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Fêtes galantes
Fêtes galantes is an 1869 collection of 22 poems by the French poet Paul Verlaine, transposing Watteau's paintings of masked aristocrats and lovers into verse.
Feuilletonroman
Feuilletonroman, French roman-feuilleton, is a novel first published in installments in a newspaper's cultural section rather than as a book; it arose in the Parisian press of the 1830s and spread across Europe, peaking in 1884.
Feuillets d'Hypnos
Feuillets d'Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) is a 1946 collection of 237 short prose texts by the French poet René Char, written while he served in the French Resistance.
Fever House
Fever House, Keith Rosson's 2023 Random House horror-crime novel (448 pages), first of the Fever House Duology with The Devil by Name; Portland debt collectors find a severed hand inducing violent madness, drawing in the ARC agency, a captive angel, and an apocalypse.
Feyd-Rautha
Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the Baron's nephew and planned heir in Frank Herbert's 1965 Dune, is a gladiator-fighting rival to Paul Atreides, killed by Paul in the climactic duel; played by Sting in 1984 and Austin Butler in Dune: Part Two.
Fezleke
Fezleke, also known as Târîh-i Sagîr, is a Turkish chronicle of Ottoman history by Kâtib Çelebi that spans from 1592, concluding each year with biographies of prominent people.
Ficção científica brasileira
Ficção científica brasileira, meaning Brazilian science fiction, is the science fiction produced in Brazil since 1875, shaped by questions of national identity, modernization, and dictatorship.
Ficciones
Ficciones is a 1944 short story collection by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, published in Buenos Aires and the book that brought him international recognition.
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.
Fictional universe
Fictional universe: a coherent fictional setting with its own continuity; when multiple authors or media share it, it becomes a shared universe or shared world governed by a "bible", from Mugby Junction (1866) to Star Wars and Marvel.
Fictional universe of Harry Potter
Fictional universe of Harry Potter, also called the Wizarding World: J.K. Rowling's hidden magical society parallel to the Muggle world, governed by the 1692 Statute of Secrecy, spanning the 1926-1998 timeline, seven novels, films, and adaptations.
Fields and gardens poetry
Fields and gardens poetry (田园诗, tianyuan shi) is a classical Chinese genre whose subject is rural scenery and farm life, founded by the Eastern Jin poet Tao Yuanming.
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex
Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex (Польові дослідження з українського сексу) is a 1996 novel by the Ukrainian writer Oksana Zabuzhko and the first bestseller of independent Ukraine.
Fierceland
Fierceland is Omar Musa's second novel, winner of the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award ($60,000). It follows siblings Rozana and Harun returning to Malaysian Borneo to reckon with their palm-oil-baron father's legacy, told in a vernacular blending rap rhythms and Malay ghost storytelling.
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.
Fifth Business
Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies and the first volume of the Deptford Trilogy, narrated by retired schoolmaster Dunstan Ramsay.
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Fifth Chinese Daughter is a 1950 autobiography by Jade Snow Wong recounting her coming of age in San Francisco's Chinatown, and a bestseller that became a foundational work of Asian American literature.
Fifty Shades (film series)
Fifty Shades is the Universal Pictures erotic romantic drama trilogy (2015-2018) adapted from E. L. James's novels, starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, grossing about $1.32 billion worldwide despite negative reviews.
Fifty Shades (novel series)
Fifty Shades trilogy by E L James (Erika Leonard), erotic romance begun as Twilight fan fiction under Snowqueens Icedragon; published 2011–2012, over 150 million copies sold, three Christian Grey retellings and a billion-dollar film franchise.
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Darker is E L James's 2012 second novel in the Fifty Shades trilogy (also the 2017 James Foley film and the Christian-POV retelling Darker). Vintage, 538 pages; Ana and Christian reconcile in Seattle.
Fifty Shades Freed
Fifty Shades Freed is the 2012 third novel of E L James's Fifty Shades trilogy, following Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey into marriage; adapted into a 2018 James Foley film and retold from Christian's viewpoint in Freed (2021).
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic romance by E. L. James, begun as the Twilight fan fiction Master of the Universe; its trilogy of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey sold over 165 million copies and spawned a three-film franchise.
Fight Club (novel)
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 debut novel published by W. W. Norton, follows an insomniac narrator and his alter ego Tyler Durden; its Project Mayhem cult, unreliable-narrator twist, 1999 Fincher film, and Fight Club 2 comic sequel distinguish it.
Filocolo
Filocolo is a prose romance in five books by Giovanni Boccaccio, written in Naples between 1336 and 1338, and the first prose romance of Italian literature.
Filostrato
Il Filostrato, meaning "prostrated by love," is a narrative poem in nine parts by Giovanni Boccaccio, written around 1335 in ottava rima, best known as the principal source of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Final Crisis
Final Crisis is DC Comics' 2008 seven-issue crossover event written by Grant Morrison with J.G. Jones and Doug Mahnke, the third Crisis after Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis, in which Darkseid attacks the DC multiverse with the Anti-Life Equation.
Final del juego
Final del juego is the second short story collection by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, first published in 1956 and expanded in 1964 to eighteen stories.
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.
Finders Keepers (King novel)
Finders Keepers is Stephen King's 2015 Scribner crime thriller, second book of the Bill Hodges Trilogy, about Morris Bellamy's murder of novelist John Rothstein over Jimmy Gold notebooks, adapted as Mr. Mercedes season 3.
Fingersmith (novel)
Fingersmith is Sarah Waters's 2002 neo-Victorian novel of pickpockets, fraud, and lesbian love in 1862 London, shortlisted for the Booker and Orange prizes and adapted as the BBC miniseries Fingersmith and Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden.