Question: Contemporary fantasy novels set in the United States that are not about legendary creatures

Graveminder
Black Cocktail
City of Ashes
Magic Street
Hounded (novel)
The Summoning (novel)
Wizard of the Pigeons
Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel
Running with the Demon

Novels set in the United States that are also Contemporary fantasy novels but not Novels about legendary creatures

The novel was released on May 17, 2011 by William Morrow and Company and follows a young woman that returns to her hometown to discover that she is expected to fill the supernatural shoes of her now deceased grandmother.

The book follows Rebekkah Barrow, a woman that returns to the small town of Claysville in order to attend the funeral of her grandmother Maylene.

a fantasy novella by American author Jonathan Carroll.
The novel follows the activities of Ingram York, a disc-jockey in Los Angeles. The book deals with the Platonic concept that everyone was originally joined to another human being and spends their lives searching for their missing half

an urban fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. This book follows the magical events in the Baldwin Hills section of contemporary Los Angeles, including the life of protagonist Mack Street, his foster brother Cecil Tucker, a trickster identified variously as Bag Man, Puck, Mr. Christmas, and numerous other members of this upscale community of African-Americans.

'''''Hounded''''' is the first novel in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, The Iron Druid Chronicles. It was released on May 3, 2011. The sequel, ''Hexed'' was released on June 7, 2011.
''Hounded'' introduces the character of Atticus O'Sullivan and his world, a secret history where magic, vampires, werewolves, gods, and other supernatural elements exist (albeit in hiding). O'Sullivan, the last Druid and proprietor of Third Eye Books and Herbs occult shop, comes into contact with many of the supernatural characters of his home city of Tempe, Arizona.

''Chloe Saunders''' is a white American fifteen-year-old girl who aspires to become a film director and goes to an art school. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Although she is given a choice, the options make it clear that Lyle House was forced upon her for an expedient recovery. She is actually a necromancer, someone who is able to see and raise ghosts from the dead. She is taken to Lyle House after seeing a ghost and reacting violently to get away from the ghost.

She is contacted several times by her former roommate, Liz, who was transferred, and derives her suspicion from the fact that Liz would have to be a ghost, and therefore dead, for her to speak with Chloe. Chloe escapes Lyle House after learning of its true nature from its ghosts. Near the end Chloe escapes and flees her town so she will not be recognized.

'''''Wizard of the Pigeons''''' is a 1986 fantasy novel set in Seattle

The novel explores themes of homelessness, poverty, and mental illness.

The story is set primarily in Los Angeles, California, where Mendle Orion lives and works as a writer. Other cities are mentioned, such as San Diego, where Mendle attends the World Science Fiction Convention. The action ends on a farm in rural Kentucky.

She can see "feeders" - small shadowy creatures that feed on human emotion,

'''''Running with the Demon''''' is a fantasy novel by American

The story takes place in a fictional town named Hopewell, Illinois, but is actually based on the author's hometown of Sterling, Illinois


Question: Non-detective Belgian novels by Georges Simenon

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (novel)

Belgian novels that are also Novels by Georges Simenon but not Detective novels

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'''''The Man on the Bench in the Barn''''' is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

'''''Feux rouges''''' (''Red Lights'') is the title of a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon

'''''Les Fiançailles de M. Hire''''' (''Monsieur Hire's Engagement'') is a short novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is one of the author's first self-described ''roman durs'' or "hard novels" to distinguish it from his ''romans populaires'' or "popular novels," which are primarily mysteries that usually feature his famous Inspector Maigret character.

Once a week, Hire is the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling club, where people think he works for the police. Apart from his passion for bowling, Hire is a peeping Tom and obsessed with the voyeuristic observation of his neighbor Alice. During his nocturnal observations, he is able to identify the perpetrator of the crime who is none other than Alice's boyfriend.

a 1942 novel by the French-based Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

'''''The Bottom of the Bottle''''' is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

a 1968 novel by Georges Simenon. The ''dur'' tale of a husband informed by the police that his wife has shot her sister, the novel takes similar themes to Simenon's domestic crisis novels ''Lettre à mon juge'' and ''La Main''.

is a novel by Belgian author Georges Simenon.

by Belgian author Georges Simenon in 1946 during his stay at Bradenton Beach, Florida and published in Paris the following year by Presses de la Cité.

The novel is in the form of a long letter written in prison by condemned murderer Dr. Charles Alavoine. Alavoine wants to explain his personal side of the story to a judge handling his legal case, as his trial did not bring out the true motives for the crime

The novel is among his ''romans durs'', a term roughly translated as hard, or harrowing, novels; it was used by Simenon for what he regarded as his serious literary works.

he novel is set in Nantes, France. Simenon grew up in Liège in Belgium, but some elements of the novel are autobiographical: the young journalist who becomes interested in seedy nightlife, his weak mother, and his father with a heart condition.
The story is seen from the point of view of Jean Cholet, a young journalist with the ''Gazette de Nantes'', who lives with his parents. He attends an official banquet one evening, where he gets drunk and goes on to the night club ''L'Âne Rouge'' ("The Red Donkey"); he is intrigued by Speelman, a theatre company manager. Interested in the night club, he visits regularly and gets to know the people there; Lulu, a singer, becomes his lover.

'''''Pedigree ''''' is an autobiographical novel by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, first published in 1948.

'''''Le Coup de Lune''''' (; literally "moonburn" or "moonstroke" in French, but translated into English as '''''Tropic Moon''''', is a 1933 novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

is a 1941 mystery novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

'''''The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By''''', first published in English in 1938, is a crime thriller by Georges Simenon about a man's rapid descent into criminality and madness following sudden financial ruination.

Kees Popinga, a quiet, respectable Dutchman working as head clerk in Groningen becomes increasingly unhinged after discovering that his cynical employer has looted and ruined his firm and confides in him that he will fake a suicide in order to escape punishment.

It tells the story of Jonas Milk, a man whose Russian-Jewish parents, refugees from Archangel

'''''La Veuve Couderc''''' is a novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon.


Question: 2006 English  fiction books not about the United Kingdom

Imperium (Harris novel)
The King's Last Song
Finding the Fox
The Ruby in Her Navel
Frozen Fire (novel)
The Vengeance of Rome
Brethren (novel)
The Afghan

English books that are also 2006 fiction books but not Books about the United Kingdom

a 2006 novel by English author Robert Harris. It is a fictional biography of Cicero, told through the first-person narrator of his secretary Tiro, beginning with the prosecution of Verres.

The book opens with Tiro, the secretary of Marcus Tullius Cicero and the book's narrator, looking back in time over the thirty-six years he was with his master. They met when he was twenty-four years old and Cicero twenty-seven on the family estate in the hills of Arpinum. Cicero decided to consult the leading teachers of rhetoric, most of whom lived in Greece and Asia Minor, and borrows Tiro, never to return him.

Set in Cambodia, it tells the story of Map

. The memoir is fictional, but Jayavarman is not, and an account of his life and reign is told in a parallel thread.

'''''Finding the Fox''''' is a fantasy/science fiction novel by Ali Sparkes. It is the first book in The Shapeshifter series, and was first published in 2006 by Oxford University Press.

The story is set in 12th century Sicily and is centered on the Christianization of the Norman kingdom of Sicily under King Roger II.

a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 2006.

'''''Frozen Fire''''' is a philosophical thriller about the nature of reality by Tim Bowler. The novel was first published in 2006.

a historical fiction novel by English author Michael Moorcock published by Jonathan Cape in 2006. It is the fourth and final in the ''Pyat Quartet'' tetralogy, preceded by ''Jerusalem Commands''.
In the novel, Colonel Pyat, an incarnation of the Eternal Champion, goes to Italy and Germany, where he becomes involved in Fascism and Nazism, including sexual encounters with Ernst Röhm and Adolf Hitler and a sojourn in Dachau

It was published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2006.

The novel describes the fictional story of a young teenager by the name of William Campbell who starts out as a sergeant and later is promoted to a full Knight Templar

'''''The Afghan''''' is a 2006 thriller novel

based from his tour of duty in Afghanistan supporting the Mujahideen.


Question: 2018 non-fiction books about countries that are but not about North America

Killing the SS
Say Nothing (book)
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
India Unmade
The Lost Boys of Bird Island
The Paradoxical Prime Minister
Bringing Whales Ashore
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Anatomy of a Genocide
The Spy Chronicles
The Unending Game
The Billionaire Raj
Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia
In Praise of Blood
The Chapo Guide to Revolution

Books about countries that are also 2018 non-fiction books but not Books about North America

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'''''Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History''''' is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about hunting Nazi war criminals after World War II. It is the eighth book in the ''Killing'' series, following ''Killing Lincoln'', ''Killing Kennedy'', ''Killing Jesus'', ''Killing Patton'', ''Killing Reagan'', ''Killing the Rising Sun'', and ''Killing England''. Along with the upcoming sequels “Killing Kobe Bryant, “Killing James Garfield” and “Killing Sean Hannity” The book was released on October 9, 2018.
''Killing the SS'' focuses on the hunt for Nazi war criminals, who escaped capture after World War II, and bringing them to justice. The main focus is on war criminals Josef Mengele, the physician who conducted medical experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp; Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's personal secretary; Klaus Barbie, known as the "Butcher of Lyon"; and Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Other former SS members include, Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny and Elfriede Rinkel, who was a guard at Ravensbrück, the Nazis' largest concentration camp for women.
''USA Today'' gave the book two out of four stars and said, "There’s nothing particularly new here about the search for Adolf Hitler’s most notorious henchmen and women," but, it'll "no doubt, be a welcome addition to the best-selling series."

'''''Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland''''' is a 2018 book

'''''Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor''''' is a 2018 non-fiction book

'''''India Unmade: How the Modi Government Broke the Economy''''' is a book coauthored by Yashwant Sinha and Aditya Sinha published in 2018. The book criticizes the economic performance of the National Democratic Alliance government near the end of its tenure prior to the 2019 Indian general election.

is a non-fiction book by Mark Minnie, a former police detective and Chris Steyn, an investigative journalist, both from South Africa. The book is about alleged corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and a pedophile network whose most notable members were alleged to be the apartheid era defence minister Magnus Malan and the minister of environmental affairs John Wiley. The book is named after Bird Island, in Algoa Bay just off the coast of South Africa, where the ring apparently operated.

a 2018 nonfiction book written by the senior leader of the Indian National Congress, Shashi Tharoor, about the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

a 2018 book by Jakobina K. Arch. The book details the history of whaling in Japan, especially during the Tokugawa period.

the memoir of Clemantine Wamariya, written alongside Elizabeth Weil, published April 24, 2018 by Doubleday Canada. The memoir follows Wamariya's experience as a childhood refugee in Rwanda.

'''''Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town called Buczacz''''' is a 2018 book by historian Omer Bartov exploring ethnic relations between Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews in the town of Buczacz (now Buchach, Ukraine) with a focus on the Holocaust.

'''''The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace''''' is a 2018 book in the format of a dialogue between two intelligence chiefs of India and Pakistan, AS Dulat and Asad Durrani, and moderated by Aditya Sinha.

Author Vikram Sood during a book launch in New Delhi, 2018
'''''The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief's Insights into Espionage''''' is a 2018 book by Vikram Sood, former head of India's foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW).

First edition (publ. Tim Duggan Books)
'''''The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age,''''' is a 2018 non-fiction book

'''''Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia''''' is a 2018 biographical anthology compiled and edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc.

'''''In Praise of Blood: The Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front''''' is a 2018 non-fiction book by Canadian journalist Judi Rever and published by Random House of Canada; it has also been translated into Dutch and French.

The book describes alleged war crimes by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), Rwanda's ruling political party, during its ascent to power in the 1990s.

'''''The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason''''' is a 2018 satirical book by hosts of the American political humor podcast ''Chapo Trap House'', published by Touchstone.


Question: Popular culture company books but not about Technology

The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life

Popular culture books that are also Books about companies but not Technology books

a 252-page autobiographical, full-color book by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman. It was edited by Disney Imagineers Bruce Gordon, David Mumford and Jeff Kurtti and was published in 1998 by Camphor Tree Publishers of Santa Clarita, California. Bruce Gordon did the book design and layout.

The information is divided into five sections (A Family Affair, Coronation, Wilderness, Ice Palace, and Return to Arendelle) which include concept art, storyboards, and finished art, alongside interviews by artists, writers, and other developers, thereby "giving the reader a full-scope of the efforts it took to create the finished film."

a biography by Marc Eliot, presenting a darker picture of entertainer Walt Disney than his popular perception.
Eliot’s book casts a shadow on some of Walt Disney's actions.

'''''Season Finale: The Unexpected Rise and Fall of The WB and UPN''''' is a book written by Suzanne Daniels, former executive President of Entertainment for The WB, and Cynthia Littleton, reporter of Variety and published by HarperCollins. This book explains the details of the history of The WB and UPN.
''Season Finale'' suggests many reasons for the demise of The WB, including founder Jamie Kellner's departure, the lack of owned and operated stations, a failure to develop many new hits after 2002, Time Warner's decision to merge with America Online and allowing ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' to move from The WB to UPN for its last two seasons.
*List of television shows considered the worst

From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms''''' (also known as '''''The Art of Walt Disney''''') is a book by Christopher Finch, chronicling the artistic achievements and history of Walt Disney and The Walt Disney Company

a book that serves as an exposé of Michael Eisner's 20-year tenure as chairman and CEO at The Walt Disney Company by James B. Stewart. The book chronicles the careers and interactions of executives at Disney,

''''How to Read Donald Duck''''' () is a 1971 book-length essay by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart that critiques Disney comics from a Marxist point of view as capitalist propaganda for American corporate and cultural imperialism.

'''''Moose: Chapters From My Life''''' is the 459-page autobiography by the Academy Award-winning songwriter, Robert B. Sherman. "''Moose'' is a collection of fifty-four autobiographical short stories, arranged in such a way as to express a larger narrative."

a book by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of the key animators at Disney during the Golden Age of animation.
The book gives a history of Disney animation and explains the processes involved in clear, non-technical terms. The philosophy of the Disney animators is expressed in the so-called 12 basic principles of animation.

''The Magic Kingdom'' is a non- fiction book written by Steven Watts. Professor Watts specializes cultural and intellectual history of the United States.

the official encyclopedia of The Walt Disney Company. It was written by Disney's head archivist, Dave Smith.

The book's primary focus is on non-film related Disney enterprises such as Disney World and their effects on the environment and local culture.

collects and reprints the various literature that Sergei Eisenstein produced about Walt Disney.


Question: 2000s history books about politics, excluding ideologies

The Parliament of Man
American Creation
1776 (book)
Washington's Crossing (book)
The Tiananmen Papers
The Real Fidel Castro
Rough Crossings
John Adams (book)
Prisoner of the State
Shake Hands with the Devil (book)
A Tiananmen Journal

2000s books that are also History books about politics but not Books about ideologies

a book by Paul Kennedy that covers the history and evolution of the United Nations

a 2007 non-fiction book written by American historian Joseph Ellis and published by Alfred A. Knopf, examining the successes and failures of the Founding Fathers. Structured episodically, the book examines six turning points in the early history of the United States: the writing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's winter at Valley Forge, James Madison's debate with Patrick Henry over Constitutional ratification, Washington's treaty with Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's founding of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the Louisiana Purchase.

focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War. While revolving mostly around the leadership (and often indecisiveness) of George Washington, there is also considerable attention given to King George III, William Howe, Henry Knox, and Nathanael Greene. Key Revolutionary War battles detailed in the book include the Battle of Dorchester Heights, the Battle of Long Island, and the Battle of Trenton.

a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005

Fischer's work is admired as one of the most comprehensive books on the critical and suspenseful turning point of the American War of Independence. The book was published in February 2004 and it won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History.

a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written by David Hackett Fischer and part of the "Pivotal Moments in American History" series. It is primarily about George Washington's leadership during the 1776 campaign of the American Revolutionary War, culminating with George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and the subsequent campaign, with the Battle of Trenton, the Battle of the Assunpink Creek, and the Battle of Princeton.

was first published in English in January 2001 by PublicAffairs.

The book is presented as a compilation of selected secret Chinese official documents relating to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. The documents used in both books are said to have been made available by a Chinese compiler under the pseudonym Zhang Liang, whose identity is hidden to protect the individual from potential persecution.

'''''The Real Fidel Castro''''' is a biography of the Cuban revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro, written by the British diplomat Sir Leycester Coltman (1938–2003) and first published by Yale University Press in 2003.

'Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution ''''' is a history book by Simon Schama. It was the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award winner for general nonfiction. A 2007 drama-documentary television programme was based on it.
''Rough Crossings'' gives an account of the history of thousands of African-American slaves who escaped slavery in the American colonies to fight for the British cause during the American Revolutionary War. It tells of the legal battles which established that slavery was not valid in England itself, and how the British government offered freedom to enslaved African Americans if they would fight for Britain and King George III

a 2001 biography of the Founding Father and second U.S. President John Adams, written by the popular American historian David McCullough, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

'''''Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang''''' are the memoirs of the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, who was sacked after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

a book by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Forces, with help from Major Brent Beardsley. It was first published by Random House Canada in September 2003.
Romeo Dallaire signing ''Shake Hands with the Devil''

The book chronicles Dallaire's tour as Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) in 1993–1994, during which he witnessed the 1994 Genocide against The Tutsi in Rwanda.

The book won the 2003 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing, and 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction.

'''''A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square''''' (in Chinese: 六四日記：廣場上的共和國) by Feng Congde (封从德) was first published in May 2009 in Hong Kong. This book records the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre from April 15, 1989, to June 4, 1989, in detail.


Question: Middle age crime novels but not set in Rome

Revelation (Sansom novel)
The Witch Hunter (novel)
Azincourt (novel)
The Lacquer Screen
The Chinese Lake Murders
The Name of the Rose
The Emperor's Pearl
Morality Play (novel)

Crime novels that are also Novels set in the Middle Ages but not Novels set in Rome

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Set in 1543 during the reign of King Henry VIII, it follows hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake and his assistant, Jack Barak as they hunt the killer of a fellow lawyer.

The novel sees Devon's first county coroner, Sir John de Wolfe, investigating the sudden death of a wealthy guild-master and, although he is convinced the death has natural causes, the victim's widow is convinced that her husband has been done to death by an evil spell.

an historical novel written by Bernard Cornwell, published in 2008. The book relates the events leading to the Battle of Agincourt through its protagonist Nicholas Hook. In the United States, it was published under the title '''''Agincourt'''''.
Nicholas Hook, a forester and archer, feuds with Tom and Robert Perrill and their biological father, the priest Father Martin. He is compelled to participate in the hanging and burning of a community of Lollard heretics. One of them, an archer himself, asks Hook to protect his granddaughter, Sarah, after his execution.

Hook escapes and joins an expedition to Soissons, in Burgundy, as a mercenary archer. Burgundy and France are in bitter conflict. When the French attack, they win easily, sack the town, and torture and kill the English archers as well as the loyal French citizens, which shocks the rest of Europe

'''''The Lacquer Screen''''' is a ''gong'an'' detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (the early decades of the Tang Dynasty).

'''''The Chinese Lake Murders''''' is a ''gong'an'' historical mystery novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty).

"The murder of Almond Blossom on the Flower Boat, while Judge Dee is being entertained, is preceded by a confusing chapter of pseudo-supernatural terror. The rest is a good gangster story: lowlifes and blondes translated into Chinese. Only the judge and his three loyal goons are original and freshly entertaining."

the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.

In 1327, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk, a Benedictine novice travelling under his protection, arrive at a Benedictine monastery in Northern Italy to attend a theological disputation.

'''''The Emperors Pearl''''' is a ''gong'an'' detective novel written by Robert van Gulik and set in Imperial China (roughly speaking the Tang Dynasty).

The book is set in Medieval England sometime near the end of the 14th century and the events described in the book take place in an unnamed village in Northern England (north of the Humber).


Question: 1960s science fiction novels set in outer space that aren't american

Mission to Mercury
A Mystery for Mr. Bass
Solaris (novel)
A Fall of Moondust
The Tomorrow People (novel)
Across a Billion Years
The Lotus Caves
Destination Mars
Moon Base One
The Blue World
Emphyrio
The Silkie (novel)
Expedition Venus
City of the Chasch

1960s science fiction novels that are also Novels set in outer space but not American speculative fiction novels

'''''Mission to Mercury''''' is a juvenile science fiction novel, the ninth in Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series. It was published in 1965 in the UK by Faber and in the US by Criterion Books. Also published under the name '''Missão Mercúrio''' in Portugal by Galeria Panorama.

'''''A Mystery for Mr. Bass''''' is a 1960 children's science fiction novel by Canadian author Eleanor Cameron. The novel followed ''The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet'' (1954), ''Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet'' (1956), ''Mr. Bass's Planetoid'' (1958), and it was illustrated by Leonard Shortall.

s a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a research station as they attempt to understand an extraterrestrial intelligence, which takes the form of a vast ocean on the titular alien planet

a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961

By the 21st century, the Moon has been colonized, and although still very much a research establishment, it is visited by tourists who can afford the trip. One of its attractions is a cruise across one of the lunar seas, named the ''Sea of Thirst'', (located within the Sinus Roris) filled with an extremely fine dust, a fine powder far drier than the contents of a terrestrial desert and which almost flows like water, instead of the common regolith which covers most of the lunar surface

'''''The Tomorrow People''''' is a 1960 science fiction novel by American writer Judith Merril.
Only one man, Johnny Wendt, has returned from the first expedition to Mars.

'''''Across a Billion Years''''' is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg.

'''''The Lotus Caves''''' is a juvenile science fiction novel by John Christopher, first published in 1969.

It was published in the UK by Faber in 1963 and in the US by Criterion Books in 1964.

a juvenile science fiction novel, the sixth in Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series.

The first man to pass close to Mars is driven insane by strange 'voices' he hears on his radio.

U.N.E.X.A. (United Nations Exploration Agency) send their crack team

a young adult science fiction novel, the fourth in Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1960, in the US by Criterion Books in 1962 under the title '''''Outpost on the Moon'''''.

The 'patient' will be Tony Hale, from Aston near Birmingham (who goes on to feature in the rest of the series). The mission starts well, but is soon in trouble when a supply rocket crashes...

'''''The Blue World''''' is a science fiction adventure novel by American writer Jack Vance.

The novel is based on Vance’s earlier novella "The Kragen", which appeared in the July 1964 edition of ''Fantastic Stories of Imagination''.

During the space of twelve generations, the descendants of a crashed prison ship have created a rudimentary civilization on the water-covered planet, living on huge sea plants.

First publication in June 1969 edition of ''Fantastic Science Fiction''Cover art by Johnny Bruck
Ghyl Tarvoke grows up on the planet Halma

First edition, published by Ace Books. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.
'''''The Silkie''''' is a fix-up science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt, first published in complete form in 1969.

science fiction novel, the fifth in Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series. It was published in the UK by Faber in 1962 and in the US by Criterion Books in 1963.
A probe returning from Venus crashes in the African desert

A human starship intercepts a mysterious signal and tracks it back to Carina 4269, a star system 212 light years from Earth.


Question: 1960's British crime novels, that aren't set in the UK

Nerve (Francis novel)
Inspector Ghote's Good Crusade
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Morning after Death
Inspector Ghote Plays a Joker
Endless Night (novel)

1960s novels that are also British crime novels but not Novels set in the United Kingdom

The novel is set in Mumbai, India, in the 1960s. The plot concerns the murder of Frank Masters who was the victim of arsenic poisoning.

1966, UK, Collins, , January 1966, Hardback

'''''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''''' is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.

'''''The Morning after Death''''' is a 1966 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pen name of Nicholas Blake. It is the sixteenth and last entry in the series of novels featuring the private detective Nigel Strangeways.

Strangeways is in America visiting the Ivy League Cabot University near Boston to do some research.

a crime novel by H. R. F. Keating. It is the fifth novel in the Inspector Ghote series.

''''Endless Night''''' is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967


Question: libertarian social science books not about capitalism

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Terrible Truth About Liberals
Liberty Defined
On Liberty
Broke (book)
Libertarianism Today
The Probability Broach
A Foreign Policy of Freedom
The Restoration Game
We the Living
The FairTax Book

Social sciences books that are also Libertarian books but not Books about capitalism

a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar colony's revolt against absentee rule from Earth. The novel illustrates and discusses libertarian ideals. It is respected for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the Moon.

The story is narrated by Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis, a computer technician who discovers that HOLMES IV has achieved self-awareness and developed a sense of humor

''''The Terrible Truth About Liberals''''' is a 1998 political book by conservative radio host Neal Boortz.
Author and libertarian radio talk show host Neal Boortz questions the true definitions of American democracy and gives his insights into current social and political issues, claiming that liberals are the cause of many current problems in the United States.

'''''Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom''''' is a 2011 non-fiction book by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX).

'''''On Liberty''''' is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Published in 1859, it applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggests standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he considers prerequisite to the higher pleasures—the ''summum bonum'' of utilitarianism.

''The New York Review of Books'' said that the book "is a "sober... libertarian tract in which... there is a call for minimal government, more federalism, a flat tax, balanced budget and term-limit amendments, stemming the growth of Social Security and Medicare payments, and serious cuts in defense spending."

a 2010 book about the modern libertarian movement by Jacob H. Huebert. The work, which received generally positive reviews, has been described as a successor book to Murray Rothbard's ''For a New Liberty'' (1973).

a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer L. Neil Smith.

It is set in an alternate history, the so-called Gallatin Universe, where a libertarian society has formed on the North American continent, styled the North American Confederacy (''NAC''). This history was created when the Declaration of Independence has the word ''unanimous'' added to the preamble, to read that governments "derive their just power from the ''unanimous'' consent of the governed"

a 2007 compilation of floor speeches to the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Ron Paul. They covered a 30-year period and addressed foreign policy.

'''''The Restoration Game''''' is a 2010 science fiction/techno-thriller novel by Ken MacLeod.

It is a story of life in post-revolutionary Russia and was Rand's first statement against communism.

is a non-fiction book by libertarian radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder


Question: Young adult novels set in Oceania that are not Australian or for children

Into the River
Reef of Death
The Changeover
Boy at War
The Firebird Rocket

Novels set in Oceania that are also Young adult novels but not Australian children's novels

a novel by Ted Dawe, featuring a coming-of-age story set in New Zealand, and intended for a young adult audience.

a 1998 young adult novel by Paul Zindel published by HarperCollins and Hyperion and is the fifth book of "The Zone Unknown" series. Set in Australia, it is an adventure story with elements of horror.

'''''The Changeover: a Supernatural Romance''''' is a low fantasy novel for young adults by Margaret Mahy, published in 1984 by J. M. Dent in the U.K. It is set in Christchurch in the author's native New Zealand.

The '''''Boy at War''''' trilogy is a series of young adult historical novels by Harry Mazer.

The Hardy Boys help their detective father, Fenton Hardy, search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the ''Firebird'' rocket from the Woomera Test Range.


Question: Novels by Mary Shelley, 1819 novels, or 1823 novels.

The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

Novels by Mary Shelley or 1819 novels or 1823 novels

''''Lodore''''', also published under the title ''The Beautiful Widow'', is the penultimate novel by Romantic novelist Mary Shelley

an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826.

a historical fiction novel by American writer John Neal. Published in Baltimore in 1823, it is the fourth novel written about the American Revolutionary War.

'''''The Three Perils of Woman''''' is a three volume work of one novel and two linked novellas by James Hogg. Following its original publication in 1823, it was omitted from Victorian editions of Hogg’s ‘’Collected Works’’ and re-published only in 2002.

'''''A Legend of Montrose''''' is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the 1640s during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It forms, along with ''The Bride of Lammermoor'', the 3rd series of Scott's ''Tales of My Landlord''. The two novels were published together in 1819.

('''', 1819) is a satiric fairytale fantasy novel, written in German by E. T. A. Hoffmann

an 1830 historical novel by Mary Shelley about the life of Perkin Warbeck.

The first edition was published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable and Co. on 27 December 1823,

one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott.

'''''Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca''''' is an 1823 historical novel by the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley

the second long work of fiction of Mary Shelley, written between August 1819 and February 1820 and first published posthumously in 1959

a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, first published in 1823

Published in 1823, ''The Pioneers'' is the fourth novel in terms of the chronology of the novels' plots.

an historical novel by the Irish-American writer James McHenry (1784–1845) first published by Bliss & White in New York in 1823.

'''''Revealer of Secrets''''' (), first published in 1819, is an epistolary novel by Joseph Perl, a proponent of Jewish emancipation and Haskalah.

'''''Peveril of the Peak''''' (1823) is the longest novel by Sir Walter Scott.

It was first published in 1819–1821 as ''Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr nebst fragmentarischer Biographie des Kapellmeisters Johannes Kreisler in zufälligen Makulaturblättern'', in two volumes.

'''''Ivanhoe: A Romance''''' () by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in 1819, as one of the Waverley novels.

'''''Ourika''''' is an 1823 novel by Claire de Duras, originally published anonymously.

'''Falkner''''' (1837) is the penultimate book published by the author Mary Shelley.


Question: 1968 or 1973 Swedish novels, or Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö

Murder at the Savoy
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
The Laughing Policeman (novel)
The Man on the Balcony
The Terrorists
Kram (novel)
The Fire Engine That Disappeared
The Locked Room
The Brothers Lionheart
The Legionnaires
Cop Killer (novel)
Roseanna (novel)
City in the World
The Abominable Man

1968 Swedish novels or Novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö or 1973 Swedish novels

Not Fluent: It has many errors and/or I can hardly understand it.

'''''Murder at the Savoy''''' (original title: ''Polis, polis, potatismos!'' literally "Police, Police, Mashed Potatoes!") is a 1970 crime novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It is the sixth book out of ten in the detective series by revolving around police detective Martin Beck.

'''''The Man Who Went Up in Smoke''''' (original title: ''Mannen som gick upp i rök'') is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1966.

a mystery novel by the Swedish writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, originally published in Sweden in 1968 as '''''Den skrattande polisen''''' and translated into English in 1970.

a mystery novel by Swedish writer Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö,

a crime novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö; it is the final book in their 10-part detective series revolving around Martin Beck and his team.

'''''Kram''''' ("hug") is a Swedish youth novel by Hans-Eric Hellberg, originally published in 1973 by Bonniers förlag.

a mystery novel by Swedish writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö, published in 1969.

'''''The Locked Room''''' (original Swedish title: ''Det slutna rummet'') is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1972.

'''''The Brothers Lionheart''''' () is a children's fantasy novel written by Astrid Lindgren. Well established as one of the most widely read and beloved books for children in Sweden, it was originally published in the autumn of 1973

'''''The Legionnaires''''' () is a 1968 documentary novel by Swedish author Per Olov Enquist about the Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers shortly after the Second World War. It won the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1969.

'''''Cop Killer''''' (original Swedish title: ''Polismördaren'') is a crime novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, published in 1973.

'''''City in the World''''' () is a 1968 novel by Swedish author Per Anders Fogelström


Question: list some Books about violence, Books about sacrifice, or Books about the Oedipus complex?

Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

Books about violence or Books about sacrifice or Books about the Oedipus complex

Work involves an element of violation or violence in which the worker interrupts nature in order to obtain and shape raw materials.

'''''Violence and the Sacred''''' () is a 1972 book about the sacred by the French critic René Girard, in which the author explores the ritual role of sacrifice.

''Rose''''' is the 2010 book by Inga Muscio which looks into the passive and physical violence in our daily lives and describes how we might find love within this violence.

Why Violence Has Declined''''' is a 2011 book by Steven Pinker, in which the author argues that violence in the world has declined both in the long run and in the short run and suggests explanations as to why this has occurred.

a 2000 book by the psychologist James Garbarino, in which the author details the epidemic of violent male youths in the United States.

In 1921 David F. Swenson wrote, "Fear and Trembling uses the story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son.

Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means''''' is a seven-volume essay on the subject of violence by American author William T. Vollmann.

a nonfiction self-help book (Dell Publishing 1997, republished with new epilogue 1998) written by Gavin de Becker. The book demonstrates how every individual should learn to trust the inherent "gift" of their gut instinct. By learning to recognize various warning signs and precursors to violence, it becomes possible to avoid potential trauma and harm.

''Reflections on Violence''''' (), published in 1908, is a book by the French revolutionary syndicalist Georges Sorel on class struggle and revolution. Sorel is known for his theory that political revolution depends on the proletariat organizing violent uprisings and strikes to institute syndicalism, an economic system in which (self-organizing groups of only proletarians) truly represent the needs of the working class.

a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the former a philosopher and the latter a psychoanalyst.

Deleuze and Guattari examine the relationships between social organisation, power, and desire, particularly in relation to the Freudian "Oedipus complex" and its familial mechanisms of subjectivation ("daddy-mommy-me").

a post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel written by best-selling author Charlie Higson. The book, released by Puffin Books in the UK and Australia on 20 September 2012, is the fourth book in a planned seven-book series, titled The Enemy. ''The Sacrifice'' takes place in London, a year after a worldwide sickness has infected adults, turning them into something akin to voracious, cannibalistic zombies, and begins five days after the end of ''The Fear.''

Matt truly believes that the two are the Lamb and the Goat. Furthermore, Matthew says 'The Goat' must be sacrificed so 'The Lamb' will have no shadow.

'''''Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit''''' is a 1995 non-fiction crime book written by retired FBI agent John E. Douglas and his co-author Mark Olshaker.
The book details Douglas's "criminal-personality profiling" on serial killers and mass murderers, which he developed over decades of interviews with known killers.

'''''Intellectual Sacrifice and Other Mimetic Paradoxes''''' is a 2018 book about sacrifice by Paolo Diego Bubbio

a book which challenges the conventional view of violence in civil wars as irrational. The book presents a theory for levels of violence, as well as why selective violence (targeting individuals) and indiscriminate violence (targeting collectives) are at varying times employed in civil wars.

about the psyches of serial killers, serial rapists, mass murderers, stalkers, and their victims, as well as how to fight back.

'''''Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition''''' is a 2014 book about sacrifice

The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution''''' is a book by British primatologist Richard Wrangham

Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in Conflict''''' is a collection of essays about violence and political conflicts, edited by Adria Lawrence and Erica Chenoweth.

'''''Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America''''' is a book about gun violence in the United States by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck.


Question: Isekai novels and light novels or 1955 fantasy novels or Novels based on anime.

The Magician's Nephew
Carbonel: The King of the Cats
The Princess and the Pilot
Utsunomiko
The Return of the King
The Borrowers Afield
Brave Story
Woodpecker Detective's Office
The Blood-Stained God

Anime based on novels or Isekai novels and light novels or 1955 fantasy novels

a fantasy children's novel by C. S. Lewis, published in 1955 by The Bodley Head.

a children's book by Barbara Sleigh published in 1955 by Max Parrish in England and Bobbs-Merrill in the US. It is based on a folk tale from the British Isles "The King of the Cats" has two sequels

A girl named Rosemary buys a broom and a cat from Mrs Cantrip, an untidy woman in the market place. When to Rosemary's surprise the cat starts talking to her, she learns that the woman is a witch, selling her possessions to start a new career.

a 2008 Japanese light novel by Koroku Inumura. An anime film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas on 1 October 2011.

also written '''''Utsu no Miko''''', is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title.

It was published in 1955. The story begins in the kingdom of Gondor, which is soon to be attacked by the Dark Lord Sauron.

'''''The Borrowers Afield''''' is a children's fantasy novel by Mary Norton, published in 1955 by Dent in the UK and Harcourt in the US.

In 2006 the novel was re-released in two new editions, a three-volume softcover version of the earlier hardcover release intended for mature readers and a light novel version marketed for younger readers.

An anime television series adaptation by Liden Films

'''''The Blood-Stained God''''' is a 1955 fantasy novella


Question: 2011 or 2013 Irish novels, or Skulduggery Pleasant books

Skulduggery Pleasant books or 2013 Irish novels or 2011 Irish novels

young adult and fantasy novel written by Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in April 2010. It is the fourth of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and sequel to ''Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones''.

It is the seventh of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and sequel to ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Death Bringer''.

'''''Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men''''' is a young adult and fantasy novel written by Derek Landy, published in August 2013. It is the eighth of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and the sequel to ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked''.

The story follows the sorcerers/detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant as they team up with the Dead Men to uncover the conspiracy behind the war between the Sanctuaries. Meanwhile, an ancient being, Darquesse, is on the verge of rising to the surface and bringing about the end of the world.

In 2013 ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men'' won the Senior Irish Children's Book of the Year, and was released in the US and Canada in 2018. HarperCollins Audio published the unabridged audio book read by Rupert Degas.

It was published in December 2011 in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

a 2011 novel by the Irish writer Simon Ashe-Browne

a young adult fantasy novel written by Irish playwright Derek Landy and published in September 2011. It is the sixth of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and sequel to ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil''.

a 2013 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and the thirteenth in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.

'''''City of Bohane''''' is the debut novel by Ireland's Kevin Barry.

It is the first book in the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' sequel series, and tenth book in the franchise overall.

'''''Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light''''' is young adult and fantasy novel written by Irish author Derek Landy, published in August 2014

a 2011 novel by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and the eleventh in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.

a novel by the Irish novelist and filmmaker Neil Jordan published in 2011 by John Murray in the UK and Soft Skull Press in the US.

. It is the second of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and sequel to the novel of the same name.

It is the third of the ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' series and sequel to ''Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire''.

'''''Skulduggery Pleasant ''''' (also known as '''''Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients''''', or simply '''''The Scepter of the Ancients''''') is the debut novel of Irish playwright Derek Landy, published in April 2007.

'''''Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil''''' is young adult and fantasy novel

'''''The Guts''''' is a 2013 novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.

'''''On Canaan's Side''''' is a 2011 novel written by Irish playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry.


Question: Books that are by Hachette Books Group, about near-death experiences, or that are set in heaven.

Parallel Universes: A Memoir from the Edges of Space and Time

Hachette Books books or Books about near-death experiences or Novels set in heaven

Months after surviving the emergency surgery to remove his appendix, Colton shared the story of how he left his body during surgery and went to heaven. Colton began describing events and people that seemed impossible for him to have known about. Examples include knowledge of an unborn sister miscarried by his mother in 1998 and details of a great-grandfather who had died 30 years before Colton was born. Colton also explained how he met Jesus riding a rainbow-colored horse and sat in Jesus' lap while angels sang songs to him.

a 2010 ''New York Times'' best-selling Christian book

The book documents the author's several near-death experiences and purported visits to Heaven between 1954 and 1956;

a non-fiction Christian book and a personal and science memoir written by Linda Morabito Meyer, the NASA discoverer of the volcanic activity on Jupiter's Io.

First edition
'''''Sweet Dreams''''' is a 1973 novel by Michael Frayn. The book follows a middle-class intellectual man who dies and ends up in a middle-class intellectual version of heaven

'''Life After Life''''' is a 1975 book written by psychiatrist Raymond Moody. It is a report on a qualitative study in which Moody interviewed 150 people who had undergone near-death experiences (NDEs).

'''''Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing'''''

a 2003 novel by Mitch Albom. It follows the life and death of a ride mechanic named Eddie who is killed in an amusement park accident and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact on him while he was alive.

a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death

uring a suicide attempt with alcohol and pills in 1962, she has a Near death experience, leading her to the All Souls' Waiting Room, which is a copy of the city of Vienna, where psychoanalysis had been born, especially Sigmund Freud's counseling room, the Bibliothek (Library at the Hofburg), the Hotel Sacher and so on.

a 2002 half fiction, half non-fiction, autobiographical novel from Paki S. Wright.

''''The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection''''' is a non-fiction biography written by American author Joyce Smith, alongside contributor Ginger Kolbaba. The book, released on November 7, 2017, tells the story of Joyce's 14-year-old son John, who fell through icy Lake Sainte Louise, the smaller of two lakes in the community of Lake St. Louis, Missouri.

In March 2019, Lavin sold ''Culture Warlords'' to editor Paul Whitlatch at Hachette Books. It was published on October 13, 2020.

The book was published by Hachette Books

The book describes a near-death experience Alexander had while suffering from what should have been a fatal case of acute, gram-negative

The book documents the author's death and resurrection experience in 1989.

The book documented the near death experiences of 26 children and became a New York Times bestseller.

Closer to the Light documents real-life accounts of near death experiences in children.

a 1994 nonfiction book by Dannion Brinkley describing his purported near-death experience (NDE).

Alex commented online in 2011 that it was "one of the most deceptive books ever", as quoted by and wrote an extensive repudiation in an open letter to Christian bookstores in 2015, describing his near-death experience as a fabrication.

''''Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout''''' is an autobiography by Laura Jane Grace, co-written with ''Noisey'' editor Dan Ozzi and published by Hachette Books on November 15, 2016.


Question: Japanese fantasy novels, 1984 Japanese novels, or Animated films based on novels

Demon City Shinjuku
Brave Story
The Ark Sakura
Rakudai Majo
The Princess and the Pilot
Sim-Feng Shui
Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness
Penguin Highway
Kafka on the Shore
Night on the Galactic Railroad
Eternal Filena
Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales
The Deer King
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Utsunomiko
Kiki's Delivery Service (novel)
Musubi no Yama Hiroku

Japanese fantasy novels or Animated films based on novels or 1984 Japanese novels

a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi that was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) in 1988, directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri. The title has also been translated as ''Hell City Shinjuku'' and ''Monster City''. It was also released as two manga by ADV Manga in 2003 and 2004. The novel was also released in English in 2011 by Digital Manga Publishing, compiled with its sequel ''Demon Palace Babylon''.

The film was released in North America by Central Park Media in 1994

is a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi that was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) in 1988

These were intended to create interest in the animated film adaption by Gonzo released in Japan by Warner Bros. July 8, 2006.

'''''The Ark Sakura''''' (方舟さくら丸 ''Hakobune Sakura-maru'') is a novel by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. The novel's protagonist is a recluse who, convinced that the world will end soon, takes up residence in an abandoned mine and then attempts to sell tickets to his "ark" to people he deems worthy of saving from the apocalypse. The novel was originally published in 1984;

An anime film adaptation by Production I.G will open in Japan in Q2 2023.

is a 2008 Japanese light novel by Koroku Inumura. An anime film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas on 1 October 2011.

a supernatural fiction literary series about the exploits of a group of feng shui experts and their conflicts with various spiritual disturbances across Japan. Volume 4.0 of the series has been adapted into a live action film

'''''Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness''''' is the second book in the ''Moribito series'', a series of fantasy novels

a Japanese science fiction novel written by Tomihiko Morimi, published in 2010. A manga adaptation was serialized in Media Factory's ''Monthly Comic Alive'' from March 27, 2018 to February 27, 2019, and an anime film adaptation by Studio Colorido premiered in August 2018.

is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from ''The New York Times'' and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006.

The novel was adapted as a 1985 anime film of the same title as well as various stage musicals and plays

a fantasy light novel series by Takeshi Shudo (best known for writing the scripts for ''Magical Princess Minky Momo'' and ''Pokémon'') which was serialized in Japan in ''Animage'', illustrated by Akemi Takada.

'Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales''''' is a Japanese novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

It was first published in Japan in 1984, was published in English in 2005.

a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Nahoko Uehashi.

s a Japanese novel that was first published in July 1996. It is the first in the 12-volume series of Japanese fantasy novels by Nahoko Uehashi.

is a Japanese historical fantasy light novel

which was later adapted into an anime of the same title.

is the basis of the 1989 Studio Ghibli anime film of the same title and of the 2014 live action film

The novel is widely considered one of the masterpieces of Japanese fantasy literature.


Question: History books about Malaysia or the Qing dynasty or about South Korea

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles

History books about the Qing dynasty or Books about South Korea or History books about Malaysia

'''''Intellectual Trends in the Qing Period''''' or ''An Overview of Scholarship in Qing'' (), also translated as ''An Outline of Academic Studies in the Qing Dynasty'', ''General Review of Academics in Qing Dynasty'', is a book on the history of scholarship in the Qing dynasty by Liang Qichao that was started in 1902 and published in 1920.

Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908

Treason by the Book''''', by Jonathan Spence, is a historical account of the Zeng Jing (曾靜) case which took place during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of Qing China around 1730.

a 2004 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel describes the trip of a British academic on a trip to Seoul to give a paper at a conference.

First edition (publ. Grafton Books)
'''''Korea, A Walk Through the Land of Miracles''''' () is a book by Simon Winchester. He recounts his experience walking across South Korea,

an account of Malaysia from January 1957 to 31 August 2007. Published in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Malaysian Independence, this book provides an account of major news events that occurred during this 50-year period. It covers the events as they unfolded in an eye-witness manner as if they were newspaper stories written at that time.

a work of social criticism which focuses on the forced redevelopment of Hangbook-dong (행복동) in Seoul in the 1970s, and the human costs that accompanied it.

a South Korean novel written by Yi Munyol

t is a political allegory of Korea's transition from dictatorship to democracy, with themes of how totalitarianism can crush intellectual opposition, either by intimidation or assimilation.

'''''The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia''''' is a 2-volume history book published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) covering the history of Southeast Asia.


Question: Novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi or Miyuki Miyabe, or novels made into animated films.

Utsunomiko
A Wind Named Amnesia
All She Was Worth
Vampire Hunter D (novel)
The Princess and the Pilot
Vampire Hunter D: Throng of Heretics
Crossfire (novel)
Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales
Demon City Shinjuku
Brave Story

Novels by Hideyuki Kikuchi or Novels by Miyuki Miyabe or Animated films based on novels

a Japanese historical fantasy light novel series written by Keisuke Fujikawa (藤川桂介) and illustrated by Mutsumi Inomata, which was later adapted into an anime of the same title

The ''Utsunomiko'' anime film premiered in 1989, followed by a second anime film and a 13-episode OVA starting in 1990.

, also known as '''''The Wind of Amnesia''''' in Australia and the United Kingdom, is a Japanese novel authored by Hideyuki Kikuchi

'''''All She Was Worth''''' is a crime novel by Miyuki Miyabe

is a novel written by Japanese author Hideyuki Kikuchi.

a 2008 Japanese light novel by Koroku Inumura. An anime film adaptation was released in Japanese cinemas on 1 October 2011.

'''''Vampire Hunter D: Throng of Heretics''''' is a Japanese novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

is a novel by Miyuki Miyabe. The novel, published in Japan in 1998, and was published in English by Kodansha America in 2006.

'''''Vampire Hunter D: Raiser of Gales''''' is a Japanese novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi.

is a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi that was adapted into an original video animation (OVA) in 1988, directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.

is a Japanese fantasy novel written by Miyuki Miyabe.


Question: Novels by Wu Jianren that are set in Yunnan or Jiangsu

Jiuming Qiyuan
The Rice Sprout Song
The New Story of the Stone

Novels by Wu Jianren or Novels set in Yunnan or Novels set in Jiangsu

'''''Jiuming Qiyuan''''' (C: 九命奇冤, P: ''Jiǔmìng Qíyuān'', W: ''Chiu-ming ch'i-yüan'', "The Strange Case of Nine Murders") is a murder mystery novel by Wu Jianren (Wu Woyao). The book, as of 1982, is not available in English.

, even with the experience from the trip she took to the countryside of Jiangsu Province.

'''The New Story of the Stone''' (T: 新石頭記, S: 新石头记) is a novel composed by Chinese author Wu Jianren and published in 1905.


Question: Austrian historical novels, Novels by Hermann Hesse, or 1932 German-language novels.

Peter Camenzind
The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel)
The Man Without Qualities
Demian
Rosshalde
Klingsor's Last Summer
Siddhartha (novel)
Narcissus and Goldmund
Journey to the East
Der Hitlerjunge Quex
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
Love and Death in Bali
Beneath the Wheel
The Glass Bead Game
Radetzky March (novel)
Gertrud (novel)
Steppenwolf (novel)

Austrian historical novels or Novels by Hermann Hesse or 1932 German-language novels

'''''Peter Camenzind''''', published in 1904, was the first novel by Hermann Hesse.

'''''The Sleepwalkers''''' () is a 1930s novel in three parts, by the Austrian novelist and essayist Hermann Broch.

Together they present a panorama of German society and its progressive deterioration of values that culminated in defeat and collapse at the end of World War I.

'''''The Man Without Qualities''''' (; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.

a Bildungsroman by Hermann Hesse, first published in 1919; a prologue was added in 1960.

Emil Sinclair is the protagonist of the novel

a short novel by the German author Hermann Hesse.

a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha

a novel written by the German–Swiss author Hermann Hesse which was first published in 1930.

'''''Journey to the East''''' is a short novel by German author Hermann Hesse

a 1932 Nazi propaganda novel by Karl Aloys Schenzinger based on the life of Herbert “''Quex''” Norkus.

the novel's title was amended with the subtitle ''Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend'' ("A film about the sacrificial spirit of German youth").

a 1984 novel by the Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr. It tells the stories of the 1872–74 Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition, of a young Italian man who disappeared in 1981 while researching the expedition, and of the narrator, who tries to figure out what happened to the Italian.
The book was published in Germany in 1984

'''''Love and Death in Bali''''' (German:'''''Liebe und Tod auf Bali''''') is a 1937 novel by the Austrian writer Vicki Baum.

'''''Beneath the Wheel''''' ('''''Unterm Rad''''') is a 1906 novel written by Hermann Hesse.

'''''The Glass Bead Game''''' (, ) is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse.

'''Radetzky March''''' () is a 1932 family saga novel by Joseph Roth chronicling the decline and fall of Austria-Hungary via the story of the Trotta family.

'''''Gertrud''''' is a novel written by Hermann Hesse

is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse.


Question: Novels by Alan Duff, 1990 debut novels, or books based on Twin Peaks.

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (novel)

Novels by Alan Duff or 1990 debut novels or Books based on Twin Peaks

an epistolary (dossier-style) novel by Mark Frost, which provides background information on the history of the fictional town and characters from the television series ''Twin Peaks''

a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

In the end, it was this book done by two guys, who shared the money equally and did it for fun and wouldn't do it again for a big clock.

New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling first novel, published in 1990.

a crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and is her debut novel.

'Postmortem'', Patricia Cornwell's first novel, was published in 1990 following advice from editors at Mysterious Press to dump the then-male central character and to expand the character of Kay Scarpetta

a 1990 hardboiled mystery novel by Walter Mosley, his first published book.

a novel by Louis de Bernières, first published in 1990. It is the first of his Latin American trilogy

''''What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?''''' is a 1996 novel by Alan Duff.

Published after the broadcast of the 2017 series, it takes the form of a Federal Bureau of Investigation report written by Special Agent Tammy Preston for FBI Deputy Director Gordon Cole, on the fates and fortunes of various residents of Twin Peaks, and other individuals encountered during the revival of the show.

The book explores the legacy of the fictional character Laura Palmer, whose death was the precipitating event in the television show ''Twin Peaks. Laura's Ghost'' features interviews with and essays from women involved with ''Twin Peaks'' including Sheryl Lee, who played Laura Palmer, as well as actress Grace Zabriskie, and Jennifer Lynch, daughter of the series’ director David Lynch.

The novel was Klause's first; it was published on September 1, 1990, and was re-issued in 2009 with two bonus short stories by Klause

a children's or young-adult novel by Sharon Creech, published in the U.K. by Macmillan Children's Books in 1990. It was the American author's first book for children, completed at the midpoint of nearly two decades living in England and Switzerland.

'''''The Revelation''''' is horror author Bentley Little's first published novel. It was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for best novel by a new author in 1990.

''Jake's Long Shadow''''' is a novel by Alan Duff,

'''''The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer''''' is a 1990 spin-off novel from the television series ''Twin Peaks'' by Jennifer Lynch.


Question: Novels set in Hubei, Jiangxi, or Henan

Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (novel)

Novels set in Hubei or Novels set in Jiangxi or Novels set in Henan

'''''Dream of Ding Village''''' (, '''''Ding zhuang meng''''') is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. The 2011 English translation by Cindy Carter, published in the UK by Grove Press, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods-and-demons (''shenmo'') genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644).

i Chang's eldest son Bo Yikao comes to Zhaoge (present-day Hebi, Henan) to plead with King Zhou to release his father.

The story is set at the end of the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan, China.

Set in China towards the end of the Yuan dynasty, the story revolves around a pair of allegedly unrivalled weapons, the Heaven-Reliant Sword and Dragon-Slaying Saber, which are coveted by many martial artists.


Question: French novels from 1952 or 1963, or that are by Alain Robbe-Grillet

The Water of the Hills
Djinn (novel)
Planet of the Apes (novel)
Catherine (Benzoni novel)
La Jalousie
Pour un nouveau roman
Le Procès-Verbal
The Erasers

1953 French novels or Novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet or 1963 French novels

'''''The Water of the Hills''''' (''L'eau des Collines'') is the collective name for two novels by Marcel Pagnol, ''Jean de Florette'' and ''Manon des Sources'', both originally published in 1963

'''''Djinn''''' is a novel by French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet.

a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle.

'''''Catherine: One Love is Enough''''', first published in France as ''Il suffit d'un amour'' is the first of a series of seven historical romance novels written by the best-selling author Juliette Benzoni between 1963 and 1978.

'''''La Jalousie''''' (Jealousy) is a 1957 novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet.

is a 1963 collection of theoretical writings by French author Alain Robbe-Grillet.

'''''Le Procès-Verbal''''' (English title: ''The Interrogation'') is the debut novel of French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio, about a troubled man named Adam Pollo who "struggles to contextualize what he sees" and "to negotiate often disturbing ideas while simultaneously navigating through, for him, life’s absurdity and emptiness".


Question: what are Books by Malachi Martin, set in Vatican City, or set during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict?

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church

Books by Malachi Martin or Novels set in Vatican City or Novels set during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Rose is visited by two prominent churchmen, one a Cardinal Archbishop. The two propose to right the wrongs done to him, ordain him a priest, and take him to Rome where the Conclave to elect the new Pope has reached deadlock. When he arrives in Rome he finds that the Cardinals have been inspired, divinely or otherwise, to offer him the Papacy. He accepts, and since the only previous English Pope was Adrian (or Hadrian) IV, he takes the name Hadrian VII.

a 1904 novel by the English novelist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote under the pseudonym "Baron Corvo".

It is a thriller set thirty years after the death of Pope John Paul I, in which a journalist, Sarah Monteiro, receives menaces connected with the secrets of Vatican City and the Italian secret lodge Propaganda 2.

'''''The Shepherd's Granddaughter''''' is a children's novel by Anne Laurel Carter published in 2008. It provides a fictional account of the complex situation between the Jewish and Muslim communities in Palestine, which is seen through the eyes of Amani, a Palestinian girl six years old when the story begins, who sees the land of her ancestors stolen from her family

Meanwhile, a small group of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorists, enraged at the looming failure of their jihad against Israel, come across the lost Israeli bomb and use it to construct their own weapon by using the bomb's plutonium pit as fissile material for a new bomb.

During the first day of the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Israeli Defense Force (I.D.F.) prepares to conduct a tactical nuclear strike to stave off defeat

a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown

Langdon and Vittoria make their way to Vatican City, where the Pope has recently died.

The plot is set in the Vatican, where, in the aftermath of Pope John Paul II's death, the hunt for a serial killer and sex offender — and former priest — reveals a chilling conspiracy.

a bestselling thriller novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado originally published in Spain in 2006, and in English in 2007.

a 1981 non-fiction book by Catholic priest and author Malachi Martin.

a 1996 novel by Roman Catholic priest and theologian Malachi Martin.

he book charts the turmoil within the Catholic faith and within Vatican City.

Windswept House describes a satanic ritual – the enthronement of Lucifer – taking place at Saint Paul's Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963.

ther Blaise Meredith, an urbane and cultured English priest who has passed his unexceptional life at the Vatican

Jon Bennett, the senior advisor to the president, proposes to his girlfriend Erin McCoy while in Moscow to finalize the Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty that he helped create

The novel explores the conflict in the Middle East. It follows the story of two men who each lost a daughter. One is Palestinian, the other Israeli.
The story follows two real life figures: Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar and previous political prisoner.

a 2017 historical fiction novel by Palestinian-American author Hala Alyan.

''Salt Houses'' follows the story of four generations of the fictional Palestinian middle-class family, the Yacoubs. Beginning in 1963 and concluding in 2014, Alyan details the family's journey through the Six Day War (1967), the First Intifada (1987), the Gulf War (1990), the Second Intifada (2000), 9/11 (2001), and the 2006 Lebanon War.

He warns his friend Luigi Donati, the Pope’s personal secretary, in time to tighten security and personally investigate likely terrorist suspects among the Vatican’s staff.

First edition (publ. Simon & Schuster)
'''''The Keys of This Blood''''' is a 1990 non-fiction geopolitical book by former Catholic Jesuit priest Malachi Martin.


Question: Novels about Jack the Ripper, 1868 French novels, or French detective novels.

Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography

Novels about Jack the Ripper or 1868 French novels or French detective novels

a mystery pastiche novel written by David Stuart Davies, featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson in a story with ties to Jack the Ripper.

a 1992 mystery pastiche novel written by Edward B. Hanna, featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson investigating the Jack the Ripper murders.

'''''Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson''''' is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Lyndsay Faye which pits Sherlock Holmes against Jack the Ripper.

'''''Madeleine Férat''''' is an 1868 novel by the French writer Émile Zola.

a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1867–68.

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the ''Britannia''. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the ''Britannia'' is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. The government refuses to launch a rescue expedition, but Lord and Lady Glenarvan, moved by the children's condition, decide to do it by themselves.

a novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Émile Gaboriau, whom André Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction".

a 1984 novel written by American writer Robert Bloch.
The story is set during the reign of Queen Victoria and follows the investigation of Inspector Abberline in attempting to apprehend Jack the Ripper and includes some characters based on real-life Victorians such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the storyline.

The story is based on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, committed by Jack the Ripper.

The two, half-brothers with the same father (the infamous Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper) share a horrible affliction thanks to the powerful elixir that gives them near-eternal life.

a French poetic novel, or a long prose poem. It was written and published between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the ''nom de plume'' of the Uruguayan-born French writer Isidore Lucien Ducasse.

Spike and the current Slayer of 1888 form an alliance to battle ''Jack the Ripper'', a prostitute-murdering madman.

a 1979 science fiction novel by American writer Karl Alexander. Its plot speculates what might have happened if H. G. Wells had built a real time machine to travel to the 1970s in search of Jack the Ripper.

. Wallas, a newly promoted investigator, tries to unearth those responsible for the assassination, despite there being no body recovered by the police.

'''''Back to Whitechapel''''' (''Retour à Whitechapel'' in French) is a historical detective novel based on the story of Jack the Ripper, written by French author Michel Moatti, and published by Editions Hervé Chopin, Paris, in 2013.

In many ways, ''Djinn'' resembles a detective fiction novel

In the novel, Rennison postulates that Sherlock Holmes was involved in various historical events, including the Jack the Ripper case


Question: 1914 speculative fiction novels, 1914 fantasy novels, or 1914 French novels.

The Revolt of the Angels
The Flying Inn
Locus Solus
The World Set Free
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Warlord of Mars
At the Earth's Core (novel)
The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed
The Gray Cloth
Angel Island (novel)
The Beasts of Tarzan

1914 speculative fiction novels or 1914 fantasy novels or 1914 French novels

'''''The Revolt of the Angels''''' () is a 1914 novel by Anatole France.
''Revolt'' retells the classic Christian story of the war in heaven between angels led by the Archangel Michael against others led by Satan. The war ends with the defeat and casting to the earth of the latter. The plot emphasises themes of protagonists fighting a ruling hierarchy, and attempting to escape it, as well as "hiddenness, delusion, revolution, and epiphany...a literary exploration of existential choices in an apocalyptic context". It is written, says René Boylesve, with a "deft levity". Mutual antagonism between God and his angels is emphasised, which leads to disgruntlement and ultimately rebellion by the latter.

a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. It is set in a future England where the temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country

'''''Locus Solus''''' is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel.

a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen.

Wells's "atomic bombs" have no more force than ordinary high explosive and are rather primitive devices detonated by a "bomb-thrower" biting off "a little celluloid stud." They consist of "lumps of pure Carolinum" that induce "a blazing continual explosion" whose half-life is seventeen days, so that it is "never entirely exhausted," so that "to this day the battle-fields and bomb fields of that frantic time in human history are sprinkled with radiant matter, and so centres of inconvenient rays.

the eighth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in ''The Road to Oz'') to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.

The endpapers of the first edition held maps: one of Oz itself, and one of the continent on which Oz and its neighboring countries belonged. These were the first maps printed of Oz.
Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a small monarchy separated from the rest of Oz's Winkie Country, sets out to raise an army to conquer Oz.

a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series

he finished story was first published in ''All-Story Magazine'' as a four-part serial in the issues for December, 1913-March, 1914.

'''''At the Earth's Core''''' is a 1914 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar.

fantasy novel written by Welsh author and theosophist Kenneth Morris under the pseudonym Cenydd Morus, a Celticized version of his name, and illustrated by R. Machell. It was first published in hardcover by Aryan Theosophical Press, Point Loma, California, in 1914

'''''The Gray Cloth with Ten Percent White: A Ladies' Novel''''' (in German, ''Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß: Ein Damenroman'') is an avant-garde novel by the fantasist and visionary writer Paul Scheerbart, first published in 1914.

'''''Angel Island''''' is a science fiction/fantasy novel by American feminist author, journalist and suffragette Inez Haynes Irwin, writing under the name Inez Haynes Gillmore.

It was originally published by Henry Holt in January 1914.

''The Beasts of Tarzan'' was serialized in ''All Story'' in 1914.


Question: Novels set in The Zhou Dynasty, Northern Song, or Henan

Dream of Ding Village
Sword of the Yue Maiden
The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants
Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms
Investiture of the Gods
Water Margin
Jin Ping Mei
Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

Novels set in the Zhou dynasty or Novels set in the Northern Song or Novels set in Henan

a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke

It is a story based on the blood sales in rural Henan province that sparked a major AIDS crisis in China

The story is set in southern China during the Spring and Autumn period, against the backdrop of the conflict between the states of Wu and Yue.

Set in 11th-century Song dynasty, the story detailed the rise of legendary judge Bao Zheng to high office, and how a group of ''youxia'' (knights-errant)—each with exceptional martial talent and selfless heroism—helped him fight crimes, oppression, corruption and rebellion.

Set in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the novel starts from the Chinese kingdom beginning to break apart into smaller states and ends with the first unification of the land accomplished by Qin Shi Huang.

The story is set in the era of the decline of the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC).

one of the earliest Chinese novels written in vernacular Mandarin and is attributed to Shi Nai'an

The tragic story, set in Northern Song dynasty (around 1120), tells of how a group of 108 outlaws gather at Mount Liang (or ''Liangshan'' Marsh) to rebel against the government.

during the Northern Song dynasty), centers on Ximen Qing (西門慶), a corrupt social climber and lustful merchant who is wealthy enough to marry six wives and concubines.

The novel is primarily set in the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) of China, but its setting also covers the non-Han empires of Liao, Dali, Western Xia and Tibet.


Question: Novels that are set in Jiangxi, the Ming dynasty, or Zhejiang

The Ten Thousand Things (Spurling novel)

Novels set in Jiangxi or Novels set in the Ming dynasty or Novels set in Zhejiang

'''''The Ten Thousand Things''''' is a historical novel by author and playwright John Spurling, based on life of 14th-century Chinese artist Wang Meng during the Yuan dynasty. It was published by Duckworth Overlook in 2014 and won the Walter Scott Prize in 2015. Spurling worked on the book for over fifteen years and in the process his work was rejected by 44 publishers.
The book narrates the life of artist Wang Meng, and life in general of people during the Yuan dynasty. As the Yuan dynasty, founded by Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire, was the first foreign empire to rule a large part of China, the themes of loyalty and a non-native ruler form major parts of the novel. Spurling describes the dilemmas in the minds of Wang and other artists, including Wang's maternal grandfather Zhao Mengfu, regarding loyalty towards the foreign ruler.

'''''Cu hulu''''' (), known in English as '''''The Jealous Wife''''', is a Chinese novella written in the Ming dynasty by an unknown author.

'''''Stories about Ming Dynasty''''' () is a novel gathering the internet-posted messages with about the Ming Dynasty by Dangnian Mingyue (当年明月) whose real name is Shi Yue (石悅).

In the story, more than 500 people from early-21st-century China intentionally travel back in time via wormhole to the Chongzhen-era late Ming dynasty in 1628 AD.

The story is set in 17th-century China towards the end of the Ming dynasty.

Set in the Ming period, ''The Scholars'' describes and often satirizes academic scholars.

a Chinese novel written by Wu Jingzi and published in 1750 during the Qing dynasty.

While the book's authorship is attributed to Shi Nai'an (1296–1372), there were references laid out in the book that did not exist until the Jiajing reign (1521-1567) of Ming dynasty, sparking a long-lasting academic debate on when it was actually written and which historical events the author had witnessed that inspired him to write the book.

a 17th-century Korean novel by Kim Man-jung set in the Ming dynasty of China.

The novel is set in China towards the end of the Ming dynasty.

Predominantly set in Ming dynasty Guangzhou,

The '''''Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms''''' () is a Chinese historical novel written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty.


Question: 2004 Italian novels or about secret societies or books by Umberto Eco

Assandira
The Crying of Lot 49
Numero Zero
The Infinity of Lists
Foucault's Pendulum
The Island of the Day Before
Serendipities
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
Baudolino
Reconstructing Amelia
Before We Say Goodbye
The Patience of the Spider
The Prague Cemetery
On Ugliness
The Day of the Jackal
Kant and the Platypus
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

2004 Italian novels or Novels about secret societies or Books by Umberto Eco

'''''Assandira''''' is a novel by Giulio Angioni, published in 2004 by Sellerio.

Based on the symbolism of the mute, Oedipa theorizes that Trystero continues to exist as a countercultural secret society with unknown goals.

the seventh novel by Italian author and philosopher Umberto Eco and his final novel released during his lifetime.

'''''The Infinity of Lists''''' is a book by Umberto Eco

'''''Foucault's Pendulum''''' (original title: ''Il pendolo di Foucault'' ) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

a 1994 historical fiction novel by Umberto Eco set in the 17th century during the historical search for the secret of longitude.

'''''Serendipities: Language and Lunacy''''' (originally published in English, translated by William Weaver) is a 1998 collection of essays by Umberto Eco.

'''''The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana''''' (original Italian title: ''La Misteriosa Fiamma della Regina Loana'') is a novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco.

Baudolino''''' is a 2000 novel by Umberto Eco

Through Amelia's narrations and Kate's investigations the reader discovers that Amelia was recruited into the Magpies or "Maggies", a secret society that required her to perform several acts as part of a hazing ritual, which includes taking suggestive photographs in her underwear.

a 2004 novel by Gabriella Ambrosio. The work is based on the 2002 Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing and narrates the final hours in the lives of the suicide bomber and her victims.

''''' The Patience of the Spider''''' (orig. Italian ''La pazienza del ragno'') is a 2004 novel

'''''The Prague Cemetery''''' () is a novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It was first published in October 2010; the English translation by Richard Dixon appeared a year later.

'''''On Ugliness''''' () is a 2007 essay by Italian author Umberto Eco

about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation

'''''Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition''''' () is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as ''Kant e l'ornitorinco'' in 1997.


Question: Novels from 1797, 1910 French novels, or French Gothic novels

Hyperion (Hölderlin novel)
Juliette (novel)
The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
The Phantom of the Opera
What Never Dies
Siebenkäs
The Italian (Radcliffe novel)
Bungay Castle (novel)
The Blue Peril
Azemia
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Justine (de Sade novel)
The Algerine Captive
The Vagabond (novel)

1797 novels or French Gothic novels or 1910 French novels

'''''Hyperion''''' is an epistolary novel by German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Originally published in two volumes in 1797

'''''Juliette''''' is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797–1801, accompanying Sade's 1797 version of his novel ''Justine''.

'''''The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey''''' is a gothic novel first published in 1797 in one octavo volume by the sensationalist Minerva Press of London.

'''''The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz''''' (French: ''Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz'') is a fantasy novel by Jules Verne, published by Louis-Jules Hetzel in 1910.

'''''The Phantom of the Opera''''' (French: '''''Le Fantôme de l'Opéra''''') is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in ''Le Gaulois'' from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte.

'''''What Never Dies''''' () is an 1884 novel by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly.

The narrative uses techniques from the Gothic novel and its French counterpart, the "roman frénétique".

a German Romantic novel by Jean Paul, published in Berlin in three volumes between 1796 and 1797

The plot starts in Naples, Italy in the 18th century, in the church of Santa Maria del Pianto, where an English traveller is speaking with an Italian friar.

a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe.

'''''Bungay Castle''''' is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte, first published in 1797.

a 1910 French science fiction novel by Maurice Renard.

'''''Azemia''''' is a satirical novel, written by William Thomas Beckford, that was first published in 1797. T

a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

published anonymously in 1797 by early American author Royall Tyler.

'''''The Vagabond''''' () is a 1910 novel by the French writer Colette.


Question: 1891 debut novels, Indian novels adapted into plays, or that are set in Värmland

Gösta Berling's Saga
Saraswatichandra (novel)
Khirer Putul
Umrao Jaan Ada
Gulabsinh
Malela Jeev
The Emperor of Portugallia
Kosala (novel)
The Light That Failed
Five Point Someone
Karan Ghelo
Ame Badha

Novels set in Värmland or Indian novels adapted into plays or 1891 debut novels

the debut novel of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1891.

'''''Saraswatichandra''''' () is a Gujarati novel by Govardhanram Madhavaram Tripathi, an author of early twentieth century from Gujarat, India.

It was adapted into several plays, radio plays, films and TV series.

It was also adapted into a play by the Indian theatre group Nandikar in 2017, with Anindita Chakraborty as its director.

a children's fantasy novel written by Abanindranath Tagore in 1896.

Adapted into two plays (''Pratap Lakshmi'' in 1914 and ''Siddha Satyendra'' in 1917), the novel – despite its flaws – is considered to have a significant place in Gujarati literature.

an 1897 Gujarati supernatural novel by Manilal Dwivedi (1858–1898),

a Gujarati language romance novel written by Pannalal Patel.

The novel has also been adapted into several films and plays. ''Ulajhan'' directed by N. R. Acharya was the first Gujarati film adaptation of the novel.

The novel takes place in 1860 or 1870 in Lagerlöf's native Värmland and is about the tenant farmer Jan in Skrolycka and his daughter Glory Goldie Sunnycastle.

''Kosala'' has been adapted into a play, ''Me, Pandurang Sangavikar'' ( I am Pandurang Sangavikar), directed by Mandar Deshpande.

the first novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling, first published in ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine'' in January 1891

a 2004 novel written by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The book sold over a million copies worldwide. The films ''3 Idiots'' and ''Nanban'' are based on the book. It was also adapted into a play by the theatre company Evam.

The book was well received and was translated in Marathi and English. It was adapted into plays and films.

a Gujarati historical novel by Nandshankar Mehta

Dhansukhlal Mehta adapted the novel into a one-act play, ''Sari Jatu Surat'' (1942).

a Gujarati humorous novel co-authored by Dhansukhlal Mehta and Jyotindra Dave, published in 1935.


Question: 2006 or 2007 Chinese novels or by Mo Yan

Dream of Ding Village
Rush to the Dead Summer
Red Sorghum (novel)
Frog (novel)
Song in the Clouds
Stories about Ming Dynasty
Ballad of the Desert
Peach Blossom Debt
Sandalwood Death
The Republic of Wine
Pow! (novel)
Daomu Biji
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Brothers (Yu novel)
Ghost Blows Out the Light
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out

2006 Chinese novels or 2007 Chinese novels or Novels by Mo Yan

'''''Dream of Ding Village''''' (, '''''Ding zhuang meng''''') is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke.

a novel written by Guo Jingming. It was first published in 2006 by Chunfeng Literature and Art Press.

'''''Song in the Clouds''''', also known as '''''Yun Zhongge''''' (), is a novel by Tong Hua. It was published in 2007

It was first posting on the internet forum Tianya Club by Dangnian Mingyue on March 10, 2006.

a two-volume Chinese Han dynasty romance novel written by author Tong Hua. Both parts were published by Henan Literature Publishers sequentially in 2006 and 2007.

a danmei fictional novel written by Da-Feng-Gua-Guo (Chinese: 大风刮过). It was first serialized on Jinjiang (http://www.jjwxc.net/) from January 2007 to August 2007 and first published by Uei-Shiang Co., Ltd. in Taiwan.

'''''Sandalwood Death''''' () is a 2001 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan.

'''''The Republic of Wine: A Novel''''' () is a satirical novel by Mo Yan, which was first published in 1992.

2003 novel by the Chinese author and Nobel laureate Mo Yan.

Written over a span of five years and published as nine separate novels, it is one of the most popular novel series in China from 2007 with several million fans and over 20 million copies sold.

'''''Brothers''''' (simplified Chinese: 兄弟; pinyin: Xiōngdì) is the longest novel written by the Chinese novelist Yu Hua, in total of 76 chapters, separately published in 2005 for the part 1 (of the first 26 chapters) and in 2006 for part 2 (of the rest 50 chapters) by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.

'''''Gui Chui Deng (Ghost Blows Out the Light)''''' (), also referred to as '''''Candle in the Tomb''''', is a fantasy novel series written by (天下霸唱) about a team of grave robbers seeking hidden treasure, with the first book published online in March 2006.

'''''Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out''''' () is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan.


Question: books from 1569 or 1559, or 1789 non-fiction books

The History of the Reformation in Scotland

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

1569 books or 1559 books or 1789 non-fiction books

a complex document, assembled, edited, and appended over decades. Essentially it is three integral texts: (1) in Nahuatl; (2) a Spanish text; (3) pictorials. The final version of the Florentine Codex was completed in 1569

'''''Hortus Kewensis, or a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew''''' by William Aiton was a 1789 catalogue of all the plant species then in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which constituted the vast majority of plant species in cultivation in all of England. It included information on the country of origin, who introduced the plant into English cultivation, and when. It is therefore now one of the most important sources of information on history of horticulture in England.

a work of prose fiction, generally considered to be the first Croatian novel. It was written by Petar Zoranić in 1536 and published posthumously in Venice in 1569.

a five-volume book written by the Scottish reformer, John Knox, between 1559 and 1566.
In 1559 during the Scottish Reformation, the leaders of the Protestant nobility, the Lords of the Congregation, asked Knox to write a history of the movement. This short pamphlet became the second book of the ''History''.

an ecclesiastical history, divided into thirteen ''centuries'', covering thirteen hundred years, ending in 1298; it was first published from 1559 to 1574.

The first three folio volumes of the work appeared in 1559 at Basel.

The treatise was dedicated in 1789 to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany.

a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French writer and clergyman Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836)

a book by the English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham "originally printed in 1780, and first published in 1789." Bentham's "most important theoretical work," it is where Bentham develops his theory of utilitarianism and is the first major book on the topic.

first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.

'''''The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne''''', or just '''''The Natural History of Selborne''''' is a book by English parson-naturalist Gilbert White (1720–1793). It was first published in 1789 by his brother Benjamin.

'''''Traité élémentaire de chimie''''' ('''''Elementary Treatise on Chemistry''''') is a textbook written by Antoine Lavoisier published in 1789