The Book Finder enables advanced searching of BookBrowse's database.
Cross-reference any two of BookBrowse's 200+ reading lists to find just what you're looking for. More than 20,000 possible search
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As a general rule books are only classified into one basic genre category - for example if a book falls into the historical fiction category it won't be listed as a novel as well; on the same basis a book may have both mystery and thriller characteristics but will be listed as one or the other.
Books for children and teens are cross-referenced by time period, setting and theme but not to the other genres - in other words you will not find a match for Children's Book + Novel, because the novels category only lists titles for adults.
The categorization of each book is not exhaustive. For example, a book may be set in various countries but will have been cross-referenced to the one (perhaps two) major location(s), or placed in the "globe-trotting" category. Equally, a book can contain countless themes - we have attempted to pick out the key themes and classify accordingly.
Our books are categorized about 70 different ways (by genre, time period, country of setting and by a wide variety of themes - that means that there are about 4,000 possible different combinations (assuming some combinations won't produce a result (e.g. novels & memoir). We have not checked each combination rigorously! If you find a result which seems wrong to you, please let us know.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Two Lives is a memoir written by international best-selling author, Vikram Seth. In this interesting and engaging book, Seth writes about his great...
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Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...
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