* We Need to Talk about Kevin ( 2003 ) is a monologic epistolary novel, written as a series of letters to the narrator's husband Franklin.

An eighteenth-century response to the novel from the Monthly Review reads: “ We must hear no more of enchanted forests and castles, giants, dragons, walls of fire and other ‘ monstrous and prodigious things ;’ – yet still forests and castles remain, and it is still within the province of fiction, without overstepping the limits of nature, to make use of them for the purpose of creating surprise .”

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent, the protagonist Ethan Hawley describes a mandrake root in his family's collection of curios collected on whaling voyages, "[...] We even had a mandrake root-a perfect little man, sprouted from the death-ejected sperm of a hanged man [...]".

Robert B. Parker's 2001 novel Potshot borrows heavily from the end of the movie for the final confrontation between Spenser's group of seven outlaws and the Dell, the antagonists of the story, going so far as to acknowledge it in dialog between characters and having one of them say the line, " We deal in lead, friend.

He is most famous for his 1921 novel We, a story set in a dystopian future police state.

In 1923, Zamyatin arranged for the manuscript of his novel We to be smuggled to E. P.

* the fictitious kingdom that is the setting of C. S. Lewis ' novel Till We Have Faces ; or

We are also introduced in the course of the novel to the Canadian doctor Lewis Yealland, another factual figure who used electric shock treatment to " cure " his patients.

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

Two notable exclusions from this trend were Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of dystopian novel We, and Mikhail Bulgakov, who, while using science fiction instrumentary in Heart of a Dog, The Fatal Eggs and Ivan Vasilyevich, was interested in social satire rather than scientistic progress.

His 2006 epic novel We, the Drowned is set in Marstal.

The pair rapidly became champions of the Punk scene and created a new tone for the paper ( Parsons ' time at NME is reflected in his 2005 novel Stories We Could Tell, about the misadventures of three young music paper journalists on the night of 16 August 1977, the night Elvis Presley died ).

When attempting it himself later in the novel, Paul says, " We will see now whether I'm the Kwisatz Haderach who can survive the test that the Reverend Mothers have survived.

* NPR, Faith, Family And Forgiveness In ' We Sinners ' a novel by Hanna Pylvainen

* We Sinners, a novel about Laestadianism by former LLC-member Hanna Pylväinen.

Rand began The Fountainhead ( originally titled Second-Hand Lives ) following the completion in 1934 of her first novel, We the Living.

Rand's intention was to write a novel that was less overtly political than We the Living, to avoid being " considered a ' one-theme ' author ".

Macmillan Publishing, which had published We the Living, rejected the book after Rand insisted that they must provide more publicity for her new novel than they did for the first one.

Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold is a 1956 novel by C. S. Lewis.

According to The Folio Society, " We can never know if this is exactly what Faulkner would have envisaged, but the result justifies his belief that coloured inks would allow readers to follow the strands of the novel more easily, without compromising the ‘ thought-transference ’ for which he argued so passionately.

They said " We asked for a novel.

There are similarities between Anthem and the 1921 novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, another author who had lived in communist Russia.

Both had handled her previous novel, We the Living.

Dutton, New York. 1924 first edition, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York. We () is a dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin completed in 1921.

German avant-rock group Cassiber incorporated texts from the novel in their 1990 album A Face We All Know.

* Innocence is Drowned ( 1938 ) novel

Written in ten days, Ballard later dismissed this novel as a " piece of hackwork ", referring instead to The Drowned World as his first novel.

Westlake and Gores repeated the same trick in 1990 with matching sequences in the DKA novel 32 Cadillacs and the Dortmunder novel Drowned Hopes.

In contrast to Ballard's earlier novel The Drowned World, The Burning World describes a world in which water is scarce.

Of the Doctor Who literature, Mickey appears in one New Series Adventures novel alongside the Doctor and Rose, Winner Takes All ( 2005 ), and two Tenth Doctor novels, The Stone Rose and The Feast of the Drowned.

The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard.

The Drowned World opens within the conventions of a hard science fiction novel, as the catastrophe responsible for the apocalypse is explained scientifically – solar radiation has caused the polar ice-caps to melt and worldwide temperature to soar, leaving the cities of northern Europe and America submerged in beautiful and haunting tropical lagoons.

Drowned Ammet is a fantasy novel for young adults by British author Diana Wynne Jones.

Ballard's post-apocalyptic science fiction novel The Drowned World ( 1962 ).

" Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine commented saying "" Drowned World ," the title of which was inspired by J. G. Ballard's apocalyptic novel of the same name, sums up much of Madonna's personal tribulations with fame: " I got exactly what I asked for / Running, rushing back for more ... And now I find, I've changed my mind.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

Typee, Melville's first novel, describes a brief love affair with a beautiful native girl, Fayaway, who generally " wore the garb of Eden " and came to epitomize the guileless noble savage in the popular imagination.

She appears as a true Christian and protector of her fellow native Mexicans in the novel Tlaloc weeps for Mexico by László Passuth.

Plan 9 has novel features such as the 9P protocol for accessing local and remote resources as files, union mounts, an improved proc file system, and native unicode support throughout the system.

The royalties and sales income for the novel were transferred to the Solzhenitsyn Foundation for aid to former camp prisoners, and this fund, which had to work in secret in its native country, managed to transfer substantial amounts of money to those ends in the 1970s and 1980s.

A social realist novel depicting the oppression of native Peruvian miners and their communities by a foreign-owned tungsten mine.

The port of Portsmouth declined, but the city survived through its Victorian doldrums, a time described in the works of native son Thomas Bailey Aldrich, particularly in his 1869 novel The Story of a Bad Boy.

* The worship of Yemanjá by the fishermen of Bahia, Brazil, is a central element of the 1936 Modernist novel Mar Morto ( Dead Sea ) by the famous Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, himself a native of that state.

Ironwood and the Ironwood region are central to folk novel Marvin & Me, by author and Ironwood native Rod Stockhaus.

* The movie Anatomy of a Murder was filmed in Ishpeming and surrounding areas in 1959, based on the novel by Ishpeming native John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

* Dorris Bowdon, a Coldwater native, was a screen actress who appeared in several motion pictures in the 1930s and 1940s and is best known for her role as Rosasharn in the film adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel " The Grapes of Wrath ", starring Henry Fonda.

* In Ward Moore's 1953 alternate history novel Bring the Jubilee, the protagonist, Hodgins M. Backmaker, is a native of Wappingers Falls.

During her lifetime, Frame's work was principally published by American firm George Braziller, garnering numerous literary prizes in her native New Zealand, and the Commonwealth Writers ' Prize in 1989 for her final novel, The Carpathians.

He began his writing career in 1988 with the well-received The Twenty-Seventh City, a novel centering on his native St. Louis, but did not gain national attention until the publication of his essay, " Perchance to Dream ," in Harper's Magazine, discussing the cultural role of the writer in the new millennium through the prism of his own frustrations.

Iterative Protein Redesign and Optimization ( IPRO ) redesigns proteins to increase or give specificity to native or novel substrates and cofactors.

* In Arthur C. Clarke's novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, the banyan tree is used several times as a reference to describe a fictional life form native to Europa ( moon ).

Sandemose's novel portrays the small Danish town Jante ( modelled upon his native town Nykøbing Mors as it was at the beginning of the 20th century, but typical of all small towns and communities ), where nobody is anonymous.

Wethersfield native, author Thomas Tryon also set his action / romance novels The Wings of the Morning and In the Fire of Spring in Wethersfield, as also a mystery / horror novel The Other.

Author John Gardner, a Batavia native, set his novel The Sunlight Dialogues ( 1972 ) in 1960s Batavia.

In his second novel Our Daily Bread, the first book in the five-volume Koillismaa series, he turned to his native region.

Zhou Tai was a native of Jiujiang Commandery, and was depicted as a pirate around the area in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it is hard to tell if he really practiced piracy because historic records only suggest he was of an obscure origin.

Here was the start of a novel method of surveying when " An intelligent native ", most probably Hearsey ’ s Hindu munshi was briefed about the use of compass and sent to look for the famous ‘ Cow ’ s Mouth ’.

Mario Vargas Llosa, in his historical novel The Way to Paradise, analyzes Flora Tristan and her grandson Paul Gauguin's contrasting quests for the ideal life through their experiences in and outside their native France.

It was in Savoy that he conceived the plan of his novel Astrée, the scene of which is laid on the banks of the Lignon in his native province of Forez.

* Ayesha-the title character of the novel, called Hiya by the native Amahagger, or " She ".