* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

A Fire Upon the Deep is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge, a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a conversation medium resembling Usenet.

In 1930, an American film of the novel was made, directed by Lewis Milestone.

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

In the event, though, the plans were rejected, in part because " American opinion was naturally reluctant to accept the principle of equality of treatment so novel in debtor-creditor relationships ".

In 1964, Richard Kyle coined the term " graphic novel " to distinguish newly translated European works from genre-driven subject matter common in American comics.

* Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

Severin also provides evidence in his book that another publicised case of a real-life marooned Miskito Central American man named only as Will may have caught Defoe's attention, inspiring the depiction of Man Friday in his novel.

* Dartmoor prison plays a central role in The Lively Lady, American author Kenneth Roberts ' 1931 historical novel taking place during The War of 1812

In 1960 American author William Buchanan used the character in his novel Christopher Syn.

In 1971, American novelist Frank Yerby published The Man From Dahomey, a historical novel set partially in Dahomey.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

The first North American novel, The History of Emily Montague ( 1769 ) by Frances Brooke was written in epistolary form.

An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.

By 1912 and 1913, there are beginning to be many films from many American companies that rely on applying novel decoration to the story, rather than supplying any twists to the drama itself to sustain interest.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them.

The title of the well-known Italian novel Il Gattopardo was rendered in English as " The Leopard ", in which the translator was led astray by a false friend ; Italian gattopardo, while being the cognate of " leopard ", in fact refers to other felines ( the American ocelot, the African serval and an extinct type of Italian wildcat ).

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

* For Whom the Bell Tolls, an Ernest Hemingway novel which tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War.

Men Like Gods ( 1923 ) is also a utopian novel.

A specialty was his ancestral Scandinavia, as in his novel versions of the legends of Hrólf Kraki ( Hrolf Kraki's Saga ) and Haddingus ( The War of the Gods ).

In Neil Gaiman's award winning novel American Gods, thunderbirds feature prominently.

* In the novel Small Gods by Terry Pratchett the prophet Brutha encounters several Ephebian ( Greek ) philosophers in the country, attempting to disprove Zeno's paradox by shooting arrows at a succession of tortoises.

Mead is mentioned many times in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel, American Gods ; it is referred to as the drink of the gods.

These include Thursday's fictions by Richard James Allen and Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

Gods named Liber and Libera play a major role in the science fiction / time-travel novel Household Gods by Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr.

* In Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves, Selene Lindstrom, is a major character of the third part, which occurs on the Moon.

In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Bertie appears in the segment " What Ho, Gods of the Abyss?

He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for Heroes, Judith Tarr's fantasy series, The Hound and the Falcon and the Alamut series, Robert Carter's " The Language of Stones " series, the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the books of the Welsh author Jenny Sullivan and in Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider Trilogy.

He has a small appearance in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, and implied to be Elvis.

American Gods is a novel by Neil Gaiman that contains Anansi ( under the name Mr. Nancy ), among other mythological characters.

In Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods, soma is referred to be " concentrated prayer ", a drink enjoyed by the gods ( who feed on people's worship ), such as Odin.

Another novel, Household Gods, by Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr, is set in Carnuntum during the reign of Marcus Aurelius.

Ironwood and its famous pasties appear in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.

* The main character in Sydney Sheldon's 1987 novel Windmills of the Gods starts out as a professor at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

* Gods and Generals ( 2003 ) — This film, based on a historical novel of the same name, is a prequel to Gettysburg.

* A Balkanized India enters a water war in the Postcyberpunk Hugo award winning novel, River of Gods by Ian McDonald

The Kobold Heinzelmann is an important character in the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

Isou publishes first metagraphic novel, Les journaux des dieux ( The Gods ’ Diaries ), followed soon afterwards by Pomerand ’ s Saint Ghetto des Prêts ( Saint Ghetto of the Loans ) and Lemaître ’ s Canailles ( Scoundrels ).

Labienus is featured in The Gods of War, a novel by British author Conn Iggulden.

In literature, he appears in American Gods by Neil Gaiman, as " Czernobog ", and much later in the novel as " Bielebog " ( it is implied that the two are different aspects of the same character, sharing the same existence, but represent symbolic seasons ).

He wrote Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, which are the prequel and sequel, respectively, to his father Michael's award-winning novel The Killer Angels.

In the 1993 film adaptation of the novel, Gettysburg, he is portrayed by actor James Patrick Stuart, who reprised the role in the prequel Gods and Generals.