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- Genre: Short story; Gothic horror; Feminist literature
- Title: The Yellow Wallpaper
- Point of view: First person narrator, in a series of diary entries.
- Setting: Late nineteenth century, in a colonial mansion that has been rented for the summer. Most of the story's action takes place in a room at the top of the h... | 3,204 |
- Genre: Novel
- Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Point of view: The novel is Janie's life-story, told to Pheoby Watson by Janie herself. However, throughout the novel, a third-person omniscient narrator interrupts Janie's narrations and direct presentations of characters' speech. The narrator's mode of speaking i... | 5,132 |
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Title: There Will Come Soft Rains
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: August 2026 in Allendale, CA—the aftermath of a nuclear explosion
- Character: The House. Description: The house—an artificially intelligent, automated machine—is the main character of the story. Despite bei... | 5,956 |
- Genre: Novel / Tragedy
- Title: Things Fall Apart
- Point of view: Third person omniscient
- Setting: Pre-colonial Nigeria, 1890s
- Character: Okonkwo. Description: The novel's main character and an influential clan leader, Okonkwo fears becoming an unsuccessful, weak man like his father, Unoka. As a result, Okonkwo ... | 4,410 |
- Genre: Novel, Speculative Fiction
- Title: Things We Didn’t See Coming
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: A bucolic country hamlet, a flooding cabin, a desert, a fire-ravaged oil town, and various others.
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The unnamed narrator is the only character who appears in all of th... | 6,504 |
- Genre: Young Adult Novel
- Title: Thirteen Reasons Why
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: A small, unnamed town in the United States
- Character: Hannah Baker. Description: Hannah Baker is the novel's protagonist. She ends her own life before the beginning of the novel, leaving behind a set of cassette tapes fo... | 7,363 |
- Genre: Novel, Historical Fiction
- Title: This Other Eden
- Point of view: Third-Person Omniscient
- Setting: Apple Island (off the coast of Maine)
- Character: Ethan Honey. Description:
- Character: Esther Honey. Description:
- Character: Matthew Diamond. Description:
- Character: Bridget. Description:
- Charact... | 1,444 |
- Genre: Bildungsroman
- Title: This Side of Paradise
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Saint Paul, Minnesota; Princeton, New Jersey; New York City
- Character: Amory Blaine. Description: Amory Blaine is the protagonist of This Side of Paradise. Born to parents Beatrice and Stephen Blaine, Amory spends most of h... | 6,975 |
- Genre: Realism
- Title: Through the Tunnel
- Point of view: Close third-person
- Setting: A foreign seaside
- Character: Jerry. Description: The protagonist of the story, and its only named character, Jerry is a young English boy on vacation with his mother to a coastal town in a foreign country. He is eleven years o... | 4,612 |
- Genre: Fiction
- Title: To Build a Fire
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: The Yukon Trail, Canada
- Character: The man. Description: The protagonist is a lone hiker on a side trail in the Yukon Territories. His age and other physical details included are not provided. He seems to be a young adult to... | 3,707 |
- Genre: Novel of Consciousness
- Title: To the Lighthouse
- Point of view: Multiple
- Setting: Isle of Skye, Scotland 1910-1920
- Character: Mrs. Ramsay. Description: Beautiful, charming, and nurturing, Mrs. Ramsey holds the Ramsay family together as she holds together every social context she enters by her charisma a... | 5,279 |
- Genre: Story Collection, Dark Comedy
- Title: Trainspotting
- Point of view: The point of view shifts between first person (with different narrators) and third person.
- Setting: Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Character: Rent Boy. Description: Rent Boy, whose real name is Mark Renton and who also goes by Rents, lives i... | 6,387 |
- Genre: Fiction
- Title: Transcendent Kingdom
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Stanford, California in the present; Huntsville, Alabama 15-25 years ago
- Character: Gifty. Description: Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate studying the neuroscience of addiction and depression. Her mother and father (the Chin Chi... | 6,746 |
- Genre: Novel, children's adventure story
- Title: Treasure Island
- Point of view: Most of the novel is told in the first person from the perspective of an older Jim Hawkins who is setting down the tale of Treasure Island. For several chapters, however, the point of view shifts to that of Dr. Livesey, who relates a n... | 5,003 |
- Genre: Novel, Realism
- Title: Tsotsi
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: South Africa
- Character: Tsotsi (David). Description: Tsotsi, Tsotsi's protagonist, is a young Black man in South Africa under apartheid. He leads a gang, whose other members are Boston, Butcher, and Die Aap. At the novel's beginning, Tso... | 8,617 |
- Genre: Young Adult "Issue" Novel
- Title: Turtles All the Way Down
- Point of view: First person, narrated by Aza
- Setting: Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010s
- Character: Aza Holmes. Description: Aza is the sixteen-year-old protagonist of the novel. She has struggled for most of her life with anxiety and OCD. She spends ... | 8,984 |
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Title: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Across the world's oceans
- Character: Professor Pierre Arronax. Description: Pierre Arronax is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is a 40-year-old Frenchman who is a professional naturalist (an e... | 8,853 |
- Genre: Short Story, Modernist Fiction, Vignettes
- Title: Two Gallants
- Point of view: Third person limited omniscient narration (glimpses of characters' feelings are limited to Lenehan's mental state)
- Setting: Dublin, Ireland
- Character: Lenehan. Description: A 30-year-old man living in Dublin, Lenehan has the a... | 7,756 |
- Genre: Social novel / protest novel
- Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Kentucky, Louisiana, Ohio in the 1840s
- Character: Uncle Tom. Description: The book's title character, hero, and moral center, Uncle Tom is the head slave of the Shelby estate, sold to pay off Mr. Shelb... | 5,376 |
- Genre: Social Novel
- Title: Untouchable
- Point of view: The third-person, omniscient narrator usually focuses most closely on Bakha's perspective.
- Setting: Bulashah, a fictional Indian village in the Himalayan foothills
- Character: Bakha. Description:
- Character: Lakha. Description:
- Character: Sohini. Descr... | 2,191 |
- Genre: Satire, Domestic Novel
- Title: Vanity Fair
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Mainly England but also Continental Europe and India
- Character: Becky Sharp. Description: Rebecca "Becky" Sharp begins the story as an orphan who is friends with Amelia. The two of them meet at Miss Pinkerton's school, where... | 7,821 |
- Genre: Novella
- Title: Vertigo
- Point of view: Third Person Omniscient
- Setting: Garra Nalla, a small, fictional town on Australia's coast
- Character: Anna Worley. Description: Anna Worley is the main protagonist of the novel, and Luke Worley's wife. She lives with Luke in the city, where she begins to feel weak,... | 5,153 |
- Genre: Expatriate Literature, Stream of Consciousness
- Title: Voyage in the Dark
- Point of view:
- Setting: England in the early 20th century
- Character: Anna Morgan. Description: Anna Morgan, the protagonist of Voyage in the Dark, is a young woman who recently moved to England from the West Indies, where she was... | 8,068 |
- Genre: Postmodern fiction, Contemporary novel
- Title: Waiting for the Barbarians
- Point of view: First-person, from the magistrate's point of view
- Setting: The novel takes place in an unnamed, fictional country that in some ways resembles real-world South Africa and in others seems as if it is from Medieval or Ro... | 8,595 |
- Genre: Realist Short Story
- Title: Waiting
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: An Australian public hospital
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The unnamed narrator of the story is a working-class Australian woman who is married to a farmer named Pete. The narrator has already experienced at least four mis... | 6,281 |
- Genre: Children's Novel, Historical Fiction
- Title: War Horse
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Rural Devonshire, England and Northern France
- Character: Joey. Description: Joey is a Thoroughbred-draft horse mix who comes to live with the farmer, mother, and Albert. Despite his physical beauty—he has a reddi... | 5,853 |
- Genre: Contemporary literary fiction
- Title: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Point of view: First person, told through Rosemary's perspective
- Setting: Bloomington, Indiana; Davis, California; and Vermilion, South Dakota.
- Character: Rosemary Cooke. Description: Rosemary is the narrator and main character... | 8,592 |
- Genre: Gothic novel
- Title: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Point of view: first person
- Setting: A small New England town and its surroundings
- Character: Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood. Description: Merricat narrates the novel. Though she is eighteen during the events she describes, she often acts much... | 7,733 |
- Genre: Epistolary Novel, Thriller
- Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: New York City and Gladstone, NJ
- Character: Eva Khatchadourian. Description:
- Character: Kevin Khatchadourian. Description:
- Character: Franklin Plaskett. Description:
- Character: Celia Plaskett. Des... | 2,202 |
- Genre: Ubuntu Literature, Autofiction
- Title: Welcome to Our Hillbrow
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa; Tiragalong (fictional province), South Africa; Oxford, England
- Character: Refentše. Description: Refentše is one of two main characters in Welcome to Our Hillbrow. The narrator... | 6,719 |
- Genre: Short story, fable, morality tale
- Title: What Men Live By
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A small village in Russia
- Character: Semyon. Description: Semyon is an impoverished Russian peasant who struggles to make ends meet as a shoemaker. Semyon feels oppressed by his financial hardships and resent... | 7,327 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Mel and Terri's kitchen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Character: Mel McGinnis. Description: Mel is Terri's husband and Nick and Laura's friend. He's a tall, 45-year-old man with curly hair. The story takes p... | 7,003 |
- Genre: Short Story, Native American Literature
- Title: What You Pawn I Will Redeem
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Seattle, Washington
- Character: Jackson Jackson. Description: Jackson is a homeless Spokane American Indian man living on the streets of Seattle. He is an alcoholic with an unspecified mental ... | 7,925 |
- Genre: Short Story, Realism, Dystopian Fiction
- Title: When It Happens
- Point of view: Third Person
- Setting: A farm in an unspecified location
- Character: Mrs. Burridge. Description: Mrs. Burridge is a 51-year-old woman who lives with her husband Frank Burridge on an isolated farm. Mrs. Burridge thinks Frank is ... | 2,890 |
- Genre: Historical Fiction
- Title: When the Emperor was Divine
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient, first-person plural, and free indirect discourse
- Setting:
- Character: The Woman. Description: The woman—who, like the other main characters, is never named—begins the novel as an upper middle-class Japanese-Am... | 5,443 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: The suburbs of an unnamed town in the United States
- Character: Connie. Description: The protagonist of the story, Connie is a pretty fifteen-year-old girl who loves spending time with her friends and flirt... | 7,637 |
- Genre: Realist Short Story
- Title: Whirlpool
- Point of view: Second Person
- Setting: Australian suburbs
- Character: Anna (The Narrator). Description: Anna is the 12-year-old narrator of the story. She lives in the Australian suburbs and spends almost all of the Christmas holidays swimming with her sister Louise i... | 5,237 |
- Genre: Adventure novel
- Title: White Fang
- Point of view: Anonymous narrator, third-person omniscient, predominantly from the perspective of White Fang.
- Setting: The late 1890s in the Canadian Klondike and then Weedon Scott's estate in Sierra Vista, California.
- Character: White Fang. Description: One-quarter do... | 3,937 |
- Genre: Postmodernism, realism
- Title: White Noise
- Point of view: First-person from Jack Gladney's point of view.
- Setting: American suburbia
- Character: Jack Gladney. Description: Jack is the protagonist and narrator of White Noise. A middle-aged professor at the College-on-the-Hill and a multi-divorcé, he is in... | 9,176 |
- Genre: Short story
- Title: White Spirit
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: A public housing centre in an unnamed Australian suburb
- Character: Narrator. Description: The narrator is an unnamed white woman who works for a public housing centre in Australia. The narrator is portrayed in the story as being both ... | 6,480 |
- Genre:
- Title: Wide Sargasso Sea
- Point of view:
- Setting:
- Character: Antoinette Cosway. Description: The protagonist and partial narrator of the novel, Antoinette Cosway is a creole, or person of European descent born in the Caribbean. Throughout the novel, her relationships with others are marked by alienat... | 5,639 |
- Genre: Short Story
- Title: Winter Dreams
- Point of view: Third-person omniscient
- Setting: Minnesota and New York City
- Character: Dexter Green. Description: Dexter Green, the story's protagonist, begins the story as a class-conscious teenager in Black Bear, Minnesota, and Fitzgerald chronicles his maturation int... | 6,724 |
- Genre: Fiction; Country noir; Southern Gothic
- Title: Winter’s Bone
- Point of view: Close third person perspective which tracks Ree Dolly.
- Setting: Ozark Mountains, Missouri
- Character: Ree Dolly. Description: The protagonist of the novel, sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly is the primary breadwinner for and caretaker o... | 6,926 |
- Genre: Southern Gothic Novel
- Title: Wise Blood
- Point of view: Third person, following the perspective of various characters
- Setting: Taulkinham, Tennessee
- Character: Hazel 'Haze' Motes. Description: A young soldier returning from the war, whose whole family has died, leaving him alone in the world. He was rai... | 6,495 |
- Genre: Young Adult Novel
- Title: With the Fire on High
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Character: Emoni Santiago. Description: The protagonist of the novel, Emoni is a 17-year-old senior at Schomburg Charter. She's also the mother of two-year-old Babygirl, whom she coparents wit... | 8,924 |
- Genre: Creative Nonfiction
- Title: Woman at Point Zero
- Point of view: First Person
- Setting: Cairo, Egypt
- Character: Firdaus. Description: Firdaus is the protagonist of the story and the primary narrator, based on an actual woman Nawal El Saadawi met in Qanatir Prison. Firdaus is born in rural Egypt to a poor f... | 8,386 |
- Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (e.g., mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, houses full of secrets, and wild landscapes)
- Title: Wuthering Heights
- Point of view: Nelly Dean, a housekeeper, tells the story of the Lintons and Earnshaws to Mr. Lockwood, who passes along her story to the reader.... | 4,507 |
- Genre: Short fiction
- Title: Yellow Woman
- Point of view: First person
- Setting: New Mexico
- Character: Yellow Woman/Narrator. Description: The unnamed narrator of the story is referred to as Yellow Woman—a mythological character from Native American folklore. She spends the story trying to determine whether it i... | 6,807 |
- Genre: Short story, allegory
- Title: Young Goodman Brown
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: 17th century Salem, Massachusetts
- Character: Goodman Brown. Description: A young man from Salem, Massachusetts and the descendent of a long line of Puritans, Goodman Brown was raised to be a pious Christian and is ter... | 5,586 |
- Genre: Philosophical novel; semi-autobiographical
- Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Point of view: First-person narrator
- Setting: Various parts of the United States, roughly 1943-1974
- Character: The Narrator. Description: The entire novel is told from the perspective of the narrator, a forty-ye... | 4,119 |
- Genre: Science fiction; short story
- Title: Zero Hour
- Point of view: Third person
- Setting: The suburbs of New York
- Character: Mrs. Mary Morris. Description: Mrs. Morris is seven-year-old Mink's mother and Henry Morris' wife. She is somewhat exhausted by her excitable, imaginative daughter, though she often pla... | 7,191 |
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