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Freak the Mighty
Freak the Mighty, also known through its film adaptation The Mighty, is Rodman Philbrick's 1993 young adult novel about Maxwell Kane and Kevin "Freak" Avery, two bullied outcasts whose friendship ends with Freak's death from Morquio syndrome.
Fred and George Weasley
Fred and George Weasley are fictional identical twin brothers and Ron Weasley's older brothers in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, proprietors of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes.
Frederick Chilton
Dr. Frederick Chilton is the asylum administrator who oversees Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris's novels, played by Anthony Heald in the 1991 film and by Raúl Esparza in NBC's Hannibal, where he is maimed every season.
Frederick Forsyth
Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025), British thriller writer of The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, and The Dogs of War; former RAF pilot, Reuters and BBC journalist, and unpaid MI6 courier; over 75 million books sold.
Fremen
The Fremen are the desert-dwelling people of Arrakis in Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), organized in sietches led by a Naib, with blue 'Eyes of Ibad', stillsuits, Zensunni origins, Arabic-inspired culture, and a terraforming dream.
French Stories
French Stories (Furansu monogatari, ふらんす物語) is a 1909 short story collection by Japanese writer Nagai Kafū, drawn from his stay in France and banned by censors; it followed his American Stories.
Freshwater
Freshwater is the 2018 debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi, following Ada, a young Nigerian woman born as an ogbanje, an Igbo spirit child, who carries multiple selves within her.
Fretful Sleepers
"Fretful Sleepers" is a 1952 essay by New Zealand writer Bill Pearson, published in Landfall, criticizing conformity, puritanism, and anti-intellectualism in mid-twentieth-century New Zealand culture.
Friday (Robinson Crusoe)
Friday is the Indigenous servant Crusoe rescues and names in Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe; later reimagined as Black onstage, reworked by Tournier and Coetzee, and used in economics as Crusoe's contract partner.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, also called Fried Green Tomatoes, is Fannie Flagg's 1987 Random House novel set in Whistle Stop, Alabama, where Idgie and Ruth run a cafe and live as a lesbian couple, framed by Ninny Threadgoode's tales to Evelyn Couch.
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing is a memoir by actor Matthew Perry. It details his career on the sitcom Friends and his lifelong battle with addiction.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Famous opening line of Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599), Act 3 Scene 2; a metonymic request for attention that echoes Brutus's speech and became an English idiom meaning "everyone, listen to me."
Frieren (フリーレン) (character)
Frieren (フリーレン) is the elf mage protagonist of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End by Yamada and Abe; a 1,000-year-old former hero-party member who journeys to understand humans after Himmel's death, known as 'Frieren the Slayer' for mana concealment.
Frigate Pallada
Frigate Pallada (Фрегат «Паллада») is a book of travel sketches by the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, based on his 1852–1854 circumnavigation aboard the frigate Pallada.
Frithiofs saga
Frithiofs saga is a Swedish narrative poem by the poet and bishop Esaias Tegnér, published complete in 1825, retelling a medieval Icelandic saga of Frithiof and Ingeborg in varied verse forms.
Fritz the Cat
Fritz the Cat (1972) is Ralph Bakshi's adult animated comedy adapted from Robert Crumb's underground comic, the first animated feature rated X by the MPAA, grossing $30 million worldwide by 1973.
Frodo Baggins
Frodo Baggins, in Tolkien's invented language Maura Labingi, is the hobbit protagonist of The Lord of the Rings who bears the One Ring to its destruction.
Frog and Toad
Frog and Toad are Arnold Lobel's anthropomorphic amphibian friends from his 1970–1979 Harper & Row four-book I Can Read series, honored with Caldecott and Newbery awards and adapted into a Tony-nominated Broadway musical and an Apple TV+ animated series.
From a Buick 8
From a Buick 8 is Stephen King's 2002 Scribner supernatural horror novel about a Buick Roadmaster locked in Shed B at a Pennsylvania State Police barracks, compared with Christine and long unadapted despite attempts by Hooper, Romero, and Bell.
From Bureaucrat to Villainess
From Bureaucrat to Villainess (Akuyaku Reijou Tensei Oji-san, 悪役令嬢転生おじさん) is a Michiro Ueyama manga and 2025 Ajia-do anime in which a 52-year-old bureaucrat is reincarnated as otome-game villainess Grace Auvergne.
From Hell
From Hell is a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, serialized 1989–96 and collected 1999, retelling the Jack the Ripper murders as an occult Masonic conspiracy by royal physician William Gull, based on Stephen Knight's The Final Solution.
From Here to the Great Unknown
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir, by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough, published 8 October 2024 (Random House/Macmillan, 304 pages). Posthumous memoir completed from Lisa Marie Presley's tapes by her daughter after her January 2023 death; NYT bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2024 pick.
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になる)
From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman (片田舎のおっさん、剣聖になる) is a Japanese fantasy series by Shigeru Sagazaki about Beryl Gardenant, an unaware-strong rural sword instructor. Web novel 2020, SQEX Novel books, Koto manga, TV anime from April 2025 with seasons 2 (2026) and 3 announced.
From Overshadowed to Overpowered
From Overshadowed to Overpowered (落第賢者の学院無双), also Rakudai Kenja no Gakuin Musou, is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Arata Shiraishi with manga and a 2026 EMT Squared anime about the talentless sage Ephtal reincarnated 400 years later into a world of declined magic.
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler is E. L. Konigsburg's 1967 children's novel, Newbery Medal winner 1968, about Claudia and Jamie Kincaid secretly living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and solving a Michelangelo statue mystery.
From the New World (新世界より) (novel)
From the New World (新世界より) is Yusuke Kishi's 2008 dystopian science fiction novel, winner of the 29th Japan SF Grand Prize, set in Kamisu 66 a thousand years in the future and adapted into an anime and manga.
From the Other Shore
From the Other Shore (С того берега) is a collection of essays and dialogues by Alexander Herzen analyzing the failure of the European revolutions of 1848.
Frost Leaves Red as February Flowers
Frost Leaves Red as February Flowers (霜叶红似二月花) is an unfinished novel by the Chinese writer Mao Dun, written in Guilin in 1942 and published in 1943.
Frost, Red Nose
Frost, Red Nose (Мороз, Красный нос) is a narrative poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1862–1863 about a peasant widow who freezes in a winter forest.
Froth on the Daydream
Froth on the Daydream (L'Écume des jours; also Foam of the Daze, Mood Indigo) is Boris Vian's 1947 French surrealist jazz-inflected love-tragedy novel, a 1947 commercial failure that became a cult classic, No. 10 in Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, adapted by Michel Gondry in 2013.