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Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand- Tells the story of Louis Zamperini, an bomber pilot who became a POW of the Germans after his plane was shot down.
Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
- A novel that tells the story of Dorrigo Evans who became a POW of the Japanese during WWII.
Keyword: Thought Experiments
Thought ExperimentsThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein - The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus' paradox, is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object which has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. A similar concept, but involving more than two persons at any given time, is described in some detail in the novel as a line marriage.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - The brain in a vat (alternately known as brain in a jar) is used in a variety of thought experiments that outlines a scenario in which a mad scientist, machine, or other entity might remove a person's brain from the body, suspend it in a vat of life-sustaining liquid, and connect its neurons by wires to a supercomputer which would provide it with electrical impulses identical to those the brain normally receives. In the novel, the character IT is a disembodied telepathic brain that dominates the planet of Camazotz (the brains do not have to be necessarily in a jar so long as the brain is isolated from the body).
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LionMagic Bites by Ilona Andrews
- Kate Daniel's love interest is a shapeshifter who shifts into a lion.
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by CS. Lewis
- Lion die and lion gets resurrected. RAAAWWRRR
Keyword: neurotic
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith- One of the subplots of the novel is the MC's attempt to overcome his neurosis.
The Insanity Defense by Woody Allen
- Several of the stories in the collection deal with various forms of neuroses.
Keyword: Infallibility
InfallibilityInfallible? An Inquiry by Hans Kung - the author investigates the problems of dogmatic infallibility in the Catholic Church. He begins by discussing the fact that Popes and ecumenical councils have contradicted each other in the past and then goes on to explain the development of infallibility, that it was not always universally accepted in the Church. He also argues that the idea of bishops being direct successors to the Apostles is historically false.
The Gift of Infallibility by James O'Connor - The author provides a helpful translation of the "relatio" or official explanation by Bishop Gasser given at Vatican I, the Church council that defined the dogma of papal infallibility.
Next: Popes
PopesThe Tudors by GJ Meyer - Because in the "olden days," the Church had a huge influence in the monarchy, particularly in 16th century England, the Popes of that period were discussed extensively.
Saints and Sinners by Eamon Duffy - The most comprehensive single-volume history of the popes in print."
Keyword: Kindergarten
KindergartenAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
- The title essay describes how the world will be a better off place if it only adhered to lessons that are taught during kindergarten.
The Pirate of Kindergarten by George Ella Lyon
- The book details the MC adventures during kindergarten.
Keyword: Apostasy
ApostasyFalling From the Faith: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Apostasy by David Bromley - an anthology dealing with religious defection from mainline American churches and new religious movements.
The Odyssey of a New Religion: The Holy Order of MANS from New Age to Orthodoxy by Phillip Charles Lucas - Traces the journey of a new religious movement from its start as a monastic-style New Age order to its transformation into the more conventional Christ the Savior Brotherhood, an Eastern Orthodox sect. A remarkable story of social and spiritual change in contemporary America.
Keyword: Imaginary friend
Imaginary FriendIf You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern - one of the main characters is an imaginary friend of another main character
The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat - the story of an imaginary friend who embarks on a journey to find his perfect match/friend
Keyword: Rock star
Woohoo first time! Sana hindi pa na-mention the books and the keyword. Lol
Rock StarThoughtless by S.C. Stephens
- the male protagonist is the lead singer of his band, D-bags
Take a Chance by Abbi Glines
- the male protagonist's father is the lead singer of a rock band called Slacker Demon
Keyword: Urban
UrbanHumans of New York by Brandon Stanton - A collection of inspiring, funny, and heartfelt photographs capturing the spirit of the city of New York.
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead - The book is set in New York.
Keyword: Revenge
RevengeBest Served Cold - Joe Abercrombie
- girl plots revenge for the murder of her father
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- man imprisoned plots bloody revenge for everyone involved in his imprisonment
Keyword: Mercy
MercyThe Perfect Game by J. Sterling
- the male protagonist begs for forgiveness for cheating his girlfriend on a party.
Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard
- The male protagonist resolve his personal issues by asking forgiveness to his ex-girlfriend and how he's responsible for her miscarriage.
Keyword: Gruesome
GruesomeRed Dragon by Thomas Harris - features the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote - a non-fiction book which details the 1959 murders of Herbert Clutter, a farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, his wife, and two of their four children.
Keyword: Emotions
Emotions1001 Books for Every Mood by Hallie Ephron - However you feel (or want to feel), this book can be your guide. Acclaimed critic and novelist Hallie Ephron serves up a literary feast, sure to satisfy your emotional appetite. Whether you want to cry or laugh, remember or forget, behave or misbehave-it's all here.
The Novel Cure by by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin - Whatever your condition, the prescription is simple: a novel (or two), to be read at regular intervals and in nice long chunks until you finish. Some treatments will lead to a complete cure. Others will offer solace, showing that you’re not the first to experience these emotions. The Novel Cure is also peppered with useful lists and sidebars recommending the best novels to read when you’re stuck in traffic or can’t fall asleep, the most important novels to read during every decade of life, and many more.
(Both books are basically recommendations on what to read depending on your emotions.)
Next: cure
CureThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - A book about Henrietta Lacks or HeLa, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells — taken without her knowledge in 1951 — became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more.
Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV by Nathalia Holt - Two patients were cured of the HIV virus. Their disparate cures came twelve years apart, but Nathalia Holt, an award-winning scientist at the forefront of HIV research, connects the molecular dots of these cases for the first time.
Keyword: Music Festival
Music FestivalA Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan - the last chapter (or one of the chapters) is set in a music festival.
Barefoot in Babylon by Bob Spitz - takes you all the way back to the origins of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, when organizer Michael Lang first came up with the idea, through the trials and tribulations of assembling 500,000 hippies in the not-entirely-liberal landscape of upstate New York, circa 1969.
Next: baking
BakingLemon Tart (A Culinary Mystery #1) by Josi Kilpack - Cooking aficionado turned amateur detective Sadie Hoffmiller tries to solve the murder of her beautiful young neighbor, a single mother who was mysteriously lured from her home while a lemon tart was baking in her oven.
The Cupcake Queen by Heather Hepler - When her mother moves them from the city to a small town to open up a cupcake bakery, the main protagonist's life turns upside down.
Keyword: Orphans
OrphansGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens - Pip is an orphan.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Heathcliff is an orphan, too.
Next: widows
WidowsThe Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald - the main protagonist is a widow.
The Widows' Adventures by Charles Dickinson - Two widowed sisters drive from Chicago to California: Helene, the driver, is a blind diabetic and Ina, the navigator, is overly fond of beer.
Keyword: Passport
PassportThe Passport by Herta Muller - tells the story of a village miller in a German-speaking village in the Banat in Romania, who applies for permission to emigrate to West Germany (emigrating requires a passport).
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai - one of the MCs (Biju) forges a passport so that he can get a visa to the US.
Next: puppets
PuppetsThe Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi - Hello, Pinocchio.
The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein - The main protagonist knows the truth about recent events, including the disappearance of top agents in a secret US military service. But that was just before he was taken over by one of the aliens and began working for the invaders, with no will of his own.
Keyword: Office Romance
Office RomanceAttachments by Rainbow Rowell - Movie reviewer and IT staff get it on (the latter reads the emails of the former because of office policy, but yeah, he got obsessed and creepy).
In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway - the story of two fated affairs that take place in the London offices of Atlantic Energy, a global oil company.
Next: great depression
Great DepressionOut of the Dust by Karen Hesse - Set during the Great Depression, the novel tells the story of a family of farmers during the Dust Bowl years. The book follows main character Billie Jo's life and struggles.
Ironweed by William Kennedy - set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, an alcoholic vagrant originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son while he may have been drunk.
Keyword: Honeymoon
HoneymoonOn Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan - the MCs spend their honeymoon on Chesil Beach. Tragedy ensues when sexual problems arise (frigidity and premature ejaculation).
Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian - the MCs, after getting married, spend their honeymoon, during which Chloe got ill.
Next: lottery
LotteryLucky You by Carl Hiaasen - Main protagonist stops by the Grab'n'Go to play the same numbers she's played every week for five years. Each lotto number marks the age at which she dumped a tiresome lover.
The Winner by David Baldacci - Female protagonist is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.
Keyword: Fjords
FjordsThe Body in the Fjord by Katherine Hall Page - Ursala and Pix are on their way to Norway to join the ongoing tour and help Marit find her granddaughter. As the tour group moves from town to town and fjord to fjord, Pix and Ursala cross-question the other travelers, mostly American, and the current guides Carl and Jan, finding out little but provoking someone to lock Pix in a sauna.
North of Danger by Dale Hollerbach Fife - a World War II story about a 12-year-old boy living in Svalbard who has to hide in a coal mine to avoid being captured by the Nazi invaders (Svalbard is full of mountains and fjords).
next: glaciers
GlaciersAt The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft - tells of the recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization.
Whiteout by Greg Rucka - Set in Antarctica, Carrie Stetko is a U.S. Marshal, and she's made The Ice her home. Someone commits a murder in her jurisdiction and that peace is shattered.
Antarctica is filled with glaciers, yes?
Keyword: Fibonacci Sequence
Fibonacci SequenceThe Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Dan Brown uses the Fibonacci Sequence as part of the clues left behind by Jacques Sauniere, the murdered curator. Sauniere raised his granddaughter, coaching her in endless puzzles. As an adult she became a cryptographer. When presented with the numbers in a scrambled form, she recognizes the sequence, and understands that it is part of a message.
In Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS, the Fibonacci sequence (as well as the Fibonacci constant) are used as identification signs by an organization called the "Friends of God".
Keyword: Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker - author argued against tabula rasa models in the social sciences
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - the creature was born or created as a blank slate (tabula rasa), with the capacity to be a loving, feeling and positive reflection of mankind.
Keyword: equation
EquationDante's Equation by Jane Jensen - explores the One-Minus-One / One-Plus-One Wave equation, which is the equation for good and evil; more specifically, a wave that, when it overlaps with the gravity waves of matter and probability waves, works to alleviate negative happenings (troughs) and to blunt positive happenings (peaks).
The Doomsday Equation by Matt Richtel - a set of algorithms, equations, and rules solves problems by being able to not only solve problems in a finite number of steps but also predict the future of the stock market, gas prices, the weather, oil prices and much more.
Next: calculus
CalculusThe Calculus Diaries by Jennifer Ouellette - describes the development of calculus, from Archimedes to Newton, and shows how calculus is a part of everyday life — from amusement park rides and Vegas craps tables, to dieting and figuring out gas mileage.
A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinski - explores just how calculus makes acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets and such things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world
Keyword: antimatter
AntimatterFireball by Paul Davies - Basic plot is that antimatter cannot easily exist in our world, since it would combine explosively with conventional matter, mutually annihilating 100% of both forms of matter to create energy.
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - The CERN and antimatter are touted as the anti-Christ, among many facets of the novel.
Keyword: Drag Race
Drag RaceHow to Drag Race by Kevin McKenna - gives enthusiasts of all experience levels advice on how to take their drag racing to the next level
TV Tommy Ivo: Drag Racing's Master Showman by Tom Cotter - this incredible bio details the legacy of one of drag racing’s most irrepressible characters
Keyword: Laissez-faire
Laissez-FaireThe Mystery of EdwinDrood by Charles Dickens. In dealing with the Opium Wars, it has been observed that Britain rationalized the wars and its monopoly on the drug as a way of opening up China to "free trade".
In Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, factory owner Robert Moore is stymied by the Orders in Council in the early 1800s and beset by Luddite machine-breakers. Because Moore and his schoolteacher brother Louis are "hybrid" characters, raised partly on the continent, they do not claim any particular allegiance to England. Hence they represent a cosmopolitanism which links with free trade (economic exchange and mind-sets that transcend national boundaries and narrow nationalisms).
Keyword: Timshel
TimshelEast of Eden by John Steinbeck - Timshel is an important symbol in the novel, meaning that mankind is neither compelled to pursue sainthood nor doomed to sin, but rather has the power to choose.
Timshel by Lillian Turner - The title theme all throughout was perfectly accurate, to the story and in life in general. Eiland, the MC, himself summed it up perfectly: "This was not an easy choice to make. But, Eiland had begun to realize, the important ones were never easy."
Next: saints
^East of Eden ang popular na may timshel theme. Never head of timshel until today. :D
SaintsJoan of Arc by Mark Twain - Self-explanatory.
The Joyful Beggar by Louis De Wohl - The story of St Francis of Assissi.
Keyword: Macabre
^love that version of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain. Fangirling mode na lang ako, hihi
^Rack up on points while the giants are sleeping!
^ssshhhh, be quiet! You'll wake them up!
MacabreMütter Museum Historic Medical Photographs ed by Laura Lindgren - Mütter Museum is home to a macabre collection of human oddities and medical anomalies. This book showcases photos from the collection depicting Civil War medicine, ravaging diseases, deformities and psychological disorders.
Rest in Pieces by Bess Lovejoy - the author crafted a fascinating book tracing the true adventures of historical celebrities, or at least pieces of them, after they met their various fates (i.e. after their deaths).
Next: precognition
PrecognitionWicked by Gregory Maguire - Elphaba, a witch, has precognition.
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice - Rowan Mayfair has precognition.
Keyword: Apparition
ApparitionMarian Apparitions by Donal Anthony Foley - looks at the major approved Marian apparitions of the last five centuries and relates them to important historical moments: the Reformation, the French and Russian Revolutions, the rise of Nazism.
Great Apparitions of Mary by Ingo Swann - investigates and writes an objective in-depth account of the most outstanding and momentous apparitions.
next: social networks
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The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson - introduced an ability that may be key to figuring out how faster-than-light travel can be achieved using allomantic powers.
Death From The Skies! by Philip Plait - An astronomer himself, Plait debunks the myth of FTL space travel in science fiction
Keyword: Prisoners of War