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'Salem's Lot
'Salem's Lot is Stephen King's second horror novel (Doubleday, October 17, 1975), originally titled Second Coming, set in Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, where writer Ben Mears fights the vampire Kurt Barlow; adapted for screen in 1979, 2004, and 2024.
'Tis
'Tis is a 1999 memoir by Frank McCourt recounting his journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to New York schoolteacher, and the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy by John Ford, first printed in 1633, about the incestuous love of Giovanni and his sister Annabella in Parma, Italy.
"Omaha" the Cat Dancer
"Omaha" the Cat Dancer is an adults-only erotic comic series by Reed Waller and later Kate Worley, running from 1978 into the 1990s and helping inspire the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman" is Harlan Ellison's 1965 dystopian short story, first published in Galaxy, in which the Ticktockman enforces punctuality by shortening lives. It won the 1965 Nebula and 1966 Hugo Awards and stars the jelly-bean-dropping rebel Everett C. Marm.
00 Agent
00 Agent: the "Double O" designation for elite MI6 field agents in Ian Fleming's James Bond fiction, holders of a licence to kill, at most nine active, first in Casino Royale (1953).
100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death
100 Ghost Stories That Will Lead to My Own Death (僕が死ぬだけの百物語, Boku ga Shinu dake no Hyakumonogatari) is Anji Matono's 100-chapter Shogakukan horror manga, serialized 2020-2025, about a boy performing the hyakumonogatari ritual; English edition by Seven Seas.
100 Meters (manga)
100 Meters (Hyakuemu., ひゃくえむ。) is Uoto's debut sports manga, serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket 2018-2019 in 5 volumes, following sprinters Togashi and Komiya; adapted into a 2025 Kenji Iwaisawa anime film.
107 Days
107 Days is Kamala Harris's 2025 Simon & Schuster memoir of her 107-day 2024 presidential campaign after Biden's July 21, 2024 withdrawal; a #1 New York Times bestseller recounting the running-mate choice, Biden tensions, and her loss to Trump.
11.22.63
11.22.63 is a 2016 American science fiction thriller miniseries on Hulu, adapted by Bridget Carpenter from Stephen King's novel about stopping the Kennedy assassination, starring James Franco in eight episodes.
11/22/63
11/22/63 is Stephen King's 2011 Scribner time-travel novel (also adapted as Hulu's 11.22.63) in which teacher Jake Epping enters 1958 through a diner portal to stop the JFK assassination, fighting an obdurate past.
1408 (short story)
"1408" is a horror short story by Stephen King about a skeptical author who spends a night in a deadly New York hotel room, first published in 1999.
1632 (novel)
1632 is a 2000 alternate history novel by Eric Flint, first of the Ring of Fire series, in which the West Virginia town of Grantville (based on Mannington) is transported to Thirty Years' War Germany; it grew from a standalone book into a 159-writer collaborative universe published by Baen Books.
17776
17776, also called What Football Will Look Like in the Future, is Jon Bois's 2017 multimedia speculative fiction serial on SB Nation: sentient space probes Pioneer 9, Pioneer 10, and JUICE observe immortal humanity playing millennia-long football games.
1922 (novella)
1922 is a 131-page horror novella by Stephen King, published November 2010 in Full Dark, No Stars; farmer Wilfred James confesses to murdering wife Arlette in Hemingford, Nebraska, adapted by Netflix in 2017.
1995 in American literature
1995 in American literature surveys the year's notable American novels, from Roth's Sabbath's Theater to Grisham's The Rainmaker, the year's bestseller lists, and prize records.
1Q84
1Q84 is a three-volume 2009-2010 novel by Haruki Murakami, set in an alternate 1984 Tokyo with two moons, following Aomame and Tengo; it riffs on Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Aum Shinrikyo affair, won the 63rd Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, and appeared in 26 languages.
2 + 2 = 5
2 + 2 = 5 is a mathematical falsehood famous as the slogan of totalitarian truth-control in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, drawn from a 1930s Soviet Five-Year Plan propaganda slogan and earlier literature.
2 States: The Story of My Marriage
2 States: The Story of My Marriage is Chetan Bhagat's 2009 fourth novel about Krish, a Punjabi, and Ananya, a Tamil Brahmin, seeking parental approval for an inter-state marriage, partly based on Bhagat's own marriage and adapted into a 2014 Bollywood film.
2000 AD (comics)
2000 AD is a British weekly science fiction anthology comic launched 26 February 1977 by IPC, home of Judge Dredd (prog 2, 5 March 1977, by Mills, Wagner, Ezquerra), edited as alien Tharg, owned by Rebellion since 2000, and incubator of the 1980s British Invasion creators.
2024 Booker Prize
2024 Booker Prize: 55th edition of the UK/Ireland fiction award, won by Samantha Harvey's Orbital on 12 November 2024; judges chaired by Edmund de Waal chose from a shortlist of six, five by women, a first in the prize's history.
2024 in American public domain
2024 in American public domain: works published in 1928 plus 1923 sound recordings whose US copyright expired January 1, 2024, including Steamboat Willie's Mickey Mouse, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Orlando, and The Circus, with later Mickey versions and trademarks still protected.
2025 Booker Prize
The 2025 Booker Prize, won by David Szalay's Flesh on 10 November 2025; Roddy Doyle chaired the judging panel; the shortlist included Kiran Desai, Andrew Miller, Susan Choi, Katie Kitamura, and Ben Markovits.
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded 9 October 2025 by the Swedish Academy to Hungarian novelist Laszlo Krasznahorkai for his visionary, apocalyptic oeuvre; his works include Satantango and he won the 2015 International Booker.
2026 in literature
2026 in literature: the year's new books and prizes, including Saunders' Vigil, Jones' Kin, Kingsolver's Partita, James' The Disappearers, the Booker Prize judged by Mary Beard, and the 77th National Book Awards.
2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded by the Swedish Academy on 8 October 2026 to Canadian poet Anne Carson for her bold, genre-blending oeuvre in dialogue with the classical tradition; 12 million SEK, second Canadian laureate after Alice Munro.
2026 Pulitzer Prize
The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes, announced May 4, 2026, honor 2025 work; Washington Post won Public Service, AP International Reporting, Daniel Kraus's Angel Down fiction, with Beat Reporting revived and Opinion Writing added.
20th century in literature
20th century in literature: worldwide writing of 1900 to 2000, defined by early modernism, mid-century pulp paperbacks, New Criticism, and late-century national and world literary histories.
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction
20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is Larry McCaffery's 1999 American Book Review list, written in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels; Pale Fire ranks first, Ulysses second.
221B Baker Street
221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, occupied 1881–1904 in the canon. The number did not exist when written; renumbering, Abbey National letters, and the 1990 museum made it real.