This is the project's main work list as we move towards Wikipedia 1.0. The articles are being evaluated according to the following criteria:
Assessment grades
Need: The article's importance, regardless of its quality
Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia |
High | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge |
Mid | Subject fills in more minor details |
Low | Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial |
General novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Top | B | However needs slight restyling for Novels and |
Oroonoko | Aphra Behn | High | B | However needs slight restyling for Novels |
The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | High | B | |
Not Without Laughter | Langston Hughes | Low | Stub | Still needs considerable input, infobox completion and more restyling |
Bracebridge Hall | Washington Irving | Low | Stub | Still needs considerable input, infobox comletion and more restyling |
The Birds on the Trees | Nina Bawden | Low | Stub | |
The Pickwick Papers | Charles Dickens | Top | B | infobox needs to be expanded and restyling needed |
Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | Top | B | |
Nicholas Nickleby | Charles Dickens | Top | Start | restyling needed |
The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | High | Start | |
Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens | High | Start | |
A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | High | B | |
The Chimes | Charles Dickens | Low | Stub | Needs considerable input, |
The Cricket on the Hearth | Charles Dickens | Mid | Start | Needs considerable input, |
The Battle of Life | Charles Dickens | Low | Start | Needs considerable input, |
Martin Chuzzlewit | Charles Dickens | High | Start | |
Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | High | Start | |
David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | Top | B | |
Bleak House | Charles Dickens | High | C | restyling and expansion needed |
Hard Times | Charles Dickens | High | C | |
Little Dorrit | Charles Dickens | Mid | Start | more description, |
A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | High | C | extra infobox info and more restyling needed |
Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Top | C | |
Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | Mid | B | |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Charles Dickens | Mid | C | |
Silverlock | John Myers Myers | Mid | Start | Lots of content needed and |
Ella Minnow Pea | Mark Dunn | Low | C | Content needed |
Gadsby (novel) | Ernest Vincent Wright | Low | C | infobox still incomplete and content on actual plot need. Really still a stub. |
The Fox (novella) | D. H. Lawrence | Low | Stub | Everything needed I am not sure about the genre |
Tar Baby (novel) | Toni Morrison | Low | Stub | Has infobox, content is only one short graf |
The End of the Affair | Graham Greene | Mid | Stub | Needs huge editorial input, i.e. for a major novel and two films there is great need for content, leading to an eventual split to three articles. |
Charlotte's Web | E. B. White | High | B |
Novels by Genre
Alternate history novel
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Eaters of the Dead | Mid | Stub | Needs plot summary | |
Hannibal's Children | Mid | Start | Needs addition information and plot summary | |
Ice | Low | C | Main thing is copyediting and critical information | |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Mark Twain | High | C | more infobox detail needed and literary input |
Adventure novel
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Robinson Crusoe | Top | C | ||
The Count of Monte Cristo | Top | B | ||
The Last Dog on Earth | Low | ![]() |
more reception notes, more references, general clean-up, needs a picture | |
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | Top | B | |
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | Top | C | |
Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | Top | C | continue to FA-Class |
Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | High | B | Lit significance info and more allusions needed |
Full Tilt | Neal Shusterman | Low | Start | Major revamp, better plot summary, references, picture, and updated info. box. |
Autobiographical novel
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Roots | Mid | C | Fairly good start to the novel, still more to do | |
A Rose Beyond the Thames | Low | Stub | Very basic start made. |
Comedy novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Inside Mr. Enderby | Anthony Burgess | Low | Start | |
Love Monkey | Low | Start |
Crime novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Sicilian | Mario Puzo | Low | Start | |
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | High | Start |
Dystopian novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | Mid | B | |
Nineteen Eighty-Five | Anthony Burgess | Mid | Stub | Needs lots of work |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | High | B | |
Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | Top | B |
Erotic novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty | Anne Rice | Low | Stub | |
Lady Chatterley's Lover | D. H. Lawrence | High | Start |
Fantasy novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Lord of the Rings | J. R. R. Tolkien | Top | B | Nearly there |
Black Sun Rising | Low | Stub | Needs considerable input and restyling | |
When True Night Falls | Low | Stub | Needs considerable input, restyling | |
Crown of Shadows | Low | Stub | Needs considerable input, restyling | |
Kushiel's Dart | Jacqueline Carey | Low | Stub | Needs input and more restyling (some done), also need critical references etc. |
Kushiel's Chosen | Jacqueline Carey | Low | Stub | Needs input and restyling |
Kushiel's Avatar | Jacqueline Carey | Low | Stub | Needs input and restyling |
Ratha's Creature | Clare Bell | Low | Stub | |
Ratha and Thistle-chaser | Clare Bell | none | none | |
Red Shift (novel) | Low | Start | Needs more critical content and release details etc. | |
The Runes of the Earth | Stephen Donaldson | Mid | Start | Needs more plot and thematic input |
The Silver Wolf | Low | Stub | ||
The Neverending Story | Michael Ende | High | Start | |
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | C. S. Lewis | High | B | |
Borrible Trilogy | Michael de Larrabeiti | Mid | B | |
Furies of Calderon | Jim Butcher | Low | Stub | Needs input |
Wolf Brother | Michelle Paver | Low | Start | need more information |
Gert Fram | Orson Scott Card | Mid | Stub | actually Card's first short story |
The Other Lands | David Anthony Durham | Needs plot input | ||
The Black Prism | Brent Weeks | Mid | Start | Needs plot input, some setting info |
Gothic novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Castle of Otranto | High | Stub | No plot info at all | |
Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | High | Start | |
Vathek | Mid | Stub | Plot summary and background | |
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | Top | ![]() |
First edition images needed |
Dracula | Bram Stoker | Top | B | Infobox details etc. |
The Monk | Mid | Stub |
Historical novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Master and Commander | Patrick O'Brian | Mid | Start | Needs more plot and critical input |
The Mauritius Command | B | Recently submitted to "Peer Review" (concluded) | ||
The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | High | Start | |
Sharpe's Gold | Bernard Cornwell | Mid | Start | |
Prince of Foxes | Low | B | "Characters" ought to be fleshed out; "Editions" needs more | |
The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | Mid | Start | as of 6 Jun looks quite well plot-wise; more criticism could be used, tho' |
Ivanhoe | Walter Scott | High | B | Infobox details and general critical information needed |
Rob Roy | Mid | Start | ||
Out of This Furnace | Thomas Bell | Low | Start | |
Imperium | Robert Harris | Mid | Start | Re-styling, real-world context & critical input |
Horror novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Bones of the Moon | Low | Stub | Needs quite some filling | |
World War Z | Max Brooks | Low | Start | Too in-universe and little or no references. |
Mystery novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Body in the Library | Mid | C | ||
The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | High | B | Failed FAC |
Special Topics in Calamity Physics | Low | Stub | Needs serious work. |
Occult novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Moonchild | Aleister Crowley | Mid | Stub | Plot summary incomplete. |
Philosophical novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Age of Reason | High | Stub | still in need of much expansion and | |
The Reprieve | High | Stub | barely started | |
Troubled Sleep | High | Stub | barely started | |
Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite | Mid | Start | infobox done and article started well, but needs work | |
The Fall | Top | Stub | Infobox, extended intro material, and complete synopsis; no analysis yet |
Romance novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Clarissa | Samuel Richardson | High | Stub | poorly written article |
Mansfield Park (novel) | Jane Austen | High | B | |
Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Top | B | need additional sources, section on criticism, 1st ed. cover |
Middle Age: A Romance | Joyce Carol Oates | Mid | Stub | needs more real world content, references and improved Lead section. |
Science fiction novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Starship Troopers | Robert A. Heinlein | Top | ![]() |
Needs maintenance and oversight - our first FA. |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy | High | ![]() |
Needs maintenance and oversight - our second FA. | |
The Giver | Lois Lowry | High | ![]() |
nearly there. |
The Master of the World | Mid | Stub | In need of an expansion and Infobox additions | |
The Demolished Man | Mid | Start | Infobox incomplete. | |
Shade's Children | Garth Nix | Mid | B | wikification and prose work, main themes |
A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | High | Start | In need of an expansion |
Raft | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion | |
Timelike Infinity | Low | Start | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion | |
Flux | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion | |
Ring | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion | |
Manifold: Time | Low | Start | In need of expansion | |
Manifold: Space | Low | Stub | In need of expansion | |
Manifold: Origin | Low | Stub | In need of expansion | |
Phase Space | Low | Stub | In need of expansion | |
Voyage | Stephen Baxter | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion |
Titan | Stephen Baxter | Low | Start | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion |
Moonseed | Stephen Baxter | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion |
Traces | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion | |
Evolution | Stephen Baxter | Low | Stub | Infobox incomplete and in need of expansion |
Dune | Frank Herbert | High | B | |
The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | High | B | Infobox needed |
Flowers for Algernon | Mid | Start | Infobox needs more (incl 1st ed. cover) | |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | Top | B | More content on Characters needed |
Contact (novel) | Carl Sagan | Mid | Start | |
Infernal Devices | Philip Reeve | Mid | Start | Needs better plot summary |
Songmaster | Orson Scott Card | Mid | Start | Needs |
Moon of Mutiny | Lester del Rey | Low | Start | Needs more in infobox, and much expansion, esp in re Jim Stanley series |
Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | Low | Stub | Needs better plot summary and expansion. |
Speculative fiction novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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City of Golden Shadow | Tad Williams | Mid | Start | First in a short series of SF novels by Tad Williams needs more sections as ArticleTemplate |
The Fifth Man | Low | Start | needs more description | |
Who? (novel) | Low | Start | Very little info |
Spy novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Kim (novel) | Rudyard Kipling | Mid | Start | Still needs |
Techno-thriller novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy | Mid | Start | |
Arc Light | Eric L. Harry | Mid | Start |
Thriller novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Brighton Rock | Graham Greene | Mid | Stub | more analysis needed / add infobox and review material, reception, background etc. |
Ministry of Fear | Graham Greene | Mid | Stub | Article probably needs splitting between novel and film |
Thunderball | Ian Fleming | Mid | B | Featured when part of joint article with Film, still good but need further effort to improve |
Windmills of the Gods | Sidney Sheldon | Low | Stub | Article probably needs splitting between novel and film |
Utopian novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Lost Horizon | Mid | Stub |
War novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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The Eagle Has Landed | Jack Higgins | Mid | B | |
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | Top | B | Important literature (also Wikipedia:BOOKS are interested in this) |
Western novels
Article | Author | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Shane | Mid | Stub | Did some cleaning up Legally Sher (talk) 00:56, 23 April 2012 (UTC) |
Fictional characters
Article | Import | Status | Remarks |
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Erast Fandorin | Top | ![]() |
continue work to improve to FA |
Derfel Cadarn | Low | Stub | needs infobox? and restyling |
Project Pages
Other
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Cleanup etc
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