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Joffrey Baratheon
Joffrey Baratheon, also known as King Joffrey, is a fictional character in A Song of Ice and Fire, a cruel boy king of the Seven Kingdoms.
John Blackthorne
John Blackthorne (the Anjin) is the English pilot protagonist of James Clavell's 1975 novel Shōgun, based on William Adams; played by Richard Chamberlain in 1980 and Cosmo Jarvis in FX's 2024 series.
John Dies at the End
John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel by Jason Pargin (pen name David Wong) about Dave and John, a drug called Soy Sauce, and interdimensional threats; it began as a web serial and became a 2012 Don Coscarelli film and a five-book Macmillan series.
John Galt
John Galt is the fictional engineer and strike leader at the center of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, inventor of a revolutionary motor, subject of the question "Who is John Galt?", and later a byword in American political culture.
John le Carré
John le Carré, pen name of David John Moore Cornwell (1931–2020), British MI5 and MI6 officer turned novelist; author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, the Smiley novels, and 26 books over six decades.
John Maynard
John Maynard is a ballad by Theodor Fontane, first published in 1886, about a helmsman who saves a burning ship's passengers on Lake Erie at the cost of his life.
John of John
John of John is Douglas Stuart's third novel (2026), set on the Isle of Harris in the 1990s, about gay art graduate Cal Macleod returning to his Presbyterian father John; Booker Prize 2026 shortlist and Oprah's Book Club pick.
John Ringo bibliography
John Ringo bibliography: the series fiction of the American military SF author (born 1963), from A Hymn Before Battle (2000) and the Posleen War to Empire of Man, Black Tide Rising, Troy Rising, and TransDimensional Hunter.
John Steinbeck bibliography
John Steinbeck bibliography: his books from Cup of Gold (1929) through America and Americans (1966) plus posthumous titles, the Pulitzer-winning Grapes of Wrath (1939), the Library of America four-volume collection, and the 12,000-record Cox-Manville bibliography.
Johnno
Johnno is the first novel by the Australian writer David Malouf, published in 1975. It follows the friendship between Dante and the reckless Johnno from schooldays in wartime Brisbane to adult years abroad.
Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel (Lippincott), follows WWI soldier Joe Bonham, blind, deaf, mute, and limbless; adapted by Trumbo into his 1971 Cannes-winning film and revived by Metallica's "One".
Johnny Mad Dog
Johnny Mad Dog (French: Johnny chien méchant) is a 2002 novel by Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala about a child soldier and a schoolgirl during an African civil war.
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (JtHM) is a black-and-white alternative comic series by Jhonen Vasquez, published in seven issues by Slave Labor Graphics (August 1995 to January 1997), following serial-killer Johnny C. "Nny" and his wall of blood; collected in the Director's Cut.
Johnny the Walrus
Johnny the Walrus, Matt Walsh's 2021 DW Books board book illustrated by K. Reece, satirizes child gender transition through a boy pressured into becoming a walrus; it topped Amazon bestseller lists in April 2022 amid a categorization dispute and drew library challenges.
Johnny Tremain
Johnny Tremain is Esther Forbes's 1943 Newbery Medal-winning historical novel about a Boston silversmith's apprentice drawn into the American Revolution, adapted by Disney in 1957.
Jokumaraswamy
Jokumaraswamy (ಜೋಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ) is a Kannada folk play by Chandrashekhara Kambara, first published and staged in 1972 and directed by B.V. Karanth, that became a landmark of modern Kannada theater.
Jolene: A Life
Jolene: A Life is E.L. Doctorow's 2002 New Yorker short story, collected in Sweet Land Stories (2004), about a foster-care girl's three bad marriages; adapted as the 2008 film Jolene starring Jessica Chastain.
Jon Arbuckle
Jon Arbuckle is the fictional cartoonist owner of Garfield and Odie in Jim Davis's strip, originally the star of the 1976 prototype comic Jon before Garfield took over, later coupled with Liz Wilson.
Jon Snow (character)
Jon Snow, the bastard son of Eddard Stark in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones (Kit Harington), Night's Watch lord commander; distinct from the British newsreader Jon Snow.
Jónás könyve
Jónás könyve (The Book of Jonah) is a 1938 narrative poem by Hungarian poet Babits Mihály retelling the biblical Jonah story as a plea for intellectuals to speak out.
Jonathan Harker
Jonathan Harker is the young English solicitor and first narrator of Bram Stoker's 1897 Dracula, imprisoned in Castle Dracula and later a vampire hunter; adaptations often merge his role with Renfield or sideline him.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is Susanna Clarke's 2004 debut novel, an alternate-history fantasy of two rival magicians reviving English magic during the Napoleonic wars; Hugo Award winner, Man Booker longlistee, adapted as a 2015 BBC miniseries.
Jorah Mormont
Ser Jorah Mormont, also called Jorah the Andal, is the exiled former Lord of Bear Island in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, played by Iain Glen; exiled for slave trading, he serves Daenerys Targaryen, a far harsher figure in the books than on screen.
Jordanian novel
The Jordanian novel (الرواية الأردنية) is the tradition of novel writing in Arabic in Jordan, a branch of the modern Arabic novel that matured after the 1967 Arab defeat.
Jorge Isaacs
Jorge Isaacs (1837–1895) was a Colombian writer and politician, author of the Romantic novel María (1867), one of the most reprinted works of Spanish American literature.
José María Vargas Vila
José María Vargas Vila (1860–1933) was a Colombian writer and diplomat, nicknamed El Divino, whose novels and polemical essays made him one of the most widely read Spanish American authors of his generation.
Joseph and Aseneth
Joseph and Aseneth is an anonymous ancient Greek novel expanding Genesis 41:45 into an account of Aseneth's conversion to the God of Israel and her marriage to Joseph.
Joseph and His Brothers
Joseph and His Brothers (Joseph und seine Brüder) is a four-novel cycle by Thomas Mann retelling the biblical Joseph story, published between 1933 and 1943.
Joseph Andrews
Joseph Andrews, a 1742 comic novel by Henry Fielding, began as a parody of Richardson's Pamela and follows the chaste footman Joseph and Parson Abraham Adams on comic road adventures.
Josie and the Pussycats (comics)
Josie and the Pussycats, originally She's Josie, is an Archie Comics teen-humor series created by Dan DeCarlo in 1963 about an all-female rock band, adapted into Hanna-Barbera cartoons and a 2001 film.