Right, here's a new game that I just thought of. I begin by naming a genre, then I suggest a good book within it.

Seeming this is the first post I'll start off with a genre, then suggest another for the next poster to suggest.

Genre: Horror

Suggestion: In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

Genre: Biography

(Next person suggests a book and names a genre for next poster.)

"Light my fire" by Ray Manzarek.


Genre: Adventure

Biggles Makes Ends Meet.

Genre: postmodern fiction

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut


Genre: Science Fiction

Brave New World - Huxley

Lost Generation literature

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Children's fiction

Peter Pan -J.M Barrie Woot, i got kids fiction:D

Autobiography

The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven

Genre: Science non-fiction

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Genre: Philosophy

'The Republic' - Plato

Genre: Travel

On the Road - Kerouac (*sigh*:confused:.)

Short Story

"Autopsy Room Four" by Stephen King

Genre: Poem (collection of poems or just one, nevermind)

"Singing Yet" - Stan Rice (it's a collection)

Drug book

Dr Miriam Stoppard's Complete Family Health Guide

Genre: History

A Brief History Of Time, Stephen Hawking :D

Genre: Romantic Fiction

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Genre: Detective fiction.

"Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" by Douglas Adams


Genre: Foreign Language

Jules Verne - Le Rayon Vert

Horror

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Genre: philosophical novel

The Bible - 'God'

Japanese

Hahaha, God didn't actually write the Bible:tongue:

Okay, fine! The Bible - Jesus Christ :tongue:

Woman of the Dunes - Koko Abe

Nigerian

Okay, fine! The Bible - Jesus Christ :tongue:hate to break it to you, but Jesus didn't write it either :tongue:

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Comedy

George Carlin "When will Jesus bring the pork chops?"


Whodunit

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Campus novel

Nice Work - David Lodge

Natural History

looks like lithium has found Hip UK's blind spot ...

That book some bloke wrote.. you know, 'im off the telly.
David Attenborough, that's it.

Literary criticism ;)

Poetics - Aristotle

genre: satire

Bored of the Rings - can't remember the author. Not sure if it isn't a little lowbrow for satire, it might just be parody ;)

Philosophy, Greek

Aristotle - Politics

Historiographic metafiction

Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) by Gunter Grass. (does this count?)

Hagiography.

The Lives of The Saints - Aelfric of Eynsham


Magic Realism

The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende.

19th century (or earlier) travel memoirs.

Travels by Marco Polo


Farce

Charley's Aunt.

Novel set on a Greek island.

is set in crete, but close enough:

Zorba The Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis

psychological thriller

I love Kazantzakis, though I can only really read him when I'm in Crete - in our grey northern climate it all seems a bit lurid and overblown.

Psych thriller - any of the Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith.

Genre: alternative history.

er, David Irving?

Genre: Generation X

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland



Genre: Fairy Tales



*side note*
this thread reminds me loads of when I applied to work at Border's Books & Music years ago. I had to take this test that was quite similar to this, like suggest a book for a genre or put certain books in a genre. i never felt like such an idiot, until now. :eek:
:lol:

The Juniper Tree - The Brothers Grimm

sick and twisted stories to lull a child to sleep by - my mom did!!

social commentary

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell.

Narrative verse.

A love song for J. Alfred Prufrock - t.s. eliot

burlesque

Voltaire's Candide

Picaresque