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349537 /m/01z2td The Sea-Wolf Jack London 1904 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Like The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist, in this novel's case an intellectual man named Humphrey van W... |
349770 /m/01z3pl Lost in the Stars Maxwell Anderson It is August 1949 in the South African village of Ndotsheni ("The Hills of Ixopo"). The black priest of St. Mark's Church, the Rev. Stephen Kumalo, learns that his sister is in trouble, from a letter from his brother, John Kumalo, who lives in Johannesburg. Stephen... |
349907 /m/01z439 Count Zero William Gibson 1986 {"/m/01qpc": "Cyberpunk", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} As with later Gibson works, there are multiple story-line threads which eventually intertwine: Thread One: In the southwestern USA, Turner, a corporate me... |
349909 /m/01z43p Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson 1988 {"/m/01qpc": "Cyberpunk", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Taking place eight years after the events of Count Zero and fifteen years after Neuromancer, the story is formed from severa... |
350754 /m/01z7f4 Tehanu Ursula K. Le Guin 1990 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Tehanu begins slightly before the conclusion of the previous book in the series, The Farthest Shore, and provides some i... |
351047 /m/01z8s8 The Missionary Position Christopher Hitchens 1995 {"/m/017fp": "Biography"} Hitchens condemns Mother Teresa for having used contributions to open convents in 150 countries rather than establishing the teaching hospital toward which her donors expected that she would apply their gifts. He claims that M... |
352250 /m/01zf5s The Plague Dogs Richard Adams 1977-09-22 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} This book tells of the escape of two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, from a government research station in the Lake District in England, where they had been horribly mistreated. They li... |
352521 /m/01zgb1 Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1722-01 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} Moll's mother is a convict in Newgate Prison in London who is given a reprieve by "pleading her belly," a reference to the custom of staying the executions of pregnant crimi... |
352645 /m/01zgw0 Skellig David Almond 1998 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/0127jb": "Magic realism", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} A boy, Michael and his family have moved into a new house that is very old and falling apart. He and ... |
352805 /m/01zhl4 Kokoro Soseki Natsume 1914 The novel was written in 1914. It is set a few years previous and is divided into three parts. In the first part, Sensei and I, the narrator, a guileless university student, befriends an older man, Sensei (most of the characters' real names are not given). Sensei lives as a... |
352823 /m/01zhpl Diary of an Ordinary Woman Margaret Forster 2003-03-06 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} From the age of thirteen, on the eve of the Great War, Millicent King keeps her journals in a series of exercise books. The diary records the dramas of everyday life in an ordinary English family touched by war, tragedy, and ... |
353198 /m/01zk4b The Road to Oz L. Frank Baum 1909 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Dorothy is near her home in Kansas when the story begins. She and her dog Toto first meet the Shaggy Man, a wandering hobo who carries the Love Magnet with him, en route ... |
353210 /m/01zk6m The Last Battle C. S. Lewis 1956 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} In The Last Battle, Lewis brings The Chronicles of Narnia to an end. The book deals with the end of time in the old Narnia and sums up the series by linking the experience... |
353714 /m/01zlsl After the Funeral Agatha Christie {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} After the funeral of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his remaining family assembles for the reading of the will at Enderby Hall.... |
354398 /m/01zpjz She: A History of Adventure H. Rider Haggard 1887 {"/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/050z5g": "Chivalric romance"} A young Cambridge University professor, Ho... |
354422 /m/01zpn_ Burmese Days George Orwell 1934-10 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada. As the story opens U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate, is planning to destroy the reputation of the Indian Dr. Veraswami. The Doctor... |
354429 /m/01zpq_ A Clergyman's Daughter George Orwell 1935 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is given in five distinctive chapters. A day in the life of Dorothy Hare, the weak-willed daughter of a disagreeable widowed clergyman. Her father is Rector of Knype Hill, a small provincial East Anglian town. She keeps house fo... |
355167 /m/01zs4v Star Maker Olaf Stapledon 1937 {"/m/01gw42": "Scientific romance", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book begins with a single human narrator from England who is, via unexplained means, transported out of his body and fin... |
355413 /m/01zt4y Player Piano Kurt Vonnegut 1952 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/026ny": "Dystopia"} Player Piano is set in the future after a fictional third world war. During the war, while most Americans were fighting overseas, the nation's managers and engineers faced a depl... |
355688 /m/01zvdj The Loved One Evelyn Waugh 1948-02 {"/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Chapter one: Sir Ambrose Abercrombie visits housemates Dennis Barlow and Sir Francis Hinsley to express his concern about Barlow's new job and how it reflects on the British enclave in Hollywood, whic... |
355869 /m/01zw38 A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute 1950 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story falls broadly into three parts. In Post-World War II London, Jean Paget, a secretary in a leather-goods factory, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has inherited a considerable sum of money from an uncle she never knew. ... |
356670 /m/01zzbb We the Living Ayn Rand {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The story takes place from 1922 to 1925, in post-revolutionary Russia. Kira Argounova, the protagonist of the story, is the younger daughter of a bourgeois family. An independent ... |
358057 /m/01_3gm When Harlie Was One David Gerrold 1972 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Central to the story is an Artificial Intelligence named H.A.R.L.I.E., also referred to by the proper name "HARLIE" - an acronym for Human Analog Replication, Lethetic Inte... |
358335 /m/01_4cr The Call of the Wild Jack London 1903 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03k9fj": "Adventure", "/m/08sdrw": "Adventure novel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction"} As the story opens, Buck, a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie dog, lives... |
358542 /m/01_54z The Soft Machine William S. Burroughs {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The main plot appears in linear prose in chapter VII, The Mayan Caper. This chapter portrays a secret agent who has the ability to change bodies or metamorphose his own body using "U.T." (undifferentiated ... |
358867 /m/01_67w Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink 1935 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Set in the 1860s, Caddie Woodlawn is about a lively eleven-year-old tomboy named Caroline Augusta Woodlawn, nicknamed "Caddie", living in the area of Dunnville, Wisconsin, and her experiences with the n... |
360245 /m/01_c2p The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway {"/m/016lj8": "Roman \u00e0 clef", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The protagonist of The Sun Also Rises is Jake Barnes, an expatriate American journalist living in Paris. Jake suffered a war wound that has caused hi... |
360837 /m/01_ffs Germinal Émile Zola 1885 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel's central character is Étienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), and originally to have been the central character in Zola's "murder on the trains" thriller La Bête humaine (1890) before the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Germ... |
361113 /m/01_g6n Les Liaisons dangereuses Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 1782-03-23 {"/m/02ql9": "Epistolary novel"} The Vicomte de Valmont is determined to seduce the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel, who is living with Valmont's aunt while Monsieur de Tourvel, a magistrate, is away on a court case. At the same t... |
361211 /m/01_gkf Krapp's Last Tape Samuel Beckett 1958 The curtain rises on "[a] late evening in the future." It is Krapp’s 69th birthday and he hauls out his old tape recorder, reviews one of the earlier years – the recording he made when he was 39 – and makes a new recording commenting on the last 12 months. Krapp ... |
361217 /m/01_glx Happy Days Samuel Beckett 1960 Winnie, a woman no longer young, is embedded up to her “big bosom” in a mound of earth, “the Mother Earth symbol to end all other mother earth symbols”. She lives in a deluge of never-ending light from which there is no escape: even the parasol she unfolds at one point ... |
362804 /m/01_mq0 The First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Innokentii Volodin, a diplomat, makes a telephone call he feels obligated to his conscience to make, even though he knows he risks arrest. His call was taped and the NKVD seek to identify who made the call. The s... |
362887 /m/01_n1d Death Be Not Proud John Gunther 1949 {"/m/05h83": "Non-fiction", "/m/016chh": "Memoir"} In the book, Gunther records the true story of his teenage son's struggle to overcome a brain tumor, and his ultimate death at the age of seventeen. The story chronicles the period beginning when Johnny experiences... |
364499 /m/01_t_3 The Golden Age John C. Wright 2002 {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The author's first novel, it revolves around the protagonist Phaethon (full name Phaethon Prime Rhadamanth Humodified (augment) Uncomposed, Indepconciousness, Base... |
364618 /m/01_vcl The Good Soldier Švejk Jaroslav Hašek {"/m/0vgkd": "Black comedy", "/m/06nbt": "Satire", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story begins in Prague with news of the assassination in Sarajevo that precipitates World War I. Švejk displays such enthusiasm about faithfully serving the Austrian Emperor in battle tha... |
365182 /m/01_x5p Singularity Sky Charles Stross 2003-07-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The apparent cause of this distribution of humans is the mysterious and immensely powerful posthuman entity which calls itself "the Eschaton". Although the Eschaton is usu... |
365419 /m/01_y0h The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger 1997-05-17 {"/m/05h0n": "Nature", "/m/017fp": "Biography"} The book follows the lives of the swordfishing crew of the Andrea Gail and their family members before and during the 1991 Perfect Storm. Among the men boarding the Andrea Gail were Billy Tyne, Alfred Pierre,... |
365537 /m/01_ycx The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1904 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Set shortly after the events in the first book, the protagonist is a boy named Tip, who for as long as he can remember has been under the guardianship of a witch named Mombi (who is th... |
366534 /m/0200pr Ozma of Oz L. Frank Baum 1907 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Uncle Henry has been ordered by his doctor to take a vacation from his Kansas farm to Australia. He and his niece Dorothy Gale (this is the first of the Oz books in which the... |
367519 /m/02041g Prey Michael Crichton 2002-11-25 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/017rf8": "Techno-thriller", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, who is an unemployed software programmer wh... |
367574 /m/02047h The Tin Woodman of Oz L. Frank Baum 1918 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The Tin Woodman and the wizard of Oz are regaling each other with tales at the former's palace in the Winkie Country when a Gillikin boy named Woot wanders and is ... |
368834 /m/0207w5 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote Jorge Luis Borges 1939-05 "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" is written in the form of a review or literary critical piece about Pierre Menard, a (purely fictional) 20th century French writer. It begins with a brief introduction and a listing of all of Menard'... |
369457 /m/020983 Rocannon's World Ursula K. Le Guin 1966 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The novel begins with a prologue called "Semley's Necklace", which was first published as a stand-alone story titled "Dowry of the Angyar" in Amazing Stories (September 1964). A young woman name... |
370203 /m/020cg8 Always Coming Home Ursula K. Le Guin 1985 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book weaves around the story of a Kesh woman called Stone Telling, who lived for years with her father's people—the Dayao or Condor peo... |
370284 /m/020crd The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper 1826-02 {"/m/0hwxm": "Historical novel"} The action takes place around Glens Falls in upstate New York. Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of Lieutenant Colonel Munro, are traveling with a column of reinforcements from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, wher... |
370894 /m/020fj3 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson The plot is simple in the extreme. Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia (modern-day Ethiopia), is shut up in a beautiful valley, "till the order of succession should call him to the throne." He grows weary of the factitious entertainments... |
371520 /m/020hg9 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz L. Frank Baum 1908 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} In the story, set after the last book, Dorothy is joining Uncle Henry in California at Hugson's Ranch, on their way home from Australia, Dorothy having visi... |
371532 /m/020hhl Forward the Foundation Isaac Asimov 1993-01 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov continues the chronicles of the life of Hari Seldon, first begun in Prelude to Foundation. The story takes place on Trantor, an... |
373170 /m/020q34 Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1884 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} In Southern California, shortly after the Mexican-American War, a Scots-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, is raised by Señora Gonzaga Moreno, the sister of Ramona's deceased foster mothe... |
373555 /m/020rt0 Tik-Tok of Oz L. Frank Baum 1914 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a small monarchy separated from the rest of Oz's Winkie Country, sets out to raise an army to conquer Oz. Seventeen men eventually make up th... |
373711 /m/020s7b The Truce at Bakura Kathy Tyers 1993 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} While recovering from their victory against the Empire at Endor, the Rebel Alliance intercepts an Imperial probe containing a distress call for the Emperor. The message detai... |
374508 /m/020vt6 An Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen Dr. Thomas Stockmann is a popular citizen of a small coastal town in Norway. The town has recently invested a large amount of public and private money towards the development of baths, a project led by Dr. Stockmann and his brother, Peter Stockmann, the Mayor. The... |
374708 /m/020wl9 The Scarecrow of Oz L. Frank Baum 1917 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Cap'n Bill, a sailor with a wooden peg-leg, and his friend, a little girl named Trot, set out from California on a calm day for a short ride in their row-boat. The c... |
374767 /m/020wsd The Genius and the Goddess Aldous Huxley 1955-12 {"/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel"} The story begins in 1951. John Rivers is speaking to a friend about his encounter with the Maartens family. In 1921, Rivers, who was extremely sheltered by his widowed mother, is employed as a lab assistant to Henry Maarte... |
374803 /m/020wv3 Balance Point Kathy Tyers {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} On the planet Duro, a new galactic refugee settlement close to the Core, Jacen Solo has a horrifying vision through the Force about the fate of the galaxy. Amidst the invasion by the ... |
374924 /m/020x7_ The Old Capital Yasunari Kawabata 1962 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Chieko Sada is the daughter of Takichiro and Shige, who operate a kimono wholesale business in Kyoto. Now twenty, Chieko has known since she was in middle school that she was a foundling adopted by Takichiro and Shige. However, as told by Sh... |
375035 /m/020xpv Destiny's Way Walter Jon Williams {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Jacen Solo, son of Han Solo and Princess Leia, has escaped from the Yuuzhan Vong with the aid of a Jedi Master from the time of the Old Republic, Vergere. Besides making cryptic references to Jacen's... |
375354 /m/020y_v Timequake Kurt Vonnegut 1997 {"/m/012jgz": "Autobiographical novel", "/m/07s2s": "Time travel", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} Vonnegut uses the premise of a timequake (or repetition of actions) in which there is no free will. The idea of determinism is explored—as it is in many of his previous w... |
375359 /m/020z0n The Neverending Story Michael Ende 1979 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book centers on a boy, Bastian Balthazar Bux, who is neglected by his father (who has sunken into despair ... |
376862 /m/02137n The Chosen Chaim Potok 1967-06 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The Chosen is set in the mid-Twentieth Century, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. The story takes place over a period of six years, beginning in ... |
376954 /m/0213ll The Campus Murders Gil Brewer 1969 {"/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/028v3": "Detective fiction"} Against the background of a student rebellion, two murders are committed on the Tisquanto State College campus. The first victim is one of the conservative deans, who is stabbed after his life-size effigy has ... |
377945 /m/021741 Rinkitink in Oz L. Frank Baum 1916 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Pingaree is an island in the Nonestic Ocean that surrounds the fairy countries that encircle the Deadly Desert that surrounds the Land of Oz. Many years before this stor... |
378447 /m/0218_v Arrowsmith Sinclair Lewis 1925 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Arrowsmith tells the story of bright and scientifically minded Martin Arrowsmith as he makes his way from a small town in the Midwest to the upper echelons of the scientific community. (He is born in Elk Mills, Winnemac, the s... |
379178 /m/021ckw The Lost Princess of Oz L. Frank Baum 1917 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Dorothy has risen from bed for the day and is seeing to her friends in the Emerald City and notices that Ozma has not awakened yet. Dorothy goes into Ozma's cham... |
380013 /m/021glc The Time Ships Stephen Baxter 1995 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0mz2": "Alternate history", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/07s2s": "Time travel"} After the events related in The Time Machine, the Time Traveller (his first name, Moses, is give... |
380015 /m/021gls Evolution Stephen Baxter 2002-11-30 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy"} The book follows the evolution of mankind as it shapes surviving Purgatorius into tree dwellers, remoulds a group that drifts from Africa to a (then much closer) New World on... |
380143 /m/021h0t Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1877-11-24 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with ... |
381378 /m/021mz1 A Visit from St. Nicholas Clement Clarke Moore 1823 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees St. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing hi... |
381411 /m/021n0s Vector Prime Robert Anthony Salvatore {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The alien race known as the Yuuzhan Vong are preparing for their invasion on the Star Wars galaxy. They are doing this by covertly disrupting the peace established by that of the New Republic eve... |
381491 /m/021ncg The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough 1977-04 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01qxvh": "Romance novel", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The epic begins with Meghann "Meggie" Cleary, a four-year-old girl living in New Zealand in the early twentieth century, the only daughter of Paddy... |
382115 /m/021qwn The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum 1919 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} At the top of Mount Munch, lives a group of people known as the Hyups. One of their numbers, a Munchkin named Bini Aru, discovered a method of transforming people and ob... |
382176 /m/021r3c Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Roald Dahl 1972-09 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The book begins where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ends: Willy Wonka has just given Charl... |
383912 /m/021yy6 The Inheritors Ford Madox Ford {"/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05qgc": "Poetry", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The authors introduce the story via science fiction tropes such as the uncanny – coincidences, ESP, unearthly lighting effects, distorte... |
384072 /m/021zkn Moving Pictures Terry Pratchett 1990 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The alchemists of the Discworld have invented moving pictures. Many hopefuls are drawn by the siren call of Holy Wood, home of the fledgling "clicks" ... |
384688 /m/0220p0 Glinda of Oz L. Frank Baum 1920 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} Princess Ozma and Dorothy travel to an obscure corner of the Land of Oz, in order to prevent a war between two local powers, the Skeezers and the Flatheads. The leaders of ... |
385190 /m/0222xr The Book of Sand Jorge Luis Borges 1975 The titular "Book of Sand" is the Book of all Books, and is a monster. The story tells how this book came into the possession of a fictional version of Borges himself, and of how he ultimately disposed of it. On opening the book, Borges finds that the pages are... |
385612 /m/0224cd Walk Two Moons Sharon Creech 1994-06-30 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03mfnf": "Young adult literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} The novel is narrated by a 13 year old girl, Salamanca Tree Hiddle (Sal). Sal's mother, Sugar, has recently left Sal and her father for reasons that are initially... |
385678 /m/0224pt God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Kurt Vonnegut 1965 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} As the opening of the book explains, this is a story where the leading character is Money. The Rosewater Foundation was founded by United States senator Lister Ames Rosewate... |
385817 /m/02256v The Unknown Soldier Väinö Linna 1954-12-03 {"/m/098tmk": "War novel"} The novel has no single central character (it both begins and ends with an ironic play on the narrator's omniscience), and its focus is on different responses to the experience of war. It tells the story of a machinegun company in t... |
386381 /m/0227cl Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1920 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Saint Paul, Minnesota. She marries Will Kennicott, a... |
386568 /m/02286p Misery Stephen King 1987-06-08 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/03npn": "Horror", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Paul Sheldon, the author of a best-selling series of Victorian-era romance novels surrounding the heroine character Misery Chastain, has just finished t... |
386867 /m/0229l7 The Monk M. G. Lewis {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction"} Leonella and her niece, Antonia, visit a church to hear the sermon of a celebrated priest, Ambrosio, and while waiting tell their story to two young men, Don Lorenzo and Don Christoval. Antonia's Grandfather is the Marquis de las Cisternas, who was ... |
386988 /m/022bb8 Star by Star Troy Denning {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/01hmnh": "Fantasy", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} In this dark and dangerous time for the New Republic, the cruel Yuuzhan Vong continue their mission: galactic conquest. The Yuuzhan Vong have begun cloning voxy... |
388046 /m/022g4y American Tabloid James Ellroy 1995-02-14 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} *Part I, SHAKEDOWNS, November–December 1958 "Shakedowns" covers just 26 days, introducing the three principal characters, a... |
388056 /m/022g62 The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Selma Lagerlöf 1906 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} The book is about a young lad, Nils Holgersson, whose "chief delight was to eat and sleep, and after that he liked best to make mischief". He takes great delight in hurting th... |
390168 /m/022kyh The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy 2001-05-08 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} The story begins on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, minutes after the John F. Kennedy assassination, and continues for roughly five years. Ward Littell, forme... |
391497 /m/022ryc Fifth Business Robertson Davies 1970 {"/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ramsay's passion for hagiology and his guilty connection to Mary Dempster provide most of the impetus and background for this novel. He spends much of the book struggling with his image of Mary Dempster as... |
391531 /m/022s16 The Crab with the Golden Claws Hergé 1941 Tintin is informed by the Thompsons of a case involving the ramblings of a drunken man, later killed, found with a scrap of paper from what appears to be a tin of crab-meat with the word Karaboudjan scrawled on it. His subsequent investigation and the kidnapp... |
393290 /m/022zqg Black Boy Richard Wright 1945 {"/m/0xdf": "Autobiography", "/m/017fp": "Biography", "/m/04fqp": "K\u00fcnstlerroman", "/m/05h83": "Non-fiction"} Black Boy (American Hunger) is a memoir of Richard Wright's childhood and young adulthood. It is split into two sections, "Southern Night" (concerning his ch... |
393492 /m/022_l3 The City and the Pillar Gore Vidal 1948-01-10 {"/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The plot centers on Jim Willard, a handsome youth in Virginia in the late 1930s, who is also a very good tennis player. When his best friend Bob Ford, one year his senior, is about to leave high school, the two take a camping trip int... |
393692 /m/0230k1 Tai-Pan: A Novel of Hong Kong James Clavell 1966 {"/m/02p0szs": "Historical fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} The novel begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, i... |
394089 /m/023262 Horton Hears a Who! Dr. Seuss 1954-08 {"/m/0dwly": "Children's literature"} In the Jungle of Nool, a jungle environment populated by anthropomorphic fauna, an elephant named Horton encounters a clover inhabited by a society of tiny beings known as the "Whos" of microscopic size. After conversing with ... |
394715 /m/02343f The World is Round Tony Rothman 1978 {"/m/03lrw": "Hard science fiction", "/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction"} The story concerns a world named Patra-Bannk (known otherwise as Freeze-Bake), and a crew of explorers from another world named Two-Bit (because life is cheap th... |
394756 /m/02346r Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Tony Kushner Set in New York City in 1985, Act One of Millennium Approaches introduces us to the central characters. As the play opens, Louis Ironson, a neurotic, gay Jew learns his lover, WASP Prior Walter, has AIDS. As the play and Prior's illne... |
395037 /m/0235s0 ’Salem's Lot Stephen King 1975-09-05 {"/m/039vk": "Gothic fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/03npn": "Horror"} Ben Mears, a successful writer who grew up in the town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, has returned home after twenty-five years. He quickly becomes friends with high school teacher... |
395683 /m/0238gd One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1963 {"/m/02xlf": "Fiction"} Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system, accused of becoming a spy after being captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent but is none... |
395880 /m/0238zr The Black Dahlia James Ellroy 1987-09 {"/m/0lsxr": "Crime Fiction", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} In June, 1943 patrol officer Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert, a former boxer and a member of the Los Angeles Police Department is caught up in the Z... |
396639 /m/023cpd Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/0dwly": "Children's literature", "/m/05hgj": "Novel", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/01jym": "Bildungsroman", "/m/03nhxh": "Social commentary"} In the beginning, the narrator lives in a small town in the South. A model student, indeed th... |
397398 /m/023gj6 The Bourne Identity Robert Ludlum 1980-02 {"/m/01jfsb": "Thriller", "/m/02n4kr": "Mystery", "/m/06wkf": "Spy fiction", "/m/02xlf": "Fiction", "/m/0c3351": "Suspense"} In the stormy Mediterranean Sea, a man is found floating in the water by a small ship. He has several bullet wounds, including a head w... |
398809 /m/023lp2 The Gripping Hand Jerry Pournelle {"/m/06n90": "Science Fiction", "/m/014dfn": "Speculative fiction", "/m/05hgj": "Novel"} At the end of The Mote in God's Eye, Renner and Bury are secretly enlisted into Imperial Naval Intelligence. They spend the next twenty-five years investigating revolutions again... |
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