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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42051
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Although it only has _speculative_ fiction, [The Internet Speculative Fiction Database](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi) could help. It's a start, and it's powerful enough to do exactly what you want (plus it can be downloaded and queried with SQL for even more power if you needed something more complicated). On [this page](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/adv_pub_search.cgi)), you should search:

- Title | starts with | literature
- AND
- Publication Type | is exactly | NOVEL

(If the title of something is just "literature", then it will be found by this search.)

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**However...**

From your description, it sounds like you're trying to use a title that's going to be very frustrating to search for, unless people remember your name. I very rarely remember the names of authors and I suspect that a lot of people are the same.

If you need a specific example of how frustrating this is, try searching for the book "Literature®" on Google. It _exists_ and you'll know it when you see it (because of the "®" that's part of the title), but you probably won't be able to find it without resorting to ISFDB. (Since most search engines ignore special characters, it's basically the same as if the book was titled "Literature".)

Because of this problem, you should consider titling your book with something distinctive enough that people can find it when searching for only the title (and maybe a description like "book" or "novel").

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