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Dover Publications
Dover Publications (Dover Books), founded 1941 by Hayward and Blanche Cirker, is an American paperback publisher of public-domain reprints and originals: Thrift Editions classics, math and science books, coloring books; Courier acquired it for $39M in 2000, later LSC Communications.
East of Eden (novel)
East of Eden is a 1952 novel by John Steinbeck that retells the story of Cain and Abel through the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley.
Endling (2025 novel)
Endling is Maria Reva's 2025 debut novel (Doubleday, Virago, Knopf Canada, 352 pp.), a satirical metafiction about a snail scientist, romance tours, kidnapped bachelors, Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and a fake ending; longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.
English novel
The English novel is the tradition of British prose fiction usually dated from Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), developed by Richardson and Fielding, and achieving critical acceptance with Austen and Scott in the early nineteenth century.
Epistle
An epistle is a letter, or in literary usage a work written in letter form, most notably the epistolary novel, which peaked in the 18th century.
Erasure (novel)
Erasure (2001) is Percival Everett's satirical novel about Thelonious "Monk" Ellison, a Black experimental novelist whose parody of ghetto literature, My Pafology, written as Stagg R. Leigh, becomes a bestseller; adapted into the Oscar-winning 2023 film American Fiction.
Esperanto literature
Esperanto literature comprises translated and original fiction, poetry, drama, and essays in Esperanto, the language L. L. Zamenhof published in 1887. Key figures: Kálmán Kalocsay, William Auld; four historical periods; over 10,000 translations.
Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You is the 2014 debut novel of American author Celeste Ng, following a biracial family in 1977 Ohio after their daughter is found drowned.
Everything Is Illuminated
Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's 2002 debut novel about a young American searching Ukraine for the woman who saved his Holocaust-survivor grandfather, told through Alex Perchov's malapropism-filled letters and a mythical history of the shtetl Trachimbrod.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is Jonathan Safran Foer's 2005 second novel, in which nine-year-old Oskar Schell searches New York for the lock fitting his father's key after the September 11 attacks, interwoven with his grandparents' Dresden letters; adapted into Stephen Daldry's 2011 film.
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist literary criticism analyzes literature through feminist theory and politics, examining women's representation, gynocriticism, Anglo-American versus French strands, intersectionality, and waves from the 1960s woman's movement to fourth-wave digital criticism.
Fiction
Fiction: invented narrative in prose, verse, film, or other media, contrasted with nonfiction by pragmatic rather than semantic criteria; covers Searle's, Currie's, and Walton's theories, world fiction history, and AI-era fiction generation.
Fifteen Dogs
Fifteen Dogs: An Apologue is André Alexis's 2015 Coach House novel, second in his Quincunx, in which Hermes and Apollo grant human intelligence to fifteen Toronto dogs and bet on whether any dies happy; it won the 2015 Giller Prize.
Find Me (novel)
Find Me (2019), André Aciman's fifth novel, continues Call Me by Your Name through Elio's father Samuel, Elio in Paris, and Oliver in New England, ending with the lovers' reunion coda.
Five Point Someone
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT! is Chetan Bhagat's 2004 debut novel about three underperforming IIT Delhi students, Hari, Alok, and Ryan; it sold over a million copies and was adapted into the film 3 Idiots.
Flashlight (novel)
Flashlight is Susan Choi's sixth novel (FSG, June 3, 2025), about Louisa, whose Korean Japanese father Serk disappears on a Japanese beach and is kidnapped to North Korea; Booker 2025 shortlist, National Book Award longlist, 2026 Chautauqua Prize winner.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 debut novel about divorced hepatologist Toby Fleishman, whose ex-wife Rachel disappears; narrated by Libby Epstein, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and adapted into FX's 2022 series.
Flesh (Szalay novel)
Flesh is David Szalay's sixth novel, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize. It follows István, a taciturn Hungarian man, from adolescence through Iraq service, London wealth, and decline, in spare prose marked by repeated 'OK' replies.
Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault) is Umberto Eco's 1988 second novel about three Milan editors whose invented Templar conspiracy takes over their lives; published by Bompiani, translated 1989.
Georgian novel
The Georgian novel is the tradition of extended prose fiction in the Georgian language, emerging as a modern form in the nineteenth century under Russian rule.
German literature
German literature (deutsche Literatur) is the literature written in German across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from the 8th-century Hildebrandslied to Nobel laureates like Thomas Mann and Günter Grass.
Gilead (novel)
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's 2004 epistolary novel (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is the letter of dying Iowa minister John Ames to his young son; it won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and launched the Gilead series with Home, Lila, and Jack.
Go Set a Watchman
Go Set a Watchman is Harper Lee's earliest novel, written mid-1950s and published July 14, 2015. An earlier draft of To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows adult Scout finding Atticus Finch racist; sold over a million copies in week one.
Godaan (गोदान)
Godaan (गोदान), also Godan, is Munshi Premchand's 1936 Hindi novel, his last complete work, about the peasant Hori and Dhaniya; translated as The Gift of a Cow, it is a classic of Indian rural realism.
Good Material
Good Material is Dolly Alderton's second novel (Fig Tree, 2023; Knopf, 2024) about 35-year-old comedian Andy Dawson after girlfriend Jen leaves him, told from his perspective with Jen's viewpoint at the end; a NYT bestseller and Read with Jenna pick.
Good People (novel)
Good People (2026) is Patmeena Sabit's debut novel, published by Crown, about Afghan refugee family the Sharafs in Virginia after daughter Zorah's drowning sparks honor-killing rumors; told by nearly 60 narrators, a bestseller and Giller shortlistee.
Great American Novel
The Great American Novel (GAN) is a hypothetical US novel capturing the national character, codified in John W. De Forest's 1868 Nation essay naming Uncle Tom's Cabin; later typologized by Lawrence Buell into four scripts.
Greek novel
The Greek novel, also called the Greek romance, is ancient Greek prose fiction from the first to fourth centuries CE, best known for love stories of separated noble lovers.
Gujarati historical novel
The Gujarati historical novel is a form of Gujarati fiction that places invented characters and love stories in documented events of Gujarat's past, beginning with Karan Ghelo (1866).
Gujarati novel
The Gujarati novel (નવલકથા, navalakathā) is the long prose-fiction form in the Gujarati language, which began with Nandshankar Mehta's Karan Ghelo in 1866 and developed through reformist, historical, and modernist phases.