Suggest a book game.

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

 

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

 

Woman of the Dunes - Koko Abe

Nigerian

 

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.