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- Genre: Middle-Grade Novel
- Title: Boy Overboard
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Afghanistan and a boat en route to Australia
- Character: Jamal. Description:
- Character: Bibi. Description:
- Character: Mom. Description:
- Character: Dad. Description:
- Character: Omar/The Boy. Description:
- Character... | 1,581 |
- Genre: Dystopian fiction
- Title: Brave New World
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: London and New Mexico, under the fictional World State government
- Character: Bernard Marx. Description: Bernard is an Alpha citizen who, by some mischance, is physically much smaller than Alphas are supposed to be. Bernard's ... | 8,287 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Brokeback Mountain
- Point of view: Third person, mostly limited to Ennis
- Setting: Wyoming, middle-to-late twentieth century
- Character: Ennis del Mar. Description: Ennis was born in Wyoming, near the Utah border, around the time of World War II. Raised on a small ranch, his parents die... | 6,504 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Bullet in the Brain
- Point of view: Third person limited
- Setting: The story takes place in an unnamed bank, just before closing time. A key scene from the story also takes place at a summertime baseball game.
- Character: Anders. Description: Anders is a jaded, cynical book critic, and ... | 5,255 |
- Genre: Short story, Speculative fiction, Post-apocalyptic fiction
- Title: By the Waters of Babylon
- Point of view: First person limited
- Setting: Upstate New York and New York City (referred to as the "Place of the Gods" or "newyork") in a post-apocalyptic, post-technological world.
- Character: John. Description:... | 4,630 |
- Genre: Realistic Fiction, Short Story
- Title: Cake
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: An Australian suburb and office
- Character: Liz. Description: The protagonist of the story, Liz is a new mother who returns to work at her office 18 months after giving birth to her son, Daniel. She feels extremely anxious a... | 5,954 |
- Genre: Satirical Novel / Philosophical Novel / Coming-of-Age Novel / Picaresque
- Title: Candide
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Germany, Portugal, Spain, Buenos Aires, Paraguay, France, Venice, and Constantinople.
- Character: Candide. Description: The protagonist of Candide. He is a simple man w... | 3,913 |
- Genre: Young Adult Novel, Fictionalized Biography, Historical Fiction, Bildungsroman
- Title: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Salem, Massachusetts; various late 18th- and early 19th-century trade routes
- Character: Nat Bowditch. Description: Nathaniel Bowditch is the fourth child of M... | 7,868 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Cat in the Rain
- Point of view: Third person narrator
- Setting: Italy
- Character: The American Wife. Description: The story's protagonist is a nameless young American woman on holiday in Italy with her husband, George. She is attractive, with short boyish hair. She is clearly unhappy, b... | 6,976 |
- Genre: postmodernism; World War II novel; tragicomic novel
- Title: Catch-22
- Point of view: third-person omniscient
- Setting: Pianosa, off the Italian coast, near the end of World War II
- Character: John "Yo-Yo" Yossarian. Description: The novel's protagonist, Yossarian is a captain in the US Army Air Force who b... | 5,337 |
- Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
- Title: Catching Fire
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Katniss Everdeen. Description: The protagonist of Catching Fire, Katniss is an enormously brave and resourceful young woman who struggles with great challenges despite her age. She is the victor of the Hunger... | 9,171 |
- Genre: Fiction (Short Story)
- Title: Cathedral
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: A couple's home in Connecticut
- Character: Narrator. Description: The protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" is a middle-aged unnamed man. Through interior monologue, the narrator shows himself to be cynical an... | 4,724 |
- Genre: Fiction, Poetry, Native American Literature
- Title: Ceremony
- Point of view: 3rd person omniscient.
- Setting: American Southwest, New Mexico
- Character: Tayo. Description: A Laguna Pueblo man with a white father, Tayo returns to the Laguna reservation after World War II sick in mind and body after the trau... | 8,637 |
- Genre: Young adult fiction; coming-of-age tale
- Title: Charlotte’s Web
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Rural America
- Character: Wilbur. Description: Wilbur the pig is the novel's central protagonist. The runt of his spring litter, Wilbur is rescued from slaughter when Fern Arable insists that her father l... | 8,018 |
- Genre: Short story, war fiction, horror fiction
- Title: Chickamauga
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A forest and a plantation in northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
- Character: The Child. Description: The story's protagonist is a six-year old, deaf-mute, white child growing up on a slavehol... | 6,393 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Chike’s School Days
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A small Igbo village in in early 20th-century colonial Nigeria
- Character: Chike. Description: The main character of the story, Chike is a young boy who is just at the age to start school. He is the firstborn son to his parents,... | 6,501 |
- Genre: Detective/Crime Novel, Magical Realism
- Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: The Caribbean coast of Colombia
- Character: Santiago Nasar. Description: Santiago Nasar is the protagonist of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the hapless victim of a brutal murder. He is the c... | 6,855 |
- Genre: Coming of Age/Bildungsroman; Historical Fiction; Black Comedy
- Title: City of Thieves
- Point of view: Primarily third person, though David and Lev occasionally address the reader in second person
- Setting: Leningrad (modern-day St. Petersburg) Russia and surrounding areas, January 1942; Sarasota, FL, mid-20... | 7,730 |
- Genre: Postcolonialism, Historical Fiction
- Title: Civil Peace
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Primarily Enugu, a large city in southern Nigeria that was part of the Biafran secessionist state, around 1970-1971 after the end of the Nigerian Civil War.
- Character: Jonathan Iwegbu. Description: Th... | 4,973 |
- Genre: Young Adult Verse Novel
- Title: Clap When You Land
- Point of view: First person, told alternately from Camino and Yahaira's perspectives
- Setting: New York City and the Dominican Republic
- Character: Camino Rios. Description: One of the novel's protagonists, Camino is a Dominican teenager who lives in a po... | 8,466 |
- Genre: Short story; modernism; realism; symbolism
- Title: Clay
- Point of view: Third person limited, with use of free indirect discourse (i.e., Joyce narrates from Maria's perspective)
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Maria. Description: Maria, the protagonist of "Clay," is an unmarried middle-aged woman wor... | 5,895 |
- Genre: Drama, Magical Realism
- Title: Cloudstreet
- Point of view: Third Person (later revealed to be First Person, narrated by Fish)
- Setting: Western Australia, 1940s–1960s
- Character: Oriel Lamb. Description: Oriel is the matriarch of the massive Lamb family. She's Lester Lamb's wife and Quick, Fish, Lon, Hatti... | 8,814 |
- Genre: Historical fiction, young adult fiction
- Title: Code Talker
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: Navajo nation (New Mexico), the South Pacific
- Character: Ned Begay. Description: Ned is a young Navajo man who is roughly 15 years old when World War II starts. Ned's birth name is Kii Yázhí. His family live... | 7,740 |
- Genre: Historical novel, romance, "two-plot" novel
- Title: Cold Mountain
- Point of view: Point of View:Mostly third-person limited. The novel alternates between the points of view of Ada and Inman, the two protagonists
- Setting: Setting:The American South, 1860s
- Character: Inman. Description: One of the two prot... | 8,299 |
- Genre: Realism
- Title: Counterparts
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Farrington. Description: Farrington is the protagonist of the story and Mr. Alleyne's employee. He works in a legal office as a copy clerk, meaning he copies legal contracts by hand (in Ireland in the early 1900... | 5,845 |
- Genre: Novel, Social Satire
- Title: Crazy Rich Asians
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Primarily Singapore, though characters also visit Malaysia, Indonesia, Paris, and several American cities
- Character: Rachel Chu. Description:
- Character: Nicholas Young. Description:
- Character: Eleanor Young. Descri... | 2,418 |
- Genre: Psychological realism
- Title: Crime and Punishment
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: St. Petersburg, Russia; 1860s
- Character: Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Description: The novel's protagonist, Raskolnikov murders Lizaveta and the old woman and spends the rest of the book coming to terms ... | 5,427 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Cross-Country
- Point of view: Point of View: First and Second Person
- Setting: Australia
- Character: Rebecca. Description: Rebecca is the protagonist and narrator of "Cross-Country." She spends most of the story experiencing various stages of grief about the recent end of her relations... | 6,274 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Cry, the Beloved Country
- Point of view: Some sections are from the third-person POV of Stephen Kumalo, some from the third-person POV of James Jarvis, and still others from a nameless narrator.
- Setting: Johannesburg & Ndotsheni, South Africa
- Character: Stephen Kumalo. Description: A black ... | 3,972 |
- Genre: Novella
- Title: Daisy Miller
- Point of view: The novella, written in the third person, distinguishes the narrator from Winterbourne, although it cleaves closely to Winterbourne's perspective. The narrator also often adopts a character's point of view and speaking style without directly quoting him or her, le... | 5,752 |
- Genre: Short Story, Realism, Southern Ontario Gothic
- Title: Dance of the Happy Shades
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Southern Ontario, Canada, around the middle of the 20th century
- Character: The Narrator. Description:
- Character: Miss Marsalles. Description:
- Character: The Narrator's Mother. Descr... | 1,196 |
- Genre: Bildungsroman
- Title: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Portland, Oregon and Yazd, Iran
- Character: Darius Kellner. Description: The novel's protagonist, Darius is a high school sophomore and a self-described "Fractional Persian"; that is, his mom is Iranian and his dad is... | 8,082 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Dark Roots
- Point of view: Second Person
- Setting: Australia
- Character: Protagonist. Description:
- Character: Paul. Description:
- Character: The Doctor. Description:
- Character: Helen. Description:
- Theme: Ageism and Misogyny. Description:
- Theme: Beauty Standards and Self-Im... | 851 |
- Genre: Short story, science fiction, speculative fiction
- Title: Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed
- Point of view: Third person limited
- Setting: Mars
- Character: Harry Bittering. Description: Harry Bittering is the protagonist of "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed." Harry is made uneasy by the Martian landscape from... | 6,289 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Darkness at Noon
- Point of view: Most of the novel is told from a third-person limited omniscient perspective, restricted to the thoughts and viewpoint of Rubashov. This is interspersed, however, with excerpts from Rubashov's diary, which are in the first person.
- Setting: While the Fatherland... | 8,879 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Title: Dawn
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Mandatory (British) Palestine in the late 1940s
- Character: Elisha. Description: Elisha is an 18-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps who joins the Movement for an independent Jewish nation in Palestine.... | 7,482 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Title: Deacon King Kong
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Brooklyn, New York in 1969
- Character: Sportcoat. Description: The novel's protagonist, Cuffy Lambkin (whom everyone calls "Sportcoat,") is an old deacon who attends the Five Ends Church and acts as the Cause's community bas... | 7,711 |
- Genre: Fiction, short story
- Title: Dead Men’s Path
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: A British African colony (most likely Nigeria) in 1949
- Character: Michael Obi. Description: Twenty-six-year-old Michael Obi is protagonist of the story and Nancy Obi's husband. As the new headmaster of the Ndume Central Sc... | 5,184 |
- Genre: Coming-of-age novel, period piece, boarding school novel
- Title: Dead Poets Society
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Welton Academy, Vermont, 1959
- Character: John Keating. Description: John Keating is the charismatic, energetic English teacher who inspires the students of Welton Academy t... | 7,348 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Point of view: Third-Person Omniscient
- Setting: Santa Fe, New Mexico and the surrounding territory; Rome, Italy
- Character: Jean-Marie Latour. Description:
- Character: Joseph Vaillant. Description:
- Character: Jacinto. Description:
- Character: Eusabio. D... | 2,342 |
- Genre: Short story, magical realism
- Title: Death Constant Beyond Love
- Point of view: Omniscient narrator
- Setting: Rosal del Virrey (a fictional city likely in northern South America, near Paramaribo and French Guiana)
- Character: Senator Onésimo Sánchez. Description: Senator Onésimo Sánchez is the protagonist ... | 3,990 |
- Genre: Novella
- Title: Death in Venice
- Point of view:
- Setting: Munich, Germany and Venice, Italy.
- Character: Gustav von Aschenbach. Description: The main character of the novella, Aschenbach is a successful, celebrated German writer who lives in Munich. An old man, he has lived an austere, disciplined life de... | 6,070 |
- Genre: Realistic fiction
- Title: Désirée’s Baby
- Point of view: third-person omniscient
- Setting: Louisiana, mid-nineteenth century
- Character: Madame Valmondé. Description: A childless woman who adopts a baby abandoned at the gate of her husband's plantation in Louisiana. The Valmondés raise the baby, who they n... | 4,483 |
- Genre: Young Adult fiction
- Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: An American middle school
- Character: Greg Heffley. Description: Greg Heffley, the author of the diary, has just started middle school. He is best friends with Rowley Jefferson, who is extremely unpopular and cares litt... | 6,963 |
- Genre:
- Title: Divergent
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Beatrice Prior / Tris. Description: Beatrice, or Tris, is the protagonist and heroine of Divergent: a brave, curious young woman who struggles to find an identity for herself and also feels a strong desire to protect other people. At the beginning ... | 7,329 |
- Genre: Drama; Youth theater
- Title: DNA
- Point of view:
- Setting: London, England
- Character: Leah. Description: At first glance, the verbose Leah is ditzy, easily distracted, and self-obsessed. During her many afternoons sitting in a field with her silent boyfriend Phil, Leah muses aloud about big questions (su... | 8,251 |
- Genre: Science fiction, detective story, noir
- Title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Rick Deckard. Description: The protagonist of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Rick Deckard is an experienced police officer and bounty hunter, who, during the course of the nove... | 7,576 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Don Quixote
- Point of view: Third person omniscient, first person.
- Setting: Spain, at the beginning of the 17th century.
- Character: Don Quixote de la Mancha. Description: A poor hidalgo of nearly fifty named Alonso Quixano, he is a lonely, bookish man with nearly no family and no discernibl... | 4,320 |
- Genre: Short story, Dark Romanticism, Gothic fiction
- Title: Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Dr. Heidegger's study
- Character: Dr. Heidegger. Description: Dr. Heidegger is an enigmatic old medical doctor who performs an experiment on his four elderly friends to test the hypothesi... | 5,916 |
- Genre: Horror, Drama, Victorian Gothic
- Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Point of view: A third person narrator tells the story with an omniscient view of characters but stays mostly with Mr. Utterson, which allows Stevenson to reveal things to the reader with suspense.
- Setting: The streets of London
- Character: ... | 4,439 |
- Genre: horror; horror-romance; Gothic novel; novel-in-letters
- Title: Dracula
- Point of view: first-person (as relayed through letters and journal entries by various characters)
- Setting: Transylvania and in and around London, England; the very end of the 1800s
- Character: Count Dracula. Description: A Count livi... | 6,086 |
- Genre: Short Story, Autobiographical Fiction
- Title: Drown
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: An urban neighborhood in New Jersey.
- Character: Yunior. Description: The protagonist and narrator of Drown, Yunior is several years out of high school and still living with his mother in the small apartment in Ediso... | 8,627 |
- Genre: Modernism and Southern Renaissance literature
- Title: Dry September
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Jefferson, Mississippi
- Character: Henry Hawkshaw. Description: Henry Hawkshaw, also known as Hawk, is one of the barbers of Jefferson, a mild-mannered white man. The barber shop is one of the central... | 6,947 |
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Title: Dune Messiah
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Arrakis, or Dune—a fictional planet in a fictional universe
- Character: Paul Atreides (Muad'Dib). Description: Paul Atreides is the Emperor, or Muad'Dib, of Arrakis and most of the Dune universe. In Dune Messiah's prequel, Dune, Pa... | 5,311 |
- Genre: Autobiographical fiction; Postwar fiction; Biblical allegory
- Title: East of Eden
- Point of view: John Steinbeck narrates in 1st person; but parts of the novel are told in 3rd person omniscient.
- Setting: Salinas, California
- Character: Adam Trask. Description: Adam is the son of Cyrus Trask and the brothe... | 6,717 |
- Genre: Minimalism
- Title: Elephant
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: A working-class American town
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The story's unnamed narrator is a working-class man with an unspecified factory job. He works very hard, lives alone, and he's always sending checks to his mother, ex-wife... | 3,302 |
- Genre: Comedy of manners
- Title: Emma
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Highbury (fictional village) and at Box Hill, North Surrey, all in England.
- Character: Emma Woodhouse. Description: The protagonist of the novel, Emma Woodhouse is the rich, beautiful, and privileged mistress of Hartfield. Sh... | 3,652 |
- Genre: Literary Fiction
- Title: Enduring Love
- Point of view: The point of view is primarily Joe Rose's, with occasional sections narrated by Clarissa Mellon and Jed Parry
- Setting: London, England
- Character: Joe Rose. Description: Joe Rose is the protagonist of Enduring Love and the novel's chief narrator. He's... | 7,909 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Ethan Brand
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A lime kiln burning late at night on Mount Graylock in Massachusetts
- Character: Ethan Brand. Description: Ethan Brand was once a humble lime-burner at a kiln on Mount Greylock. Many years ago, he began to ponder the nature of sin while... | 4,658 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Ethan Frome
- Point of view: First-person observer (frame story); third-person omniscient (main narrative)
- Setting: The fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts
- Character: Ethan Frome. Description: The protagonist of the novel and its tragic hero, Ethan is 28 years old in the main narrat... | 3,615 |
- Genre: Short story, detective fiction
- Title: Evans Tries an O-Level
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: HM Prison Oxford in the Oxford Castle in Oxford, UK
- Character: The Governor. Description: The Governor of HM Prison, Oxford is a proud, no-nonsense man and the protagonist of the story. When Jam... | 8,727 |
- Genre: Short Fiction
- Title: Eveline
- Point of view: Told in third-person limited (the narrator is separate from the protagonist but knows her thoughts), and Joyce employs the technique of "free indirect discourse"
- Setting: 20th Century Dublin
- Character: Eveline Hill. Description: The protagonist of the story, ... | 5,653 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Everyday Use
- Point of view: First person narrative from Mama's perspective
- Setting: the Deep South
- Character: Mama. Description: The narrator of the story, Mama is an African-American woman living in the Deep South. She is a hard-working, practical person with simple tastes, and she ... | 5,214 |
- Genre: Thriller
- Title: Everything I Never Told You
- Point of view: Third-person narrator
- Setting: Middlewood, a fictional town in Ohio
- Character: Lydia Lee. Description: Lydia is the middle daughter of James and Marilyn. At the beginning of the book, she has just died at the age of 16; after a few days, her bo... | 8,989 |
- Genre: Southern Gothic/Christian Realism/Anti-Romanticism
- Title: Everything That Rises Must Converge
- Point of view: Close/Limited Third Person
- Setting: American South
- Character: Julian. Description: A recent college graduate who has returned home to live with his Mother while trying to launch a career as a wr... | 5,422 |
- Genre: Literary Realism
- Title: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Point of view: Oskar, Grandpa, Grandma
- Setting: New York, New York
- Character: Oskar Schell. Description: Oskar is the nine-year-old protagonist of the novel: he's extremely precocious and incredibly imaginative, but he has a lot of fears, worr... | 9,023 |
- Genre: Dystopian novel
- Title: Fahrenheit 451
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: An unnamed city in America in the future
- Character: Guy Montag. Description: A fireman and the book's protagonist. As the novel opens, Montag takes pride in burning books and the homes of people who illegally own books. After me... | 3,697 |
- Genre: War Novel, Bildungsroman, Young Adult Novel
- Title: Fallen Angels
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Vietnam during the height of the Vietnam War
- Character: Richie Perry. Description:
- Character: Peewee (Harold Gates). Description:
- Character: Johnson. Description:
- Character: Lieutenant Carroll... | 1,106 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Far From the Madding Crowd
- Point of view: Hardy uses an omniscient third-person narrator, who moves throughout the various settings of the novel and even among points of view. The first part of the book hews closely to Gabriel's perspective, for instance, but after he reaches Bathsheba's farm,... | 8,384 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Fasting, Feasting
- Point of view: Close third person. Uma (first section), Arun (second section)
- Setting: First section: A small town in India; Second section: Western Massachusetts (1970's-1999)
- Character: Uma. Description: Uma is the novel's spirited, oppressed heroine, the never-married ... | 6,946 |
- Genre: Science fiction, dystopian fiction
- Title: Feed
- Point of view: First person (Titus)
- Setting: United States, sometime in the not-too distant future
- Character: Titus. Description: Titus, who is referred to by name only a handful of times throughout the book, is the protagonist and narrator of Feed. He act... | 8,045 |
- Genre: Young adult historical fiction
- Title: Fever 1793
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Character: Matilda "Mattie" Cook. Description: Mattie lives with her mother, Lucille Cook, who runs a Philadelphia coffeehouse. She also lives with her grandfather, Captain William Farnswort... | 8,921 |
- Genre: Novel, Historical Fiction
- Title: Fiela’s Child
- Point of view: Third Person Omniscient
- Setting: Western Cape of South Africa, 1800s
- Character: Benjamin. Description: Benjamin Komoetie is a white foundling. The "Coloured" (multiracial) farmer Fiela Komoetie and her husband Selling rescue Benjamin when he... | 6,871 |
- Genre: Conceptual / speculative fiction, historical fiction, postwar literature.
- Title: Fifth Business
- Point of view: First person (Dunstan Ramsay)
- Setting: Deptford Canada, Europe, South America.
- Character: Dunstan Ramsay. Description: Dunstan (Dunstable) Ramsay is the narrator of the story, which takes the ... | 6,622 |
- Genre: Transgressive fiction, Contemporary novel
- Title: Fight Club
- Point of view: First person (The Narrator)
- Setting: Contemporary America
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The narrator of the novel is never referred to by name. At the beginning of the novel, the Narrator is a frustrated corporate slave,... | 5,636 |
- Genre: Literary short story
- Title: First Confession
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: A city in Ireland
- Character: Jackie. Description: Jackie is a seven-year-old boy from an Irish Catholic family. He lives with his mother, father, sister Nora, and grandmother, whom he loathes. Jackie can be judgmental and... | 5,617 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Five-Dollar Family
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A hospital and supermarket in Australia
- Character: Michelle. Description: The story's protagonist Michelle is Des's girlfriend and Jason's mother. The story charts her evolution from a bewildered new mother to an assertive, comp... | 5,835 |
- Genre: Novel, Magical Realism
- Title: Flames
- Point of view:
- Setting: Tasmania in the late 2010s
- Character: Charlotte McAllister. Description: Charlotte McAllister is Levi's younger sister and the daughter of Edith and Jack. The story picks up just after Edith's death, reincarnation, and second death, and Char... | 6,962 |
- Genre: Satirical novella, mathematical fiction
- Title: Flatland
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Flatland
- Character: A Square. Description: The narrator and protagonist of the story, which he writes in prison—he has been arrested for attempting to educate others about the third dimension. A Square can be s... | 7,739 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Flexion
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Rural Australia
- Character: Frank's Wife / Mrs. Slovak. Description: Mrs. Slovak, the 45-year-old wife of sheep farmer Frank Slovak, is the one who finds Frank pinned under his overturned tractor at the beginning of the story. For the durat... | 6,303 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Flight
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: The fictional Torres farm in California and the wild country beyond it
- Character: Pepé. Description: Pepé is a sweet and good-natured young man of 19, living on the Torres farm with his mother Mama Torres and his younger siblings Emilio and... | 3,702 |
- Genre: Short story, American literature, revolutionary literature
- Title: Flowering Judas
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: Mexico City, c. 1920s
- Character: Laura. Description: Laura, the protagonist of the story, is a twenty-two year-old American woman of deep "political faith," who has come to Mexico to a... | 6,235 |
- Genre:
- Title: Flowers for Algernon
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Charlie Gordon. Description: The protagonist and narrator of Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon starts out as a kindhearted, mentally challenged man in his early 30s, who is then given an incredible chance to become a genius when he's ... | 7,088 |
- Genre: Fiction (Short Story)
- Title: Flyboys
- Point of view: First-person
- Setting: A small town in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State
- Character: Narrator. Description: The protagonist and narrator of "Flyboys" is an unnamed boy, likely in his pre-teen or early teen years. He is the current friend o... | 4,161 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Foe
- Point of view: Susan Barton is the novel's first-person narrator until the final section, which breaks with the straightforward narrative to hover more ambiguously between Susan's and Friday's perspectives.
- Setting: A deserted island in the Atlantic; the various London residencies of aut... | 5,205 |
- Genre: Gothic novel
- Title: Frankenstein
- Point of view: Frankenstein is told through a few layers of first person narratives. Walton is the primary narrator, who then recounts Victor's first-person narrative. In addition, Victor's narrative contains the monster's first person story as well as letters from other ch... | 3,193 |
- Genre: Children's Fiction
- Title: Frindle
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Westfield, New Hampshire
- Character: Nick Allen. Description: Nick is the ten-year-old protagonist of the novel. He's known for his big ideas, which he often deploys to annoy his teachers and undermine their power. Fifth g... | 7,995 |
- Genre:
- Title: Fritz
- Point of view: "Fritz" is recounted in the first person from the perspective of Jayanto's close friend, Shankar.
- Setting: Bundi, Rajasthan, India
- Character: Shankar. Description: Shankar is the story's narrator. He works as a teacher and is around 37 years old. Shankar has been planning a... | 3,236 |
- Genre: Children's Fiction
- Title: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Point of view: First Person, Third Person
- Setting: 1960s New York City (especially the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Greenwich, Connecticut
- Character: Claudia Kincaid. Description: Claudia is the novel's protagonist and, a... | 6,087 |
- Genre: Short Story, Realistic Fiction, Native American Fiction
- Title: Future Home of the Living God
- Point of view: First-Person and Second-Person
- Setting: Minnesota
- Character: Cedar Hawk Songmaker. Description: The protagonist and first-person narrator of the story, Cedar at birth was given up by her Native A... | 6,380 |
- Genre: Short Story, Comic Horror, Social Satire
- Title: Gabriel-Ernest
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Rural England
- Character: Van Cheele. Description: Van Cheele, the protagonist of "Gabriel-Ernest," is a landowner, parish councillor, and justice of the peace who lives with his aunt in a large Victorian... | 3,642 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Games at Twilight
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: An unnamed city in India
- Character: Ravi. Description: Ravi is the protagonist of "Games at Twilight." Ravi is one of the younger members of his family, illustrated by the fact that when Desai introduces him he is nervously picki... | 4,611 |
- Genre:
- Title: Gathering Blue
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Kira. Description: The young protagonist of Gathering Blue, Kira is a girl with a lame leg, who is probably around twelve years old and who excels at weaving. Throughout the novel, she's forced to fight to defend two strong instincts that, it ... | 7,890 |
- Genre: Middle-Grade Novel
- Title: Ghost Boys
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Chicago
- Character: Jerome Rogers. Description: Twelve-year-old Jerome Rogers is the protagonist and narrator of Ghost Boys. He resides in an impoverished Chicago neighborhood with his Ma, Pop, Grandma, and little sister Kim. A po... | 8,537 |
- Genre: Epistolary Novel
- Title: Gilead
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Gilead, Iowa in 1956
- Character: Rev. John Ames. Description: John Ames, a 76-year-old minister in Gilead, Iowa, is the novel's protagonist. Gilead consists of John's letters to his nearly seven-year-old son, who will still be very youn... | 7,519 |
- Genre: Yiddish short story, allegorical fable, magical realism
- Title: Gimpel the Fool
- Point of view: First-Person Narrator
- Setting: The town of Frampol in Poland
- Character: Gimpel. Description: Gimpel is the narrator and protagonist of the story, and is characterized by his gullibility, gentleness, open-minde... | 7,988 |
- Genre: Novel, Historical Fiction, Bildungsroman
- Title: Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Late 17th-century Delft, the Netherlands
- Character: Griet. Description: At the beginning of the novel, Griet is a girl approaching marriageable age and living at home with her father, mother, ... | 5,696 |
- Genre: Short Fiction
- Title: Girl
- Point of view: Second-person
- Setting: An unnamed Anglophone Caribbean island
- Character: Mother. Description: The girl's mother is the main speaker in the story. Her authoritative voice, which offers the girl a list of guidelines on how to conduct herself, makes up the bulk of ... | 4,677 |
- Genre: Fiction; Social Novel
- Title: Go Set a Watchman
- Point of view: Third person omniscient, mostly following Jean Louise
- Setting: The fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1950s
- Character: Jean Louise Finch. Description: The novel's main protagonist, an intelligent, stubborn, twenty-six-year-old woman f... | 4,365 |
- Genre: Novel, Magical Realism
- Title: God Help the Child
- Point of view: First Person and Third Person
- Setting: 2010s California
- Character: Lula Ann "Bride" Bridewell. Description:
- Character: Booker Starbern. Description:
- Character: Sweetness. Description:
- Character: Sofia Huxley. Description:
- Chara... | 1,587 |
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