- Literature of developing nations for students, presenting analysis, context, and criticism on literature of developing nations, Elizabeth Bellalouna, Michael L. LaBlanc, and Ira Mark Milne, editors
- Rediscoveries II, important writers select their favorite works of neglected fiction, edited by David Madden & Peggy Bach
- Classic cult fiction:, a companion to popular cult literature, Thomas Reed Whissen
- The man who invented fiction, how Cervantes ushered in the modern world, William Egginton
- The fiction of relationship, Arnold Weinstein ; illustrations by Dan Reed
- Society and self in the novel,, edited with a foreword
- Through the window, Julian Barnes
- Deceit, desire, and the novel;, self and other in literary structure., Translated by Yvonne Freccero
- Nabokov's favorite word is mauve, what the numbers reveal about the classics, bestsellers, and our own writing, Ben Blatt
- Taking the literary pulse;, psychological studies of life and letters,, by Joseph Collins ..
- Meditations on Quixote., With introd. and notes by Julián Marías. Translated from the Spanish by Evelyn Rugg and Diego Marín
- The art of subtext, beyond plot, Charles Baxter
- The nature of narrative, Robert Scholes, James Phelan, Robert Kellogg
- Critical encounters, literary views and reviews, 1953-1977, by Nona Balakian
- The half-known world, on writing fiction, Robert Boswell
- Art and reality: ways of the creative process
- Literary chapters,, by W. L. George
- The nature of narrative, [by] Robert Scholes [and] Robert Kellogg
- Around the world in 80 novels, a global journey inspired by writers from every continent, Henry Russell
- Chrétien de Troyes: inventor of the modern novel., New York, Bookman Associates
- The novel and the reader
- Theory of the novel, a historical approach, edited by Michael McKeon
- Desert islands, Walter de la Mare ; with decorations by Rex Whistler ; foreword by Michael McKeon
- Lives of the novelists, a history of fiction in 294 lives, John Sutherland
- How to read novels like a professor, Thomas C. Foster
- The craft of fiction
- The story behind great books., Illustrated by Friedebald Dzubas
- Points of view;, five essays
- Symbolism and fiction
- Essays on modern novelists,, by William Lyon Phelps
- Motives for fiction, Robert Alter
- The scope of fiction, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren
- The theory of the novel;, a historico-philosophical essay on the forms of great epic literature., Translated from the German by Anna Bostock
- The novel in English, an introduction, Ian Milligan
- Rise of the novel, exploring history's greatest early works
- The art of the novel, Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher
- The book of books, the great American read, foreword by Meredith Vieira ; text by Jessica Allen
- Fiction and the figures of life, [by] William H. Gass
- The rough guide to classic novels, by Simon Mason
- Flawed texts and verbal icons, literary authority in American fiction, Hershel Parker
- The shelf, from LEQ to LES, Phyllis Rose
- The novel, edited by Franco Moretti
- Tendencies of the modern novel,, by Hugh Walpole, Hamish Miles, Milton Waldman [and others] ..
- A foreword to fiction,, by James Weber Linn and Houghton Wells Taylor
- How to read and write about fiction, William Kenney
- The art of the novel, Milan Kundera ; translated from the French by Linda Asher
- The Representation of women in fiction, edited, with an introduction, by Carolyn G. Heilbrun and Margaret R. Higonnet
- A primer of the novel, for readers and writers, David Madden, Charles Bane, Sean M. Flory
- How to analyze fiction, William Kenney
- On the grotesque, strategies of contradiction in art and literature, Geoffrey Galt Harpham