Novels about orphans

1837–1839 novel by Charles Dickens

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

1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë

1894 short story collection by Rudyard Kipling

1861 novel by Charles Dickens

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.

1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens

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novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery; first in a series

fantasy novel by C. S. Lewis

novel series by Lemony Snicket

1985 novel by Patrick Süskind

1912 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

children's book character created by Michael Bond

picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling

1973 novel by Michael Ende

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.

1995 novel by Philip Pullman

1983 children's book by Roald Dahl

novel by Hector Malot

2009 novel by James Dashner

1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs

American epistolary novel

1915 novel and bildungsroman by William Somerset Maugham

weekly serial; novel by Charles Dickens; published 1840–1841

1886 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

2008 novel by Neil Gaiman

fictional character

2001 novel by Terry Pratchett

children's book written by Roald Dahl

2006 novel by Thomas Harris

1923 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery

2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara

novel by S. E. Hinton

novel by Romain Gary (Émile Ajar)

2012 novel by Leigh Bardugo

novel series by Lloyd Alexander

1872 novel by Ouida

novel by Ian McEwan

1985 novel by John Irving

1922 children's novel by Janusz Korczak

1894 novel by Arthur Machen

2007 novel by Brian Selznick

wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha)

novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

wuxia novel by Jin Yong

novel by Émile Zola

novel by Elizabeth Goudge

Russian fantasy novel series by Dmitri Yemets

Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl. The story was inspired by the marriage of Hugo Reid and Victoria Reid.

1967 wuxia novel by Jin Yong (Louis Cha)

first novel by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup

Japanese light novel series

1988 novel by Noah Gordon

1925 novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery

1987 novel by Isabel Allende

novel by Truman Capote, 1951

1975 novel by Nawal El Saadawi