... |
309408 /m/01szvg Robots and Empire Isaac Asimov 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The Earthman Elijah Baley (the detective hero of the previous Robot books), has died nearly two centuries earlier. During these two centuries, the balance of forces in the gal... |
309409 /m/01szvx Foundation Isaac Asimov 1951 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Foundation tells the story of a group of scientists who seek to preserve knowledge as the civilizations around them begin to... |
309433 /m/01sz_z Second Foundation Isaac Asimov 1953 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Part I: Search By the Mule is about The Mule's search for the elusive Second Foundation, with the intent of destroying it. The executive c... |
310577 /m/01t3w6 The Abolition of Work In the essay Black argues for the abolition of the producer- and consumer-based society, where, Black contends, all of life is devoted to the production and consumption of commodities. Attacking Marxist state socialism as much as Liberal capitalism, Black argues that the only ... |
310625 /m/01t42l The Vicomte de Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas {"/m/03g3w": "History"} The principal heroes of the novel are the musketeers. The novel's length finds it frequently broken into smaller parts. The narrative is set between 1660 and 1667 against the background of the transformation of Louis XIV from child mon... |
310640 /m/01t44l Twenty Years After Alexandre Dumas {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The action begins under Queen Anne of Austria regency and Cardinal Mazarin ruling. D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of The Three Musketeers, has for twenty years remained a lieutenant in the M... |
310660 /m/01t475 Logan's Run William F. Nolan 1967 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The introduction to the book states: :"The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth test... |
310992 /m/01t5m5 The Two Gentlemen of Verona William Shakespeare As the play begins, Valentine is preparing to leave Verona for Milan so as to broaden his horizons. He begs his best friend, Proteus, to come with him, but Proteus is in love with Julia, and refuses to leave. Disappointed, Valentine bids Proteus farewe... |
311477 /m/01t7gp Girlfriend in a Coma Douglas Coupland 1998 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first part of the book covers the 17 years in the lives of this group of friends after Karen’s lapse into a coma. Richard has to cope with losing Karen but gaining a daughter, Megan, as fatherhood is thrust upo... |
312623 /m/01td08 Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally 1982-10-01 {"/m/027mvb9": "Biographical novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} This novel tells the story of Oskar Schindler, self-made entrepreneur and bon viveur who almost by default found himself saving Polish Jews from the Nazi death machine... |
313191 /m/01tgs8 The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell 1996 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel begins in the year 2019, when the SETI program, at the Arecibo Observatory, picks up radio broadcasts of music from the vicinity of Alpha Centauri. The first expedit... |
314203 /m/01tmbk Red Rabbit Tom Clancy {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Jack Ryan, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the British Secret Intelligence Service help with transporting a Russian defector and his family to the United States. The defector tells of a KGB plan to ki... |
314793 /m/01tpv3 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first few pages tell of Nariman's subjection to increasing decay in physical health and stinging insults (revolving around his cost of medicine, lack of space and privacy, the daily routine of bedpans and urinals, spo... |
315006 /m/01tqtw The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Samuel Kuhn 1962 Kuhn's approach to the history and philosophy of science has been described as focusing on conceptual issues: what sorts of ideas were thinkable at a particular time? What sorts of intellectual options and strategies were available to pe... |
315122 /m/01tr9s Sartoris William Faulkner 1929 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. Colonel John was a Confe... |
315188 /m/01trmg Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1922 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Lewis has been both criticized and congratulated for his unorthodox writing style in Babbitt. As one reviewer puts it: “There is no plot whatever… Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds.” L... |
315418 /m/01tsc8 Amerika Franz Kafka 1927 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} :The first chapter of this novel is a short story titled "The Stoker". The story describes the bizarre wanderings of a sixteen-year-old European emigrant named Karl Roßmann in the United States, w... |
315900 /m/01tv0r The Farthest Shore Ursula K. Le Guin 1972 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman"} A strange, inexplicable malaise is spreading throughout Earthsea. Magic is losi... |
317002 /m/01tzkp The Quiet American Graham Greene 1955-12 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/098tmk": "War novel"} Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has been covering the French war in Vietnam for over two years. He meets a young American idealist named Alden Pyle, w... |
317137 /m/01t_4d Noli Me Tangere José Rizal 1887 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Having completed his studies in Europe, young Juan Crisóstomo Ibarra y Magsalin comes back to the Philippines after a 7-year absence. In his honor, Don Santiago de los Santos "Captain Tiago," a family friend, threw a get-toget... |
317733 /m/01v20s Feet of Clay Terry Pratchett 1996 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A cabal of Ankh-Morpork's guild leaders seeks to gradually depose the Patrician, replace him with Nobby Nobbs as the new king and rule the city through h... |
317934 /m/01v31h The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe 1846-11 {"/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/0707q": "Short story"} Montresor tells the story of the day that he took his revenge on Fortunato, a fellow nobleman, to an unspecified person who knows him very well. Angry over some unspecified insult, he plots to murder his ... |
318225 /m/01v4b5 Thursbitch Alan Garner 2003-10 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} Set both in the 18th century and the present day and centred on the mystery of an inscription on a rock about a death from exposure, the novel seeks to explain time and history in terms of setting and interacti... |
318747 /m/01v6yp Ripley's Game Patricia Highsmith 1974-03-11 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery"} In the third Ripley novel, Tom Ripley is a wealthy man in his early thirties. He lives in Villeperce, France, with his wealthy French wife, Heloise. Ripley spends his days living comfortably in his house,... |
318820 /m/01v75k An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The ambitious but immature Clyde Griffiths, raised by poor and devoutly religious parents who force him to participate in their street missionary work, is anxious to achieve better things. His troubles begin... |
318936 /m/01v7rg Timon of Athens William Shakespeare Timon is not initially a misanthrope. He is a wealthy and generous Athenian gentleman. He gives a large banquet, attended by nearly all the main characters. Timon gives away money wastefully, and everyone wants to please him to get more, except for Apemantus, a ch... |
318937 /m/01v7rw Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare In the seventh year of the Trojan War, a Trojan prince named Troilus falls in love with Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan priest who has defected to the Greek side. Troilus is assisted in his pursuit of her by Pandarus, Cressida's uncle. Meanwhile, in the Gr... |
319373 /m/01v9m6 General Theory of Employment Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes {"/m/09s1f": "Business", "/m/02j62": "Economics", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} The central argument of The General Theory is that the level of employment is determined, not by the price of labour as in neoclassic... |
319805 /m/01vcdm Tintin in America Hergé 1932 {"/m/01vnb": "Comic book"} It is the year 1931. Having encountered Al Capone's gangsters in his last adventure, Tintin in the Congo, Tintin is sent to Chicago, Illinois to clean up the city's criminals. He is captured by gangsters several times, soon meeting Capone himself... |
320387 /m/01vfpb Christine Stephen King 1983-04-29 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} In 1978, while riding home from work with his friend Dennis, nerdy teen Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham spots a dilapidated red and white Plymouth Fury parked in front of a house. Arnie makes Dennis stop so he can e... |
320809 /m/01vhfj Nova Express William S. Burroughs 1964 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Nova Express is a social commentary on human and machine control of life. The Nova Mob—Sammy the Butcher, Izzy the Push, The Subliminal Kid, and others—are viruses, "defined as the th... |
321358 /m/01vk7y Katar Stanisław Lem {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} A former astronaut is hired by a detective agency to help in an investigation of a case of mysterious deaths. Several victims became mad and committed suicide during their vacation in various Naples spas, apparent... |
321363 /m/01vk8z Fiasco Stanisław Lem 1986 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The book begins with a story of a base on Saturn's moon Titan, where a young spaceship pilot, Parvis, sets out in a strider (a mecha-like machine) to find several missing people, among them the famous Pirx of... |
322301 /m/01vn_x As I Lay Dying William Faulkner 1930 {"/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest and motivations—noble or selfish—to honor her wish to be ... |
323063 /m/01vs43 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997-06-09 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story, told here in chronological order, although the novel shifts around in time, primarily takes place in a town named Ayemenem or Aymanam now part of Kottayam in Kerala state of India. The temporal set... |
324904 /m/01w0fm The Comedy of Errors William Shakespeare Due to a law forbidding the presence of Syracusian merchants in Ephesus, elderly Syracusian trader Egeon faces execution when he is discovered in the city. He can only escape by paying a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story to the Duke. In his you... |
327121 /m/01w8wp Quicksilver Neal Stephenson 2003-09-23 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The first book is a series of flashbacks from 1713 to the earlier life of Daniel Waterhouse. It begins as Enoch Root arrives in Boston in Oc... |
327449 /m/01wbd7 The Persians Aeschylus The Persians takes place in Susa, Iran, which at the time was one of the capitals of the Persian Empire, and opens with a chorus of old men of Susa, who are soon joined by the Queen Mother, Atossa, as they await news of her son King Xerxes' expedition against the Greeks. Expre... |
328357 /m/01wgq1 The Other Wind Ursula K. Le Guin 2001 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} It is about fifteen years since the events described in Tehanu, and eight after those in D... |
328689 /m/01wk44 The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The main character is an incompetent and cynical wizard named Rincewind. He involuntarily becomes a guide to the rich but naive tourist from the Agate... |
328691 /m/01wk4m The Light Fantastic Terry Pratchett {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} After the wizard Rincewind has fallen from the edge of the Discworld, the Octavo magic book saves his life and he lands back ... |
328965 /m/01wl7b Children of the Atom Wilmar H. Shiras {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction"} In the novel, much of which was originally published in serial form in Astounding Science Fiction magazine, hidden throughout a future America of 1972 are a group of incredibly gifted children — all approximately the same age... |
329145 /m/01wmp5 True Names Vernor Vinge 1981 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story follows the progress of a group of disaffected computer wizards (called "warlocks" in the story) who are early adopters of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology, called the "... |
329756 /m/01wrys The Postman Always Rings Twice James M. Cain 1934 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The story is narrated in the first person by Frank Chambers, a young drifter who stops at a rural California diner for a meal, and ends up working the... |
330523 /m/01wvrl Siddhartha Hermann Hesse 1922 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story takes place in ancient India around the time of Gotama Buddha (likely between the fourth and seventh centuries BCE). Siddhartha, the son of a Brahmin, decides to leave behind his home in the hopes of ga... |
331525 /m/01wzp_ The Bicentennial Man Isaac Asimov 1976-02 A character named Andrew Martin requests an unknown operation from a robotic surgeon. However, the robot refuses, as the operation is harmful and violates the First Law of Robotics, which says a robot may never harm a human being. Andrew, however, changes its... |
331675 /m/01w_79 Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov 1952 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The first half of the book, titled "The General," tells how the Galactic Empire, now well into its collapse but led by skilled General Bel Riose, laun... |
331778 /m/01w_n3 Equal Rites Terry Pratchett 1987 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The wizard Drum Billet knows that he will soon die and travels to a place where an eighth son of an eighth son is about to be born. This signifies that th... |
331967 /m/01x062 Guards! Guards! Terry Pratchett 1989 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story follows a plot by a secret brotherhood, the Unique and Supreme Lodge of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night, to ... |
332043 /m/01x0g5 Pyramids Terry Pratchett 1989 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The main character of Pyramids is Teppic, prince of the tiny kingdom of Djelibeybi. Djelibeybi is the Discworld counterpart to Ancient Egypt. Young Teppic ha... |
333495 /m/01x60g The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs 1903 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story involves Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son Herbert. Sergeant-Major Morris, a friend of the Whites who has been part of the British Armed Forces in India, leaves them with the monkey's paw, telling of its mysterious ... |
333637 /m/01x6dj The Sea Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1915 Sir Oliver Tressilian lives at the house of Penarrow together with his brother Lionel and his servant Nicholas. Sir Oliver is betrothed to Rosamund Godolphin, but her brother Peter, a young hothead, detests the Tressilians, as there had been a feud between their fath... |
333987 /m/01x7ng The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/011ys5": "Farce"} The novel alternates between two settings. The first is 1930s Moscow, which is visited by Satan in the guise of "Professor" Wol... |
334265 /m/01x8bj The Gold-Bug Edgar Allan Poe 1843 William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a scarab-like bug thought to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit him at his home on Sullivan's Island in South Car... |
335060 /m/01xcnw The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt The story opens with the town of Güllen (which literally means "to manure") preparing for the arrival of famed billionairess Claire Zachanassian. The town is in a state of disrepair, and the residents are suffering considerable hardship and poverty. They hope that Clai... |
335534 /m/01xftp Disgrace John Maxwell Coetzee 1999-07-01 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} David Lurie is a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter. He is twice-div... |
336499 /m/01xkm4 The Lords of Discipline Pat Conroy 1980 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef"} The novel's narrator, Will McLean, attends the Carolina Military Institute (a fictional military college based on The Citadel) in Charleston, from 1963 to 1967. The novel takes place in four parts. The fi... |
336994 /m/01xmhg Engines of Creation K. Eric Drexler 1986 The book features nanotechnology, which Richard Feynman had discussed in his 1959 speech There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Drexler imagines a world where the entire Library of Congress can fit on a chip the size of a sugar cube and where universal assemble... |
337252 /m/01xndx Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis 1938 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story begins with Dr. Elwin Ransom, a professor of philology at a college of the University of Cambridge, on a hiking trip in the English Midlands. Being refused lod... |
337518 /m/01xpj9 The Variable Man Philip K. Dick The Terran system is growing and expanding all the time. But an old and corrupt Centaurian Empire is holding Terra down, as it encircles the Terran system and will not let the humans grow out of their current empire. For this reason Terra is at war with Proxima Centau... |
338090 /m/01xrd_ Eric Terry Pratchett 1990 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story is a parody of the tale of Faust, and follows the events of Sourcery in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in ... |
338183 /m/01xrl_ The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut 1959 {"/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The protagonist is Malachi Constant, the richest man in 22nd-century America. He possesses extraordinary luck that he at... |
338274 /m/01xr_4 Mila 18 Leon Uris {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} As in many other books by Uris, the story is largely told from the standpoint of a newspaperman; in this case, an American-Italian journalist, Christopher de Monti, who is assigned to Warsaw after coverin... |
338307 /m/01xs29 QB VII Leon Uris Parts one and two concern the plaintiff and the defendant in this trial and take us through their lives before meeting in 1967. The plaintiff is Adam Kelno, a doctor pressed into the service of the Nazis after Poland was overrun in World War II. As head physician in a concentration ... |
338872 /m/01xv59 Freaky Friday Mary Rodgers {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01z4y": "Comedy"} A willful, disorganized teenage girl, Annabelle Andrews, awakens one Friday morning to find herself in the body of h... |
338949 /m/01xvgq How Few Remain Harry Turtledove 1997-09-08 {"/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The point of divergence is September 10, 1862, during the American Civil War. In our timeline, a Confederate messenger lost General Robert E. Lee's Special Ord... |
339133 /m/01xv_c Perelandra C. S. Lewis 1943 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story starts with the philologist Elwin Ransom, some years after his return from Mars at the end of Out of the Silent Planet, receiving a new mission from Oyarsa, the angelic rule... |
339810 /m/01xylf Teranesia Greg Egan 1999 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel explores an unusual connection between molecular genetics and quantum computing, with criticism of some of what it considers the excesses of postmodernism and feminism. However... |
340909 /m/01y1kt On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957 {"/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The two main characters of the book are the narrator, Salvatore “Sal” Paradise, and his new friend Dean Moriarty, much admired for his carefree attitude and sense for adventure, a free-spirited... |
341263 /m/01y3fk Vernon God Little D. B. C. Pierre 2003-01-20 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The title character is a fifteen-year-old boy who lives in a small town in the U.S. state of Texas. When his friend Jesus Navarro commits suicide after killing sixteen bullying schoolmates, suspicion falls on Vernon, who becomes some... |
341357 /m/01y3q7 The Last Hero Terry Pratchett 2001 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A message, carried by pointless albatross, arrives for Lord Vetinari from the Agatean Empire. The message explains that the Silver Horde (a group of age... |
342495 /m/01y8rx Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh 1930 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Adam Fenwick-Symes is the novel's antihero; his quest to marry Nina parodies the conventions of romantic comedy, as the traditional foils and allies prove distracted and ineffectual. War looms, Adam's circle of friends disinteg... |
342518 /m/01y8vz Gilgamesh the King Robert Silverberg 1984 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} The novel is told from the point of view of Gilgamesh, and is primarily ambivalent about the supernatural elements of the epic. Most of the events are portrayed in a fairly realistic manner, and the ... |
342524 /m/01y8x2 Roma Eterna Robert Silverberg {"/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is presented as a series of vignettes over a period of about 1500 years, from 1282 ab urbe condita (AD... |
343425 /m/01ydrq The Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum 1910 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} At the beginning of this story, it is made quite clear that Dorothy, the primary protagonist of many of the previous Oz books, is in the habit of freely speaking ... |
344101 /m/01yh8h A Door Into Ocean Joan Slonczewski 1986 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is set in the future, on the fictional planet of Shora, a moon covered by water. The inhabitants of this planet, known as Sharers, are all female. Sharers use ge... |
344267 /m/01yhyr The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood 1993-09 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} During their most recent outing, three friends see Zenia, a long-dead university classmate who had stolen, one by one, their respective beaux. The novel alternates between the pres... |
344361 /m/01yj6j Lazarillo de Tormes 1554 {"/m/0g_jj": "Picaresque novel"} Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take Lazarillo (little Lázaro) on as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind begg... |
344570 /m/01yk6x The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939-05-16 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book follows a young man named Tod Hackett who thinks of himself as a painter and artist, but who works in Hollywood as a costume designer and background painter. He falls in love with Faye Greener, an asp... |
344833 /m/01yl1r On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming 1963-04-01 {"/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction"} For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in "Operation Bedlam": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation ... |
345005 /m/01ylw1 The Mote in God's Eye Jerry Pournelle 1974 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The book is split up into four parts. In the year AD 3017, humanity is recovering slowly from an interstellar civil war that tore apart the first Empire of Man. A new Emp... |
345650 /m/01yp92 The Dot and the Line The story details a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, finding the line to be stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. The line, unable to fall out of love and willing to do whatever it takes to win the do... |
346145 /m/01yr0f The Egg and I Betty MacDonald 1945 MacDonald begins her book with a summary description of her childhood and family. Her father was an engineer, and moved frequently with his family throughout the West. Her mother's theory that a wife must support her husband in his career comes into play when the au... |
347822 /m/01yxg4 Persuasion Jane Austen 1818 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Anne Elliot is the overlooked middle daughter of the vain Sir Walter, a spendthrift baronet who is all too conscious of his good looks an... |
348200 /m/01yy_9 Stand on Zanzibar John Brunner 1968 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} The story is set in 2010, mostly in the United States. A number of plots and many vignettes are played out in this future world, based on Brunner's extra... |
348415 /m/01yzr4 Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown 1973 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel focuses on Molly Bolt, the adopted daughter of a poor family, who possesses remarkable beauty and who is aware of her lesbianism from early childhood. Her relationship with her mother is rocky, and at a young a... |
348697 /m/01y_kg Fallen Dragon Peter F. Hamilton {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Fallen Dragon takes place during the 25th century. In the preceding centuries, a means of Faster-than-light (FTL) space travel was discovered, allowing a speed of one-half of a light-year per day. This... |
349114 /m/01z1dl Maus Art Spiegelman {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/017fp": "Biography"} The book opens with a scene from Spiegelman's Rego Park childhood in 1958. He runs to his father after being left behind by his friends, but his father responds in broken English, "Friends? Your friends? If you lock them togeth... |
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