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The Rest of Our Lives
The Rest of Our Lives is Ben Markovits's twelfth novel, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize, following law professor Tom Layward on a cross-country road trip after dropping his daughter at college.
The Sellout (novel)
The Sellout (2015) is Paul Beatty's satirical novel about narrator Me, who resegregates the erased Los Angeles neighborhood of Dickens; it won the 2016 Man Booker Prize, the first American winner, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Kermode's The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (OUP, 1967; Mary Flexner Lectures, Bryn Mawr, 1965), distinct from Barnes's 2011 novel, argues fictions of apocalypse give meaning to time.
The Shadow of the Object
The Shadow of the Object names two books: Christopher Bollas's 1987 psychoanalytic work introducing the unthought known, and Chloe Aridjis's 2026 Booker-longlisted novel about Flora, Wilhelmina, and a magic lantern.
The Sicilian
The Sicilian is Mario Puzo's 1984 novel about the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano (spelled Guiliano), framed by Michael Corleone's 1950 Palermo exile from The Godfather, set in postwar Sicily against the Mafia's Don Croce.
The Storyteller (Picoult novel)
The Storyteller, also known as The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult, is a 2013 novel by the American writer Jodi Picoult, her first to take up the Holocaust.
The Sympathizer
The Sympathizer is Viet Thanh Nguyen's 2015 Grove Press debut novel, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, told as the confession of a nameless half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent, adapted as a 2024 HBO miniseries.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë's 1848 novel published as Acton Bell, depicts Helen Huntingdon's flight from an abusive marriage within a letter-framed diary structure; it caused scandal, was suppressed by Charlotte Brontë, and was restored by the 1992 Clarendon Edition.
The Testaments
The Testaments is Margaret Atwood's 2019 sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, set 15 years later in Gilead and narrated by Aunt Lydia, Agnes, and Daisy; it shared the 2019 Booker Prize and became a Hulu series.
The Things We Never Say
The Things We Never Say is Elizabeth Strout's eleventh novel (Random House, May 5, 2026), about Artie Dam, a lonely 57-year-old Massachusetts history teacher contemplating suicide; her first book set outside Maine, a New York Times bestseller longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) is Rabih Alameddine's seventh novel, a tragicomic Beirut-set story of 63-year-old philosophy teacher Raja and his mother Zalfa, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian (채식주의자) is Han Kang's 2007 three-part Korean novel about Yeong-hye, who stops eating meat after violent dreams; Deborah Smith's 2015 English translation won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, the first for a Korean work, amid a mistranslation controversy.
The Vivisectors
The Vivisectors is a 2026 novel by Missouri Williams, her second after The Doloriad, following misanthropic narrator Agathe, an assistant to a professor in a decaying university city, longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
The Wedding People
The Wedding People is Alison Espach's 2024 Henry Holt novel, a New York Times bestseller and Read With Jenna pick in which divorced adjunct professor Phoebe Stone, planning suicide at Newport's Cornwall Inn, is instead swept into bride Lila's six-day destination wedding and starts anew.
The Young Guard
The Young Guard (Молодая гвардия) is a 1946 novel by Alexander Fadeyev about the anti-German Komsomol underground in Krasnodon, Ukraine, in 1942–1943, one of the most widely read works of Soviet literature.
Theme (narrative)
Theme (narrative): the abstract idea or meaning a story conveys about its subject, distinct from motif, topic, and plot. Covers thematology, thematic criticism, theme versus motif debates, and empirical reader studies of theme construction.
Theo of Golden
Theo of Golden, debut 2023 novel by Allen Levi, self-published then reissued by Atria in 2025; elderly Portuguese stranger Theo buys 92 coffeehouse portraits of Golden, Georgia residents and gifts each to its subject for their story; #1 NYT bestseller, over one million US copies, Tom Hanks film in talks.
There There (novel)
There There is Tommy Orange's 2018 debut novel (Knopf) about twelve Native characters converging at the Big Oakland Powwow in Oakland, California; title from Gertrude Stein; 2019 Pulitzer finalist, PEN/Hemingway and John Leonard Prize winner.
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart is Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel about Okonkwo and Igbo society in Umuofia, southeastern Nigeria, told in English woven with Igbo proverbs and orality as a counter-narrative to colonial depictions of Africa.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is Harper Lee's 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel, narrated by Scout Finch in Depression-era Maycomb, Alabama, about Atticus Finch defending Tom Robinson; famed for its child narrator, school presence, and censorship history.
Toplumcu roman
The toplumcu roman (socialist realist novel), also called toplumcu gerçekçilik, is the Turkish novel written in the socialist realist manner, dominant from the Meşrutiyet period until roughly the 1980s.
Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan is a 1956 novel by Khushwant Singh. It is widely considered the first novel about the 1947 Partition, set in the fictional village of Mano Majra.
Trainspotting (novel)
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh's 1993 debut novel, follows heroin users Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie in Leith, Edinburgh, written in phonetic Scots dialect; longlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and adapted into Danny Boyle's 1996 film.
Transcription (Lerner novel)
Transcription (2026) is Ben Lerner's fourth novel (FSG; German title Transkription), about a writer whose broken iPhone forces him to fake a transcript of his final interview with his 90-year-old mentor Thomas.
Trespasses (novel)
Trespasses, Louise Kennedy's 2022 debut novel published by Bloomsbury, is set in 1975 near Belfast during the Troubles, following Catholic teacher Cushla Lavery's affair with married Protestant barrister Michael Agnew; it won the An Post Novel of the Year and was adapted for Channel 4 in 2025.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's 2000 Booker Prize-winning novel told as letters from Australian outlaw Ned Kelly to his unseen daughter, and the 2020 Justin Kurzel film adaptation starring George MacKay.
Ukiyozōshi
Ukiyozōshi (浮世草子) is a genre of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction depicting townspeople's lives and romances, begun by Ihara Saikaku in 1682 and centered in Osaka and Kyoto.
Upward Bound (novel)
Upward Bound is Woody Brown's 2026 Hogarth debut novel (208 pages, ISBN 9780593979976), a New York Times bestseller set in a Los Angeles adult day-care center for disabled, mostly autistic adults, told across 12 chapters from eight viewpoints, whose authorship was debated because Brown is nonspeaking.
Verso Books
Verso Books, founded as New Left Books by New Left Review in 1970, is a London- and New York-based independent radical publisher; it publishes politics, theory, history, and fiction, bundles ebooks with print, and runs a book club.
Victor Gollancz Ltd
Victor Gollancz Ltd, British publisher founded by Victor Gollancz in 1927, published Orwell, Sayers, and du Maurier and ran the Left Book Club; since 1998 it has been Orion's science fiction and fantasy imprint under Hachette.