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The Trial
1925 novel by Franz Kafka

The Canterbury Tales
collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Good Soldier Švejk
novel by the Czech author Jaroslav Hašek
The Castle
novel by Franz Kafka
The Man Without Qualities
novel by Robert Musil
New Atlantis
incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon
Lost in America
unfinished novel by Franz Kafka

The 120 Days of Sodom
1785 novel by Marquis de Sade

Netochka Nezvanova
1849 unfinished novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Winds of Winter
novel by George R. R. Martin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
monthly serial; final and unfinished novel by Charles Dickens; published 1870
The First Man
book by Albert Camus

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768 novel by Laurence Sterne

Billy Budd, Sailor
novella by Herman Melville

Dubrovsky
unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin

Confessions of Felix Krull
1954 novel by Thomas Mann

Bouvard et Pécuchet
novel by Gustave Flaubert

The Mysterious Stranger
novel attempted by Mark Twain

The Love of the Last Tycoon
1941 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sanditon
Sanditon is an 1817 unfinished novel by the English writer Jane Austen. In January 1817, Austen began work on a new novel she called The Brothers, later titled Sanditon, and completed twelve chapters before stopping work in mid-March 1817, probably because of illness. R.W. Chapman first published a transcription of the original manuscript in 1925 under the name Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817.
Peter the Great's Negro
unfinished historical novel by Aleksandr Pushkin, based on the life of his maternal great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, a black African brought to Russia during the reign of Peter the Great

The Watsons
unfinished novel by Jane Austen
The Life of Klim Samgin
novel by Maxim Gorky
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
1798 unfinished novel by Mary Wollstonecraft

The Post Office Girl
novel by Stefan Zweig

Lucien Leuwen
novel by Stendhal

The Original of Laura
incomplete novel by Vladimir Nabokov

The Ghost-Seer
novel by Friedrich Schiller
Motl, Peysi the Cantor's Son
novel by Sholem Aleichem

Jean Santeuil
1952 novel by Marcel Proust

Princess Ligovskaya
unfinished novel by Mikhail Lermontov

Stephen Hero
unpublished novel by James Joyce

Between the Acts
final novel by Virginia Woolf
The Plant
novel by Stephen King
Scorpion and Felix
1837 comedic story by Karl Marx
Theatrical Novel
1965 novel by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Priest in 1839
1992 novel by Jules Verne

La Vie de Marianne
novel by Pierre de Marivaux
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.
1963 novel by Jack London

The Pale King
novel by David Foster Wallace
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
unfinished novel by John Steinbeck

Azathoth
short story by H.P. Lovecraft
The Journal of Julius Rodman
novel by Edgar Allan Poe
The Notion Club Papers
unfinished novel
The Light-House
unfinished short story by Edgar Allan Poe
Answered Prayers
novel by Truman Capote

The First Four Years
American children's novel, 1971, ninth in the Little House series, unfinished

St. Ives
novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Quiller-Couch
The Knight of Sainte-Hermine
1869 novel by Alexandre Dumas

Weir of Hermiston
novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poodle Springs
novel by Raymond Chandler

Le Paysan parvenu
novel by Pierre de Marivaux

Un gentilhomme
1920 novel by Octave Mirbeau
Fragment of a Novel
unfinished novel written by Lord Byron

Cannon-Fodder
Cannon-Fodder () is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely autobiographical narrative is set before World War II, and roughly continues where Céline's 1936 novel Death on Credit ended. Much of the novel disappeared in 1944. Surviving fragments have been published from 1948 and onward, the main part in book form in 1949.

Wedding Preparations in the Country
1907 novel by Franz Kafka
The Cursed and Killed
1992 novel by Viktor Astafyev

Mount Analogue
1952 novel by René Daumal