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The Bonfire of the Vanities (film)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) is Brian De Palma's Warner Bros. adaptation of Tom Wolfe's 1987 novel, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Morgan Freeman; it cost about $45 million, grossed $15.4 million, and holds 15% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Bongo Hop avec Nidia Góngora
The Bongo Hop is the afro-Caribbean music project of French trumpeter Étienne Sevet, built with Colombian singer Nidia Góngora and based in Lyon, with four releases since 2016.
The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond
"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" (Loch Lomond) is a traditional Scottish folk song first published in Vocal Melodies of Scotland in 1841, linked to a Jacobite prisoner after the 1745 Rising, with a pentatonic melody famous through Vaughan Williams and the band Runrig.
The Boogeyman (2023 film)
The Boogeyman is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by Rob Savage, based on Stephen King's 1973 short story, released by 20th Century Studios on June 2, 2023.
The Boogeyman (short story)
The Boogeyman is a 1973 Stephen King horror short story from Night Shift in which Lester Billings confesses his children's deaths to Dr. Harper, who is revealed as the boogeyman; adapted as short films and Rob Savage's 2023 feature.
The Book For,
The Book For, is the fourth extended play by the Japanese music duo YOASOBI, released on June 26, 2026. Its 12 tracks include the Overwatch collaboration "Orion."
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry is a 1922 anthology edited by James Weldon Johnson, collecting poems by 31 African American poets during the Harlem Renaissance.
The Book of Boba Fett
The Book of Boba Fett is a Star Wars television series created by Jon Favreau for Disney+. It follows Boba Fett and Fennec Shand claiming Tatooine's criminal territory.
The Book of Chameleons
The Book of Chameleons, published in Portuguese as O Vendedor de Passados (2004), is a novel by Angolan writer José Eduardo Agualusa, narrated by a gecko and set in Luanda.
The Book of Clarence
The Book of Clarence is a 2023 biblical comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeymes Samuel, starring LaKeith Stanfield as a hustler in 33 AD Jerusalem.
The Book of Dede Korkut
The Book of Dede Korkut is a collection of epic stories of the Oghuz Turks, their oldest known epic cycle, told in Oghuz Turkish verse and prose.
The Book of Deeds
The Book of Deeds (ספר המעשים, Sefer HaMa'asim) is a collection of surrealistic short stories by Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon, first published in Davar in 1931.
The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego) is a posthumous work of fragmentary prose by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, published in 1982 and written mostly in the voice of Bernardo Soares.
The Book of Dust
The Book of Dust is Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy set in the His Dark Materials world: La Belle Sauvage (2017), The Secret Commonwealth (2019), and The Rose Field (2025), an "equel" following Lyra from babyhood to adulthood.
The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli is a 2010 post-apocalyptic Western directed by the Hughes brothers, starring Denzel Washington as a wanderer protecting the last Bible from Gary Oldman's warlord Carnegie; grossed $94.8M, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Book of Elsewhere
The Book of Elsewhere, a 2024 Del Rey novel credited to Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, expands Reeves' BRZRKR comics about Unute (B), an 80,000-year-old immortal warrior seeking death; Miéville wrote the prose.
The Book of Epiphanies
The Book of Epiphanies (Kitāb al-tajalliyāt) is a novel by the Egyptian writer Gamal al-Ghitani, issued in three parts between 1983 and 1986 and blending autobiography, Sufi mysticism, and Egyptian political history.
The Book of Evidence
The Book of Evidence is a 1989 novel by the Irish writer John Banville, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, told as the prison confession of murderer Freddie Montgomery.
The Book of Good Love
The Book of Good Love (Libro de buen amor) is a Castilian narrative poem of the mester de clerecía, attributed to Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, and dated 1330–1343.
The Book of Henry
The Book of Henry is a 2017 Focus Features drama directed by Colin Trevorrow, written by Gregg Hurwitz, starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, and Jacob Tremblay; a critically panned box-office failure about a dying boy genius's murder plan.
The Book of Inquiry into the History of Morocco
The Book of Inquiry into the History of Morocco (Kitāb al-Istiqṣā) is an encyclopedic chronicle of Morocco by historian Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, completed in 1894.
The Book of Intimate Grammar
The Book of Intimate Grammar (Hebrew: Sefer ha-dikduk ha-pnimi) is a 1991 novel by Israeli writer David Grossman, following a boy who retreats into a private language.
The Book of Khalid
The Book of Khalid (كتاب خالد) is a 1911 semi-autobiographical novel by Lebanese American writer Ameen Rihani, widely considered the first Arab American novel and possibly the first by an Arab author in English.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, first published in French in Paris in 1979 during his exile.
The Book of Life (2014 film)
The Book of Life (El libro de la vida) is a 2014 PG computer-animated musical fantasy directed by Jorge R. Gutiérrez and produced by Guillermo del Toro, set in Mexico around Día de los Muertos, with Diego Luna, Zoë Saldana, and Channing Tatum; Metascore 67, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Book of Longings
The Book of Longings is Sue Monk Kidd's 2020 historical novel imagining Ana, daughter of Herod Antipas's head scribe, as the wife of Jesus. A NYT bestseller translated into 17 languages, optioned for a six-part TV series.
The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields song)
"The Book of Love" is a 1999 song by Stephin Merritt's Magnetic Fields, track 12 on volume one of 69 Love Songs; Merritt calls it the album's manifesto. Peter Gabriel's cover (Shall We Dance? 2004, Scratch My Back 2010) made it the band's most-covered song.
The Book of Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe is the spiritual autobiography of the English mystic Margery Kempe, dictated in the 1430s and often called the first autobiography in English.
The Book of Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs, long known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, is John Foxe's Protestant martyrology, first published in London in 1563 and famous for recounting the roughly 300 Protestants executed under Mary I.
The Book of Mirdad
The Book of Mirdad (كتاب مرداد) is an allegorical philosophical novel by the Lebanese writer Mikhail Naimy, first published in Lebanon in 1948 and his major work.