a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

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Available Free Online (183 entries)
Collection (17 entries)
Films (121 entries)
Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga (39 entries)
Novels (722 entries)
Picture Book (9 entries)
Plays (68 entries)
Short Stories (637 entries)
Television Series or Episode (45 entries)

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Adventure/Espionage (124 entries)
Children's Literature (69 entries)
Didactic (127 entries)
Fantasy (181 entries)
Historical Fiction (241 entries)
Horror (46 entries)
Humorous (304 entries)
Mystery (190 entries)
Romance (41 entries)
Science Fiction (607 entries)
Young Adult (64 entries)
Not Science-Fiction, Fantasy or Horror (837 entries)

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Academia (276 entries)
Aliens (125 entries)
Anti-social Mathematicians (157 entries)
Autism (31 entries)
Cool/Heroic Mathematicians (56 entries)
Evil mathematicians (64 entries)
Female Mathematicians (293 entries)
Future Prediction through Math (54 entries)
Gödel (48 entries)
Genius (66 entries)
Higher/Lower Dimensions (94 entries)
Insanity (103 entries)
Math as Beautiful/Exciting/Useful (99 entries)
Math as Cold/Dry/Useless (49 entries)
Math Education (158 entries)
Mobius Strip/Nonorientability (39 entries)
Music (26 entries)
Newton (16 entries)
Prodigies (107 entries)
Proving Theorems (159 entries)
Real Mathematicians (190 entries)
Religion (141 entries)
Romance (274 entries)
Sherlock Holmes (19 entries)
Time Travel (83 entries)
Turing (33 entries)
War (77 entries)

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Algebra/Arithmetic/Number Theory (247 entries)
Analysis/Calculus/Differential (108 entries)
Chaos/Fractals (76 entries)
Computers/Cryptography (156 entries)
Fictional Mathematics (62 entries)
Geometry/Topology/Trigonometry (270 entries)
Infinity (63 entries)
Logic/Set Theory (128 entries)
Mathematical Finance (46 entries)
Mathematical Physics (200 entries)
Probability/Statistics (102 entries)
Real Mathematics (200 entries)

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Exciting News: The total number of works of mathematical fiction listed in this database recently reached a milestone. The 1,500th entry is The Man of Forty Crowns by Voltaire. Thanks to Vijay Fafat for writing the summary of that work (and so many others). I am also grateful to everyone who has contributed to this website. Heck, I'm grateful to everyone who visited the site. Thank you!

(Maintained by Alex Kasman, College of Charleston)