New Prose Fiction
- Afawarq Gabra Iyasus - Libb Wolled Tārīk ("A Heart-Born Story"), the first novel in Amharic
- Leonid Andreyev - The Seven Who Were Hanged
- Francis Aveling - Arnoul the Englishman
- José Toribio Medina - Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu
- L. Frank Baum
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
- Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville (as "Edith Van Dyne")
- Arnold Bennett
- Buried Alive
- The Old Wives' Tale
- Algernon Blackwood - John Silence, Physician Extraordinary
- Alexander Bogdanov - Red Star
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon - During Her Majesty's Pleasure
- Rhoda Broughton - Mamma
- G. K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
- Louisa Cooke Don Carlos - A Battle in the Smoke
- Marie Corelli - Holy Orders
- James Oliver Curwood - The Courage of Captain Plum and The Gold Hunters
- Anatole France - Penguin Island
- E. M. Forster - A Room with a View
- John Fox, Jr. - The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - The Shoulders of Atlas
- Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
- Jeannie Gunn - We of the Never Never
- William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland
- Selma Lagerlöf - The Girl from the Marsh Croft
- Jack London - The Iron Heel
- W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician
- Lucy Maud Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables
- Baroness Orczy - The Elusive Pimpernel
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
- Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase
- Arthur Schnitzler - Der Weg ins Freie
- Georges Sorel - Reflections on Violence
- H. De Vere Stacpoole - The Blue Lagoon
- Mary Augusta Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory
- H. G. Wells
- A Modern Utopia
- The War in the Air
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