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Kannada literature
Kannada literature (ಕನ್ನಡ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of written and oral work in Kannada, a Dravidian language of southwestern India, attested for over eleven centuries.
Kannada Navya novel
The Kannada Navya novel is the modernist Kannada novel of the Navya movement, roughly 1950 to 1980; its landmark text is U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara (1965).
Kashmiri novel
A Kashmiri novel is a novel written in the Kashmiri language, or, in wider usage, a novel about Kashmir by Kashmiri authors in Urdu or English.
Kazohinia
Kazohinia (Gulliver utazása Kazohiniában; Vojaĝo al Kazohinio) is a 1941 satirical dystopian novel by Hungarian engineer Sándor Szathmári, a Gulliver sequel contrasting the emotionless Hin society with the obsessive Behins.
Khmer novel
The Khmer novel (ប្រលោមលោកខ្មែរ) is the prose fiction tradition of Cambodia written in Khmer, beginning with Rim Kin's Sophat, written in 1938 and published in 1942.
Kichwamaji
Kichwamaji, meaning "Empty-head," is a 1974 Swahili novel by the Tanzanian writer Euphrase Kezilahabi, his second, following the university student Kazimoto, torn between modern education, Christianity, and cultural tradition.
Kin (novel)
Kin (2026) is Tayari Jones's fifth novel, published by Knopf. It follows motherless cradle friends Vernice and Annie in Jim Crow-era Louisiana, was an Oprah's Book Club pick, a New York Times bestseller, and won the Kirkus Prize for fiction.
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel, his first after the 2017 Nobel Prize, narrated by a solar-powered Artificial Friend devoted to sickly Josie in a dystopian future of 'lifted' children; Taika Waititi's 2026 Sony film adaptation with Jenna Ortega opened to negative reviews.
Kokkeibon
Kokkeibon (滑稽本, "comic books") were a genre of humorous Japanese fiction of the late Edo period, depicting the comic speech and daily life of Edo townspeople through dialogue.
Kuli
Kuli, Swahili for dockworker, is a 1979 Swahili novel by the Zanzibari writer Adam Shafi Adam, built around the dockworkers' strike of 1948 in colonial Zanzibar.
Ladybird Books
Ladybird Books is a British children's publishing imprint, founded 1914 by Wills & Hepworth, now part of Penguin Random House. Known for its 56-page wartime hardback format, the Key Words with Peter and Jane reading scheme (about 95 million copies sold), and educational series such as Ladybird Readers.
Lao novel
A Lao novel is a work of extended prose fiction in the Lao language, beginning with Somchine Nginn's Phra Phoutthahoup Saksit in 1944 and shaped by war, revolution, and censorship.
Latin literature
Latin literature, or literae Latinae, is literature written in Latin from Livius Andronicus's Saturnian Odyssey onward, marked by conscious imitation of Greek models, education-driven rhetoric, and survival through manuscript transmission.
Lebanese fiction
Lebanese fiction is prose fiction by Lebanese authors in Arabic, French, and English, shaped by the Nahda, the civil war of 1975 to 1990, and emigration.
Lessons in Chemistry (novel)
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus's 2022 Doubleday debut novel about chemist Elizabeth Zott, who becomes host of the 1960s cooking show Supper at Six; 6-million-copy bestseller adapted into the Apple TV+ series starring Brie Larson.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi is Yann Martel's 2001 novel, winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize, about Pi Patel surviving 227 days adrift with a Bengal tiger, told through two alternative versions of the story.
List of English-language book publishing companies
List of English-language book publishing companies: a catalog of English-language book publishers and imprints, including academic, trade, religious, small press, and defunct houses, excluding vanity presses, printers, and book packagers.
List of story structures
The list of story structures, also called list of narrative structures, catalogs frameworks for organizing a narrative, from Aristotle's Poetics to Freytag's pyramid and Save the Cat!.
Long Island Compromise
Long Island Compromise is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's second novel (Random House, July 2024), a family saga about wealthy Long Island Jewish siblings shaped by their father Carl Fletcher's 1980 kidnapping and $250,000 ransom, and by the later collapse of the family fortune.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel, his first after the 1982 Nobel Prize, following Florentino Ariza's half-century pursuit of Fermina Daza in a cholera-plagued Caribbean port city.
Lucky Per
Lykke-Per (Lucky Per / A Fortunate Man) is Henrik Pontoppidan's 1898–1904 eight-volume Danish novel about pastor's son Per Sidenius, engineer and visionary, rewritten several times, Nobel-linked, part of the Danish Kulturkanon.
Malayalam novel
The Malayalam novel (ഇന്ദുലേഖ) is the tradition of novel-length fiction in Malayalam, the language of Kerala, beginning with O. Chandumenon's Indulekha in 1889 and later spanning social realism, modernism, and Arabi-Malayalam writing.
Marathi novel
The Marathi novel (कादंबरी) is the tradition of extended prose fiction in Marathi, the language of Maharashtra in western India, which began in the mid-nineteenth century.
Martyr!
Martyr! is Kaveh Akbar's 2024 debut novel (Knopf) about Cyrus Shams, a sobering Iranian American poet seeking meaningful death; not to be confused with Mazen Khaled's 2017 Lebanese film Martyr.
Masimba Avanhu
Masimba Avanhu? (Is This the People's Power?) is a 1986 novel in Shona by Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove, the only one of his four novels written in Shona.
May We Feed the King
May We Feed the King is Rebecca Perry's 2026 debut novel: an unnamed curator reconstructs an anonymous reluctant medieval king. Booker Prize 2026 shortlist, Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize winner; published by Granta and Transit Books.
Men in Love (novel)
Men in Love is a 2025 novel by Irvine Welsh and a direct sequel to Trainspotting, following Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie in the late 1980s.
Middlesex (novel)
Middlesex (2002) is Jeffrey Eugenides's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about Calliope "Cal" Stephanides, an intersex Greek-American raised as a girl, tracing a recessive 5-alpha-reductase mutation through three generations from Smyrna to Detroit.
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious fiction prize, was established by Miles Franklin's 1954 will and first won by Patrick White's Voss in 1957. It awards A$60,000 annually for the novel of highest literary merit presenting Australian life in any of its phases.
Modern Egyptian novel
The modern Egyptian novel is the Arabic-language novel tradition that took shape in Egypt in the early twentieth century, reaching a peak in the work of Naguib Mahfouz.