General articles: Arts and culture
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The Book of Mormon (musical)
The Book of Mormon is a 2011 satirical Broadway musical by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez about two Mormon missionaries in Uganda; it won nine Tonys and four Oliviers and has run over 5,000 performances.
The Book of Negroes (miniseries)
The Book of Negroes is a 2015 six-part CBC/BET miniseries adapting Lawrence Hill's 2007 novel, directed by Clement Virgo, starring Aunjanue Ellis as Aminata Diallo; it won eleven Canadian Screen Awards and dramatizes the 1783 Black Loyalist evacuation.
The Book of Night Women
The Book of Night Women, Marlon James's 2009 historical novel (also his second novel before A Brief History of Seven Killings), follows enslaved Lilith on a Jamaican sugar plantation, 1784-1801, and the Night Women revolt conspiracy; Dayton Literary Peace Prize winner.
The Book of Sindbad
The Book of Sindbad (سندبادنامه), also known as The Seven Viziers, is a medieval Persian frame-tale collection in which seven wise men save a falsely accused prince with stories.
The Book of Souls
The Book of Souls (2015) is Iron Maiden's 16th studio album, its first double album at 92 minutes, produced by Kevin Shirley and Steve Harris in Paris, reaching UK number one and spawning a two-year world tour.
The Book of Taliesyn
The Book of Taliesyn is the second studio album by Deep Purple, released in the US in October 1968 and reaching #54 on the American album chart.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea (茶の本) is Okakura Kakuzō's 1906 English-language essay, published in New York, presenting the Japanese tea ceremony, Taoism, Zen, and Teaism to Western readers; seven chapters, first Japanese translation 1929.
The Book of the City of Ladies
The Book of the City of Ladies (Le Livre de la Cité des Dames) is Christine de Pizan's 1405 allegorical defense of women, in which Reason, Rectitude, and Justice help build a city from stories of virtuous women, a foundational proto-feminist text.
The Book of the Courtier
Il libro del cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier), Baldassare Castiglione's 1528 Venetian dialogue set at Urbino, defines the ideal Renaissance courtier and sprezzatura; translated into Spanish 1534, French 1537, English 1561, German 1565.
The Book of the Crown
The Book of the Crown (Kitāb al-Tāj fī Akhlāq al-Mulūk, كتاب التاج في أخلاق الملوك) is a ninth-century Arabic mirror-for-princes work by al-Jāḥiẓ on the ethics of kings.
The Book of the Dove
The Book of the Dove (Голубиная книга), also called the Deep Book, is a Russian folk spiritual verse of the late 15th or early 16th century.
The Book of the Duchess
The Book of the Duchess, also titled The Deth of Blaunche the Duchesse, is Chaucer's first major poem, a Middle English dream-vision elegy for Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt, drawing heavily on Machaut and Froissart.
The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow
The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow (Sefer Nofet Zufim, ספר נופת צופים) is a Hebrew treatise on rhetoric written by the Italian rabbi Judah ben Yehiel Messer Leon.
The Book of the Hopi
The Book of the Hopi is a 1963 nonfiction book by Frank Waters presenting Hopi myths, ceremonies, and history told by about thirty Hopi elders.
The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun is Gene Wolfe's four-volume science fantasy tetralogy (1980–1983) plus The Urth of the New Sun, narrated by the torturer Severian on a dying future Urth, award-winning and critically acclaimed.
The Book of Wisdom and Lies
The Book of Wisdom and Lies (Sibrdzne Sitsruisa) is a collection of more than 150 fables written by the Georgian writer Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani in the late 17th century.
The Book That Wouldn't Burn
The Book That Wouldn't Burn (2023) by Mark Lawrence, book one of The Library Trilogy, follows Livira and Evar, two strangers linked by the infinite Athenaeum library in Crath City, blending epic fantasy, time travel, and themes of knowledge versus ignorance.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief is a 2005 historical fiction novel by Australian author Markus Zusak, narrated by Death. It follows Liesel Meminger in Nazi Germany, has sold over 19 million copies, and was adapted into a 2013 film starring Geoffrey Rush.
The Book Thief (film)
The Book Thief is a 2013 war drama directed by Brian Percival, adapted from Markus Zusak's 2005 novel, about a girl who learns to read in Nazi Germany.
The Books of Earthsea
The Books of Earthsea, also called the Earthsea Cycle, is Ursula K. Le Guin's six-book fantasy series (1968–2001) set in an archipelago where magic works through true names, later collected in the 2018 illustrated Saga Press omnibus.
The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage
The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage (Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego) is a prose work by Adam Mickiewicz, published anonymously in Paris in 1832.
The Bookshop (film)
The Bookshop is a 2017 drama directed by Isabel Coixet, adapted from Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 novel, starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson; a Spain-UK-Germany coproduction that won three 2018 Goya Awards.
The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats are an Irish punk and new wave rock band formed in 1975 in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, led by Bob Geldof and known for "Rat Trap" and "I Don't Like Mondays."
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints is a 1999 Troy Duffy crime film starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, and Willem Dafoe as Irish Catholic vigilante twins and the FBI agent hunting them in Boston. A box-office failure ($52,350) that became a cult hit on DVD, with 26% critics versus 91% audience scores.
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is Troy Duffy's 2009 sequel in which the MacManus brothers return from Ireland to Boston after a priest's murder; released by Apparition, grossing $10.3 million with poor reviews.
The Boondocks (2005 TV series)
The Boondocks: Adult Swim animated sitcom (2005–2014) by Aaron McGruder, adapted from his 1999 comic strip about Huey, Riley, and Granddad Freeman in white suburbia; four seasons, anime-influenced satire on race and politics, Sony Pictures Television production.
The Boondocks (comic strip)
The Boondocks was Aaron McGruder's satirical newspaper comic strip, begun in 1996 on Hitlist.com and the University of Maryland's Diamondback, nationally syndicated by Universal Press from April 19, 1999, in 195 papers, ending in 2006.
The Booth at the End
The Booth at the End is a 2010-2012 Vuguru web series by Christopher Kubasik starring Xander Berkeley as The Man, who grants diner visitors' wishes for completed tasks; two seasons, 10 episodes, adapted as the Italian film The Place.
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966
The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 is Bob Dylan's 2015 Columbia/Legacy outtakes collection covering the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde sessions, issued in 2-, 6-, and 18-CD editions.
The Borderlands (2013 film)
The Borderlands (2013), released in the US as Final Prayer, is a British found-footage horror film by Elliot Goldner about Vatican investigators probing reported miracles at a remote West Country church, starring Gordon Kennedy and Robin Hill.