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The protagonist's descent into mental illness parallels Plath's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression.

The short epistolary novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, or The Sorrows of Young Werther

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, published in 1885.

A novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, serialized in twelve monthly installments in The Russian Messenger during 1866 and published as a separate edition in 1867.

On the Road is a 1957 novel by American author Jack Kerouac, inspired by his travels across the United States.

Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortazar.

The Time of the Hero (Original title: La ciudad y los perros) is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

Weep Not, Child is the 1964 debut novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o, one of the first major English-language novels published by an East African writer.

Midnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981.

is a novel, first published in book form in 1878, by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy

is the second novel by Japanese author Yukio Mishima

is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami

is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by the Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov

Go Tell It on the Mountain is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by James Baldwin

is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924

is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse

is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939

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a novel by Mark Twain published on June 9, 1876

the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert

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Postmodern novel

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion...is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

Modernist novels

Swann's Way (French: Du cote de chez Swann) is the first of the seven volumes making up Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.

a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami

Autobiographical novel, Magical realism

his novel El Criticón

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the first African woman novelist to be published in the English language in Britain

was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor

was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker

rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum

He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories.

on the strength of his 1955 novel

best known for her 1958 novel Song of Youth

is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing

is a short satirical novel published in 1948 by British novelist Evelyn Waugh

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Moby-Dick would eventually be considered one of the Great American Novels.

the most gifted novelist alive in the world today

He was working on a second family history novel at his death.

the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody

Rousseau's sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise (1761)

including the 1748 novel Les Bijoux indiscrets

the 2025 novel Vanishing World, originally published in Japan in 2015

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Richard George Adams (10 May 1920-24 December 2016) was an English novelist.

His novels, Ashes and Diamonds (about the immediate post-war situation in Poland), and Holy Week (treating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895-13 December 1972) was an English novelist and short story writer.

His two best-known novels Sous le soleil de Satan (1926) and the Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936) both revolve around a parish priest who combats evil and despair in the world.

Giorgio Bassani (4 March 1916-13 April 2000) was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual.

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Short story, poetry, novel

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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936-13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician.

Carlos Fuentes Macías (; Spanish: [ˈkaɾlos ˈfwentes] ; November 11, 1928, May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist, essayist and ambassador to France.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Gikuyu: [ᵑɡoɣe wá ðiɔŋɔ]; born James Ngugi; 5 January 1938-28 May 2025) was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist.

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883-3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer and novelist from Prague.

A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is also best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799-10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809-4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890-30 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet poet, novelist, and literary translator.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf] 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891-10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright.

Jin Ping Mei (Chinese: 金瓶梅), translated into English as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus-is a Chinese novel of manners composed in vernacular Chinese during the latter half of the 16th century during the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (simplified Chinese: 生死疲劳; traditional Chinese: 生死疲勞; pinyin: shēngsǐ píláo) is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.

Dream of Ding Village (Chinese: 丁庄梦; pinyin: Dīng zhuāng mèng) is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke.

Family (家, pinyin: Jiā, Wade-Giles: Chia1), sometimes translated as The Family, is a semi-autobiographical novel by Chinese author Ba Jin, the pen-name of Li Feigan (1904-2005).

Red Crag or Red Rock (Chinese: 红岩; pinyin: Hóngyán) was a 1961 novel based partly on fact by Chinese authors Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan, who were former inmates in a Kuomintang prison in Sichuan.

Song of Youth (Chinese: 青春之歌) is a novel created by Chinese contemporary writer Yang Mo, published in 1958.

Godaan (Hindi: गोदान, Urdu: گودان, romanized: gōdān, lit. 'cow donation') is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand.

Hong Gildong jeon (Korean: 홍길동전; Hanja: 洪吉童傳) is a Korean novel, often translated as The Biography of Hong Gildong, written during the Joseon period.

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.

Memed, My Hawk (Turkish: İnce Memed, lit. 'Memed the Slim') is a 1955 novel by Yaşar Kemal.

The Time Regulation Institute (Turkish: Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü) is a novel by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah.

Efuru is the debut novel by Flora Nwapa, which was published in 1966 as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first book written by a Nigerian woman, or any sub-Saharan African woman, to be published internationally.

The Cloud Dream of the Nine, also translated as The Nine Cloud Dream (Korean: 구운몽; Hanja: 九雲夢; RR: Kuunmong), is a 17th-century Korean novel set in the Chinese Tang dynasty.

"yesterday and the day before that", meaning "not so long ago") is a 1945 Hebrew novel by the Israeli Nobel Prize laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon, widely considered his masterpiece and one of the great works of modern Hebrew fiction.

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃɔɾot̪t͡ʃɔnd̪ɾo t͡ʃɔʈːopad̪ʱːae̯]; 15 September 1876-16 January 1938) was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון \ שְׁמוּאֵל יוֹסֵף עַגְנוֹן shmuél yoséf agnón; August 8, 1887, February 17, 1970) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Israeli novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

Kim Man-jung (Korean: 김만중; Hanja: 金萬重; 6 March 1637-14 June 1692), also romanized as Kim Man-choong, was a Korean novelist and politician.

A leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in both vernacular and literary Chinese as a novelist, literary critic, essayist, poet, translator and political commentator, known for his sharp, satirical style and critical reflections on Chinese history and culture.

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: , US: , Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785-22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Season of Migration to the North (Arabic: موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال Mawsim al-Hijrah ilâ al-Shamâl) is a novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, first published serially in the Beirut journal Hiwâr in 1966.

Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890 by P.G.

Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postmodern novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys.

The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway, following his experimental novel-in-fragments In Our Time (1925).

The Sorrow of War (Vietnamese: Nỗi buồn chiến tranh), formerly titled The Destiny of Love (Thân phận của tình yêu), is a novel by Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh.

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Братья Карамазовы, romanized: Brat'ya Karamazovy, IPA: [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Convenience Store Woman (Japanese: コンビニ人間, Hepburn: Konbini Ningen) is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata.

The Twelve Chairs (Russian: «Двенадцать стульев», romanized: Dvenadtsat stulyev) is a Russian classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928.

The Famished Road is a novel by Nigerian author Ben Okri, the first book in a trilogy that continues with Songs of Enchantment (1993) and Infinite Riches (1998).

The Vegetarian (Korean: 채식주의자) is a 2007 novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Roseanna is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, first published in 1965.

Death of a Red Heroine is a mystery novel written by Qiu Xiaolong and was published in English in 2000.

The Day of the Owl (Italian: Il giorno della civetta [il ˈdʒorno della tʃiˈvetta]) is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961 by Einaudi.

Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in five books by German author Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen published in 1668, with the sequel Continuatio appearing in 1669.

Guzmán de Alfarache (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡuθˈman de alfaˈɾatʃe]) is a picaresque novel written by Mateo Alemán and published in two parts: the first in Madrid in 1599 with the title Primera parte de Guzmán de Alfarache, and the second in 1604, titled Segunda parte de la vida de Guzmán de Alfarache, atalaya de la vida humana.

Jacques the Fatalist and his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765-1780.

La invención de Morel (Latin American Spanish: [lajmbenˈsjon de moˈɾel]; 1940), translated as The Invention of Morel or Morel's Invention, is a novel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Out (アウト) is a 1997 Japanese crime novel written by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino and published in English in 2004.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, often known simply as Tristram Shandy, is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne.

The Diary of a Nobody is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K.

Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou.

Kindred (1979) is a novel by American writer Octavia E.

Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a French-language novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini, following the huge success of his bestselling 2003 debut The Kite Runner.

The Painted Bird is a 1965 novel by Jerzy Kosiński that describes World War II as seen by a boy, considered a "Gypsy or Jewish stray," wandering about small villages scattered around an unspecified country in Central or Eastern Europe (usually assumed to be Poland).

Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war.

The Swarm (German: Der Schwarm) is a science fiction novel by German author Frank Schätzing.

Being There is a satirical novel by the Polish-born writer Jerzy Kosinski, published April 21, 1971.

The Map and the Territory (French: La carte et le territoire, French pronunciation: [la kaʁt e lə tɛʁitwaʁ]) is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq.

Exit West is a 2017 novel by British-Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by American novelist Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair-using historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier-era grandparents.

Beautiful Disaster is a new adult novel by American author Jamie McGuire.

Queenie is a new adult novel written by British author Candice Carty-Williams and published by Trapeze, an imprint of Orion, in 2019.

Atonement is a 2001 British novel written by Ian McEwan.

The Ministry of Time is a 2024 debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.

The Fixer is a 1966 novel by American writer Bernard Malamud.

Sea Prayer is an illustrated novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis and the death of Alan Kurdi.

The Wind Done Gone (2001) is the first novel written by Alice Randall.

Abigail (Hungarian: Abigél) is a 1970 young adult novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó.

The Magician is a novel by British author W.

The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms (simplified Chinese: 东周列国志; traditional Chinese: 東周列國志; pinyin: Dōngzhōu Lièguó Zhì) is a Chinese historical novel in 108 chapters written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty.

In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag.

The Young Guard (Russian: Молодая гвардия) is a 1946 Russian-language young adult historical novel (rewritten in 1951) by Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev.

The Hand That Signed the Paper is a 1994 novel and literary hoax.

The Last of the Just is a post-war novel by André Schwarz-Bart originally published in French (as Le Dernier des justes) in 1959.

The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女, Kōshoku ichidai onna) is a Japanese short novel by Ihara Saikaku which depicts the ukiyo ("floating world") of Edo period Japan.

The Limping Devil (Spanish: El diablo cojuelo) is the most famous work of Luis Vélez de Guevara and his only novel, published in 1641.

Peter Ibbetson is a novel by George du Maurier.

Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (Japanese: ゴジラ 東京・大阪篇, Hepburn: Gojira: Tōkyō/Ōsaka-hen; lit. 'Godzilla: Tokyo/Osaka Editions') is a 1955 young adult kaiju novel by Shigeru Kayama.

Beka Lamb is the debut novel from Belizean writer Zee Edgell, published in 1982 as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series.

Sacajawea is an American historical fiction novel written by Anna Lee Waldo as a fictionalized biography of Sacajawea, the Shoshone guide employed by Lewis and Clark.

Coldwire is a 2025 young adult dystopian cyberpunk novel by New Zealand author Chloe Gong.

Fail-Safe is a bestselling American novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

The Tale of Two Lovers (Latin: Historia de duobus amantibus) (1444) is a novel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II.

Harry Potter in Calcutta, also called Harry Potter Kolkataye, is a 2003 Indian Bengali language children's fantasy novel written by Uttam Ghosh and published by Nandita Publishers.

The Ladies of Missalonghi is a short novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough commissioned for the Hutchinson Novellas series and published in the United States in the Harper Short Novel series in 1987.

Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, or The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta in English, is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344.

Udaas Naslain (translated into English as The Weary Generations) is an Urdu novel by Pakistani writer Abdullah Hussain.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi.

Veronica is a 2005 psychological fiction novel by American author Mary Gaitskill.

Jin Yun Qiao or Chin Yun Ch'iao (金雲翹 or 金雲翹傳, The Tale of Jin, Yun and Qiao or The Tale of Chin, Yun, and Ch'iao) is a seventeenth-century Chinese novel by an unknown writer under the pseudonym Qingxin Cairen (青心才人, Pure Heart Talented Man).

Until the Victim Becomes our Own is a composite novel by Greek author Dimitris Lyacos.

Journey to the North (zh:北遊記) is a 1602 Chinese shenmo novel by Yu Xiangdou (Chinese: 余象斗) composed of 24 chapters.

The Spear is a 1978 novel by British author James Herbert dealing with Nazi occultism and the Holy Lance.

The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again (Korean: 무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다, romanized: Mugunghwa Ggochi Pieossseubnida) is a popular South Korean novel by Kim Chin-myong published in 1993 which extolls pan-Korean nationalism.

When I Lived in Modern Times is a novel by Linda Grant.

El Criticón is a Spanish novel by Baltasar Gracián.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890-12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret Adversary in 1922), and Miss Marple (with the novel debut being The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930).

André Schwarz-Bart (May 23, 1928, September 30, 2006) was a French novelist of Polish-Jewish ancestry.

Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa kamilˈlɛːri]; 6 September 1925-17 July 2019) was an Italian writer best known for his Salvo Montalbano crime novels.

He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (9 February 1863-8 July 1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright.

Cao Xueqin ([tsʰǎʊ ɕɥètɕʰǐn] tsow sh'weh-chin; 4 April 1710-10 June 1765) was a Chinese novelist and poet during the Qing dynasty.

Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (; née Perkins; July 3, 1860, August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, and advocate for social reform.

Chloe Gong (born 16 December 1998) is a New Zealand novelist specialising in young adult fiction.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893-17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.

Eugene Leonard Burdick (December 12, 1918, July 26, 1965) was an American political scientist, novelist, and non-fiction writer, co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962), and author of The 480 (1965).

John Waugh (; 28 October 1903-10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer.

Feng Menglong (1574-1646), courtesy names Youlong (猶龍), Gongyu (公魚), Ziyou (子猶), or Eryou (耳猶), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty.

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (French: [dy mɔʁje]; 6 March 1834-8 October 1896) was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator, and novelist.

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819-22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels (including 192 under his own name), 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.

He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish: יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903, July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born Jewish American novelist, short-story writer, memoirist, essayist, and translator in the United States.

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator.

John Griffith London (né Chaney; January 12, 1876, November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist.

He is best known for his Asian Saga novels, a number of which have had television and film adaptations.

John Kennedy Toole (; December 17, 1937, March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.

John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827, October 5, 1867), a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist.

Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828-24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo; ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer.

Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini (; Pashto/Persian: خالد حسینی, Dari: [ˈxɑːlɪd hʊˈsæjniː]; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713-18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric.

Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969) is an American novelist and journalist who wrote the Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014).

Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 1562-27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659) of Baroque literature.

Luis Vélez de Guevara (born Luis Vélez de Santander) (1 August 1579-10 November 1644) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.

Luo Ben (c. 1330-1400, or c.1280-1360), better known by his courtesy name Guanzhong (Mandarin pronunciation: [lwo kwanʈʂʊŋ]), was a Chinese novelist who lived during the Ming dynasty.

Magda Szabó (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmɒgdɒ ˈsɒboː] 5 October 1917-19 November 2007) was a Hungarian novelist.

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900, August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist.

Marguerite Yourcenar (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit juʁsənaʁ] ; born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour; 8 June 1903-17 December 1987) was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist who became a US citizen in 1947.

Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Шолохов, IPA: [ˈʂoləxəf]; 24 May [O.S. 11 May] 1905-21 February 1984) was a Russian novelist and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831-5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M.

Robert Ranke Graves (24 July 1895-7 December 1985), whose second name is sometimes given as von Ranke, was an English poet, novelist and critic.

Samuel Butler (4 December 1835-18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh).

Shuihu zhuan (Water Margin), one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, is traditionally attributed to him.

She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.

Thea Gabriele von Harbou (27 December 1888-1 July 1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress.

He wrote approximately 400 reviews and more than 120 short stories, 11 novels, and two scripts for Star Trek: The Original Series.

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874-16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories.

Wu Cheng'en (traditional Chinese: 吳承恩; simplified Chinese: 吴承恩; pinyin: Wú Chéng'ēn; Wade-Giles: Wu2 Ch‘êng2-ên1; Jyutping: Ng4 Sing4 Jan1, c. 1500-1582 or 1505-1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), was a Chinese novelist, poet, and politician during the Ming dynasty.

Wu Jingzi (Wu Ching-tzu) (1701-January 11, 1754) was a Chinese novelist during the Qing dynasty.

Xu Zhonglin (traditional Chinese: 許仲琳; simplified Chinese: 许仲琳; died 1560) was a Chinese fantasy novelist who lived during the Ming dynasty.

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist.

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882-13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Jamie McGuire (born November 6, 1978) is an American romance novelist from Oklahoma.

Jean Rhys ( REESS; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890-14 May 1979) was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica.

Leonardo Sciascia (Italian: [leoˈnardo ʃˈʃaʃʃa] ; 8 January 1921-20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician.

Linda Grant (born 15 February 1951) is an English novelist and journalist.

She is best known for her novels about the police detective Martin Beck.

Mateo Alemán y del Nero (Seville, September 1547, Mexico City, 1614) was a Spanish novelist and writer.

Natsuo Kirino (桐野 夏生, Kirino Natsuo) (born October 7, 1951, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.

He is perhaps best known for collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975.

Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915, April 9, 1996) was an American political novelist.

Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909, April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, writer, environmentalist, and historian.

William Makepeace Thackeray ( THAK-ər-ee; 18 July 1811-24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.

Stephenie Meyer ( ; née Morgan; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer.

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908-12 August 1964) was a British writer best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883, November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro.

Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr. (September 1, 1936, April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedurals and crime novels.

War and Peace (1869), Anna Karenina (1878), and Resurrection (1899), which is based on his "youthful sins", are often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction and three of the greatest novels ever written.

Lazarillo de Tormes is the first book establishing the style of the picaresque satirical novel.

Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers.

Together they published two popular comedy novels The Twelve Chairs (1928) and The Little Golden Calf (1931), as well as a satirical book Odnoetazhnaya Amerika (often translated as Little Golden America) that documented their journey through the United States between 1935 and 1936.

He was known for novels including Being There (1971) and the controversial The Painted Bird (1965), which were adapted as films, respectively, in 1979 and 2019.

Anand is admired for his novels and short stories, which have acquired the status of classics of modern Indian English literature; they are noted for their perceptive insight into the lives of the oppressed and for their analysis of impoverishment, exploitation and misfortune.

Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, Son of Nobody, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister.

Living in the religious and political turmoil of the Reformation, Rabelais treated the great questions of his time in his novels.

Walter Whitman Jr. (; May 31, 1819, March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.

He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas pere, was a French novelist and playwright.

John Ernst Steinbeck ( STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) was an American writer and novelist.

His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925-25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku.

Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922, April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.

He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French: [maʁsɛl pʁust]; 10 July 1871-18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ nɐˈbokəf] ; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 - 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924, December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875-12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 - 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926, February 19, 2016) was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932-19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful.

Gustave Flaubert (UK: FLOH-bair, US: floh-BAIR; French: [ɡystav flobɛʁ]; 12 December 1821 - 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

Italo Calvino (, also US: ; Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923-19 September 1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer.

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952; Turkish pronunciation: [feˈɾit oɾˈhan paˈmuk]) is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, academic, and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Clarice Lispector (Portuguese: [klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer.

The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839-29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.

Cesare Pavese (UK: pav-AY-zay, -⁠zee, Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare paˈveːze, ˈtʃɛː-, -eːse]; 9 September 1908-27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist.

Abdullah Hussain (Urdu: عبداللہ حسین), (14 August 1931-4 July 2015) was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Gujrat.

He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.

Candice Carty-Williams (born 21 July 1989) is a British writer, best known for her 2019 debut novel, Queenie.

In 1974, while working as a research assistant at the Yale School of Medicine, she published her first novel Tim.

He is the author of the composite novel Until the Victim Becomes our Own and the Poena Damni trilogy.

Tomasi di Lampedusa is most famous for his only novel, Il Gattopardo (first published posthumously in 1958), which is set in his native Sicily during the Risorgimento.

Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.

He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe (1962), an early Cold War novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war.

She is best known for writing The Hand That Signed the Paper, a novel about a Ukrainian family who collaborated with the Nazis in the Holocaust, under the pseudonym Helen Demidenko.

Her debut novel The Ministry of Time (2024) received a number of accolades.

Peter Bryan George (26 March 1924-1 June 1966) was a Welsh author, most famous for the 1958 Cold War thriller novel Red Alert, published initially with the title Two Hours to Doom and written using the pseudonym Peter Bryant.

He is best known for his novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992).

He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian era.

She is best known for her contributions to country music, in addition to her novel and New York Times bestseller The Wind Done Gone, which is a reinterpretation and parody of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.

He is the credited author of the 1879 wuxia novel The Tale of Loyal Heroes and Righteous Gallants-better known today as The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants or The Three Heroes and Five Gallants-as well as some of its sequels.

Zelma Inez Edgell MBE, better known as Zee Edgell (21 October 1940-20 December 2020), was a Belizean-born American writer who published four novels.

Pedro Páramo is a novel by Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, first published in 1955.

Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of historical novels written by Sigrid Undset.

Scoop is a 1938 comic novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh.

Rob Roy is an 1817 historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels.

Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally a series of short stories in Premier Magazine in 1920-1, collected in book form in 1922.

The novel has been adapted into a feature film twice; the first is The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which deals with anti-communist hysteria in U.S. politics, and the second is The Manchurian Candidate (2004), which deals with corporate interference in the U.S. government.

The Railway Children is a children's novel by British writer Edith Nesbit, serialized in The London Magazine from January 1905 to January 1906 before its book publication in 1906.

The Paul Street Boys (Hungarian: A Pál utcai fiúk) is a youth novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár, first published in 1906.

The Island on Bird Street is a 1981 semi-autobiographical children's novel by Israeli writer Uri Orlev.

The Black Corsair is an 1898 adventure novel written by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari.

The Pirates of Malaysia (Italian: I pirati della Malesia) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1896.

Forest of the Pygmies (Spanish: El Bosque de los Pigmeos) is a 2004 novel by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende and a sequel to City of the Beasts and Kingdom of the Golden Dragon.

The Queen of the Caribbean is a 1901 adventure novel written by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari.

Published in 1947, the short novel ranks among the most outstanding children's stories in Costa Rica, though it is no longer mandatory but suggested reading in primary schools.

The Tigers of Mompracem (original title: Le Tigri di Mompracem) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1900.

You've Reached Sam is a 2021 young adult novel by Vietnamese-American author Dustin Thao.

The Mystery of the Black Jungle (Italian: I misteri della jungla nera) is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1895.

How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life is a controversial young adult novel by Kaavya Viswanathan, written just after she graduated from high school.

The Center of the World, published in German as Die Mitte der Welt, is a 1998 young adult novel by Andreas Steinhöfel.

The Last Days at Forcados High School is a 2013 young adult novel by Nigerian author A.

The Two Tigers (original title: Le due tigri) is the fourth adventure novel in the Sandokan series written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1904.

It is considered to be one of the first novels written in California and the first novel to be published by a Native American.

Blood Heir is a 2019 fantasy young adult novel by Amélie Wen Zhao.