Urdu-language novels

thumb|"The Spy Zanbur Bringing Mahiyya to the City of Tawariq", from the Akbar Hamzanama

1899 Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa

Pir-e-Kamil or Peer-e-Kamil (; meaning "The Perfect Mentor") is a novel written by Pakistani writer Umera Ahmad. It was first published in Urdu in 2004 and later in English in 2011. The book deals with the turning points in intervening lives of two people: a runaway girl named Imama Hashim; and a boy named Salar Sikander with an IQ of more than 150. The story spans a time period of around ten years. It is Ahmad's most popular work. It is followed by a sequel, Aab-e-Hayat.

Bazaar-e-Husn () or Seva Sadan () is a Hindustani novel by Premchand.

novel by Qurratulain Hyder

Mirat-ul-Uroos (Urdu: مراۃ العروس, ''The bride's mirror'') is an Urdu language novel written by Indian author Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, also popularly known as Deputy Nazir Ahmad, (1830–1912) and published in 1869. The novel contains themes promoting the cause of female education in Muslim and Indian society, and is credited for giving birth to an entire genre of fictional works promoting female literacy in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Kashmiri and other languages of the Indian subcontinent. The book sold over 100,000 copies within a few years of its initial publishing.

Fasana-e-Azad (; , also romanized as Fasana-i-Azad) is an Urdu novel by Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar. It was serialized in Avadh Akhbar between 1878 and 1883 before it was published in four large volumes by the Nawal Kishore Press. The story follows a wandering character named Azad and his companion, Khoji, from the streets of late-nineteenth-century Lucknow to the battlefields of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) in Constantinople and Russia. The work's status as a novel has been debated, but it is thought by most scholars to be one of the first novels (or a proto-novel) in Urdu.

2005 novel by Bano Qudsia