The Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo.

is a novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in Early Modern Spanish and published in two parts in 1605 and 1615.

is the 1958 debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

is a philosophical novel by the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, published in 1938.

is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus.

is a novel by Horace Walpole.

is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley.

is the second novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.

is a children's fantasy novel by the English author J.

is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925.

is an 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror novel by Irish author Oscar Wilde.

is a 1774 epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, which appeared as a revised edition in 1787.

is a novel by English author Jane Austen.

is a historical novel published in 1962 by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes.

is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.

is a 1963 novel by Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.

is the 1964 debut novel by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition.

is a 1959 antinovel by American author William S.

is a dystopian and speculative fiction novel by the English writer George Orwell.

is a picaresque novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885.

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

is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas.

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 novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929.

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

is a 1951 American coming-of-age novel by American author J.

is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp.

is a 1960 Southern Gothic novel by American author Harper Lee.

is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940.

is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas.

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

is the thirteenth novel by the English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel.

is a 1726 satirical prose novel by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift.

is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831.

is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens.

is a novel by Mark Twain (1835-1910) published on June 9, 1876, about a boy, Tom Sawyer, growing up along the Mississippi River.

is a historical novel by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.

is a German-language novel written by Czech writer Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925.

is the début novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857.

is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.

is the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse.

is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

is a novel written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009-2010.

is the debut novel of Isabel Allende.

is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner.

is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature.

is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

is a 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago.

is a postmodern novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World).

is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

is a novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima.

is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001.

is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly before the author's death.

is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy.

is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

is an 18th-century Chinese novel authored by Cao Xueqin, considered to be one of the Four Great Classic Novels of Chinese literature.

is a 14th-century Chinese historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong.

is a Chinese novel from the Ming dynasty.

is a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major vernacular Chinese works in the gods and demons (shenmo) genre written during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644).

is a Chinese novel written by Wu Jingzi and published in 1750 during the Qing dynasty.

is an 1879 Chinese novel based on storyteller Shi Yukun's oral performances.

is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012.

is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke.

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.

is a novel created by Chinese contemporary writer Yang Mo, published in 1958.

is a 1929 novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and was later adapted into a 1955 film of the same name by Satyajit Ray.

is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish.

is a Hindi novel by Munshi Premchand.

is a Korean novel, often translated as The Biography of Hong Gildong, written during the Joseon period.

is a novel by Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand published in 1935.

is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.

is a novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos, first published in 1929.

is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957.

is a 1955 novel by Yaşar Kemal.

is a novel by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar.

is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah.

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.

is a Bengali romance novel written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

is a 17th-century Korean novel set in the Chinese Tang dynasty.

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.

is an 1868 British epistolary novel.

is a detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

is a mystery novel by the British writer Agatha Christie, her third to feature Hercule Poirot as the lead detective.

is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue.

is a 1939 hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe.

is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell.

is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë.

is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce.

is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932.

is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels.

is a novel by the Sudanese writer Tayeb Salih, first published serially in the Beirut journal Hiwâr in 1966.

is the 1988 debut novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga.

is a novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935.

is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890 by P.G.

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

is the 1997 debut novel written by Indian author Arundhati Roy.

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

is a 1939 mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie.

is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.

is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985.

is a novel by Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh.

is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.

is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans.

is a satirical novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.

is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro.

is a 1999 novel by South African author J.

is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.

is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole.

is a 2016 novel by Japanese author Sayaka Murata.

is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith.

is a mystery novel with a closed circle of suspects, written by English writer Agatha Christie and featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

is a 1934 detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in a condensed version in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.

is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.

is a 1930 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

is a 2005 novel by Keigo Higashino, the first in his Detective Galileo series and is his most acclaimed work thus far.

is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

is a Russian classic satirical picaresque novel by the Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, published in 1928.

is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller.

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).

is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy.

is a 2007 novel by South Korean writer Han Kang, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

is a mystery novel written by French author Gaston Leroux.

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

is a 1994 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli.

is a crime novel by Icelandic author Arnaldur Indriðason, first published in Iceland in 2000.

is the first novel from the Erast Fandorin series of historical detective novels, written by Russian author Boris Akunin.

is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the third in the Harry Hole series (although the first in the series to be available in English).

is a mystery novel written by Qiu Xiaolong and was published in English in 2000.

is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

is a 1996 novel by Andrea Camilleri, translated into English in 2002 by Stephen Sartarelli.

is a 1955 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring his fictional character Jules Maigret.

is a crime novel about the Sicilian Mafia by Leonardo Sciascia, finished in 1960 and published in 1961 by Einaudi.

is a 2001 novel by French author Fred Vargas.

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.

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.

is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe.

is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765-1780.

is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem.

is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin (often anglicised as Eugene Zamiatin) that was written in 1920-1921.

is a philosophical science fiction novel by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin.

is a novel by Argentine writer Adolfo Bioy Casares.

is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

is a trilogy of historical novels written by Sigrid Undset.

is a novel by Italian writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, which chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the Risorgimento.

is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884.

is an 1862 historical novel by Gustave Flaubert, set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary War (241-237 BCE).

is a 1997 Japanese crime novel written by Japanese author Natsuo Kirino and published in English in 2004.

is a novel by Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov.

is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg tracing the investigation into the suspicious death of a Greenlandic boy in Denmark.

is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson.

is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L.

is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne.

is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.

is a picaresque novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722.

is an 1892 English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by the latter.

is a humorous novel by English writer Jerome K.

is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho which was first published in 1988.

is a science fiction novel by English author H.

is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.

is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K.

is a 1984 science fiction novel by William Gibson.

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

is a novel by American writer Octavia E.

is a historical novel written by Robert Graves and published in 1934.

is a novel by Lew Wallace, published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century".

is a French-language novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle.

was the first novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in serial form from March 1836 to November 1837.

is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist.

is the ninth and final novel by American writer Herman Melville.

is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut.

is an 1826 historical romance novel by James Fenimore Cooper.

is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope, in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony.

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

is an 1883 children's fantasy novel by Italian author Carlo Collodi.

is an 1897 science fiction novel by H.

is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ursula K.

is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown.

is the debut novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.

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

is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley.

is a science fiction novel about a journey to the Moon by two Englishmen who discover that a sophisticated extraterrestrial civilisation of insect-like creatures ("Selenites") inhabits the lunar interior.

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).

is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war.

is a science fiction novel by German author Frank Schätzing.

is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain.

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

is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq.

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

is a 2012 Australian historical fiction novel by M.

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.

is a new adult novel by American author Jamie McGuire.

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

is a 2001 British novel written by Ian McEwan.

is a novel in four volumes by Russian writer Mikhail Sholokhov.

is a dystopian and political novel in the form of science fiction by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.

is the third novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini.

is a 2024 debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.

is a youth novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Molnár, first published in 1906.

is a new adult fantasy novel by the American author Lev Grossman, published in 2009 by Viking Press.

is a 1966 novel by American writer Bernard Malamud.

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

is the first novel written by Alice Randall.

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

is a 1970 young adult novel by the Hungarian author Magda Szabó.

is a novel by British author W.

is a Chinese historical novel in 108 chapters written by Feng Menglong in the late Ming dynasty.

is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag.

is a 1946 Russian-language young adult historical novel (rewritten in 1951) by Soviet writer Alexander Fadeyev.

is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1896.

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

is a 2004 novel by Chilean novelist Isabel Allende and a sequel to City of the Beasts and Kingdom of the Golden Dragon.

is a 1901 adventure novel written by Italian novelist Emilio Salgari.

is the most famous work of Luis Vélez de Guevara and his only novel, published in 1641.

is a novel by George du Maurier.

is a 1955 young adult kaiju novel by Shigeru Kayama.

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

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.

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

is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1900.

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

is a novel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II.

is an exotic adventure novel written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1895.

is a controversial young adult novel by Kaavya Viswanathan, written just after she graduated from high school.

is a 2003 Indian Bengali language children's fantasy novel written by Uttam Ghosh and published by Nandita Publishers.

is a novel by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344.

is an Urdu novel by Pakistani writer Abdullah Hussain.

is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi.

is a novel by Andreas Steinhöfel from 1998.

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

is a 2013 young adult novel by Nigerian author A.

is a seventeenth-century Chinese novel by an unknown writer under the pseudonym Qingxin Cairen (青心才人, Pure Heart Talented Man).

is a composite novel by Greek author Dimitris Lyacos.

is the fourth adventure novel in the Sandokan series written by Italian author Emilio Salgari, published in 1904.

is a 1602 Chinese shenmo novel by Yu Xiangdou (Chinese: 余象斗) composed of 24 chapters.

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

is a popular South Korean novel by Kim Chin-myong published in 1993 which extolls pan-Korean nationalism.

is a novel by Linda Grant.

is a Spanish novel by Baltasar Gracián.

is the 2019 young adult fantasy debut novel by Chinese-American author Amélie Wen Zhao.

is a novel by Filipino writer and activist José Rizal and was published during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books is a novel by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, first serialised in Fraser's Magazine from November 1833 to August 1834.

The Great Gatsby ( ) is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.

Les Misérables (, French: [le mizeʁabl] ) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, romanized: Voyna i mir; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ; IPA: [vɐjˈna i ˈmʲir]) is an epic novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy.

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English author and scholar J.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

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).

So Long a Letter (French: Une si longue lettre) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ.

Musashi (Japanese: 宮本武蔵, Hepburn: 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 of legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.

is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719

is a series of seven children's fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling

in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy

is an adventure and historical novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson

is a fantasy novel by British author J. K. Rowling

is the last full-length novel by the German author Hermann Hesse

is a psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830