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Skulduggery Pleasant
Skulduggery Pleasant is an urban fantasy novel series by Irish writer Derek Landy, beginning in 2007, about a wisecracking skeleton detective and his young partner Valkyrie Cain.
Slayers (スレイヤーズ)
Slayers (スレイヤーズ) is Hajime Kanzaka's light novel series with art by Rui Araizumi, starring sorceress Lina Inverse; published from 1990, over 22 million copies, five TV anime seasons 1995-2009.
Slough House (novel series)
Slough House is Mick Herron's spy novel series (Slow Horses, 2010, through Clown Town, 2025) about disgraced MI5 agents under Jackson Lamb, adapted as Apple TV+'s Slow Horses starring Gary Oldman.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is Douglas Adams' 1984 fourth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel, titled after the dolphins' farewell, following Arthur Dent's return to a restored Earth and romance with Fenchurch.
Studs Lonigan
Studs Lonigan is James T. Farrell's naturalist trilogy, Young Lonigan (1932), The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935), following an Irish-American youth on Chicago's South Side from 1916 to his death at 29 in 1931.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a 1912 collection of twelve humorous sketches by the Canadian writer Stephen Leacock, portraying life in the fictional small town of Mariposa.
Sweet Valley High
Sweet Valley High is a young adult book series created by Francine Pascal in 1983 about identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield at a California high school, ghostwritten from her outlines, selling over 200 million copies and spawning spin-offs and a 1990s TV series.
Sword of Destiny
Sword of Destiny (Miecz przeznaczenia) is Andrzej Sapkowski's Polish short story collection, second Witcher book in story chronology, introducing Ciri; English translation by David French appeared 2015 via Gollancz.
Sword of Honour
Sword of Honour is Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of Second World War novels, Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender, following the disillusioned Catholic officer Guy Crouchback.
Tackle!
Tackle! (2023) is Jilly Cooper's final Rutshire Chronicles novel, the 11th in the series, in which Rupert Campbell-Black buys the football club Searston Rovers while his wife Taggie has cancer treatment. Published by Bantam Press.
Tai-Pan (大班) (novel)
Tai-Pan (大班), James Clavell's 1966 historical novel and Asian Saga book 2, is set in 1841 Hong Kong and follows trader Dirk Struan's rivalry with Tyler Brock; loosely based on Jardine Matheson and Butterfield & Swire, adapted as a 1986 film.
Tales of Dunk and Egg
Tales of Dunk and Egg: George R.R. Martin novella series (The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword, The Mystery Knight) about hedge knight Dunk and squire Egg, future King Aegon V, set 90 years before A Song of Ice and Fire; adapted by HBO as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
Tales of the City
Tales of the City is Armistead Maupin's San Francisco saga: a 1976 Pacific Sun and Chronicle serial, nine novels (1978–2014) set at 28 Barbary Lane, adapted as 1994 PBS, Showtime, and 2019 Netflix miniseries.
Tarzan (book series)
Tarzan book series: Edgar Rice Burroughs's 24 adventure novels beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (All-Story Magazine, October 1912; book 1914), starring John Clayton, Lord Greystoke; early books US public domain, name trademarked by ERB Inc.
Temeraire (series)
Temeraire is Naomi Novik's nine-book alternate-history fantasy series (2006-2016), retelling the Napoleonic Wars with intelligent dragons in Britain's Aerial Corps, following Captain William Laurence and his dragon Temeraire; optioned by Peter Jackson in 2006.
Tenida
Tenida (টেনিদা) is a fictional adolescent hero created by Bengali writer Narayan Gangopadhyay, the boastful leader of a gang of four boys in post-independence Kolkata.
Terry Brooks bibliography
Terry Brooks bibliography: the published works of Terry Dean Brooks (born 1944), American fantasy author of the Shannara sequence from The Sword of Shannara (1977), plus Landover, Word and the Void, Viridian Deep, Star Wars and Hook novelizations, and nonfiction.
The 39 Clues
The 39 Clues is Scholastic's multiplatform children's adventure series (2008–2016), begun by Rick Riordan's The Maze of Bones, in which Amy and Dan Cahill hunt 39 clues across four series, with trading cards and an online game.
The 5th Wave (series)
The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction trilogy by Rick Yancey, published from 2013 to 2016, in which aliens called the Others attack Earth in waves.
The Abduction of the Moon
The Abduction of the Moon (მთვარის მოტაცება) is a trilogy novel by Georgian writer Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, published in 1936 and set in Soviet Georgia during collectivization.
The Accursed Kings
The Accursed Kings (Les Rois maudits) is Maurice Druon's seven-volume historical novel series (1955–1977) on the fall of the Capetians from Philip IV to John II, built on Jacques de Molay's legendary Templar curse and praised by George R. R. Martin as the original Game of Thrones.
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club: Ann M. Martin's children's book series launched by Scholastic in 1986 with Kristy's Great Idea, about middle school girls running a baby-sitting business in Stoneybrook, Connecticut; over 200 million copies in print, with TV, film, and graphic novel adaptations and a 2027 stage musical.
The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning (1999) by Lemony Snicket, pen name of Daniel Handler, is book one of A Series of Unfortunate Events: Baudelaire orphans versus Count Olaf's marriage scheme, illustrated by Brett Helquist, HarperCollins.
The Banquet in Blitva
The Banquet in Blitva (Banket u Blitvi) is a three-book political novel by Miroslav Krleža set in the fictional states of Blitva and Blatvija after World War I.
The Baroque Cycle
The Baroque Cycle is Neal Stephenson's historical trilogy, Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World (2003-2004), set in the late 17th and early 18th century. It grew out of Cryptonomicon, follows Daniel Waterhouse, Jack Shaftoe, and Eliza, and won the Clarke and Locus Awards.
The Beginning After the End
The Beginning After the End (TBATE) is an American action-fantasy web novel and webcomic by Brandon Lee (TurtleMe, Tae Ha Lee) on Tapas since 2017, about King Grey reincarnated as Arthur Leywin; its Studio A-Cat anime premiered April 2, 2025 on Crunchyroll, the first American web novel/comic anime adaptation.
The Belgariad
The Belgariad, David Eddings' five-volume epic fantasy series (Del Rey, 1982-1984, with uncredited co-author Leigh Eddings), follows farm boy Garion's quest for the stolen Orb of Aldur against the god Torak; followed by The Malloreon.
The Black Company
The Black Company is Glen Cook's military fantasy series begun in 1984, narrated by the Annalist Croaker of the last Free Company of Khatovar. Ten original novels through Soldiers Live (2000), the 2018 interquel Port of Shadows, and the 2025 A Pitiless Rain arc; foundational to grimdark.
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 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.