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Let This Grieving Soul Retire!
Let This Grieving Soul Retire! (嘆きの亡霊は引退したい) is a Japanese light novel series by Tsukikage and Chiko, begun as a 2018 web novel, about talentless hunter Krai Andrich who wants to retire; it has 14 novel volumes, a manga, and a two-cour 2024–2025 TV anime.
Lethal White
Lethal White is the fourth Cormoran Strike crime novel by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling), published 18 September 2018 by Sphere; set in London during the 2012 Olympics, it follows a blackmail case and a childhood murder memory, adapted for BBC One in 2020.
Library of Souls
Library of Souls (2015) is the third novel in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series, published by Quirk Books. Jacob Portman enters Devil's Acre and the soul-jar repository called the Library of Souls, or Abaton, to rescue captured ymbrynes from Caul.
Lirael
Lirael (Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr) is Garth Nix's 2001 Old Kingdom fantasy novel, sequel to Sabriel, about a Sightless orphan of the Clayr, her library work, the Disreputable Dog, and Prince Sameth; it ends "To be continued" in Abhorsen.
List of A Series of Unfortunate Events characters
Cast of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (ASOUE): Baudelaire orphans Violet, Klaus, Sunny; villain Count Olaf and his disguises; guardians, V.F.D., Quagmire triplets, Snicket siblings, and Netflix adaptation roles.
List of Arifureta characters
Character list for Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest (ありふれた職業で世界最強), Ryo Shirakome's isekai series: Hajime Nagumo the Synergist, vampire Yue, Shea Haulia, Tio Klarus, classmates, and prequel Zero characters.
List of Ascendance of a Bookworm characters
Character list for Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上) by Miya Kazuki: Myne/Rozemyne, Ferdinand, Lutz, her lower-city family, nobles, temple staff, and merchant allies, with voice cast and anime production notes.
List of Goosebumps books
Goosebumps book list: R.L. Stine's Scholastic children's horror series, begun July 1992 with Welcome to Dead House; 62 original-series titles plus Give Yourself Goosebumps, Series 2000, HorrorLand, SlappyWorld, and House of Shivers spin-offs, with 400 million English copies in print.
List of Hardy Boys books
List of Hardy Boys books: juvenile detective series credited to pseudonymous Franklin W. Dixon, begun 1927 with The Tower Treasure; 58-volume Grosset & Dunlap canon, 1959-1973 revisions, and Simon & Schuster spin-offs like Casefiles.
List of Horrid Henry characters
Horrid Henry characters: cast of Francesca Simon's children's series (Tony Ross-illustrated, Orion, 1994–). Alliterative names such as Rude Ralph, Moody Margaret, Perfect Peter; Henry leads the Purple Hand Gang.
List of My Happy Marriage characters
Character list for My Happy Marriage (わたしの幸せな結婚), Akumi Agitogi's Meiji-Taisho romance fantasy: Miyo Saimori, Kiyoka Kudou, the Saimori, Tatsuishi, and Usuba families, and the season-by-season anime voice cast.
List of The Apothecary Diaries volumes
List of The Apothecary Diaries (薬屋のひとりごと) light novel volumes: Natsu Hyuuga's series published by Shufunotomo Hero Bunko from 2014, illustrated by Touko Shino, English via J-Novel Club, volumes 1-14 dates.
List of The Baby-Sitters Club novels
List of The Baby-Sitters Club novels: Ann M. Martin's Scholastic series launched with Kristy's Great Idea (August 1986); the main series ran to 131 books ending in 1999, within roughly 250 franchise titles across spin-offs including Little Sister, Mysteries, and Super Specials.
List of Winnie-the-Pooh books
List of Winnie-the-Pooh books: A. A. Milne's four original titles, When We Were Very Young (1924), Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), and The House at Pooh Corner (1928), illustrated by E. H. Shepard, with publication details and public-domain timelines.
Literary cycle
A literary cycle is a set of works of one genre, also called a story cycle or novel sequence, linked by shared characters, themes, or a compositional frame, each work remaining structurally autonomous, from medieval Arthurian cycles to modern novels-in-stories.
Lives of the Mayfair Witches
Lives of the Mayfair Witches: Anne Rice's trilogy of The Witching Hour (1990), Lasher (1993), and Taltos (1994), about the New Orleans Mayfair witch dynasty bound to the spirit Lasher; adapted by AMC from 2023.
Lockwood & Co.
Lockwood & Co. is a young adult fantasy series by Jonathan Stroud about teenage agents hunting ghosts in a Britain plagued by a ghost epidemic called the Problem.
Lord of Light
Lord of Light is Roger Zelazny's 1967 science fiction novel, winner of the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, in which colonists rule a planet as the Hindu pantheon and Sam, posing as the Buddha, leads a rebellion; its unused film artwork became the CIA's Argo cover story.
Lorien Legacies
Lorien Legacies, also the I Am Number Four series, is a seven-book YA sci-fi series by pseudonymous Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes), 2010 to 2016, about nine Loric aliens hiding on Earth from the Mogadorians, with a 2011 film adaptation and a Reborn sequel series.
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky
Love Unseen Beneath the Clear Night Sky is a Japanese light novel series by Nanigashi Shima about a withdrawn student and Koharu, a blind woman who dreams of launching fireworks.
Madeline (book series)
Madeline is a children's picture book series by Ludwig Bemelmans, begun in 1939, about twelve Paris schoolgirls in two straight lines and the smallest, boldest girl; six Bemelmans books plus continuations by grandson John Bemelmans Marciano.
Magic Maker
Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World (マジック・メイカー ～異世界魔法の作り方～) is a Japanese isekai light novel series by Kazuki Kaburagi and Kururi about Shion, a reincarnated boy creating magic in a world without it; adapted into a 2025 Studio DEEN anime and Seven Seas manga and light novels.
Magic Repo Man
Magic Repo Man (貸した魔力は〖リボ払い〗で強制徴収) is a Masakichi web novel about Lent, who lends MP to party members and later repossesses it. Manga by Shingō Iijima; 2026 SynergySP anime on TV Asahi, streamed on Crunchyroll.
Magic Tree House
Magic Tree House is Mary Pope Osborne's Random House children's chapter book series, begun with Dinosaurs Before Dark in 1992, in which siblings Jack and Annie time-travel in a magic tree house; over 143 million copies sold in 39 languages, with Merlin Missions, Fact Trackers, and graphic novels.
Majutsu o Kiwamete Tabi ni Deta Tensei Elf, Moteamashita Jumyō de Ikeru Densetsu to Naru
Japanese web novel series by Monshō Sakakibara (魔術を極めて旅に出た転生エルフ、持て余した寿命で生ける伝説となる) on Kakuyomu; man reincarnated as elf Liese with a 1,000-year lifespan; one Grast Novels volume, kanco manga, Studio Palette anime announced for 2027.
Malazan Book of the Fallen
Malazan Book of the Fallen: ten-volume epic fantasy series (1999–2011) by Canadian author Steven Erikson, from Gardens of the Moon to The Crippled God, co-created with Ian Esslemont from a GURPS roleplaying campaign.
Malory Towers
Malory Towers is Enid Blyton's six-book girls' boarding school series (1946–1951) set in Cornwall, following Darrell Rivers; extended by Pamela Cox's six 2009 sequels, a 2019 anthology, an Emma Rice musical, and the 2020 CBBC television adaptation.
Many Waters
Many Waters is Madeleine L'Engle's 1986 fourth Time Quintet novel, in which the ordinary Murry twins Sandy and Dennys are accidentally transported to Noah's antediluvian world of seraphim, nephilim, and unicorns before the Flood.
Matsurika Kanriden (茉莉花官吏伝)
Matsurika Kanriden (茉莉花官吏伝) is a Japanese light novel series by Rinne Ishida about a palace maid with perfect memory who rises to officialdom; 19 volumes, 2.68 million copies, TV anime by MAHO FILM in January 2027.
Maximum Ride
Maximum Ride is James Patterson's young adult science fiction series (2005-2015, nine novels) about the Flock, six children engineered as 98% human and 2% avian, led by fourteen-year-old Max, escaping the School and hunted by wolf-human Erasers; adapted as manga, a 2016 film, and Hawk sequels.