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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the Italian: novella for 'new'...

It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. This is his 22nd book and his 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows seven...

A novelization (or novelisation) is a derivative novel that adapts the story of a work created for another medium, such as a film, TV series, stage play...

There There is the debut novel by Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange. Published in 2018, the book follows a large cast of Native Americans living...

1952 family saga novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck...

Rozanov. The novel is the second in Reid's Game Changers series of gay-themed ice hockey romance novels. A television series based on the novel was released...

James is a novel by American author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024. The novel is a reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark...

The Novel (1991) is a novel written by American author James A. Michener. A departure from Michener's better known historical fiction, The Novel is told...

born in Hamamatsu and lived in Tokyo. Suzuki was the author of the Ring novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, television...

Correspondent is an epistolary novel by American author Virginia Evans. It was published on April 29, 2025 by Crown Publishing Group. The novel follows the letters...

May 29, 1996) is a Chinese-American writer of mostly fantasy novels, known for her 2022 novel Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, which was placed at the...

published during the preceding calendar year. As the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (awarded 1918–1947), it was one of the original Pulitzers; the program was...

WFA–nominated 1992 novel by Canadian author Geoff Ryman, published by HarperCollins, focusing on themes of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard...

The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood. It is the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's...

Rivals is a 1988 novel by English author Jilly Cooper. It is the second novel of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of books set in the fictional English...

Yellowface is a 2023 satirical novel written by R. F. Kuang. The book was described as a satire of racial diversity in the publishing industry as well...

a, also known as a: A Novel, is a 1968 book by the American artist Andy Warhol published by Grove Press. It is a nearly word-for-word transcription of...

The "Great American Novel" (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character...

*** (pronounced "three asterisks") is the fifth novel by Michael Brodsky, published by Four Walls Eight Windows in 1994. The book centers on Stu Potts...

Solaris (/səˈlɑːrɪs/) is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It follows a crew of scientists on a hovering near-surface research...

Project Hail Mary is a 2021 hard science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. It centers on school teacher and former biologist Ryland Grace, who...

speculative fiction novel by English author Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut...

best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels. While her novels are not classified by her...

from the German words Bildung ('formation' or 'education') and Roman ('novel'). The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern...

We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920–1921...

Whereabouts (Italian: Dove mi trovo) is a 2018 novel by Jhumpa Lahiri. It is her third novel, her first since The Lowland (2013). It was originally written...

is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938. It is Sartre's first novel. The novel takes place in 'Bouville'...

(Armstrong novel), 2012, in the Women of the Otherworld series 13 (Zeitoun novel) 13 (manga), 2014, by Sorachi Hideaki XIII (comics), a Belgian graphic novel series...

The Alchemist (Portuguese: O Alquimista) is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese...

of the Washington Poe series and the DI Avison Fluke series. In 2019 his novel The Puppet Show won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award. Craven...

Atonement is a 2001 British novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day...

2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, published by Penguin Press. It is Moshfegh's first full-length novel. It won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and...

began in late 2019. The virus previously had the provisional name 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), and has also been called human coronavirus 2019...

science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over...

A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally...

An epistolary novel (/ɪˈpɪstəlɛri/) is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended...

The picaresque novel is a genre of prose fiction that depicts the adventures of a roguish but appealing hero, usually of low social class, who lives by...

from the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans. Mary Shelley's well-known 1818 novel about Frankenstein was greatly influenced by the story of Hippolytus, whom...

Visual novels are a video game genre of Japanese origin focused on presenting a story. Progress is made via means such as clicking, tapping or pressing...

science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy...

Potter is a series of seven children's fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter...

Riders is a 1985 novel written by the English author Jilly Cooper. It is the first of a series of bonkbusters known as the Rutshire Chronicles, which...

Artemis is a 2017 science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. It takes place in the late 2080s in Artemis, the first and only city on the Moon...

Ring (リング, Ringu) is a series of horror novels written by Koji Suzuki. The novels were initially a trilogy, consisting of Ring, Spiral, and Loop. A short...

Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won...

Shōgun is a 1975 novel of historical fiction by author James Clavell that chronicles the end of Japan's Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568–1600) and the dawn...

Flesh, published in 2025, is the sixth novel by Canadian-Hungarian David Szalay. It tells a rags-to-riches story about a Hungarian man named István. He...

was an American adventure novelist and underwater explorer. His thriller novels, many featuring the character Dirk Pitt, have been listed on The New York...

kle]; lit. 'novel with a key') is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent...

by British novelist J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous...

fantasy novel by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis. The 541-page novel, inspired by classic fantasy novels and folk...

his novels Erasure (2001), I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009), and The Trees (2021), which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. His 2024 novel James...

hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation...

portrayal of a setting that completely disagrees with the author's ethos. Some novels depict both types of society to more directly contrast their properties...

to Los Angeles in 1985 and spent most of her career there. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her books...

like thesis novel, propaganda novel, industrial novel, working-class novel and problem novel are also used to describe this type of novel; a recent development...

wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include...

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press. The novel is set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s—although this...

Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film directed and co produced by Lee Daniels. Its script...

1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels to be published, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent man in French...

The Nightingale (2015) is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press. The book tells the story of two...

American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us. Many of her works...

self-published the novel Run digitally. In 2016, he released the sci-fi novel Dark Matter. In 2019, he published another sci-fi novel, titled Recursion...

ljɛzɔ̃ dɑ̃ʒ(ə)ʁøz]; English: Dangerous Liaisons) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand...

Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, or Junky, is a 1953 novel by American Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs. The book follows...

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror,...

Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha. Eine indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual...

(born October 31, 1953) is an American author best known for his crime novels including Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy. Winslow was born on...

Goths. The first work to be labelled as Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled A Gothic Story. Subsequent 18th-century...

science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune)...

career as a novelist with the publication of her first novel, Baby Love (1981). Her second novel, To Die For (1992), drew on the Pamela Smart murder case...

is the second novel by Harlem-based author and journalist Min Jin Lee. Published in 2017, Pachinko is an epic historical fiction novel following a Korean...

of his other works include his Storm Peak duology, as well as the adult novel The Grey Raider. John Flanagan was born in Sydney, Australia on 22 May 1944...

The Martian is a 2011 science fiction debut novel written by Andy Weir. The book was originally self-published on Weir's blog as a serial. In 2014, the...

Vineland is a 1990 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon set in California in 1984, the year of President Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through flashbacks...

Fatherland is a 1992 alternative history detective novel by English writer and journalist Robert Harris. Set in a world where the Axis won World War II...

a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is one of the best-selling American novels of all time. Brown's second novel to include the character...

The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel written by American writer William Peter Blatty and published by Harper & Row. The book details the demonic possession...

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight paper-bound instalments...

Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier. It depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before...

(pre-reform Russian: Идіотъ; post-reform Russian: Идиот, romanized: Idiót) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published...

1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of the 20th century...

tǐ; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past...

Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine Young...

Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. It was published by Jonathan Cape. The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious...

ˈmœʁdɐs] ) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with...

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague...

crime writer and screenwriter. She is especially known for her series of novels set in Fjällbacka and featuring husband-and-wife duo of writer Erica Falck...

Holly is a 2023 crime novel by American author Stephen King. It was published on September 5, 2023, by Scribner. The novel follows Holly Gibney, who made...

The Ruins is a 2006 horror novel by American author Scott Smith, set on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The book fits specifically into the survival horror...

Outlander is a series of historical fantasy novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. Gabaldon began the first volume of the series, Outlander, in the...

published as George, is a children's novel about a young transgender girl written by American author Alex Gino. The novel tells the story of Melissa, a fourth-grade...

Girl on the Train is a 2015 psychological thriller novel by British author Paula Hawkins. The novel debuted in the number one spot on The New York Times...

Red Dragon is a psychological horror novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The story follows former FBI profiler Will Graham...

Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by...

The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, on HMS Erebus...

9, 1949) is an American novelist and psychologist known for his mystery novels featuring the character Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who consults...

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's...

Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, crime novel, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives or fiction that centre...

Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald. It was Sebald's final novel. Although given the reviews well recieved, the novel had given as short-listed...

Hogg is a novel by American author Samuel R. Delany, written in 1969 and completed in 1995. The novel deals graphically with themes of murder, child molestation...

style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters. He has written novels set in the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, and has written three sequels...

Secret History is the first novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. A campus novel, it tells the story of...

(German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß [das ˈʃlɔs]) is the last novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1926. In it, a protagonist known only...

Book the Thirteenth: The End is the thirteenth and final novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The book...

A Game of Thrones is an epic fantasy novel by American author George R. R. Martin. It was published in August 1996 as the first entry in his series A...

is a book of narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word "novella"...

Porno is a 2002 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, the sequel to Trainspotting. The book follows the characters of Trainspotting ten years after the...

Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron. Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it...

contemporary horror, thriller, science fiction, and fantasy. In addition to many novels, King has written approximately 200 short stories. His works have been widely...

sixth and penultimate novel of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American writer George R. R. Martin. The novel, which has been in the...

Stoner is a 1965 novel by the American writer John Williams. Published on April 23, 1965 by Viking Press, the novel received little attention on first...

Lane, "hailed as one of the best crime writers in the land". His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in...

Cell phone novels, or mobile phone novels (Japanese: 携帯小説, Hepburn: keitai shōsetsu; Chinese: 手機小說; pinyin: shǒujī xiǎoshuō), are literary works originally...

Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialised in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December...

The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over...

The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th- and 19th-century literary genre that presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism...

The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to...

The Ritual is a 2011 British horror novel by Adam Nevill. The book was first released in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2011 through Pan Macmillan and...

The Notebook is the debut novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks. Released in 1996, the romance novel was later adapted into a popular 2004 film of...

The God of Small Things is the 1997 debut novel written by Indian author Arundhati Roy. The novel follows the seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel as...

Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. The plot concerns contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced...

A novel food is a type of food that does not have a significant history of consumption or is produced by a method that has not previously been used for...

Hungarian writer. He wrote several youth novels and animal stories. He is perhaps best known for his youth novel Tüskevár ("Thorn Castle", 1957), about...

(Durrell novel), the first book in The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell Justine (de Sade novel) or The Misfortunes of Virtue, a 1791 novel by Marquis...

Soz-e-Watan (Sorrow of the Nation). His works include more than a dozen novels, around 300 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of...

The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel from the Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the...

expand into other media and genres: graphic novels/manga, light novels, fantasy, mystery fiction, romance novels, and even subcategories such as cyberpunk...

Submission (French: Soumission) is a novel by French writer Michel Houellebecq. The French edition of the book was published on 7 January 2015 by Flammarion...

and High Adventure, The "Good Parts" Version is a 1973 fantasy romance novel by American writer William Goldman. The book combines elements of comedy...

2666 is the final novel by Roberto Bolaño. It was released posthumously in 2004, a year following his death. It is over 1100 pages long in the original...

Kim is a picaresque novel by English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901...

attorney by education, Baldacci writes mainly suspense novels and legal thrillers. His novels are published in over 45 languages and published in over...

1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In...

Bastard Out of Carolina is a 1992 novel by Dorothy Allison. Semi-autobiographical in nature, the book is set in Allison's hometown of Greenville, South...

Godfather is a crime novel by Italian American author Mario Puzo. Originally published on 10 March 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story...

Horns is a 2010 dark fantasy novel by Joe Hill and is the author's second published novel. The novel also incorporates elements of contemporary fantasy...

The popularity of the Diablo video game series led to several novels published that are set in Diablo's shared universe. Demonsbane (2000, ISBN 0743418999)...

to 1971, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He wrote his first novel, Year of the Intern, while serving aboard the Polaris-type submarine USS Kamehameha...

Holes is a 1998 middle grade novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats IV, a...

particular, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984), a series of historical novels set during the Age of Sail. Writing as Jon Williams, he designed the war...

is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787. It was one of the main novels in the Sturm und Drang...

Severance is a 2018 post-apocalyptic novel by Chinese American author Ling Ma. It follows Candace Chen, an unfulfilled Bible product coordinator, before...

The encyclopedic novel is a genre of complex literary fiction which incorporates elements across a wide range of scientific, academic, and literary subjects...

Revival is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published on November 11, 2014, by Scribner. The novel was first mentioned by King on June 20, 2013...

language to gain an International readership. Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern...

American Psycho is a horror novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a...

Ragtime is a 1975 historiographic metafiction novel by American author E. L. Doctorow. The novel mixes historical figures and fictional characters together...

The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is King's third published novel and first hardcover bestseller; its success firmly...

The Maze Runner is a 2009 dystopian novel by American author James Dashner. It takes place in a world suffering from a coronal mass ejection and whose...

The Chain is a 2019 novel written by Adrian McKinty. Rachel, a divorcée who is undergoing treatment for cancer, gets a call stating that her daughter...

Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening novel in the Heechee saga, with four sequels that followed...

Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen. It is set in the fictional Surrey village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield...

Postmortem is a 1990 crime fiction novel by author Patricia Cornwell and her debut novel. The first novel of the Kay Scarpetta series, it received the...

The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record...

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2010 novel by American author Jennifer Egan. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2011. The book is a set of thirteen...

The Magus (1965) is a postmodern novel by British author John Fowles, telling the story of Nicholas Urfe, a young British graduate who is teaching English...

Diaspora is a hard science fiction novel by the Australian writer Greg Egan which first appeared in print in 1997. It originated as the short story "Wang's...

Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry...

House of Leaves (stylized with "House" in blue) is the debut novel by American author Mark Z. Danielewski, published in March 2000 by Pantheon Books....

Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem...

Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco...

Things Fall Apart is the 1958 debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Set in Colonial Nigeria, it portrays the story of Okonkwo, a traditional and...

Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. It is Faulks's fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters...

mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), commonly known as simply Madame Bovary, is the début novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein...

The I-novel (私小説, Shishōsetsu, Watakushi Shōsetsu) is a literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe a type of confessional literature where...

Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book concerns the events in the life of an American man living in Paris and his feelings and frustrations...

(simplified Chinese: 活着; traditional Chinese: 活著; pinyin: Huózhe) is a novel written by Chinese novelist Yu Hua in 1993. It follows the life of Xu Fugui...

King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011. It was planned as Wallace's third novel, and the first since...

The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of con man Tom Ripley, whom Highsmith...

is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on...

The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Published in 2013, it followed The Little Friend...

British magazine The Director (Denker novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker The Director (Kehlmann novel), a 2023 novel by Daniel Kehlmann The Director (play)...

Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy and released on August 3, 1998. It is the second book to primarily focus on John Clark, one...

Closing Time is a 1994 novel by Joseph Heller, written as a sequel to his popular 1961 novel Catch-22. It is his sixth novel. It takes place in New York...

Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. It is her longest novel, the fourth and final one published during her lifetime, and the one she considered...

Tampa is a thriller novel and the debut novel by author Alissa Nutting. Published in 2013, it follows middle school teacher Celeste Price, who grooms...

Artemis Fowl is a young adult fantasy novel written by Irish author Eoin Colfer. It is the first book in the Artemis Fowl series, followed by Artemis...

The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a...

Emily Fisk Giffin (born March 20, 1972) is an American author of several novels, including Something Borrowed, Meant to Be, All We Ever Wanted, Heart of...

during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). In the Victorian era, the novel became the leading literary genre in English. English writing from this...

performance artist. Much of his fiction centers on gay themes and several of his novels are named after archetypes of gay male culture. Rodi himself is openly gay...

The Secret of Secrets is a mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the sixth installment in his Robert Langdon series, following Origin...

Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. It follows John Self, an advertising director whose hedonism and compulsive spending propel a chaotic...

A romance or romantic novel is a genre fiction work focused on the relationship and romantic love between two people, often concluding with an emotionally...

across four centuries. He gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer...

Cranford is an episodic novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell. It first appeared in instalments in the magazine Household Words, then was published...

Fury (Rushdie novel), 2001 Fury (Star Wars novel), 2007 The Fury (Timms novel), 1954 The Fury (Farris novel), 1976 Fury, a 1947 novel by Henry Kuttner...

Alan Cumming. The sequel, Goliath, was released on September 20, 2011. The novel is set in a fantasy version of World War I where Austro-Hungarians and German...

A number of works of literature have been claimed to be the first novel in English. Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur (a.k.a. Le Morte Darthur), (written...

the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly...

Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same...

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928, inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet...

West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first novel in The Wicked Years series...

The Virgin Suicides is a coming-of-age thriller novel and the debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides, published in 1993. The story, which is...

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university...

tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse. Originally published in Germany in 1927, it was first translated into English in 1929. The novel was titled...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional...

Chynna Clugston's output between 2002 and 2005. His first original graphic novel was Lost at Sea, released by Oni Press in 2003. Lost at Sea is a coming-of-age...

Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. It tells the story of a young girl, Charlie...

Q & A is a novel written by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup and published in 2005. The novel is also Swarup's first novel work. It tells the rags to riches...

Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger...

Lincoln: A Novel is a 1984 historical novel, part of the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal. The novel describes the presidency of Abraham Lincoln...

Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh that was first published in 1993. It is written in Scots and Scottish English, revolving...

action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series. The book was released in the United Kingdom on...

On is a science fiction novel by British writer Adam Roberts, his second long work of fiction. The story follows the life of an adolescent named Tighe...

riding railroads around the country to find odd jobs, he wrote his first novel, Two Valleys, published in 1933 when he was 18. His first popular work was...

American author. He is known for his Gray Man series of action thriller novels, which feature assassin and CIA operative Court Gentry. Greaney is also...

The Hours, a 1998 novel by the American writer Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1925 work Mrs Dalloway. Cunningham emulates elements...

Crossroads: A Novel is the sixth novel by American author Jonathan Franzen, published on October 5, 2021. It is a family saga set during the 1970s and...

short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories...

Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching...

Circe is a 2018 mythic fantasy novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths,...

(Palmer novel), a 1930 novel by Vance Palmer Le Passage, a 1954 French novel by Jean Reverzy Passage (Willis novel), a 2001 science fiction novel by Connie...

Gambler (Russian: Игрокъ, romanized: Igrok; modern spelling Игрок) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly...

This is a list of fantasy fiction novels based in the role-playing game setting of the Forgotten Realms. They are published by Wizards of the Coast (WotC)...

Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison, her first novel published after The Bluest Eye (1970). The novel tells the story of two girls, Sula...

(Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, lit. Essay on Blindness) is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. It centers on an unexplained mass epidemic...

The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review. The novel is a dark comedy which follows...

United States to be an au pair for a wealthy white family. The plot of the novel closely mirrors Kincaid's own experiences. Lucy retains the critical tone...

Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten,...

Upgrade is a 2022 novel by Blake Crouch. It is his tenth stand-alone novel, published three years after Summer Frost (2019). The novel explores the ethical...

Loveless is a novel written by Alice Oseman. Published by HarperCollins Children's Books on 9 July 2020, the novel follows Georgia as she begins university...

Autumn is a 2016 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith, first published by Hamish Hamilton. It is the first of four seasonal ‘state of the nation’ works...

Jumper is a 1992 science fiction novel by Steven Gould. The novel was published in mass market paperback in October 1993 and re‑released in February 2008...

adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay...

Women Talking is a 2018 novel by Canadian writer Miriam Toews. Her seventh novel, Toews describes it as "an imagined response to real events," the gas-facilitated...

Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was a treatment for Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, on which...

Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo, lit. 'The Serval' [il ˌɡattoˈpardo]) is a novel by Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which chronicles the changes...

Allegiant is a dystopian novel for young adults, written by the American author Veronica Roth and published by HarperCollins in October 2013. It completes...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. The narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It...

Blackouts is a 2023 historical fiction novel by Justin Torres, published by Macmillan Publishers. The book uses historical documents including the 1941...

The Robot series is a series of 37 science fiction short stories and six novels created by American writer Isaac Asimov; the books were published between...

"mirror" novel, Desperation. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world...

Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since /ˈweɪvərli/ is a historical novel by Walter Scott (1771–1832). Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish...

Carrie is the debut horror novel by American author Stephen King, released in 1974. Set in the town of Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie...

Extras is a young adult science fiction novel written by Scott Westerfeld. The novel was published and released by Simon & Schuster on October 2, 2007...

(SF/F) novels, young adult novels, media tie-ins, short stories, and nonfiction essays on science fiction/fantasy (SF/F) subjects; her novels have been...

The Running Man is a dystopian thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback...

Grendel is a 1971 novel by the American author John Gardner. It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist...

Wahala is a 2022 fiction novel by British Nigerian writer Nikki May. Her debut novel, it was originally published by Custom House an imprint of HarperCollins...

Millennium is a series of crime novels originally conceptualized by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, who completed the first three books before his death...

The Nouveau Roman (French pronunciation: [nuvo ʁɔmɑ̃], "new novel") is a type of French novel in the 1950s and 60s that diverged from traditional literary...

The Aubrey–Maturin series is a sequence of nautical historical novels—20 completed and one unfinished—by English author Patrick O'Brian, set during the...

(published in the United Kingdom as Cross Stitch) is a historical fantasy novel by American writer Diana Gabaldon, first published in 1991. Initially set...

Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold...

Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998....

Valis (stylized as VALIS) is a 1981 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, intended to be the first book of a three-part series. The...

Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or...

Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on morbidly...

Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman. Unwind takes place in a future version of the United States. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland...

Sense and Sensibility (working title: Elinor and Marianne) is the debut novel by English author Jane Austen, appearing in 1811. It was published anonymously:...

Erasure is a 2001 novel by American writer Percival Everett. It was originally published by the University Press of New England. The novel satirizes the dominant...

untrimmed edges. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and some of the short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many...

The Group is the best-known novel of American writer Mary McCarthy. It made New York Times Best Seller list in 1963 and remained there for almost two...

Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal...

Moonglow is a 2016 novel by Michael Chabon. The book chronicles the life of Chabon's grandfather, a WW2 soldier, engineer and rocket enthusiast who marries...

Far from the Madding Crowd is the fourth published novel by English author Thomas Hardy; and his first major literary success. It was published on 23...

Four Classic Novels in Chinese opera Classic Chinese Novels (traditional Chinese: 古典小說; simplified Chinese: 古典小说; pinyin: gǔdiǎn xiǎoshuō) are the best-known...

and has acquired American citizenship. As of 2023, he has written five novels: Ablutions (2009), The Sisters Brothers (2011), Undermajordomo Minor (2015)...

Villette (/vɪˈlɛt/ vi-LET) is an 1853 bildungsroman novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist...

Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he immigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences...

fiction novels, and related novellas and short stories by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan...

Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The...

18th-century novel by Leitch Ritchie The Magician (Maugham novel), a 1908 novel by Somerset Maugham The Magicians (Priestley novel), a 1954 novel by J. B....

Fantasy universe by Games Workshop, novels were published by GW Books and Boxtree Limited, but subsequently novels have been published by the Black Library...

historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the...

full-time on his third novel. Two years and three novels later his first novel was published. To date, he has written over 30 novels and is best known for...

journalist. He is best known for his 2013 novel Meursault, contre-enquête (The Meursault Investigation) and his 2024 novel Houris. Kamel Daoud was born in Mostaganem...

include that word Mercury (Bova novel), a novel by Ben Bova Mercury (Livesey novel), a novel by Margot Livesey Mercury, a novel by Anna Kavan Freddie Mercury...

(novel), an 1880 novel by the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós The Mandarins, 1954 novel by Simone de Beauvoir Mandarin (Elegant novel)...

Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. An early novel is William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1791. The writer...

There Were None is a 1939 mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie. It is the world's best-selling mystery novel and one of the best-selling books...

The Woman in White is Wilkie Collins's fifth published novel, written in 1860 and set from 1849 to 1850. It started its publication on 26 November 1859...

English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman...

Beartown (original title in Swedish: Björnstad) is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman. The novel, noted as "hockey literature", centers on a declining...

Merrick is a 2000 vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the seventh book in her The Vampire Chronicles series. The novel includes some characters...

game Hannibal (Harris novel), a novel by Thomas Harris and featuring Hannibal Lecter Hannibal (Leckie novel), a 1995 historical novel by Ross Leckie Hannibal...

Catching Fire is a 2009 dystopian young adult fiction novel by the American novelist Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games series. As the...

The Names is a 2025 novel by Florence Knapp, her debut. The novel begins in late 1987, where a woman named Cora is trapped in an abusive marriage and...

vadis: Powieść z czasów Nerona) is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel tells the story of a romantic love that develops...

A graphic novel is a self-contained, book-length form of sequential art (i.e. comics). The term graphic novel is often applied broadly, including fiction...

Insomnia is a 1994 horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King. It follows retired widower Ralph Roberts, whose increasing insomnia allows him...

a 1997 book by Indian author Kiran Nagarkar and his third novel. It is a historical novel set in the Rajput kingdom of Mewar, India during the 16th century...

The Butterfly is a hard-boiled novel by author James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1947. The story is set in rural West Virginia in the late...

Gadsby is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright, written without words that contain the letter E, the most common letter in English. A work that deliberately...

The Witches is a 1983 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. A dark fantasy, the story is set partly in Norway and partly in England, and features...

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial from 1837...

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It is his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961...

October 23, 1961) is an American writer, known for children's and young adult novels. She received the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association...

Invisible Man is Ralph Ellison's first novel, and the only one published during his lifetime. It was first published by the British magazine Horizon in...

Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow is "often considered as the postmodern novel, redefining both postmodernism and the novel in general." The 1980s...

Psycho is a 1959 horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch. The novel tells the story of Norman Bates, a caretaker at an isolated motel who struggles...

Scythe is a 2016 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman and is the first in the Arc of a Scythe series. In the far future, death, disease, and unhappiness...

publisher 14 years her senior, who used the pen name "Willy". Her first four novels – the four Claudine stories: Claudine à l'école (1900), Claudine à Paris...

Murtagh is a 2023 fantasy novel by American writer Christopher Paolini. Set in the land of Alagaesia, it tells the story of Eragon's half-brother, Murtagh...

The Prestige is a 1995 science fiction novel by Christopher Priest. It tells the story of a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in late 1800s England...

Uprooted is a 2015 high fantasy novel by Naomi Novik, based on Polish folklore. The story tells of a village girl, Agnieszka, who is selected by the local...

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months...

also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing...

Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925. It won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize (which Lewis declined). Lewis was greatly...

(Friend novel), a 2004 novel by Natasha Friend Perfect (Hopkins novel), a young adult novel by Ellen Hopkins Perfect (Joyce novel), a 2013 novel by Rachel...

an American novelist, screenwriter, and comic book writer. Most of his novels are in the thriller fiction genre. His script writing work includes a film...

Will is a historical fiction novel by Christopher Rush, published in 2007. It is told from the perspective of William Shakespeare as he writes his will...

The Children of Men is a dystopian novel by English writer P. D. James, published in 1992. Set in England in 2021, it centres on the results of mass infertility...

autobiographical novel based on Nora Ephron's marriage to and divorce from Carl Bernstein, her second husband. Originally published in 1983, the novel draws inspiration...

tenement stories... A graphic novel", though graphic novels existed for years prior. While predating the term, a graphic novel based on science fiction, Astro...

Dark Age is a 2019 science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown; it is the second book of a tetralogy which continues the story of his Red Rising...

86-エイティシックス-, Hepburn: Eiti Shikkusu) is a Japanese science fiction light novel series written by Asato Asato and illustrated by Shirabii. It began publication...

2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from the NW postcode area in North-West London, where the novel is set. The novel is experimental...

Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself...

Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques. Originally published in 1986, it is the first book of the Redwall series. The book was illustrated by Gary...

Jack Reacher is a series of novels, novellas and short stories by British author Jim Grant under the pen name Lee Child. As of November 2025, the series...

the TV series Roary the Racing Car Drifter, a 1974 novel by Daniel P. Mannix Drifter, a 1991 novel by William C. Dietz, the first installment in the Pik...

Moonfleet is an 1898 adventure and historical novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. The plot is an adventure tale of smuggling, treasure,...

alternate history novel by American author Eric Flint, the initial novel in the best-selling series of the same name. The flagship novel kicked off a collaborative...

The Plot Against America is a novel by Philip Roth published in 2004. It is an alternative history in which Franklin D. Roosevelt is defeated in the presidential...

Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The novel is a nostalgic story of loss. It is told from the...

(Pacifico novel), a 2014 novel by Francesco Pacifico Class (Rosenfeld novel), a 2017 novel by Lucinda Rosenfeld The Class (Segal novel), a 1985 novel by Erich...

[doktər ʐɨˈvaɡə]) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist...

"Satan's Tango") is a 1985 novel by the 2025 Nobel Prize winning Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai. It is Krasznahorkai's debut novel. It was adapted into...

Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he "found it" in...

Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book provided the underlying narrative structure for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr....

mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; IPA: [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work...

Loop (ループ, Rūpu) is a horror novel by Japanese writer Koji Suzuki, and the third in his series of Ring. The story revolves around a simulated reality...

Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by...

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 1982 science fiction novel written by L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbard also composed an accompanying soundtrack...

Supremacism'), abbreviated as Yōjitsu (よう実) in Japan, is a Japanese light novel series written by Shōgo Kinugasa, with illustrations by Shunsaku Tomose...

Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The title refers to the Notre-Dame Cathedral, which features prominently throughout the novel. It focuses...

Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published...

Cyborg is a 1972 science fiction/secret agent novel written by Martin Caidin. The novel also included elements of speculative fiction. It was adapted...

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published...

Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After Melinda...

a 1989 novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. It was first published in Mexico in 1989. The English version of the novel was published...

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British intelligence officer...

Leila is a 2017 Indian dystopian novel written by Prayaag Akbar. Set in the 2040s, the story follows Shalini, who tries to find her missing daughter Leila...

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by English author Jane Austen. Written when she was aged 20–21, it was her third novel scribed and became the second to...

Audition is a 2025 novel by American writer Katie Kitamura, published by Riverhead Books. It was released on April 8, 2025. The novel was shortlisted for...

Memoirs of a Geisha is a historical fiction novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells...

epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been...

novel by British writer Richard Marsh, in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British member of Parliament. The novel initially...

The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905, the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas Dixon Jr. (the...

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered...

Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan...

Death of the Author is a 2025 Africanfuturist novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor. The book follows Zelunjo Onyenezi-Onyedele, a Nigerian...

The Fireman is a novel set in a post-apocalyptic time by American author Joe Hill. The novel, Hill's fourth, tells the tale of a deadly spore that has...

Adventures novels to pass the time, beginning his fascination with fantasy and science fiction. As a teenager, he completed his first novel and set out...

Watchers is a 1987 suspense novel by American author Dean Koontz. Along with Strangers, Lightning, and Midnight, Watchers is credited with establishing...

Divergent is the debut novel of American novelist Veronica Roth, published by HarperCollins Children's Books in 2011. The first in the Divergent series...

Mephisto – Novel of a Career is the sixth novel by German author Klaus Mann. The novel adapts themes from the Faust legend to follow the life of actor...

Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on...

To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee. It became instantly successful after its release; in the United States...

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 historical fiction novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The plot concerns a German boy named Bruno whose father...

Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover...

fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalized take on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe. Oates states that the novel is a work...

G. Le Clézio The African (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton The African (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander The Africans...

done with his Ethshar novels. A web novel is a literary work that is published mainly or exclusively on the Internet. Web novels offer authors the opportunity...

Endless Night is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967 and in the US by Dodd, Mead...

Fantôme de l'Opéra, pronounced [lə fɑ̃tom də lɔpeʁa]) is a Gothic horror novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in Le...

Colossus is a 1966 science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones (writing as D. F. Jones), about super-computers taking control of mankind...

fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of subgenres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror, intrigue ("cloak and dagger"), and...

(born 31 May 1968) is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. Connolly was educated at Synge...

Purity is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen, his fifth. it was published on September 1, 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel has six sections...

The Rainmaker is a 1995 novel by John Grisham, his sixth. The book's title is derived from a lawyer who wins spectacular cases and earns huge sums in...

Son is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by American author Lois Lowry. The fourth and final book in The Giver Quartet, the story takes place during...

Thirteen Reasons Why (also stylized as TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY) is a young adult novel written by Jay Asher in 2007, which follows the story of Hannah Baker, a...

Daemon is a 2006 novel by Daniel Suarez about a distributed persistent computer application that begins to change the real world after its original programmer's...

theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels. An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past...

The Changeling, a 1996 novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Changelings (novel), 1955, by Jo Sinclair The Changeling (Ōe novel), 2000 The Changeling (play)...

course of his career. His most awarded novel was Moving Mars, which won a Nebula Award. His last work was the 2021 novel The Unfinished Land. Greg Bear wrote...

Bill Gertz Betrayal (Star Wars novel), a 2006 novel by Aaron Allston Betrayal (McIntosh novel), the first fantasy novel in the Trinity series published...

Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters. Sue Trinder, an orphan raised in "a Fagin-like den of thieves"...

Stargirl is a young adult novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and first published in 2000. The novel was well received by critics, who praised...

The Sparrow (1996) is the first novel by author Mary Doria Russell. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, James Tiptree Jr. Award, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis and...

is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published...

The Sea is a 2005 novel by Irish writer John Banville. It was the recipient of the 2005 Booker Prize. The story is told by Max Morden, a self-aware, retired...

list of science fiction novels, novel series and collections of linked short stories. It includes modern novels, as well as novels written before the term...

include the theme of secret history and paranoid fiction. John Buchan's 1915 novel The Thirty-Nine Steps weaves elements of conspiracy and man-on-the-run archetypes...

Acceptance is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the third in a series of four books called the Southern Reach Series. It was released in the US on...

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional...

V. is a satirical postmodern novel and the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published on March 18, 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S....

Twilight (stylized as twilight) is a 2005 young adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book in the Twilight series, and...

translation published in 1942 by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West (conventionally attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming...

Eyre (/ɛər/ AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name...

examples such as Moto Hagio's series The Poe Clan (1972–1976) and Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) proving influential. Vampire fiction is...

novel by Michael Crichton under his own name and his twenty-third novel overall. It was first published in November 2002, making it his first novel of...

Academy Award for his Tamil novel Kaval Kottam. His recent book Vel Pari was widely well-received among the public. His debutant novel Kavalkottam published...

(originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) is an adventure and historical novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published as a book...

Tripplehorn. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, came into prominence afterwards due to this novel's success. A sequel novel, The Exchange, was published...

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. Set in a dystopian...

Trilby is a sensation novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Published serially in Harper's New Monthly Magazine from...

born February 4, 1958) is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to...

Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier which won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. It tells the story of W. P. Inman, a wounded...

the incomplete first novel by Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The novel began as a short story...

1951 novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films (released in 1955 and 1999) that were adapted from the novel. Set...

Molloy is a novel by Samuel Beckett first written in French and published by Paris-based Les Éditions de Minuit in 1951. The English translation, published...

Japanese Self-Defense Force Fought in Their Land), is a Japanese fantasy novel series written by Takumi Yanai and illustrated by Daisuke Izuka and Kurojishi...

The Pact (1998) is the fifth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult about a possible suicide pact between two teenage lovers, and the journey that...

thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. It is set mostly in Memphis, Tennessee, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It is Grisham's fourth novel. The...

horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a Saint Bernard who contracts rabies, then goes on a killing spree in his hometown. The novel won the...

society has spread out across the Solar System. The novel won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in the year 2312, in the great city of...

The novel of manners is a work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with detailed observation the complex of customs, values, and mores...

(Andrews novel), a 1993 novel by V. C. Andrews Darkest Hour (Cabot novel), a 2001 novel by Meg Cabot The Darkest Hour (Hunter novel), a Warriors novel by Erin...

(Hamsun novel), an 1890 novel by Knut Hamsun The Hunger (Strieber novel), a 1981 vampire novel by Whitley Strieber The Hunger, a 1986 novel by Naguib...

hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts. It is a "sidequel" to his 2006 novel, Blindsight, and the two novels make up the Firefall series...

Momo, also known as The Grey Gentlemen or The Men in Grey, is a fantasy novel by Michael Ende, published in 1973. It is about the concept of time and...

The Castle of Otranto is a novel by Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole...

Origin is a 2017 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fifth installment in his Robert Langdon series, following Inferno. The book...

The Vortex (Spanish: La Vorágine) is a novel written in 1924 by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera. It is set in at least three different bioregions...

Misery is a psychological horror novel by U.S. author Stephen King, first published by Viking Press on June 8, 1987. The novel hinges on the relationship between...

Snowman (Fauser novel), a 1981 crime novel by Jörg Fauser The Snowman (Nesbø novel), a 2007 crime novel by Jo Nesbø The Snowman, horror novel by R. L. Stine...

(2022) is a crime novel by Australian writer, Jane Harper. It was originally published by Pan Macmillan in Australia in 2022. This novel is the third, and...

The Club Dumas (original Spanish title: El Club Dumas) is a 1993 novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The book is set in a world of antiquarian booksellers...

Storm Front is a 2000 fantasy novel by American writer Jim Butcher. It is the first novel in The Dresden Files, his first published series, and it follows...

Wadsworth Longfellow Hyperion (Simmons novel), a 1989 novel by Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos, the series of novels that started with Hyperion Hyperion (magazine)...

Fallen is the first novel in the Fallen series written by Lauren Kate. It is a young adult, fantasy, paranormal romance published in 2009 under Delacorte...

Miyamoto Musashi), also listed as Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era, is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa, about the life and deeds...

(Baxter novel), a 1994 science fiction novel Ring (Alexis novel), a 2021 Canadian novel by André Alexis Ring (novel series), a Japanese novel series by...

Gora (Bengali: গোরা) is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore, set in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in the 1880s during the British Raj. It is the fifth in order of...

Wonder is a contemporary children's novel written by R. J. Palacio and published on 14 February 2012. It centers on August "Auggie" Pullman, a boy with...

mid-nineteenth century and has remained extremely popular, particularly in novels. Some of the most famous heroes of detective fiction include C. Auguste...

canon adult novel was Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller, published in September 2014. This is a list of original novels, novel adaptations...

watching a documentary about her grandfather, her brother, and herself. The novel was well received by the online community, most notably in an article by...

James Bond is a literary series of novels and short stories, first published in 1953 by the British author Ian Fleming. The protagonist of the series,...

Annabelle may refer to: Annabel (Baum novel), a 1906 novel by L. Frank Baum Annabel (Winter novel), a 2010 novel by Kathleen Winter "Annabel", a song by...

The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and...

cowboy novel by American author Owen Wister, set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch, the novel was a...

A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effect, or adversely affects the usefulness of...

A war novel or military fiction is a novel about war. It is a novel in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting...

Dragonflight is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. It is the first book in the Dragonriders of Pern series. First published...

Sellout is a 2015 novel by Paul Beatty published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the UK by Oneworld Publications in 2016. The novel takes place in and...

Flashman is a 1969 novel by George MacDonald Fraser. It is the first of the Flashman novels. Presented within the frame of the discovery of the supposedly...

Battlefront II: Inferno Squad is a novel that is set in the Star Wars Universe and written by Christie Golden. The novel was published in 2017 by Del Rey...

Dream") — full title: Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari — is a novel written in Latin by Johannes Kepler in 1608/1609. It was first published...

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version...

novel written by Jojo Moyes. It is a sequel to Me Before You. The book was first published on 29 September 2015 in the United Kingdom. A third novel in...

A Sensation Novel is a comic musical play in three acts (or volumes) written by the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, with music composed by Thomas German Reed...

(first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead...

English playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives (1993), Tulip Fever (1999; made into the 2017 film...

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive...

Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle class life and the social...

spelling: Петербургъ) is a novel by Russian writer Andrei Bely. A Symbolist work, it has been compared to other "city novels" like Ulysses and Berlin Alexanderplatz...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and...

Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age webcomic and graphic novel series written and illustrated by Alice Oseman. It tells the story of Nick Nelson and...

in England. It was published in the United States only after Rand's next novel, The Fountainhead, became a best seller. Rand revised the text for the US...

Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel award for Taronga 1985 – Ditmar Award, Best Australian Novel award for Beast of Heaven 1983 – Children's...

Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction...

Shinsho Taikōki), also known as Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan, is a Japanese epic novel written by Eiji Yoshikawa about the life and...

Untouchable is a novel by Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand published in 1935. The novel established Anand as one of India's leading English authors. The book...

Forever Amber (1944) is a historical romance novel by Kathleen Winsor set in 17th-century England. It was made into a film in 1947 by 20th Century Fox...

No is the sixth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the novel in early 1957 at...

Monstrous Regiment is an action/adventure fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 31st novel in his Discworld series. It takes its name from...

Bel Canto is the fourth novel by American author Ann Patchett, published in 2001 by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. It was awarded...

Brooklyn is a 2009 novel by Irish author Colm Tóibín. It won the 2009 Costa Novel Award, was shortlisted for the 2011 International Dublin Literary Award...

The Jungle is a novel by American author and journalist Upton Sinclair, who was known for his efforts to depict corruption in government and business...

horror crime thriller novel by Thomas Harris. Published August 29, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon, and both novels feature the cannibalistic...

moon) is a 2006 romantic fantasy novel by author Stephenie Meyer. The second installment in the Twilight series, the novel continues the story of Bella Swan...

Beloved is a 1987 novel by American novelist Toni Morrison. Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved...

Ilium is a science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons, the first part of the Ilium/Olympos cycle, concerning the re-creation of the events in...

Rage (written as Getting It On) is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard...

seven tankōbon volumes by TO Books. Both the light novel and manga are published in English by J-Novel Club. An anime television series adaptation produced...

fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons. The first book of his Hyperion Cantos series, it won the Hugo Award for best novel. The plot of the novel features...

Westerfeld is best known for the Uglies series and its spin-offs. Other novels of his include Afterworlds and, for adults, The Risen Empire and The Killing...

best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times. Matheson himself was co-writer...

"his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing...

Japanese mystery horror novel by Koji Suzuki first published in 1991, and set in modern-day Japan. The novel was the first in the Ring novel series, and the first...

A Discovery of Witches is a 2011 historical-fantasy novel and the debut novel by American scholar Deborah Harkness. It follows Diana Bishop, a history...

Scottish crime writer and philanthropist, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. Born in Fife, Rankin was the first of his family to attend university,...

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with...

Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's Asian Saga and is...

David Copperfield is a novel by the English author Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey...

modes such as stream of consciousness and flashbacks. The psychological novel has a rich past in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works of Mme...

Persepolis (French: Persépolis) is a series of autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi that depict her childhood and early adult years in Iran...

Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, Hepburn: Chinmoku) is a 1966 novel of theological and historical fiction by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō. It tells the story of...

Mask", 1892 short story by Richard Marsh The Mask (French: Le Masque), 1894 novel by Gilbert Augustin-Thierry "The Mask" (Chambers short story), 1895 short...

Hurricane Season (Spanish: Temporada de huracanes) is the second novel by Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor, published in April 2017 by Literatura Random...

Penpal (2012) is the debut novel of American author Dathan Auerbach. The horror-suspense novel is based on a series of creepypasta stories Auerbach posted...

characters are exactly the same as in the series, with the exception that the novel form allowed Gaiman to expand and elaborate on certain elements of the story...

Oil! is an American novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the...

Phantoms is a horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, first published in 1983. The story is a version of the now-debunked urban legend involving...

The Fisherman is an American horror novel by John Langan. It won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. Abraham, or Abe as he prefers, is a widower...

The English novel is an important part of English literature. This article mainly concerns novels, written in English, by novelists who were born or have...

Pnin (Russian: Пнин, pronounced [pnʲin]) is Vladimir Nabokov's 13th novel and his fourth written in English; it was published in 1957. The success of...

published in 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. It is an adventure/quest novel. A sequel, The Fire, appeared in 2008. The protagonist,...

Milkman is a 2018 historical psychological fiction novel written by the Northern Irish author Anna Burns. Set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland...

translator-diplomat to the court of the ruling atevi species. Currently twenty-two novels have been published between 1994 and 2023. Cherryh has also self-published...

episode 4 (2017) Pretender, a 1979 novel by Piers Anthony and Frances Hall Pretender (C. J. Cherryh novel), a 2006 novel set in C. J. Cherryh's Foreigner...

may also refer to: Women (Bukowski novel), a 1978 novel by Charles Bukowski Women (Sebastian novel), a 1933 novel by Mihail Sebastian Women, the second...

Paprika (パプリカ, Papurika) is a 1993 science fiction novel by Japanese author Yasutaka Tsutsui. It first appeared in Marie Claire magazine in four parts...

story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet. His first novel, The South, was published in 1990. The Blackwater Lightship was shortlisted...

Ian Watt in The Rise of the Novel (1957) saw the novel as originating in the early 18th-century and he argued that the novel's 'novelty' was its 'formal...

Mother (Russian: Мать, romanized: Mat') is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English...

Overlord (Japanese: オーバーロード, Hepburn: Ōbārōdo) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kugane Maruyama and illustrated by so-bin. It began serialization...

Metro 2033 (Russian: Метро 2033) is a 2002 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It is set within the Moscow Metro, where...

Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies...

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen"...

from Moby-Dick Ishmael (Quinn novel), a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn Ishmael (Southworth novel), an 1876 novel by E.D.E.N. Southworth Ishmael...

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a...

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and...