Question: Non History Books about communism

The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh

Books about communism that are not History books

'''''The Lost World of British Communism''''' is a book by Raphael Samuel first published, posthumously, in 2006 by Verso Books.
The book is composed of a series of essays that were collected together to mark the ten year anniversary of Samuel's death in 1996. They describe the development of the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1940s and the experience of being a member of it from the vantage point of the 1980s.

an unfinished biography of Chinese Communist leader Zhu De.

1919 Boni & Liveright first edition
'''''Ten Days That Shook the World''''' (1919) is a book by the American journalist and socialist John Reed. Here, Reed presented a firsthand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution. Reed followed many of the most prominent Bolsheviks closely during his time in Russia. John Reed was on an assignment for ''The Masses'', a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution. Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth" during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" (since the book primarily shares the perspective of the Russian working class).

The Appointment'' portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police. She is accused of sewing notes into the linings of men's suits bound for Italy asking that the recipient marry her to help her get out of the country.

Mosher takes the title "Age of Infatuation" from Harold Isaacs's classic ''Scratches on Our Minds'' (1958) to describe the period during the 1930s and 1940s in which Communist China

'''''Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left''''' is the first anthology of autobiographical writings by "Red Diaper Babies" — children of communist or other radical-left parents. Edited by Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro, it consists of memoirs, short stories, and poems. Among the 40 authors are such well known figures as journalist Carl Bernstein, feminist writer Kim Chernin, scientist Richard Levins, and author/activist Robert Meeropol (son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg).

'''''Ideology and Organization in Communist China''''' is a 1966 book by the American sociologist and sinologist Franz Schurmann that offers a sociological analysis of the Chinese Communist revolution

It was a diary of her time with the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

was written soon after the author's defection from Stalinist Poland in 1951. In it, Miłosz drew upon his experiences as an illegal author during the Nazi Occupation and of being a member of the ruling class of the postwar People's Republic of Poland

The book attempts to explain the allure of Stalinism to intellectuals, its adherents' thought processes, and the existence of both dissent and collaboration within the postwar Soviet Bloc

a 1949 collection of six essays by Louis Fischer, André Gide, Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Richard Wright. The common theme of the essays is the authors' disillusionment with and abandonment of communism.


Question: Novels from the 1810's that are not set in the Napoleonic Wars.

Regency Buck
Cotillion (novel)
The Spanish Bride
Black Sheep (Heyer novel)
The Bride of Newgate
Sprig Muslin
Sharpe's Waterloo
Sharpe's Escape
The Right-Hand Man
Sharpe's Assassin
Bath Tangle

Novels set in the 1810s that are not Novels set during the Napoleonic Wars

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the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell as an actual character, rather than as someone merely mentioned in passing. The story is set in 1811–1812.
Judith Taverner is a beautiful young heiress who comes to London to join high society

a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer published in 1952. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816.

'''''The Spanish Bride''''' is a historical novel by Georgette Heyer based on the true story of Sir Harry Smith and his wife Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith. He had a fairly illustrious military career and was made a baronet. The town of Ladysmith in South Africa is named after his wife.
After the siege and sack of the Spanish city of Badajoz by British and Portuguese forces in 1812, 14-year-old, convent raised orphan, Juana, and her older sister sought sanctuary among officers of the 95th Rifles in the British camp outside the city walls. From the first moment he saw her, Brigade-Major Harry Smith fell deeply in love with Juana. Over all objections from his brother officers, Harry married Juana a few days later.

'''''Black Sheep''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer which was first published in 1966. The story is set in 1816/1817.
The novel is set in Bath, Somerset and centres on two main characters: Miss Abigail Wendover and Mr Miles Calverleigh.

Set in England in 1815, the book combines two literary genres, historical fiction and the whodunit/detective story and is "one of the earliest historical mystery novels."

'''''Sprig Muslin''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1813.

===The First Day: 15 June 1815===
While patrolling the roads connecting the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian forces, Sharpe sees a large unit of Napoleon's Army of the North crossing the border from France, revealing that Napoleon does not intend to maneuver around the flank of the allied armies via Mons, as the Duke of Wellington expects, but instead to drive into the gap between the British and Prussian armies and defeat them in detail. Sharpe sends an urgent message to General Dornberg, while he stays behind to continue observing the French. Unfortunately, Dornberg thinks it is a French ruse and tears it up.

Sharpe is embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive is successfully halted.

'''''The Right-Hand Man''''' is a young adult historical novel by K. M. Peyton, first published in 1977. The book is set in 1818 in Essex and London, during the Georgian era. It tells the story of Ned Rowlands, a talented stagecoach driver who meets the three creatures he loves best on the same day: a horse, a woman, and the man who will become his employer, Lord Ironminster.

The story is set in June 1815, immediately after the Battle of Waterloo, and during the occupation of Paris.

a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1816.

After the death of the Earl of Spenborough all are shocked when they discover that the late Earl has appointed Ivo Barrasford, Marquess of Rotherham, and formerly engaged to Lady Serena Carlow, to be Serena's trustee.
Serena moves to Bath with her young stepmother, Fanny, where she meets up with Major Hector Kirkby, a love interest from six years past. Serena and Hector rekindle their romance and become engaged, although keeping the engagement under wraps while she is still in mourning for her father.


Question: Novels set in the 1810s excluding Novels about war and conflict

The Right-Hand Man
Black Sheep (Heyer novel)
Sharpe's Waterloo
Sprig Muslin
Bath Tangle
Cotillion (novel)
Sharpe's Escape
Persuasion (novel)
Regency Buck
The Bride of Newgate

Novels set in the 1810s that are not Novels about war and conflict

The book is set in 1818 in Essex and London, during the Georgian era.

'''''Black Sheep''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer which was first published in 1966. The story is set in 1816/1817.
The novel is set in Bath, Somerset and centres on two main characters: Miss Abigail Wendover and Mr Miles Calverleigh.

While patrolling the roads connecting the Anglo-Dutch and Prussian forces, Sharpe sees a large unit of Napoleon's Army of the North crossing the border from France, revealing that Napoleon does not intend to maneuver around the flank of the allied armies via Mons, as the Duke of Wellington expects, but instead to drive into the gap between the British and Prussian armies and defeat them in detail. Sharpe sends an urgent message to General Dornberg, while he stays behind to continue observing the French. Unfortunately, Dornberg thinks it is a French ruse and tears it up.

'''''Sprig Muslin''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1813.

Sir Gareth is a noted Corinthian and has been a confirmed bachelor ever since his betrothed died prematurely, seven years ago. He decides for practical reasons to marry an old friend, Hester, who is unfashionable and plain, not to mention "on the shelf" at the age of 29.

'''''Bath Tangle''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1816.

''''Cotillion''''' is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer published in 1952. It is one of the most light-hearted of Heyer's romances, avoiding the mystery, intrigue, and sensational events present in many of her novels. The story is set in 1816.

'''''Sharpe's Escape''''' is the twenty-third (tenth in chronological order) historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2004. Sharpe is embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive is successfully halted.

'''''Persuasion''''' is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published along with ''Northanger Abbey'' at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The novel was published on December 20, 1817, although the title page is dated 1818.

The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of twenty-seven years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Navy Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was "persuaded" by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a seven-year separation, setting the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance at love and marriage for Anne in her second "bloom".

t is the first of her novels to deal with the Regency period; it is one of only a few to combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel;

Set in England in 1815, the book combines two literary genres, historical fiction and the whodunit/detective story and is "one of the earliest historical mystery novels."


Question: Non Jews and Judaism Books by Isaac Asimov

It's Been a Good Life
Our Angry Earth
Inside the Atom
Extraterrestrial Civilizations
Atom (Asimov book)
Asimov's Guide to the Bible
Opus 200
Visions of the Universe
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science
Lecherous Limericks
Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor
Life and Energy
Autobiographies of Isaac Asimov
Before the Golden Age

Books by Isaac Asimov that are not Books about Jews and Judaism

'''''It's Been a Good Life''''' (2002) is a book edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov. The book, published by Prometheus Books (), is a collection of Isaac Asimov's diaries, personal letters, and a condensation of his three earlier autobiographies:
* ''In Memory Yet Green'', (1979, Doubleday)
* ''In Joy Still Felt'', (1980, Doubleday)
* ''I. Asimov: A Memoir'', (1994, Doubleday)

a non-fiction book and polemic against the effects humankind is having on the environment by the science fiction writers Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl.

'''''Inside the Atom''''' is a popular science book by American author Isaac Asimov. The first edition of the book was published in 1956 by Abelard-Schuman. Revised editions were brought out in subsequent years.
The book describes the internal structure of the atom. The sequence of concepts described in the book follows the sequence that those facts were discovered in. It describes the various sub-atomic structures within the atom, and the functions they fill in the whole structure. Later chapters describe chemical elements and isotopes, the stability and instability of atomic nuclei, and finally atomic energy, the uses it has, and the threat that it poses. A review in the educational journal ''The Clearing House'' said that the book was "lucid", and that its "analytical style exemplifies the art of good teaching." The book is aimed at educated lay-readers, and high-school science students. ''Inside the Atom'' ends on a cautionary note, stating "If only we can learn to use the knowledge we already have..."

'''''Extraterrestrial Civilizations''''' is a 1979 book by Isaac Asimov, in which the author estimates the probability of there being intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations within the Milky Way galaxy. This estimation is approached by progressively analyzing the requirements for life to exist.
The term "Earth-like world" is prominent, in that the assumption is made that any world where life could evolve would have certain similarities to Earth, such as temperature ranges and gravity sufficient for an atmosphere to exist. Asimov begins with the estimated number of stars in the galaxy, 300 billion.

non-fiction book by Isaac Asimov. It was initially published on May 31, 1991, by Dutton Adult.
In it, Asimov presents the atom and subatomic particles in a historical context, beginning with Democritus's original thought experiments and theory of atomism, and ending with then-current knowledge of the fundamental particles.

'''''Asimov's Guide to the Bible''''' is a work by Isaac Asimov that was first published in two volumes in 1968 and 1969, covering the Old Testament and the New Testament (including the Catholic Old Testament, or deuterocanonical, books (see Catholic Bible) and the Eastern Orthodox Old Testament books, or ''anagignoskomena'', along with the Fourth Book of Ezra), respectively. He combined them into a single 1296-page volume in 1981. They included maps by the artist Rafael Palacios.

'''''Opus 200''''' is Isaac Asimov's joint two-hundredth book, along with his autobiography ''In Memory Yet Green'' (both books were published on the same day, following his 199th book).

'''''Visions of the Universe''''' () is a book written by Isaac Asimov and illustrated by Kazuaki Iwasaki in 1981.

Following the success of his best-selling book ''Cosmos'', Sagan set up his own publishing firm, Cosmos Store, in order to publish science books for the general public.

'''''The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science''''' is a general guide to the sciences by the American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov.

the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)

Like many of Asimov's non-fiction pieces, this "Guide" starts with the basics, answering relatively simple (to the modern reader) questions about the Earth - is it flat, does it spin, is it the center of the universe, etc...

From there, the questions progress roughly through the evolution of astronomy and discovery to introduce more complex topics, from the orbits of the planets to the formation of stars and the characteristics of quasars and black holes.

a non-fiction work by American writer Isaac Asimov.

'''''Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare''''' (1970) by Isaac Asimov is a two-volume guide to the works of the celebrated English writer William Shakespeare.

'''''Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor''''' is a humour book written by Isaac Asimov consisting of and subtitled as "A lifetime collection of favorite jokes, anecdotes, and limericks with copious notes on how to tell them and why".

'''''Life and Energy''''' is a 1962 book by Isaac Asimov. It is about the biological and physical world, and their contrasts and comparisons.

Isaac Asimov (–1992) wrote three volumes of autobiography. '''''In Memory Yet Green''''' (1979) and '''''In Joy Still Felt''''' (1980) were a two-volume work, covering his life up to 1978. The third volume, '''''I. Asimov: A Memoir''''' (1994), published after his death, was not a sequel but a new work which covered his whole life. This third book won a Hugo Award.

'''''Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s''''' is an anthology of 25 science fiction stories from 1930s pulp magazines, edited by American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.


Question: Novels about fairies and sprites excluding American speculative fiction novels

Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception
Book of Brownies
The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve
Artemis Fowl (novel)
Peter and Wendy
The Good People
Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox
The Hidden People
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian

Novels about fairies and sprites that are not American speculative fiction novels

The storyline follows Artemis Fowl and his companions as they struggle to recover the "C Cube", a supercomputer Artemis had constructed from fairy technology,

'''''Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception''''', known in America as '''''Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception''''', is a teen fantasy novel published in 2005, the 4th book in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series by the Irish author Eoin Colfer. Preceded by ''Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code'' and followed by ''Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony'', it is centred on the brilliant pixie Opal Koboi's second try at rebellion (after her first attempt was a failure) and Artemis Fowl II and his fairy comrades' efforts to stop her. Critical reception was mixed, with some reviews praising the book and others deeming its writing poor and confusing.

it is considered by some to be one of Blyton's greatest works for children.

The ''Book of Brownies'' is the story of three naughty brownies: Hop, Skip and Jump, who are tricked by Witch Green-eyes into helping her to kidnap the Princess Peronel. They are banished from Fairyland until they find their 'Goodness'.

'''Lapis Lazuli''' A pixie-elf-hybrid (also known as a pixel) that grew up in an orphanage and wants to know who her mother is. Serves as Fowl Ambassador and usually breaks many fairy rules while on Fowl adventures.

'''''Artemis Fowl''''' is an Irish young adult fantasy novel written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. It is the first book in the ''Artemis Fowl'' series, the first cycle of ''The Fowl Adventures'', followed by ''Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident''. Described by its author as "''Die Hard'' with fairies", the novel follows fairy LEP reconnaissance officer Holly Short after she is kidnapped by twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II for a large ransom of gold.

'''''Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up''''' or '''''Peter and Wendy''''', often known simply as '''''Peter Pan''''', is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans, and pirates.

Mary is not charged and is a witness against the two elderly women who claim in court that the child was a fairy changeling and that they were only trying to get back Micheál. The two women are acquitted. When they return to the valley, Nance finds that her cabin has been burned to the ground by angry locals, and Nóra discovers that her lease on her house has been taken away from her and she must move in with her nephew's family. While Nóra is expecting Micheál to be waiting for her, he never shows up and she is left wondering whether the boy was truly her grandson, or whether Micheál and her daughter are still away under the fairy ráth dancing and feasting with the fairies.

They determine Angeline is suffering from Spelltropy, a fairy disease that is spread through the use of magic, and can only be cured by the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur of Madagascar.

a historical fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood, first published in the United Kingdom in October 2016 by Jo Fletcher Books. It is based on the 1895 incident in Tipperary, Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband who believed she was a fairy changeling.

'Hiero,''' a stranger, supposedly from an alternative reality populated by fairies;

a 2012 novel by the British author Graham Joyce. A work of speculative fiction, it won the British Fantasy Society's Fantasy Novel of the Year award (the Robert Holdstock Award) in 2013, and was nominated for the 2013 August Derleth Award for best Horror Novel, and the 2013 World Fantasy Award for best Novel.

To prevent the destruction of Atlantis, Opal's prison, the Fairies place Opal in the containment chamber of a nuclear reactor. The blast destroys most Fairy technology

the eighth novel in Eoin Colfer's ''Artemis Fowl'' series


Question: 2001 children's, but not fiction, books

Food Rules!
Beatrice's Goat
Sound of Colors (book)
Goin' Someplace Special
It's Okay to Be Different
Mr. Lincoln's Way
The Circus Surprise

2001 children's books that are not Children's fiction books

a 2001 book by Bill Haduch, published by Dutton. It explains food and nutrition at the middle-school level, and was named to Booklist's Top Ten Youth Science Books of 2001.

'''''Beatrice's Goat''''' is a 2001 children's story book based on the true account of Beatrice Biira, an impoverished Ugandan girl whose life is transformed by the gift of a goat from the nonprofit world hunger organization Heifer International.

'''''Sound of Colors''''' is a 2001 Taiwanese children's picture book written and illustrated by Jimmy Liao. The Chinese title means "subway", and the book follows a blind girl's imaginations as she rides the city's rapid transit. The book was translated to English by Sarah L. Thomson and published in 2006 as '''''The Sound of Colors'''''.
''Publishers Weekly'' wrote the book "offers a meditation on blindness that will stay with readers long after they have closed the paper-over-board book".

'''''Goin' Someplace Special''''' is a 2001 children's book by Pat McKissack and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a young African American girl, Tricia Ann, who goes to the public library by herself during the time of the Jim Crow laws.

'''''It's Okay to Be Different''''' is a children's book by Todd Parr. It was published in 2001 by Little, Brown & Co. (). The book has become a popular resource for teaching diversity and tolerance.

'The Circus Surprise''''' is a children's book written by Ralph Fletcher and illustrated by Vladimir Vagin. It was first published in 2001.


Question: Non-Japanese books that are about Tokyo.

1945 (Conroy novel)
December 6 (novel)
Tokyo Fiancée
The Earthquake Bird
Tokyo: A View of the City
Tokyo (novel)
One Morning Like a Bird
Tuvalu (novel)
Shopping (novel)
Bicycle Days

Books about Tokyo that are not Japanese books

'''''1945''''' is an alternate history novel by Michigan economics professor Robert Conroy, an author of alternate history novels, such as ''1901'' and ''1862''.

In Okinawa, General Douglas MacArthur begins the first phase of Operation Downfall, the invasion of Kyushu (codenamed Olympic), followed by an invasion of Honshu (codenamed Coronet) with the ultimate goal of capturing Tokyo.

'''''December 6''''' is a 2003 thriller novel by American author Martin Cruz Smith.
In late 1941, Harry Niles owns a bar for American and European expatriates, journalists, and diplomats, in Tokyo's entertainment district, called the "Happy Paris".

'''''Tokyo Fiancée''''' ( "Neither Eve nor Adam") is a novel by the Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb. It appeared on 20 August 2007 published by Éditions Albin Michel. A film adaptation was released in 2014.An autobiographical novel, ''Tokyo Fiancée'' describes a romance that a 21-year-old Belgian woman Amélie had with a young Japanese man in Tokyo, when she was tutoring him in French language.

the debut novel by British author Susanna Jones published in 2001.

The story opens in a Tokyo police station where 34-year-old Lucy Fly is being questioned over the murder of her friend and fellow British expatriate Lily Bridges. Lucy has been in Tokyo for 10 years, is fluent in Japanese, and employed in translating manuals into English.

'''Tokyo: A View of the City''' is a book by Donald Richie published in 1999. It is his description of Tokyo geographically and also describing his experiences over the decades of life he spent there.

'''''Tokyo''''' is a 2004 novel by British crime writer Mo Hayder. It was short-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award, as well as several others. (For the US market, the title was changed to "''The Devil of Nanking''," which had been Hayder's working-title for the book.) ''Tokyo''

a 2006 novel by Australian author Andrew O'Connor.

The novel is set mostly in Tokyo and tells the story of a young Australian teacher of English, and his relationship with two women, Tilly, another Australian English teacher, and Mami, a Japanese hotel heiress

the debut novel by British author Gavin Kramer published in 1998 by Fourth Estate

Tall, awkward Meadowlark, an English lawyer is determined to make a success of his two-year assignment in Tokyo.

'''''Bicycle Days''''' is the debut novel by American author John Burnham Schwartz published in 1989 on his 24th birthday. It began as an undergraduate thesis for Harvard's East Asian Studies department and became a critically acclaimed bestseller. It was inspired by his time living in Japan.
The book follows Alec Stern as he arrives in Tokyo, newly graduated from Yale. He starts a new job, living with a Japanese family; the book portrays his life in Japan as he adapts to the culture, made far easier by his ability to speak Japanese ...


Question: Non-fiction books about elections but not the United States

Non-fiction books about elections that are not Books about the United States

Ashutosh Varshney writes in ''Perspectives on Politics'', "his principal argument is that, despite regular elections, the region has mostly seen a painful face of Indian democracy - primarily because Delhi has made democracy subservient to national security, generating huge deficits in the realm of civil rights and freedoms".

'''''Boris v. Ken: How Boris Johnson Won London''''' is a 2008 book by Giles Edwards and Jonathan Isaby about the 2008 London mayoral election.

In his book, Sardesai tells the story of the 2014 Indian general election.

'''''The Parliaments of England''''' () is a compendium of election results for all House of Commons constituencies of the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1715 to 1847, compiled by Henry Stooks Smith.

political reference guide book published by Times Newspapers giving coverage of general elections in the United Kingdom.

'''''French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec''''' is a non-fiction book

'''''United Kingdom Election Results''''' is a website and e-book written by David Boothroyd, published in 1994. Boothroyd also wrote ''The History of British Political Parties'', published in 2001. The website includes material about elections in the United Kingdom

'''''The History of British Political Parties''''', also referred to as '''''Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties''''', is a reference book about political parties in the United Kingdom.


Question: 1991 speculative, but not 1990s sci-fi, novels

A Bad Spell in Yurt
Beauty (Tepper novel)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Tam Lin (novel)
Dreamside
Reaper Man
Conan the Guardian
Conan the Rogue
Witches Abroad
Imajica
The Sorceress and the Cygnet
The Druid of Shannara

1991 speculative fiction novels that are not 1990s science fiction novels

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'''''A Bad Spell in Yurt''''' is a fantasy novel by C. Dale Brittain first published in 1991.

It takes place in the fictional kingdom of Yurt where Daimbert, a wizard who has just graduated from the wizards' school, takes up his post as the new Royal Wizard.

'''''Beauty''''' is a fantasy novel by Sheri S. Tepper published in 1991 that won the 1992 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

a dark fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It is the third book of ''The Dark Tower'' series. The original limited edition hardcover featuring full-color illustrations by Ned Dameron was published in 1991 by Grant.

The story begins five weeks after the end of ''The Drawing of the Three''. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie have moved east from the shore of the Western Sea, and into the woods of Out-World. After an encounter with a gigantic cyborg bear named Shardik, they discover one of the six mystical Beams that hold the world together. The three gunslingers follow the Path of the Beam inland to Mid-World.

a 1991 contemporary fantasy novel by United States author Pamela Dean, who based it on the traditional Scottish border ballad "Tam Lin

The plot combines the story of a young woman's life at college with a retelling of the traditional Scottish fairy ballad "Tam Lin".

'''''Dreamside''''' is a fantasy novel by Graham Joyce first published in the United Kingdom by Pan Books in 1991.

The novel's primary theme is the power of the subconscious and the futility of attempting to escape the past.

'''''Reaper Man''''' is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. Published in 1991,

'''''Conan the Guardian''''' is a fantasy novel by American writer Roland Green, featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in paperback by Tor Books in January 1991

'''''Conan the Rogue''''' is a fantasy novel written by John Maddox Roberts featuring Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in November 1991

the twelfth ''Discworld'' novel by Terry Pratchett, originally published in 1991.
Following the death of the witch Desiderata Hollow, Magrat Garlick receives Desiderata's magic wand, for Desiderata was not only a witch but also a fairy godmother. By giving the wand to Magrat, she effectively makes Magrat the new fairy godmother to a young woman called Emberella, who lives across the Disc in Genua.

a fantasy novel by British author Clive Barker.

The work, 824 pages at its first printing in 1991, chronicles the events surrounding the reconciliation of Earth, called the Fifth Dominion, with the other four Dominions, parallel worlds unknown to all but a select few of Earth's inhabitants. Considered wide in scope, elaborate in its imagery, and meticulous in its detail, the novel covers themes such as God, sex, love, gender and death.

a fantasy novel by Patricia A. McKillip. It was first published in hardcover by Ace Books in May 199

Sybil Steinberg in ''Publishers Weekly'' notes that "with strong, archetypal characters and a powerful command of symbolism, McKillip ... depicts the human conflict between the desire for power and the need for love. Inspired imagery and a perfectly paced plot mark this fantasy as one of the year's best

a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks. The second book of his tetralogy of The ''Heritage of Shannara'', it was first published in 1991.

Also mentioned briefly in the book, Wren journeys with Garth to the village of Grimpen Ward in the Wilderun to seek out a seer called the Addershag, hoping to learn the fate of the Elves


Question: British Empire, but not Pakistan, history books

Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World

Books about the British Empire that are not History books about Pakistan

The historicity and academic rigor of this work has been questioned by graduates of the University of Wisconsin

'''''Profiles in Folly''''' is a historical book written by Alan Axelrod which is composed of many other true stories within the book itself, beginning with the Trojan War in "The Decision To Let Danger In", and ending with Hurricane Katrina in "The Decision to Stop Short of Leadership".

Within each of these decisions are short, historical stories such as "John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs" under The Decision to Drift, or "The British Empire and Gandhi" under The Decision to Retreat

'''''White Mughals''''' is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple.

It is Dalrymple's fifth major book, and tells the true story of a love affair that took place in early nineteenth century Hyderabad between James Achilles Kirkpatrick and Khair-un-Nissa Begum.
The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married to an Indian woman.

'''''The Other Side of the Frontier''''' is a history book published in 1981 by Australian historian Henry Reynolds. It is a study of Aboriginal Australian resistance to the British settlement, or invasion, of Australia from 1788 onwards.

The book describes how, after Operation Anvil, the British colonial government in Kenya turned increasingly to mass detention as a means to suppress the Mau Mau Uprising. Elkins details the establishment and running of the detention camps, the torture and abuse that took place there, and the attempts by the British to destroy records on the eve of Kenya's independence, after having covered up such incidents as the Hola massacre.
''Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya'', Henry Holt/Jonathan Cape, 2005,

'''''Outposts: Journeys to the surviving relics of the British Empire''''' is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton under the title ''Outposts'' and in the United States by Prentice Hall as ''The Sun Never Sets: Travels to the Remaining Outposts of the British Empire''. It was reprinted in 2003 with a new foreword written to address the changing political climate and attitudes in relation to the British Empire, most importantly concerning the handover of Hong Kong to China and, more generally, the rise of globalism.

'''''A Pattern of Islands''''' (also known as '''''We Chose the Islands''''' in American editions) is a memoir by Sir Arthur Grimble recounting his time in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands as a cadet officer and Resident Commissioner between 1914 and 1933.

a 2013 book by Australian historian Henry Reynolds concerning the Australian frontier wars, a conflict between the British Empire and settlers on one side and Indigenous Australians on the other

'''''Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire''''' is a book by David Cannadine about British perceptions of the British Empire.

'''''A History of the English-Speaking Peoples''''' is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the end of the Second Boer War (1902).

'''''The British Empire: A survey''''' is a series of twelve books, each self-contained, published for educational purposes during the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, London, by Collins in 1924, following the request of the Exhibition's management towards the Imperial Studies Committee of the Royal Colonial Institute to create this work.

In the work the author argues that many of the world's problems were caused by the British Empire and also criticises British culture.

The two published "The Imperialism of Free Trade" in 1953, an essay arguing there was a common thread between British imperialism throughout the 19th century.


Question: Books about military personnel that exclude the Holocaust.

The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel)

Books about military personnel that are not Books about the Holocaust

a 2015 true account of injured military personnel, active and retired, and how service dogs help them acclimate into daily life once they are back on American soil.

a nonfiction account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876, by novelist Evan S. Connell, published in 1984 by North Point Press. The book features extensive portraits of the battle's participants, including General George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, Major Marcus Reno, Captain Frederick Benteen, Crazy Horse, and others.

Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set. One of the three major characters, Peter Marlowe, is based upon Clavell.

'''''Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War''''' (styled '''''13 Soldiers''''' on the front cover) is a 2014 book by United States Senator John McCain and his frequent collaborator and former staff member Mark Salter.

'''''Without Remorse''''' is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published on August 11, 1993. Set during the Vietnam War, it serves as an origin story of John Clark, one of the recurring characters in the ''Ryanverse''.

The '''''Cyropaedia''''', sometimes spelled '''''Cyropedia''''', is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire.

The novel tells the story of an Australian doctor haunted by memories of a love affair with his uncle's wife and of his subsequent experiences as a Far East prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway.

'''''American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History''''' is a work of autobiographical creative nonfiction by United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. The book was published by William Morrow and Company on January 2, 2012 and appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for 37 weeks.

'''''Hart's War''''' is a novel by John Katzenbach, first published in 1999. It is about POWs in World War II. The movie of the same name, starring Bruce Willis, was released in 2002. The film also starred Colin Farrell playing Lieutenant Thomas Hart.

It takes the form of a memoir written by the fictional character Yu Yuan, a man who eventually becomes a soldier in the Chinese People's Volunteer Army and who is sent to Korea to fight on the Communist side in the Korean War.

'''''Andersonville''''' is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Andersonville prison, during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.

Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see for good reason. When Reacher was an investigating military policeman years past, Barr had gone on a killing spree similar to the Indiana shootout, murdering four men during the Gulf War in Kuwait City. Convoluted military politics and a technicality let Barr walk free. Reacher swore he would track the sniper down if he ever tried it again.


Question: Books about monarchs that don't include Napoleon.

The Light Bearer
The Last Raja of West Pakistan
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (book)
Quo Vadis (novel)
The King Incorporated
History of the Caliphs
The Twelve Caesars
Chronicle of the Tocco
The Crime of the Congo
The Roman
The Queen's Knight (book)
King Leopold's Ghost
The King's Stilts
The Scramble for Africa (book)
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter

Books about monarchs that are not Books about Napoleon

'''''The Light Bearer''''' is a 1994 historical novel by Donna Gillespie set in first century Rome, during the reigns of the Emperors Nero and Domitian.

'''''The Last Raja of West Pakistan''''' is a biography written about the last emperor of East Pakistan (modern day Bangladesh).

'''''The Six Wives of Henry VIII''''' is a 1991 history book, an account of Henry VIII's marriages by British historian Alison Weir.

The book was Weir's first historical work since her first book, ''Britain's Royal Families''. It is divided into three sections - "Catherine of Aragon," "The Great Matter" and "How many wives will he have?"

The novel ''Quo Vadis'' tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Lygia (Ligia in Polish) and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero, AD 64.

'''''The King Incorporated''''' was the first history book published by award-winning Scottish journalist and historian Neal Ascherson exploring the course of the Congo Free State from its foundation to annexation, as well as the role of King Leopold II.

'''''History of the Caliphs''''' () is a famous book written by Al-Suyuti (c. 1445-1505), the classic Sunni scholar. It was published in English in 1881 in Calcutta and republished in English at Oriental Press in 1970.

'''''De vita Caesarum''''' (Latin; "About the Life of the Caesars"), commonly known as '''''The Twelve Caesars''''', is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

Carlo I Tocco's territorial expansion on the Greek mainland
The '''''Chronicle of the Tocco''''' () is a chronicle in fifteen-syllable blank verse written in medieval Greek. It covers the period of 1375-1425 and focuses on the ascent of the Tocco family, and especially Carlo I Tocco, Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, to the rule over the Despotate of Epirus, as well as Carlo's conquest of territories in the Morea.

'''''The Crime of the Congo''''' is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II.

A cruel fate makes him the commander of the menagerie that supplied the wild animals that tore his firstborn son to pieces, and the book was ostensibly written as a guide for his second son, great-grandson of the Emperor Claudius.

'''''The Queen's Knight: The Extraordinary Life of Queen Victoria's Most Trusted Confidant''''' is a book by Martyn Downer published in 2007.

'''''King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa''''' (1998) is a best-selling popular history book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908, as well as the large-scale atrocities committed during that period.

'''''The King's Stilts''''' is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss, and first published in 1939 by Random House. Unlike many Dr. Seuss books, it is narrated in prose rather than verse.
''The King's Stilts'' tells the story of King Birtram of Binn, who dedicates himself to safeguarding his kingdom, a low-lying land surrounded by high water that is held back by a ring of dike trees. Unfortunately, the dike trees are the favorite food of a species of pest-birds called ''nizzards''; the kingdom always faces the risk that the nizzards might compromise the dike-tree barrier and cause catastrophic flooding. The King's administration maintains a legion of Patrol Cats to keep the nizzards at bay; King Birtram sees to their care personally. When not attending to his royal duties, the King enjoys himself by frolicking in the streets on his red stilts, which most of his subjects note with amused acceptance.

The book juxtaposes the motives of missionary David Livingstone, King Leopold II, and other leading figures in the southern African land-grab of the late 19th and early 20th century. Pakenham details the famous battles and short wars, such as the battles of Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana of the Anglo-Zulu war. The author explores how the different powerful figures dealt with the conflict and its ultimate consequences on the region.

'''''Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter''''' is a 2009 novel by A. E. Moorat. I


Question: Nazism novels that exclude novels set in Europe.

The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Novels about Nazism that are not Novels set in Europe

Mr. Vertigo tells the story of Walter Claireborne Rawley, in short Walt. He is a neglected orphan dwelling on the streets of St. Louis.

'''''The Simulacra''''' is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The novel portrays a future totalitarian society apparently dominated by a matriarch, Nicole Thibodeaux. It revolves around the themes of reality and illusionary beliefs, as do many of Dick's works. Additionally, it touches on Nazi ideology.
Dick originally published the story as a novelette in the magazine ''Fantastic'', titled "The Novelty Act". He expanded the plot and titled the novel ''First Lady of Earth''. Before publication, the title was changed to ''The Simulacra''. The novel was originally published in 1964 as a paperback by Ace Books. It was one of four novels released by Dick that year.
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, after World War Three, ''The Simulacra'' is the story of several protagonists within the United States of Europe and America (USEA), formed by the merger of (West) Germany and the United States, where the whole government is a fraud and the President (''der Alte'', "the Old Man") is a simulacrum (android). Other global superpowers are the French Empire, People's Republic of China and Free (Black) Africa. The war may have involved tactical nuclear weapons. Poland has become the global focus of communist authority, with its administrative centre in Warsaw.

As they set up a radio to communicate with the Earth they pick up a local transmission, the sender of which promises to meet them. Instead, their ship is bombed. However, they are able to hole up undetected in their hut and succeed in ambushing the other ship when it lands, capturing the pilot. They discover that there is a Nazi base on the Moon. They bomb it from their captured ship and land. One survivor is found, revived, and questioned.

A former Nazi SS dentist at Auschwitz, Dr. Christian Szell, now residing in Paraguay, has been living on the proceeds of diamonds he extorted from prisoners there.

'''''Apt Pupil''''' (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 novella collection ''Different Seasons'', subtitled "Summer of Corruption".
''Apt Pupil'' consists of 30 chapters, many of which are headed by a month. Set in a fictional suburb of Southern California called "Santo Donato," the story unfolds over a period of about four years, with most of the action taking place during the first year and the last months. It is the only novella in ''Different Seasons'' to be narrated in the third person.
In 1974, Los Angeles teenager Todd Bowden arrives at the doorstep of elderly German immigrant Arthur Denker, accusing him of being a wanted Nazi war criminal named Kurt Dussander.

Chronicling the American Civil War and Reconstruction era from a pro-Confederate perspective, it presents the Ku Klux Klan heroically.

the wilderness of the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The entourage faces giant anacondas, giant spiders (only mentioned in a conversation), cannibalistic natives, and so on, discovering a settlement of Nazi war criminals and their descendants, living as if the Third Reich had never ended.

'''''Wild About Harry''''' is the first novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1985 and Collins in 1986. The book was published in America by Atheneum Books in 1985. Pickering researched the novel in Paraguay when he was sent to look for the Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele


Question: Books that are only about pop music

Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

Books about pop music that are not Books about rock music

'''''Be My Baby: The Autobiography of Ronnie Spector''''') is a memoir by Ronnie Spector co-written with Vince Waldron, which recounts her roller-coaster career as lead singer of the Ronettes and her emotionally abusive marriage to Phil Spector.

a 2019 nonfiction book written by Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan with illustrations provided by Iris Gottlieb. The book covers pop music from a musicological perspective.

irst edition(publ. Andrews McMeel Publishing)
'''''Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs''''' is a 1997 humor book written by ''Miami Herald'' columnist Dave Barry, chronicling the results of his bad song survey. The survey started when he wrote a column about a song he thought was particularly bad (Neil Diamond's "I Am...I Said")

In this book the authors discuss the quest for authenticity in popular music and the influence that that quest has had in the type of music that is played and listened, in particular a preference for raw, simple, underproduced music as opposed to sophisticated, complex, carefully produced music.

'''''The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present''''' is a book released in November 2021 by the English musician Paul McCartney and the Irish poet Paul Muldoon. It is published by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom, W.W. Norton/Liveright in the United States of America and C.H. Beck in Germany.
The book consists of McCartney's discussions with Muldoon of the lyrics of 154 of his songs written during his time as a member of the rock bands the Beatles and Wings and as a solo artist. The songs are arranged alphabetically over two volumes. The book also includes many previously unseen photographs, paintings and handwritten texts. Muldoon spoke with McCartney over five years in two- to three-hour sessions during the creation of the book and felt that McCartney's "insights into his own artistic process confirm a notion at which we had but guessed—that Paul McCartney is a major literary figure who draws upon, and extends, the long tradition of poetry in English". Muldoon felt that their conversations mimicked McCartney's writing sessions with John Lennon as they were both "determined never to leave the room without something interesting".

'''''File Under Popular: Theoretical and Critical Writings on Music''''' is a collection of seven essays on the political theory of popular music written by English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist, Chris Cutler. The essays were written between 1978 and 1983, four of them in response to requests and the rest unprompted. Two of the essays were first published in two German publications, and two were originally presented by Cutler at two international symposia on popular music. The book was first published in 1985 in London by November Books, the publishing wing of Cutler's independent record label, Recommended Records. It was also published in Polish, German and Japanese.

'''''The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation''''' is a book covering the history of the made-for-TV rock band, The Monkees.

''Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop''' is a 1986 book about 1980s pop by music journalist Dave Rimmer.

'''''The Label: The Story of Columbia Records''''' is a 2007 book by Gary Marmorstein, about the rise of Columbia Records. It covers how it made its way from the beginning: from signing its own artists, to making them celebrities.

'''''Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal''''' is a non-fiction book written by former ''Metal Maniacs'' magazine editor Jeff Wagner.

In chapter 1 the author discuss 'What Is "Indie"?'. A problem with defining indie is that any precise definition will exclude music and performers which indie fans and insiders feel should be included or include ones that should be excluded.

Artists such as Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Eminem, Kanye West, and Jay Z have their material distributed online due to Glover's actions. Witt states that Glover and RNS became the world’s premier music pirates, possibly costing the record industry millions of dollars.


Question: 2012 science fiction novels that are not american novels.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

2012 science fiction novels that are not 2012 American novels

'''''The Wheel of Ice''''' is a 2012 original novel written by Stephen Baxter and based on the long-running British science fiction television series

'''''Jam''''' is a science-fiction post-apocalyptic novel by British video-game critic Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. It is his second published novel after ''Mogworld'' in 2010.

'''''Railsea''''' is a young adult novel written and illustrated by English writer China Miéville, and published in May 2012.

'''''Great North Road''''' is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton. It was first published in 2012 by Macmillan.

a science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, set in his techno-utopian Culture universe

'''''Ack-Ack Macaque''''' is a science fiction novel by English writer Gareth L. Powell.
''Ack-Ack Macaque'' is based on Powell's earlier short story of the same name, which won the ''Interzone'' reader's poll in 2007. The original short story is included as an appendix to the novel. The novel has aspects of alternate history as in this version of reality the United Kingdom and France merged in the 1950s to form the nation of Brittany. The macaque of the title is the star of a highly regarded, exclusive massively multiplayer online role-playing game (with the roguelike feature of character death being final) which is itself set in an alternate reality World War II. The main character in the novel is former journalist Victoria Valois, who attempts to track down the man who murdered her husband and stole her neural implant while the heir to the throne of Brittany becomes a fugitive after breaking into a Parisian research laboratory. As the novel progresses, these strands are drawn together and the true purpose of the macaque is revealed.

'''''That Extraordinary Day''''' ( / ) is a science fiction novel written by Predrag Vukadinović. The novel connects the theme of time travel with the Second Coming of Christ, using cosmological and religious concepts.

It was published as the 65th book in the Western Balkans science fiction and fantasy imprint "Znak Sagite" in 2012. It is Vukadinovic's debut novel.

As the human race awaits the year 2101, Russian criminals break into a science facility and steal a time machine. They end up in the 1st century AD, in the Holy Land, becoming not only a part of the unknown years of Jesus, but a part of the Second Coming and the End Time.

'''''The Rapture of the Nerds''''' is a 2012 novel by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross.

Published in German in 2012, it had been translated into fifteen languages and sold a million copies worldwide

a 2012 science fiction/mystery novella by Justin Richards, writing as Melody Malone, which is in turn a pseudonym for River Song, a fictional character from the UK TV series ''Doctor Who''.

The novella is an expansion of a book featured within the narrative of the 2012 ''Doctor Who'' episode ''The Angels Take Manhattan'' in which it refers to events taking place just prior to the episode, and events within.

'''''A Confusion of Princes''''' is a young adult novel written as a standalone space opera by author Garth Nix. The book was published on May 15, 2012, by HarperCollins.

'''''Star Wars: The Old Republic: Annihilation''''' is part of the ''Star Wars'' expanded universe. Written by Drew Karpyshyn and released on November 13, 2012.

'''''The Long Earth''''' is the first novel in a collaborative science fiction series by British authors Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.

The book reached 13th on the ''New York Times'' hardback best-sellers list on 8 July 2012.

The novel won the Goodreads Choice Awards 2012 for Science Fiction.

'''''Blue Remembered Earth''''' is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, first published by Gollancz on 19 January 2012.

'''''Look Who's Back''''' (, ; ) is a bestselling German satirical novel about Adolf Hitler by Timur Vermes, published in 2012 by . The novel was adapted into a German movie of the same name, which was released in 2015.
In 2011, Adolf Hitler wakes up in a vacant lot in Berlin which appears to be the location of the garden outside the bunker where he was burned, with no knowledge of anything that happened following his death in 1945. Homeless and destitute, he interprets everything he sees and experiences in 2011 from a Nazi perspective—for instance, he assumes that Turks in Germany are an indicator of Karl Dönitz having persuaded Turkey to join the Axis, and thinks that Wikipedia is named for ''Wikinger'' ("Vikings"). Although everyone recognizes him, nobody believes that he is Hitler; instead, they think he is either a comedian or a method actor. He appears on a variety television show called ''Whoa, dude!'', going off-script to broadcast his views. Videos of his angry rants become hugely successful on YouTube, and he achieves modern celebrity status as a performer. The newspaper ''Bild'' tries to take him down, but is sued into praising him. He is beaten up by Neo-Nazis who think he is mocking the memory of Hitler, unaware that he is the genuine article. In the end, he uses his popularity to re-enter politics.

'''''Dark Eden''''' is a social science fiction novel by British author Chris Beckett, first published in the United Kingdom in 2012. The novel explores the disintegration of a small group of a highly inbred people, descendants of two individuals whose spaceship crashed on a rogue planet they call Eden. It is the first in the Eden trilogy, followed by ''Mother of Eden'' and ''Daughter of Eden''.

'''''The Whisper''''' is a post-apocalyptic novel for children by British author Emma Clayton. It was published in 2012 by Chicken House Publishing.

'''''In the Mouth of the Whale''''' is a 2012 science fiction novel by Paul J. McAuley

'''''Intrusion''''' is a 2012 science fiction novel by British


Question: Non-political history books about France

The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

History books about France that are not Political books

. Unlike works of history that focus on the political histories of government officials and the clergy, Greer focuses on the day-to-day reality of living in French colonial Canada. One 2007 review of the book describes the treatment as focusing on "... colonial society 'as it was' by examining the 'frameworks of ordinary life' – death, birth, marriage, food, race, class.

'''''The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History''''' is an influential collection of essays on the cultural history of early modern France by the American historian Robert Darnton, first published in 1984

The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War''''' is a book by Graham Robb.

The book, a result of cycling 14,000 miles around France coupled with four years of research, is an in-depth examination of French national identity as seen through the diverse cultures and languages contained within the country.

'''''France and England in North America''''' () is a multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America, written by Francis Parkman and published between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain. It was well regarded at the time of publication, and continues to enjoy a reputation as a literary masterpiece.

'''''The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940''''' by William L. Shirer (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969) deals with the collapse of the French Third Republic as a result of Hitler's invasion during World War II.

'''''Chassepot to FAMAS: French Military Rifles, 1866–2016''''' is a 2019 book by Ian McCollum about the history of French military rifles.

The idea for the book came from the couple’s two-year stay in Paris from 1999 to 2001. In 1999, Jean-Benoît Nadeau received a grant from the Institute of Current World Affairs to study the French. The topic of study was: Why the French resist globalization. Two weeks after arriving in France the authors realized that the French were not resisting globalization at all.

the sixth volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, ''France and England in North America'', originally published in 1884. It tells the story of the French and Indian War.

'''''The Scot Abroad''''' is a book by John Hill Burton. Published in 1864, the book consists of two volumes. The first volume deals with relations between Scotland and France; the second deals with more general topics.

The "Gaul" that Caesar refers to is ambiguous, as the term had various connotations in Roman writing and discourse during Caesar's time. Generally, Gaul included all of the regions primarily inhabited by Celts, aside from the province of Gallia Narbonensis (modern-day Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon), which had already been conquered in Caesar's time, therefore encompassing the rest of modern France, Belgium, Western Germany, and parts of Switzerland. As the Roman Republic made inroads deeper into Celtic territory and conquered more land, the definition of "Gaul" shifted. Concurrently, "Gaul" was also used in common parlance as a synonym for "uncouth" or "unsophisticated" as Romans saw Celtic peoples as uncivilized compared with themselves.

he second volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, ''France and England in North America'', originally published in 1867. It tells the story of the French Jesuit missionaries in Canada, then New France, starting from their arrival in 1632.

a book by the French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie first published in 1975

Ladurie used the inquisitorial records of Jacques Fournier to reconstruct the lives of the inhabitants of Montaillou in the Ariège (at the time, the county of Foix). The work was part of the historical anthropology of the Annales school.

The book is a study of Left Bank cafe society in post-war Paris, particularly the influence of American expatriates, as indicated by its subtitle: ''Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank''.

Making extensive use of letters and interviews with participants and their surviving relatives, the author presents the personal side of the difficulties of the original French effort, and the massive financial losses caused by the failure of that effort

a book by the American historian David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster. The 698-page book contains 80 photographs, two maps and extensive source references. It won the U.S. National Book Award in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award.

The book details people, places, and events involved in building the Panama Canal. The title refers to the connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that the opening of the canal created.

the book is about 19th-century Americans like James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel Morse, who migrated to Paris and went on to achieve importance in culture or innovation.


Question: Non-English books by Barrie & Jenkins.

Nothing Serious (short story collection)

Barrie & Jenkins books that are not English books

'''''Plum Pie''''' is a collection of nine short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 22 September 1966 by Barrie & Jenkins

The 1940 American edition of ''Eggs, Beans and Crumpets'' featured "Bramley Is So Bracing". Along with the other golf stories in this volume, "Up from the Depths" was included ''The Golf Omnibus'' (1973), a collection of Wodehouse's golf stories. "Success Story" was included in ''The World of Ukridge'', published in 1975 by Barrie & Jenkins. "Bramley Is So Bracing" and "Rodney Has a Relapse" were included in the 1978 collection ''Vintage Wodehouse''.


Question: Non-fantasy Lin Carter novels

Hurok of the Stone Age
Darya of the Bronze Age
Journey to the Underground World
Eric of Zanthodon
The Valley Where Time Stood Still
The Earth-Shaker
Mad Empress of Callisto
Invisible Death
The Nemesis of Evil
Horror Wears Blue

Novels by Lin Carter that are not Fantasy novels

'''''Darya of the Bronze Age''''' is a science fiction novel by American writer Lin Carter, the fourth in his series about the fictional "Hollow Earth" land of Zanthodon. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in September 1981, with an ebook edition following from Gateway/Orion in October 2018. It was also gathered together with the other volumes in the series into the omnibus ebook collection ''The Zanthodon Megapack'' (Wildside Press, 2014).
Zanthodon is envisioned as an immense circular cavern five hundred miles wide, one hundred miles beneath the Sahara Desert, a refugium preserving various prehistoric faunas and antique human cultures that have found their way into it throughout the ages.

'''''Journey to the Underground World''''' is a science fiction novel by American writer Lin Carter, the first in his series about the fictional "Hollow Earth" land of Zanthodon.

'''''Eric of Zanthodon''''' is a science fiction novel by American writer Lin Carter, the fifth and last in his series about the fictional "Hollow Earth" land of Zanthodon.

'''''The Valley Where Time Stood Still''''' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the second in his Edgar Rice Burroughs- and Leigh Brackett-inspired series The Mysteries of Mars. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in December 1974 and in paperback by Popular Library in February 1976. It was reissued by Wildside Press in April 2008.
Mars, a world with a culture ages older than that of Earth, is a dying world, and has been in decline for eons. By the twenty-second century it has become a colony of the younger civilization of Earth, its natives oppressed by the rapacious Colonial Authority.

'''''The Earth-Shaker''''' is a science fiction novel by Lin Carter, the fourth in his "Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown" series.

'''''Mad Empress of Callisto''''' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the fourth in his Callisto series. It was first published in paperback by Dell Books in February 1975. It includes an appendix ("The Beasts of Thanator") collating background information from this and previous volumes.
Jonathan Dark (Jandar) is now well settled into his new life as husband of Princess Darloona of Shondakar on the Jovian moon of Callisto (or Thanator). While out hunting with some companions they are kidnapped in a balloon by a force from the rival city of Tharkol. Their capture is part of a plot by Zamorra, empress of Tharkol, who under the mental influence of her advisor, the Mind Wizard Ang Chan is making an attempt to conquer all of Thanator.

a science fiction novel by Lin Carter, the second his "Zarkon, Lord of the Unknown" series.

'''''Horror Wears Blue''''' is a science fiction novel by Lin Carter,


Question: 1934 British novels not set in Europe

1934 British novels that are not Novels set in Europe

a semi-autobiographical novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins in March 1934 and in the US by Doubleday later in the same year.

In the midst of divorce, bereft of the only people in her life she cares for, Celia considers taking her life. But, while on an exotic island,

a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the first novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1934.

The plot concerns a murder committed during a detective game of murder at a weekend party in a country house. Although there is a side-plot focused on Russians, ancient weapons, and secret societies, the murder itself concerns a small group of guests at Sir Hubert Handesley's estate

'''''Letters of an Indian Judge to an English Gentlewoman''''' is a book of correspondence, in the form of letters, from Arvind Nehra, an Indian judge in colonial India. First published in 1934, this compilation of letters that were "unhindered by thoughts of public utterance".

'''''A Handful of Dust''''' is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. First published in 1934, it is often grouped with the author's early, satirical comic novels for which he became famous in the pre-World War II years.

The protagonist is Tony Last, a contented but shallow English country squire, who, having been betrayed by his wife and seen his illusions shattered one by one, joins an expedition to the Brazilian jungle, only to find himself trapped in a remote outpost as the prisoner of a maniac.

The first part was published posthumously by Secker as a long short story in the 1934 volume ''A Modern Lover''.

'''''Burmese Days''''' is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature." The novel describes "both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry" in a society where, "after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people".

'''''Voyage in the Dark''''' was written in 1934 by Jean Rhys. It tells of the semi-tragic descent of its young protagonist Anna Morgan, who is moved from her Caribbean home to England by an uncaring stepmother, after the death of her father.

a novel by John Masefield published in 1934, and set in the fictional Central or South American state of Santa Barbara, also the setting for ''ODTAA'', ''Sard Harker'', and part of ''The Midnight Folk''.

'''''Holy Deadlock''''' is a 1934 satirical novel by the English author A. P. Herbert, which aimed to highlight the perceived inadequacies and absurdities of contemporary divorce law. The book took a particularly lenient view of the need for divorces, which it characterised as "a relief from misfortune, not a crime", and demonstrated how the current system created an environment which encouraged the participants to commit perjury and adultery. The book was a major element in the popular debate about the liberalisation of divorce law in the mid-1930s, and helped pave the way for the 1937 statutory reforms.


Question: non historical novels set in the Soviet Union

All That Is Solid Melts into Air (novel)

Novels set in the Soviet Union that are not Historical novels

The Duke de Richleau receives a letter that is a code from his missing friend the young American Rex Van Ryn, who hunted for treasure lost during the Soviet takeover of Russia, but who is now in prison somewhere in that vast country. He shares the letter with another young friend, Simon Aron, who agrees to accompany him to search for their friend.

a novel written by Dennis Wheatley and published by Hutchinson in 1933.

Using the Chernobyl disaster as a backdrop, the novel chronicles the collapse and ultimate end of the Soviet Union.

'''''The Russia House''''' is a spy novel by John le Carré published in 1989. The title refers to the nickname given to the portion of the British Secret Intelligence Service that was devoted to spying on the Soviet Union.

It is discreetly explained to the Chief of British Intelligence that, in the new atmosphere of détente, and the warming of relations with the Soviet Union

'''''In the Claws of the GPU''''' () is the first-ever book-length eyewitness account of the Soviet Gulag (including the first Gulag Solovki prison camp). It was written by Francišak Aljachnovič, a Belarusian playwright, nationalist, and citizen of the Second Polish Republic (in Polish documents, his name is spelled Franciszek Olechnowicz).

The Soviets are blamed and the Nantucket Treaty is effectively finished.

'''''Came the Dawn''''' is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer and journalist Paul Winterton under the pseudonym of Roger Bax. Set in the Soviet Union it drew on Winterton's experience as Moscow correspondent for the ''News Chronicle'' and BBC.

Cover of the first edition of ''Not by Bread Alone''
'''''Not by Bread Alone''''' () is a 1956 novel by the Soviet author Vladimir Dudintsev. The novel, published in installments in the journal ''Novy Mir'', was a sensation in the USSR. The tale of an engineer who is opposed by bureaucrats in seeking to implement his invention came to be a literary symbol of the Khrushchev Thaw.

'''''Heart of a Dog''''' () is a novella by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. A biting satire of Bolshevism, it was written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when communism appeared to be relaxing in the Soviet Union.


Question: nonfiction genocide books that don't involve the military

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933)

Who Must Die in Rwanda's Genocide?: The State of Exception Realized

Non-fiction books about genocide that are not Military books

'''Armenian Golgotha''' () is a memoir written by Grigoris Balakian about his eyewitness account of the Armenian genocide.

In accordance with May 27, 1915 Tehcir Law is qualified as exposing the genocide by one Armenian source which goes on to recall the clauses of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.

a non-fiction book written by David Kherdian, originally published in 1979. It is based on the life of the author's mother, Veron Dumehjian (1907-1981), who survived the Armenian genocide. During the deportations, the rest of her immediate family died.

'''''We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda''''' is a 1998 non-fiction book by ''The New Yorker'' writer Philip Gourevitch about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed.

'''''The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924''''' is a 2019 history book written by Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi. They argue that the Armenian genocide and other contemporaneous persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire constitute an extermination campaign, or genocide, carried out by the Ottoman Empire against its Christian subjects.

The book is a primary source regarding the Armenian genocide, and the Greek genocide during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. When published, the book came under criticism by two prominent American historians regarding its coverage of Germany in the weeks before the onset of the war.

'''''Holodomor – The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932-1933)''''' is a book coordinated by José Eduardo Franco and Beata Cieszynska, published by Grácio Editor in June 2013.

This book "is a pioneer of its kind in Portuguese language and context, bringing to the audience touching pages of history that many would want to erase, and still today, after eighty years, lead to controversial readings. The case of the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, known as Holodomor (meaning "death by hunger") belongs to the most extensive and heinous massacres known by the twentieth century, and it’s still unknown by many. It is an artificially induced famine during the years 1932 and 1933 by the Stalinist regime to the peoples of the Soviet Union as a result of the failure of forced collectivization. The Great Famine affected mainly the countries with large and fertile agricultural land, among which the Ukrainian case stands out, whose country, geographically, is the second largest in Europe and where it is estimated that the number of famine victims reached a dozen million".

a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her experiences in the Armenian genocide.

She was the daughter of a wealthy Armenian financier in the city. The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was 14 years old. She personally witnessed the murder of her father, mother, brothers and sisters. She was taken to the harem of a number of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian faith despite being tortured repeatedly at the hands of her captors.

The '''Blue Book''', officially titled '''''The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire''''', was compiled by Viscount Bryce and Arnold J. Toynbee, and published as a British parliamentary blue book in 1916. The book is a compilation of verified statements from eyewitnesses of the Armenian genocide and Assyrian genocide in the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1916.
Commissioned by the British Government and issued as an official Parliamentary "Blue Book" report in October 1916, the volume is divided regionally into twenty sections, each of which contains multiple eyewitness and secondhand reports, dispatches, news articles, and letters. In total there were 149 documents and 15 appendixes.
The publication presents Arnold J. Toynbee's analysis of the population in the Ottoman Empire. The presented table and map show the re-calculated values of the stated provinces using values where Armenians were the majority of the population, according to Toynbee's estimates.

'''''Against a Tide of Evil''''' is a 2013 memoir by Mukesh Kapila about his time leading the United Nations in Sudan during the Darfur genocide.
''Against a Tide of Evil'' was published in 2013 by Mainstream Publishing.
''Against a Tide of Evil'' documents the experiences of the author as he is deployed to Sudan as the most senior representative of the United Nations. Kapila is based in Khartoum as violence flares in Darfur during the genocide between 2003 and 2004. Kapila quickly becomes a whistleblower, reporting his analysis of the Sudanese government's role in the ethically-targeted violence, including sexual violence. Kapila is shocked when the United Nations' enquiry concludes that actions of the Sudanese government do not amount to genocide.

It details the Armenian genocide, the events leading up to it, and the events following it. In particular, Balakian focuses on the American response to the persecution and genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman empire from 1894 to 1923.
The book begins with the state of the Ottoman Empire in the 1880s. Abdul Hamid II came to power in 1876, and there are many issues in the country that he is expected to solve. Specifically, the empire was losing money and land.

The book focuses on population politics in the transition between the late Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey, especially in the Diyarbekir region.

The book focuses on the history of the Ottoman administrative region of Diyarbekir Vilayet and contains five chapters: "Nationalism and Population Politics in the late Ottoman Empire", "Genocide of Christians, 1915–16"

a 2015 non-fiction book by American politician Kyrsten Sinema. Published by Lexington Books, the book is a qualitative study on the history of human rights violations in Rwanda, culminating with the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

Among the arguments made in the book is that the Armenian genocide was an act of foundational violence that enabled the creation of the Republic of Turkey and its continuing denial is an ideological foundation of the Turkish nation-state.

In ''Blood and Soil'' Kiernan examines outbreaks of mass violence, including worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies, particularly the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides


Question: Books about cultural geography but not about creativity

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Books about cultural geography that are not Books about creativity

The book compared the long-term economic histories of different regions, specifically Europe, United States, Japan, China, the Arab world, and Latin America. In addition to analyzing economic and cliometric figures, he credited intangible assets, such as culture and enterprise, to explain economic success or failure.

The empirical research builds on cross-cultural and longitudinal evidence form the World Values Surveys and European Values Study.

The book includes archival holdings of the Polish State Archives, the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, local town hall documents throughout Poland, Holocaust documents found in the archives of the death camps located in Auschwitz near Krakow and Majdanek near Lublin. The book also features document examples, maps, antique postcards depicting towns and daily life, and modern-day photographs. There are individual town listings for localities with more than 10,000 Jews in 1939.

The book includes archival holdings of the Ukraine State Archives and its branch archives throughout the country and the Moldova National Archives in Chișinău as well as local town hall documents throughout Ukraine and Moldova. The book also features document examples, maps, antique postcards depicting towns and daily life, and modern-day photographs.

African American journalist Rich Benjamin documents his journeys to find out why more and more white Americans move to small towns and areas that are, for the most part, white, and to explain why Whitopias are growing and what it means for the United States.

'''''The China–Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics''''' is a book by the British author Andrew Small exploring the cultural and political ties as well as depicting the relationship between Pakistan and China, released in early 2015.

He embarked on a series of journeys by horseback through the countryside of Southeast England and the English Midlands. He wrote down what he saw from the points of view both of a farmer and a social reformer. The result documents the early 19th-century countryside and its people as well as giving free vent to Cobbett's opinions.

'''''The Nine Nations of North America''''' is a 1981 book by Joel Garreau, in which the author suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society. The work has been called "a classic text on the current regionalization of North America".
Approximate map of the Nine Nations of North America with each of their capitals

'''''The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa''''' is a popular science book about the evolution of modern humans written by British geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer.

a book by William Julius Wilson, Professor of Social Policy at Harvard. Wilson's argument is that the disappearance of work and the consequences of that disappearance for both social and cultural life are the central problems in the inner-city ghetto. He sought to discuss social disorganization without stigmatizing the poor. Wilson writes that chronic joblessness has deprived those in the inner city of skills necessary to obtain and keep jobs.

Geographia Neoteriki''''' ( ''Modern Geography'') is a geography book

'''''The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration: 1966-1999''''' is a 1999 non-fiction book by Ray Suarez. It describes the process of urban flight, as it has occurred in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s.

'' (full title: ''Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in The Holocaust''), compiled by noted genealogist Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon, is a gazetteer of 37,000 town names in Central and Eastern Europe focusing on those with Jewish populations in the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries and most of whose Jewish communities were almost or completely destroyed during The Holocaust.

The '''Clash of Civilizations''' is a thesis that people's cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post–Cold War world. The American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington argued that future wars would be fought not between countries, but between cultures. It was proposed in a 1992 lecture at the American Enterprise Institute, which was then developed in a 1993 ''Foreign Affairs'' article titled "The Clash of Civilizations?", in response to his former student Francis Fukuyama's 1992 book, ''The End of History and the Last Man''. Huntington later expanded his thesis in a 1996 book ''The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order''.

a 2009 academic reference work covering human geography.


Question: Demon, but no Campus, novels

The Devil in Love (novel)
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Black Tattoo
List of the Lost
Personal Demons (Desrochers novel)
Eric (novel)
The Castle in the Forest
Practical Demonkeeping
Good Omens
Belfagor arcidiavolo
It (novel)
The Black Spider

''''The Devil in Love''''' (, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte which tells of a demon, or devil, who falls in love with a young Spanish nobleman named Don Alvaro, an amateur human dabbler, and attempts, in the guise of a young woman, to win his affections.

The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life

It deals with a boy, Charlie, becoming possessed by a demon that manifests itself in the form of a black tattoo on his body.

'''''Personal Demons''''' is the first book in the Personal Demons trilogy by American author, Lisa Desrochers. This young adult, urban fantasy series centers around Frannie Cavanaugh, a good Catholic girl with a unique skill she's unaware she possesses, who finds herself in a battle for not just her soul, but also her heart, between Lucifer Cain, a demon sent by the king of Hell to tag Frannie's soul, and Gabriel, the angel sent to protect her.

'''''Eric''''', stylized as ''''' Eric''''', is the ninth ''Discworld'' novel by Terry Pratchett. It was originally published in 1990 as a "''Discworld'' story", in a larger format than the other novels and illustrated by Josh Kirby. It was later reissued as a normal paperback without any illustrations, and in some cases, with the title given on the cover and title pages simply as ''Eric''. (The page headers, however, continued to alternate between '''' and ''Eric''.)
The story is a parody of the tale of Faust, and follows the events of ''Sourcery'' in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions. The Discworld version of Hell or Pandemonium exists simply because some people believe that it exists for them. In other Discworld stories, such as ''Small Gods'', the afterlife is different or non-existent, according to the various beliefs.

Rincewind wakes in a strange place, having been summoned to a house in Pseudopolis by the 13-year-old demonologist, Eric Thursley, who wants the mastery of all kingdoms, to meet the most beautiful woman who ever existed, and to live forever. He is disappointed when Rincewind tells him he is unable to deliver any of these things, and embarrassed when Rincewind sees through his disguise. Rincewind is disheartened to learn that the spells to confine the demon summoned are working on him; Eric's parrot tells him that because he was summoned as a demon, he is subject to the same terms.

It is the story of Adolf Hitler's childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path.

Travis was born in 1900, yet he has not aged since 1919, because he accidentally called up a demon from hell named ''Catch'' as his servant, presumably forever. Ever since then, Travis has been trying to get rid of Catch, but he is unable to do so because he has lost the repository of the necessary incantations.

a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 1992.

'''''Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch''''' is a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times. There are attempts by the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley to sabotage the coming of the end times, having grown accustomed to their comfortable surroundings in England. One subplot features a mixup at the small country hospital on the day of birth and the growth of the Antichrist, Adam, who grows up with the wrong family, in the wrong country village. Another subplot concerns the summoning of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, each a big personality in their own right. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 68 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.

'''''Belfagor arcidiavolo''''' ("Belfagor the archdaemon") is a novella by Niccolò Machiavelli, written between 1518 and 1527,

Set in an idyllic frame story, old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist allegory about ideas of good and evil.

the Devil, in the form of a wild hunter, offered his assistance with the replanting. As payment, he wanted an unbaptized child.


Question: Novels set in the Mediterranean Sea but not Italy

Exodus (Uris novel)
The Corsican Brothers
Triple (novel)
Death in Cyprus (novel)
Is Harry on the Boat
An Orchestra of Minorities
The Siege of Malta (novel)
Every Eye
Judas Country
Angels in Iron
The Road to San Vicente

Novels set in the Mediterranean Sea that are not Novels set in Italy

'''''Exodus''''' is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship ''Exodus'' and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state.

The story starts in March 1841, when the narrator travels to Corsica and stays at the home of the widow Savilia de Franchi who lives near Olmeto and Sollacaro

To facilitate the robbery at sea, Dickstein acquires the ''Stromberg'', a sister ship of the ''Coparelli'', and founds a bogus maritime company.

'''''Death in Cyprus''''' (published in 1956) is an M. M. Kaye mystery novel. The story, set on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, focuses on 21-year-old Amanda Derington who, against her strict uncle Oswin's wishes, decides to have a holiday on the beautiful island. However, whilst on a boat to the island, she witnesses the murder of one of the passengers. But the longer she spends on Cyprus, the more she gets the feeling that she was the intended victim.

'''''Is Harry On The Boat''''' is a 1997 novel by Colin Butts based on his diaries of his extended time in Ibiza with his friends as part of its club scene.

It was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker Prize.
''An Orchestra of Minorities'' is set in Umuahia, Nigeria and partly in Northern Cyprus

It tells the story of events surrounding the Great Siege of Malta by the Ottoman Turks in 1565.
An official of the Order of the Knights of St. John arrives in Spain to summon one of their Knights Commander, Don Manuel de Vilheyna, to Malta, the headquarters of the Order, which is threatened by the Turks.

The novel describes the life of a girl who eventually marries a younger man and travels with him to the Spanish island of Ibiza.

'''''Judas Country''''' is a first person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1975.
Roy Case, an ex-Royal Air Force military transport pilot makes a threadbare living flying charter cargo flights around the Mediterranean in an old Beechcraft Queen Air. His dreams of having his own airplane and own charter company rapidly fading due to age and lack of money, but at least he is flying. However, conditions rapidly spiral out of control when he lands in Cyprus. Not only did his employers go bankrupt, leaving him stranded and without pay, but his plane is impounded, he is mugged by mysterious assailants on a dark back street, and is trailed by an Israeli Mossad agent. When he finds that the cases clearly marked “champagne” that he was supposed to be flying to Lebanon contain machine guns instead, he suspects that things are going to get a lot worse.

'''''The Road to San Vicente''''' is a book by Leif Borthen about life in the tiny village of Sant Vicent de sa Cala in the far north east of the Spanish island of Ibiza.


Question: Hispanic and Latino American novels set anywhere besides North America

Desert Blood
La reina de América
Lost City Radio
At Night We Walk in Circles

Hispanic and Latino American novels that are not Novels set in North America

a 2005 mystery thriller by author Alicia Gaspar de Alba based on the violence, kidnapping and femicides that occurred in Ciudad Juarez in 1998.
Ivon Villa, a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles, returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby girl from Cecilia, a Mexican ''maquiladora'' living across the border in Juarez, as well as attend a family reunion. But to her horror, Cecilia turns up dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of the epidemic of homicides of young women from southern Mexico emigrating to the north for better work. Things take a turn for the worse when Ivon's sixteen-year-old sister Irene gets kidnapped while attending a fair in Juarez. The search for her sister leads Ivon to discover a terrifying conspiracy that involves everyone from the Border Patrol to the corrupt ''judicales'' in Juarez.

a novel by Uruguayan author Jorge Majfud. It was published by Baile del Sol in 2002.
This novel is about a family of Spanish immigrants in the nineteen-sixties and the adventures of Consuelo, the daughter of a prostitute to whom the title refers. It is set mainly in Montevideo and Buenos Aires in the midst of the repressive Southern Cone dictatorships.

'''''Lost City Radio''''' is a 2007 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
After a ten-year insurrection set in a nameless South American country in which the totalitarian government defeated a rebel group, the government has eliminated all indigenous languages and renamed all places as numbers; radio is the only remaining convenience.

a 2013 novel written by Daniel Alarcón.
A young actor-Nelson, living in a nameless Latin American country joins Diciembre, a guerrilla theatre troupe. They plan to perform in a politically controversial play titled ''The Idiot President''. The play's author, Henry Nuñez,


Question: 1922 military novels and books

The Enormous Room
Petersburg (novel)
Forest of the Hanged (novel)
Tell England
The Fox (novella)

Military books that are also 1922 novels

'''''The Enormous Room (The Green-Eyed Stores)''''' is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I.

In 1922 Bely published in Berlin a revised edition which was shorter by a third than the first one.

The novel is the second part of Bely's unfinished trilogy ''East or West'', while ''The Silver Dove'' is the first one.Mikhail Chekhov as Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov (Second Moscow Art Theatre production of the novel, 1925)
Just after the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukov is given the task of assassinating his bureaucrat father, Apollon Apollonovich, using a time bomb supplied to him by a fellow radical, Alexander Ivanovich Dudkin.

Published in 1922, it is partly inspired by the experience of his brother Emil Rebreanu, an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army hanged for espionage and desertion in 1917, during World War I.

'''''Tell England: A Study in a Generation''''' is a novel written by Ernest Raymond and published in February 1922 in the United Kingdom. Its themes are the First World War and the young men sent to fight in it.

'''''The Fox''''' is a novella by D. H. Lawrence which first appeared in ''The Dial'' in 1922. Set in Berkshire, England, during World War I,