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2002-present. Genre. urban fiction. young adult fiction. crime fiction. K'wan Foye, also known simply as K'wan, is an American author of urban fiction. [1][2] According to Foye his first novel, Gangsta, was largely autobiographical. [3] The book reached number 3 on the Essence magazine bestseller list. [4]
King Rat is a 1962 novel by James Clavell and the author's literary debut. Set during World War II, the novel describes the struggle for survival of American, Australian, British, Dutch and New Zealander prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Singapore. Clavell was a prisoner in the Changi Prison camp, where the novel is set. One of the three ...
Preceded by. Shōgun (in chronology of Asian Saga) Followed by. Gai-Jin. Tai-Pan is a 1966 novel written by James Clavell about European and American traders who move into Hong Kong in 1842 following the end of the First Opium War. It is the second book in Clavell's Asian Saga, and the first to feature the fictional Struan family.
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy. [1] The series portrays a fictional past, present, and future wherein Earth encounters an alien civilization from a nearby system of three Sun-like stars ...
The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. [ 2 ] Set in New Zealand 's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields. Instead, he stumbles into a tense meeting between twelve local men, and is drawn into a complex mystery ...
King Rat. (in chronology of Asian Saga) Followed by. Whirlwind. Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's Asian Saga and is chronologically the fifth book in the series. The "Noble House" in the title is the nickname of Struan's, the trading company ...
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane is the second book in Suzanne Collins 's children's novel series The Underland Chronicles. [3] Published in 2004, the novel contains elements of high fantasy. [1] The novel focuses on a prophecy mentioned at the end of Gregor the Overlander which the Underlanders believe ...
Followed by. Mossflower. Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques. [ 1 ] Originally published in 1986, it is the first book of the Redwall series. The book was illustrated by Gary Chalk, with the British cover illustration by Pete Lyon and the US cover by Troy Howell. It is also one of the three Redwall novels to be made into an animated ...