colonialism: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Non-fiction book for religious figures and settings is The CHeese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
OMG, Warner Herzog is turning that book into a film. I think that will break my brain.
For Books -- Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, by John Dunning
I'd put The Handmaid's Tale in Religious. Would John Wyndham's The Chrysalids fit?
Windfollower by Carole McDonnell would fit in either religious or colonialism.
Well, the "book" books are pretty centered on reading or writing.
Then Anne of Green Gables or Emily of New Moon would definitely fit. Emily would probably be better than Anne, actually.
In the war category, I'd add John Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley. Follows an infantry unit in the Vietnam War.
Never mind. Oooops.
Hah!
Note: We already have dystopian novels as a separate topic.
For Books and the Bookish, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.