Question: 1990's totalitarianism books, that aren't about Nazism

1990s books that are also Books about totalitarianism but not Books about Nazism

It was written between 1989 and 1996, and first edition was published in 1996.

'''''A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924''''' is a history book by British historian Orlando Figes on the Russian Revolution and the years leading up to it.

However, her idealism did not survive the harsh realities and hypocrisy she saw in the China of the 1970s, and she abandoned her support of Maoism.

'''''The Appointment''''' () is a novel by German author Herta Müller. The novel was originally published in German in 1997 and later in English by Metropolitan Books and Picador, a Macmillan imprint, in 2001.

''The Appointment'' portrays the humiliations of Communist Romania, told from the perspective of a young woman working as a clothing-factory worker who has been summoned by the secret police.

1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and artificially created famines.

The authors use the term ''Communism'' to mean Leninist and Marxist–Leninist communism, i.e. the actually existing Communist regimes and "real socialism" of the 20th century; they distinguish it from small-c communism, which has existed for millennia, while capital-c Communism began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, which Stéphane Courtois describes as a coup.

It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback. It is a reader in the Oxford Readers series, which assembles the writings of various authors on the topic of fascism and the far-right. It serves as an English-language source book to introduce readers to pre-fascist anti-liberalism, interwar fascism in Italy and Germany, as well as associated international variants of fascism from Argentina to Japan.

'The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 19321939''''' is a political history of the Soviet Union from 19321939 written by John Archibald Getty III and Oleg V. Naumov. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1999, it was reissued as an updated and abridged version in 2010 and is part of the Annals of Communism series.

'''''The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe''''' was published by Oxford University Press, New York in 1993 and is a work of non-fiction based on events in Eastern Europe from 1968 to 1991.

a 1990 book on U.S. history by Robin D. G. Kelley. It describes labor, racial and social history in Alabama during the Great Depression, focusing on black communist organizing. In particular ''Hammer and Hoe'' describes the way black workers brought existing traditions of resistance to racial oppression to their development of a unique version of Marxism.

a biography of Joseph Stalin by author and historian Robert Conquest. It was published in 1991 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Penguin Books.

Originally completed in 1996, it was not published until 1999.

The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional, fascist, totalitarian Japanese government known as the Republic of Greater East Asia.

'''''The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective''''' is a 1990 book by a professor of International Affairs, Simon Reich.


Question: Non-American Children's fiction medical books

Before I Die
Ways to Live Forever
The Illustrated Mum
In the Ceiling the Stars Are Shining
A Monster Calls
Two Weeks with the Queen
The Crazy Man

Medical books that are also Children's fiction books but not American children's books

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Tessa is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

'''''Ways to Live Forever''''' is a 2008 children's novel by Sally Nicholls, first published in 2008.

A couple of weeks later, the doctors realize the medication isn't working as well and Sam makes the decision to stop all medication; Sam was sick and tired of taking things that never worked on him so he gave up Sam finishes his list of "Things to do" and about a month later he has a dream

'''''The Illustrated Mum''''' is a children's novel by English author Jacqueline Wilson, first published by Transworld in 1999 with drawings by Nick Sharratt. Set in London, the first person narrative by a young girl, Dolphin, features her manic depressive mother Marigold, nicknamed "the illustrated mum" because of her many tattoos.

The book won the prestigious August Prize as the best Swedish children's and youth's book of 2003.

a Swedish novel by Johanna Thydell, published in 2003. The book is about thirteen-year-old Jenna Wilson, who is unpopular at school and whose mother is dying of breast cancer.

Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's illness. He is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Dowd was terminally ill with cancer when she came up with the idea for the story, and died before she could write it.

a low fantasy novel written for young adults by Patrick Ness (from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd) illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker in 2011

'''''Two Weeks with the Queen''''' is a 1990 novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It focuses on a boy named Colin Mudford, who is sent to live with relatives in England, while his brother is being treated for cancer.

''The Crazy Man'' is set in 1965 in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pamela Porter reinforces the harsh times by incorporating day-to-day life during the Vietnam War, Communism, and The Cold War.


Question: Libertarian and Science books but not about capitalism

Saturn's Children (Duncan and Hobson book)

Science books that are also Libertarian books but not Books about capitalism

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The book courted political controversy due to Alan Duncan's role as a Conservative MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Brian Mawhinney. As a consequence, many of the book's stridently libertarian messages disagreed with the position of Duncan's party, which, at the time, was suffering considerable internal divisions, culminating in a leadership contest in 1995.

''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.

* Austrian Economics: A review of the 19th century philosophy underlying much of today's free-market economic outlook.
* Demagogues: The bad guys in the bipartisanship debate, focusing on the "despicable" Pledge of Allegiance and flag-burning issues rampant among Republican demagogues. There's also a chapter on bipartisanship, which Paul doesn't like (a failure of bipartisanship means fewer bad laws).
* Empire: Paul outlines the dangers of military over-extension from the Roman Empire and connects that to the current American Empire. Throughout the book, Paul tosses in statistics about American imperialism and worldwide militarism such as "Government wars and exterminations in the 20th century reached 262 million people killed by their own governments and 44 million people killed in wars." (p. 107)
* Keynesianism: This is the philosophical opposite of Austrian Economics, and is the current underlying philosophy of Bush's & Obama's economic stimulus package,

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 non-fiction book by libertarian radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Congressman John Linder, published on August 2, 2005, as a tool to increase public support and understanding for the FairTax plan.

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

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.

a 1949 American post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George R. Stewart. The novel tells the story of the fall of civilization from deadly disease and the emergence of a new culture with simpler tools.

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).

'''''Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia''''' (1976) is a science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany.

In the novel's future Solar System, Neptune's moon Triton supports one of several human societies independent from Earth, which has developed along radically libertarian lines in some ways: though a representative government exists, it has virtually no power to regulate private behavior, and citizens may choose to live in an area where no laws apply at all.

'''''The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party''''' (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) is a book by libertarian political columnist Ryan Sager.


Question: 1960s books about the media but not about creativity

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes

1960s books that are also Books about the media but not Books about creativity

'''''The Society of the Spectacle''''' () is a 1967

The main character in the novel is Freek Groenevelt, a 37-year-old journalist living in Antwerp.

'''''The Crying Game''''' is a 1968 novel by British novelist John Braine. It is a satirical story about a conservative journalist whose life changes after he learns of a political scandal.

It has no connection with the film of the same name.

a 1967 satirical novel by Michael Frayn about journalists working on a British newspaper during the heyday of Fleet Street.

'''''The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception''''' (''Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie du regard médical'', 1963), by Michel Foucault, presents the development of ''la clinique'', the teaching hospital, as a medical institution, identifies and describes the concept of ''Le regard médical'' (“the medical gaze”), and the epistemic re-organisation of the research structures of medicine in the production of medical knowledge, at the end of the eighteenth century.

'''''Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man''''' is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study.

a reference book by Bjo Trimble about the television series ''Star Trek''. The first edition was self-published in 1969. A mass-market edition was published in 1976. The 1976 edition contains summaries from every episode of ''The Original Series'' and ''The Animated Series'', as well as an encyclopedia of characters and technology from the series. It was used as a reference (show bible) for later writers of the show.

'''''The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences''''' (''Les mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines'', 1966)

a book first published in 1967 and based on an exhibition in 1963.

'''''PMM''''', as it is usually abbreviated, is regarded as a standard bibliographical reference, and offers a survey of the impact of printed books on the development of western civilization. The book developed from an exhibition put on at two locations to coincide with the 1963 International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition (IPEX)

a book co-created by media analyst Marshall McLuhan and graphic designer Quentin Fiore, with coordination by Jerome Agel. It was published by Bantam books in 1967 and became a bestseller with a cult following.

French edition: 1962) is a book on the subject of propaganda by French philosopher, theologian, legal scholar, and sociologist Jacques Ellul.

'''''The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man''''' is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author analyzes the effects of mass media


Question: Contemporary fantasy romance novels, that aren't Urban fantasy

Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian

Romance novels that are also Contemporary fantasy novels but not Urban fantasy novels

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The novel directly follows the events of the previous novel, ''Eclipse'', as Bella and Edward Cullen get married, leaving behind a heartbroken Jacob.

a 2005 young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book in the ''Twilight'' series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body

'''''Fifty Shades of Grey''''' is a 2011 erotic romance novel

She also made serums to immunise trolls against faerie magic, and reveals that Yuki pulled the location of the gate out of Laurel's mind—which was why Laurel kept getting headaches.

Jamison takes the Tamani and the others to the Winter Palace, and asks David what he knows about King Arthur.

"Pike's clever and innovative way of reinventing fairy tales and myths to make them her own is wonderful...The story is rich in vivid details, action, adventure, and romance."

It tells the story of a newborn vampire, Bree Tanner, who is featured in the third book of the series, ''Eclipse'' (2007).

The story begins with Bree and Diego hunting for human blood in Seattle, Washington.

"In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion."

It follows Pike's #1 ''New York Times'' best-selling debut, ''Wings'', which introduced readers to Laurel Sewell, a faerie sent among humans to guard the gateway to Avalon, and the direct sequel, ''Spells''.

Illusions has it all. It's fascinating, rich, and romantic, and weaves a great new tapestry of thrilling fantasy." ''Booklist'' wrote, "The Wings series continues with a twist. A dramatic conclusion will leave readers anxious for the next installment."

'''''Spells''''' is a fantasy novel by author Aprilynne Pike.

'''''New Moon''''' (stylized as '''''new moon''''') is a 2006 romantic fantasy novel by author Stephenie Meyer, and is the second novel in the ''Twilight'' series.

'''''Gabriel's Inferno''''' is an erotic romance novel by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.

''''Midnight Sun''''' is a 2020 companion novel to the 2005 book ''Twilight'' by author Stephenie Meyer.


Question: 2012 English books that are not about Europe.

The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England

2012 books that are also English books but not Books about Europe

ascars''''' () is a 2012 historical novel

'''''The Sins of the Father''''' is the second of the seven parts of the Clifton Chronicles by British author Jeffrey Archer. The book was published worldwide in 2012.

'''''Gossip from the Forest: the Tangled Roots of our Forests and Fairytales''''' is a 2012 book

'''''Some Kind of Fairy Tale''''' is a 2012 novel by the British author Graham Joyce.

'''''The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry''''' is a novel by Rachel Joyce, published in 2012. Joyce's first novel, it was a long-list finalist (top 12) for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, and Joyce won the UK National Book Award for New Writer of the Year for the book. It was also the best-selling hardback book in the UK from a new novelist in 2012.

'''''In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World''''' is a 2012 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart , published by Basic Books.

In the book Stewart traced a history of the role of mathematics in human history, beginning with the Pythagorean theorem (Pythagorean equation) to the equation that transformed the twenty-first century financial market, the Black–Scholes model.

A Wanted Man''''' is the seventeenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published on 30 August 2012 in the United Kingdom, Australia, & New Zealand and on 11 September 2012 in the USA & Canada. ''A Wanted Man'' won the "Thriller & Crime Novel of the Year" award by the National Book Awards.


Question: 2000s space opera science fiction novels that are not set in fictional locations

Gardens of the Sun
Saturn's Children (novel)
Debatable Space
Matter (novel)
Agent of Vega
The Quiet War
Empire from the Ashes
Diplomatic Immunity (novel)

2000s science fiction novels that are also Space opera novels but not Novels set in fictional locations

'''''Gardens of the Sun''''' is a 2009 science fiction novel by Paul J. McAuley.

The Outers, by contrast, survive by terraforming the moons of Jupiter and the other outer planets and practicing genetic engineering, which caused ideological tension with Greater Brazil, ultimately flaring into a full-scale conflict called the "Quiet War".

Having narrowly avoided the destruction of Earth's ecosystems, the feudal Greater Brazil attempted to return most of the planet to a "natural" state, to the extent that most of Earth's population inhabits a few megacities.

a 2008 science fiction novel by British author Charles Stross. Stross called it "a space opera and late-period Robert A. Heinlein|Robert A. Heinlein tribute", specifically to Heinlein's 1982 novel ''Friday''.

a near-feudal android society has spread throughout the galaxy.

'''''Debatable Space''''' is a 2008 science fiction novel by novelist and screenwriter Philip Palmer.

The book follows the experiences of three members of the royal household of the Sarl, a feudal, early-industrial humanoid race living on the eighth level of the Shellworld of Sursamen. Constructed for an unknown purpose by a long-dead race called the Veil, Shellworlds are ancient artificial planets consisting of nested concentric spheres internally lit by tiny thermonuclear "stars".

In the far future, humans are building a "Confederacy of Vega" to replace the original fallen Empire of Earth. The new empire includes some mutated humans and also some non-humans. Enemies are also a mix of humans and aliens and it is very much space opera, featuring Vega's 'zone agents'.

a 2008 science fiction novel written by Paul McAuley. It was initially published by Gollancz on 16 October 2008. The novel was an Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee in 2009.
''The Quiet War'' is a space opera set in the 23rd Century.

The Earthly superpowers have struggled to rebuild the planet. The most powerful and aggressive superpower is Greater Brazil, a nation controlling both South America and the remains of North America. North America has been devastated by climate change, which caused the destruction of civilization there, with few cities left populated.

is an omnibus collection of science fiction novels by American writer David Weber.

Published in 2003 by Baen Books,

The trilogy's protagonist is Colin MacIntyre, who is on a routine training flight over the Moon

'''Diplomatic Immunity''''' is a 2002 science fiction novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold, part of the Vorkosigan Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 2003.


Question: American novels for young adults set in school but not high school or secondary school

Winger (novel)
The It Girl (novel)
A Separate Peace
Children of the Fleet
And Both Were Young
Anna and the French Kiss
Bloomability
A Wizard of Earthsea
Space Station Seventh Grade
Fangirl (novel)
Etiquette & Espionage
Out of My Mind (Draper novel)
Emergency Contact (novel)
Nightmare Academy
Looking for Alaska

American young adult novels that are also Novels set in schools but not Novels set in high schools and secondary schools

a young adult fiction novel written by American author Andrew A. Smith.

The narrator, Ryan Dean West is a fourteen-year-old junior at a boarding school for rich kids

It was written in 2005 by a ghostwriter with suggestions from Cecily von Ziegesar. It is a spin-off from the ''Gossip Girl'' series aimed toward young adults. The book follows Jenny Humphrey as she enrolls at an elite boarding school in Upstate New York.

Gene Forrester returns to his old prep school, Devon (a thinly veiled portrayal of Knowles's alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy)

is set in Battle School, which has been renamed to Fleet School, a school run by Hyrum Graff where kids learn how to become commanders of the colonies they will lead and form on other planets. The protagonist and lead character is 10-year-old Dabeet Ochoa.

'''''Children of the Fleet''''' is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card.

It tells the story of an American girl at boarding school in Switzerland, not long after World War II, and the relationship she develops with a French boy she meets there, who cannot remember his past due to trauma he suffered in the war.

Anna Oliphant is a senior in high school who is forced by her father to attend the fictional boarding school 'School of America in Paris' – nicknamed SOAP by students. She is heavily against having to leave Atlanta for Paris, specifically due to leaving her best friend, Bridgette, and Toph, her almost boyfriend, who worked with her in a multiplex and the two shared a kiss before her leaving for Paris.

'''''Bloomability''''' is a children's book by Sharon Creech, first published in 1998; the main character is Dinnie Doone, a young girl who at the start of the novel lives with her semi-nomadic family in the modern-day United States of America. She is given the opportunity to attend a boarding school in Lugano, Switzerland, where the majority of the storyline takes place.

ters on a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont. He displays great power while still a boy and joins a school of wizardry, where his prickly nature drives him into conflict with a fellow student.

'''''Space Station Seventh Grade''''' is a young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli,

Cath, along with her more outgoing twin sister, Wren, begins studying as a freshman at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

a young adult novel by Rainbow Rowell, published in 2013.

'''''Etiquette & Espionage''''' is a young adult steampunk novel by Gail Carriger.

a novel by Sharon M. Draper, a ''New York Times'' bestselling author.

The book is recommended for ages 10 and up and for grades 5–8.

Melody's mother enrolls her in Spaulding St. Elementary School to get the education she needs. However, the class she is put in, Class H–5, is like a baby class, learning the same things every day, i.e., the alphabet. Melody is frustrated by this, due to having far superior knowledge but cannot speak or write.

'''''Emergency Contact''''' is a 2018 young adult novel by Mary H.K.

The book was one of the ALA's young adult book picks for 2004.
Twin siblings and Veritas Project members Elijah and Elisha Springfield are sent to investigate the Knight-Moore Academy

''''Looking for Alaska''''' is American author John Green's debut novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. Based on his time at Indian Springs School, Green wrote the novel as a result of his desire to create meaningful young adult fiction.


Question: animal, but not children's, books about the UK

The Rats (novel)
Kraken (novel)
Tarka the Otter
The Plague Dogs
A Kestrel for a Knave
Lair (novel)
The Steam House
The Lime Twig
Sirius (novel)
Carnosaur (novel)
Craig of the Welsh Hills
Dead Cert (novel)

Books about the United Kingdom that are also Books about animals but not Children's books

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

Linking the film to childhood memories he had of rats in London's East End.

'''''Tarka the Otter''': His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a novel by Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won the Hawthornden Prize in 1928, and has never been out of print since its first publication.

This book tells of the escape of two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, from a government research station in the Lake District in England, where they had been horribly mistreated.

A Jewish businessman who organizes a hunt for the dogs. It is implied he is a Holocaust survivor, and suffers from frequent bouts of depression. He encounters Snitter by himself during the hunt, and although he prepares to shoot him, he notices the surgical scar on the dog's head and is moved to tears because it is implied that it reminds him of the medical experiments conducted at Auschwitz. Setting his gun aside, he tries to get Snitter to come get into his car. But when Snitter excitedly jumps up into his arms, his toe catches the trigger of Ephraim's shotgun. Because Ephraim had taken the safety catch off upon seeing Snitter, and forgotten to put it back on when setting the weapon aside, Snitter's toe catching the trigger causes the gun to off in Ephraim's face, killing him instantly. Snitter is traumatized by the incident, and Ephraim's death catches the attention of the media, who run with the story of the "dog who shot a man."

the actual location of "ARSE" (an acronym for Animal Research, Scientific and Experimental, and British slang for buttocks) was based on the remote hill farm of Lawson Park, now run as an artist residence by the contemporary art organisation Grizedale Arts.

'''''The Plague Dogs''''' is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of ''Watership Down'', about the friendship of two dogs that escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977,

Billy's father finds that his wife has been having an affair with Billy's 'Uncle Mick'. Billy's father punches Mick and leaves the house. After the flashback has ended, Billy returns home, buries the kestrel and goes to bed.

The story is set in only one day, apart from the flashback passages.

the book follows Billy Casper, a young working-class boy troubled at home and at school, who finds and trains a kestrel whom he names "Kes".

s a novel by English author Barry Hines, published in 1968. Set in an unspecified mining area in Northern England,

Each book charts the spread of a mutant breed of carnivorous rat which attacks humans in groups, rips them apart, and devours them.

'''''The Steam House''''' () is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant.

an experimental novel by American writer John Hawkes.
In England after World War II, a sedate, bored lower-class couple—Michael and Margaret Banks—are lured into fronting a racehorse scheme.

Hawkes underscores the theme of entrapment imagistically, with fleeting references to a sparrow attacked by a hive of bees, a wasp trapped between panes of glass, and so on. The title of the novel itself refers to the old practice of catching birds by spreading lime on a twig, the master trope of the narrative.

a 1944 science fiction novel by the British philosopher and author Olaf Stapledon, whose title character is a dog named Sirius with humanlike intelligence. A sense of existential questioning suffuses the book, as the author delves into aspects of Sirius's psyche.

Sirius is raised by scientist Thomas Trelone in North Wales, near Trawsfynydd. Thomas embarks on a program of using steroids and other chemicals to rapidly develop cognitive power of dogs, resulting in super sheep dogs

Set in a rural village near Cambridgeshire, England, the novel opens at a chicken farm which is attacked one night by a mysterious creature, leaving both the farmer and his wife dead.

(1984) is a horror novel written by Australian author John Brosnan, under the pseudonym of Harry Adam Knight

From there, Pascal enters the zoo, only to discover that it's filled with dinosaurs.

The novel follows the adventures of Craig, a champion border collie herding dog, who escapes into the Welsh hills following a car accident and becomes a sheep-killer and the efforts of his owner to recapture him.

The title is a shortened form of "It's a dead certainty," in this case a play on words referring to the fact that the steeplechase horse Admiral should have won, but his jockey died.


Question: Paranormal novels from the 1990's that aren't about extraterrestrial life

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

1990s novels that are also Paranormal novels but not Novels about extraterrestrial life

a paranormal romance written by American author Christine Feehan. Published in 1999, it is the first book in her Dark Series, which to date has 33 titles.
''Dark Prince'' introduces the Carpathians, a powerful and ancient race. They have many gifts, including the ability to shape-shift, and extended life spans, living well over many years. Though they feed on human blood, they don't kill their human prey, and for the most part live among them without detection.

a science fiction novel by Israeli illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic Uri Geller, first published in 1998. The novel tells the story of Ella Wallis, an abused 14-year-old girl living in Bristol, England, who develops telekinesis, levitation, and other psychic powers and achieves fame while at the midst of a power struggle between adults who want to control her.

a novel by American horror writer Dean Koontz, published by Putnam in 1992.

It is a supernatural thriller centering on an antique dealer named Hatch Harrison who develops a telepathic connection with a serial killer after a car accident leaves him clinically dead for over 80 minutes.

the second novel in Christine Feehan's Dark Series. It takes place roughly 25 years after the events in ''Dark Prince'' (1999).
The book begins with Jacques Dubrinsky, younger brother to Mikhail, being tortured and buried alive by members of the same fanatical group that attacked Raven and killed his sister some 25 years earlier in ''Dark Prince''

Shea was (before being converted by Jacques) half-human, half-Carpathian, something that was considered impossible. They also think that her birth confirms that a psychic human woman who is a lifemate to a Carpathian is capable of giving birth to female children. This is vitally important because their people are on the verge of extinction; no female has been born in more than 500 years.

The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 26 June 1997 by Bloomsbury. I

The first novel in the ''Harry Potter'' series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school and with the help of his friends, he faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents, but failed to kill Harry when he was just 15 months old.

'''''Gallows Hill''''' (1997) is a supernatural thriller novel for young adults by Lois Duncan.

'''''Guilty Pleasures''''' is a 1993 horror and mystery novel by American writer Laurell K. Hamilton.

a satirical story based on Jewish folklore, in which an ancient ''dybbuk'' – a malicious possessing spirit – returns to haunt a modern-day London lesbian.

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. ''The Silver Kiss'' was inspired by Klause's poems and her teenage fantasy about romancing with a vampire.


Question: 2010s Novellas but not American ones

The Red Chesterfield
The Last Days of New Paris
Cowboy Graves
You Should Have Left (novella)
The Cockroach (novella)
Binti: The Night Masquerade
The Hole (novel)
The Midnight Zoo
Dolly: A Ghost Story
Black Sheep (Hill novel)
The Factory (novel)
Binti: Home
This Census-Taker
Wenjack (novella)

2010s books that are also Novellas but not American novellas

On May 22, 2020, the Crime Writers of Canada recognized ''The Red Chesterfield'' with the Arthur Ellis Award for the best crime novella of 2019. The award comes with a $200 cash prize.

'''''The Last Days of New Paris''''' () is a 2016 fantasy novella by China Miéville.

'Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas'' ''' () is a collection of three short works by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño. It was posthumously published by Alfaguara in September 2017

'''''You Should Have Left''''' (Original title: '''''Du hättest gehen sollen''''') is a 2016 novella by German writer Daniel Kehlmann. Originally written in German

a satirical novella by the author Ian McEwan, published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, inspired by Kafka's ''The Metamorphosis'' and loosely based on the ramifications of Brexit.

The novella was published in 2018 by Tor.com, and it is the final novella in the ''Binti'' trilogy that began with 2015's ''Binti'' and 2017's ''Binti: Home''.

is a Japanese novel written by Hiroko Oyamada. Originally published in 2014, it is Oyamada's second novel to be translated into English, after ''The Factory''.

'''''The Midnight Zoo''''' is a 2010 novel by Sonya Hartnett.

'''''Dolly:A Ghost Story''''', is a novella, published in October 2012 by Profile Books.
The story is principally set in the decaying Iyot House, in the damp and lonely Fens of Eastern England where orphan Edward Cayley is sent to spend the summer with his dour Aunt Kestrel and his spoilt cousin Leonora.

'''''Black Sheep''''', is a novella by English author Susan Hill, published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus.

a proletarian novella written by Japanese author Hiroko Oyamada. Originally written and published in Japan in 2013 by Shinchosha Publishing Co.

Binti, a young Himba woman from Earth, returns home to face her family and elders after her first year at the off-world Oomza University.

'''''This Census-Taker''''' is a 2016 novella by British author China Miéville.

'''''Wenjack''''' is a historical fiction novella by Canadian author Joseph Boyden based on the story of Chanie "Charlie" Wenjack.

Published by Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books) in 2016 and featuring illustrations by Cree artist Kent Monkman, it was part of a collaborative effort to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Chanie's death.


Question: Science book about cultural geography but is not about Architecture.

Science books that are also Books about cultural geography but not Architecture books

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

'''''The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey''''' is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa.

'''''Rural Rides''''' is the book for which the English journalist, agriculturist and political reformer William Cobbett is best known.

At the time of writing in the early 1820s, Cobbett was a radical anti-Corn Law campaigner, newly returned to England from a spell of self-imposed political exile in the United States.

Cobbett disapproved of proposals for remedies for agricultural distress suggested in Parliament in 1821. He made up his mind to see rural conditions for himself, and to "enforce by actual observation of rural conditions" the statements he had made in answer to the arguments of the landlords before the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee.

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

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

an early work on comparative linguistics by Gottfried Hensel (''Godofredus Henselius''; 1687–1767), a rector in Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra), Lower Silesia.

The title, ''Freedom Rising'', refers to the rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democracy. As the author explains at the beginning of his book, people have never voiced their desires for freedoms so frequently and powerfully as today. They do so not only inside but even outside democracies.

The book comprises twelve chapters that are organized in four parts. While the first chapter is theoretical, all subsequent chapters are empirical and test the propositions laid out in Chapter 1. The empirical research builds on cross-cultural and longitudinal evidence form the World Values Surveys and European Values Study.

a popular science book about the evolution of modern humans written by British geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer.

In the book, Oppenheimer supports the theory that modern humans first emerged in Africa and that modern human behavior emerged in Africa prior to the out of Africa migration.

It describes the process of urban flight, as it has occurred in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s.

. It focused on both the physical and human geography features of the European continent and especially on Southeastern Europe, and is considered one of the most remarkable works of the modern Greek Enlightenment.

Wilson's book uses evidence from large-scale scientific surveys in the ghetto and information culled from ethnographic interviews of ghetto residents in order to create a complete picture of the problems that face the residents.

The book also features document examples, maps, antique postcards depicting towns and daily life, and modern-day photographs.

The '''''International Encyclopedia of Human Geography''''' is a 2009 academic reference work covering human geography

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


Question: Children's, but not Young adult, Novels about diseases and disorders

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Petey (novel)
Junk (novel)
Miracles on Maple Hill
The Crazy Man
The Million Dollar Putt
Two Weeks with the Queen
The Illustrated Mum
Ways to Live Forever
Perfect (Friend novel)

Novels about diseases and disorders that are also Children's novels but not Young adult novels

a children's historical novel written by Canadian-American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977

After being diagnosed with leukemia from radiation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Sadako's friend told her to fold origami paper cranes (''orizuru'') in hope of making a thousand of them.

a children's novel by Ben Mikaelsen, published in 1998 and set in the 1920s and 1990s.

Based on the real-life story of cerebral palsy patient Clyde Cothern, ''Petey'' illustrates for children an understanding of people with disabilities, and helps them to discover what these people go through. Re-occurring themes include growth, understanding, wisdom and love that shows that beauty and friendship can be found inside the simplest things.

et on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism

a 1956 novel by Virginia Sorensen that won the 1957 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature.

Marly's dad'', a World War II veteran who is physically and spiritually damaged but finds healing in the countryside.

'''''The Crazy Man''''' is a 2005 Canadian children's novel written by Pamela Porter.

n promotion of Gutman's new novel ''The Million Dollar Putt'', Hyperion Books for Children republished the authors' previous four books in his Million Dollar series, hiring Michael Koelsch to illustrate new cover artworks for all five novels

a realistic fiction novel written by Dan Gutman in 2006. It is about a young blind child's quest to learn golf and win a million dollar prize.

a 1990 novel by Australian author Morris Gleitzman. It focuses on a boy named Colin Mudford, who is sent to live with relatives in England, while his brother is being treated for cancer.
Colin Mudford, a 12 year old Australian, is sent to stay with his uncle Bob, aunt Iris and cousin Alistair in London while his brother, Luke, is being treated for cancer.

Stephens regards ''Two Weeks with the Queen'' as being unusual in contemporary Australian children's literature because Colin is presented as having agency – he is capable of making decisions and taking action to change the world around him – even though he does not do so in the way he first intended.

features her manic depressive mother Marigold,

Sam Oliver McQueen is an 11-year-old boy with cancer.

This book is about a young girl's struggle with bulimia nervosa.


Question: 2019 books that are nonfiction and about countries but not political books.

Amritsar 1919
Chassepot to FAMAS
The Anarchy (book)
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
The Victorians (Rees-Mogg book)
The Patient Assassin
The Banished Immortal
The Thirty-Year Genocide
Two Trees Make a Forest

2019 non-fiction books that are also Books about countries but not Political books

(2019), is a book by Kim A. Wagner and published by Yale University Press, that aims to dispel myths surrounding the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place in Amritsar, India, on 13 April 1919.

a 2019 book by Ian McCollum about the history of French military rifles.

'Chassepot to FAMAS'' is separated into ten chapters, each dedicated to the rifles used by the French military from 1866 to 2016: the Chassepot, Gras, Kropatschek, Lebel, Berthier, RSC, MAS-36, MAS-49, FR F1 and the FAMAS. The book analyses the factors that led to the rifles' design choices, their production and combat use, and the appendix shows the reader how to field strip the rifles.

The book deals with the history of the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the humble origins of the East India Company, founded in 1599 when it received a royal charter awarding them a monopoly on all trade between England and Asia

a 2019 history book by William Dalrymple. It recounts the rise of the East India Company in the second half of the 18th century, against the backdrop of a crumbling Mughal Empire and the rise of regional powers.

'''''Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir''''' is a 2019 book

'''''Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas''''' is a 2019 book

is a 2019 biographical work by the Conservative politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, a backbencher at the time, in which he discusses twelve influential British figures of the Victorian period.

'''''The Patient Assassin, A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj''''' is a 2019 book based on the life of Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.

'''''The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai ''''' is a biography of Li Bai by Ha Jin that was published in 2019 by Pantheon.

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

The book won the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

In it she describes finding a trove of letters written by her grandfather, and how it leads her to travel to her mother's and grandfather's home of Taiwan.


Question: British science fiction novels set on fictional planets excluding novels based on Doctor Who.

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

British science fiction novels that are also Novels set on fictional planets but not Novels based on Doctor Who

'''''The Keeper of the Isis Light''''' is a science fiction novel for young adults by Monica Hughes, published by Hamish Hamilton in 1980. It is the first of three books in the Isis series, or ''The Isis Trilogy'' in its omnibus edition. They are set in the distant future on the planet Isis, which revolves around the F5 (yellow-white) star Ra in the constellation Indus (all fictitious).

The premise of the novel is that there is a planet (for "No less than a planet will serve the purpose of a modern Utopia") exactly like Earth, with the same geography and biology. Moreover, on that planet "all the men and women that you know and I" exist "in duplicate." They have, however, "different habits, different traditions, different knowledge, different ideas, different clothing, and different appliances."

To this planet "out beyond Sirius" the Owner of the Voice and the botanist are translated, imaginatively, "in the twinkling of an eye . .

'''''The Guardian of Isis''''' is a young adult novel by Monica Hughes, and is the sequel to ''The Keeper of the Isis Light''. The story takes place on the fictional world of Isis.

a 2009 young-adult science fiction novel written by British-American author Patrick Ness.

Released from his bonds, the Mayor claims that what has come to New World is what men are born for: war.

a 2017 science fiction and literary fiction novel by English writer Nina Allan

Julie tells Selena she has been back in Manchester for 18 months, but has told no one who she is. Selena is angry with her sister for having put their family through so much anguish, but Julie tells Selena what happened to her. She reveals that she travelled from Hatchmere lake, via a rift, to a lake near the city of Fiby on the planet Tristane.

a young-adult science fiction novel by Patrick Ness, published by Walker Books in May 2010

The settlers plan to settle peace immediately, leaving Todd and the Mayor alone. Angered by Todd's decision to leave his side, the Mayor steals the scout ship and Todd. The Mayor launches flammable fuel at the forest, killing many Spackle, including The Sky. He passes leadership to The Return.

The Mayor lands at the ocean and ties up Todd in a nearby church, while Viola rides in hopes of rescuing him. The Mayor is being driven mad by all of New World's Noise, a side-effect of his experiments.

a young-adult science fiction novel written by British-American author Patrick Ness.

Todd Hewitt is the only boy left in Prentisstown, a small settlement on New World – an alien planet only recently colonized by humanity.

'''''The Isis Pedlar''''' is a young adult science fiction novel

'''''For the Emperor''''' is a science fiction and military fiction novel

science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the fourth book in her five-book ''Canopus in Argos'' series and relates the fate of a planet

The British premiere was on 9 November 1988

A man named Roosta takes Zaphod to Zarniwoop's offices just as Frogstar fighters attack the building and tow it to one of their home planets, Frogstar World B, a planet whose society collapsed through an economic process called the "Shoe Event Horizon" which rendered its economy unable to support any enterprises besides shoe stores.

'''''The Restaurant at the End of the Universe''''' is the second book in the ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' comedy science fiction "trilogy of six books" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel.

The book was inspired by the song "Grand Hotel" by British rock band Procol Harum.


Question: Comedy books that are also Parody books excluding Discworld books

Comedy books that are also Parody books but not Discworld books

The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times.

a satirical humor book in the form of a parody college course catalog for a fictional American University written by Tye R Farrell and Jeffrey Morrow.

The book was a parody of the 1972 book, ''The Joy of Sex''.

'''''Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters''''' (2009) is a parody novel by Ben H. Winters, with Jane Austen credited as co-author. It is a mashup story containing elements from Jane Austen's 1811 novel ''Sense and Sensibility'' and common tropes from sea monster stories. It is the thematic sequel to another 2009 novel from the same publisher called ''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''. It was first published by Quirk Books on September 15, 2009.

a science fiction parody novel of Shakespeare's play ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', written by Andrew Harman and published in 1997 by Random House. It reflects the plot of the original play only slightly. It concentrates on two of the fairies and follows their attempts to play with genetic engineering in a modern English town.

Nathanael West's third novel, published in 1934. It is a brutal satire of Horatio Alger's novels and their eternal optimism.

'''''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls''''' (2010) is a parody novel by Steve Hockensmith.

''Go the Fuck to Sleep'' is written as a "children's book for adults".

a 1981 science fiction comedy novel by Terry Pratchett. It is one of Pratchett's first novels and one of the few purely science fiction novels he wrote, along with ''The Dark Side of the Sun'' and ''The Nome Trilogy''.

Although it takes place in a different fictional universe and is more science fiction than fantasy, it could be said to be a kind of precursor to the ''Discworld'' novels, as it also features a flat Earth similar to the Discworld. It has been called a "preconsideration" of Discworld, though the plot and characters are modelled on (or parodies of) the novel ''Ringworld'' by Larry Niven

a series of literary pastiche novels written by Spike Milligan from 1993 to 2000. Each part of the series was a rewriting of an original novel, with surreal comic elements added that fit into certain points of the originals, whilst at the same time poking fun at the situations involved.
''The Bible—the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan'' is a 1993 parody novel and the first book in the series.

'''''National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody''''' is an American humor book that was first published in 1973.

'''''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''''' is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.

'''''Star Warped''''' is a farcical 2005 spoof novel by British writer Adam Roberts, based on the six ''Star Wars'' films.

is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life

'''''National Lampoon The Up Yourself Book''''' was an American humor book that was published on January 1, 1977.

Most notable is the successful transition of Herbert's style into comedy, as can be referenced by Pall Agamemnides as he surveys his situation prior to the relocation:

'''''National Lampoon's Doon''''' is a parody of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel ''Dune'', written by Ellis Weiner and published in 1984 by Pocket Books for ''National Lampoon''.

'''''National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody''''' is an American humor "book", a parody


Question: 1960s African novels but not set in Africa

Zaabalawi
The Open Door (Latifa al-Zayyat novel)
The African (Conton novel)
L'Aventure ambiguë
The Seed and the Sower
Os Flagelados do Vento Leste

1960s novels that are also African novels but not Novels set in Africa

'''Zaabalawi''' () is a symbolic story written by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz

The English edition
'''''The Open Door''''' (El bab el maftuh) is a 1960 novel by Egyptian writer Latifa al-Zayyat. It won the inaugural Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. The novel, written in colloquial Egyptian Arabic explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age, against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.

'''''The African''''' is the 1964 debut novel by Sierra Leonean novelist and educator William Farquhar Conton. It was the 12th work published in Heinemann's African Writers Series.

The novel's plot revolves around the romance between a black African student and a white South African woman in England.

'''''L'Aventure ambiguë''''' is a novel by Senegalese author Cheikh Hamidou Kane, first published in 1961, about the interactions of western and African cultures.

is a book by South African writer Laurens van der Post,

The first story is set in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp in Java

'''''Os Flagelados do Vento Leste''''' (Portuguese meaning "The Victims Of The East Wind") is a novel published in 1960 by Cape Verdean author Manuel Lopes.


Question: 2000s books that are also Books about social history excluding Books about ideologies

A Tiananmen Journal
The Real Fidel Castro
Prisoner of the State
Washington's Crossing (book)
Collection of June Fourth Poems
Rough Crossings
1776 (book)
American Creation
The Parliament of Man

2000s books that are also Books about social history but not Books about ideologies

This book records the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre from April 15, 1989, to June 4, 1989, in detail.

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.

The book was published in English in May 2009

The main theme of Fischer's book is the concept of contingency history, one major theory of history.

'''''Collection of June Fourth Poems: Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Protest''''' is an anthology of poems commemorating the June Fourth protests in China (1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre) and published in 2007.

''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.

'''''1776''''' (released in the United Kingdom as '''''1776: America and Britain at War''''') is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005.

Structured episodically, the book examines six turning points in the early history of the United States:

'''''The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations''''' is a book by Paul Kennedy that covers the history and evolution of the United Nations.


Question: American non-fiction non-political book about the United States military

For Cause and Comrades
Confederates in the Attic
Thieves of Baghdad
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
A Glimpse of Hell (book)
Absolutely American
The Destructive War

American non-fiction books that are also Books about the United States military but not Political books

The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war.

'''''Confederates in the Attic''''' (1998) is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the American Civil War and investigates the ties in the United States among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously.

a non-fictional account written by Col. Matthew Bogdanos about the quest to recover over a thousand lost artifacts from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad after the country's counter-invasion.

=== Story of tracking down stolen objects ===

an annotated collection of the diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut, an upper-class planter who lived in South Carolina during the American Civil War. The diaries were extensively annotated by historian C. Vann Woodward and published by Yale University Press in 1981. For his work on the book, Woodward was awarded the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for History.

a nonfiction book of investigative journalism, written by Charles C. Thompson II and published in 1999. The book describes the USS ''Iowa'' turret explosion that took place on April 19, 1989, and the subsequent investigations that tried to determine the cause. The explosion aboard the United States Navy battleship killed 47 of the turret's crewmen.

Absolutely American'' received general acclaim from book critics. In ''Time'', novelist and critic Lev Grossman wrote that it was "fascinating, funny, and tremendously well-written

"A fascinating history of the ideas held by the people who fought the war…


Question: English-language novels that are 1985 speculative fiction but not American 1985 novels

Last Letters from Hav
The Hounds of the Morrigan
Star Healer
Hawksmoor (novel)
The Proteus Operation
The Siege of White Deer Park
In Limbo (novel)
Illywhacker

English-language novels that are also 1985 speculative fiction novels but not 1985 American novels

a Booker Prize-shortlisted 1985 novel by Welsh writer Jan Morris.

a narrative account of the author's six-month visit to the fictional country of Hav. The novel is written in the form of travel literature

'''''The Hounds of the Morrigan''''' is a children's novel by the Irish writer Pat O'Shea. It was published in 1985, after taking thirteen years to complete. The novel recounts the adventures of 10-year-old Pidge and his younger sister, Brigit, battling with characters from Celtic mythology.

First edition, published by Del Rey Books. Cover art by Rick Sternbach.
'''''Star Healer''''' is a 1985 science fiction book by author James White, part of the Sector General series.

a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.

a science fiction alternate history novel written by James P. Hogan and published in 1985. The plot concerns time travel by one group which brings Adolf Hitler to power, who then wages and wins World War II; and then another group which tries to prevent the Axis victory in World War II

'''''The Siege of White Deer Park''''' is the fifth book of The Animals of Farthing Wood series. It was first published in 1985

'''''In Limbo''''' () is a 1985 science fiction novel by Christopher Evans, set in contemporary Britain.

'''''Illywhacker''''' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize.

Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the "illywhacker" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s.


Question: Non-fiction Islamic fundamentalism books that are not about crime

A Sinner in Mecca: A Gay Muslim's Hajj of Defiance

Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad

Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within

Non-fiction books that are also Books about Islamic fundamentalism but not Crime books

a 1994 book edited by Ali Rahnema in which the authors examine prominent figures in the modern Islamic political revival.

"the history of political Islam and of the myriad of different organisations and beliefs that fall under that title today.

The book focuses on Wahhabism, Daesh, Saudi Arabia, and the position of Islam in the Indian sub-continent.

It is divided into sections: a brief religious biography and history of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, theology, Islamic law, women and Wahhabism, jihad and the evolution of Wahhabism.

'''''The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left''''' is a 2007 book about Ed Husain's five years as an Islamist.

'''''Londonistan: How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within''''' is a 2006 best-selling book by the British journalist Melanie Phillips about the spread of Islamism in the United Kingdom over the previous twenty years. The book was published in London by Encounter Books.

described as "one of the most penetrating, readable, and prescient accounts to date of the rise of the fundamentalist movements in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam".

is a 2006 book by Robert Dreyfuss, an American investigative journalist. It discusses how Western governments supported the growth of Islamic fundamentalism for several purposes

a travel narrative by the Indian-American author Sadanand Dhume about his exploration of Islamic extremism in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. Dhume's travel companion is a young Javanese, an Osama bin Laden admirer who edits the country's foremost fundamentalist magazine.

an illustrated novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis and the death of Alan Kurdi.

The book is written in the form of a letter from father to son; the two have fled their home in Homs, Syria due to the Syrian Civil War, and face the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
''Kirkus Reviews'' called ''Sea Prayer'' "Intensely moving" and "Powerfully evocative of the plight in which displaced populations find themselves." ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote that it "does not dwell on nightmarish fates; instead, its emotional power flows from the love of a father for his son."

'''''Rethinking Islam: Common Questions, Uncommon Answers''''' is a book on Islamic philosophy by Algerian orientalist Mohammed Arkoun, published in 1994. Arkoun's book has been cited in a number of scholarly sources for providing a contemporary understanding of the development of Islamic philosophy and its effects in the Muslim world.

''Rethinking Islam'' discusses a range of topics including the various ways in which Islamic ideas have been interpreted over time and the perspective of developments in Islamic countries from their own point of view.

'''''Revolutionary Islam''''' (French '''''L'islam révolutionnaire''''', )

an autobiography by Karima, published in 2008.
''Insoumise et devoilée'' is the story of Karima, a 32-year-old Muslim woman from Belgium who talks about her life and her violent education, from her childhood to her forced wedding in Morocco. She was beaten by her father to get her to follow their conservative traditions.

Ehrenfeld argues in the book that international networks are used by terrorist groups to finance terrorist activity worldwide.

'''''My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State''''' is a 2016 memoir by German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer. Todenhöfer was the first western journalist to travel to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS), alternatively known as ISIL, to find out the cause of the fighting in Iraq and Syria.

The book is in dialogue format, and features an exchange between Harris, an atheist and a critic of religion, and Nawaz, an Islamist-turned-liberal activist.


Question: Political novels set in Russia but are not Science Fiction

With Chronos' Permit
The Mulberry Empire
Under Western Eyes (novel)
Ice Road (novel)
Return from Siberia
Journalists (novel)
Flashman at the Charge
How the Steel Was Tempered
And Quiet Flows the Don
The State Counsellor
Petersburg (novel)

Political novels that are also Novels set in Russia but not Science fiction novels

The story then shifts to the Crimea, where widowed landowner Nikolai Mikhailovich Layevsky welcomes back his son Pavel from a five-year-long stint in the army. To his horror the reunion is far from private as Pavel has brought with him Vitkevich. A terminally impolite eccentric who gives off a perpetual air of sullen insouciance, Vitkevich is not only a favourite of the Russian royal family, but also an object of adoration by his fellow officers.

the second novel by English author, Philip Hensher, released on 3 September 1998 through the now defunct Flamingo imprint of HarperCollins.Longlisted for the 2002 Booker Prize, the novel centres around the causes and ultimate denouement of the First Anglo-Afghan War as experienced through the eyes of over a hundred characters both real and fictional.

a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Geneva, Switzerland, and is viewed as Conrad's response to the themes explored in Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment''; Conrad was reputed to have detested Dostoevsky. It has also been interpreted as Conrad's response to his own early life; his father was a Polish independence activist and would-be revolutionary imprisoned by the Russians, but, instead of following in his father's footsteps, at the age of sixteen Conrad left his native land, only to return briefly decades later

novel written by South African-born Gillian Slovo. It was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Set in Leningrad in the 1930s, the story about power in Stalinist Russia is narrated by Irina Davydovna, a cleaning lady.

The novel, a roman à clef, is split into two alternating narratives: John Simon (i.e. Shallman) and his family discovering a manuscript written by his maternal grandfather Joseph Rakow in present-day California, interspersed with chapters describing Rakow's experiences of experiences of being exiled to Siberia during the final years of the Russian Empire

The novel begins with a bomb explosion at the newspaper ''Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer)'', which kills a famous Moscow journalist and affects the paper's editorial staff.

''Flashman at the Charge'' begins with Flashman trying to avoid a transfer to the Crimea but failing miserably. He is made guardian of one of Queen Victoria's cousins and is sent to the midst of the Crimean War. Flashman witnesses and participates in the most notable offensive and defensive actions of that war, and eventually finds himself trekking across Asia in an effort to save the British Raj.

a socialist realist novel written by Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936). With 36.4 million copies sold, it is one of the best-selling books of all time.
The story follows the life of Pavel Korchagin, including his fighting in and aftermath of the Russian Civil War. Korchagin fought for the Bolsheviks during the war and was injured. The novel examines how Korchagin heals from his wounds and thus becomes as strong as steel.

The novel is considered one of the most significant works of world and Russian literature in the 20th century. It depicts the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and Russian Civil War. In 1965, Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel.

There are many allusions within the novel to the city's history going back to its founding by Peter the Great, and it incorporates a number of literary allusions to literature set in Petersburg (especially ''The Bronze Horseman'') as well as Russian literature in general.


Question: 1990's books that are about totalitarianism but not about Nazi Germany

The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe

1990s books that are also Books about totalitarianism but not Books about Nazi Germany

a novel by German author Herta Müller. The novel was originally published in German in 1997 and later in English by Metropolitan Books and Picador, a Macmillan imprint, in 2001.

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

'''''The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective''''' is a 1990 book by a professor of International Affairs, Simon Reich.

a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and artificially created famines.

The authors use the term ''Communism'' to mean Leninist and Marxist–Leninist communism, i.e. the actually existing Communist regimes and "real socialism" of the 20th century; they distinguish it from small-c communism, which has existed for millennia, while capital-c Communism began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, which Stéphane Courtois describes as a coup.

'''''Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression''''' is a 1990 book on U.S. history by Robin D. G. Kelley. It describes labor, racial and social history in Alabama during the Great Depression, focusing on black communist organizing.

'''''Fascism''''' is a book edited by political theorist Roger Griffin. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback. It is a reader in the Oxford Readers series, which assembles the writings of various authors on the topic of fascism and the far-right. It serves as an English-language source book to introduce readers to pre-fascist anti-liberalism, interwar fascism in Italy and Germany, as well as associated international variants of fascism from Argentina to Japan.

a book by Australian academic Sheila Fitzpatrick first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press and in paperback in 2000.

Everyday Stalinism looks at the effects of urbanization and industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s under Joseph Stalin. Focused on a ''history from below'', Fitzpatrick records a history of impoverishment, overcrowding, and social destruction visited upon the average person.

It was written between 1989 and 1996, and first edition was published in 1996

'A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924''''' is a history book by British historian Orlando Figes on the Russian Revolution and the years leading up to it

a biography of Joseph Stalin by author and historian Robert Conquest. It was published in 1991 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Penguin Books.

the first novel by the Japanese author Koushun Takami. Originally completed in 1996, it was not published until 1999. The story tells of junior high school students who are forced to fight each other to the death in a program run by a fictional, fascist, totalitarian Japanese government known as the Republic of Greater East Asia.

a political history of the Soviet Union from 19321939 written by John Archibald Getty III and Oleg V. Naumov. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1999

Beginning with the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia and culminating in the 1989-1991 revolutions, ''The Walls Came Tumbling Down'' is a narrative of the gradual collapse of Eastern European communism.

'''''Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now''''' is a 1996 book by Chinese-Canadian journalist Jan Wong.


Question: Historical high fantasy novels, that aren't Apocalyptic

A Feast for Crows
The Rogue Prince
Lords and Ladies (novel)
A Dance with Dragons
Fire & Blood (novel)
The Horse and His Boy
Three Hearts and Three Lions
A Storm of Swords
The Sons of the Dragon
A Clash of Kings
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Winds of Winter
The Princess and the Queen
Prince Caspian
A Game of Thrones
The Magician's Nephew

Historical novels subgenres that are also High fantasy novels but not Apocalyptic novels

'''''A Feast for Crows''''' is the fourth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series

a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the fourteenth ''Discworld'' book. It was originally published in 1992. Some parts of the storyline spoof elements of Shakespeare's play ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlick return to Lancre after their recent adventure in Genua. Magrat is stunned when King Verence proclaims their imminent marriage, having already made all the arrangements in her absence. The sudden appearance of crop circles reveals to Nanny and Granny that it is now "circle time", a convergence of parallel universes when the Discworld is susceptible to incursions from the "parasite universe" of the Elves.

The US hardcover was officially published on July 12, 2011, and a few weeks later went to No. 1 on both ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''USA Today'' bestsellers lists. The novel has been adapted for television as the fifth season of ''Game of Thrones'', although elements of the book have also appeared in the series' third, fourth and sixth seasons.

a fantasy book by American writer George R. R. Martin. It tells the history of House Targaryen, a family from his series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''

''The Horse and His Boy'', the main characters are two children and two talking horses who escape from Calormen and travel north into Narnia. On their journey, they learn of the Prince of Calormen's plan to attack Archenland, and warn the King of Archenland of the impending strike.

'''''Three Hearts and Three Lions''''' is a 1961 fantasy novel by American writer Poul Anderson, expanded from a 1953 novella by Anderson which appeared in ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'' magazine.
Holger Carlsen is an American-trained Danish engineer who joins the Danish resistance to the Nazis in World War II.

the third of seven planned novels in ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin.

'A Storm of Swords'' picks up the story slightly before the end of its predecessor, ''A Clash of Kings''. The Seven Kingdoms of Westeros are still in the grip of the War of the Five Kings, wherein Joffrey Baratheon and his uncle Stannis Baratheon compete for the Iron Throne, while Robb Stark of the North and Balon Greyjoy of the Iron Islands declare their independence (Stannis's brother Renly Baratheon, the fifth "king", has already been killed).

. It was the first novel in the series to be nominated for the Hugo Award, one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing,

As with his previous Westerosi "histories", including ''The World of Ice and Fire'', ''The Rogue Prince'' and ''The Princess and the Queen'', Martin wrote ''The Sons of the Dragon'' from the perspective of a fictional Westerosi scholar, referred to in-universe as some rank of "maester".

depicts the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros in civil war, while the Night's Watch mounts a reconnaissance to investigate the mysterious people known as wildlings. Meanwhile, Daenerys Targaryen continues her plan to conquer the Seven Kingdoms.

Writing in ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'', Jim Hopper called ''A Clash of Kings'' "High Fantasy with a vengeance" and commented:

'''''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader''''' is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1952

''The Winds of Winter''''' is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' by American writer George R. R. Martin. Martin believes the last two volumes of the series will total over 3,000 manuscript pages.

'''''The Winds of Winter''''' is the planned sixth novel in the epic fantasy series ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' by American writer George R. R. Martin.

'''''Prince Caspian''''' (originally published as '''''Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia''''') is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1951.

'''''A Game of Thrones''''' is the first novel in ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin

Phyllis Eisenstein of the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' wrote that, although the book uses many generic fantasy tropes, Martin's approach is "so refreshingly human and intimate that it transcends them." She described it as "an absorbing combination of the mythic, the sweepingly historical, and the intensely personal.

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

In recent editions, which sequence the books according to Narnia history, it is volume one of the series. Like the others, it was illustrated by Pauline Baynes whose work has been retained in many later editions.


Question: Popular culture and company books that exclude computers.

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

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

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.

'''''Eisenstein on Disney''''' is a 1986 book edited by film critic Jay Leyda that collects and reprints the various literature that Sergei Eisenstein produced about Walt Disney.

s a non-fiction book, collecting a series of essays written by Carl Hiaasen about the Walt Disney Company and its stance towards the outside world. 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.

'The Art of Walt Disney: 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, including Card Walker, Ron W. Miller, Roy E. Disney, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Michael Ovitz, Joe Roth, Bob Iger and Stan Kinsey.

''Doubt is Their Product'' documents how the tobacco industry's tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards in areas far from tobacco

a 1968 book by Richard Schickel. It is a biography of the life of Walt Disney. It was one of the first polemical books about Disney that takes a harshly critical view of much of his work.
Stephen J. Whitfield of Brandeis University wrote that the book was "One of the best studies ever done on American popular culture .

'''''Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life''''' (later republished as '''''The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation''''') is a book by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of the key animators at Disney during the Golden Age of animation.

'''''The Art of Frozen''''' () is an art book about the 2013 Walt Disney Company animated feature film ''Frozen''. The book is part of ''The Art of...'' series that aims to depict behind-the-scenes information on the artwork created during the development of animated films

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 book is divided into three major sections.

===Section One: "Walt's Time"===

The first section, "Walt’s Time", describes the Shermans’ years with Walt Disney at The Walt Disney Company starting with their first composition, Annette Funicello’s "Strummin’ Song", and continuing through 1967's ''The Jungle Book''.

'''''Walt Disney: An American Original''''' is a 1976 biographical book of Walt Disney by Bob Thomas.
It was later republished by Disney Editions in 1994.
*''Walt: The Man Behind the Myth''-2001 documentar

''The Magic Kingdom'' is a non- fiction book written by Steven Watts. Professor Watts specializes cultural and intellectual history of the United States. In the introduction of this 526-page biography of Walter Elias Disney, Steven Watts explains in detail the obstacles and challenges while undertaking the view upon Walt Disney's lifework.

'''''Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia''''' is the official encyclopedia of The Walt Disney Company. It was written by Disney's head archivist, Dave Smith.


Question: Christianity, but not cultural history, books

The Elephant in the Dark (book)
Kitab al-Tawhid
The Three Ages of the Interior Life
God and the State
Izhar ul-Haqq
Letter to a Christian Nation
Why I Am Not a Christian
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
World Christian Encyclopedia
The Meaning of the City

Religious studies books that are also Books about Christianity but not History books about culture

'''''The Elephant in the Dark''''' is a book by the writer Idries Shah, based on lectures he delivered at the University of Geneva as Visiting Professor in 1972–1973. He was invited to speak on the topic of “Salvation as a total surrender to God: an attempt at dialogue between Christians and Muslims.”

'''''Kitab al-Tawhid''''' (), is the main Sunni theological book, and the primary source of the Maturidi school of thought; written by the Hanafi scholar Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 333/944).

Kitab al-Tawhid is monumental work which very nicely expounded the tenets and beliefs of the Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama'a and countered the stands of the opponents, such as Karramites, Mu'tazilites, Qadariyya, Majus, Sophists, Dualisms, and Christians.

The work is framed according to three stages that mark the common path of Christian perfection, which are described in conformity to the preexisting theology and wisdom of Catholic saints and Church Fathers.

The work criticises Christianity and the then-burgeoning technocracy movement from a materialist, anarchist and individualist perspective.

What is Christianity? The translation and commentary have been published in three volumes.

The book is written in the form of an open letter to a Christian in the United States.

Russell begins by defining what he means by the term Christian and sets out to explain why he does not "believe in God and in immortality" and why he does not "think that Christ was the best and wisest of men", the two things he identifies as "essential to anybody calling himself a Christian".

Taunton, the Executive Director of Fixed Point Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to defence of the Christian faith, claims he was a friend of the author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and social critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens.

'''''World Christian Encyclopedia''''' is a reference work, with its third edition published by Edinburgh University Press in November 2019. The ''WCE'' is known for providing membership statistics for major world religions and Christian denominations including historical data and projections of future populations.

''''The Meaning of the City''''' is a theological essay by Jacques Ellul which recounts the story of the city in the Bible and seeks to explain the city's biblical significance.


Question: one shot, british sci fi books set on fictional planets

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)

British science fiction books that are also Novels set on fictional planets but not Novel series

'''''The Guardian of Isis''''' is a young adult novel by Monica Hughes, and is the sequel to ''The Keeper of the Isis Light''. The story takes place on the fictional world of Isis.

'''''Monsters of Men''''' is a young-adult science fiction novel by Patrick Ness, published by Walker Books in May 2010.

An army of Spackle, the indigenous population of the planet, marches on New Prentisstown from one direction, and the forces of The Answer from the other.

'''''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''''' is the first book in the ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' comedy science fiction "trilogy of six books" by Douglas Adams

The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979.

Although Ford initially doubts that the planet is Magrathea, the planet's computers send them warning messages to leave before firing two nuclear missiles at the ''Heart of Gold''


Question: Non-fantasy parody comedy books.

National Lampoon 1964 High School Yearbook Parody

Comedy books that are also Parody books but not Fantasy books

'''''University of Psychogenic Fugue''''', sometimes abbreviated to '''''UPF''''', is a satirical humor book in the form of a parody college course catalog for a fictional American University

is written as a "children's book for adults". While its writing is in the style of classic children's bedtime stories, it includes the parent's language as commentary on the tricks used by Mansbach's daughter to avoid having to go to bed. The narrator advises the child that other animals have gone to sleep already including cats and lambs, and asks the child to "Please go the fuck to sleep". As the pleading progresses, the narrator begins to grow more upset, decrying himself as a parent, then eventually falling asleep himself. He wakes to find his child asleep, then quietly exits to watch a movie with his spouse. Unfortunately, a beep from the microwave wakes up their child again.

'The New Yorker'', said "the book is super funny, and the art, by Ricardo Cortés, is perversely sweet, so sweet and genuine that it made me cringe".

a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996

Dufresne opens the chapter with the line, "Call me Booger...", a spoof on ''Moby-Dick''s opening line, "Call me Ishmael."

Declaring that ''"Miami is too damn scary,"'' Castro reunites with Lilia and returns to Cuba.

'''''National Lampoon The Up Yourself Book''''' was an American humor book that was published on January 1, 1977.

a humorous book that was first published in 1974. It was a spin-off from ''National Lampoon'' magazine. The book was a parody of the 1972 book, ''The Joy of Sex''. The parody was written by several of the National Lampoon's regular contributors, and was edited by Brian McConnachie.

a farcical 2005 spoof novel by British writer Adam Roberts, based on the six ''Star Wars'' films.

'''''Pride and Prejudice and Zombies''''' is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith.

'''''Cold Comfort Farm''''' is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.

he parody is closely based on the Toledo, Ohio's DeVilbiss High School yearbook, called the ''Pot O' Gold''. O'Rourke attended DHS for a couple of years and graduated from there in 1965. According to P. J. "We chose 1964 (Doug's graduation class) partly because we published the Parody in

American humor book that was first published in 1973.

'''''National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody''''' is an American humor "book", a parody


Question: British science fiction novels set on fictional planets but does not discuss any transport

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)

The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire

British science fiction novels that are also Novels set on fictional planets but not Novels about transport

a science fiction novel for young adults by Monica Hughes, published by Hamish Hamilton in 1980. It is the first of three books in the Isis series, or ''The Isis Trilogy'' in its omnibus edition. They are set in the distant future on the planet Isis, which revolves around the F5 (yellow-white) star Ra in the constellation Indus (all fictitious).

Olwen is a young human woman living on the planet Isis as the keeper of the Light (a navigation beacon). Her parents having died, her only companion is a robotic DaCoP (Data Collector and Processor), called Guardian.

The Knife of Never Letting Go'' is set in a town that has been taken over by a small group of religious settlers from Old World, in a town near a swamp. Although the settlers have some advanced technology, they are mostly subsistence farmers. The rural setting has been compared to the worlds of the ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' and ''The Night of the Hunter''

==Plot summary==
Todd Hewitt is the only boy left in Prentisstown, a small settlement on New World – an alien planet only recently colonized by humanity.

'''''The Making of the Representative for Planet 8''''' is a 1982 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the fourth book in her five-book ''Canopus in Argos'' series and relates the fate of a planet, under the care of the benevolent galactic empire Canopus, that is plunged into an ice age.

'''''Monsters of Men''''' is a young-adult science fiction novel

a young adult science fiction novel by Monica Hughes, the third in the Isis series, following ''The Guardian of Isis''

The book takes place in the distant future on the fictional world of Isis. Nine years have passed since the events of ''The Guardian of Isis''. Mark London and Olwen are now dead.

The leader of the colony is Roger London, Mark London's son. London seems to be nothing like his father, however. Mike Flynn, a Galactic wanderer, spots Isis, and plans to corrupt the inhabitants to obtain the precious firestones. He promises them a Forever Machine, which will supply them with a lifetime of ambrosia, which means they will never have to work for their food again

'''''The Fall of Yquatine''''' is a BBC Books original novel written by Nick Walters and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''.

the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which provides information on every planet in the galaxy.

the final days of the Volyen Empire, located at the edge of our galaxy and under the influence of three other galactic empires,

is a science fiction and military fiction novel written by British author Alex Stewart

, placating the angered ship crew and forging new unity between the Guardsmen of the Valhallan 597th

'''''The Rift''''' is a 2017 science fiction and literary fiction novel by English writer Nina Allan. It was first published in July 2017 in the United Kingdom as a trade paperback by Titan Books.

The novel is about two sisters, Selena and Julie, who become separated when Julie disappears. Twenty years later she returns, claiming to have been on another planet, and Selena is conflicted over whether to believe Julie's story or not.


Question: Books about creativity and computers but not about games

White Heat Cold Logic
The Bite in the Apple
Barbarians Led by Bill Gates
The Accidental Billionaires
Bitcoin Billionaires
Becoming Steve Jobs
Too Big to Know
The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
Idea Man
Burn Rate
The Everything Store
The Google Story
The Innovators (book)
The Little Kingdom
Steve Jobs (book)

Books about creativity that are also Computer books but not Books about games

a book about the history of British computer art during 1960–1980.

In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp.

: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal''''' is a 2009 book by Ben Mezrich about the founding of Facebook,

The story begins in the weeks that precede the launch of "thefacebook.com" at Harvard. Eduardo Saverin, cast as the protagonist, has befriended Mark Zuckerberg, and both struggle for social acceptance—Saverin by joining a final club, Zuckerberg by creating a website where girls can be ranked according to their looks. Zuckerberg's stunt, though successful, puts him at odds with the Harvard Administrative Board, and has angered numerous campus women's groups as well as individual female students. An article on the incident in ''The Harvard Crimson'' is noticed by three Harvard seniors: twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, who are trying to launch a Harvard dating site. The trio approaches Zuckerberg, convincing him to join in the venture. Zuckerberg, however, feels their site does not have what he thinks is the right approach and begins developing thefacebook with financial help from Saverin and programming from Zuckerberg's roommates.

s Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss' journey into the world of cryptocurrency, investing in bitcoin and encountering early adopters Charlie Shrem, Roger Ver, Erik Voorhees, Naval Ravikant and Dan Kaminsky, in the face of mounting scrutiny from government regulators and the financial establishment.

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader''''' by journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, is an unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling admitted that Apple helped the authors in writing the book, as the company felt it could do more for its founder

s a non-fiction book by the American technology writer David Weinberger published in 2012 by Basic Books.
It describes the World Wide Web-enabled shift in the production, transmission, reception, and storage of knowledge in the early 21st century. Weinberger discusses topics such as expertise, echo chambers, open government, the WELL, Debian, the U.S. Army's Center for the Advancement of Leader Development and Organizational Learning; and the writing of Charles Darwin (''On the Origin of Species'') and Nicholas G. Carr ("Is Google Making Us Stoopid?")

an unauthorized biography chronicling the life of Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple Inc by Vanity Fair magazine writer Alan Deutschman. It covers his period at NeXT, success at Pixar and his comeback to Apple followed by the introduction of iMac.

'''''Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft''''' (2011) is the ''New York Times'' bestselling memoir by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. Published in 2011 by Portfolio, a Penguin Group imprint, the book recounts how Allen became enamored with computers at an early age, conceived the idea for Microsoft, recruited his friend Bill Gates to join him, and launched what would become the world's most successful software company.

The "burn rate" of the title refers to the cash drain of the startup company. Most of the plot revolves around Wolff's attempts to get funding from various sources: AOL, The Washington Post and Magellan.

s a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone. It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust, and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime, the Kindle and Amazon Web Services. It also recounts the childhood and early years of Jeff Bezos, including his career on Wall Street working for the quantitative hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co., LLP.

a book by David Vise and Mark Malseed that takes an in-depth look at the founding of Google and why it is unique among information technology companies. The book discusses the founders, the company, and the culture that Google is known for

an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson, and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster.

The book summarizes the contributions of several innovators who have made pivotal breakthroughs in computer technology and its applications—from the world's first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace, and Alan Turing's work in artificial intelligence, through the Information Age of the present.

'''''The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer''''' is the first book that documented the development of Apple Computer.

'''''Steve Jobs''''' is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.