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Flipped (2010 film)

Flipped is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Rob Reiner, in which two eighth graders see each other differently, based on Wendelin Van Draanen's novel.

Florante at Laura

Florante at Laura (Pinagdaanang Buhay ni Florante at ni Laura sa Kahariang Albania) is an 1838 Tagalog awit by Francisco Balagtas, 399 dodecasyllabic quatrains, written in prison, never out of print, and read as veiled anti-colonial protest.

Flori de mucigai

Flori de mucigai is a 1931 volume of 25 poems by Romanian writer Tudor Arghezi, drawn from his detention at Văcărești prison and regarded as founding the aesthetics of ugliness in Romanian poetry.

Flower and Asura (花は咲く、修羅の如く)

Flower and Asura (花は咲く、修羅の如く, Hanashura) is a seinen manga by Ayano Takeda and Musshu, serialized in Ultra Jump since 2021, about a broadcasting club aiming at the NHK recitation competition; Studio Bind's 12-episode anime aired January–March 2025.

Flowers in the Attic

Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews's 1979 Gothic debut, imprisons the Dollanganger children in their grandparents' attic; over 40 million copies sold, Dollanganger series, 1987 and 2014 film adaptations.

Flowers in the Mirror

Jinghua Yuan, also known as Flowers in the Mirror, is a Qing dynasty novel by Li Ruzhen, first printed in 1818, about banished flower fairies reincarnated as talented women.

Flucht und Verwandlung

Flucht und Verwandlung (Flight and Metamorphosis) is a 1959 poetry collection by Nelly Sachs, her fourth, written in Swedish exile and known for containing no commas; Sachs won the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Flyting

Flyting: medieval poetic insult duel, from Old Norse senna and Lokasenna to Scottish makars (Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, 1508), related to modern rap battle; distinct from Turkish karşılaşma.

Fogo Morto

Fogo Morto is a 1943 regionalist novel by Brazilian writer José Lins do Rego, considered his masterpiece and the culminating work of his Sugar-Cane Cycle.

Folhas Caídas

Folhas Caídas ("Fallen Leaves") is a collection of lyric poems by the Portuguese Romantic writer Almeida Garrett, published anonymously in 1853 and reflecting his love affair with Rosa Montufar.

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence is a 1996 biographical book by Doris Pilkington, chronicling three Aboriginal girls who escaped a Western Australian settlement in 1931 as part of the Stolen Generations.

Following the Equator

Following the Equator is Mark Twain's 1897 travel book, his last, recording his 1895 and 1896 lecture tour through the British Empire; it was published in Britain as More Tramps Abroad.

Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (食戟のソーマ)

Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (食戟のソーマ) is a cooking-battle manga by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2012–2019 (36 volumes), about Soma Yukihira at Totsuki Academy, with a 5-season, 86-episode anime.

Fool Me Once (Coben novel)

Fool Me Once is Harlan Coben's 2016 standalone thriller, the first Sami Kierce book, about widowed pilot Maya Stern whose nanny cam shows her murdered husband Joe alive; adapted as the 2024 Netflix series with Michelle Keegan.

Fool Me Once (TV series)

Fool Me Once is a 2024 British thriller limited series adapted by Danny Brocklehurst from Harlan Coben's novel, starring Michelle Keegan and released on Netflix on January 1, 2024.

Fools and Other Stories

Fools and Other Stories is a 1983 collection of five short stories by the South African writer Njabulo S. Ndebele, depicting childhood and township life under apartheid.

Fools Crow

Fools Crow is a 1986 historical novel by Native American writer James Welch, following a young Blackfeet man in Montana as white settlement closes in.

Football (book)

Football is a 2026 book of eleven essays on American football by cultural critic Chuck Klosterman, published by Penguin Press and arguing the sport's cultural dominance cannot last.

Footprints (poem)

"Footprints in the Sand" is a Christian allegorical poem about the Lord carrying the speaker through hardship. Authorship is disputed among Mary Stevenson (1936), Burrell Webb (1958), Carolyn Carty (1963), and Margaret Fishback Powers (1964), with litigation in 2008.

For Bread Alone

For Bread Alone (Arabic: al-Khubz al-ḥāfī, "Bare Bread") is an autobiographical novel by Mohamed Choukri recounting hunger and street life in Tangier and a turn toward literacy.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

Six-word story implying a dead child through an unused-item classified ad, the canonical flash-fiction example. Often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, but the attribution is unsupported; precursors appeared in 1906-1927 print, and the anecdote traces to de Groot's 1989 play Papa.

For the Term of His Natural Life

For the Term of His Natural Life is an 1874 Australian novel by Marcus Clarke about a gentleman wrongly transported to Van Diemen's Land's penal colonies.

For the Union Dead

"For the Union Dead" is a free-verse poem by Robert Lowell, written for the 1960 Boston Arts Festival and published in 1964 as the title poem of his collection.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls is Ernest Hemingway's 1940 Spanish Civil War novel (Scribner's), following American volunteer Robert Jordan on a bridge-blowing mission, titled from John Donne's meditation.

Force Works

Force Works, Marvel Comics superhero team debuting in Force Works #1 (July 1994) by Abnett and Lanning; a proactive Avengers West Coast offshoot led by Iron Man and Scarlet Witch, running 22 issues to 1996.

Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing is a literary device in which writers plant hints or warnings about later plot developments, directly or indirectly. Covers Chekhov's gun, red herrings, flash-forward contrast, and examples from Romeo and Juliet and Frankenstein.

Forest of a Thousand Daemons

Forest of a Thousand Daemons, originally Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀, is a fantasy novel by Nigeria's D. O. Fagunwa, the first written in Yoruba.

Forever... (novel)

Forever... is Judy Blume's 1975 young adult novel about high school seniors Katherine and Michael, who decide together to have sex. Known for its frankness, it ranks among the most challenged US books and inspired Netflix's 2025 series.

Formação da Literatura Brasileira

Formação da Literatura Brasileira: momentos decisivos is a 1959 two-volume work of literary history by the Brazilian critic and sociologist Antonio Candido, a foundational text of Brazilian literary historiography.

Forrest Gump (novel)

Forrest Gump is a 1986 comic novel by the American writer Winston Groom, narrated by a slow-witted Alabama man who stumbles through football, Vietnam, wrestling, and space flight.