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Josippon
Josippon (Sefer Yosippon) is a medieval Hebrew chronicle, written in Southern Italy in the tenth century, retelling Jewish history from Daniel and Esther to the destruction of the Second Temple.
Journal of an Ordinary Grief
Journal of an Ordinary Grief, also known as Yawmiyyat al-Huzn al-'Adi, is a 1973 book of autobiographical prose essays by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, the first of three prose works.
Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow
Journey from St Petersburg to Moscow (Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву) is a 1790 book by Alexander Radishchev, the first open condemnation of serfdom in Russia.
Journey into Mystery
Journey into Mystery: Atlas/Marvel anthology comic series (1952-1966); issue #83, August 1962, introduced Thor, Donald Blake, and Mjolnir; retitled The Mighty Thor at #126; revived 1996 and 2011.
Journey into the Whirlwind
Journey into the Whirlwind (Russian: Krutoi marshrut) is the first volume of Eugenia Ginzburg's memoir of her arrest and imprisonment during Stalin's Great Purge, first published abroad in 1967.
Journey of the Magi
"Journey of the Magi" is a 43-line dramatic monologue by T. S. Eliot, first published on August 25, 1927, as the first of his Ariel Poems.
Journey to Armenia
Journey to Armenia (Путешествие в Армению) is a 1933 travelogue by Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, based on his 1930 visit to Armenia and Georgia, his last work published in Soviet Russia during his lifetime.
Journey to the End of the Night
Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit), Louis-Ferdinand Céline's 1932 debut novel following Ferdinand Bardamu through war, colonial Africa and America; Prix Renaudot winner famous for its spoken-language style.
Journey to the West
Journey to the West (西遊記, Xiyou ji), anonymous 1592 Ming novel attributed to Wu Cheng'en, retells Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India with Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng through 81 tribulations; one of the four classical Chinese masterpieces.
Juan Moreira
Juan Moreira was a rural gaucho outlaw of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, killed by police in 1874 and immortalized by Eduardo Gutiérrez's serialized novel of 1879–1880.
Jubiabá
Jubiabá is a 1935 Brazilian modernist novel by Jorge Amado about a poor worker in Salvador, Bahia, guided by the Candomblé priest who gives the book its name.
Judah Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur is the fictional Jewish prince protagonist of Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, betrayed by Messala, enslaved, adopted by Arrius, and famously portrayed by Charlton Heston in the 1959 film.
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy's last novel (1895), follows stonemason Jude Fawley's failed bid for Christminster (Oxford) and doomed love for Sue Bridehead; its hostile reception, including the Bishop of Wakefield burning a copy, ended Hardy's fiction career.
Judge Dee
Judge Dee, also known as Detective Dee, is a fictional Tang dynasty magistrate-detective based on the statesman Di Renjie, created by Dutch sinologist Robert van Gulik in 1949.
Judge Stone (novel)
Judge Stone is a 2026 legal thriller by James Patterson and Viola Davis, her debut novel, about Alabama judge Mary Stone presiding over an illegal-abortion trial; a #1 NYT bestseller.
Judita
Judita is a biblical epic by the Split poet Marko Marulić, completed in 1501 and first printed in Venice in 1521, the first artistic epic in Croatian literature.
Judy Moody
Judy Moody: children's chapter book series by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds, Candlewick Press, first book 2000; moody third-grader Judy, brother Stink spin-off, 17 titles, 2011 film.
Juemiao Haoci
Juemiao Haoci (绝妙好词, "Extremely Fine Ci Lyrics") is a seven-juan anthology of Southern Song ci poetry compiled by the literatus Zhou Mi after the Song fell.
Jughead Jones
Jughead Jones (Forsythe Pendleton Jones III), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941); Archie's hungry, lazy, dating-averse best friend with a whoopee cap, asexual in the 2015 reboot and played by Cole Sprouse in Riverdale.
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo is a Japanese manga sequel to Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami and Yuji Iwasaki, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2025 and 2026.
Jules Maigret
Jules Maigret, Simenon's fictional commissaire of the French Judicial Police, hero of 75 novels and 28 stories, adapted in over 300 films and TV series including the BBC Rupert Davies, Jean Richard, and Bruno Cremer series.
Jules Verne bibliography
The Jules Verne bibliography records the works of the French novelist (1828–1905), whose Voyages extraordinaires series comprises roughly 62 to 65 novels, beginning with Cinq semaines en ballon in 1863.
Juliet
Juliet, or Juliet Capulet, is the female protagonist of Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), a Verona girl who secretly marries Romeo of the rival Montague family.
Julius No
Dr. Julius No is Ian Fleming's James Bond villain from the 1958 novel Dr. No: a Peking-born nuclear scientist and SMERSH agent with metal pincers for hands on Crab Key, played by Joseph Wiseman in the 1962 film as a SPECTRE member.
July's People
July's People is a 1981 novel by Nadine Gordimer imagining a revolution that ends apartheid in South Africa, and a white family who flee to their servant's village.
Jumanji (picture book)
Jumanji is a 1981 picture book by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin) in which bored siblings Judy and Peter find a jungle board game whose moves come true. It won the 1982 Caldecott Medal and National Book Award and inspired the Robin Williams film.
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (十二大戦)
Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (十二大戦), also known as Juuni Taisen, is a Japanese battle royale story in which twelve zodiac warriors fight to the death for one granted wish.
Junie B. Jones
Junie B. Jones, Barbara Park's early chapter book series begun in 1992 and illustrated by Denise Brunkus, follows outspoken Junie Beatrice Jones from kindergarten into first grade across 28 Random House books, over 80 million copies sold.
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu (伊藤潤二の猫日記 よん＆むー) is Junji Ito's semi-autobiographical gag manga about living with his wife's cats Yon and Mu, serialized 2008–2009 in Magazine Z and published in English by Kodansha Comics in 2015.
Juntacadáveres
Juntacadáveres is a 1964 novel by Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, in which the pimp Larsen tries to open a brothel in the fictional city of Santa María.