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TarzanUniverse
universe100 books1912
Adventure, adventurous in tone.
“Deep in a jungle no map has tamed, an English lord's orphaned son is suckled by a she-ape and grows to manhood knowing neither his name nor his kind.”
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includes Tarzan, The Wild Adventures of Tarzan, Tarzan's Africa / Opar / Khokarsa, The Tarzan Trilogy, Tarzan and the Martian Legion
The Edge of Running WaterNovel
William Sloanestandalone novel1939
Dark and eerie in tone, about grief and loss, set in our world.
“After the death of his beloved wife, a physicist tries to build a machine that will enable him to communicate with the dead, with horrible consequences.”
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To Walk the NightNovel
William Sloanestandalone novel1937
Dark and eerie in tone, set in our world.
I Will Fear No EvilNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1970
About immortality and identity, set in near future and our world.
Into the Out ofNovel
Alan Dean Fosterstandalone novel1986
Eerie and tense in tone, about aliens, set in contemporary.
Black No MoreNovel
George S. Schuylerstandalone novel1931
Satire, about genetic engineering and class conflict, set in north america.
“In the novel, Schuyler targets both the Ku Klux Klan and NAACP in condemning the ways in which race functions as both an obsession and a commodity in early twentieth-century America.”
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