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The dataset generation failed because of a cast error
Error code: DatasetGenerationCastError
Exception: DatasetGenerationCastError
Message: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 10 new columns ({'precision_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_10', 'ndcg_at_5', 'annotated_relevant_total', 'retrieved_results', 'mrr', 'annotated_pool_recall_at_10', 'ndcg_at_10', 'precision_at_10'}) and 6 missing columns ({'document_text', 'retrieval_rank', 'book_id', 'relevant', 'source', 'title'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv (at revision 3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531), ['hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates_labeled.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_labels_checkpoint.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv']
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1848, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 765, in write_table
self._write_table(pa_table, writer_batch_size=writer_batch_size)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 773, in _write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
...<3 lines>...
)
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
category: string
query: string
retrieved_results: int64
annotated_relevant_total: int64
precision_at_5: double
precision_at_10: double
hit_rate_at_5: double
hit_rate_at_10: double
mrr: double
ndcg_at_5: double
ndcg_at_10: double
annotated_pool_recall_at_10: double
-- schema metadata --
pandas: '{"index_columns": [{"kind": "range", "name": null, "start": 0, "' + 1798
to
{'category': Value('string'), 'query': Value('string'), 'book_id': Value('int64'), 'title': Value('string'), 'document_text': Value('string'), 'source': Value('string'), 'retrieval_rank': Value('float64'), 'relevant': Value('float64')}
because column names don't match
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1369, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
builder, max_dataset_size_bytes=max_dataset_size_bytes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 948, in stream_convert_to_parquet
builder._prepare_split(split_generator=splits_generators[split], file_format="parquet")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1694, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
gen_kwargs=gen_kwargs, job_id=job_id, **_prepare_split_args
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
):
^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1850, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationCastError.from_cast_error(
...<4 lines>...
)
datasets.exceptions.DatasetGenerationCastError: An error occurred while generating the dataset
All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 10 new columns ({'precision_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_5', 'hit_rate_at_10', 'ndcg_at_5', 'annotated_relevant_total', 'retrieved_results', 'mrr', 'annotated_pool_recall_at_10', 'ndcg_at_10', 'precision_at_10'}) and 6 missing columns ({'document_text', 'retrieval_rank', 'book_id', 'relevant', 'source', 'title'}).
This happened while the csv dataset builder was generating data using
hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv (at revision 3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531), ['hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_candidates_labeled.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/evaluation_labels_checkpoint.csv', 'hf://datasets/goodreads-recommender-team/goodreads-project@3fc8f508a2a6ce1bbbbcdbd18b98962920207531/rag project/data/semantic_search_evaluation_results.csv']
Please either edit the data files to have matching columns, or separate them into different configurations (see docs at https://hf.co/docs/hub/datasets-manual-configuration#multiple-configurations)Need help to make the dataset viewer work? Make sure to review how to configure the dataset viewer, and open a discussion for direct support.
category string | query string | book_id int64 | title string | document_text string | source string | retrieval_rank float64 | relevant null |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 59 | The Changeling Sea | Title: The Changeling Sea
Author: Patricia A. McKillip
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction, romance, children, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Since the day her father's fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depres... | retrieved | 1 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,085 | Water (Tales of Elemental Spirits, #1) | Title: Water (Tales of Elemental Spirits, #1)
Author: Robin McKinley
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, fiction, young-adult, romance, children, non-fiction
Description: Seven tales describe magical beings that inhabit our waters. Some are familiar mer-people; some as strange as as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of th... | retrieved | 2 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,093 | The Stone Fey | Title: The Stone Fey
Author: Robin McKinley
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, children, fiction, romance, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: Maddy has been roaming the hills of Damar with her sheep since she was a girl. The Hills hold everything she desires: her family; her beloved dog, Aerlich - and soon... | retrieved | 3 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,090 | A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories | Title: A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Author: Robin McKinley
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction, romance, children
Description: 1 Lily. She has the power to heal, but no speech - until a mage hears words from her mind. 2 Ruen. The princess was abandoned by her uncle deep in a cave to die at the... | retrieved | 4 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 58 | Changeling (Changeling, #1) | Title: Changeling (Changeling, #1)
Author: Delia Sherman
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, children, fiction
Description: Neef is a changeling, a human baby stolen by fairies and replaced with one of their own. She lives in "New York Between," a Manhattan alongside our own, home to creatures of folklore. Pro... | retrieved | 5 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,088 | Sunshine | Title: Sunshine
Author: Robin McKinley
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, fiction, romance, young-adult
Description: There are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her ... | retrieved | 6 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 5,096 | Wizard and Glass | Title: Wizard and Glass
Author: Stephen King
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, fiction, mystery, thriller, crime, romance
Description: Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife with confrontation, conflict and sacrifice - from a vast computer system which bargains... | retrieved | 7 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 6,327 | The Witches | Title: The Witches
Author: Roald Dahl
Genres: children, fantasy, paranormal, fiction, young-adult
Description: This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as childr... | retrieved | 8 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,004 | A Redwall Winter's Tale | Title: A Redwall Winter's Tale
Author: Brian Jacques
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, children, fiction, young-adult, poetry
Description: This sumptuous picture book tells the story of fun-loving Bungo, the molebabe, and his friend Tubspike, the hedgehog maid, who welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to ... | retrieved | 9 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 8,962 | A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1) | Title: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
Author: Darren Shan
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction, children, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: In the tradition of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, Cirque Du Freak is the frightening saga of a young boy whose visit to a mysterious freak show leads h... | retrieved | 10 | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 1,633 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity | Title: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author: David Allen
Genres: non-fiction
Description: In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that h... | random | null | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 9,910 | The Name of the World | Title: The Name of the World
Author: Denis Johnson
Genres: fiction
Description: Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But when events force him to act as if he cares, he begins to find people who - against all expectation - help him through his private labyrinth. | random | null | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 6,193 | Life and Times of Michael K | Title: Life and Times of Michael K
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Im... | random | null | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 4,658 | Setting Free the Bears | Title: Setting Free the Bears
Author: John Irving
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: It is 1967 and two Viennese university students want to liberate the Vienna Zoo, as was done after World War II. But their good intentions have both comic and gruesome consequences, in this first no... | random | null | null |
fantasy | A fantasy story involving magic and supernatural creatures | 2,423 | Double Tap (Paul Madriani, #8) | Title: Double Tap (Paul Madriani, #8)
Author: Steve Martini
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: Attorney Paul Madriani defends a highly decorated soldier who is on trial for murder, and unwittingly steps into a maze of secrets and lies that the government - and even this client - would rather leav... | random | null | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 3,532 | First Love | Title: First Love
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Genres: fiction, romance, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: This vivid, sensitive tale of adolescent love follows a 16-year-old boy who falls in love with a beautiful, older woman and experiences a whirlwind of changing emotions, from exaltation and jealousy ... | retrieved | 1 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 5,526 | Dear John | Title: Dear John
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Genres: romance, fiction, young-adult
Description: An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that... | retrieved | 2 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 1,727 | The Erotic Poems | Title: The Erotic Poems
Author: Ovid
Genres: poetry, romance, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, fiction
Description: This collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity.... | retrieved | 3 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 1,430 | Eleven Minutes | Title: Eleven Minutes
Author: Paulo Coelho
Genres: fiction, romance
Description: Eleven Minutesis the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that ... | retrieved | 4 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 9,712 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, romance, fantasy, paranormal
Description: In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Flore... | retrieved | 5 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 275 | The Lover | Title: The Lover
Author: Marguerite Duras
Genres: fiction, romance, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction
Description: Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet lumi... | retrieved | 6 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 6,974 | Strange Attractions | Title: Strange Attractions
Author: Emma Holly
Genres: romance, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Determined not to repeat her mother's mistakes, high school dropout and unrepentant heartbreaker Charity Wills jumps at the chance to attend college for free. There's just ... | retrieved | 7 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 2,183 | Sentimental Education | Title: Sentimental Education
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Genres: fiction, romance, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as "the moral history of the men of my generation." It follows the amorous... | retrieved | 8 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 9,811 | Difficult Loves | Title: Difficult Loves
Author: Italo Calvino
Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, romance
Description: Tales of love and loneliness in which the author blends reality and illusion. "The quirkiness and grace of the writing, the originality of the imagination at work,...and a certain lovable nuttiness make this colle... | retrieved | 9 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 3,623 | Love: A User's Guide | Title: Love: A User's Guide
Author: Clare Naylor
Genres: romance, fiction
Description: Working for Vogue, Amy spends her days dressing waif models in London's latest apparel while fending off insults from the Gucci-garbed staff. Hardly the glamorous job she hoped it would be. But that won't stop her from fantasizing... | retrieved | 10 | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 9,522 | Persepolis, Volume 1 | Title: Persepolis, Volume 1
Author: Marjane Satrapi
Genres: comics, graphic, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, fiction, young-adult
Description: Persepolises la historia autobiografica de la irani Marjane Satrapi, la historia de como crecio en un regimen fundamentalista islamico que la acabaria ll... | random | null | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 9,420 | Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic, #5) | Title: Shopaholic & Baby (Shopaholic, #5)
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Genres: fiction, romance, young-adult
Description: Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed-especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the des... | random | null | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 4,866 | How to Stop Worrying and Start Living | Title: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Author: Dale Carnegie
Genres: non-fiction
Description: Learn how to break the worry habit -- Now and forever! With Dale Carnegie's timeless advice in hand, more than six million people have learned how to eliminate debilitating fear and worry from their lives and to embra... | random | null | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 2,657 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Title: To Kill a Mockingbird
Author: Harper Lee
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, young-adult, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestse... | random | null | null |
romance | A romantic story about love and relationships | 9,298 | Last Chance Saloon | Title: Last Chance Saloon
Author: Marian Keyes
Genres: fiction, romance
Description: Ever since legwarmers were cool, best friends Tara, Katherine, and Fintan have survived small-town ennui, big-city heartbreak, and endless giddy nights out on the town. But now that they've graduated to their slightly more serious t... | random | null | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,828 | Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh #6) | Title: Death of an Expert Witness (Adam Dalgliesh #6)
Author: P.D. James
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: Dr. Lorrimer appeared to be the picture of a bloodless, coldly efficient scientist. Only when his brutally slain body is discovered and his secret past dissected does the image begin to cha... | retrieved | 1 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 8,645 | Stanley Park | Title: Stanley Park
Author: Timothy Taylor
Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: A love story wrapped in a murder mystery. Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a "Bloods vs. Crips" metaphor for the philosophical conflict betwee... | retrieved | 2 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,830 | A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7) | Title: A Taste for Death (Adam Dalgliesh #7)
Author: P.D. James
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust M... | retrieved | 3 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 9,082 | In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks, #10) | Title: In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks, #10)
Author: Peter Robinson
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: When a drought drains the local Thornfield Reservoir, uncovering a long-drowned small village and the skeleton of a murder victim from the 1940s, Detecti... | retrieved | 4 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 8,857 | Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1) | Title: Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth, #1)
Author: M.C. Beaton
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction, romance
Description: Scottish highland village cop Hamish Macbeth must find which target was provoked enough to strangle and drown nasty fat widowed tabloid reporter Jane Winters, who revealed many others' gu... | retrieved | 5 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 8,531 | Proof | Title: Proof
Author: Dick Francis
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery ... | retrieved | 6 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,659 | The Book of Evidence | Title: The Book of Evidence
Author: John Banville
Genres: fiction, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: Returning to Ireland to reclaim a painting that is part of his patrimony, a thirty-eight-year-old man commits a ghastly and motiveless murder, which he confesses in a novel-length narrative. | retrieved | 7 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,827 | Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3) | Title: Unnatural Causes (Adam Dalgliesh #3)
Author: P.D. James
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: AN ADAM DALGLIESH MYSTERY Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh had been looking forward to a quiet holiday at his aunt's cottage on Monksmere Head, one of the furthest-flung spots on the remote Suffolk coas... | retrieved | 8 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,832 | Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1) | Title: Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh #1)
Author: P.D. James
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam D... | retrieved | 9 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,815 | Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh #9) | Title: Original Sin (Adam Dalgliesh #9)
Author: P.D. James
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: The Peverall Press, a venerable publishing firm occupying a mock-Venetian palace on the Thames in London, has a new managing director, the brilliant but ruthless Gerard Etienne--a man with enemies. When ... | retrieved | 10 | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 1,375 | The Iliad/The Odyssey | Title: The Iliad/The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, romance
Description: Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, 'The Iliad' is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. Combining the skills of a p... | random | null | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 12 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5) | Title: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
Author: Douglas Adams
Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Art... | random | null | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 3,664 | Shroud | Title: Shroud
Author: John Banville
Genres: fiction
Description: Axel Vander is an old man, in ill health, recently widowed, a scholar renowned for both his unquestionable authority and the ferocity and violence that often mark his conduct. He is known to be Belgian by birth, to have had a privileged upbringing, to ... | random | null | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 7,035 | Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3) | Title: Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: Botswana PI Precious Ramotswe investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official, and the moral character of four beauty co... | random | null | null |
mystery | A mystery story involving crime investigation | 6,273 | The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen | Title: The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
Author: Wilfred Owen
Genres: poetry, non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction
Description: Wilfred Owen was twenty-two when he enlisted in the Artists' Rifle Corps during World War I. By the time Owen was killed at the age of 25 at the Battle of Sambre, ... | random | null | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 1,362 | The Histories | Title: The Histories
Author: Herodotus
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, fiction
Description: One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the "Histories" describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epi... | retrieved | 1 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 6,103 | Byzantium: The Early Centuries | Title: Byzantium: The Early Centuries
Author: John Julius Norwich
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, fiction
Description: "This book tells the story of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnings to the emergence of its only European rival, the Holy Roman Empire, with the coronation of Charlem... | retrieved | 2 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 4,998 | Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire | Title: Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
Author: Richard B. Frank
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction
Description: In a riveting narrative that includes information from newly declassified documents, acclaimed historian Richard B. Frank gives a scrupulously detailed explanatio... | retrieved | 3 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 3,345 | 1968: The Year That Rocked the World | Title: 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, fiction
Description: Brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of the pivotal year of 1968, when television's influence on global events first became apparent, and spontaneo... | retrieved | 4 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 2,767 | A People's History of the United States | Title: A People's History of the United States
Author: Howard Zinn
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction
Description: Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United Statesis the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of-... | retrieved | 5 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 3,873 | A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | Title: A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Author: Karen Armstrong
Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Armstrong, a British journalist and former nun, guides us along one of the most elusive and fascinating quests of all time--the search for... | retrieved | 6 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 4,902 | Heart of Darkness | Title: Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterl... | retrieved | 7 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 1,957 | A Tale of Two Cities | Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, romance, young-adult
Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasant... | retrieved | 8 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 888 | The Last Days of Pompeii | Title: The Last Days of Pompeii
Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, fiction, non-fiction
Description: Classic Victorian tale of the last days of Pompeii, doomed city that lay at the feet of Mount Vesuvius. From poets to flower-girls, gladiators to Roman tribunes, here is a pl... | retrieved | 9 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 397 | The Gettysburg Address | Title: The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, children
Description: The words of President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address are as relevant and meaningful today as they were in 1863. This magnificent book is a stunning exploration of some ... | retrieved | 10 | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 1,171 | Liar's Poker | Title: Liar's Poker
Author: Michael Lewis
Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction, comics, graphic
Description: In this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning ... | random | null | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 2,933 | Robinson Crusoe | Title: Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, children, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal
Description: 'A raging wave, mountain-like, came rowling a-stern of us...we were all swallowed up in a moment. The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up... | random | null | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 7,789 | Daisy-Head Mayzie | Title: Daisy-Head Mayzie
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew's head, she is faced with her classmates' taunts, her parents' dismay, and a publicity agent's greed. How poor Mayzie learns that lov... | random | null | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 8,541 | Straight | Title: Straight
Author: Dick Francis
Genres: mystery, thriller, crime, fiction
Description: A jockey becomes the sole inheritor of his late brother's business, horse, mistress, and enemies. | random | null | null |
historical | A historical story about important events and history | 7,389 | Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy (Runaways, #1) | Title: Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy (Runaways, #1)
Author: Brian K. Vaughan
Genres: comics, graphic, young-adult, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, mystery, thriller, crime, romance
Description: Meet Alex, Karolina, Gert, Chase, Molly and Nico - six young friends whose lives are about to take an unexpected dramatic t... | random | null | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 8,953 | Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1) | Title: Freak the Mighty (Freak The Mighty, #1)
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Genres: fiction, young-adult, children
Description: Two boys - a slow learner stuck in the body of a teenage giant and a tiny Einstein in leg braces - forge a unique friendship when they pair up to create one formidable human force. A wonderful ... | retrieved | 1 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 4,271 | About a Boy | Title: About a Boy
Author: Nick Hornby
Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance, children
Description: 'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: atte... | retrieved | 2 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 2,839 | Bridge to Terabithia | Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Katherine Paterson
Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal
Description: Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first... | retrieved | 3 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 2,836 | Bridge to Terabithia | Title: Bridge to Terabithia
Author: Katherine Paterson
Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal
Description: Jess Aarons' greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first... | retrieved | 4 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 5,148 | A Separate Peace | Title: A Separate Peace
Author: John Knowles
Genres: young-adult, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, children
Description: An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peaceis timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its... | retrieved | 5 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 10,050 | Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp | Title: Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp
Author: C.D. Payne
Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance
Description: Six months in the life of the world's most dangerous teenager. Youth in Revoltis the journals of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious diarist, whose ongoing struggles to make sense out of high... | retrieved | 6 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 5,371 | Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon | Title: Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon
Author: Paula Danziger
Genres: children, fiction
Description: Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other in class, help each other with homework, and always stick up for each other. Justin never says thi... | retrieved | 7 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 5,452 | Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3) | Title: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood, #3)
Author: Ann Brashares
Genres: young-adult, fiction, romance, children
Description: "A fun and poignant coming-of-age story," declared Entertainment Weeklyof the third novel in the #1 New York Timesbestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants... | retrieved | 8 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 4,043 | Godless | Title: Godless
Author: Pete Hautman
Genres: young-adult, fiction, children, fantasy, paranormal
Description: "Why mess around with Catholicism when you can have your own customized religion?" Fed up with his parents' boring old religion, agnostic-going-on-atheist Jason Bock invents a new god -- the town's water towe... | retrieved | 9 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 5,456 | The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #2) | Title: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, #2)
Author: Ann Brashares
Genres: young-adult, fiction, romance, children
Description: With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them--Lena, Tibby, Bridget, and Carmen--embark on the... | retrieved | 10 | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 40 | Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1) | Title: Cooking with Fernet Branca (Gerald Samper, #1)
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
Genres: fiction
Description: Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany, where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions -... | random | null | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 6,900 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Title: Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Genres: non-fiction, fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, young-adult, comics, graphic
Description: Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you ... | random | null | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 5,486 | Andrew Carnegie | Title: Andrew Carnegie
Author: David Nasaw
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, comics, graphic
Description: Majestically told and based on materials not available to any previous biographer, the definitive life of Andrew Carnegie-one of American business's most iconic and elusive titans-by t... | random | null | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 8,646 | Crow Lake | Title: Crow Lake
Author: Mary Lawson
Genres: fiction, young-adult, romance
Description: Crow Lakeis that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing--a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense tale... | random | null | null |
young_adult | A young adult story about growing up and friendship | 9,784 | Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2) | Title: Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)
Author: D.H. Lawrence
Genres: fiction, romance, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: "An analytical study of sexual depravity" and "an epic of vice" were two of the critical expressions which greeted the publication of "Women in Love". Yet Lawrence regarded t... | random | null | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 6,668 | The Enormous Crocodile | Title: The Enormous Crocodile
Author: Roald Dahl
Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other anim... | retrieved | 1 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 7,789 | Daisy-Head Mayzie | Title: Daisy-Head Mayzie
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: When a daisy suddenly sprouts from the top of Mayzie McGrew's head, she is faced with her classmates' taunts, her parents' dismay, and a publicity agent's greed. How poor Mayzie learns that lov... | retrieved | 2 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 8,004 | A Redwall Winter's Tale | Title: A Redwall Winter's Tale
Author: Brian Jacques
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, children, fiction, young-adult, poetry
Description: This sumptuous picture book tells the story of fun-loving Bungo, the molebabe, and his friend Tubspike, the hedgehog maid, who welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to ... | retrieved | 3 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 6,667 | Boy: Tales of Childhood | Title: Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl
Genres: children, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction, comics, graphic, young-adult, fiction
Description: In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position a... | retrieved | 4 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 7,770 | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish | Title: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is a 1960 children's book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). A simple rhyming book for learner readers, it is a book with a freewhee... | retrieved | 5 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 7,769 | Dr. Seuss's ABC | Title: Dr. Seuss's ABC
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genres: children, fiction, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: This is an adaptation from Dr. Seuss's ABC Published by Random House in 1963. Simple, Silly, Sturdy Books for Babies of All Ages! | retrieved | 6 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 6,694 | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me | Title: The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Author: Roald Dahl
Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, poetry
Description: A small boy with a desire to own a candy shop meets a window-washing team of a giraffe, a pelican, and a monkey and together they go to work for the wealthy Duke of Hampshire, w... | retrieved | 7 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 7,772 | Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book | Title: Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
Author: Dr. Seuss
Genres: children, poetry, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, fiction
Description: Illus. in color. "Deliberately calculated to make its readers yawn. No one could resist those zillions of astonishing sleepyheads."-- "The New York Times." | retrieved | 8 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 4,948 | The Very Hungry Caterpillar | Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Author: Eric Carle
Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillaris a perennial favorite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry ca... | retrieved | 9 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 8,797 | The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly | Title: The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly
Author: Luis Sepulveda
Genres: children, fiction, young-adult, fantasy, paranormal, romance
Description: A cat. A seagull. An impossible task. A worldwide bestseller and the subject of a feature film, THE STORY OF A SEAGULL... is finally out in paperbac... | retrieved | 10 | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 7,351 | The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy | Title: The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy
Author: Brian Sibley
Genres: non-fiction, fantasy, paranormal, fiction
Description: The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy is a lavishly illustrated, behind-the-sce... | random | null | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 9,076 | Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam | Title: Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam
Author: Mark Bowden
Genres: history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction
Description: From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Downcomes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, America's first battle w... | random | null | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 3,341 | Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea | Title: Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction
Description: In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as... | random | null | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 4,985 | Welcome to the Monkey House | Title: Welcome to the Monkey House
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal
Description: This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House(1968) incorporates almost completely Vonnegut's 1961 "Canary in a Cathouse," which appeared within a few months of Slaughterhouse-Fiveand capitalized ... | random | null | null |
children | A children's story suitable for young readers | 9,006 | Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems | Title: Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
Author: David Rakoff
Genres: non-fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fiction
Description: A bitingly funny grand tour of our ... | random | null | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 4,214 | Life of Pi | Title: Life of Pi
Author: Yann Martel
Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult
Description: Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age.... | retrieved | 1 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 3,799 | The Dolls' House | Title: The Dolls' House
Author: Rumer Godden
Genres: children, fiction, fantasy, paranormal, young-adult, comics, graphic
Description: Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in a shoebox. The doll family are owned by two sisters, Emily and Charlotte, and are very happy, except for one thing:... | retrieved | 2 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 3,398 | Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord | Title: Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord
Author: Louis de Bernieres
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fantasy, paranormal, mystery, thriller, crime
Description: In this iridescent gem of a novel, Louis de Bernieres returns to the territory he mapped so well in "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Part... | retrieved | 3 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 6,193 | Life and Times of Michael K | Title: Life and Times of Michael K
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Im... | retrieved | 4 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 3,717 | Stranger than Fiction | Title: Stranger than Fiction
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, non-fiction
Description: Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse... | retrieved | 5 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 7,961 | Saints | Title: Saints
Author: Orson Scott Card
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, fantasy, paranormal, romance, young-adult, non-fiction
Description: When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she asked when he would be back. "Soon," he replie... | retrieved | 6 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 4,799 | Cannery Row | Title: Cannery Row
Author: John Steinbeck
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography
Description: Cannery Rowis a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on... | retrieved | 7 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 827 | The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer | Title: The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Author: Neal Stephenson
Genres: fiction, fantasy, paranormal
Description: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young gi... | retrieved | 8 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 1,957 | A Tale of Two Cities | Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens
Genres: fiction, history, historical fiction, biography, romance, young-adult
Description: A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasant... | retrieved | 9 | null |
fiction | A fictional story about characters and their lives | 8,004 | A Redwall Winter's Tale | Title: A Redwall Winter's Tale
Author: Brian Jacques
Genres: fantasy, paranormal, children, fiction, young-adult, poetry
Description: This sumptuous picture book tells the story of fun-loving Bungo, the molebabe, and his friend Tubspike, the hedgehog maid, who welcome a traveling troupe that visits Redwall Abbey to ... | retrieved | 10 | null |
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