American novels adapted into plays

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being

1876 adventure novel and bildungsroman by Mark Twain

1884 novel by Mark Twain

1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

novel by Harper Lee

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

1953 novel by Ray Bradbury

1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell

2003 novel by Khaled Hosseini

1929 novel by Ernest Hemingway

1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk

1937 novella by John Steinbeck

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller. It was his debut novel. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot.

1869 novel by Louisa May Alcott

1826 novel by James Fenimore Cooper

novel by Ayn Rand

2007 novel by Khalid Hosseini

1957 novel by Ayn Rand

novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick

2005 novel by Rick Riordan

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1880 novel by Lewis Wallace

1987 novel by Stephen King

shared fictional universe based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft

1958 novella by Truman Capote

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

1963 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening scenarios, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additiona

1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis

Pollyanna is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. The book's success led to Porter soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Reece, published in 1997.

1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

novel by Ken Kesey

1889 novel by Mark Twain

1993 novel by Lois Lowry

novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

novel by Pearl S. Buck

1988 novel by Thomas Harris

novel by William Faulkner

1981 novel by Thomas Harris

novel by Henry James

1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

novel by Jack London

novel by Ayn Rand

novel by Nicholas Sparks

2002 novel by Alice Sebold

1898 novella by Henry James

1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith

1908 novel by Jack London

1982 novel by Alice Walker

2003 novel by Audrey Niffenegger

1992 novel [non-genre] by Stephen King

novel by Edith Wharton

fictional armchair detective

1959 novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

novel by James M. Cain