| 单词 | novel |
| 例句 | This novel, in all of its incarnations, wouldn’t have been possible without the assistance, inspiration, and support of many people. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He found Imogen’s old books—early editions of Vanity Fair and other Victorian novels—and piled them next to his bed, as if he needed to see them before he fell asleep. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He will never satisfy his curiosity, never finish the hundred best novels ever written, never be the great man he might have been. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I was now content to spend a Saturday night reading a good novel on the couch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I double-checked to make sure I had the novel with me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “He must be working on his novel,” I whispered. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I remembered a worrisome course in the Victorian novel where woman after woman died, palely and nobly, in torrents of blood, after a difficult childbirth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Zoey and I are sitting on one of the large plaid floor pillows in the graphic novel corner. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I had decided to read Wuthering Heights — the novel we were currently studying in English — yet again for the fun of it, and that’s what I was doing when Charlie came home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In his small library were works of poetry and philosophy and novels by such writers as Somerset Maugham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My favorite novel is Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z On television and in the movies now, and even in the pages of novels, people tend to dwell in a classless, homogenized American Never-Never Land. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Boyle thought of an hypothesis as a useful step towards establishing the truth: a good hypothesis leads to novel predictions which can be tested by experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z From about eight o’clock, he would work in his study for an hour and a half, when he would take a break to listen to Emma read letters or a novel. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The mystery novel Miss Mallory had been reading when she heard the knock at the door. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The word that clings to every hiker’s thoughts in north Georgia is Deliverance, the 1970 novel by James Dickey that was made into a Hollywood movie. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Most of Trout’s novels, after all, dealt with time warps and extrasensory perception and other unexpected things. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So they're in academic heaven, talking about this professor and that course, this novel and that poem, and all of a sudden I'm afraid that they might turn into good friends after all. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a novel experience: my comrades and fellow prisoners were now official visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he knew he was bright and could produce novel ideas, he could claim no clear-cut intellectual achievements, and he was still without his Ph.D. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Behind her hand I can see the traces of the novel she stayed up reading the previous night. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I liked the novel, but some people went crazy over it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Does he really think that when you write the history of parliamentary democracy or of the novel that you should not, Whiggishly, tell a story of cumulation? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He read it in a couple of days and, after a conversation with the school librarian, moved on to Tolstoy’s War and Peace, a thousand-page novel. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He himself has no idea how many novels he has written—possibly seventy-five of the things. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m early, so I sit on a bench with Lisa’s copy of an Alice Hoffman novel, stopping every now and then to watch a jogger push by. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I promised to read the typescript novel of someone’s absent son. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z This was inevitable, for the separation process was so novel that no firm specifications could have been devised without continued experimentation by the Rad Lab, even after the start of construction of Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even the idea of attempting this was bracingly novel. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In her novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison captures this distant relationship between the black working class and the Mutual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Face Value, that was the book, a mystery novel by Victoria Valence. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z After I read Richard Yates's novel Revolutionary Road, I copied out this passage: I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z One particular night, as Cabot Searcy was coming in late from a date, he looked over at Benton, who was reading some thick novel, and began to talk. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z My last novel, A Season for Ashes, had been about a university professor who joins a clan of gypsies after he finds his wife in bed with one of his students. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We thin-slice whenever we meet a new person or have to make sense of something quickly or encounter a novel situation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In a murder mystery novel someone has to work out who the murderer is and then catch them. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Despite his obvious intelligence, he did poorly in school, because most of his attention was focused on computers, comic books, sci-fi and fantasy novels, movies, and above all else, videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “So, what may I help you find today, ma’am? We have murder mysteries, romance novels, how-to makeup books, how-to hair books,” she pauses, jerks out a smile, “rose gardening, home decorating—” “I’m just browsing, thanks.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Using the road map and novel to guide him, Koch tried to write the script Welles expected. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I know about novels,” she said, her voice high and a little shaky. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Some of them admitted that this was the first novel they’d ever read from cover to cover. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The novel was released in the summer of that following year, 1989, and the publisher sent me on a five-city book tour. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We who write no novels, histories or other books. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wow! I love your graphic novel collection. Can I borrow a few?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, picked up the novel, and placed it in front of me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It was a thick Victorian novel about an orphan. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z For 4 weeks, she’s been giving me the class readings to look over ahead of time—3 short stories and our 1st assigned novel, The Call of the Wild. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The next day I went out to the garage, up to the nook behind the closet, to read some old novels. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Comics and graphic novels can be literary too. But now it’s time to discuss The Scarlet Letter,” Elle said, tilting her head to our class. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen’s novels there are star-crossed lovers who have impediments thrown in their way—by their parents, society, or their own doubts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes fall on the graphic novel, and he picks it up to flick through. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z After I finished reading the novel, I could not get it out of my mind. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z As I contemplated Bigger and what he meant, I said to myself: “I must write this novel, not only for others to read, but to free myself of this sense of shame and fear.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the novel, as time passed, grew upon me to the extent that it became a necessity to write it; the writing of it turned into a way of living for me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “And our 1st class novel will be The Call of the Wild, if you want to read ahead.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The new man in charge of the Midway, Sol Bloom, had struck like a bolt of lightning and seemed amenable to just about anything—the more novel and startling the better. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Easton Michaels, who wrote six novels, was an inordinately private person as a general rule. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z With the publication of his novels The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau in the mid-1890s, he became known for his innovative scientific romances, today known as science fiction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z These are among those matters that, from their novel organization, give reputation and greatness to a new prince. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The novel became required reading for all Hitler Youth and later was turned into a successful film. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z While Charlotte pored over a steamy novel, the bathtub poured over. presume/presumptive/presumptuous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after the Prophet’s disappearance, my grandmother underwent a fairly novel medical procedure. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His journalism was temporary, something he would do until he wrote that brilliant novel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She got up from her bed, where she had been lying and taking turns reading two novels chapter by chapter, and with leaden feet moved to the door. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Holly sat at the desk deep-reading another romance novel, My General Returns. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Along with my other favorite novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, I'd read it more times than I could count. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I still read gobs of comics and an increasing number of trashy novels that promised any amount of sex content. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She loved the way he talked, as if he’d stepped out of a Dickens novel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A novel answer occurred to Mrs. Coulter as the dæmon’s understanding filtered into hers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was in the midst of writing a novel and he was calling me from it to tabulate the price of groceries. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent much of her time reading, and in 1894 she wrote, “I am rather ashamed to find I use up rather more than a volume a day of novels.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer George Orwell published a novel, Burmese Days, and several essays about life there. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Today, dozens of legal organizations hand out awards in the fictional lawyer's name to celebrate the model of advocacy described in Lee's novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was twenty-two and working on his novel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The opacity of his classroom manner reflected his own insecurity with newly discovered phenomena that require a novel cast of mind to understand even today. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She did not think the novel was about Africa at all. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He holed up alone, reading Zane Grey novels and wishing himself into them, a man and his horse on the frontier, broken off from the world. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The book also contends that Boyle developed a novel technique for winning support by turning readers into virtual witnesses: virtual witnessing is important, but Boyle was hardly a pioneer in this respect either. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Well, you have to look all that up. If you don’t treat each word that seriously then you’re not treating the novel seriously.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The kind that holds paperback novels in the supermarket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Mrs. Burke wrote novels and, according to Leslie, was more famous than Mr. Burke, who wrote about politics. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z They were curled up on the couch, she reading a novel, he watching sports. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To these thinkers, Indians were living demonstrations of wholly novel ways of being human—exemplary cases that were mulled over, though rarely understood completely, by countless Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After prison I publish a novel under an assumed name. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We would play Yahtzee or read pages from some fun novel I would choose. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chang-rae Lee is the author of two novels, A Gesture Life and Native Speaker. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood for a moment looking at the shelf filled with copies of The Water of Meribah, his most successful novel—the novel that had bought us this house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I have to let off some steam before homework, so I open up my self-insert fantasy novel that I’ve been working on since January. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I had read many Westerns, of course, doing research, and had even written several, had indeed won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America three times for Western novels. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One of them said that it would be a nice time to bury the novel, now that a Virginian, one hundred years after Appomattox, had written Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The front seat was almost as big as Eleanor's bed, and the backseat was an Erica Jong novel just waiting to happen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z In vain Mrs. Chester alluded to her ‘charming novel’, and the Misses Chester introduced parties, picnics, the opera, and the fashions. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people gobbled it up, much as they were gobbling up the novels of Charles Dickens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She had an extra hour daily which she was devoting to the novel she was writing to prove to Miss Garnder, the new English teacher, that she did know about beauty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Although she later wrote some plays and a novel, her Hollywood career was over. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z One day Fifi, who rarely reads anymore, becomes absorbed in one of the novels we brought along, and not a trashy one for once. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dolores mended her perfect underwear, and I pretended to read a novel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a character in a Victor Hugo novel, she tearfully explained her heartbreaking tale to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Secretly, he was disappointed that the engineers of America had not yet stepped forward with some novel but feasible scheme to eclipse Eiffel’s achievement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She clenched one of her mystery novels under one arm. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z When I was twenty-six, my first novel, The Temple of Gold, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The actors have made light of it; they tell her it’s a novel effect. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was like something out of a Dickens novel, he thought. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Like “K” of Kafka’s novel, The Castle, he tried desperately to persuade the authorities of his true identity right up to the day of his death, and failed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Audio-animatronic books. You get to act out a whole novel along with its main characters.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Pipkin and Blackberry were waking, more at the stamping than the voice, which was thin and novel, not striking through their sleep to any deep instinct. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t dance, drink, or read popular novels. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Oh,” she said, “that was my favorite novel in school.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She touched her precious pile of dime novels. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “The English flight officer has studied the craft of the novel. She is making use of suspense and foreshadowing.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Scheduled to run that summer, the show would consist of one-hour dramas based on familiar novels and stories. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Without a full pack, I walked straight up it without stopping—a novel and gratifying experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Improbably he wondered if the neutron–the subatomic particle that had just been discovered in England by James Chadwick, and was thus both novel and rather fashionable–might be at the heart of things. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead of Steinbeck and Shakespeare, her students read “watered-down news articles or biographies, bastardized novels, memos or brochures.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Remember I told you she’s writing her own version at home, a graphic novel?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The Dream was gilded by novels and ad venture stories. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I read all the unbanned novels of Nadine Gordimer and learned a great deal about the white liberal sensibility. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Furious with the novel, she ripped the copy-book apart and stuffed it into the stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was several weeks before Lyddie caught on that the novel was from the lending library and thus cost Betsy five cents a week to borrow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z She shares quotes from famous novels, random facts about nature, or sometimes even song lyrics. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Instead of destroying London and its suburbs, as the Martians did in the novel, Koch’s aliens would create mayhem in the New York City area. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It was like starting to write a novel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he drifted off in his novel costume, the sergeant’s ultimate practical joke on him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been reading modem French novels, and William Faulkner as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “And please, all of you, call me Gary. My real name is Gary Mark Kozlowski, but who wants to read a fantasy novel by a Polish serial killer, right?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I feel that I’m lucky to be alive to write novels today, when the whole world is caught in the pangs of war and change. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I made my way to the circulation desk, where I found Grandma holding a couple of mystery novels. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Rarely did a murder involve the mysterious elements of dime novels and mystery stories. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The next year, Wells released it as a short novel. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And that was precisely when I totally figured out how I—Finn Easton—could never have been trapped in my dad’s novel in the first place. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This conception of a compact and electrically efficient accelerator synthesized several established principles into a novel whole. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Gat bowed, foolishly, clownishly, and presented me with the book at the bottom of the pile: it was a novel by Jaclyn Moriarty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z He reaches for his brother's novels, pulls them from the shelf. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “The original novel is four hundred pages long,” I said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Just passing through a door, being inside, surrounded by walls and a ceiling, was novel. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It was in the Pine-SoI-scented office of that furniture warehouse that I began my first novel. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He was seated on a folding wooden chair at a small, messy-looking writing table, with a paperback overseas novel open before him, which he was having great trouble reading. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z If only she had brought her novel down with her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The idea of cutting and sewing a dress by herself was novel and exciting. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In Darryl’s case, he had written a paper on the novel Deliverance and social Darwinism, the kind of thing a high school boy would grasp on to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He’s usually reading five books at once, and when he took a sabbatical leave when he was at Dartmouth, he spent the time writing a novel.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Unlike the young women in the novels of Jane Austen, Emma Wedgwood was not mooning over Charles or plotting for a marriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I remember when I went in to tell Miss Emily my chosen topic was Victorian novels, I hadn’t really thought about it much and I could see she knew it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is adopted by Christine and lives for a couple years after the end of the novel and dies peacefully in his hamster sleep.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I thought about the women in novels I’d read and in the true romance magazines and on the soaps. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s her favorite novel, Jane Eyre, and she wanted to own it, to have it in her possession. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “So. You game for adventure?” asked the Duke of Westminster, won over by the novel idea. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all the other products of the mind. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yummy, Alexander remembered, “sidled up to me like some character out of a spy novel.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next twelve years lived abroad, in Paris, Rome, and elsewhere, composing the first volume of Dead Souls, the novel considered to be his finest work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They get their hair done once a week and read long, romantic novels like Gone With the Wind. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of emotionally sophisticated, character-driven, multi-layered novel that invites reflection and discussion, and book groups were flocking to it. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After so many years of being branded a radical revolutionary, to be perceived as a moderate was a novel and not altogether pleasant feeling. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All novels, all poetry, are built on the never- ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As I wrote I followed, almost unconsciously, many principles of the novel which my reading of the novels of other writers had made me feel were necessary for the building of a well-constructed book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She went to her own room and got weapon and book, though not a novel but a textbook. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And the other great idea she had was why didn’t the editorial board of the Voice write a best-selling political sex novel.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Theo's doing fine. The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews. He's just about finished with his second book." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z As he’d requested, I did not use Norman Bowker’s name, instead substituting the name of my novel’s main character, Paul Berlin. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I will finally be at sea, traversing the waterways into the oceans, like the adventurers you so love to read about in your precious novels. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They all stared at me like I was some teenaged monster species they’d only read about in horror novels and had no idea were in existence. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It was like an exciting novel full of possible adventures. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No one will care what events and which individuals were misrepresented to make a novel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then, she said kindly, “Oh, well, I see why you would read the novel like that.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yeah. He pays the bills on this baby”—Forrest tapped the card—“till I’m twenty-five. So I can work on my novel.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She read the novels of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The novelist Charles Dickens felt Malthus depicted poor people as less than human; in novels such as Oliver Twist, he sought to remedy that, making poor people well-rounded main characters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The only people who know I’m writing this novel are Dylan, Hudson, Harriett, and my parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He glanced once more at the novel, then turned it over, concealing the title. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I mean, I had planned to go downtown to the library and hang out reading romance novels to put me in the mood until it was time to meet N at Perk. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Clara grew like a wild plant, despite the recommendations of Dr. Cuevas, who had brought from Europe the novel idea of cold baths and electric shocks for the treatment of the insane. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a graphic novel about two brothers, one who falls madly in love with a girl only to have his heart horribly broken. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I didn't keep up my old habit of writing down my ideas for novels because it seemed unnecessary. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But I still want to know exactly why my sister gave up on her dream of writing romance novels. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Momentarily I wondered how she would look if she took off her glasses and did something novel with her hair.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I was crazy about reading myself, but my taste ran to novels. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I thought, I must somehow put a scene like this in my novel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He does not read novels or plays; he thinks they weaken the mind. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s at the other table, reading a romance novel and supervising. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her cane stands in the corner; her big Braille novel waits facedown on the bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Van Hopper sitting about in the garden of that house on Long Island, with novels, and magazines, and papers on her lap. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the famous nineteenth-century novels of Horatio Alger, young boys born into poverty rise to riches through a combination of pluck and initiative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I found that the dime novels were easier stuff because they had simple words and ideas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In her hand, she held her copy of the novel The Invisible Man. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The Owner’s attention turned back to his novel. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The ladies in her mother’s romance novels put their hands on their bosoms and gasped. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I felt that I was getting a better sense of the language from novels than from grammars. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted one of the inventors of the English novel, so I suggested Daniel Defoe—no, he was a dissenter from the Church of England. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z While most everyone else was home visiting family for Christmas break, Benton Sage opted to stay behind and begin work on what would be his first novel. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “You wanted to go to Paris and write a novel?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My father opened a closet one day and was startled to find me inside, reading a novel. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave myself over to each novel without reserve, without trying to criticize it; it was enough for me to see and feel something different. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a cluster of notes, known to us as a chord, did not even have a name at this time, so novel was its concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As the novel developed over the next year, and as my own ideas clarified, it became apparent that the chapter had no proper home in the larger narrative. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Or like the spy novels I used to read, on weekends, when I should have been finishing my homework, or like late-night television. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sober up. Write another novel. Do the thing you’re good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z And all those things they say in romance novels about how your heart beats faster and your knees get wobbly and the boy’s stubble against your chin is the most delicious sensation ever? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z As for her, beyond all the films she had seen, and all the novels and lyrical poems she had read, she had no experience at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Jonathan Swift has always been a favorite, but I can’t get over how clever his wordplay is throughout the novel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I heard you’re working on a graphic novel of the Prophet’s life,” she continues, ignoring me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z There is an entire Dickens novel in what Pa does not know about Vincent’s life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She heard him mutter, “Oh dear. Oh dear me, yes. The novel must tell a story.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just a boring romance novel,” Tyler said. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Remora steered a notepad and pencil around a stack of American Revolution-themed novels. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was a time or two over the course of the novel that I felt Swift had gone overboard and missed some opportunities to drive home his idea of what the ideal society should be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The old kind of class novel—about striving and trying to move up by learning the upper-class code—is still being written. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He left a copy of the novel with his niece. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The mistake, in part, had been in trying to wedge the piece into a novel. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She reads all the time—in the halls, in the cafeteria— mostly novels with angsty protagonists: The Virgin Suicides, Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She both fits in perfectly yet remains slightly novel. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And he handed Gert a stack of money as thick as a novel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “See, sir, that ain’t your normal type of blot. It’s some kind of novel, philosophical blot.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The family spent most of their time here: they ate their meals, played games, and read novels and fairy tales together in the evenings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The novel of the future would be unlike anything in the past. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was divorced, and she wrote romance novels. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z LEFT: Martian fighting machine from the 1906 edition of Wells’s novel. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The poor suffered in the squalor that Charles Dickens was capturing so well in his serialized novels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had written a science fiction novel called The Lazarus Door, which was wildly popular. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Inside the house Onofre had a large library of both Spanish and English detective novels, an upright piano, and the best reception on his mammoth color TV set of anyone in the county. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some say it came from a Spanish novel that Hans had read. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z So there she was, in the library on her knees in the narrow fiction stacks, with three copies of the novel, two paperbacks and one hardcover, on the shelf in front of her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The scene was novel, the spectators were an unusual element, but the dilemma was familiar enough: how to keep the peace and not humiliate her mother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He loves the feeling of losing himself in the action, the same way he feels when he reads his brother's Karl May adventure novels, which are also set in America. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z When there was a novel approach in the classroom, it was geared for a generation indisputably weaned on the fast foods of television and the VCR, not the written word. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It is no coincidence that the figure of the Fallen Woman stalks through so many operas, novels and paintings of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But what was more important still, I read their novels. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z After Koch read the novel, he was dismayed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They were going to discuss whether the novel was dead or not. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was buried in a romance novel titled My General Forever, and a large snoring bulldog lay curled in a pile of wrinkled skin at her feet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Do I surprise you, Amelia? Betsy, in public the devourer of novels, in secret a woman of great ambition?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His novel sold all over the world, and they even made a movie from it too, which my father had never been able to bring himself to watch. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Look: In my father’s novel, The Lazarus Door, incomers named Earth the planet of humans and dogs because they liked keeping dogs as pets, but they liked human beings as entrees. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He became a doctor, and he treated poor people in the daytime, and he wrote grotesque novels all night. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed the novel; it was too hot to concentrate. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And you think writing a novel is more important than anything I like to do, or want to do with my life. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The novels created moods in which I lived for days. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His laptop was gone and so were his French novels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z So I am writing a murder mystery novel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What is novel, and startling, is that they are mixtures of species. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was an old, damp lecture hall buried in the innards of the college; it resembled a dreary accountant’s chamber in a Dickens novel. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z On Sunday Lyddie went to see her, taking her botany text and a couple of novels that cost Lyddie twenty cents at the lending library. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Betsy put down her novel and made a little show of clapping her hands. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “She just wants to lie about and read dreadful novels.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked a partner in his inspection firm, W. F. Gronau, to calculate the novel forces that would play among the components of his structure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z How could this be a great African novel if the people weren’t so great? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z They’re both reading, focused on the open novels in their hands, but you never know. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It would hold me together until my novel was finished and I was ready to look for something more demanding. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When I had finished my mother’s books—not the boring history ones, I was never much into those, but the novels, the epics—I started spending my allowance on books. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nor did I suspect that these experiences could be part of a novel’s meaning. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I'm Obinze,” he said, feeling like a character in a spy novel who had to speak in silly code. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She’s always reading something that looks good, too, like a comic book or graphic novel with the words in another language. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It was a dizzying experience, as though time had sped forward in a science fiction novel, to suddenly hug one’s fully grown child. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There are art books and romance novels and children's tales and thousands of rows I can't see. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel That would fix a lot of people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Bayard, who was married to Elizabeth’s sister Tryphena, had been very close to his sister-in-law; they had enjoyed spending time together, reading novels, riding horses, and discussing philosophy and law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If I could just surrender to my increasingly aqueous condition and wait out the weekend with a novel, things would be looking up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay on my stomach, crossing my ankles in the air, flipping through the different novels in the book, trying to decide which would occupy my mind the most thoroughly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There are, to be sure, stand-up comedians, shaggy- dog raconteurs, consummate essayists, and authors of mystery novels who can build up curiosity and suspense and then resolve it all with a sudden revelation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z While I waited for the shower to shut off, I thought about writing a new novel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “My mother loves this book. She was always trying to get me to love her English novels.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I do my evening things—writing in my journal and reading a novel— then turn out the lights and sit for a while by the open door for some air. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When, after two months, she reaches the novel’s last line, she flips back to the first page and starts again. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For a man who wrote novels, sacrificed the hours of his days to the invisible god of word upon word, Dad was never much of a talker. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Not accidentally, these novels coincided with America’s Gilded Age, the era of overnight fortunes and conspicuous spending that followed in the wake of the Civil War. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The third painting is a pile of books—French novels—on a table. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Scientists seeking a step-by-step guide to the novel science of artificial radioactivity needed to study Lauritsen; those seeking a foreshadowing of the new science’s possible harvest consulted Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “You’d have nothing but horses, inkstands, and novels in yours,” answered Meg petulantly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z When he heard her approach he would put away his novel and begin typing sentences. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z This novel is a work of historical fiction. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The majority of such escapees die rapidly, unable to thrive or reproduce in novel surroundings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Kit had no idea that her methods were novel and surprising. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s only rule about books is no sex stuff, and no romance novels, which is fine. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Several years ago, I was going through my family heirlooms when I came across a manuscript that was assumed to be a novel written by my great-great-great-grandfather. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I had read A Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, I believe that’s the only novel I have ever read since I started serious reading. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Griswold had said he was sending her advance copies of the new Poe novel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She said that it was usually people who were killed in murder mystery novels. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This was a lively image in the first five thousand mystery novels where it appeared. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I argued that either a man organized or he wrote novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t read from her novel as she traveled across the country so much as she acted it out, playing each character with such skill that she turned her readings into performances. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Often he came up with something novel, would become enormously excited, and immediately tell it to anyone who would listen. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z One day he attends a panel discussion about Indian novels written in English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Hattie sent me a picture of the novel in her lap, and the bags of luggage at her feet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He remembers once telling Volpe that he was binging on Kurt Vonnegut novels, “going through a Vonnegut stage.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Bestiaries do not contain, as a rule, totally novel creatures of the imagination made up of parts that we have never seen before. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She appeared in the doorway of our room while Lily was writing in her journal and I was working on my novel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Another says, ‘It’s one of the best American novels which has appeared for years.’ Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z This novel form of protectionism was never put into place. once grew wild along the continent’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Nothing’s final—nothing’s ever final with these guys—but I think I’ve got him half snowed into the idea of making a picture out of that Lenormand novel. The one I sent you.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z If we couldn’t walk the whole trail, we also didn’t have to, which was a novel thought that grew more attractive the more we considered it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Betsy was already there before her, her current novel in her hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In this novel, the main character has Asperger’s syndrome but is receiving early intervention through the public school system. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Momentarily I wondered how she would look if she took off her glasses and did something novel with her hair. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She memorized wine labels, cheese labels, passages from novels, recipes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Although Wells had complained earlier about the way his novel was altered for the Mercury broadcast, the resulting publicity increased sales of his books. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I rounded up some cutlery and found the table, which had been buried under a stack of dime novels and Shakespeare’s plays. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The trouble lay with him, not the novel. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z That every year, on her birthday, her father would present her with another puzzle and another novel, and she would read all of Jules Verne and all of Dumas and maybe even Balzac and Proust? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I had read enough crime novels to know the real criminal runs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “The problem is that the novel is too simple, the man does not even use any big words,” Yemi said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She left Pel several contemporary novels—literature discussions had been one of their bonds—and they promised to write each other. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Herbie turned slowly to his neglected novel, but there was no one to read his thoughts. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z This was a novel concept, and a good one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was like something out of a spy novel. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The first draft of the novel was written in four months, straight through, and ran to some 576 pages. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At the very least, if I had had a good novel! Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I would be killing two birds with one stone, writing a novel and learning something practical as well. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He ate celery while he read a paperback novel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s why Facebook is so popular. It’s the fact that it’s dynamic, and novel, and constantly changing.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At Zola’s doorway, he sees her sprawled on the floor with her feet up on the bed, a stack of paperback novels beside her and one in her hand, which she is reading. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z They borrowed some novels from the library, starting a lifelong tradition of reading together—usually Emma read to Charles while he rested from his work. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Had McNaughton used some trick out of a spy novel, like laying a strand of hair over the binder—a strand that would remain in place only so long as the binder was not touched? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Elizabeth pulls out a graphic novel and almost literally sticks her nose in it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z At the time I was at work on a new novel, Going After Cacciato, and one morning I sat down and began a chapter titled “Speaking of Courage.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z "One of my favorite novels when I was a girl," she explains apologetically. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s a novel. Novels are fiction. Some people got really crazy over that dumb book.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “You’ve already read this book. I’ve seen you, and besides, it’s only a silly novel—not fit for reading, and a sin on the Sabbath—” Lyddie could feel the gorge rising in her throat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Horrified, he describes the creature the way H. G. Wells did in his novel—the leathery skin, the tentacles, the quivering mouth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The way she stood there, like a character in a Stephen King novel, she was capable of anything. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z A correspondence course in English; likes to read biographical novels and occasionally other kinds of novels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They brought him money, novels, a bag of clothes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z What made the scheme novel was that for the first time it decoupled a test moratorium from all other disarmament issues, thereby removing the major cause of the deadlock between the two countries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She purposely didn’t glance over at the bookshelf where she’d left the graphic novels Rishi had given her in Two Sisters. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It was novel to have something firm underfoot and exceedingly agreeable to be out in the open, in warm sunshine, after weeks in impenetrable woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Remora steered a notepad and pencil around a stack of American Revolution-themed novels. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The grandmotherly nurse looked up from a novel, astonished, as Edward swung me into the room and placed me gently on the crackly paper that covered the brown vinyl mattress on the one cot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Short stories, so far. But I’m working on a novel.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z How could they not have paid heed to the novel forms of government coming into view across the Atlantic? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To shorten and adapt Wells’s novel, Koch cut its female characters. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z That winter Robert Cohn went over to America with his novel, and it was accepted by a fairly good publisher. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other honors, for his novel Native Speaker, and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American writers under forty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s the new Alice Wu novel, pages crisp and cover tight and unopened. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I tried to concentrate on the bald newspaper columns, and later to lose myself in the racy plot of the novel in my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Finally, they settled on a novel written more than forty years earlier. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He thrived on solving complex problems, prided himself on coming up with novel solutions, the kinds of things other people would never think of in a million years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Our Relocation Rules were mostly a mash-up of lines from her favorite poems, novels, and classic country lyrics. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Once built, the Montauk was so novel, so tall, it defied description by conventional means. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Years of happy memories flooded me—learning how to ride bikes together, swapping our favorite graphic novels, baking cookies at my house, laughing and talking and planning and sharing. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z She grabbed her keys from the corner table by the door, and a book that looked like one of those romance novels they sell in the supermarkets. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I started out trying to read this novel I’d been assigned, but we lived in a tragically thin-walled home, so I could hear much of the whispered conversation that ensued. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I’m thinking she found a good shrink, or maybe she published that novel she’s been writing since the earth cooled. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Last year, we learned about novels and short stories and plays. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She slipped some dime novels from behind her back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem was then put aside for a rapid scanning of a novel on the sexual misjudgments of Cambridge dons. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Saturday night I skipped the school dance and stayed home to read more of the novel. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Once Vincent could read, he did so voraciously, mostly fairy tales and novels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of atrocity pamphlets. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He would spend hours on end in his room, calculating the strategic possibilities of his novel weapon until he succeeded in putting together a manual of startling instructional clarity and an irresistible power of conviction. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z De Soto was a novel figure: half warrior, half venture capitalist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I also noticed that the white and black kids talked about different topics, and read different books: The black girls read popular black teen novels; the white girls read Harry Potter. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Our teacher perches on the edge of her desk in her bright batik pants, careful not to upset the stack of fantasy novels on the corner. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Griswold had said he was sending her advance copies of the new Poe novel. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The decision made, the men contacted H. G. Wells’s legal representative in New York and bought the rights to adapt the novel into a radio play. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z An early scene from the Wells’s novel also included a steadily ticking observatory clock. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but litde more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At last!’” continued Kate, who had read French novels, and admired the style. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I brought the book of poems Dante had brought over, the book of poems by William Carlos Williams—and Mom, she brought a novel she was reading, Bless Me, Ultima. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Often, during recess, while the other boys played outside, Neel devoured Bangla poetry and English novels that he found in the school’s small library. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I pluck one of the novels from the shelf and fan its yellowed pages open. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Betsy did not give any explanation of the novel she was reading, simply commenced to read aloud where she had broken off reading to herself. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Several years ago, I was going through my family heirlooms when I came across a manuscript that was assumed to be a novel written by my great-great-great-grandfather. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This is quite possible—Bruno does similar things in his published texts and, as we have seen, the concept of plagiarism was a novel one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A boy dressed like a poor orphan in one of Charles Dickens’s novels, carrying the letter “E.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He’s brought with him to the hospital books on drawing perspective and a few novels by Charles Dickens, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had left unfinished when he died twelve years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That night he happened to be reading The Killer Angels, a novel by Michael Shaara about the Battle of Gettysburg: Then Lee said slowly, “Soldiering has one great trap.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Edward Abbey was writing The Monkey Wrench Gang, his picaresque novel about eco-terrorism in the canyon country, his pal Ken Sleight was said to have inspired the character Seldom Seen Smith. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was striving for a level of expression that matched those of the novels I read. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Each evening, he climbed atop the cabin and lay back, reading Zane Grey novels. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the day, up and down the ward, along the corridors, Briony felt her familiar guilt pursue her with a novel vibrancy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z X-ray treatment, which she did receive, was by no means novel at the time, though the intensity of her treatment might have been unusual. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the first draft I had Bigger going smack to the electric chair; but I felt that two murders were enough for one novel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead of poring over tomes about contract law, I was now absorbed by novels. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the money from Parker’s inheritance, she was able to put her other projects aside to focus on her “Anne C. Miller” novel. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In 1911, he produced a strange novel, entitled Kantsaywhere, about a future utopia in which roughly half the population was marked as “unfit” and severely restricted in its ability to reproduce. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Connor wants to go back to the used bookstore where we met because he’s looking for a novel by a Japanese author I’ve never heard of, so we take the train south together. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A story that has to be memorised and spoken out loud is necessarily less complex than a novel that can be written down and unfolds over a greater length of time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Glad to be on a new subject, I said, “I been readin’ a novel, Miss Love, one called Damaged Goods. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Looks like that time David tried to write a novel,” Louis snickered. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Just when matters seemed most intractably confused, along came another extraordinary figure with a novel approach. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His bed was made, and there was a new basketball poster above his desk, plus even more novels on his bookshelf. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Then he goes back to the novel he’s reading. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I thought back to Simon Bolivar’s last words in Garcia Marquez’s novel—“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z These novel insects, named Blatella asmithicus after the geneticist responsible for creating them, Dr. Andrew Smith, measure nearly a meter in length, and have an astounding resiliency and immunity to all known toxins. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I find her on her floor, cutting words out of books she’s collected from around the house, including some of Mom’s romance novels. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Even the idea of contagion itself was novel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Novel reading is a middle-class pastime, which is another reason that novels have so often focused on the middle and upper classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Maybe Albert Nightingale was like a vampire in a novel, doomed to witness centuries going by. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Magdalys noticed newspapers scattered around on the tabletops and a bookshelf along one wall, overflowing with hardcover novels. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z It must be from reading all those novels. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your grandmother wouldn’t like it if I talked to you about novels,” she told me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And unlike the girl in the novel, she understood heat and wind more than ice and snow, and had no intention of breaking anyone’s heart, except maybe her own. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His words are nearly identical to the start of the novel. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas tells her friend Elizabeth Bennet that it is better to go into a marriage blind to the other persons faults. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But my favorite message from God in Dad’s science fiction novel was this: Lie down and let me eat you. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Horses, four times as massive, were profoundly, terribly novel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We pass a shop window with classic novels and new books sitting in children’s chairs, like the books are hanging out in a waiting room, ready to be bought and read. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z In his autobiography, Morrow wrote that she was the “quintessential geek girl,” unabashedly obsessed with Monty Python, comic books, fantasy novels, and videogames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They knew that one reason for the success of the original War of the Worlds novel was H. G. Wells’s use of genuine names. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the girl in the novel, she hadn’t made it herself, knew little about quilting or sewing or craftiness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “It’s like a spy novel,” she whispered as he drew her inside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew from the novels of Dickens that I would not suffer a fate the English denied themselves. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And the way be sometimes spoke, with unfamiliar cadences and phrases that better fit the style of a turn-of-the-century novel than that of a twenty-first-century classroom. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “I bet the novel’s boring, but it would be fun to have a computer.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was like a page torn from a book, a historical novel, perhaps, dealing with the captivity in Babylon or the Spanish Inquisition. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He wrote a novel, and it was not really such a bad novel as the critics later called it, although it was a very poor novel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Fingertips pressed to the lines of the novel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, ffom the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Before the kids’ bedtime, she read them novels such as Cry, the Beloved Country—about racial injustice in South Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The details of their journey and arrival there are not known beyond the fact that the Lord of Hades was perfectly aware of their intention and amused himself by frustrating it in a novel way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Delilah rushes to the only bookstore in the city that miraculously carries Howie Maldonado’s science fiction novel, The Lost Twin of Bone Bay. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “You,” said Powell, slowly, “make me sick. You’ve been reading adventure novels.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The publishers had praised his novel pretty highly and it rather went to his head. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z She pulled a book from the shelf where Victor kept his well-thumbed crime novels. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps a speculative novel where the main character is an archaeologist digging for bronzes who is then transported to an idyllic past? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I also had a small notepad for ideas concerning my novel, which could occur to me at any moment. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “They buy millions of them. There are lots of writers who make millions by writing romance novels.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Only Tralfamadorian novels, which I’m afraid you couldn’t begin to understand,” said the speaker on the wall. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She scooped up the graphic novel and opened it to any random page, determined to get her mind on something else. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Done?” he asked, closing the novel he was reading. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was looking pale, cutting his eyes between me and Mr. Brunner, like he wanted Mr. Brunner to notice what was going on, but Mr. Brunner was absorbed in his novel. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We used the advance I had received for my novel to pay for it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He relished the role and concocted novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She would spend hours in the apartment, napping, sulking, rereading her same five Bengali novels on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s a still life with an open Bible, a novel, and some extinguished candles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They expected it, in this shared space of their Africanness, but Ifemelu said nothing and turned a page of her novel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The answer of the Communist leader ran from organizing to writing novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "Find evidence in the novel for both of these. Tomorrow, we'll discuss as a class." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Enchanted by the boats on Lake Erie and novels about the sea, James decided to become a sailor. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He liked to read when he ate, and he was on page four of a new novel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In fact, Travis had a respectable collection of steamy medieval romance novels under his bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z At about half past one, we heard a novel sound—motor traffic—and a few minutes later we emerged from the woods onto U.S. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I hate Morris Sampson because he is a somewhat famous mystery writer who wrote a roman & clef, a novel that is obviously based on true events and real people. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z In her favorite novel, a brokenhearted boy burns everything his ex-girlfriend ever gave him, including a photo of her as a child. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Three years after graduation, I was still at it, having published my first novel, The Wanderers, a collection of linked stories about a gang of Bronx teenagers in the pre-Beades sixties. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Closer inspection revealed that it was a novel titled The Fountainhead. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Finding themselves in new countries, they also found an opportunity to turn their attention to novel problems. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When I said Montgomery, they launched into a lecture about Monroeville’s prominence as a result of Harper Lee and her famous novel. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Later, when I got sleepy, there would be a mystery novel, a cup of tea if I felt like it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I rambled:... the relationship of the novel to the rise of the middle class in eighteenth-century Europe. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him about my schooling, my books—four published novels to my credit now. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some novels in French and a new book about art by David Hockney. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z At one or two in the morning, I was fully awake, fully alive, and busy working on my novel. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie- Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Killens, the author of Youngblood, And Then We Heard the Thunder, and other novels, also brought me into the Harlem Writer’s Guild, an organization of black writers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “We were wondering, after the end of An Imperial Affliction—’ “I disavow everything in that putrid novel,” Van Houten said, cutting me off. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Those with the most “currency” can cross from the food section to the book section, where old Khmer, Chinese, French, or English dictionaries and novels can be bought with several kilograms of rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I dreamed of going north and writing books, novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Chief God’s purpose in the creative advance is the evocation of novel intensities. He is the lure for our feeling.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of blueprints and novels and stationery, folded and cut and shaped into a flock of striped tents, all tied together with more string in black and white and red. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Yet he refused to read the Russians his grandfather had brought to his bedside, or any novels, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When it was his turn to read novels out loud, he liked The Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe, stories about people shipwrecked on islands and learning how to survive. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Spy novels, as I and the military know but my brother does not, are crawling with spies who pretend to be harmless butterfly fanciers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The kids there didn't want to kill me—how novel! How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The doors are open, and I see a sprawl of things stolen from the human world, matchbooks, newspapers, empty bottles, novels, and Polaroids. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn’t interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The men soon discovered how difficult it was to condense a novel into sixty pages, the average script length for a one-hour program. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Mom was also a writer and was always typing away on novels, short stories, plays, poetry, fables, and children’s books, which she illustrated herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Clarence Darrow entered the case and in a novel maneuver won for Prendergast a sanity inquest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some experience will ignite somewhere deep down in me the smoldering embers of new fires and I’ll be off again to write yet another novel. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I swear on my autographed copy of Ethan Hawke's debut novel that this chapter will not be dull, so please don't skim or skip over it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z And even though I was urged to read all that I could, several teachers were dismayed to learn that I had read the novels of Victor Hugo and Flaubert. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor can we leave success out of the history of parliamentary democracy or the novel; but democracies sometimes fail, and sometimes the novels get worse not better. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were “roughed in.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z That pursuit itself is nothing novel, of course, but now, a new generation of powerful technology lets researchers see the inside of the brain, watch it work, literally, and observe when it fails to work. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z As for Alvarez’s linear accelerator, Lawrence did not even submit an estimate—the device was too novel even to calculate a rough construction budget. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Neither species regarded the arrangement as novel; they had lived together in Europe for millennia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He opened up his briefcase and showed me all the books within, most of them on general science, but one of them a novel titled Tropic of Cancer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No matter how exciting the spectacle before her, nor how novel to her girlish eyes, she turned away instantly if the corner of her eye caught a glimpse of metallic movement. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “So this is dumb,” I said, nodding at the graphic novel. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z On December 9,1938, under the new name The Campbell Playhouse, the Mercury team presented a drama based on the novel Rebecca. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Helmuth is sitting on a park bench, reading a detective novel. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “It just shows how conventional I was. Everyone in my college generation wanted to go to Paris and write a novel.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Harvard couldn’t match Troy as a setting, and in Segal’s whole novel only one person died. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gat has a list of the hundred greatest novels ever written, and he’s pushing his way through whatever he’s been able to find on the island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Then I crawled in and lay there for quite a long time trying out for size the expensive, confined, strangely new-smelling, entirely novel space that was soon to be my home away from home. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At the library, I would pick up a novel, read a page or two, then make a quick decision as to whether or not I wanted to borrow it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I had given him some books to read, but they were historical novels that used to be my mother’s. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Engel dutifully slapped me into silence and said, “She is not writing a novel. She is making a report.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This was the missing link in Darwin's logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A knife, rope, PowerBars, water bottle, compass, first aid kit, a topographical map, my sketchpad, a hardcover novel, and a book Leo gave me on topography. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Molly thinks back to that moment: pulling each copy of the novel off the shelf, turning them over in her hands, returning the hardcover and the newer paperback, tucking the other one under her shirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s just a coincidence, Jules. You know, a once-in-a-trillion kind of thing, like that old saying about the chimp and the typewriter. Give him long enough and he’ll write a novel.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Job duties include reading, remembering encyclopedias, novels, and poetry; and memorizing the first ninety-nine digits of pi. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Just make a few changes, and you have the famous first sentence of Tolstoy’s great novel Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I walked into Ms. G’s second period class, I picked up The Color Purple, a novel written by Alice Walker. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z We fled to Boston once, through the Bay, and all had lain before us, novel and unknown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At the beginning of last year she’d assigned an essay and an oral presentation on a novel we’d read over the summer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Once they got here, the incomers from Dad’s novel decided to surgically remove their wings, in order to blend in better with human beings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The plots and stories in the novels did not interest me so much as the point of view revealed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was thrilled by the Kilgore Trout novels in the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had lost my crown for nothing. a few days before the Poles left, I had a novel experience. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The same can be said of the novel after the best-seller, the album that follows the gold record, or the proverbial sophomore jinx. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Those are just some of my favorite graphic novels,” Rishi explained. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There were shelves of paperbacks; there were encyclopedias, histories, novels, philosophies, and textbooks of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and others, more than I can name. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z One day, I’d be so rich I would have a library full of novels to choose from. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry was president of the Senior Debating Society, the only extracurricular activity he had time for, and Jean Louise was a fat fourteen, immersed in Victorian poetry and detective novels. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He wanted to find a “novel” item, something that people would wear that was not being sold in the stores. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But consensual sex is something that the authors of most novels and scripts about prison can’t seem to acknowledge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was this: In the novel, the incomers were completely loveless. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The little things in my father’s novel were called Lazarus Doors because you actually had to die to come through them—one atom at a time. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This was all we could find in each other, this the novel language of our life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z D. H. Lawrence wrote a novel, The Trespasser, which was inspired by Wagner s version of Siegfried. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z With her free hand, she opens the novel in her lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He detected no respiratory infection but prescribed shots of liver and placenta extract, a novel therapy for weakened immune systems. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Besides the material on chinchillas, he also brought from the capital the popular wartime booklets that had been created to propagate the image of the heroic soldier, and sentimental novels he had bought for Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, sometimes it does feel like we’re in one of those trendy dystopian novels,” she admitted. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I will also never forget the encouragement I received before, during, and well after writing this novel. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I love the thought of walking into a bookstore and seeing her name on the cover of a big and beautiful novel. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Any novel or play about the lower class will necessarily be alien to the culture it portrays. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do you want to write novels or nonfiction?" he asks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But Cletus told her that coffee had made me tough, and besides that all writers needed something to see them through those long novels, and better it was coffee than Jim Beam whiskey. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I wonder, though, if you would mind answering a couple questions I have about what happens after the end of the novel. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Could there really be a whole congregation of people who have never heard of the James Dickey novel and subsequent movie? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The night clerk kept on reading his John Grisham novel, and barely looked up as she walked past him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The idea of taking it to get some novels—it’s too foolish to consider. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I read every novel by every single one of Halliday’s favorite authors. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He does nothing but read all day—Charles Dickens’s novels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sean and I have a lot in common—we love graphic novels, Stephen King, the Celtics; we both have jet-black hair; neither of us has a dad—but we differ in some ways too. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z And this had happened because I had read a novel about a mythical man called George F. Babbitt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The First words of my father’s novel are these: My dear child: When these immigrants arrive, they do not come as passengers carried in the bellies of mechanical whales. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z |
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