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2 States: The Story of My Marriage
2 States: The Story of My Marriage is Chetan Bhagat's 2009 fourth novel about Krish, a Punjabi, and Ananya, a Tamil Brahmin, seeking parental approval for an inter-state marriage, partly based on Bhagat's own marriage and adapted into a 2014 Bollywood film.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James's 2014 Man Booker Prize-winning third novel, fictionalizes the 3 December 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley ("the Singer") through dozens of patois narrators spanning 1976 to 1991 in Kingston and New York.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow is Amor Towles's 2016 Viking novel about Count Alexander Rostov, sentenced in 1922 to lifelong house arrest in Moscow's real Metropol Hotel, spanning 1922 to 1954; a Kirkus Prize finalist adapted as a 2024 Ewan McGregor series.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India, 1924 novel by E. M. Forster, set in Chandrapore under the British Raj; a Marabar caves incident brings Aziz's trial, themes of friendship, muddle, and empire; won the James Tait Black and Prix Femina.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving's seventh novel (1989), narrated by John Wheelwright, tells of a tiny New Hampshire boy who believes he is God's instrument after a foul ball kills his friend's mother; Irving's best-selling book, inspired by The Tin Drum.
A Suitable Boy
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth's 1993 epic novel (1,349 pages), follows four Indian families and Lata Mehra's marriage choice in post-independence 1950s India; adapted by the BBC in 2020.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns is Khaled Hosseini's 2007 Riverhead novel about Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women sharing an abusive husband in Kabul from Soviet occupation through Taliban rule; distinct from The Kite Runner.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan's 2010 Knopf novel, links 13 chapters about record producer Bennie Salazar and Sasha, from 1970s punk to a near-future New York; Pulitzer Prize winner with a famous PowerPoint chapter.
Aethiopica
The Aethiopica, also known as Theagenes and Charicleia, is an ancient Greek novel in ten books by Heliodorus of Emesa, the longest surviving Greek novel.
Ali and Nino
Ali and Nino: 1937 German-language novel by "Kurban Said" (attributed to Lev Nussimbaum, disputed), a Muslim-Christian love story in Baku during WWI; Azerbaijan's national novel, filmed 2016.
Alias Grace
Alias Grace is Margaret Atwood's 1996 historical novel, her ninth, retelling the 1843 Grace Marks murder case in Canada West; Giller Prize winner, Booker shortlistee, adapted by Sarah Polley into a 2017 Netflix miniseries.
All Fours (novel)
All Fours is Miranda July's second novel (Riverhead, May 14, 2024) about a 45-year-old artist who abandons an LA-to-NY drive, checks into a motel, and reinvents her intimate life; a National Book Award finalist and Women's Prize shortlistee.
American Dirt
American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins's 2020 Flatiron Books novel about a Mexican mother and son fleeing cartel violence, was an Oprah's Book Club pick that sparked a major controversy over cultural appropriation, stereotyping, and Latino underrepresentation in publishing.
Amerika (novel)
Amerika (Der Verschollene) is Franz Kafka's first, unfinished novel about immigrant Karl Rossmann in New York; written 1912–14, published 1927 by Max Brod under the title Amerika, first translated 1938 by the Muirs.
Anandamath (আনন্দমঠ)
Anandamath (আনন্দমঠ), Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1882 Bengali historical novel set in the 1770 Bengal famine and Sannyasi rebellion; source of Vande Mataram, India's National Song, and a foundational text of Indian nationalism.
And the Mountains Echoed
And the Mountains Echoed is Khaled Hosseini's third novel (Riverhead, 2013), a nine-chapter mosaic about siblings Abdullah and Pari separated in 1952 Shadbagh, spanning Kabul, Paris, San Francisco, and Tinos over nearly 60 years.
Anthems in Animal Farm
Anthems in Animal Farm: "Beasts of England", Old Major's revolutionary song from Orwell's 1945 novella, banned in chapter seven and replaced by Minimus's "Animal Farm!" and a Napoleon anthem, paralleling the Soviet replacement of The Internationale in 1944.
Arabic novel
The Arabic novel (الرواية العربية) is the modern novel written in Arabic, emerging as an artistic genre around 1914 with Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab and maturing under Naguib Mahfouz.
Armenian novel
The Armenian novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction written in Armenian, which took shape in the mid-nineteenth century, beginning with Khachatur Abovyan's Wounds of Armenia of 1841.
Assamese novel
The Assamese novel (অসমীয়া উপন্যাস) is full-length prose fiction written in the Assamese language, a genre that began in the late nineteenth century with Padmanath Gohain Baruah's Bhanumati.
Atonement (novel)
Atonement is a 2001 novel by Ian McEwan about Briony Tallis, who as a girl falsely accuses her sister's lover of a crime and seeks atonement through writing.
Audition (Kitamura novel)
Audition (2025) is Katie Kitamura's fifth novel, about an unnamed middle-aged actress whose encounter with a young man, Xavier, who claims to be her son, destabilizes her marriage to Tomas. Told in two reimagined parts, it was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize and is a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Azerbaijani novel
The Azerbaijani novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Azerbaijani language, written mainly in Azerbaijan and Iranian Azerbaijan, which matured under Soviet rule.
Bear (novel)
Bear is a 1976 novel by Canadian writer Marian Engel in which a lonely Toronto archivist enters into an erotic relationship with a bear on an island.
Beasts of No Nation
Beasts of No Nation: 2005 debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldier Agu in an unnamed West African war, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winner, and its 2015 Cary Fukunaga film with Idris Elba, Netflix's first original feature.
Bel Canto (novel)
Bel Canto (2001) is Ann Patchett's fourth novel, a loose fictionalization of the 1996 Japanese embassy hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, following soprano Roxane Coss and captors and captives; winner of the PEN/Faulkner and Orange prizes.
Bengali social novel
The Bengali social novel (সামাজিক উপন্যাস) is a Bengali-language novel depicting the life, conflicts, and customs of contemporary society, the dominant tradition of Bengali literature, exemplified by Sarat Chandra's Grihadaha.
Berkley Books
Berkley Books is a Penguin Random House imprint under the Penguin Publishing Group, publishing commercial romance, women's fiction, mystery, and science fiction/fantasy by authors such as Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood; acquired by Putnam in 1965, merged with NAL in 2015, and parent of Ace Books and the new Berkley XO imprint.
Black Bag (novel)
Black Bag is a 2026 comic campus novel by British poet-novelist Luke Kennard, published by John Murray (UK, 12 March 2026) and Zando (US, 17 March 2026), shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026; its plot reworks Charles Goetzinger's 1967 Oregon State bag-wearing experiment.
Black Decade literature
Black Decade literature (العشرية السوداء) is the Algerian fiction written during and after the civil war of the 1990s, which killed more than 150,000 people.