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The Floating City
The Floating City (浮城志异) is a 1986 short story by Hong Kong writer Xi Xi, imagining Hong Kong as a city suspended in midair after the 1997 handover decision.
The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" is a lyric poem by Dylan Thomas, written in 1933 at age nineteen and first collected in his debut volume Eighteen Poems.
The Forest of the Hanged
The Forest of the Hanged (Pădurea spânzuraților) is a 1922 war and psychological-analysis novel by Romanian writer Liviu Rebreanu, following a Romanian officer forced to fight for Austria-Hungary.
The Forest Song
The Forest Song (Лісова пісня) is a 1911 dramatic poem in verse by the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka, her most acclaimed play, rooted in Volhynian forest folklore.
The Forever War
The Forever War is a 1975 military science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman following soldier William Mandella through an interstellar war, winning the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.
The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World
Suterare Seijo no Isekai Gohantabi (The Forsaken Saintess and Her Foodie Roadtrip in Another World) is a Japanese isekai light novel by Yoneori, illustrated by Akane Nitou, published by Kadokawa BOOKS since 2020, with a Nana Kogami manga and a 2026 EMT Squared anime.
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's trilogy of novels (The Man of Property, In Chancery, To Let, with two interludes, collected 1922) about the possessive upper-middle-class Forsyte family, 1880s–1920s; it won Galsworthy the Nobel Prize and was famously adapted by the BBC in 1967.
The Fort Bragg Cartel
The Fort Bragg Cartel is Seth Harp's 2025 Viking investigative book on drug trafficking, murders, and cover-ups around Fort Bragg, anchored by the unsolved December 2020 killings of Delta Force soldier Billy Lavigne and quartermaster Timothy Dumas.
The Fortnight in September
The Fortnight in September is R.C. Sherriff's 1931 first novel about the Stevens family's annual two-week holiday in Bognor Regis; praised by the Spectator, revived by Persephone and Scribner, recommended by Kazuo Ishiguro.
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a trilogy by Australian writer Henry Handel Richardson, published between 1917 and 1929, following an Irish-born doctor ruined after the gold rush.
The Fortunes of Wangrin
The Fortunes of Wangrin is a 1973 work by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ recounting the rise and fall of a cunning African interpreter in French colonial West Africa.
The Forty Rules of Love
The Forty Rules of Love (Turkish: Aşk) is a 2009 novel by Elif Shafak interweaving Rumi's meeting with Shams of Tabriz with a modern American woman's story.
The Foundation Pit
The Foundation Pit (Kotlovan, Котлован) is a novella by Soviet writer Andrei Platonov, written in 1929–1930, following diggers building a "common proletarian home" during collectivization.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand following Howard Roark, a fiercely individualist architect, and the book that introduced her philosophy of objectivism.
The Fox and the Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes is an Aesop fable in which a fox cannot reach high grapes and calls them sour, origin of the idiom "sour grapes," retold by Phaedrus, Babrius, and La Fontaine (III.11), and studied as adaptive preferences.
The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below
The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below (El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo) is the final, unfinished 1971 novel of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles's 1969 postmodern Victorian novel about Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff in Lyme Regis, known for its intrusive narrator and alternative endings; adapted by Karel Reisz and Harold Pinter in 1981 with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
The Frontier in American History
The Frontier in American History is a 1920 collection of essays by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, published by Henry Holt and Company, that advances his frontier thesis.
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects (領民0人スタートの辺境領主様)
Japanese frontier-development fantasy by Fuurō; web novel from January 2018 on Shōsetsuka ni Narō, book series from 2018, manga by Yumbo, and 2026 TV anime; hero Dias builds a village from an empty grassland with the oni girl Arnar.
The Frozen River
The Frozen River is Ariel Lawhon's 2023 Doubleday historical mystery, set in 1789 Hallowell, Maine, where midwife Martha Ballard investigates a body found in the frozen Kennebec River, inspired by Ballard's real diary.
The Fruit of Evolution
The Fruit of Evolution (Shinka no Mi) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Miku about a bullied student who gains power by eating magical fruit in another world.
The Fruit of Grisaia (グリザイアの果実)
The Fruit of Grisaia (グリザイアの果実) is a 2011 Japanese visual novel by Frontwing, first of the Grisaia trilogy, set at Mihama Academy with protagonist Yuuji Kazami and five heroines; adapted into a 2014 8-Bit anime and expanded with Phantom Trigger and new 2026 projects.
The Future of Culture in Egypt
The Future of Culture in Egypt (مستقبل الثقافة في مصر) is a 1938 book by Taha Hussein arguing that Egypt belongs culturally to the Mediterranean.
The Gamekeeper's Wife
The Gamekeeper's Wife (Hájnikova žena) is a lyrical-epic narrative poem by the Slovak poet Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, written from 1883 to 1886 and regarded as the culminating work of his epic writing.
The Garden of Eden (novel)
The Garden of Eden is Ernest Hemingway's last uncompleted novel, published posthumously by Scribner's in 1986, edited by Tom Jenks from over 2,000 manuscript pages into 247. It follows David Bourne, Catherine, and Marita in a Côte d'Azur love triangle exploring gender and androgyny.
The Garden of Forking Paths
The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) is Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 short story, collected in Ficciones (1944), in which a German spy's murder encodes a town name and a novel is a labyrinth of branching time.
The Garden of Sinners
The Garden of Sinners (空の境界, Kara no Kyōkai) is Kinoko Nasu's 1998 dark urban-fantasy novel series with Takashi Takeuchi illustrations, adapted by ufotable into seven theatrical films from December 2007, starring Shiki Ryōgi and her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
The Garden of the Prophet
The Garden of the Prophet is a posthumous 1933 prose poetry book by Kahlil Gibran, the second volume of the trilogy begun by The Prophet (1923).
The Garden Party (short story)
"The Garden Party" is a 1922 modernist short story by Katherine Mansfield, first serialized in the Westminster Gazette and collected in The Garden Party and Other Stories. Set in Wellington, New Zealand, it follows Laura Sheridan, whose family's party proceeds despite a working-class neighbor's death.
The Gardens of Silihdar
The Gardens of Silihdar (Armenian: Silihdari bardeznerě) is an autobiographical novel by the Western Armenian writer Zabel Yesayan, a memoir of her childhood in the Silihdar quarter of Constantinople, first published in 1935.