A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The English word to describe such a work derives from...
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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...
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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...
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A light novel (Japanese: ライトノベル, Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, usually classified as young adult fiction...
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Gothic fiction (redirect from Gothic Novel)
characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels. The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled...
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Novella (redirect from Short novel)
novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word novella...
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Historical fiction (redirect from Historical novel)
theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels. It often makes many use of symbolism in allegory using figurative and metaphorical...
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Young adult literature (redirect from Young adult novel)
challenges of youth may be further categorized as social or coming-of-age novels. The earliest known use of term young adult occurred in 1942. The designation...
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It is a 1986 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was King's 22nd book and the 17th novel written under his own name. The story follows the...
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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...
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print. These works, which range from full-length novels and novellas, to short stories, graphic novels, and audio dramas, are parts of named book series...
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epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters between the fictional characters of a narrative. The term is often extended to cover novels that...
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The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but...
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Robert Crais (redirect from Free Fall (Crais novel))
numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been...
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Rivals is a novel by the English author Jilly Cooper first published in 1988. It is the second of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of books set in the...
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Bildungsroman (redirect from Coming-of-age novel)
German words Bildung ('education', alternatively 'forming') and Roman ('novel'). The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern...
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A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art. The term graphic novel is often applied broadly, including fiction, non-fiction, and anthologized...
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Piranesi is a novel by English author Susanna Clarke, published by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2020. It is Clarke's second novel, following her debut Jonathan...
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James Clavell’s Shōgun (1975) is a historical novel chronicling the end of Japan’s Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) and the dawn of the Edo period (1603-1868)...
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African (redirect from The African (novel))
G. Le Clézio The African (Conton novel), a novel by William Farquhar Conton The African (Courlander novel), a novel by Harold Courlander The Africans...
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Hannibal (disambiguation) (redirect from Hannibal (Novel))
game Hannibal (Harris novel), a novel by Thomas Harris and featuring Hannibal Lecter Hannibal (Leckie novel), a 1995 historical novel by Ross Leckie Hannibal...
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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...
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Dan Simmons (redirect from Black Hills (novel))
science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy...
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (redirect from Pulitzer Prize for the Novel)
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...
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The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character...
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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...
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13 (redirect from Thirteen (novel))
play 13 (Armstrong novel), a 2012 novel in the Women of the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong 13 (Zeitoun novel), a 2002 novel by Canadian author...
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Murtagh is a 2023 fantasy novel by American writer Christopher Paolini. Milas, Lacy Baugher (November 15, 2023). "Christopher Paolini on Murtagh's journey...
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A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction. Visual novels are often associated with the medium of video games, but are not always labeled...
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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...
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