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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce's final novel, published 4 May 1939 after seventeen years as "Work in Progress". Written in multilingual dream language about HCE's night-dream, structured on Vico's cycles, 628 pages, ending mid-sentence.
Fire & Blood (novel)
Fire & Blood (2018) by George R. R. Martin is the first of two planned fictional history volumes of House Targaryen, written as the chronicle of Archmaester Gyldayn, covering Aegon's Conquest through the regency of Aegon III; source of HBO's House of the Dragon.
Fire and Ice (poem)
Fire and Ice is a nine-line 1920 Robert Frost poem, published in Harper's Magazine and collected in New Hampshire (1923), equating fire with desire and ice with hate as equally world-ending forces.
Fire in the Steppe
Fire in the Steppe (Polish: Pan Wołodyjowski) is a historical novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, serialized in 1887–1888 and the third and final volume of his Trilogy, also translated as Pan Michael.
Firefly (G.I. Joe)
Firefly is the Cobra saboteur of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, a faceless explosives and demolition expert from Hasbro's 1984 toy wave and Marvel comic #24; known for a classified identity, Swiss-bank fees, the 1992 Red Ninja Warlord retcon in #126, and later continuities from Sigma 6 to Image/Skybound silent missions.
Firefly Wedding
Firefly Wedding (ホタルの嫁入り, Hotaru no Yomeiri) is a Meiji-era josei romance-suspense manga by Oreco Tachibana, serialized on Shogakukan's MangaONE from January 2023, about noblewoman Satoko Kirigaya proposing to her assassin Shinpei Gotō; adapted into a 2026 david production anime.
First Blood (novel)
First Blood is David Morrell's 1972 debut novel introducing John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran fighting Kentucky police chief Wilfred Teasle; Rambo dies at the end, unlike the 1982 Stallone film it inspired.
First Dream
First Dream (Primero sueño, also El Sueño) is a long philosophical poem by the New Spanish nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, narrating the soul's nocturnal attempt to comprehend the universe.
First-person narrative
First-person narrative: storytelling mode in which a narrator within the story uses I or we; covers protagonist and peripheral narrators, focalization, Booth's unreliable narrator, history, reader effects, and journalism.
Fishke the Lame
Fishke the Lame (Yiddish: Fishke der krumer) is an 1869 novel by Mendele Moykher-Sforim, a landmark of modern Yiddish fiction set among Jewish beggars and paupers.
Five Bells
"Five Bells" is a 1939 meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor, an elegy for his friend Joe Lynch, who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927.
Five Days at Memorial
Five Days at Memorial is Sheri Fink's 2013 Crown investigative nonfiction book on patient deaths and triage at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina, based on her Pulitzer-winning 2009 ProPublica/New York Times Magazine article, adapted as a 2022 Apple TV+ series.
Five Great Epics
The Five Great Epics are five Tamil epic poems: Cilappatikāram, Manimekalai, Cīvaka Cintāmaṇi, Valayapathi, and Kundalakesi, mostly by Jain and Buddhist poets; two survive only in fragments.
Five Little Pigs
Five Little Pigs (Murder in Retrospect) is Agatha Christie's 1942 Hercule Poirot novel in which Poirot reopens the sixteen-year-old poisoning case of painter Amyas Crale via five suspects' contradictory accounts.
Five Point Someone
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT! is Chetan Bhagat's 2004 debut novel about three underperforming IIT Delhi students, Hari, Alok, and Ryan; it sold over a million copies and was adapted into the film 3 Idiots.
Five Survive
Five Survive is a 2022 standalone YA thriller by Holly Jackson: six friends on a spring break RV trip are trapped by a sniper demanding a secret, over eight real-time hours, a #1 NYT bestseller.
Fix-up
Fix-up (fix-up novel): a novel assembled from previously published short stories or novellas, linked with new material; term coined by A.E. van Vogt, common in science fiction, exemplified by I, Robot and The Martian Chronicles.
Flamenca
Flamenca is an anonymous 13th-century Old Occitan romance of about 8,095 lines about a wife imprisoned by her jealous husband and rescued by a knight.
Flâneur
Flâneur: the idly strolling urban observer of nineteenth-century Paris, from the French flâner; first described in an 1806 pamphlet, defined by Baudelaire in 1863, theorized by Walter Benjamin, with the female counterpart flâneuse.
Flash Boys
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is Michael Lewis's 2014 Norton book (274 pp.) arguing the US stock market was rigged by high-frequency traders; protagonist Brad Katsuyama built IEX. It triggered an FBI probe, Virtu's delayed IPO, SEC dark-pool investigations, and the Flash Boys Case, though later research found no evidence for its most extreme readings.
Flash fiction
Flash fiction, also called microfiction or sudden fiction, is very short complete fiction, typically under 1,000 words, coined as a term in the mid-1990s and defined by compression, implication, and a mobilized story world.
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a 1934 Alex Raymond science fiction comic strip for King Features, created to rival Buck Rogers, following Flash, Dale Arden, and Dr. Zarkov against Ming the Merciless on Mongo; famous for its Universal serials and Star Wars influence.
Flashback (narrative)
Flashback (analepsis) is a narrative device interrupting chronology to depict past events, first used in film with Zecca's Histoire d'un crime (1901); the word arose in film criticism around 1916 and is analyzed by Genette and Turim.
Flashlight (novel)
Flashlight is Susan Choi's sixth novel (FSG, June 3, 2025), about Louisa, whose Korean Japanese father Serk disappears on a Japanese beach and is kidnapped to North Korea; Booker 2025 shortlist, National Book Award longlist, 2026 Chautauqua Prize winner.
Flashpoint (comics)
Flashpoint is DC Comics' 2011 five-issue miniseries by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert, in which Barry Allen wakes in an altered timeline where his mother lives and Aquaman and Wonder Woman wage war; it launched the New 52 reboot.
Flat Stanley
Flat Stanley, Jeff Brown's 1964 Harper & Row children's series about Stanley Lambchop, a boy flattened by a bulletin board and mailed in an envelope; origin of the 1994 Flat Stanley school exchange project.
Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott's 1884 satirical novella published as "A Square", set in a two-dimensional world of ranked polygons; satire of Victorian class and gender plus an introduction to higher dimensions.
Flavian epic
Flavian epic is the Latin epic poetry written at Rome during the Flavian dynasty (69–96 CE): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica, Statius' Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus' Punica.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble is Taffy Brodesser-Akner's 2019 debut novel about divorced hepatologist Toby Fleishman, whose ex-wife Rachel disappears; narrated by Libby Epstein, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and adapted into FX's 2022 series.
Flesh (Szalay novel)
Flesh is David Szalay's sixth novel, winner of the 2025 Booker Prize. It follows István, a taciturn Hungarian man, from adolescence through Iraq service, London wealth, and decline, in spare prose marked by repeated 'OK' replies.