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Siku ya Watenzi
Siku ya Watenzi, also published as Siku ya Watenzi Wote, is a Swahili-language novel by the Tanzanian writer Shaaban Robert, written before Tanganyikan independence and published after his death.
Sindhi novel
The Sindhi novel is long-form prose fiction in the Sindhi language, introduced by Mirza Kalich Beg, whose Zeenat (1890) is credited as the first original Sindhi novel.
Sindhi short story
The Sindhi short story (مختصر ڪهاڻي) is the principal prose fiction genre of the Sindhi language, begun in 1914 with stories by Lal Chand Amardinomal and Mirza Qaleich Beg.
Sky Full of Elephants
Sky Full of Elephants is Cebo Campbell's 2024 debut speculative novel (Simon & Schuster), set after every white American drowns; professor Charlie Brunton drives his biracial daughter Sidney south to Mobile, Alabama, exploring Black identity, trauma, and healing.
Song of Solomon (novel)
Toni Morrison's third novel, Song of Solomon (Knopf, 1977), follows Milkman Dead from Michigan to Virginia, using the flying-Africans folktale; it won the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Still Life (Winman novel)
Still Life is Sarah Winman's fourth novel (4th Estate, June 2021; Putnam, US, November 2021), following art historian Evelyn Skinner and soldier Ulysses Temper from 1944 Tuscany to postwar London and Florence and centered on the 1966 Arno flood and its Mud Angels.
Stone Blind
Stone Blind (2022) by Natalie Haynes is a Medusa-centered retelling of the Perseus myth, published by Mantle, longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction. Not the Olivia Gaines novel of the same name.
Sula (novel)
Sula is Toni Morrison's 1973 second novel (Knopf), following The Bluest Eye, about the friendship of Nel Wright and Sula Peace in the Black hilltop Bottom of Medallion, Ohio, where Sula's pariah status binds the community.
Swahili novel
The Swahili novel (riwaya) is extended fictional prose in the Swahili language, a form adopted from Western literature that flourished after the 1950s, especially in Tanzania and Kenya.
Tamil historical novel
The Tamil historical novel, or சரித்திர நாவல், is a novel built on historical people, events, and settings with invention added, a genre made famous by Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan.
Tamil novel
The Tamil novel (புதினம், pudhinam) is the prose fiction genre written in Tamil, adopted from Western literary formats in the nineteenth century and now a principal form of modern Tamil literature.
Tell Me Everything (novel)
Tell Me Everything (2024) is Elizabeth Strout's tenth novel, an Oprah's Book Club pick and Women's Prize 2025 shortlistee uniting Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess around a murder in Crosby, Maine.
Telugu novel
The Telugu novel (తెలుగు నవల) is the prose fiction genre written in Telugu, spoken mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, beginning with Kandukuri Veeresalingam's Rajasekhara Charitramu of 1880.
Telugu short story
The Telugu short story, or kathanika, is a prose fiction genre in Telugu that dates from 1910 and is credited with bringing the colloquial spoken language into print.
Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck
Tenggelamnya Kapal van der Wijck (Sinking of the Van der Wijck) is an Indonesian novel by Hamka, serialized in 1938, telling of a doomed love ended by rigid custom and a shipwreck.
Textual criticism
Textual criticism compares manuscript and printed witnesses to establish a text's authentic wording. Key approaches: eclecticism, stemmatics (Lachmann, recensio and emendatio), and copy-text editing; central to biblical and classical editing.
Thai novel
The Thai novel (นวนิยายไทย) is the long prose fiction tradition of Thailand, begun in the late nineteenth century through translations of Western and Chinese novels into Siamese.
The Afrikaans novel tradition
The Afrikaans novel tradition is long-form fiction in Afrikaans since the late nineteenth century, beginning with Di koningin fan Skeba (1898) and spanning farm, historical, crime, and romance genres.
The Art of Racing in the Rain
The Art of Racing in the Rain is Garth Stein's 2008 Harper novel narrated by Enzo, a dog hoping to be reborn as a man, telling race car driver Denny Swift's story; a New York Times bestseller for 156 weeks, adapted into a 2019 film.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin is Margaret Atwood's 2000 novel, published by Bloomsbury, that won the Booker Prize 2000, making her the first Canadian woman to win; it layers Iris Chase's memoir with a posthumous novella and Zycron science fiction.
The Blue Umbrella
The Blue Umbrella (Ruskin Bond, 1974) is a children's novella set in the Garhwal Himalayas about Binya, whose prized blue umbrella drives shopkeeper Ram Bharosa to theft and the village to ostracism; adapted by Vishal Bhardwaj into a 2005 film that won the 2007 National Film Award for Best Children's Film.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye is the 1970 first novel by Toni Morrison, following Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl in Lorain, Ohio, who longs for blue eyes.
The Book of Longings
The Book of Longings is Sue Monk Kidd's 2020 historical novel imagining Ana, daughter of Herod Antipas's head scribe, as the wife of Jesus. A NYT bestseller translated into 17 languages, optioned for a six-part TV series.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (La maravillosa vida breve de Óscar Wao), Junot Díaz's 2007 debut novel from Riverhead Books, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize; narrated by Yunior, it follows cursed Dominican-American Oscar de León across the Trujillo era and diaspora.
The Camp of the Saints
The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des saints) is Jean Raspail's 1973 French dystopian novel about a million Indian migrants landing in France and Western collapse; condemned as racist, it became a far-right reference cited by Le Pen, Bannon, Miller, and Orbán.
The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy (2012) is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, set in Pagford, where councillor Barry Fairbrother's death sparks a parish election over the Fields estate; adapted by BBC/HBO in 2015.
The Chosen (Potok novel)
The Chosen, Chaim Potok's 1967 debut novel published by Simon & Schuster, follows Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders, friends from Orthodox and Hasidic worlds in WWII-era Brooklyn; it sold 3.4 million copies, was a 1968 National Book Award finalist, and inspired a 1981 film.
The Club Dumas
The Club Dumas (El club Dumas o La sombra de Richelieu) is Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 literary mystery about book hunter Lucas Corso, a Three Musketeers manuscript, and a satanic 17th-century grimoire; adapted as Polanski's 1999 film The Ninth Gate.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel about Celie, a Black woman in rural Georgia, told through letters to God and her sister Nettie; it won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award and spawned film and stage adaptations.
The Corrections
The Corrections is Jonathan Franzen's third novel, published September 4, 2001, about the Lambert family of St. Jude; it won the 2001 National Book Award, sparked the Oprah's Book Club controversy, and is being adapted by Netflix with Meryl Streep.