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alt title(s): Novels Many TV tropes originated in literary works. Literature being as old as writing itself, most of The Oldest Ones In The Book date to the classics, most Public Domain Characters appeared in print well before the first TV broadcasts, and even today there are books with enough cultural impact to spawn TV Tropes.
Tropes relating to literature and publishing
Classics
Pre-20th-Century
Modern Literature
- 7th Son
- The13th Warrior (Eaters Of The Dead)
- Abarat
- A Coffin For Dimitrios
- An Instance Of The Fingerpost
- A Town Like Alice
- The Abhorsen Trilogy
- The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part Time Indian
- A Conspiracy Of Paper
- The Acts Of Caine
- Against A Dark Background
- The Age Of Misrule
- Agent Pendergast
- Aimee
- Ai No Kusabi
- Alatriste
- Alex Rider
- All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye
- Amelia Peabody
- American Girls Collection
- American Gods
- American Psycho
- Anansi Boys
- Anarchist Cookbook
- Anathem
- The Andromeda Strain
- Angels And Demons: Written by Dan Brown before The Da Vinci Code. Arguably better.
- And Then There Were None
- Animal Farm
- The Animals Of Farthing Wood
- Animorphs: Supplanted Goosebumps as the popular children's book series of the mid-'90s till the millennium, despite its incredibly dark setting and content. Or perhaps because of it.
- Anita Blake series
- Anne Of Green Gables
- Archers Goon
- Arcia Chronicles
- Arsene Lupin
- Artemis Fowl
- Arthur: It later had an Animated Adaptation on PBS.
- A Scanner Darkly
- The Ashes Series
- Asian Saga
- The Assassins Of Tamurin
- Atlas Shrugged
- Aubrey-Maturin
- The Avenger
- A Wrinkle In Time
- Baby Sitters Club
- Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
- The Bartimaeus Trilogy
- Bastard Operator From Hell
- Battlefield Earth
- Black Maria
- The Beach
- Beansidhe's Wail
- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
- Belgariad
- Belisarius Series
- The Berenstain Bears
- The BFG
- A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
- The Big One
- The Big Sleep
- Bigtime
- Big Trouble
- Bimbos Of The Death Sun
- Black Company
- Black Dagger Brotherhood
- Black Dogs
- Blackford Oakes
- The Black Stallion
- Black Sunday
- Blood And Chocolate
- Blood Angels
- Blood Ravens
- Boiling A Frog
- Book Of Amber
- Books Of Pellinor
- The Book Of The Named
- Book Of The New Sun
- Bored Of The Rings
- The Bourne Series
- Boxcar Children
- Brave New World
- Breakfast At Tiffanys
- Brideshead Revisited
- Bridge Of Birds
- Bridget Jones' Diary
- Broken Sky
- Buck Rogers
- Bulldog Drummond
- Bunnicula
- Cadfael
- Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
- Cal Leandros
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Captain Underpants
- Care Taker
- The Carpet People
- Catch-22
- The Catcher In The Rye
- Chalion
- Charles And Emma
- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
- Cherub Series
- Children Of The First: An online fantasy serial
- Children Of The Lamp
- Children Of The Red King
- The Chocolate War
- The Chosen
- Chrestomanci
- The Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness
- The Chronicles Of The Black Company
- The Chronicles Of Narnia: Combination of fantasy adventure and biblical allegory.
- Chronicles Of The Kencyrath
- Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant
- Ciaphas Cain: Warhammer 40000 meets Flashman meets Blackadder.
- Circle Of Magic
- The City Of Dreaming Books
- City Of Thieves
- The Clique
- A Clockwork Orange
- Cloud Of Sparrows
- Codex Alera
- Co Dominium
- Coldfire Trilogy
- The Colonial Boy
- The Color Purple
- The Company Novels
- The Complete World Knowledge Trilogy
- Conan The Barbarian
- A Confederacy Of Dunces
- Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson
- Conqueror
- Con Sentiency
- Coraline
- Council Wars
- Country Of The Blind
- Crown Of Stars
- Cryptonomicon
- Cthulhu Mythos
- The Culture series
- Curious George
- The Cyberiad
- The Dalemark Quartet
- The Dark Elf Trilogy
- The Dark Is Rising: Transplanted a lot of young British adventure ideas into a fantasy format.
- Dark Lord Of Derkholm
- Darkover
- The Darksword Trilogy
- The Dark Tower
- The Da Vinci Code: Modern blending of the Ancient Conspiracy with Beethoven Was An Alien Spy.
- The Day Of The Jackal
- The Day Of The Triffids
- The Death Gate Cycle
- Deathstalker
- Deception Point
- The Deed Of Paksenarrion
- The Deepgate Codex (Scar Night, Iron Angel, God of Clocks, and the prequel novella Lye Street)
- Deltora Quest
- The Demolished Man
- The Demonata
- The Demon's Lexicon
- Dersu Uzala
- The Deryni series
- The Descendants
- The Destroyer series
- The Devil And Daniel Webster
- The Devil's Dictionary
- The Diamond Age
- Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
- Digital Fortress
- Dinotopia
- Dirk Gently
- Discworld: These novels by Terry Pratchett explore more meta-concepts than anyone else.
- Doc Savage
- Doctor Zhivago
- Doctrine Of Labyrinths
- Does My Head Look Big In This
- Dogsbody
- Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
- Downtiming The Night Side
- Dragaera
- Dragonback
- Dragon Keeper Chronicles
- Dragonlance
- Dragonriders Of Pern
- The Draka: Alternate History and Military Sci Fi seires by S.M. Stirling. If you are looking for an upbeat novel with a happy ending, we suggest you look elsewhere.
- The Dresden Files
- Dune: Seminal science fiction series revolving around the titular Single Biome Planet.
- Ea Cycle
- Earth's Children
- Earthsea Trilogy
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- Eberron
- The Edge Chronicles
- The Egyptian
- Eight Days Of Luke
- Eisenhorn
- Elantris
- Ella Enchanted
- The Elric Saga
- Emberverse
- Enchanted Forest Chronicles
- Encyclopedia Brown
- Ender's Game
- End Of Eternity
- The English Patient
- Erast Fandorin
- Escape To Witch Mountain
- Everworld
- Evie Scelan
- The Executioner
- The Eye Of Argon
- Eye Of The Wolf
- Fablehaven
- Fafhrd And The Gray Mouser
- Fahrenheit451
- Familias Regnant
- The Fantastic Flying Journey
- Fantomas
- Far Fetched Fiction
- Father Brown
- Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
- Fearless
- Felix Castor
- Fellow Travelers
- Fifth Business
- The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks.
- Final Destination
- Fingerprints
- Fingersmith
- Finnegans Wake
- Finnegan Zwake
- The Fionavar Tapestry
- Fire And Hemlock
- The Firebringer Trilogy
- Firekeeper
- The First Law
- Flashman: A series of satirical and politically incorrect historical novels.
- Forgotten Realms
- Foucault's Pendulum: The conspiracy theory novel.
- Foundation
- The Fountainhead
- Fox In Socks
- Freedom And Necessity
- Friday Night Lights
- From Beyond
- Fu Manchu
- The Gardella Vampire Chronicles
- The Gate To Women's Country
- Gaunt's Ghosts: Warhammer 40000 meets every war story you've ever read.
- The General: Military SF by David Drake and S.M. Stirling.
- Georgina Kincaid series.
- Generation Dead: How society would react if teenagers really started becoming zombies. With a twist.
- Generation Kill
- Gentleman Bastard: Fantasy caper novels.
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- The Girl Who Played Go
- The Giver: Science Fiction's subtle but effective attack on the classic Utopia.
- Gladiator
- God's Debris
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
- The Godless World Trilogy
- Godspeaker Trilogy
- Gone With The Wind - this is where Scarlett O'Hara first came from
- The Goodness Gene
- Goodnight, Mr. Tom
- Good Omens: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett collaborate and the result is nothing short of magic.
- Goosebumps: The children's book series of the mid-1990s.
- Gor
- Gormenghast
- The Gospel According To Larry
- Gotrek And Felix
- Grail Quest Solo Fantasy
- The Graveyard Book
- Gravitys Rainbow
- A Great And Terrible Beauty
- The Great Divorce
- The Great Gatsby
- Greatwinter Trilogy
- The Green Mile
- Grey Griffins
- Grey Knights
- The Guardians Of Time Trilogy
- The Halfblood Chronicles
- Hamish X
- Hand Of Mercy
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Hardy Boys
- Harold Shea
- Harrison Bergeron (short story by Kurt Vonnegut)
- Harry Potter
- The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray
- The Haunting Of Hill House
- Havemercy
- Heechee Saga
- Hells Gate: Magic and Science meet in a bloody confrontation courtesy of David Weber.
- Heralds Of Valdemar
- Hercule Poirot series - perhaps the second most memorable literary detective ever
- Hero Series
- Hexwood
- HIVE Series
- The High Crusade
- His Dark Materials
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: One of the earliest mixes of the science fiction and humor genres.
- The Hobbit - The prelude to The Lord Of The Rings.
- Hoka
- The Holders Series
- Holes
- The Hollows: Also called the Rachel Morgan series.
- The Homeward Bounders
- Honor Harrington
- Horatio Hornblower
- Horrible Histories
- Horton Hears A Who
- Horus Heresy
- The Host
- House Of Leaves
- The House Of Night
- House Of The Scorpion
- Howl's Moving Castle
- How NOT to Write a Novel
- How I Live Now
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Hunger Games
- Humanx Commonwealth
- The Hunt For Red October
- Hyperion
- I Am Legend
- I Am Not A Serial Killer
- I Am The Messenger
- If on a winter's night a traveler
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
- Illuminatus!
- Incarnations Of Immortality
- In Death
- Inferno: A Deconstruction of Dante's vision of Hell from the Divine Comedy.
- Infinite Jest
- Inheritance Cycle
- The Inkworld Trilogy
- Instrument Of God
- Into The Looking Glass series
- Invisible Man
- The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- The Iron Dream
- Stephen King's IT.
- Ixia And Sitia
- Jack Wakes Up
- James And The Giant Peach
- Known Space
- LA Confidential
- James Bond
- Lonesome Dove
- Jennifer Government
- John Carter Of Mars
- John Dies At The End
- Johnny Maxwell Trilogy
- Johnny Tremain
- Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell
- Judge Dee
- The Jungle Book
- Jurassic Park
- Kamikaze Girls
- The Katurran Odyssey
- Keys To The Kingdom
- The Kite Runner
- Kitty Norville
- Kushiels Legacy
- Lady: My Life As A Bitch
- The Landlady
- Laura Caxton
- Lamb: the Gospel According to Biff
- Last And First Men
- The Last Unicorn
- Left Behind
- The Legend Of Rah And The Muggles
- Lensman: the series that started Space Opera.
- Leonardo's Swans
- Let The Right One In
- Liaden Universe
- The Lions Of Al-Rassan
- Little Bear
- Little Critter
- Little House On The Prairie
- The Little Prince
- A Little Princess (revised from a pre-20th Century novelet.)
- Lolita
- Lonesome Dove
- Lonely Werewolf Girl
- Lone Wolf gamebooks
- The Long Price Quartet
- Lord Darcy
- Lord Of The Flies: Influenced a lot of "creepy children" stories that would follow. Also the idea in the Power Trio of three characters representing the Ego, Superego, and Id (though they weren't really a team)
- The Lord Of The Rings: Absolutely defined the fantasy genre as we know it today.
- The Lords Of Creation
- Lord Peter Wimsey novels
- The Lost Fleet
- Lost Horizon
- The Lost Symbol
- The Lost World
- Magic Kingdom Of Landover series
- The Magids
- Magnus
- The Makioka Sisters
- Malazan Book Of The Fallen
- The Malus Darkblade Chronicles
- The Manual Of Detection
- The Manchurian Candidate
- The Man Who Folded Himself
- Maradonia Saga
- Marley And Me
- Mary Poppins
- Mary Russell
- The Master And Margarita
- Masters of Rome
- Matilda
- Maximum Ride
- Memoirs Of A Geisha
- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
- Les Messagers Du Temps
- The Metamorphosis Of Prime Intellect
- Mercy Thompson
- Merry Gentry
- The Millennium Trilogy
- Mistborn
- Moment In Peking
- Montmorency
- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Morgaine Cycle
- Mortal Engines: A British novel series known in the States as The Hungry City Chronicles.
- Mortal Instruments
- Moscow Petushki
- The Mouse That Roared
- Myth Adventures
- My Sisters Keeper
- Naked Lunch
- The Name Of The Rose
- The Name Of The Wind
- Nancy Drew
- Nation
- The Neanderthal Parallax
- Neuromancer
- Neverending Story
- Neverwhere
- The New Heroes
- The New Jedi Order
- The New Kashubia Series
- The Night Angel Trilogy
- The Night Land
- Night Watch
- Nightrunner
- Nightside
- Night World
- 1984: Defined much of the Dystopian Future.
- No Country For Old Men
- No More Dead Dogs
- Not The End Of The World
- Nothings Fair In Fifth Grade
- NUMA Series
- Nursery Crime
- Odd Thomas
- Of Mice And Men
- The Ogre Downstairs
- Old Kingdom
- Old Mans War
- Old Yeller
- The Once And Future King
- One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night
- One For The Morning Glory
- 101 Dalmatians
- One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- Orcs
- The Ordinary Princess
- The Orphan's Tales
- Oryx And Crake
- Otherland
- The Outsiders
- Over The Wine Dark Sea
- The Pact
- Paddington Bear
- The Painter From Shanghai
- The Paladin
- Paladin Of Shadows series
- Paprika
- Pellucidar
- The Pendragon Adventure
- Parasite Eve
- Percy Jackson And The Olympians
- Perdido Street Station
- Perry Rhodan
- Peter Pan
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Phule's Company
- The Pillars Of The Earth
- Pippi Longstocking
- The Poisonwood Bible
- Pokegirls
- Polity Series
- Pollyanna
- Posleen War Series
- The Power Of Five
- The Power Of Three
- Practical Magic
- Pride And Prejudice And Zombies
- Prince Roger series
- The Princess 99
- The Princess Bride
- The Princess Diaries
- Prophet's House
- Propps Functions Of Folktales
- Prydain Chronicles
- Psycho Dust: A fan fic? Of what?
- Push
- The Queens Thief
- The Quiet American: As early as 1955, Graham Greene was warning Americans that getting involved in Vietnam was a Bad Idea.
- Quite Ugly One Morning
- Ranger's Apprentice
- Raptor Red
- The Rats, Bats, and Vats
- Ravenor
- RCN - David Drake's Republic of Cinnabar Navy series. Horatio Hornblower IN Space!
- The Redemption Of Althalus
- Red Mars Trilogy: Kim Stanley Robinson's series on terraforming The Red Planet.
- Red Sonja
- Red Storm Rising
- Redwall
- Remnants
- Rendezvous With Rama
- Repairman Jack
- Requiem For A Dream
- Rewind
- Rifters Trilogy
- The Riftwar Cycle
- The Ring
- Ripliad: Patricia Highsmith's series of novels about Heroic Sociopath Tom Ripley
- Ronja The Robbers Daughter
- The Rowan Gant Investigations
- The Runelords
- The Saddle Club
- Safehold
- The Saga Of Darren Shan
- The Saga Of Seven Suns
- The Saga Of Tuck
- Sailor Nothing: Not a Fan Fic. That's like calling Neon Genesis Evangelion a Fan Fic of Mobile Suit Gundam
- Samantha Stone And The Mermaids Quest
- Sammy Keyes
- The Scarlet Pimpernel
- Schismatrix
- The Science Of Magic
- The Screwtape Letters
- Seafort Saga
- The Secret Garden
- Secret Histories
- Second Apocalypse
- The Secret
- Sector General: Medical Drama in SPACE!
- Seekers Of Truth
- A Separate Peace
- Septimus Heap
- A Series Of Unfortunate Events: Known for making the whole cast into Butt Monkeys.
- Seventh Tower
- Shades Of Grey
- The Shadow: One of the classic pulp series.
- Shadow Children
- Shannara
- Shannon Hale
- The Sharing Knife
- Sharpe
- Shopaholic
- The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
- The Silence Of The Lambs
- The Silmarillion
- The Singer Of All Songs
- Sir Apropos Of Nothing
- The Sirantha Jax Series
- 1632
- The Sixth Battle
- Skinned
- Slan
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Smoke And Shadows
- Snot Stew
- Snow Crash
- Solar Pons
- Solomon Kane
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- A Song Of Ice And Fire
- The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries
- Soon I Will Be Invincible
- Soul Drinkers
- The Sovereign Stone
- The Space Trilogy
- Space Captain Smith
- Space Vulture
- Space Wolf
- Spellman Files
- Spellsinger
- The Spider
- The Stainless Steel Rat
- The Stand
- Stardust
- Starfist
- Starship Troopers
- The Stars My Destination
- State of Fear - a work of controversy by Michael Crichton
- Stephanie Plum
- The Stinky Cheese Man
- Stranger In A Strange Land
- Stravaganza
- A Sudden Wild Magic
- The Sundering
- Sweet Valley High
- The Sword of Truth
- A Tale Etched In Blood And Hard Black Pencil
- The Tale Of Despereaux
- A Tale Of Time City
- Tales Of MU: online fiction serial
- Tales Of The Otori
- Tarzan: Source of innumerable films.
- Tech Infantry
- Teenage Worrier
- Temeraire
- Tender Is The Night
- The Third World War
- The 13 Clocks
- The Thirty-nine Steps
- This Perfect Day
- Thomas The Tank Engine (based on The Railway Series)
- Thursday Next
- Tigana
- Till We Have Faces
- The Time Travelers Wife: One of the best known victims of the Sci Fi Ghetto.
- The Tin Drum
- Time Wars: A science fiction series about Time Travel, written in the 1980s.
- Tipping The Velvet
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- The Tomorrow Series
- Tom Swift
- Tortall Universe: Consists of several separate miniseries, probably the most well known being Song of the Lioness.
- To Say Nothing Of The Dog
- The Tough Guide To Fantasyland
- Tricky Business
- Troubleshooters
- The True Meaning Of Smekday
- Twilight
- 2010: The Year We Make Contact
- Uglies
- Ultramarines
- Ulysses
- The Underland Chronicles
- Unicorns Of Balinor
- Un Lun Dun
- Unwind
- Uplift
- Vampirates
- The Vampire Chronicles: The bible for modern Goths.
- The Vampire Diaries
- Vanishing Acts
- Vatta's War
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Villains By Necessity
- Vorkosigan Saga
- The Walker Papers
- The War Against The Chtorr
- Warbreaker
- Warchild Series
- Warcraft Novels
- The Warlord Chronicles
- Warrior Cats
- Wars Of Light And Shadow
- Watership Down
- Wayside School
- The Wayfarer Redemption
- We
- The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen
- Weird US series
- Welkin Weasels
- The Westing Game
- West Of Eden
- The Wheel Of Time
- Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
- Wigfield
- Wild Cards
- The Wind In The Willows
- Wind On Fire
- Winnie The Pooh
- Witch
- The Witcher
- The Witches
- The Wizard, The Witch, And Two Girls From Jersey
- Where The Wild Things Are
- The Woman In Black
- Women of the Otherworld
- The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz
- World Made By Hand
- World War Z
- World Without End
- The Worst Witch
- Xanth
- Years Of Rice And Salt
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Young Wizards
- The Zombie Survival Guide
- Zorro
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