History BookEnds / Literature

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':

* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': The book begins with a description of viewing the bookstore from the inside looking out the glass door. Bastian then opens the door "violently" causing the bells on the door to ring for a while. It ends with Bastian looking out the same door at his father, opening the door "vigorously" and causing the bells on the door to ring.

*** At 10am, Bastian reads as Cairon has just appeared from meeting with the Childlike Emperess. At 10pm, Atreyu first sees the Childlike Emperess.

* When Martha Macnamara meets Mayland Long at the beginning of ''Literature/TeaWithTheBlackDragon'', the first thing she does is comment on his hands: with his long fingers, she says he should be a pianist. At the end, after they've fallen in love and been on an adventure, he asks what wonder she has for him next, and she says she's going to teach him to play piano.

** In ''Discworld/{{Sourcery}}'', the book starts with the sentence "There was a man and he had eight sons". Close to the end of the book, someone is telling a story that starts with the same sentence.
** At the start of ''Discworld/GoingPostal'', Moist, having been arrested and hanged for cheating and embezzlement, is baffled to find himself offered a government job by the Patrician. At the end, Reacher Gilt, having attempted a much larger con, is given a similar offer.
** ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight'' begins and ends with Tiffany at the Scouring Fair, a year apart.

''Note that some {{Bookends}} can be a spoiler, so beware.''

* The [[Literature/TheGunslinger first book]] in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' opens with "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." The last book ends with those same words [[spoiler:because the entire series is a GroundhogDayLoop (with a small twist)]].

* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'':* BookEnds:

* The first arc of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' ends with the protagonist, Taylor, standing on a rooftop with Armsmaster, the leader of the local SuperTeam, discussing the options that Taylor has after having single-handedly taken down one of the most powerful supervillains in the city, whose minions will want revenge. At the end of arc twenty-two, after they both have changed so much, the [[VillainProtagonist supervillain Skitter]] stands on a rooftop with the {{Cyborg}} superhero Defiant, discussing the options that Skitter has after [[spoiler:having killed one of the most powerful superheroes in the world, whose friends will want revenge. The chapter marks [[HeelFaceTurn the close of Skitter's career as a villain.]]]]

* ''Literature/TheHeartsWeSold'' begins and ends with the Daemon sitting outside a place you wouldn't expect to find a demon, knitting, alone, and Dee approaching him and talking to him.
* ''Literature/CaptivePrince'':* BookEnds:
** The first book begins in the slave baths of Akielos where Damen is betrayed by his brother and MadeASlave. The last book ends in the same baths, where Damen confronts his brother and reclaims his throne.
** The events of the plot are kicked off by Damen killing Laurent's brother at Delpha. They are ultimately concluded by Laurent killing Damen's brother in Ios.

** The last books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' and the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology end with the same line spoken by Mara Jade to Luke Skywalker. "[[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hang on, I'll come with you.]]"

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/InAGoodCause": In both the begining of the story and the end, we read the InUniverse quote, "[[TitleDrop In a good cause,]] there are no failures."

** The last books of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' and the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology end with the same line spoken by Mara Jade to Luke Skywalker. "[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Hang on, I'll come with you.]]"

** The emotions of the opening and ending scenes by the river are vastly different. At the start, it begins warmly but gets grim as we hear of how the clearing has been worn by humans. [[spoiler:At the end, it's devastating, since George ends up killing Lennie there.]]

* The final book of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', ''A Memory of Light'' closes with an inversion of the opening narration of each book in the series.

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' book ''A Memory of Light'' closes with an inversion of the opening narration of each book in the series.

* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's short story "In a Good Cause—", there is a short prologue-scene (in italics), of which the first sentence is led into at the end of the main story and repeated verbatim (also in italics).