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Modern Gulf novel
The modern Gulf novel (الرواية الخليجية) is the novel literature of the six Gulf Cooperation Council states, starting in Saudi Arabia in 1930 and flourishing after the oil boom.
Modern Iraqi novel
The modern Iraqi novel is the tradition of novel-length Arabic fiction by Iraqi authors, tied to Iraq's founding in 1918 and maturing in the realist 1960s.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders, full title The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, is Daniel Defoe's 1722 mock-autobiographical novel about a Newgate-born thief, seven editions in two years, a contested moral preface, and lasting critical debate.
My Ántonia
My Ántonia (1918), Willa Cather's fourth novel and the final book of her prairie trilogy, narrated by Jim Burden about Bohemian immigrant Ántonia Shimerda, based on Anna Sadilek Pavelka and set in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
My Friends (Matar novel)
My Friends is Hisham Matar's third novel (2024, Random House/Viking), following Libyan exile Khaled Abd al Hady and friends Mustafa and Hosam in London after the 1984 Libyan embassy shooting; winner of the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the NBCC fiction award.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red (Benim Adım Kırmızı) is Orhan Pamuk's 1998 sixth novel, a murder mystery among Ottoman miniaturists in 1591 Istanbul, told by 12 narrators including a corpse and the color Red; it won the 2003 IMPAC Dublin Award.
My Sister's Keeper (novel)
My Sister's Keeper is Jodi Picoult's 2004 novel about Anna Fitzgerald, a savior sibling conceived via PGD for her leukemic sister Kate, who sues her parents for medical emancipation. Known for its multiple-perspective narration and its altered 2009 film ending.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is Ottessa Moshfegh's 2018 novel about an unnamed woman who medicates herself into a yearlong sleep in her New York apartment, ending with the September 11 attacks.
Narrative
Narrative: a representation of connected events told by someone to someone; its study is narratology (narrative theory), coined by Todorov in 1969, covering story versus discourse, focalization, and postclassical approaches.
Native Son
Native Son is Richard Wright's 1940 novel about Bigger Thomas, a poor Black man on Chicago's South Side who kills a white woman; a Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller, frequently banned, adapted by Welles on Broadway and by Chenal, and restored uncut in 1991.
Nectar in a Sieve
Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by the Indian writer Kamala Markandaya, telling of Rukmani, a tenant farmer's wife whose rural life is undone by poverty and industrialization.
Noli Me Tángere (novel)
Noli Me Tángere ("touch me not") is José Rizal's 1887 Spanish-language novel of Crisóstomo Ibarra and friar abuse in the colonial Philippines, published in Berlin, banned in 1887, followed by El filibusterismo and required reading under RA 1425.
Normal People
Normal People is Sally Rooney's 2018 Faber novel about Connell and Marianne, Sligo teenagers whose relationship continues at Trinity College Dublin. It won the 2018 Costa Novel Award, was Booker-longlisted, and became a 2020 BBC/Hulu series.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is a novel by Jane Austen that satirizes Gothic fiction through Catherine Morland, a young reader of Gothic novels; written about 1798, it was published posthumously in 1817.
Nouveau roman
The nouveau roman, or new novel, is experimental French fiction that emerged in the 1950s, rejecting traditional plot, character psychology, and realism; writers include Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, and Claude Simon.
Novela de la Violencia
The novela de la Violencia is a body of Colombian novels from about 1948 to 1964 depicting the bipartisan political violence known as La Violencia.
Novela social
Novela social, also called realismo social, is the Spanish realist novel movement of the 1950s and early 1960s that documented social injustices under the Franco dictatorship.
Odia novel
The Odia novel is the tradition of book-length fiction in Odia, the language of Odisha, India, beginning with Fakir Mohan Senapati's 1902 Chha Mana Atha Guntha.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is Ocean Vuong's 2019 Penguin Press debut novel, a letter from queer Vietnamese American writer Little Dog to his illiterate mother, set in Hartford, Connecticut; NBA 2019 longlist, PEN/Faulkner finalist, A24 film directed by Levan Akin.
One Day (novel)
One Day is David Nicholls's 2009 third novel, revisiting Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew every 15 July (St Swithin's Day) for twenty years after their 1988 Edinburgh graduation. Bestseller, Galaxy Book of the Year 2010, adapted into a 2011 film and a 2024 Netflix series.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Один день Ивана Денисовича), originally titled Щ-854, is Solzhenitsyn's 1962 Novy Mir novella about prisoner Shukhov's single day in a Stalinist labor camp, based on the author's Ekibastuz imprisonment.
One Indian Girl
One Indian Girl is Chetan Bhagat's 2016 novel (Rupa, 280 pages) about Radhika Mehta, a Goldman Sachs investment banker facing an arranged marriage; his first female-narrated novel, a preorder record-breaker with mixed reviews.
Orbital (novel)
Orbital is Samantha Harvey's 2023 novel about six astronauts aboard the International Space Station over one day and sixteen orbits of Earth; it won the 2024 Booker Prize, the first winner set in space, at 136 pages the second-shortest winner.
Pachinko (novel)
Pachinko (파친코) is Min Jin Lee's 2017 National Book Award-finalist historical novel tracing four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910 to 1989, centered on Sunja and the Zainichi experience; adapted by Apple TV+ in 2022.
Palestinian novel
The Palestinian novel (الرواية الفلسطينية) is prose fiction by Palestinians, chiefly in Arabic, written since the early twentieth century inside Israel, the Occupied Territories, and the diaspora.
Palestinian short story
The Palestinian short story (القصة الفلسطينية القصيرة) is the body of short fiction written by Palestinian authors in Arabic, a genre that emerged in Palestine in the early twentieth century.
Passing (novel)
Passing (1929) is Nella Larsen's Harlem Renaissance novel about Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, light-skinned Black women navigating racial passing, desire, and identity; a landmark of African American, feminist, and queer literary study, adapted by Rebecca Hall in 2021.
Past Continuous
Past Continuous (Hebrew: Zikhron Devarim) is a 1977 novel by the Israeli author Yaakov Shabtai, his first and only completed one, following three friends in 1970s Tel Aviv.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo (1955) is Juan Rulfo's landmark Mexican novel, also known in English translation, in which Juan Preciado seeks his cacique father in the ghost town of Comala; its 68 fragmented, ghost-voiced sections made it a forerunner of the Latin American Boom.
People of the City
People of the City is the 1954 debut novel of Nigerian writer Cyprian Ekwensi, following crime reporter and dance-band leader Amusa Sango in a West African city identified as Lagos.